Ask Melvin Ng

If you’re looking for some free stuff, I would recommend that you check out Stephanie Mulac’s birthday giveway. It will be on this Sunday. In fact, her birthday is just a few days after mine.

Now, I first met Stephanie and her family last year when I was at the WIME in San Francisco.

(One for the album)

(Ain’t she just cute???)

Based on the short duration that I got to know them, I find them to be one of the most sincere and passionate marketing family I personally know. They sure have BIG hearts, so when Steph told me about her birthday giveway, I just had to blog about it.

Check out the freebies here now!

Tagged with: birthday giveaway • stephanie mulac

Google just released their latest browser to challenge the dominance of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

I can see that Internet Explorer’s position as the main browser of choice has slowly been eroded by Firefox’s dominance, and now with the launch of Google Chrome, I think the end is nigh for IE. Sorry guys but I’m not a huge fan of IE as I find it bulky and slow.

Forget about IE, between Google Chrome (GC) and Firefox (FF), it shares quite a lot of similarity in terms of speed, simplicity and functionality.

However, keep in mind that GC is still in BETA, and that means there will be many more improvements to come (hopefully…crossing my fingers).

The few cool features which I liked are:

• import settings - if you’ve been using Firefox, it is able to import all your bookmarks and passwords seamlessly into GC.
• whenever you open a new tab, on the right side of the screen, you’ll have your last few visited and bookmarked pages.
• the crash control feature, if it really works, would be awesome. Have yet to test proof it yet but what it means is this, if for any reason one of the tab is causing your browser to crash, in IE or FF, generally you’ll have to close off the entire browser, but over in GC, you don’t have to because each tab operates independently. The problem will only affect the respective tab only.
• the Incognito mode, if you ever find yourself wanting to browse certain sites without wanting to leave a trail, this mode would be cool as it will not leave any ‘footprints’ so to speak. I leave it to your imagination…

That aside, I do find these few things which I didn’t like:

• that it came from Google. I think they dominate too much to the detriment of users’ privacy.
• I just don’t like the favicon that came with it. It gave me the feeling of Windows Media Player.
• it’s still new, so some of my favorite apps and plugins in FF is still not compatible yet, such as Roboform and SEO Quake.

Until and unless GC works with Roboform and SEO Quake, I guess I will only be test driving it instead of seriously considering to change it as my default browser.

You can check it out over here: Google Chrome

Tagged with: firefox • google • google chrome • internet browser • internet explorer

I’ve been having people tell me that you can’t make money from blogging.

What a load of crap.

These people are trying to convince me that it is impossible to make good money as a blogger because of a multitude of
reasons…I call them ‘EXCUSES’!

Yadda, yadda, yadda…

No worries, I’ll go on quietly making money from blogging.

But then, my friend Gobala, approached me the other day on this topic, and he was showing me what he has created.

I almost beat him up (pun intended) because I was so frustrated at not having created what he has just shown me.

DUH!

I shall not elaborate further, rather I urge you to check it out yourself.

——————————————-

Click here: >> Blog Paycheck

——————————————-

And NO, it’s not about Google Adsense or affiliate marketing.

It’s called “Paid Blogging” or “Sponsored Blogging”, and one of the earliest companies to offer this opportunity is PayPerPost.com

Today, there are tons of opportunities to make a living with paid blogging, and you can earn anywhere between $5 to $200 for a single blog post - AMAZING!

That sure beats being a slave to your own online business, blogging away relentlessly day after day just for a few bucks from Adsense.

The entire “Paid Blogging” industry is still pretty new to a lot of people, but this report pretty much revealed everything they will need to know about it.

You can get more information here:

>> Blog Paycheck - Get Paid To Blog

Tagged with: blog paycheck • make money blogging • paid to blog

I was on Skype the other day when my friend Semmy messaged me and asked me to check out something.

As I was busy at that time, I just bookmarked the site and forgot about it until yesterday when he asked me how was it.

Feeling embarassed, I quickly took a look, and here’s my honest review. Sssh…I haven’t even told him this.

What I DON’T LIKE about the package:

The website templates, although are nice, could have been much nicer if they were more simple and clean in design, more towards the Web 2.0 feel that’s the trend nowadays.

However, there are more things that I LIKE about it though…

The Squeeze Page, Opt-Ins, Video Screens and Testimonial Designs are awesome! I’m a firm believer of using professional opt-ins especially in niche markets, and these templates certainly come in useful.

Also, the price point is another major factor in me giving a 2 thumbs up. At almost $10 for such a bundle, it’s almost a
no brainer unless you really don’t use graphics or templates at all.

I certainly recommend them:
Copy And Paste Minisite Templates

Tagged with: minisite graphics • minisite templates

Wow! I’ve NEVER been so busy since I’ve quit my job 3 years ago.

Lotsa stuff going on in terms of taking in more projects and what nots. Yeah, it’s tiring, but it’s challenging and fun as well.

Anyway…I was speaking with Richard on the phone the other day, and he told me about his relaunch of - ZOOMING To Success.

ZOOMING To Success is a collection of interviews (consisting of audios and PDF files) of about 20 Internet marketers where they spilled their Internet marketing success secrets.

You will hear many useful tips and recommendations from these Internet marketers. You can literally tap into their brains. I believe that the best way to learn is to role model other successful people. So this is indeed a great tool that will short-cut your journey to success.

To get the whole scoop you can go here:

Zooming To Success

Grab it while it is still available at the offer price.

Tagged with: richard quek • zooming to success