LiveBlogging with Carl Ocab: “How To Make Money Online with a 14-Year Old”
Carl Ocab has been in the news lately due to questions of his ‘authenticity.’ Is he the one behind the successful money-making blog or is he not?
As a blog columnist, it seemed fair enough to test his blogging skills in action, something which he happily obliged at an internet cafe somewhere in Glorietta 3.
I have to admit I had BIG doubts about the KidBlogger prior to meeting him. He turned out to be super-shy in person… a man of few words, but not in the written word. He said he doesn’t mind the suspicions and speculations at all since it only gives more “buzz” to his blog. Oh…. spoken like a true internet marketer!
Following are excerpts of the liveblogging:
How To Make Money Online the Quick and Easy Way:
Sell Emails
Try to do a quick search for “web design Las Vegas†in Google (This might not work on some countries because all ads are geographically targeted, so I would suggest using a proxy).
Did you know that the top 1-3 ads under “Sponsored Links†are paying roughly $6 per click?! It means those companies are very serious and means business, but what if you can provide a solution to them that is much cheaper and much much more effective?
A possible sale eh? Yes, there was a time when one of my friends shared his experience regarding this. All he did was gather 100 targeted emails, contact the design company, did some sales talk and got a quick $200.
But how did he gather 100 targeted emails in less than a day?
The ultimate answer to this is forums. Yes, forums are mostly high traffic due to that fact that everyone can discuss almost anything they want.
So what did he do? First, he sign-upped for an autoresponder (try Getresponse or Aweber but if you want to pay a cheap $20 per month there’s always free services out there) Then he set-upped a campaign, load it up with free ebooks or whatsoever that he want to giveaway. Built a splash page to put the email form, post the giveaway in forums.
Poof! Instant sign-ups.
You be the judge!
More about the “controversial” Carl Ocab in this Monday’s issue of Manila Bulletin’s Blog-O-Rama.
Blogging since 2004 and recently married to Mr Z. I can't live without coffee....and brown sugar.
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who am i to doubt? *whispers: hey kid, teach me a thing or two, k?*
Pasensya na ha, ang daming typos. hehe, di ko kasi nacheck
Ajay, watta great post… you really deserve your spot in MB
Thess…..
Carl…okay lang yun basta live
Thanks Melo. Hope to get my book later, hehe:)
Can I adopt Carl?
I wish I had a kid like that! 
I had just read about some of the bruhaha about Carl. I’m glad to hear he’s legit. Because he is one smart kid! Ako, rin paturo…haha!! I need to earn some extra bucks.
BTW, the kid is right, you know (about the ’speculations’). He is a marketing genius; he just gained another reader for his blog. I got him bookmarked
This kid is cool. I am I 12 kid blogger too and I can do the same. My first language isn’t his language (I learned it all) and I am on the net for 4 months. Anyone says that I am very intelligent and they even call me DEXTER.
Uy Idol!!! haha joke lang reply ka nga!! joke lang, paturo naman, haha, see you tomorrow!! =) haha…. nice one!!
Kinda True and Lame at the same time, I mean this has been written how long ago?
Woo amazing simply Amazing
Wow. I can’t say a word. Hahaha. I am still new in blogging and learning. Hope this kid will share his knowledge. Really appreciate it
Really interesting this kid blogger.
I was skeptical but after that picture and the look on the moms face leads me to believe it’s real…if the pic is real and I took the people in the photo as who they are.
wow. that’s great the 13 year old kid can do that.
pde mo ba ku turuan? may roon akung nakitang mgndang site affiliationjunktion.com pero di ku alam kng anu gagawin xD pinapa gawa aku ng sarling site (sila may sagot) kso ala ako WAYS OF GETTING THEIR MONEY (paypal Credit card, bank account) ala eh xD pde mo ba ku i help?
I wish to join the affiliation junksion program
I came to know Carl Ocab through Rob Benwell’s product Blogging to the Bank. I was intrigued by one testimonial, a 13 year old blogger and when I searched for his site, I found he is Pinoy!
Well, I’ve been a follower since then. That was 4 months ago when I started this blog!
Mabuhay ka Carl! Hope to meet you someday!