Zoltan’s Business News & Blog

I first read his blog about 10 days ago, since then I read it daily and everyday I find something new. Well, new for me. His old posts are very interesting, he writes about blogging for a living (although he claims to donate his blog income to charities), AGLOCO, AdSense and other Internet media, Google and a lot more. Even cars…

John Chow lives in Vancouver, Canada and he is a self proclaimed Internet (or dot Com) mogul. According to his posts, the personal blog gets around 200,000 unique visitors a month. This is quite a lot for a personal blog, so he is definitely doing something very well.

His style of writing is excellent, his posts are easy to understand… and I would love to have his writing skills. But, considering that English is not my mother tongue, I think I should not complain. What I like the most is the embedded images, screenshots and charts into his posts. John, what editor do you use? I am quite new to blogging and it is hard for me even to change the colors of my blog. I wonder if I should write my posts first in a normal editor like OpenOffice not directly through the WordPress editor.

Let’s get back to the subject. In my opinion, reading his blog is a must for everybody who is serious about making a living (exclussively) online.

For all my friends, readers, business partners, customers:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

May Happiness, Health, Peace, Prosperity and Success be yours throughout the coming year.

This is what we got though TradeHolding.com Contact Us form:

“hi
my situation is EMERGENCY
i need $5000 for …
please fastly help me and transfer to my acc no’BANK **** IRAN-TEHRAN
swift:*********
acc no:*******
acc holder: *************
benef: ***************

thankyou
**************”

At least they added a “thankyou”….

I read at The Paradigm Shift (Hardware Sensitive Business models) that ebay use about 17,000 servers and macth.com use about 1,000 servers. Quite impressive, I wonder how many server admins are needed to manage that many servers. How are these and what exactly is monitorized? How often to they change HDs, memories, network cards, routers, etc.? How often do they upgrade the software? These are all questions that need to be asked before you plan to make a site that has the chances to become … the next internet boom.

Handling large amount of data requires optimal indexes and powerful servers, a lot of RAM especially. This is quite true with our B2B Network, TradeHolding.com as well. We only have about 125,000 members but although our databases are quite optimized, we constantly work on changing slow queries and rebuild indexes, tables where needed. We store a lot of information that help us better understand our members’ needs and requirements and the generated reports are sometimes slow.

But, we are definitely on the right way…

I will try to keep you posted about what are our members and visitors searching on various TradeHolding.com B2B Network partner sites. We store these details every month and if you read my blog, you will get a better picture of what is popular.

Some quick stats:

• an average of 7 - 8,000 visitors / day reached our B2B Network in October
• the most importer / seller companies are from China and exporters / buyers are from USA, Canada, UK and Germany
• 393.693 trade lead searches in 31 days an average of 12.700 searches / day
• 117.581 product searches in 31 days, an average of 3,793 searches / day

And now, let’s see the top of the searches:

cement: 1112
sugar: 972
steel: 700
vegetable: 657
mobile phones cellular phone cellulars: 621
granite: 585
IRON ORE: 581
copper: 551
coffee coffe cofee: 547
meat: 545
GOLD: 543
handicraft: 537
fish: 525
stone: 523
tea: 518
urea: 514
shoes: 510
bearings: 486
food: 484
tyre: 466
furniture: 442
rubber: 440
nuts: 433
Jewelry: 431
hardware: 426
wood: 418
battery: 417
HMS: 406
parts: 403
vegetables: 400
clothing: 396
mp3: 395
auto parts automotive automobile: 393
charcoal: 390
mobile phones: 385
fruits: 384
gold dust: 376
second hand: 373
tram: 372
honey: 372
cable: 370
wine: 369
apparel: 368
leather: 365
laptop: 364
marble: 363
coffee: 359
Jewelry stone gold: 355
textile fabrics apparel knitted fabrics texture: 355
alcohol: 353
cosmetics: 351
spare parts: 346
light: 346
cosmetic: 345
ipod: 344
cocoa: 344
construction: 339
bag: 339
CRUDE OIL: 338
paper: 337
footwear: 333
live animals: 332
plastic: 332
nike: 331
shoe: 328
tubes: 324
soap: 322
auto spare parts: 321
DVD: 321
salt: 319
coal: 316
textile: 311
fat oil: 310
bitumen: 309
eggs: 307
tobacco: 307
software: 307
electronic electronics: 304
spare: 302
lamp: 302
air jordan shoes online trade: 294
accesories: 294
LDPE: 293
advertising: 291
timber: 291
spices: 290
iron: 290
motorcycle: 290
cement chemical chemicals: 289
wire mesh: 289
art: 288
engine: 288
fruit: 287
yarn: 284
beverages: 283
glass: 283
HDPE: 282
computers: 282
aluminium composite panel: 282

What can we see on this list? Commodities like cement, sugar, steel, gold, copper, granite and iron ore are on the top positions. This confirms, that our network is a popular place for industrial products.

Consumer products like mobile phones, handicraft, shoes, textiles are also wanted, based on our experience these products are mainly searched by smaller importers.

I will try to follow in time how this list changes from month to month. I will keep you posted.

Personal & Corporate Blogging become extremely popular. I am not a writer, but I decided to create my first blog. I do not know how good or bad will this be, time will tell.