The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

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Many people like blog contest! The happiest blog in the world is no exception. They will be giving away 4000 entrecards points and free ad space to the winner on July 5th 2008. The rules seem to be very simple. You can read more about that below. Personally, entrecard has been driving OK traffic to this blog in the past. With 4000 entrecard points, you can pretty much get on some of the high profile blogs.

Here are the detail of the blog contest.

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Just few days ago, I post my third weekend confession about Weekend Confession - Enjoy life with pretty models. I decided to join the local event and to social with the local entrepreneurs and business owners. I was so amazed by the Twitter power that Darren at ProBlogger created. You can read my post at Twitter - The powerful social networking tool - Are you following me?

Are you a socialpreneur?

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Are you following me on Twitter? If you have not tried Twitter, you are missing some great opportunities to communicate with your potential readers or even with some high profile bloggers such as Darren from ProBlogger.net and Maki from DoshDosh.com and many other great talented bloggers. I can’t list them all. So Darren has been very active on the Twitter. You can follow Darren here and Maki here.

Darren was very kind of asking his follower to send him their best blog post with the eye catching title. I have one of mine list on ProBlogger too. You can see the one in Red.

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Last time, I talked about “Let your viewer talk to you live - Plugoo vs Meebo” for the choice of my communication tool. My pick was Plugoo. Few weeks after that, I now found my new tool to communicate with my viewers and my customers from my blog and online store.

Communication with my viewers and customer is very important to me. Especially for my online store customers. I use live chat tool to do services, answer their questions and communicate with friends on facebook now. Best of all, there is no cost to me! 100% FREE!

AIM WIMZI is the new winner!

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Do you know who are viewing your blog? Most of the blogger is using some sort of hit counter or Google Analytic to track who was reading their blog, but do you really know who they are? One of the mistakes blogger often made is to “Ignore their viewers“. Social with you viewers is one of the efficient ways to attract your viewer coming back. How do you social with them? In many cases, you join the blog social network like BlogCatalog, BumpZee and MyBlogLog. You probably saw many blog with the widget on their sidebar. You see your own face on their blog. Regardless you like it or not, the blog owner knows who from those social networks is viewing their post.

The question is how do you use the widget to increase your readership?

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Since I joined StumbleUpOn in May 2007, I have spent a lot of time discovering and stumbling web pages. I have also got good traffic from StumbleUpon to my personal blog which you are reading now. I stumbled photos and sites with thumb up, reviews and proper tags. While I am trying to be a good stumbler and enjoy my time viewing awesome photos and web sites, I have also received some critics about how my site got traffic and how I help other doing stumble the nature ways.

I don’t see anything wrong with what I am doing. So if you are interested in getting “SHORT TERM” traffic from StumbleUpOn, please continue reading.

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According to Google, Yahoo creating new social networks- reports on News.com, Google and Yahoo are both working on the new Social Network to centralize the social network accounts. I am wondering what would that be. I personally don’t really like Yahoo 360, even I have so many friends on it. It’s just not as easy and fun as facebook.

So what will be the next social network?

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If you are my loyal reader, you probably already know that I have been so dedicated on gaining traffic from any possible resources in the past few weeks. In the past month, I have been getting huge traffic from StumbleUpOn.com, Google Search Engine, BlogCatalog.com and MyBlogLog.com. Who doesn’t want to get traffic to their web site?

Now I have found another good resource for blogger. BumpZee.com, a good social network for people to exchange thoughts and create buzz on the Internet. I could not remember where I saw the post, I have heard people talking about that Google is utilizing BumpZee as one of the trusted authority for calculate Google Page Ranking.

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