08 July 2007 – After I have studied enough about Adwords, I had to start to apply for my own Adwords account, and start to play around with it.

I had decided to try out with general stuff’s affiliate marketing, such as a clothing store, a tool store, a toy store, a candy store, a gardening store, a costume store, etc.

It could be hard, but this is just what I wanted to try out, or I will never know how it works, despite of all the case studies that I have been intensely studying for a few months’ time.

09 July 2007 – I’m still in a dilemma, I don’t feel like I have enough information to start on general stuff’s affiliate marketing.

I went to take a look at Holly Cotter’s course - ‘Passive Profit Streams’, which she is teaching people on how to earn a living on general stuff’s affiliate marketing.

It is so expensive, I bet that it is really jam pack with so many useful stuffs in her course (what I meant was, it really does worth that kind of price).

I have then decided to shift my attention into other things, since I do not have that amount of budget to pick up the useful course.

Not having a clear sight yet, on which kind of business I should venture into.

I guess the best possible thing for me to do is, register an account with Google Adwords, and start to test on driving traffic to some affiliate programs that I had already sign up for.

I hope that works. Well, I will get back to give an input about my progress soon.

10 July 2007 – Registered my Adwords account, but I have not yet paid for the $5 one-time activation fee.

I was considering to sign up for a web hosting service and register a domain name too.

But later on, I found out that there is a thing called the “promotional code” in my Adwords account.

I did some search on Google, and found out various kind of source about it.

But most of the time, if you are signing up with some major web hosting services, they are indeed promoting their web hosting services, including with some FREE Google Adwords advertising credits, FREE Yahoo! Search Marketing advertising credits or FREE Microsoft AdCenter advertising credits.

Well, it is not necessary for them to promote all of the 3 FREE credits, they might be giving either 1 of them, or either 2 of them, or they can even give out all of the 3 free credits together in a bundled package.

Furthermore, the credits that they are giving out, might not be equalized, some will be giving out $25 of free advertising credits for each, some might be giving out $50 free advertising credits for each, it is solely depending on the web hosting companies themselves.

In my own opinion, I always tend to search for a web hosting company, which has 24/7 support system.

Just in case anything happens, I can contact them straight away.

Imagine if there is a crush in my file or whatever situation, and I would like to talk to any representative, I would be able to do so.

It will be much more crucial, if a person who is acquiring the web hosting service has a huge time differences with the hosting company’s actual time zone.

I am staying in Malaysia, and if I were to search for a web hosting company which is based in the U.S , I would surely make sure that they have the 24/7 support system.

There will be 1 more additional bonus compliment given by me, if the web hosting company is using LivePerson’s Livechat service and other services offered by LivePerson.

LivePerson’s Livechat service are just excellent to be used by a visitor like me, who has a lot of questions to ask about, regarding a particular product.

I have had some very positive experience with LivePerson’s products.

On the other hand, I have been closely observing on IX Web Hosting, which is one of the top budgeted web hosting companies in the U.S, and it is offering some irresistible service via their hosting plan.

There is one part, which it particularly caught my attention.

Before this date, that hosting company was offering FREE ads credit only to Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft AdCenter.

When I visit their website again to check for some information, I WAS SHOCKED to see that they are now offering FREE ads credit to Google Adwords as well.

Needless to say, I was again, being seduced by its services offered.

And I have planned to acquire a plan with them, as soon as possible.

Alright then, I will get you updated soon, and I will post some screen shoot for those free ads credit once I have received them.

11 July 2007 – Man, it is kind of hard for me to really make my decision on creating my very own website.

Yes, I am currently having another tourism website, with my partner, Ruhaizad Daud.

But that website was solely design and manage by my partner.

I have never touch on anything about “hosting a website” , “dealing with website’s design” , “pulling in visitors into a website” , etc.

In a nutshell, I am half a newbie in the world of online marketing / making money online / internet business / internet marketing (or whatever you like to call it) .

It is kind of hard, especially when there is no one to guide you about anything, especially in the beginning, where you are struggling to start your very own internet business/website.

The largest drawback for me at this moment, is actually my personal FEAR.

My fear for the online marketing journey (there is no one to guide me), my fear for no fruitful result on what I am going to do (online business), my fear for the workload (loads of work to be done for my online business), my fear for the technical stuff to be used to develop my online business (I don’t know how to design a website, driving traffic in to my website & I don’t know how to host a website, etc).

Gosh, there are so many things to be put into consideration.

That is why, until now, I am still not having a single website of my own !!

I am going to prepare myself to overcome this huge stumbling block.

Wish me good luck !