The Big Money Is In The ‘Lazy’ and ‘Hungry and Desperate’ Market

You know the old adage – “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

I very much believe in this too. Learning a useful skill is important.

Unfortunately, not many people subscribe to this wisdom. A whole lot of people out there are just looking for an instant quick fix solution to their problems without wanting to lift much of a finger. They are the ‘lazy’ crowd.

And then, there is another group of people who are in situations so dire, that they grab whatever helping hand that are extended to them. Often they face problems so pressing, that they look hungrily and desperately around for an answer. They are the ‘hungry and desperate‘ crowd.

So what do the ‘lazy’ and ‘hungry and desperate’ crowd have in common?

They are all eyed by the shrewd marketers and businessmen looking to cash in on their problems and solve it for them – for a generous fee!

Let’s Hop On The ‘MyBlogLog Wagon’ Bandwagon

Just when you thought you heard the last of meme, another one comes along. This is relentless, but still a fun exercise nevertheless. Yes, while it can be time-consuming, it is a good way to get some backlinks, meet new friends, as well as get some traffic. With more traffic and backlinks, the search engines will gonna give you some love as well as far as ranking goes. So it’s pretty worthwhile!

This new ‘meme’ of sorts is called the ‘MyBlogLog Wagon’. I got wind of it from Court’s site (http://courtneytuttle.com).

The rules are simple. And here goes:

***Start Copying Here:***
Here are the rules:

1) Write a short introduction about how you found this list and include a link back to that blog.

2) COPY the rules and ENTIRE list below and post it on your blog.

3) Take ?My New Community Members? and move them into the ?The Original Community Members? list.

4) Find 3 new blogs, join their MyBlogLog Community and add them to the ?My New Community Members? section. Remember to also add the ?Join the Community? link next to your new blogs. ( Example: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/ReformatThis/ )

So Why Do I Blog?

I just got a double combo tags by the cool dudes from FortuneWatch and SmartWealthyRich to participate in this meme about the topic you see from this title.

So the million dollar question:

“Why Do I Blog?”

To be honest, I’ve never been into this whole blogging thing. Even when the blogging phenomenon was sweeping through the whole globe, where grandmas are also getting into the act, I was rather indifferent. I guess it reached a point where, if you can’t beat ‘em, you join ‘em.

Okay, here are my exact reasons:

1. To publish my thoughts, views, and present worthy information which are of value to the readers. Previously, I did content management with a finance website (still doing now actually, but more on the editorial and Internet marketing aspects), and I had the chance to publish my writings online. Without that platform, I really had no way to do so.

However with a blog, just about everyone has the power to publish his or her writings, easily and quickly, with a minimum of fuss.

17 Little WordPress Plugins That Do Serious Damage

I’m a big fan of the WordPress. It is easy to use, flexible and works great as a Content Management System (CMS). I rate it highly, alongside Joomla, which I’m currently experimenting now for my other sites.

Back to WordPress, there are many Internet Marketers who are increasingly using WordPress as a website platform to market themselves and their product, and rightly so!

On its own, WordPress is pretty bare, but once you start adding in all the plugins that are freely available in their WordPress database, watch it turn from a regular Joe into a MONSTROUS beast (something like the big hairy fat ugly orc you see in Lord of The Rings)!

Here are some great plugins I’ve been using so far.

Search Engine Optimization

1. Ultimate Tag Warrior

This has to be one of the most important WordPress plugin. It enables you to automatically tag each of your post without having to make any changes to your theme. There is also a tag suggestion feature to helps you come out with possible tags to use for each of your post. Helps a lot in SEO, and it also gets your traffic via Technorati. If there is just one WordPress you have to choose, this must be it.

Will You Be At The World Internet Mega Summit? I Will

A storm is brewing. Anticipation building. Palms are getting sweaty, and heart pulses are racing.

Come May 26 to May 29, some of the world BEST (and most cunning) Internet Marketers as well as thousands of others online entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe will be converging and descending on our sunny island of Singapore, wreaking havoc with their collective farts and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

All to attend just one event – The World Internet Mega Summit.

So why the hell am I looking forward to the event? Certainly not to smell the fart.

Okay, long story short.

A stellar cast of copywriters, direct response, affiliate, product creation and viral marketing titans will be revealing their cutting edge strategies, as well as tips and tricks to those lucky enough to get a ticket to the event.

Those who going to be present are literally the who’s who of Internet Marketing. Folks who have been there and done that.

Without further ado, here is the list of marketing top guns and mavericks:

In no order of merit (but perhaps looks)

1. Ewen Chia (the Secret Affiliate Weapon Guy)

Time For Some Link Love

I’m in the mood yet again. Nooo no, not that kind of mood, you naughty!

Yep, I’m in the mood to give some link loves to blogs that offer great worthy content, which also give me the good vibes.

Previously I featured some excellent blogs such as FortuneWatch, SmartWealthyRich and HenryGold

Today we shall talk about 2 blogs and 1 website.

1. Urban Monk

I was tagged by my friend, Robin, of FortuneWatch to take part in this charity campaign. Since it is for a good cause, I was thinking why not?

Actually I didn’t quite follow the campaign guidelines cos of the lack of time (I need to condense everything), but well, I hope I have already done my part.

Basically, I’m supposed to come out with a post stating that my blog is closing down (hate to think about it if it really happens!), ala a blog apocalypse.

I’ve to then write about what I will do if there is no more blogging for me. This whole exercise is meant to be a win-win situation for everyone involves, where the Urban Monk will donate $500 or more to charity depending on the amount of backlinks he received back, while I get some link love back of my own.