The affiliate marketing industry has never really been seen in a positive light.

For whatever reason, practitioners have been hard-pressed to establish their legitimacy in the world of professional digital marketers.

They are seen as opportunists on their best days and scavengers on their worst ones. It seems that those intent on being affiliate marketers are challenged on every front in the current Web business environment.

By now most Web professionals are well aware of the Internet tax issue and how it impacts them. There are now a handful of states where working as an affiliate is no longer as attractive, or as attractive a marketing opportunity as it was a few years ago.

Affiliate marketers are even starting to get snubbed by those in related industries. In early September of 2011, email service provider MailChimp notified users that it would prevent affiliate marketers from using its service. That’s pretty bad by itself, but what makes it worse is the company they were in; providers of escort services, gambling and vendors of illegal goods were also in the mix. Anyone sending email with affiliate offers is subject to losing out in a significant way if their account is closed, but in many ways affiliates lose as that bad reputation continues to linger in the minds of digital Web workers. (more…)

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A lot people no idea how powerful of search engine which bring organic traffic to their website. They spend money to advertise, but never spend a single cent for “search engine optimization”. If you selling a product or a services, try to search it at Search Engine and see whether your website appear or not. Imagine your potential customer who search your service or product at Google, and your competitor appear in top 10, how worst it will be to lost a lot of potential customer.

Lately I found a great article written by Jeff Scott, Director of Online Marketing Services, and I would like to share here to lets you guys know in deep on the important of search engine traffic:

If you build it, will they come?
You have a domain name … CHECK! You have a website … CHECK! Now will millions of people come flooding to your website? … NOT SO FAST! Just like any type of business, if you want people to find out about your new website, you need to take certain steps to market your site so it stands out from the crowd and people find you.

The major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) have BILlIONS of different web pages in their results, so making the correct marketing decisions is critical to the long-term success of your website. (more…)

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My facebook account had nearly 3000 friend, and one of the method to increase my facebook fan page is to invite my friend to like my fan page.  In order to get more exposure and increase more likes, other then using facebook ads, you may try another method by grant the admin access to other person, and this person invite all his/her friend to like your fan page. There are some difficulties if you invite all your friend manually by tick one by one and invite to like your facebook fan pages with the conventional way. Example.

1. After create your fan page, you can see “invite friend” in your right sidebar.

2. Click on it and tick one by one for each of your friend, but with few thousand contact, it is very time consuming if you tick one by one, and also very memory consuming for your workstation. It might hang halfway in the middle of thousand tick. So how to invite all friend to like my facebook fan page?

After I google around, there are some javascript method which require to paste at your Internet Address bar and hit enter, but there are a risk if this javascript is not performing the correct action as you want, your account might be compromise if the javascript is some malware script. Other then this method, there are another method with Google Chrome browser, just require to install additional extension name “facebook inviter” Once you install, you had additional button name “Toggle All” (more…)

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I had file a complaint in National Consumer Complaints Center (NCCC) lately for the unfair services offer by fitness center in Penang.

NCCC is a non government organization (NGO) , their vision is to develop a independent mechanism  for consumer with the ability to solve problems in a fair, simple and efficient mediation system, and their mission is function as intermediaries between the government bodies, private sector and consumers in identifying solutions to any complaints.

I had few experience with NCCC previously, one of it is a complaints toward Digi Telecommunucation, after I file a consumer complaints online in NCCC’s website, I never get any respond from NCCC, but I do receive call from DiGi within a month, a special department which handle feedback from NCCC call me to resolve the issue. A credit to DiGi here because they handle customer complaints effectively. (more…)

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BlackBall started the business at 2006 and also the biggest dessert food chain in taipei. 14 Bloggers are invited for dessert review at one of the Blackball outlet located in Pulau Tikus, Penang.

For my self, the deep impression for me is “Pearl Milk Tea” which is the favorite drink for teenager. Other then milk tea, BlackBall had different type of desserts such as smoothies and crushed ice. (more…)

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