Online Payment Processing Providers : Paypal vs AlertPay vs Moneybookers

For internet marketers, online payment is one of the critical part of your overall venture, regardless of whether you are into affiliate marketing, online business or just monetizing through blogging/site. Many of the affiliate/advertising networks pay your "life blood" (read as MONEY) through online payment provider like Paypal etc.

Of course, at times you have no choice but to use the designated online payment provider from the network. However, if you have a choice, I am sure you will find one that meet the following minimum criteria:
1. Secured network.
2. Fast turnaround time.
3. Cost effective (lower fees).

For internet marketers, cost containment is one of the key aspect towards the success of your IM venture. Thus, today I am going to focus on comparing the various fees involved in the 3 popular online payment processing providers i.e. Paypal, AlertPay and Moneybookers (click on the names to access their official site)

For easier comparison, I've since generated a ONE-PAGE summary sheet for a bird's eye view of the fees involved in each of these providers (click on the image to enlarge):

Online Payment Processing Providers Summary Sheet

As registration is FREE for all these providers, if you have not registered your account, you are encouraged to register for one. Of course, you can register with all the above-mentioned providers and decide which provider to be your main money transaction provider.

Hope that this is of help to you folks.

Cheers!

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Cloud Computing Services for IM - Cloud Experience

Information is KING in Internet Marketing! Thus, all the information/ resources you researched or created need to be stored in a safe place that can be easily retrieved at a later stage, whenever and where ever you need it.

This is the gist of what Cloud Computing services is here to provide i.e. storing and synchronising files from multiple devices into one secured place for ease of future retrieval. In short, you can upload and retrieve the files anywhere, anytime you want.

Recently, I stumbled upon a site call Cloud Experience ("CX" in short) which provides such Cloud Computing service with much much more.

Following are some of the key features (which some of it are more superior than iCloud):

• Registration is FREE (for up to 10 GB of storage space, which is double the size of what iCloud is going to provide).
• You can access and upload/download/sync the files with PC, Mac, all smartphones and many mobile devices like blackberry etc... (i.e. it's not restricted to iphone or ipad in the case of iCloud).
• Realtime synchronization:
• Automatically synchronizes new, changed, or deleted files to all connected computers and devices
• Offline changes are synchronized as soon as you reconnect
• Maintains a history as you make changes and resolves any conflicts so that you never lose your work
• Realtime backup (since it's all in the "cloud"!)
• It allow you to group share your files with your friends, families and business associates. 

I've just registered myself and did a trial to upload some files from my PC and retrieve the files from my iPhone (iPhone App is FREE to download too). It is smooth, fast and seamless. I am amazed that such great services come with freely!

If this is something new to you and you would like to have an early experience with cloud computing service, click on the image below to register for FREE and try it for yourself.

Hope you like my sharing.

Cheers!

The Next Big Thing in IM : Google+

In Internet Marketing, social media or social network sites are an important piece of jigsaw puzzle to your overall internet marketing venture. Thus, it is a force that cannot be ignored. Soon, there will be another HUGE platform coming into picture and I am sure it will create a great impact to your internet marketing action.

Google+, is the answer to facebook by Google, the search engine giant! It is currently in intensive trial stage and stay tune for this forthcoming great thing. For sneak preview of what Google+ has to offer, do check-out my post below:

The Next Big Thing

I personally view that Internet Marketers can tap on the following features of Google+ to increase their visibility on this new social network and/or overall search ranking in Google:

1. Circles - Unlike Facebook, Circles allow you to easily group your friends into different circles so that you can share the pertinent message/information to selected circles only. It is beneficial for target marketing especially if you can incorporate your "list" as your circles!

2. Sparks - It allows you to search and save any articles, video, audio (or anything at all) of your interest so that you can read it later. Better still, you can share it with your friends or circles of friends. It is a great place to "promote" your website/blogs.

3. Hangouts - This is the platform for you and your friends to be on video chat while on the move. If it's taken off well, could be a potential platform for placement of ads or affiliate programs of your choice.

Enjoy your social media marketing venture and keep learning.

Cheers!

Facebook - Fan Page Pro

Social Media, especially Facebook has become a critical element towards the success of Internet Marketing. With the more than 500 millions members base and it's free to create Fan Page feature. It is a powerful tool to promote your sites/blogs//products/services.

Do you have a facebook fanpage or planning to create one? Admire to own a fanciful Fan Page that allow you to create  an effective squeeze page or landing page right inside your facebook?

If you answer "Yes" to the above, you must check out the Fan Page Pro product which allow you to create all the above without any technical skills or coding. The benefits:

• Simple and effective template to fit any industry.
• Easy to use editor for all the content editing.
• Instant Live updating - hands free content updates.

(Click on the image to explore further):

All the best in your IM venture.

Cheers!

Next Wave : Mobile Marketing

Internet Marketing is getting saturated with more and more internet marketers, big and small, coming into the bandwagon. With the expected higher marketing/advertising budget from the companies over the globe in 2011, definitely there is still potential in Internet Marketing. The BIG question is how big (or small) of the pie can you get out of it?

Thus, it is always prudence to keep up to date on the available options in earning money online. One big wave that coming our way, slowly but surely, is Mobile Marketing. With the hugely popular and wide spread smartphone/tablet around the world, especially iPhone and iPad, marketing effort targeting the audience on the go is the natural progress of "internet" marketing. 

So, why is mobile marketing getting so much attention now? My takes are:
1. The mobile market is HUGE and it can only get BIGGER.
2. As mobile phone is usually registered with an individual, it is more effective to launch a marketing with targeted audience.
3. The response to the marketing effort is usually instantaneous because of the real time notification and powerful push-mail services in most smartphones.
4. Most smartphones are incorporated with the built-in Social Media apps like facebook, twitter etc... which make it more convenient and quicker to "push" the marketing request to the users.

If you are still very new to Mobile Marketing, it is about time to learn and earn on the go. Following are 2 highly recommended mobile marketing books for the newbies:















Do check it out and enjoy the huge potential of mobile marketing venture.

Cheers!

SPECIAL : BloggingClicks Giveaway!

Are you a blogger or webmaster that are looking for ways to monetize your blogs? Find it hard to get into the contextual advertisers like Google's Adsense (or recently being banned due to unknown reason)?

Fret not! Today I am going to recommend a relatively new Contextual Ads Network called BloggingClicks which will definitely serve as a great option to monetize your blog/website.

I've had a good and pleasant experience with one of the Account Manager there. His response is prompt and professional. 

What's even more attractive is that BloggingClicks is currently running a campaign to Give-Away $100 By Participating In The BloggingClicks Giveaway! It's not a lucky draw, everyone that participate get the cash! Do check it out as there is nothing to lose!

All the best to your blogging venture!

Cheers!

The World's Most Popular/Visited Sites?

Information is KING, especially in the Internet Marketing world. The entire web/Internet is our market. Thus, any information/resources gained  pertaining to the web/Internet will be an added advantage to us.

If you are a beginner in Internet Marketing, I believed your daily routine will involve searching the web for resources related to your venture. Ever wonder which are the most popular/most visited sites in the world? In your own country or in any specific country of your choice? If you were given a specific site (for example "warriorforum"), do you know how popular is this site?

Fret not, the FREE resource is here! You can find all the above answers on the spot through an authority site called Alexa. It's ranking system is basing on the past 3 months' traffics of the entire web.

If you were to visit Alexa now, you will notice that the current top 5 global sites are:
1. Google.com
2. Facebook.com
3. Youtube.com
4. Yahoo.com
5. Blogger.com (no wonder blogging is so popular!)

In Singapore, the top 5 sites are:

1.Facebook.com
2. Google.com.sg
3. Google.com
4. Youtube.com
5. Yahoo.com

As for the specific site like warriorforum.com (which is the bible forum for Internet marketers), it has a global ranking of 192 and US ranking of 67 (see below), which is not too bad at all.

On top of such free real time information, you can register and incorporate the traffic widget into your site/blog to showcase your site/blog's Alexa ranking. 

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