It’s been well known that in order to be successful and take profits in any businesses, you must have must at least a niche market.

A niche market is a focused and targetable portion of a market. By definition a business that focuses on a niche market addresses a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by major providers. You can also think of a niche market as a narrowly defined group of potential customers.

For instance, instead of offering dog training, you might establish a niche market by specializing in labrador retriever training.

Why should you bother to establish a niche market? Because of the great advantage of being alone there; other small businesses may not be aware of your particular niche market, and large businesses won’t want to bother with it.

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I become too overwhelm in remembering too many usernames and passwords. I need one specific username and password for my WordPress blog, another for email account, web hosting and FTP account, BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog, social bookmark sites, and a lot more. The list of passwords is endless!

You also felt irritated if you forgot a password and received this message, didn’t you?

Yes, I can retrieve the password and have it reset but it takes times even hours before I receive the new password.

Using the same username and password for the sake of simplicity is not wise idea either. In fact it’s not safe and very risky! So I begin to research for free password manager.

Here are some of the available free password manager: Continue reading

I just upgraded my blog to the latest WordPress 2.5, and found out that some plugins don’t work. Luckily those are not the essential plugins.

Now that makes me ponder… What if the most essential WordPress plugins all of sudden disappear or no longer works… I certainly would cry if Askimet or WordPress Database Backup are no longer available.

And I would certainly miss these WordPress plugins if they’re gone: Kramer, Subscribe To Comment, Google Sitemap Generator, and WP AJAX Edit Comments.

I wonder what’s the WordPress plugin that you can’t live without?

Ever since I read Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing, I plan to use membership site software for all of my sites to integrate my subscription services, product download and affiliate management. However there are so many choices for membership site software and I really want the powerful and full-featured membership and subscription software for my website, so I began testing them.

I was recommended to use aMember Pro so I tested it.

Simple Installation and Free Installation

You can either did the installation yourself or you can opt for free installation. Yes, aMember offers free installation in 24 hours.

I did the installation myself and it was pretty straight forward:

• I just needed to upload it to my web hosting and it self extracted automatically.
• Then I just needed to follow its step-by-step guide,
• Created table using cPanel,
• Setup cron,
• Done!

Integrated with Many Payment Systems

I like this feature because having only PayPal as my payment system is very risky. Once my PayPal account was put under review so I couldn’t receive payment nor transferred my money there. It was frustrated to solve it with PayPal.

These are among the aMember supported payment systems: Continue reading

Here comes Qassia. It’s modeled similar like Naver, a number one and busiest site in South Korea. Here, it reminds me to Squidoo and Yahoo Answers.

Its idea is simple: share your tidbit of knowledge with others. But Qassia takes it to another step:

• You’re allowed to add your sites.
• You’re encouraged to share your knowledge with others by writing articles (Qassia calls it intel).
• You get revenue sharing from AdSense that’s published in your intel page.
• You get Qassia credit for writing intel or rating other intels.
• You can exchange this Qassia credit to display your sites.

Will Qassia take off and be succesful like Naver in South Korea or it’s a blunder like Agloco? Continue reading

You read it right! PayPal has added a new withdrawal feature for its Philippine and Indonesian members, allowing them to conveniently withdraw funds from their PayPal accounts to their local bank accounts.

Here are the two requirements:

1. You must be a verified PayPal member.
2. You need to add a local bank account into your PayPal account.

Important: Please note your first name and surname on your PayPal account must match the name on your bank account. If it does not, your withdrawal request may be rejected by your bank.

More detail information is available in PayPal official page here.

Update:

• 1/30/2008

  I just called 2 of the Indonesian major banks that I have accounts with, and asked for their 7-digit bank code that’s required by PayPal to identify the local bank where to withdraw to. Here comes the problem:

  • BCA (Bank Central Asia) only uses 3 digits for their bank code. When I asked for 7-digit bank code the customer service reps said BCA only uses 3-digit bank code. So I persisted to ask for 7 digit code and said it’s require to transfer from PayPal. Then the customer service reps said BCA doesn’t have any partnership with PayPal so such transfer can’t be done.
  • Bank Mandiri only uses 5 digits for their bank code. When I asked for 7-digit code to transfer from PayPal, the customer service reps didn’t know what PayPal is and there’s no such 7-digit bank code.

  Hence don’t put your hope high yet. Such transfer from PayPal to local Indonesian banks can’t be done yet as the local banks don’t have the PayPal’ required 7-digit bank code.

• 1/31/2007

  I finally found the 7-digit code for BCA. Here’s how to find it:

  1. Don’t call Halo BCA or the local branch directly. It’s useless as the customer service officers haven’t been trained yet and they don’t know how to answer this.
  2. The code for BCA is 014.
  3. Find the code for the local branch code here. It’s a 4-digit code.
  4. The BCA 7-digit code that PayPal required is 014 + the 4-digit code from step 3.

  Now that you have this code, you can add BCA to your PayPal account.

I read in forum post that a long-time internet marketer Jan Tallent really needs help.

She’s running a sale to fix the roof on her house that was ripped apart by a recent storm, among other things, so if anyone here could use these products, please pick up this package from her. If you don’t need the products, but would like to help, there is a donation link at her site.

www.JanRonMedia.com/firesale

You’re also free to post this link on your blogs or pass it along to others. Thanks for any help you can give her.

In any business, including Internet marketing, buzz is very important. Here are two example of bizzare buzz creation.

1. This one comedian and film maker, Mark Malkoff, really thinks out of the box to create a buzz!

   He moves in to an Ikea store when his apartment is being fumigated for cockroaches. His life there is documented by a camera crew who follows him every where.

   Although it’s very spacious there, he has one problem, nothing is real in Ikea! The sinks don’t work, and neither does the toilet, refrigerator, flat-screen television or the washer and dryer. He must shower in the staff locker room and cook his own meal at the the staff cafeteria.

   You can watch his movie at his site, Continue reading

It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy developing and testing a new money making system using Wordpress blog, and finally got it!

This brand new system funnel all of the blog traffic into a sales letter.

During the beta testing, my beta testers asked me if they can get a complete solution, hence I created Big Bang PLR.

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