Coming to 2 years since I started off as a “rookie” in Internet network marketing, I have been writing articles about my experience in Internet marketing and network marketing on this blog. If you have been reading my blog since then, you probably know that this blog has always been an Internet network marketing blog.

It’s about to change from NOW…

It’s not going to be just network marketing or Internet marketing. Am I leaving this industries? Well, no! I’m still actively promoting my network marketing business and also selling information products in Internet marketing.

Here’s a latest screen shot I have on my Clickbank account. (Don’t get me wrong, not trying to brag)

In this 2 years, what I have experienced and learned are much more than just network marketing or Internet marketing. I’m still passionate about these 2 industries, the only difference now is that I’m taking a more entrepreneurial approach in the things I do and I want this blog to reflect that way - an entrepreneur blog and not just an Internet network marketing blog.

I believe that it is very important to learn to be an entrepreneur because it is a much more important element than just learning how to generate target traffic, know what to say when prospecting or writing sales copy that sells.

This change of direction on this blog is inspired by Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad teaching and if you haven’t read about him yet, I urge you to quickly do so.

I will be making some more changes to my blog and also to fix some minor glitches here and there. So remember guys, It’ won’t be just an Internet network marketing blog, it will be an Entrepreneur’s blog and I will be sharing with you with what I know about entrepreneurship, my personal life, philosophies and much much more. Don’t worry, I’ll still be making post about Internet marketing and network marketing.

Be sure to tune in once in a while for the latest updates!

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It doesn’t matter what industry or business you’re in - going green is one of the best ways to earn more income and at the same time save money in the process. It’s time for you to see the entrepreneurial opportunities available in this age of global warming and oil prices hikes.

In a year, the United States imports billions of barrels of oil. Oil is not a renewable fuel source. There will come a time in the future wherein the sources will dry up. Will we wait for that time to come? This is where alternative fuel sources come in as well as lots of entrepreneurial opportunities just waiting for you. Think of all the car parts to be replaced, cars to be serviced and the various expenses with regard to non-gasoline based fuel supplies.

If everyone switches to solar energy, will you be there to supply the solar panel needs of every household? If everyone wants a biofuel-powered vehicle, will you be there to address that need? These are just some of the potential businesses that could sprout when every human would start to think Green.

Surely the energy sector will be affected by this trend of finding green solutions for every problem. However, I daresay that other sectors will also benefit from this. The agriculture sector will benefit due to the desire to find substitutes for the carbon-based chemicals in our clothes and other everyday products. Just last month, a Dutch designer named Gert-Jan va Breugel has invented a bio-degradable cell phone called Bamboo. If you want to discard it, simply remove its antenna, battery, and print board. Then you can put in into compost. Wait for a few days and bamboo seedlings will sprout. Now is that amazing or what? With ideas like this, you will see new and environmental friendly products out in the market.

Green products would become popular when the right time comes. Entrepreneurs will surely grab the opportunity to sell a product with no carbon content.

Everyone should take part in this Green Revolution. Everyone’s attitudes, from the companies CEO to its stockholders, must change. Transformation will not take place overnight but its gaining dome momentum. Automobile companies are starting to mass produce hybrid cars.

Companies are starting to think over their marketing strategies to incorporate green policies into it. Entrepreneurs should get their customers opinions regarding environmental issues as to help in the brainstorming of strategies, cost cuttings, greener products and marketing.

At present, some companies are already implementing green policies. It’s never too early to think about things that concern the welfare of our planet. Small and large businesses alike have the same huge responsibility and that is to clean up our planet. Big global companies such as McDonald’s have set some guidelines in order to clean up the planet. In the case of McDonald’s, they have set some standards with regard to how they procure their supplies that can converse water, energy and proper waste management.

If entrepreneurs partake in this green revolution, not only will they make money through it but they have also done their part to make the world a cleaner place to live in.

What about you? What have you done and what do you plan to do?

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What is the last thing you would like to see on a blog? A badly written post with a ton of spelling and grammar mistakes. I can’t deny that I used to be a culprit of rushing a blog post for the sake of posting and end up with a whole lot of spelling mistakes and worst, I wasn’t able to get what I was sharing on the post across to my readers. Now that’s really bad blogging.

Sometimes to write a blog post you will take a few hours or even a few days to really come out with a very good post. I used to think that posting on a daily basis will keep my readers coming back for more but I was wrong, totally wrong. Seriously, it’s not about posting every single day, filling up the days to show to viewers and readers your blog is active.

Original picture by Alex Renner

Just one lousy blog post can make your readers think twice before coming back. To them it’s a waste of time reading those junk posts.

Like the title suggest, write every post like it’s your last. The key to coming out with a good post is not to type it out with your eyes and hands but to put your heart and soul into writing, genuinely communicating and educating your readers about a topic or something that you want to share.

6 steps to write a good blog post

1. Before you can write anything you’ll need to have something to write about. It will be tedious to sit down in front of your computer spending an hour thinking of what to write. So write down ideas even when you are not blogging. Problogger talks about his blogging workflow so do check out how he does it or you can also check out how I do it with my blogging ideas notepad.

2. Next, when you have your blogging idea ready, you’ll need to give it a title. Spend some time to come out with an eye catching title. A good title and a bad title can actually decide whether your content is being read or not. So do check out some top bloggers or writers and learn how they script their title.

3. Put down in pointers on the things that you’ll like to discuss on your blog and eventually elaborating it to a full length blog pot.

4. Understanding what you want to share with your readers is also another key to writing a good blog post. You’ll need to have an end result in mind, what you want your readers to learn or what is the message you want to get across to your readers.

5. Format your blog post. You wouldn’t like to read a chuck of text wouldn’t you? It goes without saying your readers wouldn’t like it too. It’s a pain in the eyes to read a bunch of text clustered together.

6. Last but not least and probably the most important of all the 6 steps is to spend time writing your blog post, never and I repeat, never ever rush your blog post!

I hope you are starting to realize the importance of writing a blog post. It’s not about the quantity, it’s about the quality.

What I have just shared with you probably contradicts with what some Internet marketing gurus are teaching. They probably teach you to hire some freelance writer, pay them a few dollars to write a 500words article. Well you can do that, but I won’t recommend you to do that for your blog. Remember, your blog is a place where your readers listen to you and only you. If you have to, learn how to write and communicate.

That’s it for today’s and by the way I spend 3 hours writing this post out not counting the time I took to plan it out.

Before I go, I thought you’ll like to know more about making money blogging. I just got the right guy that I can plug you to. He has developed a very powerful blogging system that you can follow.

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… If you want to make more money.

Most of the time the new guy fail to make money because he loses his focus and patience. Instead of taking the simple and obvious steps to success he chooses to do it differently. He chooses to believe that there’s some secret potion or magic formula out there that can change his business into a multi-million dollar empire overnight so he kept on searching.

He was totally WRONG!

We all know that there are marketers out there selling their secrets, formulas and blueprints, whatever they may call them and people actually buy their products. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to say that their secrets or formula don’t work. In fact, they work very well. What they actually don’t realize was that they are selling you a system, a system that worked for them and many other marketers.

Still why are people not achieving the level of success they want?

Well, I concluded that one of the reasons was they rely totally on the system. They went into business with the thought that they system will do everything for them.

Bullshit. That’s not going to happen.

Systems are DEAD, Humans Aren’t

If you want your system to work for you and your business, you need to work your system or have people working on the system. A business system, in simple, is a set of standard guidelines or procedure specifically put together to make a business work and the “thing” that will be driving the system are people.

Still searching for your magic formula?

Forget about it because there’s no such formula. The only magic is what you put into your system that will ultimately work your business.

A profitable online business? - Is a neatly crafted system that has the right people driving at it.

That’s it for this time!

Next week, I will go deep into what and how a system looks like and mind you there might a generic system for you to plugin but for you to really make money big time you’ll need to refine your system and business as a whole.

I see you next week.
~Terry Tay

P.S. Now listen closely, I have some resources that you’ll find useful to plugin. Ewen Chia has got a site up called “WorkingFromHome.com” that has a ready made and ready to plugin turnkey instant income system. Well, I’m sure Ewen Chia (#1 Affiliate Marketer) has one of the finest system on the internet that’s generating him massive amount of money. You can check out his instant income system here.

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It’s 10:04pm now and usually at this time I should be preparing to go back to camp. Going back to camp is probably the worst time of the week. Today is slightly different, I will be staying at home because I have a medical appointment tomorrow afternoon. It’s a good thing for me, buying a little more time to do some more work.

My dogs are in the room, my girlfriend is beside me revising for her exams and I’m right here writing this blog post sharing with you what I have do for this week.

Before I move on, did you notice the blog title is a little different? The date is different! Usually I will put it in numeric format but I thought if I put 20/04/08 (Day/Month/Year) it will be a little confusing since in America the month will come first, just like this… 04/20/08 (Month/Day/Year). Anyway spelling the date out will be much clearer.

Taking it to the next level

If you know me long enough, you probably know what I have been doing for the past 1 year. I’m an Internet and Network marketer. Selling affiliate products mostly from ClickBank and promoting my network marketing business and last but not least making some money from my blog.

So for the pass 3 months I have been secretly planning 2 businesses that I’m going to develop. One is a dog niche and the other is a skating niche. I’m not going to reveal much about them at this moment but both of this project are picking up nicely and will be launch later this year. There are more things I need to do now. Developing your very own business from scratch is definitely a tougher and more challenging task. As compare to being an affiliate marketer and network marketer, all I need to do is to use the marketing tools the owner or company provides and market the product. All I need to do is to market the product. I’m just a marketer.

Few days back I was talking about being an entrepreneur-minded network marketer. Putting the entrepreneur side of you and the marketing side of you together is crucial to build a successful network marketing team.

It’s exactly the same principles when it comes to building your own business from scratch. Everything such as accounting, marketing, product creation, designing, copywriting, operation and finance has to be taken care of by the business owner. Oh, don’t get me wrong, what I meant by “taken care of” is to manage the different aspects of the business. You can have employees helping you out with your work and ultimately you need to make sure everything is running smoothly.

Now, that’s what an entrepreneur will look or sound like.

Learning point of the week

I have learn something very important this week. In order to grow or expand your business you have to work on your business NOT in your business. Only your employees work in your business but you need to work ON your business where you have to take charge of every single aspect of your business. This is when you need to develop the entrepreneur side of you!

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