It’s the time of year again for another new year resolution. So, what’s there to offer me in the year 2009? Hope for nothing and get no dissapointment. Ahuh….it seems to be a good idea but bad practice. Eventually I have nothing much in mind, still the same new year resolution, better health, better relationship and better wealth. It’s common and it’s the best to have, otherwise I will be living a day to day life without purpose and may interepret as a person without balls, because I don’t have a goals to strike.

The third day of new year,  feel like getting older and what’s it like to feel older, to be more responsible to my life, to review what I want in life or searching for anything that I hope to get. Yet till now I still havent started my mission statement which has been added to my to do list ages ago. I wonder when I can start, and I should have just make it simple as it could, at least I could tell myself I have started and be more responsible.

Okay! Just start in ..

It’s not easy, it’s not that easy, it’s not what they claims to be that easy. You may came across some internet marketing products that you will have temptation to take out your credit card to purchase it, what makes you to have such temptation? It’s all because of the powerful sales letter that caught your attention and hit what’s in your mind at the point you start reading it. No button to escape, convenience purchase buttons all over the screen and urgency technique to purchase before the offers end. 

Personally I only bought 5 ebooks before, some were just craps and some were just repeating the other techniques with additional enhancement, more or less it just copy paste all over and rephrased. However at the end of the day, you will still get a bit of knowledge what you have read.

However, if you are thinking to jump into the bandwagon of internet marketing, I would like to recommend you to start reading Fabian Tan Internet Startup Secret. It’s so true that 90% of internet startup will fail because of wrong mindset. Despite you have read every details inside the ebook, you may know why most of the internet marketing fail at startup, but if you didn’t take any action, you have actually fail in the first move. When you start your, just remind yourself to reach the target line, even if you did not achieve what you have targeted but you already win the mindset part. Practice makes perfect.

Here’s the tool you can use for free to create PDF format for you ebook. Previously, I try before several method which can use with Microsoft Office Word, but those aren’t given free. Due to the limitation for free trial version and lack of security feature. I switch to use OpenOffice which has the functionality to prevent your ebook content to be edited. You can also prevent copying of content from your ebook. If you are familiar with Microsoft Office, then will not have problem using OpenOffice, it’s basically the same.

What’s more you can get as OpenOffice can be downloaded and use for FREE.

If you are like me last time struggling to find the best tools for your ebook creation, you may want to try to take a look. You can download OpenOffice here.

Do you have difficulty to download many ebooks and find it hard to locate them back in your hard drive? I have this problem before, downloaded and forgotten where the file located and can’t remember when, where and what I have downloaded. Since my hard drive already pile up with tons of ebook, to locate them required sometimes because need to open it one by one and some filename are confusing. I learn the hard way, when ever I download any ebook, I would put a text file along the file and make some notes about the content inside the ebook separated by folder. I thought this way can be efficient, Google Desktop could index and locate them fast. But this doesn’t seem to be effective, not until I came across Ebook Librarian Plus.

Ebook Librarian is an easy-to-use database to hold information on all the ebooks you download from the Internet, and, if you’re anything like me, you’ve got a bunch of them!

How the heck do the writers of these ebooks come up with filenames that give you absolutely no clue as to the contents? There must be a rule somewhere that demands an ebook be given an obscure name. I got tired of having to open ebook after ebook just to find the one I was looking for, so I wrote this program to help me.

You can download it for free and get organize now.

If you asked me what my most visited website, I would says statcounter. Almost visited daily and had been using it for quite sometimes. Although there are Google analytic which have better GUI but I still prefer statcounter because it allowed you to keep track of recent visitor activity in just one page with referrer url, country, hostname and visited length. Like most webmasters, I put a lot of attention towards unique visitors and page views, these figures are important because it show how many real being accessed your website. But after carefully compared between one site to another, it shows that site with longer visit length will attract revisit rate than site that does not have long visit length. It could be cause by many factors, not talking about established website, for example blog can hardly achieve from 5 mins to 20 mins length unless you have a long post with attractive content and interaction for visitors.

The reason why visit length is important because you can know exactly what your site offer interest your visitors and they are willing to spend more time on your site. If they are searching from search engine and being referred to your site and do stay longer, which mean they have found what they want and you had succeed to offer what they want and they will come back. This is important point to consider to increasing your visit length. Another thing is when your visit length increases, your pageview increase and when your pageview increase your Alexa ranking increase not to say if your site runs Google adsense, you will get higher chances that your adsense ads to be clicked.

Sites that normally get longer visit length are forum, database driven site, articles site, gaming site, site with photo album, news site and chatroom. Blog can get longer visit length too if only you can find a ways to include your blog with all the features mentioned and most importantly good content which first drawn the visitors to your site.

Have you wonder how to create a business plan for your online business? I am those that do not think about planning when started something, I don’t have a proper planning when jump start a new website or new affiliate campaign. I use to plan everything in mind and later I found myself lost. I don’t know where to go and when something goes wrong, I will just give up. I was totally wrong and that’s why I keep failing to achieve anything I wanted. I learned to have a proper planning from now, even in my daily routine. That’s the right attitude to have when you want to start an online business.

I don’t have much experience coming up with a good business plan, I started drafting everything came across my mind in excel spreadsheet, my goals, things to do and so on. It seems unorganized and doubts that is that what normally other internet marketer does?

I spend time trying to improve my business plan until one day I came across software called Business Plan Pro. Instead of you and knowledge, you still need a vehicle (tools) to drive you. After started to plan my business using Business Plan Pro, I am now much better in getting what I want, I can forecast and monitor my progress. You don’t need to be an expert to get a professional business plan, the software will guide you all the process needed to come up with a professional business plan with examples.

I am not here to sell Business Plan Pro, I am here to share with you the importance of business plan for your online business. Internet business is still business, having that in place before you start an online business will get you a step further to success, a detailed set of plans for success needs to be made. List steps to get from point A to point B which include all the cost estimation and task to be done will guide you to a proper ways to achieve your business goals.

Quotes of wisdom: “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail”.

Recently I found myself addicted to e-commerce script Magento. Magento is absolutely free and you can download and installed into your computer. I had personally try to installed myself and it work just perfectly in my machine. Compared to OScommerce, the leading open source ecommerce solution, Magento is much more nicer. Somehow, I would not believe this script is FREE.

Here’s my specification installing Magento into my computer:

• Operating System: Windows XP Professional (SP2)
• PHP version 5.2.4
• Mysql version 5.0.45
• PhpMyAdmin version 2.6.2-pl1

If you would like to have a try, you can download from here.

Here are some of the common problems you will encounter when you tried to installed Magento into Windows machine.

Problem 1: The requested URL /install/ was not found on this server.
Problem 2: 500 internal server error
Problem 3: PHP Extension “mcrypt” must be loaded
Problem 4: PHP Extension “curl” must be loaded

I had compiled all the changes you need in order to get to the installation setup screen here –> Magento Common Problem Fixes (Microsoft Word Format).

IF however you are unable to see the installation screen even after you have completed all the step I had listed, it could be your PHP, Apache and MySQL installation problem, you can try your luck at Magento Community Forum here.

Welcome to my blog and thanks for reading my first post. Rome was not built in a day so does kenngoh.com. Guess it’s a long way to go. Looking at the blog seem like there’s a lot of improvement needed. Maybe there’s a need to fine tune from time to time. Hopefully this won’t take long.

Well, what should I write in the first post? I don’t have much idea from now. Basically what I will blog about in this blog is more towards how to earn money online and search engine optimization, I guess there are tons of this blog available online. Let’s think it this way, you may see a lot of chicken rice stall around, each of them is selling the same thing, but they still have customer even the food taste good or bad, the only reason that makes them good and bad is of course the quality of the food (delicious) and most important service (maybe). I may not be delicious but hopefully I can share with you what I learned, read and achieved in here that make them delicious for you to stay.

See you and really hope to see you again here !