Recommended Resources
From: Jeffrey Tang
I am using most of the below resources personally, thus I would be able to provide recommendation and advice based on my own experience:
Domain Name Registration
(A domain name is the “shop name” of an online business, eg: “www.somename.com”)
GoDaddy
Features:
1. US $8.95/year for a “.com” domain name, plus “ICANN” fees US $0.25/year
Total = US $9.20 per year (standard registration)
2. Recommended by most internet marketing gurus.
Link: Click on the above icon or here to visit GoDaddy.com
Web Hosting
(A web host is the “land lord” of an online business, it houses the domain name)
HostGator
Features: (Baby Plan)
1. US $9.95/month
2. 5GB disk space, 75GB monthly traffic, unlimited domain hosting, c-panel support
3. Recommended by most internet marketing gurus.
4. 24 hours live person online support.
Link: Click on the above icon or here to visit HostGator.com
Payment Processors
(A payment processor is a third party entity that accept credit card payment on your behalf from visitors who visit your on line shop and purchase your product)
Fees and features comparison
PayPal |
2CheckOut |
ClickBank |
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| URL | www.paypal.com | www.2checkout.com | www.clickbank.com |
| Signup fees | FOC | US $49.00 | US $49.95 (publisher acct) |
| Transaction fees | 2.9% + US $0.30 | 5.5% + US $0.45 | 7.5% + US $1.00 |
| How do you get paid ? | PayPal transfer your fund to a bank account assigned by you | 2CO transfer your fund to a bank account assigned by you | ClickBank send a US cheque by mail to your registered mailing address |
| Limitation to Malaysian | While we can still use Malaysia address to register a PayPal account, PayPal does not transfer account fund balance to any banks registered in Malaysia. Since October 07, PayPal allows fund withdrawal to credit cards including for Malaysian. |
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Once ClickBank has banned Malaysia address user from signing up… Good news, since April 08, ClickBank has lifted the ban !! Sign up now before they impose any ban again  |
| Recommended solutions for Malaysian | Option 1: Register using Singapore address, withdraw PayPal fund to a Singapore commercial bank, then TT the fund back to Malaysia or use their debit card facilities to withdraw cash from any ATMs that have access to Maestro or Cirrus network. Option 2: Register using Malaysia address, create a US bank account, withdraw PayPal fund to the US bank account before TT it back to Malaysia Option 3: Download the detail instructions here. Option 4: |
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| Notes | Widely accepted by online merchants, including big players such as eBay (eBay has bought over PayPal), ClickBank, HP, Barnes & Noble.com etc. | 2CheckOut limits 1 payment license per domain, so if you have say 2 domains A & B, you will have to pay 2 license fees, US$49 + US$49 - US$19 (US$19 discount is given for each additional license). | ClickBank only sells digital products such as e-books, softwares, MP3 etc, below US $200 in price. |
HTML Editor
(Hyper Text Mockup Language Editor is used to create, edit a web page, just as how you would use MS Word to create and edit a document)
* NVU (Free ware)
* MS FrontPage (US $199 - User friendly, recommended by most internet marketing gurus)
Link: Click on the above links to go to the respective download sites
FTP Program
(File Transfer Protocol program is used to upload web pages and other contents such as graphics, ebooks etc, from your PC to the server, so that it goes “Live” on the internet)
FileZilla
FileZilla (Free ware)
WS_FTP LE
WS_FTP LE (Free ware), click on below link to download and install the software.
ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/local/hsh2005/Networking/WS_FTP%20LE/ws_ftple.exe
Auto Responder
(An autoresponder is a 3rd party entity that manage among other things, collect name and e-mails address from your prospect, responds sequential e-mails to the prospects automatically)
Aweber
Features:
1. US $19.95 monthly fees
2. Unlimited autoresponders, follow ups, broadcast, campaigns
4. Store up to 10,000 leads email
5. Create opt-in form easily, graphical enhanced
6. Customizable multiple opt-in form format such as pop-over, pop-under, etc.
7. Online live support (I love this most ! :o) )
Link: Click on the above icon or here to visit Aweber.com
Affiliate Program Manager
(An affiliate program manager allows others to sell your product and become your affiliates, the program shall be able to generate unique affiliate links, track sales generated by each affiliates, manage the commission payment, refund etc. )
ClickBank
ClickBank has been the most popular online market place for selling information products such as ebooks. ClickBank handles all the back end works for their merchants such as accepting payment, paying affiliates, refund handling etc.
To become ClickBank’s merchant, you need to sign up a publisher account, a one time fees of US $49.95 will be imposed.
Link: Click on the above icon or here to visit ClickBank
Auto Pilot Riches
Auto Pilot Riches, also some times identified as “1 Shopping Cart” and “World Internet Office” is an integrated online business solution which combines the features of:
1. Shopping Cart
2. Auto Responder
3. Affiliate Manager
4. Ad Tracker
The monthly subscription fees is US $79.00
Link: Click on the above icon or here to visit Auto Pilot Riches
Keyword Research Tools
Keyword Elite US $176.00
I’m using this tool personally for my keyword research purpose, among other things, it lets you do the following easily:
1. Generate tons of keywords
2. Analyze Pay Per Click competition for every keywords generated
3. Automatically create Adsense pages based on the selected keywords
4. Analyze keywords competitiveness in terms of Search Engine Optimization
5. Spying what keywords are used by others in their AdWords campaign
[This is my favorite feature :o) ]
Click on the above link or image to get more information about keyword elite.
Pay Per Click (PPC) Program
(A pay per click program is provided by search engines where your advertisement will be displayed along side with the search result triggered by the keyword where a visitor has put in to the search engine, when a visitor click on your advertisement, you will have to pay a certain amount of cost to the search engine provider)
AdWords Made Easy (Free eBook)
This book is written by the same person who created “KeyWord Elite”, he provides easy to follow steps on creating an AdWords campaign.
Click on the above image to download the 85 pages ebook.
AdWords Learning Center (Free Video Tutorials)
You can learn AdWords from this resources provided by Google itself.
http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/
Adwords Miracle (US $97)
This book is by Chirs McNeeny, a very successful affiliate marketer whom I have learnt a lot from.
Highly recommended for beginners.
http://adwordsmiracle.adwordsempiresystem.com
Day Job Killer (US $97)
Another book by Chirs McNeeny.
I have quit my day job, have you ?
Lots of useful practical killer strategies inside !
http://djk.adwordsempiresystem.com
High Performance Affilite Marketing (US $97)
This is an evergreen affiliate marketing ebook by Jeremy Palmer, another successful affiliate marketer. However, Jeremy has announced in Oct 2007 that he has stopped selling this book to focus on supporting his existing customer base. See related details in PPC Classroom below.
PPC Classroom Workbook, Manuals, Tepmplates, DVDs, CDs (US $497.00)
This is a physical product package by Jeremy Palmer and Anik Singar, the package includes Jeremy’s ‘High Performance Affiliate Marketing’ ebook. Jeremy has made US$ 1.4 Million in affiliate marketing without having a single list, find out his secrets here and get extra bonuses here.
http://www.adwordsempiresystem.com/ppc-classroom/
Jan 08 Updates: Jeremy has stopped selling the above package as it has reached the intended customer quota.
However, I have a limited extra copy of his package if you are interested to have it. Do contact me here for further information.
AdWords Empire System DVD and Software (US $497.00)
This is a 2 days course conducted by Jo Han Mok and Fabian Lim, which I attended in Singapore on May 2006. The whole 2 days session has been recorded on DVD, now you can bring them to your own living room and let them teach you exactly what I’ve learnt from them, yet you are paying much lesser then what I paid them to attend their course.
Beside getting the physical DVDs, you will be getting a lot of powerful software as well.
Visit www.AdWordsEmpireSystem.com for more information.
