September 11, 2009 we attended Gonegosyo Youth Summit 2009 and we have our eyes on the seminar schedules. I am amazed by how many of the seminars conducted are about internet marketing, ecommerce and online business.

Go Negosyo Internet Marketing & Online Business Seminars

eCommerce

The first seminar we attended is about ecommerce. There are basically millions of people using multiply to sell their products online. Being an online entrepreneur myself, I find it funny because multiply was designed to be a social network not an ecommerce platform. If I want to sell my products, I’ll go to ebay or amazon or have my own store set up with free ecommerce software, and create a paypal account for the payment and I’m done! Nevertheless, it seems like multiply is adapting and catering to these businesspeople and designing the site into more of a marketplace than a social network now.

This part of the seminar is just an interview of different people that had successes in ecommerce. Some people selling ukay ukay, pudding (yes pudding “the bread”) and apparels online.

Internet Marketing will Boom

Carlo Ople, a marketing consultant working for friendster.com talked about the industry and how the youth can start their business online. Why people are afraid to do business online and why people fail. First of all, people don’t want to do business online because they don’t know anything about it. And of course, being in the internet, we don’t know who are talking and who are the real deal. Some people choose silence even if they have geniune knowledge. We will never know. That is why doing business on your own will make you learn tons.

Second, initial capital. A web hosting costs around P100 and a domain P500 per year. The good thing about doing business online is that you don’t have to have a lot of initial capital. You can create your own store using free sites like multiply or you can promote other people’s product using affiliate marketing. And of course, there is the ever popular blogging. Which takes me to the next part.

How He Became A Blogger

Anton Diaz, the blogger. His talk was about blogging and making money thru his blog. A little bit cliche for me but its kind of interesting to say the least. How he went from a full time employee into a professional blogger traveling and promoting the Philippines. I like how you can see his love for the Philippines as he goes to beautiful places that are hard to find and can only be seen in the Philippines.

But in terms of the real “How to’s” you won’t get any technical information about the talk.

Blackhat and whitehat seo sounds like an epic battle between good and evil in a sci fi film. Where the blackhat guys are the bad guys and whitehats are the good guys. But in internet marketing and making money in this business, its not who do good tactics or bad tactics, but who earns more. I have been learning a lot of blackhat seo’s this past few weeks and it is not something that I used to imagine. Things like scamming, hacking & stealing from people on the internet is not a blackhat way. They are just plain scammers. If you search the internet, there are communities for each of these kinds of people and I believe blackhatters are one of those communities that are most often misunderstood. They work under the radar, they don’t want to be known, they don’t want people to know how much they make money, they don’t want people to know HOW they make money. Most of the time, they are just lurking in the shadows that when people say bad things to them, no one will speak up.

I learned to appreciate these people when I had the chance to make friends with a few black hatters. Up until now, they are teaching me how to do things that are thought of insane in the whitehat world. These guys are businessminded and has business ethics as well. Not with the goody two shoes talk with whitehatters that will bore you. The community seems more like a friendly environment than the whitehat community composed of too much technical jargon that will make you kill yourself to boredom.

Though, both side of the party have their own pros and cons. And I believe that learning both disciplines is not a matter of who is better. It’s just that we are here in this business to learn. Whitehat or blackhat, its an experience. Good or bad is still an experience.

I try to stay away from the blogosphere and social media as much as possible. It is not for me. One of the few people who I really look up to is a blackhat seo. He opened my eyes from the tragic cycle of people wanting to do business online. And social media for me and the blogosphere is not where the money is at. I will leave all those to the best bloggers or the top bloggers in the world/country. These things that I like and hate is common to all the people in the community. So I found myself a home.

Any experience we get is a learning tool. Even if your mentor is a blackhat, you should have an open mind to know if he’s telling shit or gold nuggets.

Learn to think for yourself. The blogosphere may be good and friendly. But its not what we are after when doing business on the internet. We are here to make money. Making friends and having fun can be done in real life. I’d rather promote offers all day than socializing, commenting, tweeting on other blogs. I can always socialize on blog events. Which I don’t go. Because I am no blogger. Maybe in the future when I’m a travel blogger traveling all over the world. But before that happens, there are a lot of work to do. So…

Watch your back boys and keep your nose clean.

I am seeing a lot of Filipinos, especially bloggers, getting into affiliate marketing. This is good news because earnings in affiliate marketing can outweight the earnings from adsense by a thousand. But there are also road blocks ahead that can hinder your success to be an affiliate marketer. One of which, is the lack of information to get started in affiliate marketing. And since a lot of people has been emailing me lately to teach them affiliate marketing and lines like “Can you be my mentor?” crap. I decided to go with this idea.

I have been thinking lately that it must be a time for me to give back to the community and help others to get started in this field. I started affiliate marketing mid year 2008 and I know for a fact that there are only 2 ways to be disappointed in affiliate marketing, either you know nothing and give up or you know too much and be overwhelmed.

How can a supernoob help?

I’m planning to write a report about how to get started in affiliate marketing. This will contain all the information and basic foundation you need to get started in the industry. Things to avoid and tools you need. Also information that are kept secret by the gurus to prevent competition. I won’t hold back on this so be sure to be the first one to get the report.

However, I need to know what are your problems in affiliate marketing so we can address this in the report. So if you have a problem or suggestion just drop in your comments below. I’ll include them in the report.

Also, I won’t be releasing this report to all. Why? Affiliate marketers HATE COMPETITION. So I will only send this report to the first 50 people that will sign up below. They will receive the report once it is out. If you’re interested in affiliate marketing and struggling to get started, I recommend you act now and sign up. You have nothing to lose.

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Only for the first 50 person
If you are already an intermediate affiliate marketer, please do not sign. Let’s give more chance to beginners in the field. By intermediate affiliate marketer I mean, earning at least $1000 per month.