Flipping The Web

I’ve been in internet marketing since 2007 trying to make some money online, I must admit that it didn’t take the direction I expected, I earned some money and lost some, but at the end what most important it’s the journey.

During my journey I came across many people, some were proclaiming themselves Marketing Guru, and others who like me were trying their best to take a share of the pie.

I know that I promised to document my journey, but to be honest keeping a day job and in the same try to launch an online business is not easy.

So here I’m again, six month later after my last post, I started again my internet marketing activities.

So let’s make some money online…

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Here are are at the end of the year and at the beginning of 2009. If I go back 1 year ago, i found that the beginning of 2008 I have setup one goals, this goals was to have a master plan for all the year, this master plan was supposed to guide me and keep me focused on my objectives of earning some money online.

I must confess that I didn’t succeed my earning on 2008 are 150$ from and affiliate program and 75$ form a pay to click program, for a total of 225$, this money is in my pocket and it’s still waiting for cash out. So at the end my earning for 2008 are 0$.

So what i did wrong, why i didn’t succeed on building online business, the answer is simple, I have a lack of commitment on my online activities.

If I want to succeed online I need to develop a set of behaviors.

More on that on a future post, see you next year and happy reading.

On my last post I said that I’ll no longer use “Nobody” as my Blogger name. For now on on I’ll blog under my real name which is “Hichem”, and you can learn about me in my upcoming bio in the about page.

I know that there is a lot of people wondering if they should blog under a screen name (pseudonym) and I hope this post will answer their questions.

For many years I taught that the Internet was synonym of virtual, but you know the Internet is not and has never been virtual. It is real especially when you choose to do business, build branding or notoriety. Successful business are build on trust, if you want success you need to full up your trust bar.

So I advise everyone to abandon blogging under their screen name, and start blog under their real name, and reason are :

• You could get very popular.

• Being yourself is a great way to network with others.

• Blog under your real name can makes you feel more coherent in your digital life.

In a future post I’ll go into details.

See you next time, happy reading.

HI everybody,

nobody is no more here, I decided that I’ll stop using Nobody Buddy as my pen name, and from now on I’ll be using my real name, so expect new post from me with a new blog design.

See you soon

Hi Everyone,

It had been a long time since my last post here, last time I was talking about my experience during the thirty day challenge and I must admitted, I was unprepared for what happened  to me (details will follow on an upcoming post)

For the moment for all what I can say, I had been busy between my day work, the Internet marketing work, and most important my wedding preparation (for those who don’t know I’m being married on next July), and it’s very difficult to keep with all tasks.

Anyway things are moving on quickly, and I’m finally back, so lets the journey continue.

On my last post I did a promise to post about my progress on the Thirty day challenge more frequently, and I didn’t respect this promises, shame on me. Daily tasks at the 30DC are tacking so much of my free time, knowing that my day job doesn’t leave with a bunch of free time.

Anyway I’m happy to announce that I earned my first dollars online, today I got my first sale from one of my money making project on the 30DC, I earned 15$.

Ed dale was right when he was explaining us the power and the majesty of the Internet Business on his first day lesson :  A Magnificent Symphony Of Four Parts…

The Thirty Day Challenge can be resumed in four stages :

• Stage 1: Market Research and Keyword Analysis
• Stage 2: Prepare an Host Optimized Content on Authority Site
• Stage 3: Get the Hosted Content Indexed by the Search Engine
• Stage 4: Build Links to Attain and Maintain Search Engine Ranking

I’m still at the beginning of my Journey and for the moment I’m so overwhelmed by this little earning, I know that I need to calm down and focus on my future steps to ensure that I can repeat this earning.

During the challenge I had many ideas and one of them was to write down my feelings and my thinking day by day, now that I’m approaching the end of the challenge I’m thinking to release my diary on an e-book instead of posting on this blog.

So if you want to know when I’ll release this e-book, subscribe to my rss feed

Before beginning the New Year, I have setup to myself some objectives regarding my online activities, one of them was (and still) to post more frequently on this blog. It’s quite long since my last post about the Thirty Day Challenge, and it’s clear that I’m falling behind my objective of posting frequently, but readers I started the Thirty Day Challenge and what I’m learning there is fantastic and overwhelming that I can’t believe that the information there is free, I’m like a thirsty man after days on the desert

My day job tasks and doing the lessons on the 30DC had kept me from posting here , but stay tuned you will be hearing from Nobody Buddy soon I’ll do some posting about my progress on the challenge during the weekend.

So subscribe to my feed and enjoy the reading…

While planning and foresight are crucial ingredients in the recipe of success for any online business, there comes a point where action is necessary to make those plans real.

If I had planned correctly my moves on 2007, I should have been starting my online business 4 months ago on September.

On august 2007 I came across Thirty Day Challenge, I had never heard of it until I read it about it on a forum post asking readers what will be their tools during the challenge.

Basically the 30DC is a month long course for Internet Marketing Dummies looking to make their first bucks online. The courses taught techniques that allowed a newbie to find a market, create content in that niche, get that content ranked in Google and test the market all in the space of a few days.

The Thirty Day Challenge is the best online experiences that I have ever had. The goal of the challenge was to make $10 online within 30 days. While not everyone won the challenge, many did and everyone learned a ton of stuff.

I didn’t win the challenge, because I was a passive reader and I never tried any of the techniques taught during the challenge and honestly my day job and my poor time management skills prevented me from practicing what I learned  

But seeing other succeeding is overwhelming.

The good news is that the Challenge is still open to participant who wants to catch up

There are a lot of people who started on January 1^st; I know that I’m 3 day behind the schedule knowing that also I have all the preseason materials to review again before starting; seems that I have a little challenge within the challenge J.

Stay tuned on Flipping The Web to see if Nobody will manage to earn a penny online J

Here we are at the beginning of the New Year; it’s time for introspection and looking back at my accomplishments over the past year. Traditionally people choose to make their resolutions at the end of the year, but most people will give up on their resolutions by January 5th even the 2nd and by January 30th they may not even remember what their resolution was.

I’ll post later this month about the results of my introspection; normally I should post about my goals and resolutions for 2008 but I don’t want to make goals on hurry and never visit them again until next new year, this will not going to be a great help for the business I’m intending to build. I want to visit my goals frequently and note my progress toward reaching them, so I’ll be mo likely to raise my journey to the next level.

So my first goal for 2008 is to have a master plan that will guide me and keeps me focused on my objectives.

Happy New Year !!!

Before going into details about my journey, I felt I need to explain to my reader and future readers, who are the people behind my determination to start an online business.

During the last months I identified a panel of professional bloggers and web entrepreneurs who I admire for the way they have built their business. Every time I read their post I feel enthusiastic and excited, ideas start popping around. I’m strong believer in the power of their mentorship even if I never spoke to them directly (I hope so in the future).

I felt the need to start a series to introduce these mentors by writing a bit about who they are, their projects and how they inspired me to take the plunge.

The series will be entitled “Who are my Heroes” and I’ll cover how reading their articles brings to me an incredible value to my life.

In case you don’t already know them, stay tuned on “Who are my Heroes” series.