Internet Money Maker: Direct Selling, Affiliate, Arbitrage and Pay Click

One day, I was really wonder when I heard my friend quit his job. How's he gonna live? Just until 1-2 months ago, I knew how he's got his income. It's from GOOGLE! He rely on Google for everyday eat. He's making around 2000 USD per month. It's a big money for people who live in Bali.

I've read some articles about making money online. I actually tried some of them. But nothing I've tried made me rich. I didn't put a lot of efforts to it either. Let's do some brainstorms!

Some famous "techniques" of internet money machine (that I tried) are direct selling, affiliate, arbitrage and pay per click.

Direct Selling
Same as it's in real world, what you gonna sell? It has got to be something unique, which market demands them, and ability to be delivered using internet. This is 3 must requirements! I've been thinking every single night to meet these 3 requirements but still couldn't find one yet. Check out this website fiverr.

Affiliate
This techniques is like multi level marketing in real world. You have down and up line. Basically, you've got commission from selling stuffs. I've joint some products mostly books about this and that. The best is of course Amazon. They have huge number of products. You can choose the right product for the right market. It's really easy to say really. Famous product means large competitors. No competitors mean no one buying the products. So what do you do? Let's forget it for now.. argghhh..

Another one, we could write some books about some interesting things. Sell it under multi level marketing or direct selling. I might fool 1 or 2 people to buy my books, but they won't tell their friends or buy another of my books. Because I'm not a good writer!

Arbitrage
Only in the internet you can do this. There's 2 type arbitrages that I've tried: forex arbitrage and sport arbitrage. Forex arbitrage is like you have 10 money changers side by side. You make profit from the difference rate of buy and sell between money changers. Same thing happen with sport arbitrage. Profit is from the difference betting rate of team A and team B between dealers. It seems so easy right? In fact, arbitrage happens so fast. As soon as people knows, people will start buying or selling, it will balance. Arbitrage normally happens in small infamous dealers and the profit / arbitrage is really small: 1-2% in most of the time. When I did my research, we need to open more than 50 accounts in 50 dealers. We, of course, have to put a lot of money to the account before we can buy or sell. To profit $10, we have to put $1000 in each account. Lets say dealer A buy $1000, dealer B sell $1000. There's 0% losing, BUT some chances that the dealer will take away your money and run. Let's forget this forever..

Pay per Click (PPC)
We got paid when people click the ads on our website. There are number of ad providers. Some that I've tried: adbrite, black label and google adsense. Let's think about this. Pay per click is useless when the ads come out in a different topic web page. People will just click it for fun. More likely there won't be any sales from the ads.

When company joins the ppc provider, they will be asked for keywords. These keywords will be used for putting the ads to the right page. The provider will scan the web page and decide which ads should go to this page. We all know, this is what google do best. Google seems to be able to read web page nearly as how human read it. Other provider.. hmmm.. not really sure.

This is why some companies willing to pay a lot for their ppc with google. Google can bring them to the right market and show the ads. Simply, the companies are making money from their ads at google. Keyword such as buying auto insurance online is cost USD $50 per click! I'm in indonesia, if I googling with that keyword, I wont see any ads that I can click. Google way! I don't think company willing to pay such amount to other ppc provider.

As for us, let's use google as our ppc for sure. The most difficult part is putting our website to the top search. Google always updating their search algorithm to make sure their search result correctly so that the company putting the ads actually making some sales from them. Methods which are used some years back, are now useless. How's the keyword density in title, meta tag, body, building links, using some html tags, etc, etc are now becoming less important. As more and more people abusing that techniques, google finds other way to give better result. More proper website. I think google is more interacting with the user directly. I notice different search result when using different computer. customization? really? WOW.. think the impossible..

Hacking Indonesia Porn Gambling Website Block

Have you getting sick of this internet blocking?

Yeah you are not alone!

I normally use Smart Telecom as my internet provider. I don't get any blocks at all till now, so I didn't really bother. But as I use WiGO currently as a trial user, I got really pissed. WiGo such a really fast internet provider which you can enjoy watch streaming movie without buffering. Coz of the blocking, I can't access them!

I used to block my office from any accesses to high bandwidth websites using proxy server. So I was thinking they doing it the same way. For me, this is the proper way to do it. It's hardly hacked. I started thinking (just thinking) to get a cheap but fast virtual server to build a proxy. But before I do that, I remembered one project called Nawala Project, which currently use by Blackberry Service in Indonesia to do this blocking. The blocking is done by dns server. It's a good technique for kids! I thought and hope that WiGO using the same kind blocking.

and what.. Well oh well.. Lucky me! Save my money! WiGO is using this type of blocking. I'm not sure with other ISP, dont have any accesses to them. Please let me know.

So how it works?
Computer is connecting using what it's called IP address (e.g. 192.168.0.1). Dns server is used to translate the address into IP (numbers) (e.g. google.com to 74.125.39.99). So when you type google.com to your browser, it goes into dns server asking what the ip address is, and then go to that ip address asking for the page.

This is the only reason we need dns server. Since the blocking is done by dns server, we just need to change the dns server, don't we? In one condition: WiGO is allowing it. WiGO can forward any dns connections to their dns server. English: we can't change the dns server. But what a lucky day! WiGO don't do that.

So, how it's done?
Simple! Basically, just change your dns server to any public dns server. One of them is google public dns. Please follow their instruction how to use their dns server here: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

Government Should NOT Block Porn in The Internet

I was queuing at the bank when I saw 2 children playing some faking style to each other while their mum was being assisted. I was a bit shock. They were only like 8 and 6 years old. How come they know this such of things? is it their fault? is it their parents'? or is it the government's?

Our government started to block porn sites about 1 or 2 months ago. Now they've been pushing others such as blackberry (bb) services to block as well so bb users cant access the site from their handheld. Currently only some operators block the site. Mine using AXIS is not being blocked.

What sites are actually blocked by the government? It's a bit funny really. I'm not a porn maniac, but I know some well-known porn websites. And only 1 of them is blocked: playboy. Try hustler, redtube, puretna. These three are a lot more hard core than playboy, are not being blocked. FYI: I'm using telkom speedy. I don't consider playboy as a porn website. It only shows boobs and to get more you have to pay and it's expensive. Redtube, on the other hand, you see everything in one single click. And it's not being block. So what are they really blocking? bull shit? it's only a way to get more rating for the next election?

It's either our government don't know those websites, or they don't want to block them. I believe they just don't know these websites. They might be very religious people who put these porn as a taboo. They're not allowed to see porn. How can they know if the website consists of porn? Wrong people for the job, they should employ me lol. Since they don't know hustler which is the second top porn mags in the world, how will they know others? They just won't know.

With the rapid of information exchange over internet and development porn website which is one of the biggest businesses in the world right now, it's almost impossible to block all of them without scarifying other excellent sites. For example, just recently top indonesian artist were being charged because of their xxx video. This video was uploaded to youtube and stayed there for some days. I got the information over twitter and blackberry massager. Then more and more people started uploading the same thing. So is it right to block youtube in this case? Of course NOT! Youtube has been helping all of us for some interesting things such as tutorials, news, etc.

SO what I'm saying, blocking is just not the right solution for everybody. So it shouldn't be done at government level which will affect all of us in the country. It should be done in smaller area such as school, home, etc. There are a lot of tools to do this. By default windows 7 has the facilities for doing this. It's easy. The government can make regulations so that the head of the area responsible for this matter.

Internet is built on a platform of freedom of information. Everyone is free to get and give information. Without this platform, internet is nothing and won't change our life as it is now. This information includes porn. Who needs porn? I do! And I believe lots of people do. For me, porn is entertainment and helpful in my sex life.

I don't think porn is harm in any ways for people who understand it. Those who don't might cause some harm to them and others. Another key is the knowledge. However, here in Indonesia, talking sex is considered taboo. We have to change that thought. Sex is one need of life. It's like eating, drinking and place to stay. Everybody needs it, so why taboo talking about that? I remember when I took my first English lesson in Australia. One subject being thought is sex. Nothing seems wrong with that. It helped us to know about sex culture in Australia so we wouldn’t get kill haha. Yes we have to talk about sex more and more. I mean the government have to talk about sex more lol.

Franchised minimarket from open competition perspectives

It's been many news recenty about franchised minimarket being closed up by the local government. The reason is they have no license which seems a bit odd. There are plenty similar shops (non franchise) which I strongly believe have no licenses either. They has been operating in years without any problems.

Futhermore, from my experience, I can't propose a license if I don't have the actual shop. So in other word, I have to open the shop before applying the license. Again I strongly believe, since they are franchised minimarket which have so many branches around Indonesia, they know these licenses requirement better than anyone else in the business.

I am sure it's not about the licenses. In fact, similar businesses in the area of minimarket scare they will get broke. Well it's kinda true also. This issues have been propagated by someone for some reasons. Let's leave them for now.

Let's look at which will benefit more. Open competition always give lots benefit to end consumer. One good example is what happen in telecommunication market. Since Indonesia let others to compete with the only one company telkom, we have cheaper deal, good customer services and good quality of the products. More companies mean more jobs and more taxes. If we look at PLN, expensive, no customer services, quality? You bet! But now since Mr. Dahlan came in, it feels that they are on the right track. I'm one of his fans. Let's us pray and hope!

Radius affecting by the minimarket won't be so far since shopping in minimarket is not entertaining. In most cases, people know what they wanna buy before entering the shop and get out as soon as they find what they're looking for. So let's say 2 km radius. Outside this radius will find other minimarkets or shops to shop. So how many people do you thing will suffer? I don't think it will be many. May be 2 similar shops within this radius. How many people will get the benefit? Plenty!

People around will get the benefit from the cheaper price and other promotions, shows, etc. Government will get more taxes especially the 10% PPN, VAT or GST. Mostly similar shops don't pay this tax. And this tax should benefit more people somehow. Staff which normally local people get better training and opportunities to improve their career such as supervisor, store manager, area manager and so on.

So so so.. More advantages than the disadvantages right? Let's the market be free and open.. It will benefit more in the LONG RUN.. One more thing, please KICK that someone arse

Sent from my AXIS Worry Free BlackBerry® smartphone

Beware of phone scam sht in Indonesia

I've nearly been a victim of phone scam JUST NOW. fak!. Nearly twice this single month. These thief are around and doing their phone scamming more and more often.

First attempt was when I wanted to sell my car. I put advertisements on some papers. I put on saturday and sunday. And then the next saturday sunday. I think in my second or third week of advertisements this guy texted me saying that he was from the newspaper company named Bali Post and a doctor from Jakarta interested in buying the car and asked me to call that doctor.

So I called the doctor. The doctor said he would be in Bali in the next 2 weeks and needed to settle some things as well as car. He did some negotiations with the price. Everything seemed so right until he said he was going to transfer me a 5 million deposit without even looked at the car. I started to wonder. But what the hack, I gave him my bank account number.

An hour later, he called me and told me that he transfered the deposit and asked me to check. I checked using internet banking.. nothing. He insisted me to go to ATM machine to made a complain together. He was worried about his money being lost. This time I knew that this was a fakn scam. A friend of mine was a victim of this ATM phone scam. He was told to press some numbers in the ATM which later he found out that his money gone being transfered to someone.

The second scam which just happened this morning. A guy called me yesterday to made an order of some plywoods. FYI: I am selling building materials. He asked to delivered the order tomorrow and he was ready to made some deposits. Same story repeated.

Some says when you go to ATM, you'll somehow follow his instruction. It's like being hypnotized. Really? I'd love to try some times. But I need to move my money to my wife account before that. Just in case I'm hypnotized. kakaka.