I’m so excited!! I can’t really explain how I feel. If you’re a dad, or a dad want-to-be, you must have known what I mean

So I want to celebrate it with you!

I have a giveaway sale. Yes, it’s really a bargain. But there are only 200 available packages.

So hurry to now to my giveaway sale and celebrate with me!

And I was even more interested in his presentation material than translating so at times I forgot to translate. I’m sorry for that Shaune!

Being a translator had another fringe benefit: Shaune gave me his full package of copy writing coaching for free while it’s sold for more than $3,000! Thanks a lot Shaune.

I took some more photos, too.

Andy and I form IMD Club. Internet Marketing Dad Club. We’re the first two members. If you’re interested to join our IMD Club, simply give me a howler

• Surround yourself with a team of experts
• Have a master mind group

It’s very lonely and frustrating if you do everything by yourself, especially if you just get started. I knew I did. Luckily I found a group of friends and we formed our own master mind group where each of us has unique expertise and empower each other.

Every millionaire and successful person has their own master mind group. Henry Ford formed a master mind group with Thomas A. Edison, Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, and Luther Burbank. Brett McFall, Tom Hua, and Jo Han Mok formed a master mind group, too. You see that wealthy people consciously or unconsciously employ the master mind principle.

So what mastermind is? Master mind can be defined as coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose. This is the famous definition of master mind by Napoleon Hill in his Think and Grow Rich.

In short, master mind is the driving force toward riches!

Internet Marketer Master Mind

Internet marketing is so complex. There are so many things to be mastered in order for you to be successful. But it’s impossible to master everything by yourself. You need help from others.

There are article writing, copy writing, blogging, creating product, driving traffic (whether it’s free or paid traffic), domain parking, and a lot more.

You need to surround yourself with people with those expertise, or better yet, form a master mind group with those experts! I myself have two master mind groups, both consist of four members. One in Jakarta, Indonesia where we regularly meet once a month, and another is worldwide (see, they’re in Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore, where we meet online).

How To Form Master Mind Group

Here comes the question, “How I do form my own master mind group?”

Workshops, seminars, and coaching programs are the best place to find master mind friends.

I found my master mind friends from those events

Why? Because people who attend such events are people who want to improve themselves. They want to be success. They’re open minded!

Since you’re an Internet marketer, find your master mind friends at Internet marketing workshops, seminars, or coaching programs. You’re in luck because there Asia Internet Congress in Singapore on November 28-30, 2007.

Invest in yourself, find your master mind friends, and form your own master mind group there! Accelerate your Internet marketing success now!

P.S. If you want to promote Asia Internet Congress and make yourself a lot of money, become an affiliate and register here now!

Well, since he’s my mentor and I paid quite some amount of money for his coaching, I decided to believe him and gave it a try. It bombed big time! I didn’t get traffic at my first attempt and I felt frustrated. My thought was, “Damn, I paid for this and this is all I received? Do this. Do that. Do this again. Do that again.” Simply put, I was very upset.

Keep Trying

However I felt that I only wasted my money (for coaching fee) if I quited. So I kept doing these free web traffic generation strategies. But still no result.

So I changed my course of action. I researched the web, forums and blogs, and looked for information: How Internet marketers got their web traffic? I got the same piece of information: Stumbling, blog posting and commenting, forum marketing, article marketing, and so on. This convinced me that there was a missing piece of puzzle in generating free web traffic that I was not aware of.

Stumble Upon

Finally I got a fraction of that missing piece of puzzle and I made an experiment. Bang, I at least doubled my blog traffic using Stumble Upon during this experiment!

A snapshot of my Google Analytics’ traffic overview

A snapshot of my traffic sources’ proportion

But what I did was still ineffective according to Hammer, fellow blogger.

This is a very ineffective way to use StumbleUpon and if you only got 193 unique visits you need to rethink your strategy. I consistently get a couple thousand hits a day from SU and have gotten as high as 10,000 hits in one day to certain posts. Continue reading →

At least there was a start. I could finally got a decent amount of free web traffic using Stumble Upon and I keep polishing my stumbling skills.

Social Bookmarks

To be honest, I still couldn’t get significant traffic using social bookmarks: Onlywire and Digg.

However recently I learned these interesting facts about:

• Reddit (from my dear blogger friend, Jonathan C. Phillips)
  

  As for Reddit, it’s actually quite like any other social networking sites, except it’s a meritocracy, which means even if 40% of people bury your story, it may still get to the front page. even votes down will count as “getting attention” good or bad. As with Netscape or other Social Networks, the more friends you have the better your chances are to make the frontpage.

• Netvous
  One of traffic generation videos that I watched mentioned that Netvous doesn’t have no-follow attribute. This means that URL submission to Netvous is indexed by search engines. This is great news because Netvous is PR 7!

Now I keep focusing on those two social bookmark sites.

Conclusion

I learned a lot from this experience and experiment.

1. Trust your mentor (if you have one). Your mentor’s teachings may have deeper meanings that you may not grasps its meaning yet at first.
2. Keep trying and focus on getting great result. You’ll eventually attract your goals.
3. Ask successful people how they do it. You’ll be amazed that they’ll answer your questions and help you.
4. Welcome coopetition (a unique blend of cooperation and competition) by working together and helping each other.
5. Apply Paretto’s rule. In whatever you, there’s always 20% action that gives you 80% results. Focus on this 20% action only.

I know I know, you don’t see me there. I took this picture!

That’s right, Stephen and Alicia invited us to speak and share our experiences and successes to their new Indonesian students! Stephen and Alicia also encouraged four of us to work together as a team, 1DASHsolution. We commit to support Stephen and Alicia 100% in Indonesia.

On Monday’s workshop, we will teach how to:

• Be able to receive PayPal payment (Indonesian can only send PayPal payment)
• Be able to receive ClickBank payment (ClickBank doesn’t send check to Indonesian address)
• Create the ultimate landing page
• Generate free massive traffic
• And many other untold insider secrets

Stephen Pierce presented his latest coaching program, 30 Minutes Easy Profit, at Global Internet Summit yesterday.

We shared our experiences and success stories to Global Internet Summit’s attendees

Do you notice that Stephen was wearing batik? My wife and I gave him batik but we never expected that Stephen wore it during his presentation ! It was the largest size in store but not big enough for Stephen. Hint hint, he unbuttoned the two top buttons in order to fit in.

Thank you Stephen and Alicia. We really appreciate what you’ve given us.

The key in making a website looks professional is consistency. Here’s the easy formula that I usually follow in designing the layout of my website: CRAP.

• C: Center
  • Such as centering your headlines and titles.
• R: Repetition
  • Repeat the same logo or images in every page. This also helps reducing your data transfer and bandwidth usage because the same images are already stored in your viewer’s browsers, which also makes the webpages load faster, especially if you use high resolution images.
  • Use the same font and style in every page.
• A: Alignment
  • You must be consistent whether it’s left, right, full, or center alignment.
• P: Position
  • Place everything strategicly and proportionally.

CRAP and making your website looks professional can be easily implemented using a web template and CSS. However the easiest way to making your website looking professional is by using a blog because blog by default already have a template or theme.

You can get a free hosted blog at blogger.com or you can get WordPress if you want to host your blog yourself.

If you still insist on making a website instead of blog, I strongly suggest that you should go with this web hosting company because it helps you make a professional website in less than 9 simple steps. Furthermore it gives you a trial period. So why don’t you give it a try?

One more thing that I want to share, you must make your site map first before implementing your website.

Also read:

• How To Get Paid To Host Your Blog and Website
• How To Have Fresh Original Unique Contents For Your Blog And Website
• How To Choose A Reliable Yet Affordable Web Hosting Company
• How To Get Free And Easy Exposure For Your Blog

It’s very simple: I hate working in the office, meeting with my clients to make sales, and getting caught for hours in Jakarta’s traffic jam. In fact I am a lazy person who doesn’t like to wake up early in the morning. And the most important of all, I want to spend most of my time with my wife, Hera and my 7-month-old boy, Dhava.

I’m a firm believer of Tony Buzan’s Brain Child where I believe the first five years of a child’s life is the most important period of his life. He must be nurtured, taught and guided to bring his creativity, smartness, healthiness and happiness to the fullest. But how can I do this if I have to work 8 to 5 in the office?

Luckily I learnt about passive income from Robert Kiyosaki where he taught that we can make money without working by having a business or investing. Oh yes, I even learnt property investing from Dolf de Roos. Unfortunately creating a new business or investing takes a lot time, effort and capital with little ROI which I can’t afford. Then I learnt about guerilla entrepreneur from Jay Conrad Levinson, but still, there’s some works that I must do myself. I say to myself, “These are definitely not for me.”

Finally my wife and I attended World Internet Summit 2006 in Singapore. To be honest we’re very skeptical and not convinced that we can make money on the Internet. However after watching Ewen Chia and Jo Han Mok’s live challenge where they made $ 60K+ in less than four days (that was even during Thanks Giving long weekend), we’re convinced that we can make money on the Internet. And in this last two weeks we made about $203.60 on the Internet! Not bad for newbie I say?

I truly admit that it’s very confusing in the beginning. I don’t know where and how to start so I just try, try, try and get going. Always test and adjust for better result. And FOCUS!

Aldian, Hera, Cynthia & Ewen Chia	Brett McFall, Aldian & Michael Cheney

Also, it really helps to have mentors, friends and tools to shortcut the learning curve and make money faster. I’m really fortunate to be able to learn from Stephen Pierce and Michael Cheney. I’m also very happy to be friends with Andrew Wee and other fellow Warriors who become my source of inspirations. And the best of all, I’m very very fortunate to have my wife who supports me 1,000% and my 7-month old boy who is my source of motivation and courage.

With God’s blessing and our own perseverance, I earnestly believe everything is possible.

To all of our bright beginnings!

Aldian Prakoso

PS: You can visit our personal website, www.AldianHera.com, if you want to know more about us.

PSS: While you’re there, please sign our guest book, too!

Also read:

• Optimization Series
• How To Unleash Your Greatness