I was just testing how low can you go to hire a writer and post an ad on to some of the classified websites testing out the lowest I can go. It seems that in the lowest I can go is around one dollar fifty cents for a 500 word article.

However, the quality wasn’t what I really expected. Some of the writers gave me rewrites that is plagiarized and it was caught by copyscape. I’m not too angry about it because I was paying too little for the articles.

I was trying to use bulk purchase to bring down the cost for each article but it doesn’t help because the writer are worried about the rate per article.

I didn’t try Indian writers because I have bad experience with them though one of them actually give me one dollar for 300 word rewrite. You probably can test this out and see whether it works for you.

Another thing is when I posted the ad, only four or five bidders actually bidded for the job. When compared to the past, there were around 15 to 20 writers bidding for the job of five dollar per 500 word article.

If you’re wondering why I require these large amount of articles, I’m actually doing massive articles marketing with a number of my websites. And I made both original or and rewritten articles.

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With a simple twist in some of my sites, I managed to double my leads growth rate from 70-100 per day to 150-200 a day.This isn’t using any of the ad swap method but purely SEO and articles marketing.

Yes, it’s tremendous growth rate. And just to show you my stats for this one day increase of leads.

This is my 2nd autoresponder account if you are wondering why I only have 10k leads. My first is around 10k as well.

When you have so many leads, you are able to create your own traffic at will and when you need to test your salesletter or opt-in, you can easily do so.

I’m aim for 300 leads for the next goal – think going to take some time as I’ve sort of maximize my conversion until the next boost in traffic.

Had quite a day when my netbook is infected with this nasty worm… Win32.netsky. It was a fake worm by some pathetic anti-virus software company trying to cheat victims to buy their anti-virus.

So here’s the what I did to solve most of the problem (not 100%) solve but at least I can log into my computer.

1) Download Malwarebytes

2) Had a bootup thumbdrive with a win vista iso when I was stuck in the logon loop.

3) Run Malwarebytes several times..

There were more steps then this as there was many mistakes and wrong steps. The internet was so full of wrong information and the key was to find out what’s the right and wrong steps.

I may need a factory restore after this… Quite a big disrupt from my daily work but luckily it’s my netbook and I still got a main laptop and a mac book so they can’t kill me easily.

In this post, I’m listing down a list of ad swap scammers.

1) Dan Cook of hypnobodyblast.com – Blasted for him but his excuse was the autoresponder was blacklisted. Then after a few months, nothing was heard from him. Even if you email him, there’s no reply. Beware if he is asking for your ad swap again.

2) Johnny Danielson from web20kingoftraffic.com – No swap from his side too.

3) Nick Philson from thedietultimatum – His swap is a little grey… He did send clicks for some portion of the swap but it was completely 0 lead from the first blast. Then he blasted out a second time onto his aweber list where I gain around 10-20 leads. That’s from a claim of 3000 list. A previous blast statistics from a 2800 list could give me a 180 leads.

Asking him what’s going on and for the statistics, and he disappeared altogether. (edit – he did reply and promise to make it up, but let’s see in the future)

For future ad swap list, I’ll break down the blast into small list and test the other person out first.

If you have done ad swap with irresponsible marketers, send me a comment and I’ll add on to this list of ad swap scammers. It’ll be at the top of the Google search.

Recently I had this video frenzy and decided to come out with a few simple videos on internet marketing..

It took me around 2-3 hours to create it but I guess it’s a good training ground. Higher level marketing would means higher income, more noticeable, better branding etc. The thing is with videos marketing, my videos are able to go an extra mileage by going to multiple video sites all at once.

I’m just too busy to post on this blog with all these higher level of copywriting, salesletter, product planning etc. Take a look at this video and share your comments!

I just gotten a very nice surprise from Adam Short, one of the creators of Niche Profit Classroom. It’s a very warm surprise after being one of his JVs promoting his product months after months since his 2nd launch.

There are a total of 3 gifts here, a mug, a thumb drive and a ball. The mug and the ball all have the logo of NPC. The ball is a stress reliever too – you can throw in the air and it’ll become a black ball when it comes down. I was  trying to figure out what it is and then I realized it by chance. (Don’t think that I’m very free but I was very stress so playing with this gift is like an achievement).

I hope next time there will be a trophy or even a macbook.. haha..

If Adam happens to read this, thank you very much for your gifts and it really comes in very handy (I can shift some of my stuffs to the thumb now, laptop is almost maxed out).

If you are wondering what’s niche profit classroom, click here to find out more about it.

I’ve recently been onto this crazy amazing journey into the world of social networking and the experience has been wonderful. At first, I thought social media networks like Twitter, facebook, and many more, are just some fads and it’s very difficult to make money there. But I was so wrong..

And here’s why..

In fact, the real reason why social media networking are so powerful because

1) People get to know the real you… I was testing with some niches lately, and I found out that if I show who I am, put up my pictures,  write a very sincere manner, the conversion rates increase dramatically. And after writing a true story about myself, it got more people to read and stick onto the page for longer periods of time.

2) They like to know your stories… I’ve also found out that your customers like your stories. The real story behind who you are, what you think, and how do you become the way you are right now (success or failures). I’m not sure about you, but I loved to read books of personal experience like “The Icon” which talks about Steve Jobs, “Sam Walton” (not sure if I remembered the title wrongly) which talks about Sam and how he built Walmart, “Ready, Fire, Aim” – a business book but used a very personal way to write, “Crush It” talks about the wine guy who takes wine online into a million dollar empire.. and many more.

Rather than telling you the boring and general idea of how to set up a business, these books talk about personal story. If you read it, I think you will feel connected with these people and feel that they are not so distance from you.

3) They like to know what you are doing… They want to know what you do on a daily basis.  Twitter is the best proof for this..

4) People need to connect with one another… I’m the only child and I can tell you that to connect with one another keeps a person happy. Watch the movie “cast away” and you will know how is it like to be stuck in an island with no one to connect with. Social media platforms provide you a place to communicate with one another and even connect in a deeper level. Hence using a real person would be much more effective than using a fake one.

Moral of the story – connect using the real you is the key to a successful media campaign.

You call it your personal internet assets, personal equity online, or personal branding, but essentially, this is a measure of how much you are worth online. And what you are ultimately worth online equates to how much money you will make whether online or offline.

Recently I read a very interesting book, Crush it!, written by Gary Vaynerchuk where he talks a lot about personal equity, and how one can build alot of money online. Making money online can be nothing new but certainly the part about personal equity, it is something new.

Most online marketers make money by selling digital products, affiliate programs, CPA promotions, but this guy make money by building his personal equity. Most online marketers are underground marketers that may make use of both blackhat or whitehat techniques and if you really know the underground marketer in person, you can’t really find him online.

Most part of my income derive from this as well – search engine optimization, search engine marketing, content publishing etc.

BUT after reading the book I realize that there is a very big advantage by building personal equity rather than being anonymous online.

Think about this, what if Google fails, or they change their algorithms, or your website simply get beaten by your competitors?

I guess a lot of your income will be gone. At least most of mine does…

The difference between Gary and many of internet marketers is Gary put up so much personal content that includes himself and making himself so famous that it is impossible for us not to know him and impossible for him to lose his value.

One look over at winelibrarytv.com and you will find that there is at least 803 episodes of videos created by Gary, and I think there are at least a few hundred thousands of viewers looking at each of these videos.

And this is not just all, he published a book, gain media attention, and created a lot of social equity.

The true strength of everything he created online or offline, they form an extremely powerful network of branding for himself that it is very difficult not to pick up by the media.

The strongest element that put together all of these is it forms a strong and powerful network. Anywhere people go, they see your name, they know you. You become the next highly searched keyword. And once you are the next highly searched keyword, imagine the value of the ads you put on your website.

I’m afraid that most internet marketers failed to do this because most of the content is not published but sold as digital products which doesn’t have the same reach as free but quality content.

I’m guilty of this as well.

From now on, rather being anonymous online, I’m dedicated to build my own social personal equity, no matter how the videos suck (I am really suck when comes to creating video of myself in it). But you get what I mean? Videos, pictures, articles, twitter, facebook etc and etc.

Are you game with me? I’ve just created another new twitter account with my name on it @george_tee so if you are game, follow and me and we can build a social online personal equity together.

I just read Adam Khoo’s entry on this and decided to post a similar entry to his. Recently, I hire a going to enter university guy to help me with my online business.

It was my first time hiring a part-time or full time staff and not just a virtual assistant from philiphines or India. So I gave a simple interview and thought that he was quite a good candidate to help me out with my work.

Initially we had a little misunderstandings and he thought I was paying him at $8/hour, but later on, I brought it down to $6.50/hour as my ads was around $5.50/hour. But he still accepted it since I don’t think he can find any work at $8/hour yet.

The first week went by and it was still okay. Then I guessed when you know someone better, you start to get over his head and try to laze around. And his attitude gets worse each day. He started to listen to MP3 when working and going to social networking sites like facebook and Twitter while working, thinking that I’m not looking.

How unproductive is he?

When I asked him to write an article, he can take 2-3 hours to finsh writing one article that is around 300-400 words. That costs me around $19.50 if you do the maths. but if I were to get my freelancers to do it for me, I’ll get it at $4 or 5 or even $7 with even better writings.

But then, i’m not hiring a writer so it isn’t really fair to pinpoint about this. But if a simple task like report writing and articles writing take even so long, it says something about a Singaporean.

I finally decided that he has to go after he said that $6.50 is too little for him. He isn’t happy in the first place, and I’m not getting work done enough.

But you can see that the younger Singaporean are getting more choosy, can’t withstand hardship, lesser productivity, and still think that they deserve the pay. But the truth is due to globalization, the labor market is supplied with a lot of workers that Singaporeans don’t really deserve the salary they are getting unless they do something about it.

Conclusion?

I’ll be hiring virtual assistants from other parts of the world where they would produce more work. If I’m looking for locals, they need the energy, motivation and perserverance. Probably they would be a partner then.

For the coming year till November 2010, here are my plans.

Goal #1: Building up a 20k/month online businesses.
Goal #2: Building up A 20k/month online businesses.
Goal #3: Building up A 20k/month online businesses.

Yup, there is only one goal. and that is my only goal that I’m going to hi the coming year. Here is a brief plans I’m going to do to make sure I reached my goals.

December 2009: Train & Hire an assistant to help me with all the work. (Probably think of unique ways of expand my diet sites)
January 2010: Build up all the websites on SEO, affiliate marketing and various systems. Finding partners in various businesses
February 2010: Hire another assistant if the business takes off with more revenues.
March 2010: Making all the sites are doing well, abandon poor niches and work on new niches. Making sure existing sites are ran well. Rinse and repeat the process.
April 2010: Train the assistant to be able to teach someone the same skills.
May 2010: Build up more online businesses.
June 2010: Expand with more staff.
July 2010: That’s all for now…

Let’s see what this plan can take me. Of course this is just a very brief plan, I’m going to plan deeper and see how it can turn out.

I’m thinking lately about this question.. How to increase the pie and make a hell lot of money out of it?

If you have made some progress in internet marketing and hope to progress at a higher level, what should you do next? You will find that you have hit  bottlenecks in terms of expanding fast and building fast.

One factor that stops me from growing fast is the bottleneck of time. Even if I outsource articles, outsource specific “linkbuilding” tasks, there are still a lot of time constraints that stops me from growing very fast..

So here’s the idea, suppose one person can create the value of 10, why not get another person to help you and increase the total value to 20 or even larger since the synergy of 2 persons can probably increase the total value to 25 or 30?

And you can try paying the person with 6 or 7 or 8 but in the long run, you will still benefit from it.

Obviously, you can also outsource for a VA to do it for you. This may be one alternative if hiring another person in your country is expensive or costly. However, the synergy would be lower if you would need to communicate with the VA through msn, skype, or emails.

If there is a possibility to work together in a office, it would be much better than working through offline means.

What do you think?

I’ve just added a proper header to this site today. Perhaps it’s time to beautify this site and brand myself a little too. Although my name is still fairly new in the internet marketing arena, there are still searches going on to this site. Maybe my friends, or people who have bought my products as well. Or readers can be coming from forums too.

Any way, if you want to know my latest development, I’ll be moving my way slowly into the internet marketing niches as that is afterall one of the lucrative niches. I’m still expanding into the diet niches, and I have a few sites that are ranking well in the halloween costumes. The sales are increasing for those costumes as well. (the bad thing is Amazon commissions are very little…)

Looking at Google insights, visitors should peak around end of September before october, when people are searching for the term halloween costume. At the end of the day, my aim for halloween costume sites should be hitting at least $500-$600 worth of commissions and I will use that to get a netbook or something.

I’m very excited about launch of Niche Profit Classroom 2.0. If you have been reading my entries, I’m currently working on numerous Niche websites and seldom have the time to blog.

Recently I caught a glimpse of what Niche Profit Classroom 2.0 is when I gotten a chance to talk to Adam about his new product Niche Profit Classroom 2.

If you have been building up sites in niches, you will realize the power of building niches as they will be your long term revenues that will continue to grow your money even after a few years.

Alen and Adam are teaching even much more than this. They are giving you EVERYTHING you will ever need to succeed online. Over 750 videos! When I watched some of the videos, I was amazed. Like the outsourcing to Philippines, they even taught how to outsource at the rate of $150 per ebook. (By breaking down the work into parts and giving to different people to do).. I was shocked as I though the rates I’m getting to get an quality ebook done is cheap enough ($400), but I was so wrong..

Enough of what I’m saying, why not you take a look at their official site yourself at Niche Profit Classroom

This year even though is a recession, several breakthroughs were happening for me. Sites are making huge breakthoughs getting sales and indexed in the search engine. Another breakthrough is from Twitter where all I need to do is to get followers, and all the sales would be easily made.

SEO has never been easier after I’ve mastered the seo skill. Will be releasing a seo report soon.

Very soon, I would need a new hosting platform to put up my new sites. The current one with bluehost is almost full and it’s time for diversification of sites as well.

Been outsourcing a lot too. And I’m getting health authors to write for me for some of my health and diet sites. If you are interested, do drop me an email at twitterfastcash at gmail.com.

Not going to type much. Been very busy lately dealing with several projects and sites. Twitter and SEO are the 2 power house. Going to post this script to test onlywire share firefox bookmark.

Update: Here’s the update.. I’ve tried it with some of my bookmarking accounts I had earlier on onlywire. The ones with the captcha is a little troublesome. You would need to go into your onlywire site and click on each of those “Need to Finalize” to type in the captcha.

Bookmark Status:
Bibsonomy: SUCCESS
Blinklist: SUCCESS
del.icio.us: SUCCESS
Digg: NEED TO FINALIZE
Diigo: FAILED
Faves: SUCCESS
Google Bookmarks: SUCCESS
Jumptags: SUCCESS
Mixx: NEED TO FINALIZE
Simpy: FAILED
Spurl: SUCCESS

The stocks now are at awfully low price. Even as the economy may not be as positive as it is, and many expect the price to drop even more, there is many opportunities for one to earn some cash from the market.

In fact, the lower it drops, the lesser risk you have to invest in the stocks (provided the company is sound and there are growth potential for the company). My rationale is since it already drop so low already, there’s not much lower it can goes and most likely it can get rebounded. Do not follow this advice for some companies stock especially like what we have seen in the bank stocks.

My recent tradings include Noble, Olam and Wilmar. But Noble and Olam sold off. Olam with a small profit.. could have profit with more but I was waiting for the lowest point which I missed when I tried to rebalance the stocks.

Now I’m looking at Wilmar stock.. It seems that the next support would be at 3.25 and it’s going uptrend.

My website was down just now due to spam comments and this is how the live chat assistance attitude.
[11:46:58 PM]: hi
[11:47:06 PM]: can u reactivate my website for me?
Bryan [11:48:31 PM]: Your account has been suspended because your mysql queries are causing enormous strain on the server.
George [11:48:45 PM]: why is tat so?
Bryan [11:48:48 PM]: Specifically the queries to your database.
George [11:48:52 PM]: how can i solve the issue?
Bryan [11:49:02 PM]: I’m having your CPanel/FTP access restored so that you can resolve this issue.
[11:49:21 PM]: To find out what specifically is causing the problem, please check your /tmp/slow_queries log.
George [11:49:27 PM]: okay
[11:50:23 PM]: do u know where the problem lies?
Bryan [11:51:34 PM]: [11:49:21 PM]: To find out what specifically is causing the problem, please check your /tmp/slow_queries log.
[11:51:47 PM]: It’s a problem with your queries to the database.
George [11:53:08 PM]: hi
[11:53:15 PM]: it show some comments
[11:53:21 PM]: that is spamming on my blog
[11:54:00 PM]: how can i stop the issue and restore my websites?
Bryan [11:55:46 PM]: You’ll need to look into that and resolve the problem.
George [11:56:11 PM]: but i can’t do anything without my website being restored
Bryan [11:56:33 PM]: You have CPanel/FTP access.
[11:56:40 PM]: You can do everything you need to from there.
George [11:57:03 PM]: but it’s a wordpress blog
[11:57:22 PM]: i do not know how to read the complicated php and sql database
[11:59:57 PM]: can u restore my websites so at least i can access it through the normal site
[12:00:09 AM]: in that way, i know how to solve the issue
Bryan [12:00:39 AM]: Not until you’ve resolved the problem.
[12:00:47 AM]: You have CPanel/FTP access, so you can do so.
[12:00:56 AM]: Once you have done so, please contact us to have your sites enabled.
George [12:01:23 AM]: then can u guide me how to solve the issue?
[12:01:50 AM]: what are the files that needs to be deleted?
[12:01:52 AM]: wad are the files needed to be deleted?
Bryan [12:03:32 AM]: The problem is with your database. The script that is sending queries to it, is part of the problem.
George: so how do i solve the issue?

And bryan just closed the chat on me.. What’s the use of bluehost live chat? Freaking bluehost – always shut or suspend ur account without any reason.

This often is a big headache and a waste of time transferring domain here and there.

If you would want to transfer the domain due to any reason, simply pay godaddy for the domain first, then godaddy will email you what to do.

After which, you would need to get the EPP code from namecheap which is located at Manage Domains > Registrar Lock.

You will see this sentence “Related: Planning to transfer out this domain? Get EPP code if required. ”

Click on that and they will email the EPP code to you. Then all you need to do is just to wait.

SMU is such a university that reflects some reality of the Singapore society. I wonder what is the fundamentals of making such a university where students participate for the sake of getting the grades. “What’s the point?”

Isn’t this like how the drama serials where the employees all sucked up to the board of directors? Maybe some even use underhand methods to get their way up there.

When the level of participation are tied to the grades, and when students are desperate for the grades, they would just participate for the sake of participating. Isn’t the main aim for studying in university is to enrich and broaden the student’s mind? To make us a great thinker? Does tying the grades to the participation level brings us closer to that?

Some says that participation is what the employers are looking after/sought for. So employers are looking for people who can suck up or who can put up a show? I don’t think so. Maybe at the start this will help them to get the job, but sooner or later, it’ll be the performance?

But I’m very puzzled by the fact that why do employers have the impression that SMU students are better than the other Universities. Better marketing?

If you really want to survive in the real world, these are the few things that you can do for yourself.
1. If you know your grades can’t beat others, don’t beat. Know what you are good at. Decide whether if there’s a market for your strengths. Either develop on this strengths or find out what other strengths you like and can develop.
2. Develop your unique selling point.
3. Do what you are passionate about rather than thinking about the money.
4. Think of other more ways to earn more money so that when you are working, your employers don’t have any bargaining chips on you. (you can quit any time you want, you want to eventually work what you are passionate about so you can really excel in it)

Heard that MRT was delayed at Yishun Station at around 12 noon but could not find any latest information about what went wrong.

Police and civil defence was there.

Hmm.. Would be going there soon but not sure whether is it still accessible.

After trying one week with usfreeads, I’ve only gotten one result. That it is totally doesn’t worth the effort of doing it.

I’ve posted a total of more than 15 ads in a few days time and the visitors looking at my ads is only less than 20 each. Even my own plr products are not selling well there.

I’m testing out classified ads now.. Just wondering whether www.usfreeads.com is effective in generating traffic and leads. Will keep you updated with these news..

After upgrading my wordpress using a upgrade plugin, suddenly all my categories are gone. Luckily I’ve tested on this site rather than other sites. Now this blog does not have any category until I add them.

Still testing jetsubmitter services but I decided to test out Isnare services as well.

Heard quite good comments about Isnare and it’s pretty cheap too so I figured out why not test it out.. anyway it costs alot of time and money to do it myself or outsource it.

so here it is.. www.Isnare.com

Domain transfers can be such a headache. It took me nearly 1-2 hours to finally settling transferring of domains from one site to another.

If you ever need to transfer a domain, here’s some of the tips.

1) You will need to go to the site where you wish to transfer for instance godaddy.com. There’s a transfer domain payment page.
2) After paying for transferring, an email will be sent to you – this is an email that will give you the Transaction ID:
Security Code:
3) You will also need the authorization code from your current registrar. it’s known as EPP authorization code. You can only transfer domain after 2 months. And this code you can get it from your current registrar domain manager page.
4) Then you would need to paste the new code into the new registrar code.
5) Do note you need to unlock your registrar lock at your current registrar.

That’s basically the gist of it.

I’ve recently tried to outsource my article submitting job but it looks like I’ve found the perfect submitter.
www.Jetsubmitter.com

Let’s see how much can I make with this..

I’m at it again.. making stupid mistakes again. Most people lose their money because they consume too much but I’m losing my money because I made stupid mistakes.

One of my products were selling off quite well. And it could have been better if I have been more careful with my backend. When I was setting up the system, I just used previous website html to reproduce the exact same payment site. But I’ve not update my aweber redirect – all my customers who signed up for my aweber would get to another download page with another product. How dumb can this be… and all this because I did not update my aweber script on the site.

To think of it positively, my customers could be very happy about it. oh well.. a lesson learned here. I guess I should blog more often so I could keep track of my daily activities in case I need to remember certain events. Like my bank account shows a credit item of $26 and I’ve no idea what it is. It doesn’t ring a bell at all. Even my self-recorded daily transaction doesn’t show it.

I wonder what can be done to avoid such silly mistakes..

We’ve won the bids for Youth Olympic Games 2010! Hip hip horray!

So proud that we would be a part of the world history. Even a small country like us could receive this chance to be the world’s first country to host Youth Olympic Games. Maybe our next stop would be the Official Olympic Games!

Do you how it will affect our lives? It would mean a boost in tourism in 2010 and even before that. And with this boost, many people would have jobs to do, businesses would flourish, new entrepreneurs would surface, economy would prosper.. And eventually, our standard of living would increase. This certainly would increase Singapore competitive position in the global economy.

If you are a student, a business owner, a entrepreneur wannabe, maybe you can start thinking of how you make full use of this opportunity. And if this year is a bad year or US goes into a recession, then it’s even a great time for you to prosper or even start a business because the COSTS are low.

And Congratulations to Singapore!

I wanted to catch what spiderman said to Mary Jane a long time ago but only managed to catch it this time. So here it is..

The great thing about MJ is when you look into her eyes and she looked back into yours, everything feels not quite normal because you feel stronger and weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time terrified. The truth is you don’t know what you feel except you know what kind of man you wanna be. It’s as though you reach the unreachable and you are not ready for it.

It’s been rumored that warriors forum has been hacked. Earlier today, someone saw a hacked message on the warriors forum. But later on, active server errors were shown on the firefox browsers.

Warriors forum is a well established internet marketing forum that has helped many people to achieve a different level of success since it’s establishment a few years back. Not sure whether do they backup their database on a regular basis, if not, it’s gonna be a hard time for them to rebuild the content again. Fortunately, their site brand and community are established so strongly that it should not be a problem for all the warriors to come back again. The question is only how long would it take?

The length of this period of hacked server would certainly brings a standstill to trading and I guessed all the warriors are pretty affected by it whether in the short or long run. It’s high quality premium listing has build a strong WSO sections for internet marketers to trade. None of the other forums has enjoyed this kind of success.

And because of the focused categories, it’s a very good channel for buzz to increase.

That’s all for now. I certainly hope warriors would make a fast comeback in the internet marketing community.

After 3 weeks of interesting macro economics lessons, I learned something that is very useful to our individual life. Although macro economics is about the big nations, there’s actually some golden rules of life.

Here’s what I think.

Countries are successful because they have comparative advantage over other countries. Like when you think of software, you think of India. And India is so well known for their IT skills that I think they are short of skilled labor now.

This concept is quite very similar to the Unique Selling Proposition.

If you applied this to your own individual life and asked what are you good at? And you work towards making something out of what you are good at, you will have a very high probability of being successful in the area. Not 100% because there may be tons of competitors but I’ll discuss about this later. However, whether you can make lots of money or not depend on whether there’s a huge market for your strengths.

If you don’t have any strengths, perhaps you may want to think harder, what area of strengths do you want to hone? If you need the money, also think of the size of the market – whether you can earn a living from your future strength. After thinking through, go do whatever it takes to pick up the skill.

This is what they referred to as Comparative advantage. Have a skill that you are so good at that nobody can win you. There you would create your brand, your market, and your success.

So what happens if there’s a lot of competitors in the market and you are not very good at it. This would mean that maybe it’s time to think about shifting to another strength. Making something else your strength instead. This is why continuous learning is so important.

After taking a term of finance and now currently taking advanced financial modules, an idea suddenly popped up that tells me something about time and success.

The first reasoning was success cannot happen overnight. Success happens over a period of time whether you are starting your own business or if you are building a career. It is simply not possible that you said you want to be success tomorrow and you will be successful tomorrow.

Using money as an example, if you have currently $10. and you want to grow it. There’s a few choices you can take.
1. Spend it
2. Save it
3. Invest itn

Of course we know that in order to make the $10 grow, we need to invest it. And it depends where you put your money would determine how much you will get in the future.

Applying this concept to our individual time and success. If we want to be successful, we need to spend time. There are a few ways that we can spend time too..
1. Spend the time having fun
2. Invest the time into things like learning, reading, etc
3. Don’t think you can save time.

If you just spend the time having fun or wasting time, you will find that you will never be successful. But if you invest the time into learning things, making a difference, your returns would be higher than if you waste the time.

You can roughly tell if someone is successful in the future by looking how he utilize his time, how he allocate his money with. A wise person would know how to invest both time and money and how to maximize his brain. Hence this is why continuous learning is important.

Ok that’s all for my hypothesis…

My room is a very messy place. I could not stand it any longer and today decided to clear some of my old books. Old collections like hardy boys and stephen king were among the pile of books. There’s actually a couple of textbooks and A level 10 year series among them too.

I think there are a total of 30 books. I heard of this 2nd hand bookstore where they would buy books from you so I brought all the books there. There were practically 3 thick bloody heavy pile of books.

I totally had no clue how to sell these books. I don’t know how much is the price, how much my books are worth, which store would give you a better deal?

The first store I came to was full of people. My initial thought was since there are so many people, I could not bargain to my fullest advantage. Hence I didn’t go in.

My attention was directed towards this 2nd store. Frankly, I don’t know how many stores were there but I thought I just went in to take a look.

It’s been 2 weeks since school started. Couldn’t believe it that I don’t have much time to do anything even it’s just 2 weeks in school. I can’t imagine what will happen when all the project comes in.

So what’s keeping me so busy?

I’ve been launching a couple of WSOs lately. Basically, it’s a turnkey website for you to plug and play into your site. And you will be able to earn money from it. it’s still at a low price so if you want it, quickly buy it at www.plrsuite.com. Haha.. I’m advertising my stuff on my blog.

Besides creating wso, I’m also networking for insurance. There are many things like making name cards, taking photos, etc. such little things take up so much time. Name cards are really important stuff that everyone should have if you ever want to be rich some day. I felt I could have network better with a name card by my side.

I’ve also bought another domain, accumulateassets.com to help people with their finances and building up assets. Looking at what the whole world will be moving towards, it seems like globalization is making everyone rich. China and India growing at tremendous rate also boost the whole world’s economy.

Technology is another factor rapid whole change. With advanced technology, no doubt costs will be lower and higher profits would be generated.

So where does all this money goes? Of course the rich will become more rich and hence they need some place to put their money. But where?

Hence I’m also accumulating tons of financial knowledge by going into wealth management – understanding hedge funds, fixed income, risk management and investing too.

What about internet marketing?

My plans are pretty simple. Concentrate on things which I’m good at and make more money with my strengths.

I’m currently going into a new market. Saw a market that has quite a some potential but I’m going to test it out. It’s starting from scratch again but I guess this is a worth market to venture into. It can go long term if it goes successful.

a couple of things I’m using as my guidelines –
1) demand – any search? urgent demand?
2) competition – ppc, search engine, ebay?
3) forums? – how many forums are there?

Going to test the market using similar platform like ask database.

He’s discharged today! It really feels so good to have in back. The past 2 days had been crazy enough. It feels so empty without my dad even though it’s only 2 days.. I guess it’s the fear that keeps haunting us.

It’s not been the same though. Even though he’s back, he’s not safe to work. The doctor said relapse may be more serious. So we kinda need to take care of his diet, health and finances..

Alot of stuff to do for now… I guess my income would be insurance, internet marketing for now.

My dad just went to hospital and check up his body. He has high blood pressure and recently, he shows signs of having a stroke. And that was why he was put into the observation in the hospital.

As I stand outside the resuscitation and critical care unit, wild thoughts raced in my mind. Many patients went in and out. Some were unconscious, some was bleeding, and there was a nurse who fainted. Is my dad so serious too? My mum wasn’t there at that point of time. I could only wait outside, not knowing that inside wasn’t as bad as I thought.

Will I lose my dad? I don’t even dare to think. It was a scary thought. It’s hard to fight back all the tears, but still, I know I can’t break down, can’t let my dad see it, can’t even let myself lose to the war. It was a war against fear. A tear dropped would mean a faith gone.

He looked sad in the afternoon. So gloomy that I never seen him like that before. He told me he felt bored and when he’s busy, he felt stress. Kinda dilemma I think. But i never saw him so sad before. Luckily we cooked together, for i think it’s one of the happiest moment i felt since a long time ago.

I can remember all those nights he sent me home from the station, when all the buses are gone. all the things he taught me from young. all the things he said. Can he ever be the same again? Please let him be the same again. That’s the only wish i got. I never wish for anything ever before so let this wish be true please. Let him be healthy. Let him be strong. Take away everything for me i dun care.

I hope my nightmares will never be true.

Thank you for those who bless.

It’s almost Christmas. Looking back a year earlier, I’ve made a few goals. Not going to revealed it here. But I guess I’m going to reflect on my goals and see how I can improve on it.

I’m looking at different markets again. This time with more experiences and knowledge on how to determine what is a profitable business or market.

A few things checklist in my mind that I would like to share with you.
1) Finding the demand – It’s always is there a demand?

A few things to note though.

How big is the demand? Try forecasting the demand, let’s say u are selling an ebook, think how much sales would it make? And whether would this demand increase or decrease after a period of time. If you dun even forecast your demand, how would you know whether your sales/profits is worth your time and money into it? Sometimes you may think that a market is a very market but to find out that it’s not really the best market after you pour in a lot of time and sweat.

2) What’s the number of competitions?

There are 2 sides of argument. One argue that a large number of competitors mean that you can do joint venture, affiliate marketing with them. But the truth is would you work with someone who approach you all of a sudden? This type of things take time. My opinion here is if you can think of a way that differentiates yourself from everyone else, and if this is such a good idea that the customers would certainly benefit from it, chances are you will succeed.

Your success is largely dependable on your product when you are fighting with a large number of competitors.

3) Your traffic strategies – Do you have a winning traffic strategies?

Do you have a way to buy/rob/steal traffic? Getting traffic can be difficult when you are talking about large number of competitors fighting for the same traffic. Like if you look at ppc, wouldn’t you agree that it gets harder for people to click on your ads when there’s 8 more ads above or below you? Either your ads have to stand out or you simply got to have very powerful ads writing skill.

But one thing for certain – your ppc money is going to be more expensive compared to some search where there’s no competitors at all.

The key here is you can only get “profitable” traffic when you can make your ads stand out, or you find a competitorless traffic source.

That’s basically the fundamental 3 things I looked out for in a market. There are still many things that you should look at too before going into the market.