The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

Entrecard, a well known traffic exchange widget, which has generated a big buzz a while back. It actually made me got rid off BlogRush widget at first place. Personally, BlogRush is the the most useless widget, it only brought me few visitors in 4 months before I got rid of it.

As a blogger, generating quality traffic, earning readers’ trust and increasing readership are more important than receiving thousands Entrecard credit with no increase of readership. It’s time to review my traffic sources while I will spend more time on generating organic search engine traffic for my online business.

Popularity: 31% [?]

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Just few days ago, I post “Who is reading your blog? Why do you care“? It’s a great finding who exactly was reading your blog. The post was inspired by one of my blogging friend at BloggingMix. It’s about why you need to network with non-Probloggers.

I took it further. I want to communicate non-blogger.

In the past few weeks, I have closely watched my visitors and track down where they came from. My finding was not a surprise. I can pretty much claim that 80% of my readers are from search engine and almost 100% of them are no bloggers. They find the page, read it and left. In my early blogging days, I post a lot of stuff related to GPS, IE bugs, and many other non-entrepreneur related posts on the blog. This blog was a mixed blog on everything I see, I heard, I like and I think. It’s not much about blogging and being an Internet Entrepreneur.

What’s wrong with that?

Popularity: 25% [?]

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Do you have e-commerce online stores? Do you sell goods for profit? How do you market your site in your niche? Do communicate your customers without interact with them on the phone or face to face?

If you are running e-commerce online store and are having some troubles to reach your customers, you need a blog to rescue your online store. Personally, I am a believer about marketing and branding. I am also a believer of my e-commerce golden rule. I believe that spending time marketing is somehow more important than spending time make perfect products. You can read my golden rule at How to succeed in the e-commerce world? Follow the 30/70 golden rule. You can also join my discussion about your thoughts on that.

What can a blog do for your e-commerce online store?

Popularity: 32% [?]

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It’s funny that I was reading John Chow’s make money online blog on Google Reader. I saw a post that caught my attention. I click on the post title. It leads me to a 404 error page. I guess John Chow just accidentally post it and remove it from the site for some reasons.

What is this post all about?

Popularity: 20% [?]

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This post title was once on my blog tagline for just two days. I started this blog few years ago in 2003, after I got my own domain name back. I was never doing very well with my blog. It was all about my life, my IT experience, my tips and tricks about the computer programs, web development, the foods I ate and the travel photos I took.

Ever since I worked so hard as a chief architect at my ex-company, I did not update this blog until early May 2007. At that moment, the blogging was already booming. Especially for people who wants to make money off their blog. I was also one of them. However, I was not really impressed by the outcome of my blog. I made only few bulks in three months.

I need to thank many of you!

Popularity: 20% [?]

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Who doesn’t like free CASH? Here is the nice deal in the New Year to win great free cash. Are you lucky enough to win $50.00? Last year, I post a contest that no one attended and no one won. The contest was about giving out a FREE 42 inches flat panel LCD TV. I was thinking to start a new one. My readers from A blog about Nothing steps in and ask me to post this contest for him.

Popularity: 10% [?]

This paid post is brought to you by Park Let.

I have heard about this idea “Rent a Parking Space” for sometimes. So I took this opportunity to do my first paid post for ReviewMe. It’s a great opportunities for people who really likes to make some money from their own empty parking space. The following “Park Let” web site is located in UK; you can visit their web site at http://www.parklet.co.uk/.

Personally, I think it’s a brilliant “Rent a Parking Space” idea about renting out your available private parking space to others who really needs. I have a friend, who owns an apartment. He is a pilot and need to move frequently. So he bought a house. He, then, rent the room to other pilot. They share the space and he earns some quality money.

Popularity: 11% [?]