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		<description><![CDATA[Update : 8/13/2011
Since Writing this post, Sri lankan stock market gained 2500 points.
All share price index was at 4200 level when this was written back in May 1, 2010. Your capital would have appreciated by 160% at the time of this update. 
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<blockquote><p>Since Writing this post, Sri lankan stock market gained 2500 points.<br />
All share price index was at 4200 level when this was written back in May 1, 2010. Your capital would have appreciated by 160% at the time of this update. </p></blockquote>
<p>A small island with a land mass of 65610 Sq.KM and a population of 20 Million, Sri Lanka lies off the southern coast of India. For many, Sri Lanka was known for its high quality ceylon tea until a few decades ago.  In the past two and a half decades, Sri Lanka has been picked up by the global media mostly in relation to the civil war which hampered the country, or the 2004 tsunami that ravaged South and Southeast Asia.</p>
<p>30 years of war did not allow the country to reach it&#8217;s potential development. The destruction to the infrastructure prior to the 2002 ceasefire is estimated to be approximately $2.1 billion,  nearly 13.5 percent of the 1998 GDP. </p>
<p>High expenditure on defense, loss of life and damage to property, underutilized factors of production, Inability to exploit tourism potential  resulted a low and volatile economic growth throughout the civil war era.</p>
<p>The dark days for Sri Lanka is over now.The war finally came to an end on that historical day May 17, 2009. The country did not have to wait years to witness a peace dividend. A $2.6 billion IMF loan approved in July 2009 which boosted country&#8217;s developing activities. Sri Lanka is seeing major improvements in Economic indicators after the end of war as the uncertainties and risks of the war diminishes.  </p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/inflation-rate-post-war-sri-lanka.jpg" alt="inflation-rate- post-war-sri-lanka" title="inflation-rate- post-war-sri-lanka" width="540" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-322" /></p>
<p>Falling inflation rates has driven the risk free rate down resulting the real returns to go up.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/interest-rates-post-war-sri-lanka.jpg" alt="interest-rates-post-war-sri-lanka" title="interest-rates-post-war-sri-lanka" width="540" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-323" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tourist-arrivals-in-sri-lanka2.jpg" alt="tourist-arrivals-in-sri-lanka" title="tourist-arrivals-in-sri-lanka" width="540" height="355" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-326" /></p>
<h2> World&#8217;s 2nd Best Stock Exchange </h2>
<p>With favorable macro economic conditions, Sri Lanka&#8217;s only stock exchange, &#8220;The Colombo Stock Exchange&#8221; became Asia’s best performing bourse and the world’s second best after Russia for the year ended Dec 31 2009.</p>
<p>Colombo stock exchange is one of the most modern exchanges in South Asia, providing a fully automated trading platform. The bourse consists of 236 companies with a combined market capitalization of $12 billion.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sri-lanka-market-performance1.jpg" alt="sri-lanka-market-performance" title="sri-lanka-market-performance" width="540" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-336" /></p>
<p><H2> All share price index growth </h2>
<p>The All Share Price Index measures the movement of share prices of all listed companies in Sri Lanka. It is based on market capitalization. Weighting of shares is conducted in proportion to the issued ordinary capital of the listed companies, valued at current market price.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/all-share-price-index-growth.jpg" alt="all-share-price-index-growth" title="all-share-price-index-growth" width="540" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342" /></p>
<p>As you can see, Sri Lankan stock market always performed well during a peaceful environment. Even before ending the war completely, during the cease fire agreement the market witnessed a significant growth. </p>
<p>In simple terms, If you have invested $10,000 at the beginning of last year (2009), your investment would worth $25,080 now. </p>
<p>* The calculation is based on all share price index growth and I hope the readers are aware of how indexes are used to measure market rates of return.</p>
<p>Industry experts believe the growth to be much higher under prevailing favorable macro-economical conditions coupled with stable political environment.</p>
<p><H2> Milanka price index growth </h2>
<p>The Milanka price index comprises of 25 companies and they are selected by considering their performances over the past four quarters. The Colombo stock exchange  now reviews &#038; revises the companies to be included in the MPI on a biannual basis.</p>
<p>MPI also behaves identical to ASI when macro-economic and political factors change. It also saw a significant growth during the cease fire period and reaching new grounds in these post war Era.</p>
<p>If you have invested $10,000 in a portfolio consisting of Milanka companies at the beginning of last year (2009), your investment would worth $27,351 now. </p>
<p><H2> Individual company performances </h2>
<p>Sri Lankan mass predicted and felt that the war is near it&#8217;s ending when they got ready for the new year 2009. Local and foreign investors started collecting shares knowing that good times are ahead. Their predictions were right. Financial analysts picked solid companies from sectors which has the potential to gain from peace dividend quicker than other companies and gave Short and Mid term buy signals.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see how few of them performed in the market.</p>
<p>All my individual company selections were based on my stock broker&#8217;s research recommendations. They gave positive buy signals to many companies which did extremely well and following companies were among those they recommended.</p>
<p><strong>Diversified sector</strong><br />
To represent diversified sector, I took John Keels holding PLC which accounts for 9% of total market capitalization. Their business activities includes Tea Exports,Insurance,Pest Control,Industrial &#038; Agro Holding Company Chemicals,Treatment of Timber,Management of Plantations,Travel &#038; Tourism,Hotel operations.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/john-keels-holdings-pls-stock-price-performance2.jpg" alt="john-keels-holdings-pls-stock-price-performance" title="john-keels-holdings-pls-stock-price-performance" width="540" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-358" /></p>
<p>In simple terms, if you have invested $10,000 on John Keels Holdings at the beginning of last year it would worth $37,800 now. I have not accounted for exchange rate fluctuations during the time period.</p>
<p>Today one dollar equals Rs 114. For up to-date exchange rates please refer http://www.cbsl.gov.lk/</p>
<p><strong>Hotels Sector</strong></p>
<p>To represent Hotels and Travels sector I selected Aitken Spence Hotels which was one of the analyst&#8217;s favourite picks during the considered time period.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/aitken-spence-hotels-stock-price-performance2.jpg" alt="aitken-spence-hotels-stock-price-performance" title="aitken-spence-hotels-stock-price-performance" width="540" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-359" /></p>
<p>In simple terms, </p>
<p><strong>Banking And Finance Sector</strong><br />
I selected Commercial bank of Sri Lanka to represent banking &#038; Finance sector as I believe they are the best banking Institution in Sri Lanka.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/commercial-bank-stock-price-performance1.jpg" alt="commercial-bank-stock-price-performance" title="commercial-bank-stock-price-performance" width="540" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-360" /></p>
<p>Which means, if you have invested $10,000 on Commercial Bank PLC at the beginning of last year it would worth $33,900 now.</p>
<p><H2> Are you too late? </h2>
<p>True enough that most stock prices have sky rocketed when comparing with last year prices. As a result, the overall market price earning ratio is approximately 20 indicating that most shares are over rated at the moment. But it also shows that current investor sentiment is that the stocks are worth more,their future prospects are bright, and sellers are only giving up their stock at higher prices.</p>
<p>We should also not forget the fact that last quarter data of 2009/2010 financial year is not yet released to the market. Most companies have performed exceptionally well in the last quarter and once that financial data is released the P/E ratio will come down to fair levels.</p>
<p> Equity analysts forecasts company profits will rise by a mean of 60 percent this year. The consumption levels are increasing and earnings will keep growing in the next two to three years as a result of it. There has been no better timer to invest in Sri Lanka.</p>
<h2>Start Investing</h2>
<p>Foreign ownership of up to 100% is allowed in most of the listed 236 companies. Individuals, Regional Funds, as well as Companies incorporated outside Sri Lanka are permitted to invest in sri Lankan stock market.</p>
<p> Investment in shares in Sri Lanka and withdrwals of proceeds should take place through Share Investment External Rupee Accounts (SIERA) opened with commercial banks. The repatriation of proceeds arising out of investment made after 5th June 1990 are not subject to Exchange Control regulations. </p>
<h2>Choose your Stock Broker</h2>
<p>There are 15 licensed full service broker firms in Sri Lanka and all of them are maintaining the same brokerage. It is a must for you to select a broker firm with a qualified and experiences research team as your investment decisions will be based on their research reports. Select a broker firm which is capable of providing unique investment insights through extensive deep dive researches.</p>
<p>Following is the list of equity brokers in Sri Lanka and their locations.</p>
<p>1. J B Securities (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
150, St. Joseph Street, Colombo 14.</p>
<p>2. Bartleet Mallory Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd<br />
Level &#8220;G &#8220;, &#8220;Bartleet House&#8221;, 65, Braybrooke Place, Colombo 2.</p>
<p>3. Acuity Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
Level 6, Acuity House, No. 53, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 3.</p>
<p>4. John Keells Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
130, Glennie Street, Colombo 2.</p>
<p>5. Asha Phillip Securities Ltd.<br />
Level 4, &#8220;Millennium House&#8221;, 46/58, Navam Mawatha, Colombo 2.</p>
<p>6. Assetline Securities (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
3rd Floor, &#8220;Forbes &#038; Walker Building&#8221;, 46/38, Navam Mawatha, Colombo 2.</p>
<p>7. Somerville Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
137, Vauxhall Street, Colombo 2.</p>
<p>8. Lanka Securities (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
228/2, Galle Road, Colombo 04.</p>
<p>9. Asia Securities (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
Level 21, West Tower, World Trade Centre, Echelon Square, Colombo 1.</p>
<p>10. Ceylinco Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
Ceylinco House, Level 9, 69, Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo 1.</p>
<p>11. Capital Trust Securities (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
42, Mohamed Macan Markar Mawatha, Colombo 3.</p>
<p>12. S C Securities (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
2nd Floor, 55 D.R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo 10.</p>
<p>13. CT Smith Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
4-14, Majestic City, 10, Station Road, Colombo 4.</p>
<p>14. DNH Financial (Pvt.) Limited.<br />
Level 16, West Tower, World Trade Center, Colombo 01.</p>
<p>15. NDB Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd.<br />
5th Floor, NDB Building, 40, Navam Mawatha, Colombo 2.</p>
<p>I have been trading in the Sri Lankan stock market since 2004 and have associated with many brokering companies and investment advisors. Feel free to contact me if you need any background information on your selected broker company.</p>
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		<title>My Desperate Attempts To Get Some Google Love.</title>
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		<dc:creator>eranda</dc:creator>
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Although my blog is nearing to break in to alexa top 100k web sites, I am still not getting considerable traffic from Google and other search engines. Average organic traffic is around 8% and they are coming from keywords I never targeted for.
 I do not have time to write everyday to get social media [...]]]></description>
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<p>Although my blog is nearing to break in to alexa top 100k web sites, I am still not getting considerable traffic from Google and other search engines. Average organic traffic is around 8% and they are coming from keywords I never targeted for.</p>
<p> I do not have time to write everyday to get social media attention. Desperate for some Google love, I searched all over Internet to get some solid tips on SEO. After going through dozens of articles on &#8220;<strong>blog SEO</strong>&#8221; and &#8221; <strong>wordpress SEO</strong>&#8220;, I did the following changes in my blog.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">1. I changed my blog Title.</span><br />
Title is the phrase you see in the top of your browser when you open a web page. My title used to be &#8221; Turning cats into lions. Your success starts here.&#8221; Although it is a catchy title it has nothing to do with my targeted key words. So I changed it to a new one which includes few of my targeted keywords. Now it says &#8220;<strong>Money making ideas and opportunities to help you get started</strong>&#8220;. </p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">2. I made the post titles to be H1 tags.</span><br />
Any SEO expert will say how important it is to use H1 tags in your titles. By default it was H2. So I changed it to H1 with the help of my friend Nadeesha at rockfuse dot com. When I changed it to H1 initially it gave me a very ugly looking title.</p>
<p>To change that ugly H1 layout, go to your style sheet and find something like this,</p>
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[!--<br />
H1 { color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px }<br />
--><br />
</style} </p></blockquote>
<p>Change the properties to give it the look you always wanted.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">3. Bold keywords.</span><br />
In individual posts, I made sure to include a keyword in the first few sentences and I made it bold. I did repeat the keywords 3-4 times throughout the entire post and also made them bold. And I did the same thing towards the end of the post.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">4. Optimized images and alt tags.</span><br />
I normally tend to write long posts. I don't write just for the sake of publishing another new post and increase my posting frequency. So I always use few images in my posts to give readers a break. </p>
<p>See this post about <a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/how-to-sell-wholesale-without-having-any-stock-or-capital/">drop shipping </a>for an example. I started renaming these images to keywords I am targeting for. And I also started using the "alt tag" to it's maximum potential. These little things are important in blog SEO. Google still cannot read images. So when they come across an image they look at the image name and the alt name. So these days, I am going back to old posts and doing these necessary changes.</p>
<p>[ad#ad-16]<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">5. Using keyword anchor texts in my Internal links.</span></p>
<p>As bloggers, we tend to do lot of internal linking. They might be in the form of related posts or in the side bar or they might be links within the posts. When linking I started using keywords in Anchor texts.</p>
<p>For example, take a look at the previous paragraph. When I linked to a previous post without just using the &#8220;click here&#8221; phrase I used &#8220;drop shipping&#8221; as the anchor text. I learned that these all small tweaks add up in the final equation when it comes to <strong>best blog SEO practices</strong>.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">6. I registered my domain for a lengthy period.</span><br />
Google itself has mentioned that they are looking to the domain registration length when they are ranking web sites. There are too many web sites these days. Lot of them die within the first few months. If you register your domain for a lengthy period It gives an indication to Google that you are here for stay. Besides, it does not cost your more than $10 a year.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">7. Solved the duplicate content issue in word press.</span><br />
By default , word press and many other blogging platforms create dozens of different URL&#8217;s for the same content. Google will consider this as spamming, in order to avoid this problem use a robots text like <a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/robots.txt">this.</a> It will not solve all your duplicate content issues but can consider as a good remedy.</p>
<p>This is what I have done in past few weeks and it has already started giving me results. Organic traffic has increased from just 8 % to 10.5% in this short time. I am expecting much better results once I get some more back links to my web site.</p>
<p>I have not mentioned any SEO techniques used out side the blog. These all are internal SEO attempts. I am sure I have missed many important points. You are welcome to share your ideas and enlighten us on the SEO work you have done in your site.</p>
<p>For more great articles on &#8220;<strong>blog SEO</strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>wordpress SEO</strong>&#8221; please visit,<br />
<a href="http://www.problogger.net/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">problogger</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">copyblogger</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.rockfuse.com"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">rockfuse</span></a></p>
<p>And also I found a great video on &#8220;blog seo&#8221; from mindvalleylabs.com, the only problem in this video is, they use overture to find keywords. Since it is no longer in use, you can use Google adwords keyword tool for the same purpose. This video is great. It explains how they come to the Google top ten results 10/10 times. Enjoy, And do not hesitate to share your knowledge on blog / wordpress SEO <a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/my-desperate-attempts-to-get-some-google-love/#respond"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">here</span></a>.</p>
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		<title>The Power of Segmentation and Google Adwords.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eranda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might already know, adwords is the best way to drive traffic to your product related web sites. I am from Sri Lanka. And I have few digital products which I am selling through localized web sites and through international web sites. What I mean here is, for the most profitable products I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you might already know, <strong>adwords</strong> is the best way to drive traffic to your product related web sites. I am from Sri Lanka. And I have few digital products which I am selling through localized web sites and through international web sites. What I mean here is, for the most profitable products I have 2 different web sites. One is for the international audience and the other one is for customers in my country.</p>
<p>The point of having a localized web site is, you can offer your customers,</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="adwords campaign" />1. More flexible payment methods.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="adwords campaign" />2. More flexible Delivery options.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="adwords campaign" />3. Convenient contact methods.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="adwords campaign" />4. Highly targeted information.</p>
<p>If there are 2 vendors selling the same product, customers tend to buy from the vendor more closer to his location. </p>
<p>True, this is year 2008, the Era of multinational online trade. But not all customers are familiar or willing to buy things from strangers who lives 1000 miles away. </p>
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<p>This is where your localized web site comes in to action. Speak to your customer&#8217;s heart and elaborate the fact that you are one of them. </p>
<p>I can guarantee that you will make more sales than you are currently making from your standard web site.</p>
<p>But, how are you going to get traffic to your web site? Off line methods such as news paper/ magazine/ radio advertisements in your local media is great, but it can be costly. Google comes to our rescue once again here.</p>
<p>People talk about key word targeted <strong>adwords campaigns</strong> all the time. But have they miss out on <strong>Placement-targeted Ad Groups</strong>? This is a great way to get your localized potential customers to your web site.</p>
<p>Log in to your adwords account and go to New ad group &#8211; start with placements. From there, select your area as the targeted placement. In my case it would be my whole country. If you are from USA it could be your state.</p>
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<p>If your product is in a niche which is important only to highly targeted customers use the &#8220;Browse categories&#8221; and &#8221; Describe topics&#8221; option. But if your product has a general appeal to everyone, use &#8220;List URLs&#8221; option. That is what I am using.</p>
<p>This is an awesome feature. If you type in a web site which is popular in your area it will show you a list of related web sites which is also popular in your area. Visit these sites and check their alexa rank and content. If you think it meets your required criteria add them to your list of advertising sites. In my case, I shortlisted 30 local web sites with great traffic. </p>
<p>Some even had alexa rank of under 20k. And the greatest thing is I don&#8217;t have to pay more than $ 0.15 per click to get featured in these highly trafficked web sites. In some cases  my cost was only $ 0.05.</p>
<p>If you are selling a cool mobile phone gadget, people who are reading news web sites might also be interested in your product. So do not target your ads only in the mobile phone category. In fact placing them in whole different sites might improve your click through rate. And you will find less competing ads.</p>
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<p>I was only using key word targeted ads in the past 2 years and only started using &#8220;List URLs&#8221; option last week. And only GOD knows what I have been missing out in the past 2 years.</p>
<p>For keyword targeted ads my average conversion rate ( The percentage of people buy my product after coming through a Google ad) was 4.79 %. But in the last week, since I started using this option it increased to 9.12%. So basically my turnover almost doubled.</p>
<p>And the average cost per click also have reduced from $0.09 to $0.07. I wish some one could advised me to use this function long before. I have read many books on ad words but all of them was talking about keyword based ad campaigns.</p>
<p>I have given you some valuable information here. It might not be ground breaking, but I learned it myself through trial and error method. It worked. So I am sharing it with you. You can either ignore all this or start using this method. But if you do not try , you will never know what would have been the out come. To me, The biggest crime is stuck in between a decision. </p>
<p>If you only run a blog site it is high time you start a product related web site too. A product site can make 10x more money than your blog. Am I I am lying? Why don&#8217;t you find out for your self?</p>
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		<title>How to sell wholesale without having any stock or capital?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people love to run a business but simply give up the idea due to capital formation problems. But there are few ways to get around this problem. Ever  heard of <strong>Drop shipping</strong>? If not, it is high time you start learning it.</p>
<p>I found about <strong>drop shipping</strong> when I ordered a wristwatch from ebay. The seller was from USA but my parcel arrived from Hong Kong. I was curious enough to do a little research on this and  I found out that most of the ebay power sellers are actually drop shippers. And they are cashing in millions thanks to this concept. Good thing is, there is no rocket science here. An average guy like you and me can very easily get in to the system and raking it in.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">What&#8217;s the story here ?</span></strong></p>
<p>If done correctly <strong>wholesale drop shipping</strong> can be a very luxurious business opportunity. What happens here is, when some one orders something from you; you contact the whole seller and give the order to him. The customer pays money to you and your seller directly ship goods to your customer. You pay the wholesale price to your seller. The difference in these prices is your profit.</p>
<p>This way, you do not need to have any physical stock with you. Remember, you can do this both off line and online. But if you are planning to do this off line you need to purchase samples in order to show to your potential customers. Drop shipping solves one of our biggest problem of finding capital.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Beware of scams.</span></strong></p>
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<p>Although this business sounds very luxurious, this is possible only if you have a good whole seller who is willing to do drop shipping for you. If you are planning to do this online you must make sure that your seller is not a con artist. To tell you the truth 90% of the online whole sellers do not have any stock with them. So you must select your sellers carefully.</p>
<p>Many people are selling <strong>drop shippers lists</strong> these days. Do not buy them. If I have a good whole seller I can make more than enough money from him not to sell out his details. I would rather keep his details to my self. These lists gives names of companies which drop ships and many of them could be the same company in different names or just an individual with a phone without any actual product with them.</p>
<p>If you find your seller online, it is always better to visit him. Or have someone check on them. There are lot of firms which does back ground checks on other companies for a small fee. I know this can be costly. But by doing this, you can start your marketing activities without any doubts.</p>
<p>If your seller scams you, eventually you will become a scammer from your customer&#8217;s perspective. And that is not pretty. That is why I insist you to chose your sellers carefully. ( Do not worry, There are plenty of good whole sellers. Otherwise there won&#8217;t be an ebay.)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">How to find a whole seller for you to drop ship?</span></strong><br />
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<p>You can find many good whole sellers who are not new to drop shipping at alibaba and at worldwidebrands. Read <a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/how-to-not-get-scammed-on-alibaba-or-from-other-online-wholesalers/">this</a> article to figure out how to not get scammed by whole sellers.</p>
<p>One of the best ways to find out whole sellers is to do a search off line. If you can approach them and present your idea, there is a high chance that they will agree to do the dirty work for you. After all, it brings more sales to them.</p>
<p>However it may not be easy as finding a whole seller online, but it has more benefits and it is much more secure. </p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">What you should sell in order to cash in ?</span></strong></p>
<p>If you are planning to make a fortune from <strong>drop shipping</strong> keep this simple factor in your mind. Sell high end niche products with a profit margin that leaves you plenty of room to advertise! This way you do not have to worry about advertising cost. ( PPC is the best. ) If you are selling a product for $15 and it costs you $5 to get a customer, there is not much in it.</p>
<p> But if you are selling something for $400 and your profit margin is $100 then there is plenty of room for you to advertise. Even if you spend $25 to get that new customer, so what, you’ve still made $75.00!</p>
<p>Go high end niche and cash in. After all, you’re drop shipping and there is no need to carry any inventory, so go for the gold! Plasma TV’s , LCD’s, snowboards, high end phones are few examples that comes to my mind.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Let&#8217;s make some money.</span></strong></p>
<p>Now you have a very clear understanding about how drop shipping works. Now the matter is getting customers for you to sell your products. You can proceed with the traditional way of making a web site and driving traffic through PPC. It will work; there is no doubt about it. But there are much easier ways of doing this.</p>
<p>You can practice this method on world’s largest online market place, “ebay”. As I said earlier, most of the <strong>ebay power sellers are actually drop shippers</strong>.</p>
<p>I have run few successful campaigns with ebay and drop shipped N95’s when the market was big for Nokia N95. This was back in June- September last year. I had a supplier in Singapore who supplied N 95’s @ $580 for me. Back then the retail price on ebay was $ 700-$850. </p>
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<p>The above image you see is a picture I used in my ebay listings. I had few phones with me as samples because most buyers need some photo proof before placing an order.</p>
<p> I had a nice run till they introduced the N95 8GB. My supplier could not extend his deal with Nokia and our relationship ended unfortunately.</p>
<p>And the other great place to sell your products is “alibaba.com”. I love their market place. When you post a sales lead it is almost guaranteed that you will have at least few inquires within the few hours. And you can always reply to buyer leads and find new customers. They have a great system and the house where I am living at the moment was bought from the money I earned from alibaba.</p>
<p>Ebay gives you one sale at a time. Alibaba gives you $10,000 worth sales at a time. I was <strong>drop shipping </strong>Nokia N95’s and E90’s to Australia, Germany, USA, UAE and UK. And 50% of my assets in fixed deposits also come from alibaba sales.</p>
<p>Do your self a favor and <a href="http://www.pjtra.com/t/Qz5IR0RHPkpKR0g-QkJKSkM">join</a><img src="http://www.pjtra.com/i/Qz5IR0RHPkpKR0g-QkJKSkM" height="1" width="1" border="0">  this great market place. It is totally Free to join and to do business. Once you are a member, download the &#8220;trade manager&#8221;. It is a chatting software like msn messenger but the difference is all your contacts are wholesale buyers and sellers. </p>
<p>Build your profile with correct information and post few sales leads with accurate and complete details. If you do everything right you can expect buyers to contact you within few hours. And remember, you can use the same method to find suppliers for you too.</p>
<p>I have given all the information you need without holding anything back. If I have not revealed anything here, that would be my current supplier&#8217;s details for gaming consoles. And I am not going to trade that information for anything. </p>
<p>I hope you would appreciate my effort of writing this post. You can share your thoughts in the comments section and if you like the post please give it a <strong><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.antharjalaya.com/how-to-sell-wholesale-without-having-any-stock-or-capital/&#038;title=How%20to%20sell%20wholesale%20without%20having%20any%20stock%20or%20capital?">thumbs up</a></strong>. That is the best thing I am expecting from you.</p>
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<strong> <a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/share-market-suckz-lets-buy-euros-and-sell-dollars/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">This is too much work for you? The easy money is at Forex.</span></a></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eranda</dc:creator>
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It is time to reveal the winners list of our Rs 23,000 cash give away contest. I am very happy to announce a very successful ending to our first ever contest at &#8220;antharjalaya&#8221;. 
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It is time to reveal the winners list of our Rs 23,000 cash give away contest. I am very happy to announce a very successful ending to our first ever contest at &#8220;antharjalaya&#8221;. </p>
<p>We had 339 entries to the contest and I had to take 3-4 hours to prepare the complete list yesterday since I was busy with my exams early. All the email forwards have been recorded on the same day I receive the CC to my email account. So do not worry , all your efforts have been credited accordingly.</p>
<p>Today at 11.00 am with the presence of Mr Asanka Amarasingha of Amarasingha &#038; Company Auditors I input the list to randomizor org and selected winners. Since I only had the email address of the participants, in the last 6 hours I have been trying to contact the winners to get their names and locations. I got details of 8 lucky winners and for the other two, I will publish the first part of their email address here.</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/Results - Research Randomizer.pdf">here</a> to see the output I got from randomizer. Then it has been matched with our spreadsheet of all entries to select winners.</p>
<p>Here is the list,</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The Grand Prize Winner of Rs 10,000 :</span></strong><br />
<strong>Kusal Mudannayake &#8211; Lady Maccalums drive, Kandy</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The Winner of 2nd place Cash Prize of Rs 5000 :</span></strong><br />
<strong>M. Ansar &#8211; Ambathanna Garden, Bandarawela<br />
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<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">3- 10 places will get Rs 1,000 each</span></strong></p>
<p>Lucky Winner No 03 : Sentitkumaran &#8211; Janaki Lane,Bambalapitiya<br />
Lucky Winner No 04 : Roshan Rajadurai &#8211; Kurunduwatta road,Battaramulla,<br />
Lucky Winner No 05 : prasadkodi@ xxxxx.com ( Contact me please.)<br />
Lucky Winner No 06 : Daya Rathnasekara &#8211;  havelock road,colombo &#8211; 6<br />
Lucky Winner No 07 : Dr. Elmore Rodrigo &#8211; Dhammadassi Mawatha,KANDY<br />
Lucky Winner No 08 : Kaman Athapathu &#8211; Maha hunupitiya Negombo<br />
Lucky Winner No 09 : djhassan @ xxxxx.com (Contact me please.)<br />
Lucky Winner No 10 : Kenneth jayasekara &#8211; Old Kottawa Rd,Nugegoda</p>
<p>I have already sent an invitation to Mr kusal mudannayaka for a lunch and to hand over his grand prize. For others I will be depositing money to their accounts / send cheques on 20 th October 2008.</p>
<p>&#8220;prasadkodi&#8221; and &#8220;djhassan &#8221; please contact me and let me know the method you want me to send your prizes.</p>
<p>You can opt to,<br />
<img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="cash prizes" />Receive a check.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="cash prizes" />Direct deposit to your bank account.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for participating. I wish I could give prizes to all the 100+ readers who joined the contest. I hope you all will make the full use of the &#8220;money making guide&#8221; I sent to you. It contains all the details you need for a start. </p>
<p>You can always contact me if you need any further guidance. Given that you are already equipped with some knowledge. I do not like to answer the noob question &#8221; <strong>How can I make some money online?</strong>&#8220;. Do your research first and get back to me if you need any further assistance.</p>
<p>I will be holding another contest at the end of this month too. But this time, it will be available for participants from all over the world.</p>
<p>Wanna know how I am making money to give away like this? <a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/share-market-suckz-lets-buy-euros-and-sell-dollars/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><strong>click here.</strong></span></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eranda</dc:creator>
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There are 2 motives for someone to engage in blogging.
 Make money from the blog.
 Interact with the world.
The latter group is considerably very small when comparing with the first. And since you are already here, I believe you belong to the first group. 
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<p>There are 2 motives for someone to engage in blogging.</p>
<p><img src=" http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="money making ideas" /> Make money from the blog.</p>
<p><img src=" http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="money making ideas" /> Interact with the world.</p>
<p>The latter group is considerably very small when comparing with the first. And since you are already here, I believe you belong to the first group. </p>
<p>But the all important question is,<br />
 ” <strong>Are you making enough money from your blog?</strong> ”</p>
<p>If you go to forums where most web masters hang around, you will see that many people complain  that they are not making anything other than few change from their blogs. But the truth is, most of the Bloggers / web site owners are making a huge amount of money. Only thing is they do not have time to hang around in forums and post their success stories. </p>
<p>So, you must understand that most web entrepreneurs are much richer than the company Directors you see in their fancy uniforms.</p>
<p>If you are not making enough money from your web site, that is not a problem with the system. This system is great. Doors are open to anyone who can see things little bit differently. There has not been a better way in history for average people like you and me to become millionaires or even billionaires.</p>
<p> The problem might lie on the way you have monetize your site. You might be promoting wrong affiliate networks. You might be promoting wrong products. If you think you are not good enough to make at least $500 a month from your blog, take &#8220;antharjalaya&#8221; as an example.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>My blog is only 3 months old.</p>
<p>Alexa rank is only in the 120 k’s.</p>
<p>Google page rank is only 3.</p>
<p>I do not post regularly as I have a busy life with my other sites.</p>
<p>I really do not care whether I make money from this blog at this point.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>When comparing with my site, I bet your blog is much much better.<br />
Yet,<br />
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><strong>in the past 30 days I made exactly $613 from affiliate commissions.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Can you see affiliate ads placed all over my blog? No.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Am I writing posts to promote affiliate products? Only 3 posts out of all posts including this one.</strong></p>
<p>But I must be doing something right to earn this much with a very minimal effort. However I believe I have figured out following things correctly.</p>
<p><img src=" http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="pepperjam" />I am hooked up with the correct ad networks.</p>
<p><img src=" http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="pepperjam" />I do promote the correct product.</p>
<p><img src=" http://www.antharjalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/money making ideas.png" alt="pepperjam" />They are always well paid and pay for leads.</p>
<p>If you like to get things right at your blog, I highly recommend joining Pepperjam affiliate network. They are a network created by bloggers. So they know how to help us bloggers <strong>make money</strong> more than any other network do. To give you a head start they are giving $10 for you to just join their network. Once you are in, you will be presented with 100’s of great products which you can use to get paid for leads / sales.</p>
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<p>For example, just for sending someone to register with <strong>alibaba market place</strong> you will get paid $3 for the lead. The registration for your readers is Free. But you will be get paid $3 every time someone sign up with alibaba.</p>
<p>And to make things even better, I am giving all of the accepted publishers $5 each. You can use that money to buy advertising from stumble upon and get a small traffic boost to give some more exposure to your ads.</p>
<p>If you have no idea on how to write your sales pitch, take this post as an example. Do not adopt &#8221; in your face&#8221; type marketing tactics. Give your readers enough facts before providing them with the link. Just a pretty ad in the side bar will not do the job for you. Accompany it with a nice informative blog post.</p>
<p>And if you do not have first hand experience with the product you are promoting, Do not promote it. It may help you to get few quick cheques. But you will lose your credibility as a blogger. </p>
<p>If you can get these small things corrected, no one in this world can stop you from making money. You are destined to become a winner. That is why you are already doing something out of the ordinary. I bet your family and friends know nothing about making money online. At least you know there is a possibility. Whether you end up becoming a winner or not will depend on your actions.</p>
<p>So what are you waiting for? Start acting like a winner.</p>
<p><div class="note"><div class="dropshadow"><div class="notetip"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />
Update : 07/12/2009<br />
Unfortunately Pepperjam became a network that I cannot trust anymore. There are some shady practices going on. I no longer promote their products nor promote their affiliate network. Some marketers still making money with them and still getting paid. Please Use them with caution.</span></strong></div></div></div></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.antharjalaya.com/murder-your-competition-with-killer-sales-techniques/"><span style="color: #ff6666;"><strong>Murder your competition with killer “sales techniques” </strong></span></a></p>
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