First Business Project

The first project commence about 3 years ago (2008). Initially there were 3 of us. Unfortunately, one of us left due to his own personal problem. Since then, me and my partner who is based in Selangor worked our ass out to develop the site. I prefer not to reveal it now… Maybe later in future.

The project is still going on and together we have 3 sites running successfully. The sweetest thing is that starting in January 2011, we hired a part time staf to assist us run our business. Yeah…we have sufficient fund to recruit a part time staff and also paid our hosting company 2 years up front.

However, there was lack of automation in this project. We still need to do many things manually despite of having our own staff. So, 2 weeks ago, I proposed my business partner to venture into another project together. That is our second project together…

Second Business Project

This one is still in its infancy stage. However, we are working hard to kick start the second project before February ends. So, what are the significant differences between project 1 and 2?

Basically our ideas for the second business project are as follows:

• Fully automated – Less active involvement from us.
• Full out outsourcing – Others do the work for us.
• Able to be duplicated – meaning we can replicate and create it again and again following a system we have created.
• Passive income – One time investment, and then we rip the rewards each and every month.
• Able to break even in less than 3 months.

We need to kick start the second business because both of us are fully employed and don’t have much time to dwell with our blogs and sites. So, if God will, we will see our first batch of sites active and running by the end of first quarter 2011.

Pray for our success, we will also pray for your success too…

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We are a human being that started from knowing nothing. We grow older and progressively learn many things along the years. When we are small, our main duty is to study, study and study. Nothing else. Yep, nothing else matter…

But then as we approach adulthood, we began exploring various other areas. We explore new interest, new hobbies, new this and new that. For certain things that we want to establish our expertise, we need somebody to guide, monitor and assist us. Those people, regardless of their field of expertise I regard as my precious mentor. They are like a catalyst, something and somebody that can speed the process of us getting to what we aim for. They will show us which path to take and which to avoid.

My mentors

As some of you know, I’m currently pursuing my Ph.D study in chemical engineering and I have a supervisor  (professor) to guide and maneuver me doing research work, writing technical papers and other research related issues. I also have a co-supervisor in Finland which I refer to once in a while.

At the same time, I am also in my quest to be a professional engineer and I have a mentor who is an experienced professional engineer to guide and help me be one. He works in KL (I work in JB) but that does not matter because I  will always meet him every quarterly to let him assess my performance and give advice. Currently he is in Uzbekistan, managing some civil project there. I will meet him when he is back here.

When I was working as a process engineer few years back, I have my senior executives as my mentor. They will share their experiences, knowledge and skills with me. Oh, I miss those days in the plant.

Besides my professional career mentioned above, I’m deeply and madly in love with the internet. I’m not really a fan of those social sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. I’m only using them to market my brand and communicate with my networks. I’m more towards blogging (part time blogger) and now slowly learning to try my luck selling some digital product online @ Internet Marketer (IM).

For those 2 co-curricular activities, I also have my own mentor to guide and help when I am in need of their advice. Those are people who have more knowledge and more skills than me. I have few person which I consider mentors when it comes to blogging. We are colleagues but at certain times, they are my blogging mentors.

At the same time, I have another IM mentor who is very kind enough to spend his precious time teaching and guiding me when I’m in need of him. His vast knowledge, experience and success in internet marketing inspires me to be a great IM. I’m making myself to be one. Oh God…please make my journey smooth…

When it comes to gold investment, I have 2 mentors, both who are my younger brothers. They have more comprehension and knowledge in gold related matters. They also have invested massively in gold.

When it comes to financial management and investments, I also have a mentor too. We never went through financial subjects or financial management in school nor university. The most we had is accounting and economics. Hence, it is important to have a financial mentor to help and guide us.

Am I a mentor to others?

Hmmm… I don’t really know how to answer that. There is no official mentorship going on accept for me mentoring my undergraduate student to do research closely related to mine.

I know some people, including my youngest brother, who maybe consider me as their mentor in blogging and internet marketing. Honestly, I don’t consider myself any sort of expert in blogging and Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but when somebody asks about it, I will definitely share. It’s my passion and I love discussing about it. In fact I don’t mind teaching and guiding those who are serious about blogging and SEO with zero charge. No problem at all.

I hope and wish that I’ll be a good mentor to my kids. I want to be a good father and example to them. That’s very important. Every body wants their kids to grow and be good and kind people, responsible and honourable, having good career and so on. We (me and my wife) also wanted that and we need to provide the best education and training for them. No matter how it cost, we will get the money to spend.

You are either a mentee or a mentor

Yes you are. If you are not either a mentee nor a mentor, I’m not sure where do you live and what you are.You might not be chasing for something.You might not have any interest in anything. You might not have a career you want to take care off. Maybe you are have not discovered your passion. Maybe you are not yet establish in what you are doing now.

It’s really something you need to think off.

Yep, think about it.

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I noticed a person that I really admire and I wanted to get closer with. I prayed Isya’ next to him in the surau earlier. He lives in the same street as me but in a corner lot house. He graduated as a mechanical engineer (not sure from where) but now he is a successful business man. His name is Hj. Razak. I’m not sure of his full name yet.

So, after taking my food, I sat at a corner of a table arranged in the kenduri. Hj. Razak arrived soon and sat at the same corner. So, the 2 of us are there and this is my opportunity to get to know him better. The rest of the guys sat in different table.

We chatted and get to know each other. He knows that I’m currently pursuing my Ph.D in Chemical Engineering and will go for a research attachment overseas soon. I asked him about his business. He is running a mechanical engineering service business. He started his business when he was 34 years old (the same age as me now). At 40 years old he reached millionaire status which is something to be proud of. Now he is 44 years old and slower down his working pace because he etablished the business to work for him already.

He told me, when we started his business a decade ago, he will go out from his house at 7 am and return home at night. He seeks for leads and opportunities where he can provide his engineering services. He worked so hard. He used his engineering knowledge, the one that he knows the best. He focused on this business because he has failed several times with other business that he don’t have knowledge and skill off. He said to me, if you want to be rich, you need to read “buku Daim Zainuddin”. The book title sounds something like “becoming a millionaire”, but I can’t be certain on the exact title of the book.

I was really amazed with his story and I’m proud to know somebody like Hj. Razak. He is a nice guy, low profile, kind, not arrogant at all. There are a lot of positive attributes that I need to learn from him.

Let me share some points that he highlighted to me:

1. Work hard before you reach success.

2. Focus on what you know to run the business and avoid running the business in something you don’t know.

3. Don’t get too excited when you see huge money. Don’t buy luxurious items with those money. Use it to grow your business first before you spend it.

4. Master outsourcing. In a business, we can’t do everything on our own. Hence, we need to have subcontractors to help us do some of the important work. We need to get hold of the outsourcing skill.

5. From time to time, give away your money for charity or sedekah. This is important to get our Gods blessing and too purify your wealth. Do it sincerely and wait for a miracle that God will send to you.

Well, those are just a few points that I can recall. Even if you are a student or an employee, like me, we still can be a millionaire with the correct attitude, mindset and goal. It doesn’t matter what type of business… blogging… internet marketer, creating, selling and marketing products and services.

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Honestly, I must say that, I am struggling to start up my affiliate business. Out of a sudden, I found this program which was just recently launched. It is a speedy way to make money from affiliate business using products from clickbank. After 48 hours analyzing the program and system, I decided to give it a shot. I hope I have luck on this.

Off course there are pro and cons of joining this program.

OK, since I’ve joined this program for about 72 hours already, I’ve test run it a little. I haven’t had the opportunity to spend more time on this as I was stuck with another non-online job.

Pro (Advantage) – in no particular order

• Set up the sites in just 5 minutes. 6 ready made + 29 possible custom made videos ready to be uploaded to youtube.com
• Start begin marketing effort using ready made + custom made video (with your domain) right away.
• Start article marketing right away. 20 articles provided.
• Video tutorial and ebook on how to make videos + other traffic methods are available. Hence making amateur people like me can learn all these available powerful traffic techniques immediately.
• Do NOT need auto-responder.
• NO need to think of auto-responder sequence – as the system will do the job for you.
• NO need to do niche research.
• All we have to do is marketing and wait for the Clickbank income.
• Every month, members will get a new clickbank product on anonymous niche to promote.
• For the first month (now, if you register fast), you’ll get 3 fantastic niches. I’ve begin promoting.
• The system is – I can say Automatic or almost Automatic.

Cons (Disadvantage) – I can see right now 2 cons:

• We promote our site but we cannot collect the email list.
• Possible competition with other members if we don’t market creative enough.

Personal view

For me it is tricky and will take relatively longer time to master the affiliate skills despite of reading and mentoring with Affiliate Gurus. However, to taste international affiliate profit faster, I decided to be a member of this plug and play program. I can easily set up my site in truly 5 minutes. And after 12-15 minutes, I already have 3 powerful niche sites. The next thing for me to do is to brand my video, upload them and do some article marketing. That’s the marketing part. It’s all ready for me. The membership price for founding member is USD29 per month, which I think is reasonable (only for the first batch). I heard today that there are only 12 spots left for this membership price. If I can manage 2 sales a month, the commission is more than enough to cover my fixed monthly membership fees. But, I’m going to target more sales. I’m going to try at least to get USD500 per month for a start. Wish me luck…

If you are interested, you can investigate more by clicking the READY-NICHE-PROFIT below. I’m not asking you to get hold of this program. I’m just sharing what I’m doing now with you. I know, some of you are just like me, wanting to run an affiliate business, but for some reason, stuck somewhere… Good luck…

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At the moment, the most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN Search Altavista and AOL. All of these search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret for various reasons including to deter spam pages from clogging those results.

A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine. However, if you can master this skill, the search page result of your site/blog won’t differ significantly from search engine to search engine. I still remember my early days involvement with my blog. I checked page by page of Google and Yahoo search engine to see whether my blog is listed or not.

If you have a new sites/blogs, you don’t need not “submit” it to search engines in order to be listed. A simple link from a well established site (good traffic, good PR, well indexed) will get the search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It can take a few days to even weeks from the referring of a link from such an established site for all the main search engine spiders to commence visiting and indexing the new site.

If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues. But this certainly requires some investment. I still recommend and urge you to master this skill. It is very important. For a start you can check out Google Keyword Tool. It will provide you good keyword suggestion and analysis to help you decide on excellent keywords. It’s very simple and straight forward. Try it out and you’ll get better at it.

It has proven to be very successful to me when I adopted SEO in my online and offline business.

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