The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

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Where have I been lately?

This is the question I got from my friends, since my last blog post at Weekend Confession 11 - Where I was? Where will I be?

I know my readers tend to spend less time on reading my blog post. I know. I know. There are many reasons that people don’t tend to spend too much time on reading blog post. One of the reasons is that there are too many blog posts to read. I am one of them. I read hundreds blog posts a day. I scan the keywords and decide to stay or to leave. I also spent time on forums and social networking sites as well. Time is so limited.

In the past two weeks, I have tried many ways to boost my online business. I researched, practiced, discovered and made some conclusion about what I have found and done.

1. Internet Marketing Bubbles - I smell and felt the DOT COM Bubbles of Internet Marketing. If you are a blogger, you pretty much sense the trend of Internet Marketing crap out there. There are too many so-called Internet Marketing experts out there selling their service with single landing page. They want you to buy into their non-sense program to boost your sales. What exactly they teach you? They teach you how to do SEO, generate web site traffic and sell your own marketing crap.

2. MLM - I have heard this over and over again. I used to work for company selling herbs supplements with MLM (Multi-layer-Marketing). You get paid by commission. Now the MLM is invading the Internet Marketing industry. There is no physical product. You …

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While reading the blog post on Google Reader, I realized that I have posted “Increase page ranking with DIY marketing strategies” in the past. It was one of my top visited blog posts. Looking at that post again, I felt that I was drawing on the white paper like a young child. It’s nothing but a kid’s play.

Doing serious business requires serious marketing strategies. If I don’t seriously plan my marketing strategies, I will not get anywhere I want my business to be. I have spent two days reading the book I just bought about marketing toolkit for small business. So let’s play like an adult in the business world.

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I can’t believe the time goes by so fast. I need another weekend confession. Since my last weekend confession about How big is too big? Is my big picture too big? Working on increasing my e-commerce store conversion rate is my top priority. I have spent time review my current status and progress of my online business. I decided not to bother paying huge money to just increase my business profit. Doing Internet Marketing on my own will not just make sure it works for my niche but also increase my knowledge how to replicate that to the next one.

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After wrestling with the marketing companies, I have decided to go with low cost or zero cost DIY Internet marketing strategies on my own. Regardless what you are doing on your sites, you need to have marketing strategies. I will be recording everything I have learned on my entrepreneur journey diary. I am hoping to help other entrepreneurs learning what I have learned and to avoid making the same mistakes that I have made.

Again, I am not marketing expert. I would love to get real suggestions from real marketing experts. Let me start from scratch and find the brutal facts.

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I was reading some news about the success story of Zappos.com. - The number one online footwear store. If you don’t know anything about Zappos, You can read the following news on CNN. Shoe In - Zappos has become the No. 1 footwear retailer on the Web by making customer service a competitive weapon.

Personally, I am also a satisfied Zappos customer, but I am not here to promote Zappos. I was amazed by how a start-up company growing so fast in so little time. I don’t want to repeat their success story here. What I really like to do is to think how the rest of us can learn from Zappos.

While reading the news, I decided to follow Zappos CEO Tony on Twitter.

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I have decided to post this Weekend Confession early, because I will be on my way to Los Angels to meet my families. Not a while ago, I posted the fact that I am singing alone on my lonely Internet Entrepreneur journey. I am actually not alone on my entrepreneur journey. There are many people like me on the Internet. I have learned a lot in the past few months. Especially, I met so many great inspirational bloggers and got motivated by many other people that I have never met face to face in my life.

I am no longer singing solo in the entrepreneur concert. I decided that it is time to reach out and social with the people that I can learn from. I have been social networking on the Internet for a while. I started involved with local business group or meeting with the local millionaires.

I have also decided to refine my goals to ensure that I can reach my goals and achieve my dream.

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After attending the local millionaire club and reading a million dollar comment from my new friend, Minxt, from the other side of the earth, I decided to review my goals. I have a big goals with many small goals for each paces to the achievement. Now my previous goals doesn’t seem to be very practical.

While search on the Internet and see how successfully people created their goals. I found this great article. Goal Setting Powerful Written Goals In 7 Easy Steps! I will summaries that here, but you need to do yourself a favor to read the details. It’s worth 5 minutes of your valuable time.

Here are the 7 easy steps:

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This is another weekend confession that gives me a chance to see where I was up to. Just about few hours ago, I was sitting in a local event called “Millionaire Club“. There were about 130 people in the lunch meeting. The goal of this local meetup meeting is to make 1000 millionaires in the next 5 years. This is the third meeting since two great successful business man Jim Engel and Brett Tanner started the local meetup group. It’s a great meeting. It’s also one of the best local events I have attended so far.

Best of all, it costs me only $12 to get million dollar worth information.

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