Yes! At long last! After a weeks of hard labour and doing work and watching the World Cup at the same time. It’s finally done! We have launched ‘The Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires!’

Pretty eye-catching eh?

It’s also the only place you get to call Adam a ‘juvenlie msifit’! Heh!Heh!

Anyway, I’m super glad that I got this whole thing� up by the deadline I set. It makes me feel damn on!

But less about me and more about the website and the program.

As you can see, the website is designed to catch your attention the moment it hits you. The header does it’s job right there. Of course there’s a lot more when you scroll down, so I’ll be blogging about how I did the copywriting and why I did what where.

What we’re offering on the page is Adam’s complete ‘Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires’ Program namely this:

and this:

So that’s AWESOME value for people there. It’s a 300+ page book plus over 12 hours of personal audio coaching from Adam himself. There’s a TON of rock-solid information in this program. If you’re serious about your financial education, then this program is the one for you.

Adam already retails a paperback version of his book offline and he also sells a hard copy of his CD set as well but because we want to reach as far a market as we can, we had to use the internet.

Now you’d probably be asking why you would buy an online download version when you could probably pick it up at the local bookstore. That’s true.

And the only reason is because it’s CHEAPER.

Number one we had to make it cheaper because after all, a digital version of a product is usually cheaper than a physical version. Number two if you were to buy the physical copy of his book plus his 12 CD set, it’s gonna cost you almost S$400! I’m not kidding. But no small price for your education, ok…

But if you were to get it online and download the whole thing, the entire program is yours for just US$97 ~ S$155. So it’s less than HALF price over the internet. Some people may still prefer the physical copy but others may opt for the digital one.

What we’re doing is just offering alternatives for you to choose.

So that’s a ’short’ post about the launching of The Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires… I’m really excited about the whole thing and I’ll tell you more about this in my future posts. Check the website and the program out for yourself!

Later!

Ok. Time to get back to more serious stuff. Like making money! In the first part I was sharing about how Adam and I decided to work together online and bring Adam’s content and value to the masses out there.

Adam had his website adam-khoo.com which wasn’t very well maintained and I mentioned how and why we decided to turn it into his personal blog. The whole thing is working out really good now. His most recent post is very engaging, the one about God and taking control of your life, please go check it out.

His blog is getting pretty good traffic despite only being around three weeks old and we’re getting alot of people who are participating online by putting their comments down. Interestingly all the comments are very positive and agreeable with Adam’s opinions unlike some other blogs you see online. All the brickbats…

Haha! People don’t want to place a nasty comment and then kena marked by Adam!

Anyway, that’s his blog. We added a opt-in box for people to be instantly notified of any new posts Adam types and adsense ads all around it as well. The opt-ins help build a database for our marketing efforts and the adsense makes some money.

The only thing about adsense on blogs is that the ads shown can sometimes be very irrelevant because of the changing nature of a blog. Example would be Adam’s blog which normally shows ads about success, money and stocks because that’s what he normally blogs about.

But because of his recent post, now� the ads show stuff about religion, islam,� Faith Hill(!), etc; which isn’t what our target readership is interested in. So not very good there, but like Adam said, no harm putting it there anyway, people may just be interested in anything (Faith Hill… Haha!).

We also added two big CDs at the side which yell to people to claim them as free bonuses. When people click on them, they’re sent to our other sites and are asked to opt-in before they can claim their prize. Most people do because, what the heck it’s like almost 2 hours of rock-solid information they’re getting for free.

If you want to build a database of your own, you need to give people something of great value for free before anyone will allow you to take their email addresses. So if you want opt-ins and a huge database, do that.

We also placed the two big CDs there so that people will be aware of the other sites that we have. The blog can only offer so much value and content, we needed to direct people to our other websites that have a ton of content and information that they would be interested in.

You see most people don’t know about our other sites, they usually land on adam-khoo.com first, so we needed to tell them and give them a slight nudge to visit our other websites. Just placing text links on the blog, which most people would miss anyway, wouldn’t have cut it.

So that’s the blog. Now let me talk about our other websites we have.

mmmm… maybe next time…

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Ok I’ll do some in this post.

Remember, Adam’s an expert in money-making, personal success and accelerated learning and his old adam-khoo site had all of that mashed together? That’s a no-no on the internet. You don’t want people thinking your website’s a mish-mash of different, unrelated topics because if they do they’ll just go straight to another website which deals exclusively on what they’re looking for.

Imagine buying cough medicine from a car� hardware shop. No way right! You’d go to the pharmacy which deals exclusively in that area. Same on the internet.

Simply because if you deal with something exclusively, you are perceived as more of an expert in that area because you’re devoting all your time and resources to it. And perception is reality.

So we had to split the components. We created one website dealing exclusively with money-making, one exclusively on personal success and one more on accelerated learning.

So we wanted these websites to be the #1 resource on the internet in their respective fields. We placed articles, tips, advice, free tools that you could download and use, reviews on various products before you buy them, in short we wanted this to be the first place you’d go to when you wanted to know something about money-making/success/learning.

And we’re on our way, right now we have a good number of articles and tools which you� can download and use and the traffic to these sites are pretty decent. The websites are still growing and we need to really add more stuff for you guys like the book reviews, even more great articles and more audio and even video programs for you to enjoy.

So lots and lots of room to expand, which is great because as the site grows and continually updates itself, the people are gonna keep coming back again and again to view the fresh content. Because no one likes a website that doesn’t change. Fresh content is the key to lots of repeat visitors!

So that’s a brief overview of the websites and I know I promised I’d go more into how we actually make money with these websites. So I’ll share with you more in-depth in the next part in this series about how and why we’re doing what we’re doing with the websites and how we actually use it to make money.

Out.

I’m doing this post because someone was the first ever to comment on my blog and I believe people who set milestones should get a special mention!

And I even grabbed a pic of her for you readers! Haha!

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(I don’t know why she sent me a pic of her with food…)

Anyway, her name is Jia Yu and her blog’s at: http://www.chiajiayu.com/ (You see! Free promotion for special people!)

Now now, for those who feel like they missed out on being ‘The First Ever’, I’m sorry you missed the chance but I may be handing out ‘The Second Ever’ awards…. *wink

Haha! Ok enough.

I have a confession to make. I’m a stickler for details, everything has to be in the right place, everything has to be in the right order before I actually do anything. You can see how this is not very useful sometimes. There are so many times where I’ve attempted to start something but because I felt that I didn’t know enough about it, I wouldn’t take action.

You can be sure Adam has scolded me before about this. I’m bringing this up because I feel it’s very relevant in internet marketing especially for those without any basic web design skills. Like me.

My first brush with doing anything online was when my friends and I had an idea to do a football matchmaking website for all the amateur teams in Singapore. We hired a web developer and I took charge of the project. My developer must have wanted to strangle me many times because of the insane amount of times I kept on changing the designs.

At first I wanted the page to do this and look this way, but halfway through the making, I would add even more stuff or change things around and my developer would have to start all over again. It was fustrating! I kept on wanting my website to be absolutely perfect and I would pick on every nitty-gritty detail till my developer went mad! (Of course he was nice about the whole thing, but I can feel his pain.)

Eventually the whole website was done and it was good to go. But then� I went� through the whole thing again and I decided to redo the entire thing again, almost from scratch! I must have gone stark mad! So we redid the whole thing and this time, I was pretty satisfied (costs were burning too ) but you know what? In the end, the whole idea was a failure.

Instead of getting the website up and running and letting it evolve as it grew, I wanted it to be a full-blown Optimus Prime version before it even started! And it sunk like a ton of bricks.

You can take a look at it if you wish (www.challengefootball.com) but I keep it there to serve myself a reminder of the many, many mistakes I made in my first foray online. But maybe I should take it off, I have to pay hosting…

So if there’s a big lesson I learnt it’s about being excellent and not perfect. Now when I go about doing mine and Adam’s websites and the other online marketing tactics, I really just focus on getting them done first before I even think of getting it right the first time around. Because if I did, I would have gotten nowhere.

And I feel it could be the same with alot of people out there just starting out in IM. If you’re always focused on making things perfect the first time you do something, it’s gonna be real tough because you’re just gonna be paralysed by the information you don’t know or have.

I found the moment I allowed myself to make mistakes and screw up, I learnt alot faster and my progress jumped by leaps and bounds. I didn’t know html, ftp, rss and all that jazz and even now I only know the basics of it. But it hasn’t prevented me from starting my IM business, launching websites and making real money.

So if someone like Adam has the faith to trust a beginner like me in running his online efforts, I’m sure you can do the same for yourself. Because it’s not where you are now that matters, it’s how you move forwards and where you end up that counts.

I know this isn’t about internet marketing but there are some people out there who like to read blogs about what people eat and where they go… so I’ll cater to them as well. Ha!

I bet a lot of you have seen this up in the sky recently:

Noooo… It’s not� superman gone obese,� take a closer look!

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A� BIG balloon.�

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I� owed my girl a date because she’s complaining about how we should go out more (World Cup…) so I had to do something. And she wanted something different; so this balloon came in handy. Next I’m gonna have to go sky-diving soon…

So to the balloon we went…

That’s where you buy the tickets, which we did.

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Did you know that locals get a 20% discount? Yes we do! Haha! Fleece the tourists! I didn’t say that. It’s $23 for an adult so after the discount, ummmm… you go work it out.

And guess who we saw there!

Kym Ng and the crew. They’re filming for some local show.

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Why are they posing in the queue? Celebrities….

So anywhay, we just missed the same flight as Kym or we would have to chance to gwok somemore. So Kym and her crew all went up and all the camera and mike men had to squeeze into the balloon to do the filming for the show.

Since I don’t often bump into celebrities nor do I stalk them. We just had to take a picture with Kym.

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My girl asked me why “I so fierce”.

Anyway, the last time I bumped into a celebrity, it was Michelle Chia and she was eating ice cream and before that it was Christopher Lee eating curry rice and before that Christopher Lee again playing football at Marina South.

So after all of that, it was our turn to go up.

We queued up and went on our way.

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“Wooop… Don’t worry,� Mam. It can lift you� up� too.”

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The balloon’s helium filled and is tethered to the ground by a cable which winches the balloon up or down.

This picture’s for the engineer geeks.

And so we went up and took some more pictures.

Alright we took more shots but you want to see meh…

This is for those with a fear of heights.

The whole thing lasted about 10 minutes and guess who we met this time when we came down.

James Heng himself, the owner of Duck Tours and also this balloon enterprise. If anyone is mentioned by the PM himself, then he is a big shot. Haha! Now this a celebrity! And I’m the papparazi!

Ok done.

This post is all about one thing which is to grab your own name domain name! In fact, it doesn’t matter if you’re doing internet marketing per se, you could be in any line like real estate or insurance or business like Adam. Grab your name before anyone else does!

Having your own domain name gives you branding and when you are or become famous (everywhere or in your industry), alot of people are going to go straight and type in yourname.com just to see what comes up.

I remember some guy buying the domain billgates.com, do you know how much traffic he got? Enough to get him and the url mentioned in TIME magazine. That’s how I knew about it. Anyway this was many years back.

But the point is; go get it. Adam wanted adamkhoo.com but some squatter already had it registered and would only release it for a four figure sum, so he settled for adam-khoo.com instead. So remember, it could get quite expensive if you don’t do it fast!

A lot of other successful people have their own name domains like internet marketers Ewen Chia (ewenchia.com), Tom Hua (tomhua.com), international author Seth Godin (sethgodin.com), me! (adam-wong.com). Ha just kidding, I have a long way to go!

But my first choice� was also taken by some student who had it filled with crap, so I went also with adam-wong.com instead. And so that’s why we have this impromptu blog here.

I know some of you are gonna ask after you buy your name domain, what are you gonna do with it? Well anything! When I bought mine, I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it at first, but I sure didn’t want my name taken when I had the opportunity to grab it now. So I took it.

And then I decided that maybe I start a blog about how I go about developing Adam’s internet marketing efforts, alot of beginners would be interested in reading about it. Because after all, I’m a beginner myself (less than 3 months) but I have already made this online venture profitable.

And there are people who actually come visit and read about what I have to say, which makes me glad! Because at least someone’s interested enough to come back again and again. It motivates me to continue to blog and blog about quality stuff that you may find useful. So I wanna thank all my readers here!

So grab your name and play around with what you want to with it. And what… It’s like only US$8.95 a year. You pay more for dinner in one night. Go get your name!

The last time I was with you, I was sharing about how I got to work with Adam and how it ballooned into something really exciting for me.

So after Adam and I agreed to hit it off, I had to go back and think about how best to bring Adam’s expertise and valuable content to people on the internet. Well you see, Adam’s an expert in the areas of personal success, money-making and accelerated learning and he already had a personal website up at the time I approached him.

That personal website was adam-khoo.com and on it had his tips on making money, success and learning. The problem was that Adam wasn’t really paying a lot time to maintain and grow his website by adding fresh content so that people would want to come back and visit his site.

So if there’s� a tip I can leave here with you is that keep adding fresh content to your website! It gets people coming back for more and the search engines also view unique content very, very� favorably. So if you have a website that you provide as a resource, add content regularly.

With that said, adam-khoo.com at that time was pretty stale and we had to do something about it because it was still getting a pretty constant stream of traffic due to people searching for adam khoo online and we didn’t want any of it to be put to waste.

This was the old adam-khoo.com. Blehhh…

So the first thing we did was to change adam-khoo.com into Adam’s personal blog. Now a blog is a very good way to keep adding� fresh content and people love to read blogs. Especially if the blog’s about someone of interest like Adam is. So we figured that people who search for adam khoo want to know more about the man himself and his personal website should be about him and his life. Therefore, the blog.

So the blog was set up and now you can read about the many things that Adam does with his time. And the lovely thing is that this website is going to grow and grow because people are going to be interested reading about Adam and we’re going to keep on adding fresh unique content and people are just going to come back again, again and again. And all this traffic is going bode very nicely for our other marketing efforts online.

Now the blog isn’t going to be about how Adam brushes his teeth and what he eats for dinner. I know some people are interested in that sort of thing but our focus for this blog is about how Adam makes his money and and a chance for you to look into his thoughts.

I mean if you had the chance to have an inside look into how a multi-millionaire lives his life, wouldn’t you wanna know?

So this is how the new adam-khoo.com looks like now:

Pretty spiffy eh…

So as Adam blogs about topics like money-making and personal success in his personal life and the running of his businesses, we know the blog is going to attract people who are mainly interested in those� areas.�

We added� adsense on his blog and links to the other partner sites that are also relevant and interesting to that particular readership.� Soon we’ll be adding affiliate links, amazon links about stuff that these people want to know more about. So lots of great potential there. And I’ll update you about what we do as we grow the blog.

Remember that the old adam-khoo.com also had all of Adam’s money, success and learning tips. What happened to that? Well, we spun those into 3 seperate websites which I’ll talk more about next time and how it all fits into our online marketing strategy.

Ok enough…