You can save a lot of time when you use OUTSOURCING correctly.

Given enough time, I can design beautiful graphics such as banners from scratch with Photoshop. But time is money to me. Instead of spending days or weeks to get the design work done, I’d rather outsource graphic design to the professionals. And the good news is that while it’s a great time saver, the price to get your graphic done is highly affordable.

Take for example, Google image ads. There are 8 formats :

Leaderboard – 728 x 90
Banner – 468 x 60
Skyscraper – 120 x 600
Wide Skyscraper – 160 x 600
Small Square – 200 x 200
Square – 250 x 250
Medium Rectangle – 300 x 250
Large Rectangle – 336 x 280

Instead of spending time to design on those graphics, I’d rather focus more on my e-business to get them deployed ASAP.

Now let me show you the trick how I save huge bucks while I outsource to get the Google image ads in 8 format done.

Yes, there are 8 formats. To save money, you only need to get 3 of them done – Leaderboard, Wide Skyscraper and Large Rectangle.

Because of the similarity in SHAPE, you can resize the Leaderboard to become a Banner, a Wide Skyscraper to a Skyscraper and the Large Rectangle (rather squarish) to the rest.

These can be done easily with Photoshop. And when you outsource, the graphic designer will normally also hand over the .psd files which you can use Photoshop to edit ie. increase the size of the fonts if they appears too small when you sized it smaller.

See, you can get all 8 Google Image Ads formats done at minimal fee

Have you experienced that the image you have imported to the Flash stage may looks okay but the moment you play the movie in SWF, the image or picture quality is poor and distorted?

That is the problem I have encountered when I tried to import the logo image into the Flash header for my ClusterWebHost.com. There are 2 methods you can use to avoid deterioration of the image quality in SWF movie.

1.  Always resize the image to the actual size you want it to appear in the Flash stage using your graphic editor like Photoshop. Do not resize the image in Flash stage – this will result in poor quality image in SWF movie.

2. Import the image or picture to the Library, insert the image to the stage and set the image properties to “lossless”.

The logo will appear nice and crisp in the Flash SWF header then.

I’m glad to announce that ClusterWebHost.com is ready!

Featuring clustered failover web servers technology, ClusterWebHost.com offers real-time data replication – giving high redundancy backup, and hence, minimal downtime.

Cluster Web Host is for webmasters who have high demand in website reliability and uptime.

Unlike other web hosting companies that give only an one-time commission, Cluster Web Host offers high recurring commission of 50%.

We also pledge to donate 50% of our revenue (minus affiliate commission payouts) to our selected charitable organization, WorldVision.org.

P.S. Cluster Web Host will replace VREWebHosting.com (which is now decommissioned).

Really Simple Syndication, also known as RSS in short, is not exactly as simple as it implies. Below is a video which I’ve created to outline the steps to burn a blog’s RSS feed to be syndicated or displayed on a static web page. Hope this video will clear the doubt on how to leverage on RSS.

Setting up an affiliate system is one of the best way to make money online!

Instead of using 100% of your own effort, you literally leverage on 1% effort of many other people. Your affiliates are getting in the money for you even while you’re sleeping.

I’ve recently refined one of my websites to offer 100% commission! That’s right, full 100%. It’s at XL Income Generator.

The purpose of giving 100% is firstly to entice more signups. Secondly, and more importantly, is to ensure that my signups will earn as much if not even more.

Taking XL Income Generator for example, signing up is only a low one-time $9.95. The ONE-TIME low signup fee is already a no-brainer. Now with 100% commission, just one person recruited by the affiliate will make him/her breakeven his/her initial one-time $9.95. Not to mention that he/she will be reaping 100% of ALL the profits from the people he/she has recruited.

Last but not least, the features offered by XL Income Generator are phenomenal – all the hyperlinks will be embedded with your ClickBank nickname, meanings if there is any purchase made through your XL Income Generator page, you’ll further earn the high commission from the ClickBank vendor. Plus the AdSense style ClickBank ads and ClickBank search portal, that is the very reason why I named the website XL (eXtra Large) Income Generator!

This post is not related to webmastering unless you view it in terms of marketing video production. Anyway, just happened to saw this video which is recommended by one of my friends in Facebook. I’m impressed with the video! Very creative and inspirational. Check it out :

The WordPress theme you’re now looking at is one of my favourites – the Flexibity theme.

Now it’s so easy to create awesome niche WordPress blogs with the new FlexSqueeze which include all the features of Flexibity 2 theme and allows the creation of cool landing or squeeze pages with ease. Check out the skins that come with it :

FlexSqueeze Skins

The headers that come with the package make creating “unique” blog so extremely easy.

The pricing is ~$70 for 1 site and $~$130 for unlimited. This theme is too good to just create one, hence, it’s definitely the $130 for unlimited option that one should choose.

To be precise, the question should be – Can one really make a full time income online?

I’m here to assure you that the answer is YES! Provided of course you take massive actions.

There are galactic amount of things to learn and to apply them when it comes to internet marketing – making money online. Many of my students asked the same question – How to start?

My advice is always the same – start a blog, particularly at Blogger.com, and start blogging on one’s hobby (the niche/keyword). The reason being having a blogspot is free and with this blogspot, one can learn and start applying what he/she has learned ie. adding hyperlink, adding images, centering texts/images, graphic editing, copywriting, search engine optimization … the list goes on. All towards being a proficient webmaster.

And from the free blogspot, one can start monetizing with ie. AdSense, affiliate marketing etc. to really make money online. Then you advance to buying domain names and creating your own more sophisticated PHP powered websites that are visually appealing, effective and profitable.

So yes, you can really make good money online – provided you hone your webmastering skills with never-ending learning and applying what you’ve learned. In short, JUST KEEP DOING (building websites) IT!

Do you know the fastest way to get your AdSense application approved?

The answer is Blogger.com.

All you have to do is to start a niche blogspot based on a good keyword (after keyword analysis of course) and blog for about 5 posts (or more), and apply for AdSense from within your Blogger account, your AdSense should normally get approved in less than a week.

Continue to blog once a day until the spider likes your blog and come back daily to crawl your blog and you can reduce blogging frequency to once a week for maintenance.

Doing this, the SERP (search engine ranking position) and traffic of the blog should increase, bringing you higher AdSense clicks and earnings.

Then the next AdSense secret is … DUPLICATION. The more blogspots you have, the higher will be the AdSense revenue. Happy earning.

The upcoming Webmastering class is confirmed (and full) – starting 19th April 2009 (Sunday) at ITE CE. For details of the short course, click the following link :

http://www.ite.edu.sg/cet/sc/outlines/Webmaster_Money_Online.pdf

I’m glad that the participation response for both short courses – Internet Marketing and Webmastering (under http://www.ite.edu.sg/cet/sc/business.htm) have been overwhelming. I’m equally appreciative of the positive comments and feedback from the participants on the short courses.

The next run will be some time in July 2009.