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, Alvin will also promote you to his list of 18,000 subscribers… All this will turn your online business into a 5 figure business!

Event schedule

USA – New York (EDT) – 11th May 2010 (Tue) – 9pm
USA – Vancouver (PST) – 11th May 2010 (Tue) – 6pm
Sydney (Australia – New South Wales) – 12th May 2010 (Wed) – 11am
Singapore – 12th May 2010 (Wed) –9am

The broadcast will go live on this page.

See you there :-)

Update 5/12/2010: You can watch the replay here.

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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 :-)

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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 0 to where they want to go.

I’ll discuss everything from why you should start a blog, what is a blog, how to find a profitable niche (a really profitable one, this time no guessing!), how to PROPERLY find keywords that will get you trafic, how to get a domain name, how to get a hosting account and install your own WordPress blog.

Basically everything you need to make money blogging.

It’s already out there!

Some people might say that “Hey Carl, it’s already out there! We want something new from you!”.

Yes, it is out there – but it’s scattered. It’s from one website to another. From one emaill to another. From one ebook to another.

Just switching and switching will cost you time and will definitely distract you to do other “projects” leading you to the multi-tasking trap.

So here’s how it’s going to be…

After completing all the posts, I’m going to compile it on this page. Tailor some graphics and hope it looks good.

What I really want is to structure it so anyone who is just starting out can have a step by step guide.

P.S. I’d really appreciate your suggestions and input right now. I have a couple of ideas on how I’m going to do it but clearly I’ve missed something. Let me know in the comments!

P.S.S. Don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed to get updated – or you could just join the newsletter (you also get a free report).

P.S.S.S. That’s enough P.S’s for today!

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*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 who give hard core advice on blogging but they’re unnoticed. Why? Because they didn’t market themselves enough. They haven’t positioned themselves properly. Darren positioned himself as THE Problogger.

Case 3: McDonalds

Let’s face it.

They don’t have the best tasting burgers.

They don’t have the best tasting french fries.

But they do know where to put their branches.

One of my dad’s MBA teachers once said “McDonalds is not in the fast food business, they’re in the real estate business.”

Content is just a part of marketing

I personally believe, and the way I apply it to my business, content – is just part of marketing.

There are a lot of people out there who are topping the charts but are not really “the” best or don’t really posses the best skills – but they know how to market themselves.

Another quick example: Bruce Lee, not the strongest, not the quickest but the most popular martial artist ever.

There are a lot of people too who have “the” best content, but are unknown.

Of course, I’m not saying that you should just put all your efforts into marketing – again, content is part of marketing – you have to deliver.

Not necessarily the best content, but “good enough” content to keep them coming back.

So in conclusion: Marketing is king.

*PHEW! END RANT*

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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 :-)

Changing slides.

EPIC beat boxing part ;-)

Discussed the Tarantula Tactic – one of the stuff included in my upcoming video course, Feed Kid Google (instead of an SEO book, I’ve turned it into a video course to make it sweeter)

Trying my best to explain how I gave value on my blog and how I marketed the value, heh.

If you’re interested with the slides, including the part where I discussed the Google Suppression Attack… Click here to download the power point presentation.

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Last month, when we were on our way to the beach, my mom’s cell phone rang. It’s not really out of the blue because my mom has an event organizing business so a lot of people would call her from time to time.

But this time, it scared me.

“Hello? Ah, this is from Carl’s school?” My mom answered.

My heart started pumping like I was running on a treadmill for 15kph. They talked for like 5 minutes and after my mom hanged up, there was sudden silence.

My mom didn’t say a thing.

So just an icebreaker, I asked “What are we going to do first at the beach?”

That didn’t turned out well, to make the long story short – I failed in 3 subjects and I am going to summer school.

Then just last week, my dad and I talked about it. It was a long talk, one of the talks that make you sweat and think about random things while listening because it was very serious.

The big sad news is…

I’m forced to sign up for the army.

I don’t like it, but they made me do it to discipline myself I guess. I’ll be starting next week so I’ve got everything ready right beside me, my luggage, everything.

Right now, I’m going my best to think of anything positive but as much to my dismay – I can’t.

I am also opening this blog for bidding as I can’t pursue with my online career anymore. The bidding will start at $50,000. If you are interested, comment below with your bid or email me at carl@carlocab.com if you want to bid privately. I’ll just comment your bid below to keep people updated.

This is probably the hardest thing I’ve done because I’m giving up an empire that I’ve already built and fortified.

Also my company, RichKidMedia has been aquired by a local online company. I have 20% stocks though so I have something to keep me making money through the years.

I would like to thank everyone for being with me on this great journey. I would like to thank my mentor, Joel Christopher for guiding me, my parents for giving me the disicipline and God for giving me this oppurtunity.

I think, that’s it, no words can explain what I’m really feeling right now.

Update, April 11, 2009 8:01 PM: SOLD – Winner’s bid was an old $1 coin and a red sock.

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It aired yesterday.

“I’m on TV!”

That’s the sentence that was on my mind, after dinner.

Even though I always see my self on video and on other blogs here and there, me on TV is still quite entertaining. Heck, my classmates were still in disbelief seeing me even though they knew that I was making money and such.

It was inaccurate though – very inaccurate, they said my name wrong “Carlo Ocab”. They said that I was making $55/month *only*. They got that because of the “Get Featured Here For Only $55/Month” on the sidebar!

But it was good experience overall ;-)

The name of the station by the way is QTV, and the name of the show is Qtube. It was a new show and it aired around 10:30 PM so there were not much views.

Here’s the news on their site.

P.S. The girl who interviewed me (2nd image) is older than me :-P

P.P.S. And yes she is pretty LOL.

P.P.P.S. This is the last P.S. promise, forgive the low quality pictures, I was using my first DSLR, it’s a Nikon d60.

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“Carl, you haven’t given any updates for almost a month.”

I’ve been busy.

Last last week, I’ve been interviewed by a TV station. It’s my first time to appear on national TV so it’s gonna be great. Actually, some of my classmates already saw the commercial (that I didn’t LOL) and they were telling me about it.

Then this last March 18, I had the opportunity to speak to a crowd of marketing and sales people about online branding and how a blog can help a business. That took a lot of my time because I had to attend public speaking classes for the preparation.

It was great overall, I was more comfortable than the last time – I was even able to crack impromptu jokes, heh.

Here’s some pics from the seminar…

Please, don’t mind the sampaguita necklace. They made me wear that LOL.
 

Question and answer with Mon Lizardo, director of Yehey.com
 

Part of the audience – around 400 people were in the room.
 

This is the plaque :-)

Hopefully, if all goes well as planned, this April 1 I will have my own office in a *real* tower. It’s in the 37th floor with one full time programmer.

That’s it for now. I’ll keep you updated.

P.S. If you want to know the two-step formula to online branding success, drop me an email to carl@carlocab.com.

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