Hi, how is your day? Today I came across 2 articles which I felt that are good reads that I would like to share.

As I have found out, it is always good to learn from others experiences.

Lessons can be learned, mistakes can be avoided and learning curve shortened.

The 2 articles are:

Henri from wakeupcloud.com has written about his 33 Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Lifestyle Business.

Paul Nicholls from paulnichollsblog.com has written about 33 Worst Mistakes Made by Internet Marketers.

The 33 Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Lifestyle Business

1. The Beginning
2. Mind-Ghosts
3. Passion
4. Analysis Paralysis
5. Perfection
6. Stop the Research!
7. Facing Fears
8. Patience
9. Quick-Fix Mentality
10. Responsibility
11. Take Action
12. Information Overload
13. Education
14. Mistakes
15. Focus
16. Excuses
17. Comparing
18. Spirituality
19. Happiness
20. Lifestyle Design
21. Realistic
22. Start NOW
23. Consistency
24. Relentlessness
25. Feedback
26. Serendipity
27. The Game of Life
28. The Unknown
29. Follow Your Heart
30. Do Your Best
31. Relax
32. Attitude
33. Possibility

33 Worst Mistakes Made by Internet Marketers

1. NEVER rely on youtube as a traffic source
2. NEVER just use 1 income stream
3. NEVER Jump from program to program
4. NEVER Buy push button systems
5. NEVER think of Internet Marketing as a hobby
6. NEVER Think Internet Marketing is a way of making some fast money
7. NEVER use Free website builders
8. NEVER take advice from anyone that has no clue about internet marketing
9. NEVER get impatient
10. Never think that you can start an online business with no money
11. NEVER use duplicate content
12. NEVER set unrealistic goals and targets for yourself
13. NEVER use paid advertisement if your new to internet marketing
14. NEVER Sell anything in the internet marketing niche without an autoresponder
15. NEVER spend all your time in forums asking questions
16. NEVER use Free Auto Responders
17. NEVER try to learn everything yourself
18. NEVER Use Traffic exchanges
19. NEVER use safe lists
20. NEVER fear making mistakes
21. NEVER build hundreds of websites
22. NEVER  just keep learning
23. NEVER promote garbage
24. NEVER just learn from your own mistakes
25. NEVER try to gain business using social networks
26. NEVER listen to the hype
27. NEVER spend hours on social networks
28. NEVER rely on facebook pages for traffic
29. NEVER preach what you have never practiced
30. NEVER believe in Easy Riches
31. NEVER just rely on SEO
32. NEVER get sidetracked when you see how much someone else earns
33. NEVER Give up

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Google adsense channels cannot be changed for the past 1 week for so. I have tried multiple times with no success.

It is irritating as the channels are essential in tracking the individual ads performanace. I thought that my computer is causing this problem but it seems that the problem lies with google’s side.

Doing a search in google and found out that actually a lot of people is having this problem of unable to change the adense channel and is affecting them in one way or another.

This have already been recorded as a known issue on google side.

Unable to add or remove channels from existing ad units

Details: Publishers are currently unable to add or remove custom channels from existing ad units. It will appear that these changes have been saved, but checking this afterwards under the “Manage Ads” tab will show that the change has not been applied. Our engineers are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

Hope google can resolved this issue soon.

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Thanks eBay for the small “bonus”, and I am quite lucky to have been selected. I went to check my account and total earnings still stand at $0.00. lolz.

Haven’t generated any revenue in my account yet. But there are some clicks and impressions, hope the numbers start to count up soon. Let the small “bonus” be a good start!

This email from bluehost almost gave me a heart attack, “WEB HOSTING ACCOUNT DEACTIVATED”.

My adsense account is just a few dollars shy of reaching the minimum payout of $100. I estimate that I should be able to hit it during the period while I am away for Bangkok trip. I am very excited as this is going to be the first real money I am going to make thru the internet after a period of a year plus. I logged on my adsense account the moment I reached home and found it to be only $99+. What the heck?

I checked my email and found this email, “WEB HOSTING ACCOUNT DEACTIVATED”!

Oh My God! What have I done? What has happened?

This is the first time I faced this situation, the email states:

Dear Ong:

Your web hosting account for has been deactivated (reason: terms of service violation).

Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for up to 30 days, after which it will be deleted.

If you feel this deactivation is in error, please contact customer support as soon as possible.

I went to check the bluehost TOS and I think I know why my web hosting account is being deactivated.
I quickly went to bluehost helpdesk to open a ticket:

Hi there,

I would like to know which of my domains has violated the terms of service and how I can re-activate back my web hosting account.

Thanks.

Finally the next day they replied:

You have copyrighted anime on your account. Also any links to adult content need to be removed. I have changed your account so that you now have access to your bluehost cpanel. Please let us know when you have removed these files and then we will reactivate your website.

Just as I expected, its those animes that I had on anime-love.com! I quickly removed all the anime hoping to recover my account fast.

Hi,
 
I have removed all the anime from anime-love.com. Regarding the adult content, I am quite sure I didnt host any of them. But if there is any, pls enlighten me at which domain and I will remove it as soon as possible.
 
Pls help me to reactivate my website asap.
 
Thanks.

I was relieved that they finally re-activated my hosting account after a few hours.

So, remember you cannot host anime websites on bluehost! This lesson also taught me that it is better to have a few webhosting accounts rather than only one all-in-one webhost because if your webhosting account is to be suspended or terminated, all your websites in that account will be affected! One more important thing to do is to regularly backup your website offline, so that you can get your website up in a short amount of time by getting another webhost and pointing your domain name to them.

Lastly, I finally reached the $100 minimum payout for adsense. OH YES!

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Armand Morin has just released a free report called "An Obvious Truth" which aims to let you see the simplicity of Internet marketing.

More often than not people like to complicate things themselves (including me too heh), trying to do the best at the 1st try with everything and anything thus forgetting the basics.

Armand Morin reveals his little simple system that works At page 6 & 7 of the report. You can read more of it by downloading the report just by right clicking on An Obvious Truth to see the simplicity of it.

He has a couple more interesting Training Information Videos at InternetMarketingExplained.com which includes

• An Obvious Truth
• Opt-In Pages
• Quick eBook Creation
• The Follow-Up Process
• Massive Traffic
• Three Membership Site Models
• Product Creation Video
• Two RentaCoder Secrets
• Linear Vs. Circular Strategy
• The Internet Marketing Model
• Internet Marketing Explained

For now, sit back and relax and enjoy his little "trailer" video.

Google is like the Holy Grail of marketing on the web.  Everyone knows that by ranking well in Google, your profits are pretty much set.

But there is SO MUCH bogus information out there, often coming from the "gurus" themselves. (throwing smoke bombs)

On January 9th, 2008, Jonathan Leger is releasing a new free report that completely obliterates the following myths about Google (and then goes on to show you what DOES work):

The 7 Myths of Search Engine

Myth #1: Google Knows All and Sees All
Myth #2: Google Will Not Rank Duplicate Content
Myth #3: You Must Get Links From Related Subject Sites to Rank
Myth #4: Your Site Must Focus On One Subject To Rank
Myth #5: High PageRank Means Good Rankings
Myth #6: To Maintain Good Rankings, You Must Add New Content

..and the Last but Not Least..
MYTH #7: THE BIGGEST MYTH: Ranking In Google Is Hard!

The site is in pre-launch now, but if you sign up early you will get a sample chapter full of proof and details.

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http://seng-lee.com/go/searchenginemythsexposed