In my sessions with Wealthy Affiliates, the Week 2, class has a section on finding your direction. Here I have been struggling. I guess that is common difficulty. When I first joined with them, I set my Niche to be Stocks/Online trading. Over time I have sort of drifted away from that but now am coming back.
As of today, I plan to start concentrating more on the forex market. I started my education in currency trading in 2004 and have dabbled in it ever since. (I must confess, not very successfully.) I have currency platforms for manual trading and autotrading from GlobalTec Solutions and over the years have used both. Most of my currencies trade now are done via the autotrader called CommandTRADE FX. I like this autotrader but there is a lot to know before you consistly make money with it.
Yesterday I purchased another autotrader called Forex MEGADROID. They claim a trade accuracy of 95.82%. This product uses a trading platform called MetaTrader and then they embed a module into it to support the autotrading. The installation was fairly straight forward for both the MetaTrader (trading station) and MegaDroid modules. One key piece of information, when you purchase the product is that they use ClickBank to process the order and use ClickBank's order receipt number as the authenication code for the MegaDroid module. I must of entered an incorrect email address as I have never received my receipt from ClickBank and don't have the ClickBank receipt. (My mistake) I will report more on this product later after I have my receipt number. Most of the internet reviews are positive.
On actual trading, I mostly trade the following: GBP/JYP, EUR/JPY, USD/JPY, AUD/USD, and EUR/USD. For some reason I seem to like the Japanese (yen) pairs.
If you are interested in trading currencies there are a lot of articles on the internet that explain currency trading. How much you need, etc.
Last night was a very good night for trading. Currency selloff was consistent all night and out of 21 trades, I took 1 loss which I manually took. Boy do I like it when this happens. This doesn't happen that often. My trading started at 8:30 pm and I closed out of everything at 7:57 am with over 500 pips. (A pip is the smallest price increment in forex trading. It actually stands for "percentage in point".)
No, I haven't forgotten about ChuckyTrader.com. If you haven't checked it out lately, do so...
Back to my studies. I am now learning more about article writing and Squidoo, and Hubpages, GoArticles.com and USFreeAds.com.
Later...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
First Article Continued, Etc.
I finished my first article and submitted to Ezine. Like I expected, it was returned for corrections. I put too many links in the first submission. You are allowed one... I have resubmitted and am waiting for the results. The article is about a Beginner - Internet Marketing. I will post a link to it if it becomes available.
I updated my web site http://chuckytrader.com rearranging the home page some and adding a page for DVDs, Kindles, and a banner to eBay.
Do you know what a Kindle is? (I didn't) Kindle is a product from Amazon.com that is a book reader device that allows you to read books via a 6" display screen. These books are downloaded with a wireless connection that connects directly to the Amazon.com Kindle Store with over 90,000 titles.
On my web site you can find best selling books, magazines, movies, and music plus some other items.
The best selling book, Liberty and Tryanny by Mark R. Levin and is a great read. Other must reads are: Put Your Dream to the Test by John C. Maxwell, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.
Some of the best selling music DVDs are: Quiet Night - by Diana Krall, No line On The Horizon - by U2, Twilight Soundtrack - Various Artists, Chris Botti in Boston - by Chris Botti, All I Every Wanted - Kelly Clarkson.
Some of the best selling movie DVDs are: Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E, Marle and Me, Doubt, Stargate Altantis.
Have a great day...
I updated my web site http://chuckytrader.com rearranging the home page some and adding a page for DVDs, Kindles, and a banner to eBay.
Do you know what a Kindle is? (I didn't) Kindle is a product from Amazon.com that is a book reader device that allows you to read books via a 6" display screen. These books are downloaded with a wireless connection that connects directly to the Amazon.com Kindle Store with over 90,000 titles.
On my web site you can find best selling books, magazines, movies, and music plus some other items.
The best selling book, Liberty and Tryanny by Mark R. Levin and is a great read. Other must reads are: Put Your Dream to the Test by John C. Maxwell, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.
Some of the best selling music DVDs are: Quiet Night - by Diana Krall, No line On The Horizon - by U2, Twilight Soundtrack - Various Artists, Chris Botti in Boston - by Chris Botti, All I Every Wanted - Kelly Clarkson.
Some of the best selling movie DVDs are: Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E, Marle and Me, Doubt, Stargate Altantis.
Have a great day...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
My First Article
My current assignment with Wealthy Affiliates is to write and submit an article to Ezine or one of the article directories. This morning at 2:30 am, I was laying in bed wide-a-wake and thought why not get up and get some work done. On my to do list was fixing some links in ChuckyTrader.com and writing my first article. After fixing the links I started on the article.
What to write about? One reason I started my blogs, besides be told to, was to capture my activities as I started this new adventure of internet marketing. So I went back to them and started reviewing what I had written. My first blogs were posted under the label of "beginner" and I thought, that is exactly what you are, so my title "The Beginner -- Internet marketing". This article is basically my background, the move to Internet Marketing, and what I have learned so far.
In my family, my wife is the one that understands the English language and phasing so I had her review it. My draft is now a red draft of corrections for me to make before submission. I am first going to submit to Ezine and see what happens. I have tried to follow their guidelines, but as beginner probably will have some corrections to make. We will see... Maybe on the next blog I will have the results and a link to the document.
Later...
What to write about? One reason I started my blogs, besides be told to, was to capture my activities as I started this new adventure of internet marketing. So I went back to them and started reviewing what I had written. My first blogs were posted under the label of "beginner" and I thought, that is exactly what you are, so my title "The Beginner -- Internet marketing". This article is basically my background, the move to Internet Marketing, and what I have learned so far.
In my family, my wife is the one that understands the English language and phasing so I had her review it. My draft is now a red draft of corrections for me to make before submission. I am first going to submit to Ezine and see what happens. I have tried to follow their guidelines, but as beginner probably will have some corrections to make. We will see... Maybe on the next blog I will have the results and a link to the document.
Later...
Monday, April 6, 2009
Trying to maintain direction
As of the 10th blog, I am dropping the blog number. Will stay with date and title.
As I get into week 2 of the Wealthy Affiliate lessons the more I realize what I don't know in internet marketing. If you look at Thursday's blog you will see the outcome "
Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketing". This goes through the basics of internet marketing and a video on how internet marketing works. This section is fairly straight forward.
Then you get into the affiliate networks. If you are going to sell as the middle man, these are the type of companies that you need to sign up with. The top affiliate networks are: Clickbank.com Linkshare.com, CJ.com, Shareasale.com, and Performics.com. Also in this section you learn about "Pay-Per_Sale" (most common these days), "Pay-Per-Lead", and "Pay-Per-Click" (least common). I studied up on Clickbank.com, signed up with them, and spent some time going over the products. Wealthy Affiliates has a Clickbank tool that makes looking at the different products for sale much easier. One of the affiliate links that you get with Wealthy Affliates is a link to themselves for new members to sign up where you get credit for the sign up.
I am now getting into one of the more difficult parts of the lessons, for me, and that is article writing. First I worried about what do you write about. Then I worried about how to imbed the appropriate keywords. I guess it is just the negatism of the personality showing through. My wife says for the first article to write about myself. I guess that makes sense. So I believe that is the approach I will take. Wealthy Affiliates gives you a checklist to follow and I have another document that also goes over it so should be ok. I am still a little confused on the requirements when it comes to imbedding links, etc., in the articles. I am sure this will clear up as I try to submit. Like anything else, sometimes it is best to forge ahead and see what happens. I need the article to reference keywords in the ChuckyTrader web site so may have to make some changes there.
As I get into week 2 of the Wealthy Affiliate lessons the more I realize what I don't know in internet marketing. If you look at Thursday's blog you will see the outcome "
Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketing". This goes through the basics of internet marketing and a video on how internet marketing works. This section is fairly straight forward.Then you get into the affiliate networks. If you are going to sell as the middle man, these are the type of companies that you need to sign up with. The top affiliate networks are: Clickbank.com Linkshare.com, CJ.com, Shareasale.com, and Performics.com. Also in this section you learn about "Pay-Per_Sale" (most common these days), "Pay-Per-Lead", and "Pay-Per-Click" (least common). I studied up on Clickbank.com, signed up with them, and spent some time going over the products. Wealthy Affiliates has a Clickbank tool that makes looking at the different products for sale much easier. One of the affiliate links that you get with Wealthy Affliates is a link to themselves for new members to sign up where you get credit for the sign up.
I am now getting into one of the more difficult parts of the lessons, for me, and that is article writing. First I worried about what do you write about. Then I worried about how to imbed the appropriate keywords. I guess it is just the negatism of the personality showing through. My wife says for the first article to write about myself. I guess that makes sense. So I believe that is the approach I will take. Wealthy Affiliates gives you a checklist to follow and I have another document that also goes over it so should be ok. I am still a little confused on the requirements when it comes to imbedding links, etc., in the articles. I am sure this will clear up as I try to submit. Like anything else, sometimes it is best to forge ahead and see what happens. I need the article to reference keywords in the ChuckyTrader web site so may have to make some changes there.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Blog9 - Wealthy Associates Blog, Etc.
In the 8th blog I mentioned that I came across a forum where they are starting a new campaign from scratch. I joined the forum and today they are voting on what product(s) they want build a campaign around. They were 29 suggestions with suggestions mostly for home owner products. One of the stand outs was "Pets - pet health, pet tips, pet care, etc". This is the one I voted for and I believe is leading in the count. We are to know the outcome on Monday.
I am now on week 2 of my training with WealthyAffiliates. Here is the list of what you are to learn during this period:
Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketing
What are Affiliate Networks, and how can you leverage them?
The different "types" of Internet marketing
Choosing your direction
How to become an expert, not a generalist
Choosing an industry and product to sell online
Begin understanding consumers
Setting up a Pay-Per-Click advertising account
Squidoo.com
It says in the intro to week 2, that this is the week where some of the big decisions will have to be made. I expect that is why "Choosing your direction" is highlighted.
I was reviewing Ivana's document http://affiliate-niche-stores.com and she commented about a video site on wordpress blogs http://www.internetmarketingcourse.com . I discovered that this site also had a lot of how to videos where Tim Gross leads you step by step through what process you are attempting to do. Optaining a new domain for instance. You might want to take a peak at it.
I am now on week 2 of my training with WealthyAffiliates. Here is the list of what you are to learn during this period:
Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketingWhat are Affiliate Networks, and how can you leverage them?The different "types" of Internet marketingChoosing your directionHow to become an expert, not a generalistChoosing an industry and product to sell onlineBegin understanding consumersSetting up a Pay-Per-Click advertising accountSquidoo.comIt says in the intro to week 2, that this is the week where some of the big decisions will have to be made. I expect that is why "Choosing your direction" is highlighted.
I was reviewing Ivana's document http://affiliate-niche-stores.com and she commented about a video site on wordpress blogs http://www.internetmarketingcourse.com . I discovered that this site also had a lot of how to videos where Tim Gross leads you step by step through what process you are attempting to do. Optaining a new domain for instance. You might want to take a peak at it.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
8th Blog - ChuckyTrader.com and Wealthy Affiliates
I have not been comfortable with my landing page (1st page) on ChuckyTrader.com for some time so today I decided to do something about it. The content has been changed to include more pictures and each picture now contains a link to its referenced page. I use Thrive Learning as the web site host and they have been creating a new builder. (Must say that it is much better than the old one.) Of course of with anything new you have to learn how to use it, and, they still have some glitches that you have to work around but I am getting there. They do have a nice feature for lining items up however and that is a table where you can add pictures and the text below it with all of the general formatting tools. I also added supplies for contractors and magazines.
Today while reviewing my homework in Wealthy Affiliates, in the General Marketing forum, I came across a group of users that are starting a campaign from scratch so I joined them. (A campaign is where you are selling a product on the internet.) They are at the stage of trying to select their niche and what product to sell. One of the users is leading out in this endeavor and its appears to me to be a good way to learn. After reading some of the posts, I really feel like a novice. Half the time I don't know what they are talking about. Oh well, that is why I am doing this... To learn. More on this later.
Yesterday I mentioned about the Stock & Online Trading niche. I am still thinking about that one. To persue it will probably required a new website dedictated to that. May put this idea on hold for a bit.
One of my associates (Pat) has been using Craiglists to drive users to his website by offering give-a-ways. He has been getting a lot of hits in doing this and may have come something that could be profitable. He has included a link back to chucky.com for the Free Web Site but at this time the reponse has been low.
Today while reviewing my homework in Wealthy Affiliates, in the General Marketing forum, I came across a group of users that are starting a campaign from scratch so I joined them. (A campaign is where you are selling a product on the internet.) They are at the stage of trying to select their niche and what product to sell. One of the users is leading out in this endeavor and its appears to me to be a good way to learn. After reading some of the posts, I really feel like a novice. Half the time I don't know what they are talking about. Oh well, that is why I am doing this... To learn. More on this later.
Yesterday I mentioned about the Stock & Online Trading niche. I am still thinking about that one. To persue it will probably required a new website dedictated to that. May put this idea on hold for a bit.
One of my associates (Pat) has been using Craiglists to drive users to his website by offering give-a-ways. He has been getting a lot of hits in doing this and may have come something that could be profitable. He has included a link back to chucky.com for the Free Web Site but at this time the reponse has been low.
Monday, March 30, 2009
7th Blog - Stock & Online Trading
In my last post I mentioned that Wealthy Affiliates likes you to post on their forum. This morning when I signed in they reminded me that I needed to select a niche that I would concentrate my sales around. I discovered that one of the niches was "Stock & Online Trading" so I thought why not, this is what I have been doing for last 5 years.
Here is a little background. In 2004 I spent almost a year taking classes from Invest Tools, and became a Master Options traders. In 2005 I switched over to products from Global Tec Solutions just because I liked their charts better. (Invest Tools uses technical charts and Global Tec uses pressure charts.) I had done OK as a trader until this last year where I couldn't accept the fact that we were in a bear market (I am a positive person by nature) and got burned along with a lot of other investors. I have traded most aspects of the market; stocks, options, option spreads, commodities, and forex at one time or another. I am currently actively trading forex on paper and plan to go back live in the new future. As for the other markets, I am not currently trading them. I noticed in reading some of their forum posts there were numerous comments on how to produce income from the links back to trading houses. I plan to peruse this.
If it seems that I am jumping around a little in my endeavors to make money, you would be correct. I have discovered in my readings that this is very common but you will eventually settle on your niche. That is one of the aspects that Wealthy Affiliates helps you with.
Don't forget to visit http://chuckytrade.com. We have the best sellers and new releases from Amazon.com. If you know of contractors needing supplies, have them visit my site under Contractors.
Here is a little background. In 2004 I spent almost a year taking classes from Invest Tools, and became a Master Options traders. In 2005 I switched over to products from Global Tec Solutions just because I liked their charts better. (Invest Tools uses technical charts and Global Tec uses pressure charts.) I had done OK as a trader until this last year where I couldn't accept the fact that we were in a bear market (I am a positive person by nature) and got burned along with a lot of other investors. I have traded most aspects of the market; stocks, options, option spreads, commodities, and forex at one time or another. I am currently actively trading forex on paper and plan to go back live in the new future. As for the other markets, I am not currently trading them. I noticed in reading some of their forum posts there were numerous comments on how to produce income from the links back to trading houses. I plan to peruse this.
If it seems that I am jumping around a little in my endeavors to make money, you would be correct. I have discovered in my readings that this is very common but you will eventually settle on your niche. That is one of the aspects that Wealthy Affiliates helps you with.
Don't forget to visit http://chuckytrade.com. We have the best sellers and new releases from Amazon.com. If you know of contractors needing supplies, have them visit my site under Contractors.
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