For all of Anne Ahira’s student, here is an “easy reading article” to encourage you to keep focusing on your goal, as our teacher Anne Ahira always said : “Focus, focus, focus, focus, focus!”. One of the success story that inspires me is from BusinessWeek, about Accidental Intrepreneur, Eric Nakagawa. It was started by a post of a single photo of a smiling cat, with a caption “I can has cheezburger?” which was only ment to be a joke. What happened after that was unpredictable. The website was starting to get a lot of hits, so he turned it into a blog. Only two months later, the visitors reached 375.000, and 750.000 on the following month, and 1.500.000 after that. The visitors got double every month. Cheezburger now gets 500,000 page views a day from between 100,000 and 200,000 unique visitors, according to Nakagawa. The cheapest ad costs $500 for a week. The most expensive goes for nearly $4,000. Nakagawa, an accidental entrepreneur who saw his successful business materialize out of the ether, quit his programming job at the end of May: “It made more sense to do this and see how big it could get.” The benefits of blogging (especially earning) continues to fascinate many entrepreneurs who understand the economic advantages. An increasing number of blogs earn faster than the cost needed. The bloggers can self-finance the blogs they have without any investor to join. Blogs have a Simple, Low Cost and Direct Revenue Business Model Making a blog is very simple. All you need is only to pay for a domain name, an internet connection and a web hosting. You can make it even lower if you choose to use a free web hosting services The profit just depend on one simple factor : Traffic. The more people visit your website, the more money you can earn, and I believe Anne Ahira-mania, we are all on this purpose. Right? Let’s ‘kembali ke laptop’ (back to the topic). Why you should start a blog, if you don’t want to make money from it? Well, see this picture below. This is a traditional food called lentog. You can find them mostly in Kudus, Jawa Tengah. I like to eat lentog. Having lentog in Kudus with its sensational taste brings a particular nostalgic feeling to me This is what I am going to tell you. In our daily life, people see you and categorize you by what can be seen, like your clothing, your physical appearance, the way you behave and do things. In online world, people has no physical appearance or personality, unless you show it. A personal website is like your hone base. It is like a virtual of yourself. It allows you to develop a recognizable style, personality and form. You can now be categorized, understood and appreciated. Blogs and profiles in social networking sites achieve this aim. An online identity, to build relationships with others on the web. Having a blog makes it so much easier to develop familiarity and build relationships, to let people know where you’re coming from. It is possible for you to build relationship, supporting each other to develop a remarkable idea to make profit in the future. Blogging for income If someone asked me what to do to make money online, I will definitely recommend him/her to start a blog, because blogs are the gateway to train your foundation skill on generating income from the internet. By blogging, you are forced to learn what is necessary for success. So, why blogging? Blogging will :

• Encourage you to build relationship with others, online.
• Learn about server management skills.
• Help you develop your writing skills with ypur personality.
• Teach you about personal and entity branding.
• Make you learn how to monetize your blog or selling ad space.
• Teach you SEO (search engine optimization).
• Improve your marketing skill.

After you’ve developed those skills at the advanced level, even going for an offline business will be not that difficult. You can expand your business according to your skill levels. When I learned from Anne Ahira at the beginning, I started with a niche or a particular thing which I like, my hobby. Until now, Many times what I started as my hobby, I learned more and more about that field, and the more I understand the market and the competition. This blog, Anne Ahira, also I started only to record my experiences, sharing my stories about Anne Ahira and Internet marketing. It never intended to be made for money making, but who knows? I am Teddy Siswanto, student of Anne Ahira. I will be writing more and more about internet marketing and blogging. If you are interested you can subscribe this Anne Ahira and Teddy Siswanto blog.