(1) I used to do some direct selling when I was studying. I sold phone cards, air line tickets, calligraphy art and some others which I barely remember. The money was good and I enjoy managing the business.

(2) After graduating, I got a job and my younger brother introduced me to a great opportunity on earning 5 figures income a month. It was a multi level marketing (MLM) or direct selling business (Passive Income). Being green, I was excited and joint him, learned the business and expanded my organization together with my girlfriend (now, she’s my beloved wife). We spent a lot of time and invested a lot of money on the education and training programs/seminars in order to build the business. We met tonnes of people, prospecting one after another. However, after getting married, our down-lines falls apart and the group slowly collapse! We were so disappointed and frustrated. After that, I joined another company, with the same ambition, to be financially free. But, it did not last. Until now, I’ve joint more than 10 MLM companies but i failed to do the business. At this moment, I realized that, I’m not fated to do this kind of business. Presently, whoever approached me for this type of business, I have to be completely honest with them that I’m no longer interested. I don’t fancy meeting up with people and explaining some business plan or products. No…Not anymore….

(3) Then I noticed one more way of being financially free. But, I guess, it’s already too late for me. I wish I was introduced to it at the moment after I graduated. Being an insurance agent/financial planner is a good career which can lead to great wealth. I saw many youngsters becoming a part time insurance agent/financial planner while still studying and working. They don’t have to spend any money, instead they enjoy the commissions and benefits plus bonus from collecting their customers insurance premiums. This career requires us to do aggressive prospecting, just like doing MLM business, which I do not prefer now.

(4) Robert Kiyosaki and his property success opened my mind for a real estate business. It is a very exciting and expensive industry. I learned and read a lot to be able to be rich from the property business. However, I don’t have the financial fire power to kick start my realty empire. Perhaps, later, after accumulating an adequate financial ability, I may be blessed with the opportunity to join the property market, I hope so.

(5) Bored of “Just Obeying Boss” (JOB) and limited monthly salary, I always consider starting my own business. I occasionally chat with some close friend at work about the possibility of starting our own business. But, what type of business? Do we have the capital to run the business? Are we mentally strong to develop and grow the business? As a university graduate, what will people say if I open a car wash center or a small trading business? Am I capable to work long hours until late night to sustain and ensure the survival of my own business? If the business is not doing well, how am I going to feed my family and pay my staffs salary? Those questions always haunted me and I know I’m not capable of facing those challenge. There are too much risks and commitment! Is it worth it for me?

(6) What about the potential of internet business? There are some people who tasted the glory and success of their internet business. This type of virtual business won’t require us to deal directly with a lot of people. However, having zero IT and internet background (accept for browsing website and reading emails), I need to learn all the tricks and secrets to succeed in it. I read somewhere that having an internet business, patience must be our prime trait. Internet business will grow very slow but surely speed up later with some hard work and dedication. It has an exponential growth effect. There are a lot of internet businesses to try: affiliate marketing, selling your own product online, developing a successful website providing certain niche product or service, selling some space for advertisement, running a blog like this and some others. Presently, I’m running a number of blogs and websites (I’m still developing the websites). I hope I can do some on-line affiliate marketing as well and soon have my own unique product to sell. I need to continuously learn and be updated with current softwares, techniques and approaches available. It can be very rewarding. I hope I can earn a descent income from it.

The good side about internet business: I can stay at home or conduct the business anywhere as long as there’s internet line, business operation world wide 24-7, flexible time, no need to deal, persuade or involve directly with people like MLM or insurance/financial planning business.

Some tough side of internet business: Really require hard work in front of the monitor or laptop, you strain and stress your eyes, a lot of stuff to learn (especially for non-IT people like me), some commitment will be there if you run a newsletter or a blog where loyal readers wait to read your content, we have to compete with millions and millions of site and blogs in the net, income generation is low initially but will grow with consistent effort (it’s a matter of time).

(7) Last but not least, stock investment. This is one area I’m beginning to try my luck in. I’m educating myself by reading books, surfing related sites as well as discussion with experience colleagues and brokers. A friend of mine began investing in the stock market last year with initial investment of MYR7,000. A year later, he has accumulated MYR70,000! His achievement has inspired me to indulge in the business. I’ve injected MYR2,000 and I’m going to allocate another MYR3,000 next week. My target is to gain net profit of at least MYR500 minimum monthly. In a year, that will be at least MYR6,000. Well, That’s just minimum, I’m hoping to get more than that. I know it’s a very risky step but I’m willing to take the challenge.

Conclusion: Those 7 ways are just part of various methods to become rich in this world. They are just based on my opinion and experience. Hopefully, you can learn and benefit from it and feel free to explore other ways to become financially free.

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Having a blog like this, totally written in English is also one way or my strategy in improving my writing skills. It took me slightly a longer time to make a post because I have to carefully structure a sentence to avoid silly spelling or grammatical mistakes. I don’t mind the extra time because I know it is worth posting in English. You can also notice that I don’t use bombastic or flowery English. My writing are just pure basic straight forward English. Sometimes, I ask my wife (who has better English) to proof read my post and edit wherever necessary (that includes this post!). This is one of the reasons of me having an English blog –> to improve my English. The other two reasons are:

International Language

English is an international and universal language. More people in the world understand and use English compared to other languages. That means English medium website(s)/blog(s) have more exposures and more readers, hence bigger market to capitalize. This will lead to more traffic being generated.

It is such a great advantage to have audiences from all around the world. It is fun to communicate and associate with people who have an enormous difference in time zone than us (which means from other continent). A lot of things (ideas/opinions) can also be shared and learned, on top of the opportunity in making many more new friends. Who doesn’t like to have new friends, great isn’t it?

More Monetizing Opportunity

There are countless advertising companies offering money making opportunity for bloggers out there. All of these companies require English language as the main blogging medium. Some of those advertising companies are Google Adsense, ReviewMe, TextLinkAds, PayPerPost, Kontera, TTZ Media, and many more. By registering and participating with their programs, chances of earning more money from the blog(s) are more wide open. There are already a lot of part time bloggers changing their status to a full time pro blogger, thanks to the money making opportunities provided by those advertising companies.

Exception can be made to Google Adsense which allow some countries to use their own language (Indonesia for instance); and also local advertising companies such as Nuffnang and Advertlets (in Malaysia), which accept local language blogs.

To other fellow local bloggers, no offense in writing in your mother tongue language. It all depends on why you want to blog. It might be for fun, to share with others, to keep a record of your activities or to make new friends in the virtual community. I also read a number of quality Malay language blog and I found them very interesting, informative and attractive. As for me, blogging has become a very serious hobby as well as an emerging industry. I love to write and share with others. At the same time, wouldn’t it be great to get some incentives from doing the things that we enjoy? What about you?

P/S: For your information, this is a recycled blog post. I just re-post this article back after 5 years. The actual date of the publication of this blog entry is 25 February 2007. The comments are all the original ones that were made 4-5 years back. What a nostalgic post. I did not change it. I just change the publication date and inserted a new image (credit to observingvessel.wordpress.com).

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I have the luxury of time to think about my career and online business while monitoring my kids in the swimming pool. I managed to maintain something like USD300-400 per months in 2010 from my blogs. All has been achieved via my part time blogging activities. It’s not that much compared with other champions out there, but for me, it is a pocket money to buy stuffs. The problem then is the drop of income in 2011. I wonder why? What happen? This is what I have been analyzing. I don’t want 2012 to repeat the income misery of 2011. The year 2012 should be better and I have set certain online targets for me to achieve.

I haven’t written down all those target officially yet. However, the rough idea is in my head. Maybe I can share one of the target which is related to this blog. The rest I will reveal progressively. Is it too much or illogical if I say I want to target to earn $1000 per month from this blog alone? I plan to achieve this in January 2013.

What do you think?

OK, gotta continue watch the football match. See ya later tomorrow…

Update: Oh! What a sad day. Manchester United lost to The Reds. It’s OK. Life goes on…

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As for today, I’ve started timing my blogging minutes for this blog. I hope I can be more consistent, provide better creative unique contents. So, from now on, I’ll try and blog consistently…hehe…Wish me luck.

Thanks for all your support.

P/s: For this post, I’ve spent 8 minutes all together…I think that’s cool enough…

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How do you like my new theme?

This is what I wanted all this while. Generous space for me to exhibit some photos later. I don’t want to stick to the limited 450 pixels width that the previous theme can only accommodate. Now I have more. Check out the photo of my laptops below:

As for the new WordPress 3.0.4, I’m not sure yet what is the pros and cons. I just press the upgrade button and it automatically back up and upgrade to the latest version. I hope it is safe and stable.

My 2011 Blogging Style

I guess, I’m going to blog not as often as before. Possibly I’m going to make the post shorter as well. Don’t us me why because, well, you know… I have other commitments. So, I cannot focus entirely on this blog alone.

p/s: There are 3 laptops in the photo above. The black one is my first laptop (1998). I just threw it away somewhere during my massive once every 5 year spring cleaning day. Next to it is my wife’s HP compact (2004) while the Toshiba laptop (2006) lying behind also belongs to my wife. Not in the photo, my Toshiba Laptop (2008) and also my F700 HP Compact (2007) which is now experiencing a terrible mother board injury…hehe… I’m thinking of getting a new laptop for back up, just in case…

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