Watch me live tomorrow with Alvin Phang on the GatherSuccess challenge. I’ll be talking about SEO and the stuff I did to my blog to put it on the frontpage of Google for the keyword “make money online”

It will be a quick overview (less than 20 minutes) since I’m just a guest speaker, the event itself is a must watch though…

The GatherSuccess Challenge

In a nutshell, it’s a challenge for all bloggers out there (yes, anyone can join!) to make their blog better by taking on specific tasks like driving traffic to your blog, making affiliate sales and more, all to improve their blog.

By doing those challenges, bloggers will receive points – the blogger who has the most points will win!

The Prize

The prize will be a partnership with Alvin Phang on a project where you’ll be able to split the profits 50% when you launch it together online! Not only that,

I won’t beat around the bush, I’m really excited to show this video to you:

I hope you liked it :-)

In addition to that we’ve added a “custom stylesheet” and “custom functions” file so that you won’t lose your customizations when you upgrade in the future.

The new UBT is also iPad ready and of course, compatible to all browsers.

We really did a lot of stuff and it’s a major jump from the last 2.1 version that’s why we are relaunching with all the launch propaganda, mailings, etc. on…

May 18th, 2010

It will be limited though, check back soon or if you want, you can subscribe to the notification list.

Of course, we will not be sending you any “promotional stuff”, spam you or any of those uncool stuff :-)

Last December I asked in a poll, “How Much Do You Currently Make Monthly?“.

I think  it’s very important to survey your market.

You wouldn’t know what you’re going to get – what you think your market is might not be what it REALLY is.

So without further ado, here are the results…

(It’s not what I expected)

(It might not be 100% accurate but it should be pretty close)

Start a blog and make money

Now since almost 50% is making $0-$100/month, starting tomorrow until the next 2 weeks, I’m going to post EVERYTHING someone new to making money with blogging will need to start a blog.

I’m not that good at teaching (obviously, I can’t even get my spelling and grammar write!) but I’ll do my best ;-)

The posts will vary in text and video. It’ll be advance strategies that will take new bloggers from

DANGER: Extreme rant ahead. Proceed with caution!

*START RANT*

Is content king? I think that’s overrated.

The way I see it…

Marketing is king.

Let me throw some examples first:

Case 1: Coca Cola vs Pepsi

Since 1975, Pepsi has been running “The Pepsi Challenge” wherein they hand 2 blank cups to bystanders in malls – one containing Pepsi and the other one, Coke, and then they’d ask which tastes better.

The result? Pepsi topped the challenge.

But Coca Cola is still the number one soft drink. Why? Advertising.

Case 2: Problogger.net

It’s widely accepted that Darren is the #1 blogger who blogs about how to make money blogging (And I amen to that) but does Darren give “the” best content about blogging to make money? I’m not saying that Darren’s content sucks, Darren gives high octane info. But does he give the best content around the blogosphere?

Of course not, there are a lot of bloggers out there

Last month I was able to speak to a 70ish crowd of marketing and sales people about blogging, how it can help their business and a cool Google Suppression Attack that they can do after the seminar.

It was fun and sort of funny because in that small crowd, 2 of my classmates’ parents where there – and I didn’t even talked about it in school, actually I don’t talk about it at school.

Anyway, here are some spy pics…

(btw, download link to the presentation is below)

Telling the story of how I started online. With the disclaimer “I’m not really good at telling stories or ‘teaching’ stuff so please bear with me” which I think is true :-)

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