Cyza Sector

Do you have a Facebook account? I believe yes. Most of those in the online community like you and me have a Facebook account. A lot of those utilizing Facebook like to share experiences, status, photos, videos, quotes, opinions etc in Facebook. When I ask my wife who is a regular in Facebook, she fancy reading the status of her friends and  see the photos being uploaded. Others like to play games such as Farmville and other games that I’m not familiar with at all.

There are also users who have a Facebook account but rarely keep updates in Facebook. I belong to that category. Honestly, I have better things to do rather than spending my time in Facebook reading other people status. Please, don’t get me wrong. I’m not condemning those Facebook enthusiast. I still read other people’s status when I’m in Facebook, but not that often. I’m just prioritizing my time because I have studies and research to do, consultation works to dwell with, blogs to take care, family to be with and others.

My moderate Facebook activity

I’ll normally log into my Facebook account when somebody tagged me. I’ll be curious and log in to check out why I’m tagged. Normally, I’ll leave comments if it is necessary and to interact with others. In other occasions, I’ll log in once in a while, maybe around 3-5 times a week. I rarely leave my status, check my notifications and messages. Currently I have 50+ notification and 60+ messages which I don’t read. So, please don’t send me messages on my Facebook (because I don’t read it). I prefer communication via email. I’ll normally accept friends in bulk process which means, I’ll allocated once a month to accept those who want to be friend’s with me. I normally won’t accept recommended friends by others. It’s better if those people sincerely want to be friends with me.

Should you focus on Blog or Facebook?

If one like to share, I strongly believe it is better to share stories, activities and anything in a blog rather then Facebook. Why?

1. Total control

You have total control in your own hosted blog. You can back up your blog and its content and keep it. You may not have total control in your Facebook account. Can you back up your facebook? It is better to have something that we have total control. Isn’t it?

2. Make money potential

You spend time online sharing this and that. Why not work smart and make money in one shot. This can be done if you have a blog. You spend countless hours writing in your blog and your visitors (loyal and first timer) read them. At the same time, you can add in advertisements and enjoy the money from it. Can you do this with Facebook? You can share this and that, but you cannot place your own advertisement codes from any make money program inside your Facebook page. However, Facebook is a good place to market your products, services, blogs and websites. It can be a powerful marketting tool but not make money. So, you can promote your blog via Facebook.

Think about it…

So, it’s your call. I’m not an expert to say which is best for you or me. Those 2 points mentioned above are just two issues that I found crucial because it involves time and money. If you opt to spend more times sharing in ablog, you need to invest little money to get your own domain and hosting; and a lot of time building the blog, but the rewards may be sweet. If you blog with a free platform such as blogspot.com or wordpress.com, you still don’t have the total control. However, using blogspot.com, you can place advertisements in your blog and wait for money rolling to you.

Facebook is a free account. You are free to share anything, make friends and build massive networks. You can continue sharing your updates, status etc. You can also create groups and start various activities include playing games.  If you are not inclined to making money online and the hassle to manage a self hosted blog, then by all means, continue  being an active member of Facebook.

My Stand

I’ll keep my account in Facebook. I use Facebook to keep up with other friends activity once in a while. I use Facebook as one of my marketing strategies for some of my blogs. It has proven to be an important tool and it works well. I also created a group and once in a while communicate within members. The members of the group  keep growing and that’s a good sign because I can send traffic to my blogs by leveraging Facebook efficiently. Estimated percentage of my online time spent on Facebook is around 3-5%.

I’m still focusing on my blogs most of the time. I’m working on to create a residual passive income with my blogs. It works perfectly but of course it needs a lot of time, passion and patients. I prefer spending 4 to 6 years now to establish all my blogs and after that earn a cool 4 to 5 figure monthly income from it.

Conclusion

As a conclusion, both blog and Facebook are very important tools in Web 2.0 in this era. Both have its strong points and it is clever if you can integrate both of them. Focusing ONLY on blog and ONLY on Facebook is considered under utilizing the beauty and power of both of them. With that I rest my case. It’s all up to you…

It has been a while since I reported and published about the top commentators in cyza sector. It has not received as much readers as before, I mean when I launch top commentators contest. Anyway, I want my blog to have a bigger audience. I’m not thinking of launching some sort of contest, but I’m thinking of improving my blogging style or concept. I’m open to listen any idea to improve this blog. I really want it to be a good attractive and informative blog. Alexa do not lie. Hence, I know the level and amount of audience coming and go to Cyza Sector. OK…enough is enough. I must stop and continue my official work (to be done at home).

Before I go, check out the top commentators for January 2010. You deserved to be here… Thanks for leaving some colour here.

• samdaddycool (5)
• azwan (5)
• Jayce (3)
• adamfaiz (2)
• nuaeman (2)
• titan (2)
• apa namaku? (2)
• Abu Samah (1)
• jat (1)
• CGA (1)

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After reading it, please feel free to comment on my report i.e. “Teknik Buat Duit Part Time RM1000 Sebulan”. Well, here’s the good thing about reading my report and commenting on it…

I will reward the best and the most sincere comment a small end of  2009 token – US$ 7 (equivalent with RM24.50). I know it’s not much but it is some money that you can use to buy something. Hey, you can get 3 dot info domain names with US$ 7. That’s very good to run your TNX business…

Rules are simple:

1. Just post your best comment sincerely.

2. Comments must be in English in order to be considered for the contest. So, you can practice your English writing skills here . Comments in Malay language is still accepted but will not be considered for the contest.

3. You can post as much comment as you want.

The best comment – sincere comment contest will be solely judged and decided by me. The contest ends on the 30th of December 2009 at 12.00 midnight. I will announce who’s the chosen winner. The winner will immediately get the money transferred by me via paypal. If he or she do not have paypal, I will transfer the money (RM24.50) to either CIMB or Maybank bank account the following day.

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Blog about this contest

Anybody who blog about my small contest here in his or her blog will get a link back from me in my future post entitled “Coolest Blogs of 2009″. On top of that, in that post, I’ll make a 2-3 sentence honest review on your blog.

The good thing is, any blog that creates the best catchy review,  or the review that is uniquely interesting about my small contest will be rewarded US$5.00. Yep, that’s not much either, but it is something that I’m willing to give away.

Rules are simple:

1. Review can be in any blog, Malay or English language blog is acceptable. So, feel free to blog in your most comfortable language.

2. Must link back to this post.

The best review will be solely judged and decided by me. The contest ends on the 30th of December 2009 at 12.00 midnight. I will announce who’s the chosen winner. The winner will immediately get the money transferred by me via paypal. If he or she do not have paypal, I will transfer the money (RM18.00) to either CIMB or Maybank bank account the following day.

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Seriously, I’m very stressed with my life now. Not because of family and not because of my online activity. It is mainly due to:

1. Ph.D, need to get my first stage proposal ready.

2. Professional Engineer activity…need to prepare my report…a matured report…

3. Consultancy project… it’s really a headache….

Those main three tasks are almost like a complete combination of migraine to me. Oh God…But I know this is temporary. It will be over soon. At least the task #3 will be over the latest end January, I hope. Ph.D will be at least for another 2.5 years.

2 Conferences in December 2009

This Sunday, We’ll be heading to Kuala Trengganu for 2 nights attending a conference. I just rehearsed my presentation in front of my supervisor just now and she has provided me some ideas for improvement. At that very same day, our maid will undergo her semester leave, back to her hometown at Surabaya.

2 weeks ahead, we’ll be heading to Penang for another conference. We will stay 3 nights at Bayview Beach Resort, Batu Ferringhi. That is a headache for me because the expanses is going to skyrocket. At peak season, the hotel cost tremendously expansive. For that 3 nights, I have to pay more than RM1k++. That’s excluding the travelling and other expanses. Oh God….

On top of those 3 tasks mentioned above, I have other important small tasks to settle. However, I’m focusing to settle the biggest unsettled business first.

GempakNewbie.com launching next week

I also look forward for the launching of GempakNewbie.com next week where my report will be given away FREE of Charge… This is my first ever report in Malay Language. Register and get it now…

I hope to prepare few more english reports in 2010. It will be a sharring of my online and offline business activities. An academic / intelectual free report associated with my career will also be prepared, but I think most of you won’t be interested to download chemical engineering stuffs… heheh…

Thank God… I’m very grateful to God… My TNX.net points has surpassed 10,000 points. That means I’m eligible to withdraw money from it now. The minimum cash out for TNX.net is USD$5.00. For every 1000 points, we can get $0.95. That means, I can get $10 plus from TNX.net. Hmmm…maybe I’ll cash them out later.

I have worked with TNX.net for less than a month, and I can see how fantastic this program is.

Seriously, if you want to make easy money, almost passive income, this is the almost perfect program for you. I highly recommend it to you. It’s easier to make money with TNX.net compared to Text-link-ads.com. Text-link-ads will pay better but only if your blog qualify certain strict criteria like having PR3 and above or other criteria. However, the good part with TNX.net, you can register your blog even though the blog is PR 0.

So, what are you waiting for. If you haven’t registered with TNX.net, register NOW. It’s worth it…

Nantikan report pertama saya. Akan di lancarkan pada awal Disember ini…

Layari GempakNewbie.com untuk mendownload report tersebut…

Saya nantikan komentar dari report percuma saya yang pertama ini… hehe…

Blogging can make money. That’s for sure. Affiliate can make even more money. But the problem is mastering all the skills and techniques to be grow the affiliate business. If you are a regular in Cyza Sector, you’ll notice me mentioning my interest to be involve in internet affiliate business.

Honestly, I must say that, I am struggling to start up my affiliate business. Out of a sudden, I found this program which was just recently launched. It is a speedy way to make money from affiliate business using products from clickbank. After 48 hours analyzing the program and system, I decided to give it a shot. I hope I have luck on this.

Off course there are pro and cons of joining this program.

OK, since I’ve joined this program for about 72 hours already, I’ve test run it a little. I haven’t had the opportunity to spend more time on this as I was stuck with another non-online job.

Pro (Advantage) – in no particular order

• Set up the sites in just 5 minutes. 6 ready made + 29 possible custom made videos ready to be uploaded to youtube.com
• Start begin marketing effort using ready made + custom made video (with your domain) right away.
• Start article marketing right away. 20 articles provided.
• Video tutorial and ebook on how to make videos + other traffic methods are available. Hence making amateur people like me can learn all these available powerful traffic techniques immediately.
• Do NOT need auto-responder.
• NO need to think of auto-responder sequence – as the system will do the job for you.
• NO need to do niche research.
• All we have to do is marketing and wait for the Clickbank income.
• Every month, members will get a new clickbank product on anonymous niche to promote.
• For the first month (now, if you register fast), you’ll get 3 fantastic niches. I’ve begin promoting.
• The system is – I can say Automatic or almost Automatic.

Cons (Disadvantage) – I can see right now 2 cons:

• We promote our site but we cannot collect the email list.
• Possible competition with other members if we don’t market creative enough.

Personal view

For me it is tricky and will take relatively longer time to master the affiliate skills despite of reading and mentoring with Affiliate Gurus. However, to taste international affiliate profit faster, I decided to be a member of this plug and play program. I can easily set up my site in truly 5 minutes. And after 12-15 minutes, I already have 3 powerful niche sites. The next thing for me to do is to brand my video, upload them and do some article marketing. That’s the marketing part. It’s all ready for me. The membership price for founding member is USD29 per month, which I think is reasonable (only for the first batch). I heard today that there are only 12 spots left for this membership price. If I can manage 2 sales a month, the commission is more than enough to cover my fixed monthly membership fees. But, I’m going to target more sales. I’m going to try at least to get USD500 per month for a start. Wish me luck…

If you are interested, you can investigate more by clicking the READY-NICHE-PROFIT below. I’m not asking you to get hold of this program. I’m just sharing what I’m doing now with you. I know, some of you are just like me, wanting to run an affiliate business, but for some reason, stuck somewhere… Good luck…

Example of video that I just re-brand from the membership area to promote my site:

We have planned to settle our maid’s permit at the Indonesian embassy today and yes, we went to the embassy just now. Unfortunately, as we arrived there, the officer kindly said that we need to bring the maid along. Last year, we did the same thing, but there was no need bringing the maid. Well, we have no choice and we have to return home, get the maid, the kids, took a passport size photo, photocopy the maid’s visa and drove back to the embassy before 12 o’clock.

Well, the entire process took about 3 hours plus the 1 hour lunch break. Now, the mission is accomplished and our maid will be on leave for 2 weeks this December.

p/s: I have 1,000++ additional TNX points today compared to yesterday… this is getting exciting? Want to learn more, check out my last post.

Do you realize that one of the hundred ways of making money via your blog is from TNX.net program. TNX.net is a text link ad program where you sell text link advertisement in your pages in your blog. If you have one english blog at least, you can start making money from TNX.

I consider myself a late beginner in this program. What a pity? But that’s fine. I’ve started about 1 month plus ago. Registered 4 of my English blogs (I have more English blog, but I started with 4 first). Today, I checked my TNX account and saw all blogs have links sold in their pages. Wow…. That’s great. I’m counting days to cash out my first TNX income soon. I maybe new, and my TNX income may not be as huge as other TNX players, but that’s ok for me.

If you haven’t tried TNX.net, then why not give it a try. There’s no harm trying it. Sign up here…

Titan has also prepared a comprehensive guide (in Malay language) on how to make money with TNX.net. I’ve read both version 1.0 and 2.0 and it has provided me better comprehension on how TNX.net works. It also shows various strategies to optimize your TNX.net empire. To view the sales page, just simply click the banner below:

I’m planning a strategy to further improve my online career. I need to really fully focus on certain things and not getting very excited with other opportunities and offers which are abundantly found in the net. I’m no longer enjoying luxurious time as before. I’m now pursuing my ph.d in chemical engineering which demands massive amount of concentration, attention and time. It’s not easy to do research and achieve our targeted goals based on the hypothesis. I’m presently experiencing some difficulties in my experiments and having some some hard time writing technical papers to be published in high impact journals.

Bottom line is I need to balance my time between my study, online activities, engineering practice @ consultation and family for sure. OK, enough about my personal issues. Let’s share some business story.

Offline Business – Homestay business

I’ve spent some time earlier this afternoon chatting with my wife and business partner to expand our homestay business. The demand is surprisingly there and we felt the urgency to add a new house in addition of our main guess house. If you have additional house and if the house is empty or if the rent is not enough to cover your monthly loan payment, converting it as a homestay is a brilliant idea. With perfect marketing and excellent management, you can earn more then you can imagine. Since the BLR rate is currently low, the monthly mortgage will also be low, it seems like a good timing for me to buy a new house. It’s good rather than renting a house as a homestay. In long run, I’ll own extra property. Do you think so?

Offline Business – Car Rent Business

After reviewing and discussing various angles on car renting business, we have thought of not pursuing it. Even we’ve earn handsomely from renting our second car since end of July and used the income for our Raya expenditure/spending, I’m not going to continue it. There will always be a risk and the profit is not as good as running a homestay.

Offline Business – Ceramic Business Club

I’ve join this program early 2009 after being persuaded by my brother. Now, after almost 9 months operating it (not really running it myself because my brother is doing it for me) I’m very happy because we not only get some amount of cash but also do our grocery shopping without bringing any cash. Yes, that’s true. Since Ceramic Business Club set up the shopping mart at Skudai (near Giant Pulai Utama), we shop with very happy face because we get rice, cooking oil, frozen food, snacks, detergent and various other household products from the store just by exchanging it with our shopping points.

Online Activities

Google Adsense

I find this time consuming but rewarding. I know developing adsense websites and blogs can be regarded as having a virtual real estate and earning passive income. However, I haven’t been successful in penetrating my target income, though I’m still cashing out dollars via Western Union on a monthly basis.

Hence, I’m planning to allocate 10% of my online time on Google Adsense website and blog development. I’m rearrange the strategy to boost up my income 100% to the average of what I’m presently earning. Some of the strategies will be:

- creating and developing more niche sites using static websites and wordpress blogs (5% online time).
- marketing those website and blogs using article marketing (3% online time).
- comment marketing (2% online time).

TLA is not that big but it’s helping me to sustain all my online expenditures (domains + hostings) and purchase of ebooks and getting service from others. That’s why I need to have more blogs to earn more from this program. Percentage time allocated – 0.5%.

Revresponse

I’m not sure about the others but this program has been very good contributor for me. If you own good technical, academic or industrial blog/website, I highly recommend you to join Revrespon. Percentage time allocated – 1%.

Blogging

Blogging is for me fun but as I like to write and share. I won’t stop blogging and that’s a fact. It help me connect and communicate with others. Via blogging, I earn some money from Google Adsense, Revresponse, TLA and other make money program (which I do not cover now). Percentage time allocated – 15%.

JBCool.com

This is my baby project that I’m currently running with Azwan. We aim high for this and hope it can be a place where Johorean can refer. Currently jbcool.com is under construction, content addition and soft marketing. Percentage time allocated – 5%.

Autoresponders and Affiliate Business

I’ve made a point to myself that I’m going to get my hands in Affiliate business. As a result, I’ve signed up with norabots, a relatively cheap but reliable auto-responder to kick start my list building and affiliate biz. As a warm up, I’m building my own list in my niche. In future, I’m slowly going to build my own list for other niche, create my own products and sell other peoples product. I’m planning to spend 65% of my online time establishing this new area. Percentage time allocated – 55%.

Others

I’m not going to list other programs or online activities here. I’m just going to flock it into others, which basically means all the other minor programs and activities I’m doing which include TNX, jobamatic, nuffnang, advertlets, indeed.com, blogvertise, smoorty, backlinks, infolinks, facebook, forums etc. Percentage time allocated – 3.5%.

Conclusion

The most important thing I’m sharing here is the planning to spend my online time. I need to be more extra focus on what I’m doing. I have to let go some other important online activities. I only have approximately 10-15 hours a week (and that’s not much). Currently I’m not spending time at all on twitter (marketing) and any social bookmarks etc. I can’t!!! I cannot afford to allocate time for it. As more and more new products regardless free or paid products are introduced daily, I must keep my focus on what I’ve plan. You should too. Maybe you focus better than me?!!!

Any other tips for me…? to be successful online…

Should I JV with others? Should I launch a contest to boost traffic?