Archive for May, 2008

Despite my strong believe in the use of technology have always had my skepticism about InternetSwitch Nigeria Limited online payment gateway. It all started a day I wanted to use my ATM card to buy something online from a website that uses interswith payment gateway. I had not-so-good experience. Since, then I said I will never use my ATM card to make payment online because of security flaws that I noticed.

Two days ago I received email purported to be from Interswith Nigeria Limited. Here is the copy of the mail….

ATTENTION ATM/CASH CARD USERS!

This is to inform all customers of our affiliate banks that the crime on ATM and Cash Card in this country is so high that they should be very careful on the information they respond to.

Currently INTERSWITCH is updating our ATM/CASH CARD machine database for all the cards to be in a more secured web so that if it is mistaken stolen, the criminals will not be able to use it make purchases in the websites which have been the major way of utilizing the cards they steal.

Another development has been that our ISSURANCE COMPANY is making arrangement to pay back all the money stolen from our customers; we have gotten the record of all stolen cards from the banks

We strongly recommend that all ATM/CASH CARD USER MUST register his or her card in this secured web. All cards registered in this database will not be useful to unauthorized person who may try to use the information if stolen.

Register your current Pin and your desired new pin. Our machine will text a code which you will need incase you will like to use your card to buy something online.

This is to restore the dignity of our company and the confidence of our customers on us.

CLICK HERE TO LOGIN

NOTE: Any website you are shopping on with your card that do not have this hyperlink ID https://www. know that is not secured to use your card on it and your card information may be stolen from there. The “S” there stands for secured.

Interswitch NG Security Team

Did you think that message could truly be from InterSwitch?

How did Interswitch know my email address? Could it be from the bank?

If the message is from interswitch why did they need my card and pink information before they protect me?

The sender address from the message reads info_interswitchng@livedoor.com. I can’t imagine how such a corporate body will be using free email account.

I think it is obvious that the message is from B.A.D guys that wanted to steel my money.

If you give your card information on such site you may end up losing your money.

One of the main reason why I don’t subscribe to the idea of using ATM card just anywhere and anyhow is because your card is link to your account. Some even often link their card to two accounts. If they are able to access your card, you whole wealth is at risk.

BEWARE!

What did you think?

I read a story in a book titled PowerPoint for Success by Bob Harrison which confirms starting small as the best way to achieve great success. In the book, the authors share the success secret of Rudolph Guiliani.
Rudolph Giuliani was former mayor of New York City.

“One indication of the kind of changes that transpired during Giuliani’s time as mayor was the reduction in crime. The number of homicides per year nosedived from 1,946 to 642 - a reduction of 67 percent. Overall, crime was reduced by some 5, 000 felonies per week.”

“One of his leadership characteristics, which impressed me, was his concept of “Starting small with success.”

When tackling BIG PROBLEMS, Giuliani would normally find and begin with some small thing that could be done quickly and noticeably.

For instance, when tackling the city’s crime problem, he knew that it would take time to show significant results but that people needed to see improvements soon. He decided to concentrate on two areas that could be changed relatively easily and that the public would notice.”

Giuliani stated, “Small successes can change people’s feelings and can, in themselves, boost morale,”

The question now is this ‘what big task can you start by creating small successes?

As internet marketer it may be $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 a month.

That is not too much to aim for but it is better to do it Giuliani’s way by starting with small successes.

So, we invite you to be part of IMN ibusiness startups contest. The main goal of this contest is to get you to make money, starting small by taking daily consistent action. Entry will be closing in next few days. Join us now.

Pg 24 & 25 of Power Points for Success by Bob Harrison

THE CONTEST IS OVER NOW.

Make your first $10 or more in next 21 days and ‘win’ over $5,000 price.

Here is Absolutely Easy Way to get paid for making money for yourself and your family.

You have between today and 30th of May to join this contest. We will stop accepting participants on 31st of May. The contest proper will start on June 1st.

You are where you are because of who you do or not do yesterday. It has a lot to do with your habits. There is no doubt about the fact that you are passionate about making money online. You go on internet everyday to make that a reality. But what did you do when you go online?

Here is common scenario…

You go online (either with your own dial up internet access or internet cafe). You open www.yahoomail.com (or gmail.com). You started reading through hundreds of email that are already waiting for you from ‘WOLRD gurus’ and ‘AMERICAN and BRITISH’ phishers.

You are first attracted to American or British phishers email because the subject of the mail is scintillating. It is about the ‘lottery’ you just won. You end up spending about 20 minutes clicking the button thinking about how to cash money you just won without playing the game.

Hey time is going!

You quickly open the mail from ‘world guru’ promising you $40,000 a week within next 14 days. It looks interesting because it is about latest internet application that vomits cash like mad. The email leads you to landing page website where you are first asked to fill short form to receive the secret report.
Immediately you submit the form you are automatically redirected to very lengthy sales page on the latest secrets. You either read the mail online or print it out.

Next you log on yahoo messenger to chat with your friend that just travel to Canada or old internet friend. The discussion takes another 30mins.

And it goes on and on like that.

This has become habit. It is a non productive habit.

A habit is what we do automatically. But it can be changed.

It’s been said that it only takes 21 days to instill a new habit - that’s all.

Just concentrate on doing something in a different manner for 21 days and it will become a habit. Or, concentrate on not doing something for 21 days and you’ll lose the habit.

If your online habit for some time has been ‘producing the result’ you desire it is time to change it.

Introducing the iBusiness Startups Contest.

Make your first $10 or more in next 21 days and ‘win’ over $5,000 price.

How to get paid for making money for yourself and your family.

We are going to be giving away over $5, 000 worth of cash and other gift items to 5 people that can come up with most valuable before and after story. This could be a success story with details on how you made it work, an inspiration life story, or perhaps some detailed information about how you got over the hump from unsuccessful to successful. However, bellow is the list of 5 categories we will consider.

Best forum or blog site concept.
Forum or blog site with high numbers of quality contents
Forum or blog site to make first $10
Forum or blog site that get most traffic.
Forum or blog site or any Internet Marketing Business idea to generate first $500

RULES and GUIDELINES to follow.

• You need to fill the short form bellow to sign up for this contest.
• Post your by ‘before contest story’ here. Make it very brief 15 lines or less. Just tell us what you’ve try before now, how u spend your internet time, what has work for you and what hasn’t.
• Access my two special reports on forum and blog. Choose one that suit you. You may decide to set up new forum or new blog. It is your choice.
• Create a twitter account. You will be posting your daily action step here. What you do today. Once you open your twitter account make sure you link it to www.internetmarketingnigeria.com contest page here. And make sure you write at least 2 paragraphs on why you think you will win internet marketing nigeria contest.
• Email your twitter page to me.
• When the contest is over come back to post your ‘after contest’ story here.
• I will be monitoring every post made by participant closely and will choose 5 winners in approximately 30days time.
• After the winners are selected, I will compile list of best before and after story in one blog post.
• List of the winners will then be forwarded to my partner Singaporean friend Edmund Ng and Dr Sunny Obazu Ojeagbase (the publisher of Success digest extra) to celebrate your success. You story might end up in Sucess Digest Extra Magazine.

If you don’t know what Twitter is and how to create it don’t worry. You will be thought. It is very easy.
This is your chance to change your habit, story and your financial future while motivating others that are still finding it difficult to start… Not only that, you will be in the running for following gifts……

5 Winners will get….

1. $100 cash price ( donated by Dr Sunny Ojeagbase)
2. 1hr millionaires mind intensive with Dr Sunny Ojeabase. ( I specially request for this…and for you).
3. 3 days Exclusive Private Coaching program with Oluwafisayo Akinlolu ( This 3 days intensive worth N50,000. A new breed marketer recently publicly confess that he made his first millionaire after receiving training from this maverick marketer.)
4. Executive launch break - enjoy buffet with Mr-X at prestigious Lagos Sheraton Hotels and Tower. Mr-X is amazing, multimillionaire internet marketer.
5. Motivational CD of messages from people like Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Bob Proctor and a whole lot of
6. Motivational Ebooks. (Donated by Nigeria number 1 cyber motivator Bola Oni)

Biggest Reward

This reward is only for first person to make $1,000 in next 45 days.

Winner will get all expense paid trip to Singapore where you will have opportunity to meet wine and dine with my Singaporean friends and business executives. Not only that, you will also have exclusive meeting with my personal friend and SEO guru. Imagine what you can learn from this Internet marketer that brought in almost $100,000 in less than 3 months with free search engine traffic.

If You Wanna Give This Contest A Try Fill Form Bellow.

Together we share, and together we grow…SUCCESSFUL!

Lateef

Guest Article - Edmund Ng (http://www.internet-empire.com)

Life is full of uncertainties, more so in this century. Almost every
 week, you hear of sad natural disasters like Cyclones hitting Myanmar,
 Earthquake in Si Chuan and many more. It's a tough world out there. More
 importantly there are 6.6 Billion people living in this vulnerable
 world. 

You are but 'One' of the 6.6 Billion people utilizing earth's resources
 but are you making the best of it? How have you repaid the earth? No
 I'm no Al Gore and the purpose of this email is not in asking you to
 protect the earth's and adapt ways to conserve energy.

Life is Fragile. What if you're dead tomorrow? What happens? The first
 thing that comes into your mind is your wife, your children, your
 parents, your in laws...the list goes on and on. You think about
 money...which should be the least of your concern. Why?

As I said before, there's 6.6 Billion people out there. You are but one
 of the 6.6 Billion. If you do your maths, it's really insignificant.
 So, what are the things that matter? Money? How many certificates you
 have? How big your business is? How many assets you have? Friend,  all
 these means nothing if you've not repaid the Earth!

What do I mean by that. It is simple, how many people's life have you
 impacted? How many people's life have you helped turned around? How many
 people have you helped. Basically, we come naked into this world and
 we'll leave naked as well. We can't take any of our physical assets,
 certifications, money with us. What we can leave behind is our legacy.

What legacy? It is what you want to remember for. I have a habit of
 taking a peep at the obituary everytime I see the newspaper. I always look
 at the deceased and wondered what have they accomplished in their life
 time. Sometimes, you see awards like BBM, PBM which accounts for
 nothing. 

I have to confess I've got a self professed theory. That is, if you're
 not contributing to mankind, there's no meaning in you living on this
 earth. That is, you're just a consumer of Earth's resources and have not
 contributed to it. Then, God will kind of tell you to hand in your ICs
 earlier. (IC = Identity Cards)

The fact that you're alive, is God telling you your time is not up yet.
 You'd better do something. You'd better contribute. You'd better help
 more people. You'd better leave a legacy.

I know there are many of you who are barely making ends meet. Remember,
 your current situation is the result of what you did for the past few
 years. The equation is pretty simple and you need to work backwards.

No Goals = Mediocrity = Barely Make Ends Meet
Big Goals = Life of Abundance = Helping More People = Leaving A Legacy.

Start building your legacy now. Set a big goal in how you're going to
 help more people and who knows, during the process your life will change
 tremendously and you'll achieve your goals and leaving a legacy at the
 same time. Be thankful you're still alive and don't assume the Angel
 of Death is not knocking on the door soon. Start working your butt off
 and contribute to the Earth by helping more people. Maybe God will see
 that and let you live longer to accomplish your goals.

Edmund Ng is my Singaporean friend. I call him 'Asian' Search Engine Optimisation 'TIGER'
because is number #1 when it comes to getting free traffic from search engine.

Less than 48hrs that I post how to start your internet business virtual empire for $11 or less in one weekend, I have been receiving a lot of questions from subscribers that have started making use of the money making guide.

I have decided to publish the questions and my response here for the benefit of every body.

Question: Which market, topic and subject is the best to set up forum on?

The obvious truth is that almost everything sells on internet. Your forum can be on anything. If you want to set up a forum targeting local audience as a Nigerian the potential is still immense. But then, that does not mean that we should limit yourself to Nigerians alone. You can choose topic that anybody in the world can take part in.

You don’t have to delay your decision because you want to choose the best.

However, if you find it difficult to make decision on best topic to choose I will advice that you join internet business club if you are not a member yet. We have a comprehensive 6 lesson plan on how to research and choose market. Visit www.internetbusinessclubng.com for detail.

Question: How do I get credit card to register domain name.

I always tell people that things are getting better in Nigeria for internet marketer but some still don’t believe it. You can get credit card or prepaid debit card from any Nigerian bank nowadays without any stress. My top pick for internet marketer is zenith bank web surfer card. Alternatively, if you don’t want to go to bank you can check out www.fastecash.com I use both service very often.

Question: Why did you recommend only kiosk web hosting service?

Those that know me very well should testify to it that I don’t recommend what I haven’t use. That is one of my principles. I recommend kiosk because I have been using their service for long. The owner of the company is a marketer himself, most of the staff of the company is also internet marketers and I know one of their support team very well.

Above all, most top world internet marketers that I know uses kiosk web hosting service.

Question: If I don’t have card to register domain name and pay for web hosting, did your company provide the service?

Yes, we do it but only for subscribers. Email me directly if you want this service.

Question: Can you help set up everything? I don’t have much time.

Yes, it is possible. We can do everything for you if we have enough time. Send your request to lateefolajide @ gmail .com first.

Question: You talk about a contest at the end of the report, when will it start and who is eligible?

I will post update of the contest online on or before Tuesday afternoon. I am still waiting for some of our sponsors to respond.

Just to show you that I am sincere about your success I have additional resources for you today. It worth N5, 000. Download it free here today.

Forum Secret Workshop

You are about to discover step-by-step process to launching a successful internet business that can generate at least $1,000 a month income for you starting with only less than $11 out of pocket expenses. Funny enough, you can set everything up in just few hours.

Let me start with few obvious truth first…

1. You subscribe to internet marketing nigeria newsletter because you want to start an internet business.
2. You are reading this message because you haven’t launch a successful project probably as a result of your not having good products to sell and website to sell it.
3. You don’t have must money to invest to get started.
4. You need simple idea that have nothing to do with paypal,clickbank or other payment solution that hate nigerian’s face.

Am I right?

Ok. If that is the case this step by step guide on how to set up your own internet forum is for you.

Why Internet Forum?

• Forum is easy, simple and fast to set up. You can have one up in next 10 minutes or less.
• It can grow without you. You don’t have to invest thousands of hours to make it a success. Most of your work will be at the beginning.
• You don’t have to worry about content for your site. Most of it will be user generated.
• Lots of opportunity to free traffic. If members find your forum useful they will tell others. Your forum site will benefit from search engine traffic based on the content post by members.

There are lot of ways to make money from your forum.

1. You can sell advert space,
2. Integrate google adsense or any other ppc ads,
3. You can contact every member of your forum with a click of a button from your admin area. You can join affiliate programs or email them your product offer.
4. Your internet forum site is a asset you can sell anytime for good profit.

There are other ways you can profit from your forum. You will get them from internet business club member area if you are already a member.

What is internet forum?

Forum is a place where people of like minds meet to discuss and share ideas. It is also called discussion boards or discussion groups.

There are forum on different area of interest, hobbies, subject or profession. The market is not saturated yet. You can still launch your own forum and be a success in your small niche.

Take this forum for example.

http://hv20.com/

It is a forum for canon Hv20 owners and users.

According to information from www.who.is the site was created last year february (just a litle over 1yr) and the site is already a success. It has 10,291 members of which 2,947 are active members.

Let us start the process. I won’t bore you with story because I know what you want is action step. And that is exactly what I will give to you.

Step #1 - Choose a market, subject, topic, area of interest.

Your discussion forum must be about something. It has to be about topic, subject matter, profession or area of interest. Your forum can be of anything but I will advice that you consider the following facts when choosing topic for your forum.

1. It must be topic people like to talk about.
2. There must be enough people that share same interest.
3. They must be seriously passionate about it.
4. Their must must be buying or selling something on that topic.

It can be anything. It can be on real estate, home improvement, students, fashion, camera, etc. Note: - This first step is the most important of the whole process. If you get it wrong at this point you’ve missed it all. So make sure you choose right topic. We have a detail explanation in internet business club nigeria member area on how to choose a market. If you are already a member click here..http://www.internetbusinessclubng.com/moodle/login/index.php and login with your info. If you are not a member yet you may consider joining here: http://www.internetbusinessclubng.com

Step #2 - Choose a good name for your forum

Once you have a topic you are ok with the next step is to choose a good name for your forum site. There are lot of things to consider when choosing a name.

• Choose a name that is short.
• Make sure it is easy to remember 2 to 3 words.
• Register with a domain registrar that give you opportunity to manage it.
• Choose a name that keyword rich.
• Register domain name with ICANN approved registrar.

I recommend -

http://www.007names.com

Step #3 - Choose a good web hosting service to host your new forum site.

You will need a good web hosting service for your newly registered domain name. Make sure you consider the following points when choosing web hosting service.

• Consider storage capacity 100MB above is ok.
• Hosting service that is on linux is good.
• Make sure they have cpanel with fantastico.
• They should provide 24hrs support services with low down time.

I recommend -

http://www.wwkiosk.com/

Please I am a bit weak. I have to rest. Will update this post tomorrow. I am very sorry.

Step #4 - Set up your money making business by installing your forum.

There are several forum software available online but the most popular of them are :

VBulletin
PhpBB
Invision Power Board
Simple Machines Forum (SMF)

I recommend either phpBB and simple machines forum. However, because of security flaws have noticed some of my forums that is on phpBB applications I now prefer simple machines forum (SMF). So I will advice you consider SMF.

There are two ways to install your SMF forum application.

1. Manual Installation - in this method you will have to download SMF software from http://www.simplemachines.org/ and install it on your domain yourself. This method to me is hard way to install your forum because you need to understand how to set up MySQL database. The manual installation only become a must if your web hosting provider didn’t have cpanel that has fantanstico.

2. Automatic Installation - you can automatically install smf forum application with only a click of a button within minutes. But for this to be successful you need to host your domain with hosting provider that gives you cpanel and the cpanel must have fantastico. Fantastico is third party application with which you can install several software on your domain. The website hosting service that I recommend earlier has both cpanel and fantastico.

Now let us assume that you’ve host your domain with website hosting company I recommend. You must have login info to access your cpanel where you can see fantastico

The link to the cpanel will looks like -

http://www.mydomainname.com/cpanel

username - testing1

password - testing2

When you login to your cpanel here is what you will see….

Can you see ‘fantastico’ in above picture?

Ok Clik on it now.

The above picture is fanstastco home. If you look at the left side of that pics you will see list of applications that you can install from fantastico. The application we are interested in now is ‘Discussion Boards’ and specifically ‘SMF’. So click on it now.

It leads us to SMF page. To start your installation click on ‘New Installation’.

You are to fill this short form to install your forum. Leave the first box empty if you want people to access your forum directly on your main domain url. Next choose your username and password. Next add your full name. I suggest you use nickname instead of full name. Then click on ‘Install SMF’.

On this new page you will see the mysql database that is automatically installed for you. All you have to do on this page is to click on ‘FINISH INSTALLATION’.

That is it. YOu just install your forum.

That is not all. The next page gives you two important information and opportunty to have yuor new forum information to be emailed to you. You will have link to your admin area where you can make changes on your site. Next is the link where you and visitors can access your forum. Last important info on that page is empty box where you can put your email address to have the mail sent to you. Once that is done click on ’send e-mail’.

From the last page you have two links. You can now access your forum to see how it looks like and at the same time access your admin area where you can make changes on your forum.

Here is your new forum

Here is your admin area.

There are several editing options in your admin area but I will concentrate only on two things now; creating and modifying category and boards. To do that you have to click on ‘Boards’ under ‘forum’ in the left side of your admin area. Check the above picture again. When you click on ‘Boards’ it will take you to ….

Here you can create new category, create boards for each category and at the same time modify the boards.

Note: When you are just getting started make sure that you don’t create two many categories and boards. Doing so will make your forum looks not active. The best way is to add new category and boards as your forum grows. Don’t worry I won’t leave you alone.

Visit few forums in your market to get ideas on how to create category and boards. Study the structure of their forum. You will be inspired.

Step #5 - Get unique, hot, seed content for your forum

One important fact that will determine whether lots of people will visit your website and visit often is content you have on your forum site. If you discusses issues that affects or interest them, you’ve won their heart.

You may be wondering if I am not contradicting my previous statement about ‘user generated content’. See I am not. Most of the content on your future will eventually be user generated contents but you have to work at it first. You have to post contents in form of articles, news, and resources that worth discussing in your forum. I call this seed content.

There are several ways to get seed contents for your forum. Let us quickly discuss some of them.

1. You can write everything yourself.

• To get idea of what to write you may consider doing keyword research,
• Listen and read news - you will get a lot of fresh ideas from latest news about your topic. You can get latest news by visiting top news websites like CNN. However, I will share a simple application from google with you. It is google news alert. It will send latest news, resources, blog post on your suggested topic to your email box as you want it. All you have to do is to visit - www.google.com/alerts. When you get the news that is hot you can talk about it in your forum and give other people opportunity to discuss it.

3. You can use plr article contents on your topic.

2. Get ‘forum poster’ to do the work for you.

You can employ freelance forum posters to do the work for you. This is not a bad idea. A lot of people are doing this already. They will charge you on number of post they make on your forum site. You can search internet for website that provides this service or check freelance websites like elance.com.

Note: Our team can help you. Email me jobrequest@internetbusinessclubng.com. They will be glad to post quality seed contents in your forums for you.

These are just two ways to get started. We will be discussing several other ways in internet business club member area. If you are already a member count yourself lucky.

Bonus seed content option

The popular content trend online now is video sharing. It won’t be a bad idea to add few videos to your forum. It is not difficult. SMF has a video sharing module you can install in your forum so that it can make it easy for you to embed videos from YouTube in your forum posts.

Note: Youtube is a popular video sharing website.

You can download the module you need to embed video in your forum post here:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=977

Start posting messages, news articles, related videos from youtube tips to your site.

Step #6 - Launch promotion for your new forum

Before we start adding ways to monetize your forum it is good to get the message out about your forum to the pubic first. I will only give you quick tips on generating traffic to your forum here. We have a complete lesson module in internetbusinessclubng.com on how to attract people to your site. You may want to check it out.

However, here is my quick tips. Do this now.

You can advertise your forum using paid ad system online like google adwords, banner adverts on related sites. But what we will be discussing here will be completely free strategies.

1. If you’ve been around for some time now I am very sure the term web 2.0 marketing won’t be new to you anymore. In case you don’t know what it is all about, it is about using social media websites to promote your websites. Part of web2.0 strategy is called social bookmarking where you your site visitors or readers of your articles tag and bookmark your post on social websites like facebook.

SMF has a mod called social bookmarking mods that you can add to your forum. It will allow you and visitors to submit your forum posts and articles to the social bookmarking sites. You can download the mo here - http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=967

Note: Social Media marketing is a very interesting new way to attract a lot of visitors to your website free of charge. We have over 100 pages contents on this strategy. It will be made available to our Internet Business Club members in next few days. You can download it from the member area.

2. Press release - you can write short news about your forum and post it on free press release websites like prweb.com. We have list of several other pr websites you may want to check out in IBC member area. You can post to the pr website free.

Above two strategies should get you started. I will be updating the free traffic methods later. If you can’t wait for me to update the list you can check out IBC member area under Traffic and lead generation.

Step #7 - Add monetization system to your forum

It is time to add money machine to your forum. Afterall that is the one of the main goal of the whole process.

First sign up for google adsense here - http://www.google.com/adsense

Note: google adsense are blocks of ads that comes along with google search result anytime you search using google search engines. Advertisers pay google through their advertising system called google adwords to advertise on google pages and google partner sites pages. When you sign up for google adsense you will automatically become google partner and you will get codes to place on your forum site to show google adsense adverts. With google adsense to you don’t have to sell anything. Google will pay you whenever any of your visitor click on the advert. Easy money for you!

When you have your adsense account, you can search google for few goode affiliate products in your market.

I know your question now will be how to add the google ads and your affiliate ads to your forum.

SMF forum application that you install has adverts mods called SMFAds mod that you can download and install on your forum. This will make it easy to display ads throughout your discussion forum.

To install SMFAds, download the file form here:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=255

Installation process.

• Download SMFAds, on your computer.
• Don’t unzip it.
• Login into your SMF forum admin area.
• Select ‘packages’ from under the ‘main’ category.
• Select the ‘download packges’ tab.
• You will see a package upload box. Browse to the SMFAds file you downloaded on your computer.
• Click ‘upload’.
• Then install.
• Refresh you admin area page.
• You will see ‘ad management’ link in your SMF admin panel. Ad your google adsense ads or affiliate ad.
• Click the ‘permissions’ link and select permissions for each visitor group you have set up. Enable ads for each group so that the ad will show for all visitors.

Step #8 - Maintain your forum site allow it to grow.

You have to continue updating your forum with news, articles, tips, resources. Make sure you join in the discussion as well. Join us in internet business club forum to discuss how to grow your forum to brings in $1,000 or more monthly income.

Step 1 to 7 may looks like a lot of work to you. Well it is not. If you are serious about doing something great you can set everything up in one afternoon or night.

When you start making money from adverts, affiliate programs, selling your own products, leveraging your members list, and making thousands of dollars in monthly income, you will appreciate your effort.

See, nothing stops you from making upto $10, 000 a month from your forum in next 8 to 1year. If you need quick cash you can sell your forum for as much as $7,000 in next few months (depending on how successful it eventually becomes). A visit to www.sitepoint.com/marketplace will inspire you.

One obvious fact is whether you do anything now or delay ‘action’ days, weeks and months will pass and you will still be where you are. But if you start now in next few days, weeks and months you will continue to be happy as your forum grows. You will have asset that will one day be more valuable than the house you presently live in. So I will advice that you start today.

You need encouragement and support. I know.

That is the reason why I have been discussing with my Singaporean friend and partner Edmund Ng (Asian’s number 1 Search Engine Optimization ‘TIGER’).

I have this great idea to launch a ‘CONTEST’ to at least get 100 people to take action and get started making money. He has agree to donate gift. I am in discussion with few other top world internet marketers that are my friends as well.

Expect details of the contest in next few hours or days (depending on how my health permit me).

Please I need your help!.

I typed this step by step guide on sick bed. If I can took the pain to do this I expected you to understand how important your success means to me.

I will be happy ‘even in dead’ if at least 10 people take up the challenge and make some bucks for their family using my tips. That way I know 10 family will never every forget make.

Hey!

Don’t worry I won’t die now. Just trying to sell you a VALUE.

Next to come is detail of the contest.

Note: Quick Tip about the contest

We have some gifts donated already for winners of the coming contest. They are:

• Free trip to singapore to participate in my friends ‘business executives breakfast event’.
• A brand new Hp Pavilion Laptop.
• One internet project partnership with Lateef Olajide and Edmund Ng (we will finance the project while the winner profit).

More gifts will still come.

PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SOUL AND DO SOMETHING TODAY IF YOU TRULY LOVE YOUR FAMILY.

I LOVE YOU.

Let me make this weekend your best weekend ever by handing over to you a complete cash-cow that can feed you milk for as long as you want.

See, I am overwhelmed with the love you and several other subscribers of IMN bestowed on me when you read that I was ill.

It is time to pay back.

A little over 2yrs ago I shared for the first time with Nigerian exactly how I make money from internet forums at one event organized by SADC (publisher of success digest extra). Since then we’ve recorded several success story of other people that care to put what they learnt into action.

Few days ago while discussing with the publisher of success digest extra in his office he shared another success story of a 21yrs old Nigerian that is making loads of cash from a popular forum in Nigeria.

What am I saying … it simply means the forum marketing strategy work.

I still use this strategy till today and I few other people (fellow Nigerians I mean) that can’t do without it.

The step by step guide that I will be presenting to you this weekend is not about same strategy I shared at the SADC event. It is about my latest discovery of forum marketing.

I discover that owner of forums makes more money than every other people that makes money from same forum.

Let me explain….

For some time now their have be increase in rise of consumers awareness to their right to decide what happen in the market place. These have given rise to ‘USER Generated’ contents where it’s people that are involved in the market that creates the contents themselves.

Let me digress a little…

To succeed online you need…

1. To find a way to attract a specific group of people (consumers) that will buy what you sell or test your service.
2. You can attract this group of people in only two ways; free or paid.
3. The best free method is through search engines e.g. google.com
4. Part of what search engine use to rate website is ‘content’. You’ve probably read the popular say; ‘Content is King’.
5. You can get content for you website by writing it yourself, outsourcing it to a freelancer, getting access to plr articles or using public domain. All this methods requires ‘money’ or ‘time’.

If you have your own forum, discussion board or online community most of your contents will be generated by users.

God willing later today ‘Friday’ I will make available a step by step process of how you can start this business this weekend with only $11 expenses. The best part of it all is that you can complete the whole process in single afternoon and leave it to grow on it own if you don’t have enough time to invest.

It is 7 minutes after midnight here. I have to go to bed now. I am still managing my health. Read from me soon.

Health our people say is wealth. Most of the time, we don’t appreciate what we have until we lost it. For over a week now I have not be active because of ill health. Things became worst to the extent that I can’t even sit down with my pc for 30mins.

I thank God. I am getting better now.

While on sick bed I have every reason to count my blessings and to stop worrying about what I don’t have now. It was even during this period I got idea for today’s article. I realize that things are getting better almost everyday now.

The best time to start your internet business in Nigeria is ‘NOW’. If you are thinking about launching your business online in Nigeria there is no better period than now. ‘Things are getting better everyday.’

Internet Access

Few years ago, the only way you can access internet is through cybercafe. These cybercafes are limited in numbers and often charge high fee for their service. Today, you can access internet from home. Not only that you can access the internet the whole day with less than what cybercafe’s charge for 1hr internet access few days ago. Internet services may not be best for now but from what people in charge of NIGCOMSAT are doing nowadays, it is obvious that thing will get better. For example, it is news that they are working on deploying 400 community tele-centers nationwide. It only means in less than one month from now a lot of people will be able to access internet without emptying their pocket.

“The CTC is a franchise project being run by NIGCOMSAT Limited to provide Nigerians in remote and un-served urban areas with affordable access to internet, multimedia and voice-over internet protocol. The centers are also designed to provide value-added services such as e-learning centers for distant learning students, e-health care delivery, wireless access to homes, repair centres, space education, etc in the long run. The centres will be distribution points for the company’s e-learning certification suit. The CTCs will be commissioned by the end of this month in the various states.”

You can read the whole story from two websites bellow -

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article04//indexn2_html?pdate=140508&ptitle=NIGCOMSAT%20pledges%20wider,%20cheaper%20Internet%20services

http://allafrica.com/stories/200805140230.html

Computer And Laptop Acquisition

You can now acquire complete system easily now. You can get new, refurbished or used computer. Imagine getting a complete system for N40, 000 or less. Some commercial Banks, micro finance and computer retailers often arrange deal where you can get complete pc and laptop on loan or installment payment.

Mastercard, Visa credit/debit card and other payment system

Getting card (visa/master card) to make payment online is not possible at all in some year back. I can even remember that I often have to travel to ibadan several times in a month to pay somebody (with a friend in US) to help me make online payments. I lost over hundred thousand naira to companies that sell virtual credit/debit card.

The same way, receiving online earnings has never been easy like today. Some online merchants now provides customized MasterCard and visa card with which their affiliates can receive online payments. You can use your card anywhere online and offline. You can even use it in some local ATM bank that makes provision for cashing visa or MasterCard. If you decide not to cash your earnings you can re-invest it easily since you can make payment online with same card.

Internet Training and business system.

You can get quality internet education easily nowadays. You don’t have to spend huge amount to learn how to make money online. If you don’t want to invest at all in training you can learn free from blogs, forums and article websites. This may not be the best way to learn but of course you can with that. Alternatively, you can sign up for online membership site that provides training system for $37, $67, $97 a month. Why should you pay such amount when you can be part of a community like internet business club Nigeria that provides step by step guide and continuous support?

Let me give you opportunity to comment first. I will add more points later. However, you can add changes you’ve noticed as well.

N.P - We will be raising the sign up fee of internet business club soon. Take advantage of low sign up fee and join now. Check it today - http://www.internetbusinessclubng.com

Francis, is one of our Freedom Agent team. He decided to get himself a new laptop because of his passion for building a successful internet business. Francis cherish his new laptop alot not knowing that their is a monster on it. See, his new laptop is on window vista. He find it difficult to run some applications. When he discover how serious it is, he decided to contact a pc engineer to downgrade it to Xp for him. It took him days and over N15,000 to fix it. You see, francis is not alone. Several other people with notebook (that comes with vista) are not that happy as well. Few months ago I was previlledge to listen to a top marketer complaining about the performance of his new laptop that has window vista. When another top marketer was asked to recommend pc specification for other marketers recently he advice that it’s better to go for pc/notebooks with window Xp. Now, if your pc is presently on window vista you may want to read this article I come across today on PC magazine. The writer gives step by step guide on downgrading window vista to Xp. Read full article here …. How to Downgrade from Vista to XP

Many newbie marketers know that they must pick a niche market to target when they want to launch their internet business. They know the market must has a lot of passionate people that are seriously crazy about the market and anything in it. They know how to discover if people are actually searching for the market online using tools like http://www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com.

But most find it difficult to make a decision on a market because they are not sure whether there are a lot of buyers in this market. Yes, this is a very important factor. That group people in your market are passionate about the market is not enough. They must be spending money in this market already. But you don’t have to spend months ‘TRYING’ to decide on a market when you can easily discover whether there are buyers in this market already.

In this short article we will be looking at few ways you can confirm that ‘group of people’ in your market are spending money on stuffs that has to do with the market already. Though knowing this did not completely guarantee they will buy your product. Other factors still come to play. But then lets take it one at a time.

1. Are there google adsense advert when you search for your market in google search engine?

Quick Defination: Google adsense ads are the blocks of adverts that comes along with search result whenever you make a search on google.com. This is the same ads that google stream on their partner sites. You too can have it on your site. If you check the latest edition of success digest extra you will see the story of a fellow nigeria making money on google adsense. This article is not about how to make money with google adsense. Don’t worry, we will discuss it in future. Now that you understand what google adsense means. Let us continue.

2. Search www.amazon.com pay more attention to books there. Here is how you do it. First visit www.amazon.com. On the site homepage you will see two search boxes. In the first one you will see Amazon.com while the second one is empty. In the first one click on the drop down icon beside it and choose books from the list. Type your market keyword in the second one that is empty and click ‘GO’.

Note: Amazon is top and popular online shipping store for electronics, books, computer, apparel etc.

3. You can do the same thing on clickbank.com - www.clickbank.com. Hey, don’t worry about whether clickbank accept nigeria now or not for now. When you get to clickbank website click on ‘marketplace’ and type your market keyword in the search box. If there are few digital information products or membership sites in your market, it is a good sign.

You can search cj.com (a third party affiliate company) if there are products in this market.
You can search news vendor offline or online (e.g http://newslink.org/mag.html) to see if there are magazines in this market.
You can search ebay.com as well.

There are several other ways you can confirm if there are proven buyers in your niche market before you start setting up your website on it.

I invite you to join our new internet business club. It is all about setting up your first internet business in as little as 4 weeks.