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Why do you need a blog for you e-commerce online store

January 27, 2008 By Terence Chang 9 Comments

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Image Source: Support – This image has been chopped and enhanced

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?

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Filed Under: Alexa, Blog, e-commerce, Make Money Online, Marketing

What is the key reason of John Chow’s success?

January 27, 2008 By Terence Chang 10 Comments

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Image Source: Best wedding cake dolls ever. The image has been chopped

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?

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Filed Under: Blog, Entrepreneur, Make Money Online

A life long journey from nothing to something! Thank you!

January 27, 2008 By Terence Chang 8 Comments

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Image Source: Solitude

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!

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Filed Under: Make Money Online

Blog Post Header Images – Collection 2

January 25, 2008 By Terence Chang 8 Comments

Image Source: Playing with some coloured pencils – This image has been enhanced.

[UPDATE] To focus more on the topic about entrepreneur, I have moved the Blog Post Header Image – Collection 3 to My Photo Blog.

Here you can see all the collection of my Blog Header Images:

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Image Source: Harvest Time – This image has been chopped and blurred from the distance

Continuing my monthly effort to list the photos that I used in my blog posts, here are more photos. Enjoy and remember to read my blog post. You can see my first blog post header image collection from the following link.
Blog Post Header Images – collection 1

Or visit my Photography page for the collections.

If you like what you see, please help me to spread the world to your friends.

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Filed Under: Blog, Photography, Review

Increase Google Page Ranking with RSS FEED – No buying, selling and bribing

January 25, 2008 By Terence Chang 9 Comments

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Image Source: Roots – This image has been chopped and enhanced.

Few months ago, I post a way to increase your blog’s Google page ranking with RSS feed at “DIY – Build quality backlinks with RSS Feed on blogger and wordpress.” Just about three months later, two of my blogs are marked PR3 with over 100 backlinks on each blogs. I can roughly say that my RSS FEED building quality backlinks strategy is working.

I did a little research on what page is linking back to my blog on Google. I found that the majority links to my blog are from the RSS Feed I add to the other blogs. The links are all coming from the same resource like the roots of the 1000 years old tree. It’s from ME!

Don’t know what I am talking about?

Blog Post Header Images – collection 1

January 24, 2008 By Terence Chang 14 Comments

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Image Source: Noche de luna llena…Full moon night – This image has been chopped and retouched.

After I post “Does your blog make lemonade? Make your blog interesting with header images“, I have been using post header images on almost every posts on this blog. I believe that an interesting blog header image will give the post some nice vivid touch. It also gives the reader a better idea about the post. All of the images I used in my posts are either licensed by flickr.com or taken by me. I include all those third party photos under my favorites page.

So here are the collections of my blog header images:

In many cases, I modify the images and make them look even more interesting. I love photoshop, the best photo editing tool available in the digital world. I used a lot of tricks to enhance the photos, including retouching, burning, erasing unwanted spot, rearranging the objects in the photo, adjusting the contrast, adjusting brightness, setting auto color, setting auto level and many other modifications.

I will start a series of photo collections every month to list the images that I used in my blog post. This will give my reader a greater idea what my photography taste is. So enjoy the photos and remember to read my posts!

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Filed Under: Blog, Photography, Review

Back in the page ranking game. Let’s get the ball rolling!

January 20, 2008 By Terence Chang 12 Comments

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Image Source: And the games have begun The image has been cropped.

Few days ago, I posted that my Google Page Rank dropped from PR4 to PR0 on “TNX.NET – Text link ads may kill your Google Page Rank“. I believed it was caused by the advertisement I put on my blog. It includes the affiliate links from TNX.NET and ReviewMe. I decided to claim my PR back.

Now I can see that my PR is back to PR4. That’s good!

Add trusted image to your online business with toll free phone number

January 16, 2008 By Terence Chang 10 Comments

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Image Source: Telephone Line

A while back I post “10 Google programs to operate your small business for FREE.” Running a business requires a lot of attention to the business operation. Saving your business operation cost is equally important to make profit. Make your customer’s life easier and save their money will bring you more business. It’s also important to make your customer trusting your business. Providing great products is not enough. Give your customer a great customer services is also important.

I have tried many ways to lower the cost of my business operation. I found reliable web hosting from ANHosting.com. I use Google’s free calendar, gmail, and alert for my day to day business operation. I use free AOL pictures to store my huge photo collections.

What’s next money saving add-on for my business operation?

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