In this new email interview, I am delighted to feature one of my mentors who has helped me alot in starting my Internet marketing business back in 2006.

His name is Stuart Tan. He is an excellent coach and he has been my role model all these while.

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1. Please share with my readers who you are and what nature of business you are running.

I’m a trainer and the Executive Director of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group. I primarily do coaching and training of corporate managers and executives.

2. What motivates you to create your business?

We started in 2002 and have built a sizable business over the years due to a positive combination of teamwork. Our main desire is to empower and develop people in as many ways as possible ranging from children to adults.

3. Were there any challenge you face along the way? Please share one which almost stop you from pursuing your dream.

I think most challenges are there to test you. There’s no such thing as a challenge that stops one from pursuing a dream, unless the dreamer stops dreaming. We don’t stop dreaming. And it’s important that difficulties we go through make us stronger and more resilient, keeps us on our toes and learning. Thanks to a good management, we have had the opportunity to overcome a great number of challenges even in the recent economic crisis.

4. How did you cope then? What motivates you to push on?

I think the identity of an organization must be to create value in the world. The people running any organization must be closely aligned with such a mission, or else there is a goal but no desire to be motivated to move toward it.

5. If there is this one tip you can share with anyone who wants to start a business, what is it?

Don’t bother starting a business if it’s just for money. Focus on building a lasting empire. Quit jumping on short term opportunities because it is only going to get you killed. Build a culture that will outlast you, build a team that will surpass you, then get out of their way and learn to let go. Enjoy your life by doing things that enrich you, not things that make you rich, as the riches come when you are learned and educated enough to recognize that wealth is not about you alone.

6. How do you juggle your time between running your business and spending it with your family.

I don’t run the business. I let my managers run it. And they’re doing a great job. My time is put in adding value to people’s lives. That’s what my wife does, and we talk about how to do it in various ways so that we grow together.

7. Any current product or training you are have right now. Tell us more.

I’m in the process of building a series of readings on the topic of personal development through the lenses of NLP (neuro linguistic programming). You’ll get to know more about it if you follow me on Facebook.

8. Any other final thing you would love to share in this interview.

It is not the business that defines the person. It is the person that defines the business. Likewise, don’t let wealth or any other entity blind you from the fact that if you don’t shine, nothing around you will. Life is short, so play it smart by ensuring you are achieving wholistic success, not just wealth alone. It’s just sad to see people who are unhappy running their business. Sure, they are wealthy, but they never thought of being happy at the same time. Keep learning and growing so anything you do is merely an extension of who you are.

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1. Please share with my readers who you are and what nature of business you are running.

I’m a Relationship Coach, Speaker and Author of “The 69 Love Notes – Secrets to a Loving and Lasting Relationship” and an ebook “5 Secrets to Up Your Attraction Quotient”. As a coach, I assist my clients, i.e coachees. to crystalise their goals, design strategies and break any dis-empowering patterns and habits to enable them to know how to develop resources to create and sustain positive changes to their lives, in particular, their love lives.

As a writer, I contribute articles to SDN (Social Development Network), and on my personal blog www.Kloudiia.com and dishes out one-time free email advice on my love coaching blog www.luvlifecoach.com/blog.

2. What motivates you to create your business?

After meeting so many singles when I was running my dating agency, I realised that many of them were not just missing out the opportunities to meet people. Rather, they lack certain skills, mindset and knowledge to attract someone and to be successful in dating and courtship. At the same time, the increasing rate of divorce in Singapore tells me that with such busy and hectic lifestyles that most of us have, many couples may not know that they have neglected their partner and taken them and their marriage for granted. I hope that they would start paying attention to what’s really important to them. Simply, I just want to help people find and develop the love and beauty in their relationships, and hence their lives.

3. Were there any challenge you face along the way? Please share one which almost stop you from pursuing your dream.

Singaporeans aren’t that receptive to relationship coaching yet, especially couples. To them, they feel that unless their marriage is already on the rocks and on the verge of falling over the cliff, they won’t think of seeking professional assistance. I’m sad to know this because usually by the time they’re willing to come before a coach or counsellor, it’s more to give themselves one reason to justify the decision they’re already made.

4. How did you cope then? What motivates you to push on?

Well, the desire to see people in happy, loving and lasting relationships just kept me on!

5. If there is this one tip you can share with anyone who wants to start a business, what is it?

Do something you’re passionate about. It is what will buffer you and lift you up when your business is down, and what will make you even lighter and soar further when it’s up.

6. How do you juggle your time between running your business and spending it with your family.

For me, my family is always my priority. So I divide my week into some days for coaching, some for writing articles and blogging, and the rest for my family. Of course, some time is left for myself, and God.

7. Any other final thing you would love to share in this interview.

When we focus and look for it, there’ll always be some beauty to be found in ourselves, relationships and our lives. Start on your journey now…

Thanks for the interview.

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Today, I am pleased to have the honor of posting the email interview I did with a millionaire in Singapore. She made her first million when she was 26!!!

Coincidentally, she is the wife of my very good friend, Alva which I met in a Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner course 8 years ago.

While reading her replies and after exchanging a few emails with her, I learnt many positive attributes from this inspiring lady. One of them is she is really humble and she is really quick in agreeing and replying my email.

I hope you can too, as you are reading this post, be inspired by this young entrepreneur and follow your own dream.

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1. Please share with my readers who you are and what nature of business you are running.

Merry Riana, Founder and Chairlady of Merry Riana Organization, made her first million when she was 26 years old. After graduating from Nanyang Technological University with a $40,000 study loan debt, zero capital and no network, she dived into a career in sales. Relying on pure determination, hard work and a positive attitude, Merry astounded her chosen sales industry by breaking many achievement records and setting new ones. In four short years after University she earned her first million dollars.

Now she is focused on inspiring and helping other young people achieve financial freedom and success at a young age. Through her training and consultancy services, she has touched thousands of lives and won the community’s recognition for her work and contribution. Merry’s alma mater awarded her the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2006 and she won the Spirit of Enterprise Award in 2008. Her success story has also been a regular feature in many publications including The Straits Times, The Sunday Times, The New Paper and others.

In 2006, Merry launched her first book “A Gift From A Friend”, which became a bestseller in major bookstores in Singapore. Using her own story as an example, Merry shares how one can start out with less than nothing to achieve success early in life.

2. What motivates you to create your business?

While I was in University I started to think about my life more seriously. I saw how my parents needed to work hard even though they were already in their 50s, just so they could provide for their children’s education and save up for their retirement. That prompted me to want to achieve success early in my life.

I wanted to give them a better life. I wanted my parents to enjoy great food, travel to exotic countries and live life fully. Seeing as I was already 21 at that time and my parents were in their 50s, I thought that if I only achieved success in my 40s or 50s, my parents would be too old by then. I might not have much quality time to spend with them. And they might be restricted by their health and their old age to enjoy all the things that I wanted to provide for them. While I might have the time, on a personal level, to achieve success later in life; but the question is, can they?

So it was important for me to achieve success while I am still young. It wasn’t so much about me, but for my parents. Therefore, I made a resolution to achieve success before I reached the age of 30. That gave me a specific deadline of about 10 years to achieve my goal.

3. Were there any challenge you face along the way? Please share one which almost stop you from pursuing your dream.

Immediately after graduating from school, I was $40,000 in debt and cut off from any income from the student loan. I had to start earning some income fast; for my living expenses as well as to repay the student loan debt. I had decided to become an entrepreneur and do a business in sales rather than to take the traditional safe path of an employee. But I faced a lot of resistance for my decision, from my parents, teachers and friends.

My friends thought I was crazy when I told them about my thoughts of becoming an entrepreneur immediately after graduation. Some of those who were not close to me even thought that I was forced to become an entrepreneur because I couldn’t secure a proper job. While those closer to me knew that I chose this path because of my goals, they were also skeptical and tried to discourage me. My teachers, tutors and lecturers also thought that it was a bad idea to go into business based on sales upon graduation. Of course going into sales would give me less stability in terms of my monthly income. There was also no guarantee that I would be successful.

All of them advised me to pursue a more stable career in the engineering field instead. These opinions didn’t really bother me or deter me in my determination to do sales. After all, it is my life, and I am free to live it the way I want.

However, I still decided to get my parents’ consent for my choice of career. As I had expected, they were extremely uncomfortable with the idea of me wanting to do my own business in sales right after graduation and with a $40,000 debt to repay. They wanted me to get a stable job with a fixed income instead. After much persuasion, I eventually came to a compromise with them.

I promised them that I would only try out this business for three months. If at the end of three months there were no signs of growth or success whatsoever, then I would stop. I assured them that when that happens I would get a normal nine-to-five job with a stable pay just like what they wanted. They finally agreed and with that, I started my first business in sales.

4. How did you cope then? What motivates you to push on?

The initial resistance that I faced spurred me to want to prove myself even more. Of course it was not always smooth sailing. I faced a lot of rejections and disappointments. Being human, I had moments when I felt down and disheartened. But through it all, I never seriously considered giving up. What made me go on was my desire to provide a better life for my parents and the goals that I wanted to achieve. I’m also very fortunate to have had the support and encouragement of my husband, Alva, who has been my business partner since the beginning of my journey.

5. If there is this one tip you can share with anyone who wants to start a business, what is it?

When an opportunity appears, ask yourself these two questions: 1) What is the worst case scenario? 2) If the worst happens, can I handle it? If the answer to the second question is a “Yes”, then grab that opportunity. Then, with the opportunity in hand, you should move on to the next step of finding a mentor who has already done what you want to do and learn from them. Offer something of value to them first to convince them to mentor you.

If you have a proposal or project that can add value to them then they may be open to mentoring you. Later, you can even move on to the next project where there is greater involvement from both parties. And you can move on from project to project until you eventually become business partners.

6. How do you juggle your time between running your business and spending it with your family.

I usually wake up at 8 a.m. and then I will spend some time with my little girl before going to the office. When I reach the office, it is usually around 10 a.m. and I’ll conduct meetings with my different groups of staff. Once that is done, I will then attend to external appointments, meaning people who have made prior arrangements to meet me in my office.

I leave the office at around 4 p.m. and will usually go to deliver my talks in companies that have engaged me as their speaker or trainer. I get home after dinner and spend time with my loved ones. Thereafter, I start work again at night, either writing on my blog or answering e-mails from people who have read my book or visited my websites.

7. Any other final thing you would love to share in this interview.

I have one golden rule in business: Integrity. Whatever the cost, regardless of any implications or consequences, I believe I must uphold this rule without question. Without integrity, I believe there will be no firm foundation for my accomplishments. I can build my business to be as big and strong as I possibly can, but the moment I compromise on my integrity, the whole thing may just crumble down overnight.

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Merry Riana is a millionaire entrepreneur, best-selling author & master trainer. To know more about Merry, visit www.MerryRiana.com

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

My name’s Alessandro Zamboni and I’m an italian internet marketer.
My area of expertise is mainly blogging, including blog flipping and thing connected to blogs creation.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

My first success came two years ago.
After I was buying a lot of reports here and there, after a consciousness raising, I was tempted to leave and come back to my offline and kickass job, that was doing artistic candles.
Just the latest day in IM, I found John Yeo blog and reading about his blogging success, I decided to throw away other dollars tempting to do a coaching.

A blog coaching !

Well, after the first week passed to learn by John, my state of mind changed in the correct way.
I started to think like a business man, not a newbie internet marketing with $5 sales here and there and hundreds of debits.

Following his advices, I created my first blog, that I’m running again day by day.
It’s Blog In Da Box, an internet marketing news blog that now, after 1 year and half, has reached PR3, being first for many IM niche keywords.
And then I started to do new products, a few but sold very well.
I remember my first was Super Article Traffic, selling very well also nowadays after more than 1 year from release.

Then I invented the Blog Flipping, being one of the first to sell a ready made blog on Warrior Forum, when Flippa was not yet created.
And that was the key of my actual success.

In fact when I talked with John Yeo about my first blog flipping successes, I got another brand new idea, thanks to his suggestions.
Opening a Blog Flipping course, that we decided to create from zero, joining our forces.

But I will talk about that later.

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

The major obstacles I found in internet marketing is that the majority of people is ready to open their wallet before telling you something, and that is a jungle.

Like in normal world, also in IM niche there are a lot of people able to suck your money delivering scarcity and not working ideas.
Before becoming a publisher and a seller, I was hijacked by bad people, able to tell you big lies.
And so I bought load of garbage.
But that, on the other side, make me even more powerful.
Nowadays I buy only a few reports, spending no more than 20% of what I earn.
And I got my products only on trusted sources, where users can comment and leave their opinion.

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

Internet Marketing is a big lie and I’m fully convinced of it.

Why a marketer that is making 5 thousands dollars a day needs to take up $20 to sell his method ?

Because the real method doesn’t exist !
What I’m trying to say you is that you need always to pay attention to the situation.

You need to work, like in a normal job, to get money.

The solutions to be rich without working are all scams.

Knowing that, you can develop your own mindset, the mindset of a winner.

You need to be constant and follow your project until you will be a winner.
You will need time, don’t get discouraged if you are getting no results in first times!

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

The most lucrative launch of all my life is the one I did with John.
Our product is called Blog Flipping Bootcamp, and in 30 videos, with text transcripts, bonuses and examples, drive you in the jungle of blog flipping.

This product tell you all the truth to make money fast in the most easy way.

In fact nowadays I’m fully convinced that blog flipping, as well as site flipping, is one of the most easy marketing to follow, and it’s very easy to do money.

The first people I coached personally on blog flipping have sold a lot of blogs and have ebtered the flipping area as winners.

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

Actually me and John decided to launch our new products, after some months in which I was fully involved in flipping ready made blogs.
I’ve got the strange ideas to help the shops of my area to exit from the big economic recession of the last time, and talking with John, we got a strange but phenomenal idea (as usual).

We planned to try an old style business with the power of blogs.
And so we created Offline Vortex, a new money making method available for only 100 persons (now 86).
The method consists in building a city shopping blog with all the shops subscribed, for a fixed yearly fee.

Following our idea, the e-book shows you how to build a blog from zero, how to make it ready to accept new subscribers, how to attract visitors only from the desired city and so on.

Doing online marketing for offline companies.

We were able to get thousands of dollars from this method, but we finally decided to let other people know our method, because is doable in every part of the world where there are shops.

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

The best tip I can give you is the one to open a personal blog, where drive all your followers, now or in the next future (like I did with Blog In Da Box).
Never get depressed by IM, you have to get stronger to be a real money maker.

The first thing I recommend to newbies and people new to this niche, is trying to enter blog flipping, easy and cheap but good for earning the first money you can use to build your future.

And, last but not least, in case competition is uge on internet marketing, try to import it in your country.
Converting products from english to your language can be easy and lucrative as well !

Thanks John for this interview, I hope all your readers can crank out some to change their Internet Marketing experience !
See you soon,

Alessandro Zamboni

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Check out our new product “Offline Vortex” and learn how to make money from offline shops right in your neighbourhood.

Hi, my series of email interview is BACK!!!

For this new series, I am interviewing local entrepreneurs. And the questions will be based more on “Mindset of Entrepreneurs”.

From my own experience, striving to be successful for online and offline businesses requires you to have a strong mindset.

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1. Please share with my readers who you are and what nature of business you are running.

[Violet:] I am Violet, happily married with two wonderful kids and I am a professional matchmaker.

2. What motivates you to create your business?

[Violet:] Well, I have my ex-colleagues to thank. While working in the bank, I realised that a lot of my colleagues were single and not dating, and I was quite puzzled as they were all eligible and attractive people. Upon further investigation, I realise that it’s because they were all married to the bank. At the same time, I realised that a lot of my friends were either getting engaged or getting married. Most of my friends knew their other halves at school or at university. That’s how I met Jamie, my then boyfriend, now husband as well. It then dawned upon me that when people ‘missed the boat’ of meeting the right one while studying it gets increasingly difficult for them to meet like-minded singles thereafter.

Coincidentally, at the same time, I came across the concept of lunch dating that has been popular in UK, US and Australia but nobody has brought the idea into Singapore or even Asia at that time. Having been active in community service since I was a student, I like the idea of this concept as it combines my passion for business with my passion of helping people.

3. Were there any challenge you face along the way? Please share one which almost stop you from pursuing your dream

[Violet:] Definitely. When you are a start-up or an entrepreneur, you will be spending most of your time fire-fighting as there is no SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for you to follow. There were many challenges along the way, but with the help of my partner who is also my husband, and the rest of my team, we were able to overcome these challenges one-by-one. I don’t think there wasn’t any challenge that stop me from pursuing my dream as whatever the challenge might be, I would strive to overcome it. We had a scare when the economy collapsed, and we just expanded to Hong Kong then. But with God’s grace and team work, we pulled through and managed to build up our presence in Hong Kong.

4. How did you cope then? What motivates you to push on?

[Violet:] I believe that it is normal to feel down and out. However, just do not dwell in darkness for too long. You have to pull yourself up and face up to the challenge. When Jamie and I set up the company, we set our vision and mission statement which I refer back to if I am ever in doubt of what we are doing. I believe that we are here to help singles, and along the way, we realise that this is probably our calling. I have been blessed with a loving husband, a beautiful family and I believe that I am here to help singles out there find the happiness that I have found.

5. If there is this one tip you can share with anyone who wants to start a business, what is it?

[Violet:] There are many ways to make money. Therefore, do not go into a business just with the intention to make money. Of course it is important for any business to be profitable. But if you do not have the passion for your business, you are better off working for someone else. Keep in mind, 90% of first businesses fail in the first five years. There are many challenges and speed bumps when you start and run a business. If you do not have the passion to fuel you through, you will burn out really quickly.

6. How do you juggle your time between running your business and spending it with your family.

[Violet:] With a lot of help and support! Contrary to what some might believe, I am NOT a superwoman. I can only be doing all that I am doing because I have a team of wonderful cheerleaders and supporters – my husband, my parents, my in-laws, my extended family, my helper, my team at work who help me pursue and fulfill my dreams. I make it a point to spend the weekend with the family. Thus, if I have to work on the weekends, I would take a day off during the week to spend time with them. One of the perks of running your own business is that you have time flexibility. If I take time out from work to spend time with them in the day, I can just make it up by working at night after they have gone to bed.

7. Any other final thing you would love to share in this interview.

[Violet:] There are many paths to success and personal fulfillment. The path of entrepreneurship is not for everybody, but if you have the passion to help others through what you do, and the determination and perseverance to take the path less travelled, I strongly encourage you to pursue your dreams and reach for your stars! All the best!

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Hope you have fun reading Violet’s replies and learnt something which you can apply to your life or business.

You can read more about Violet at VioletLim.com or LunchActually.com

If you have any question for her, you can submit them in the comment box below.

1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

Hi everyone, my name is Elle Wong and I am an Internet marketer who currently resides in sunny Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. While I do various Internet Marketing activities for my online business, I’d say my forte is PPC, SEO and Product Creation.

If you’d like to get to know more of me, you can read about my background, dreams, personality, hobbies and Internet marketing ventures here: http://ellewong.com/about/

Or get in touch with me via Facebook and Twitter here:
http://facebook.com/ellewongpy
http://twitter.com/ellewong

I’d love to connect with you.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

I made my very first dollar online back in November 2008. But I’d say my first ‘real’ success in Internet marketing was between 15-17th June 2009 where I generated $14,747 online sales in 72 hours.

I’ve prepared a full case study for your readers on how it was done here:

–> http://ellewong.com/profitexplosionformula

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

One of the main obstacles I overcame was the ‘fear of losing my time and money’. I’d say I used to be quite a control freak and I wanted everything to be perfect and at no loss. As a result, this led to procrastination and well, nothing really got started.

As soon as I realized this mindset that was holding me back, my life turned around completely. Thereafter, I immediately hit the button to put my PPC campaigns to live. I lost some money at first, but I made more than quadruple the amount back through trial and error. I also started to outsource my work and learned to trust others to get the job done for me. Today I get more done… faster, easier, better and with less time and effort.

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

Stop looking for the next best opportunity and just get the ball rolling. Instead of succumbing to what is being offered to you, learn ‘HOW’ they are being offered to you instead so that you can become a better marketer.

You’ve also got to TAKE ACTION. The truth is nothing happens if you just see there and read e-mails all day.

To be on track with your actions, use a mini-sized notebook to write down your lists of to-dos for the day. Each time you complete a task, cross it out in green. The ones that are not done, use a red pen to bring it forward to the next day.

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

I wouldn’t say it’s a product/service, but it is a blueprint that I’ve put very carefully together for my readers on how to create instant 5 figures from mini product launches:

–> http://ellewong.com/profitexplosionformula

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

I’m currently working on a $100,000 a Year PLR Mentoring Program with my partner Edmund Loh. You can view the full details here:

–> PLRmentor Access Link

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

Don’t be afraid to ACT towards what your heart desires

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

Hey everyone there! My name is Dennis Sim, and I’m proud to be from the sunny side of the world in Penang, Malaysia. I’m a college student cum Internet marketer.

Well, my area of IM expertise would be affiliate marketing. I find affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online and require the least capital ($$) to kick-start my online business. I’ve also created a system for myself to capture targeted list and of course, to make unstoppable affiliate income as well. (I hate the PPC way :p)

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

I ventured into online marketing since Nov 2006. That was after I attended World Internet Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. To be frank, I didn’t make a single cent in the first few months. But until April 2007, my ClickBank account notified me that I made my first affiliate sale and I earned $4.96 in commission! Haha!

I know $4.96 is nothing to anyone out there, but it’s something to me! This $4.96 shows me that making money online is possible! From there on, I concentrate in affiliate marketing and keep on learning from other top marketers.

How I did it? Pretty easy… I got myself some PLR articles and compiled into a report. I create my own squeeze page and give away the report for free. And you’re right, my backend was promoting that affiliate program. Just drive traffic to my squeeze page and I got the money!

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt a lot from it

Being a perfectionist! I’m a perfectionist (till today) but I try NOT to when comes to business. Being a perfectionist is good because you want to make sure everything is good perfect to go. However, that will seriously harm your business.

Remember this, “Nothing Is Perfect”. If you always want to make your product perfect, it will take you forever! Because as I said, nothing is perfect, so how could you make it perfect? So, my advice is, when you think you product is GOOD to go, just go ahead! Then, you can keep on improving your product from time to time. Make sense?

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

FOCUS. Internet marketing is hard for ANYONE who keeps on looking for the next “opportunity”. This is the biggest mistake that most newbies make (including me when I started). Those who want to make money online, stay focused on one thing at a time.

Here I got a tip for you. Whenever you try something new, apply this principle. “Try Each Method For At Least 3 Times”. Let’s say you want to try affiliate marketing with PPC. Try one time, if failed, try again, and failed, try again! If really can’t make it, then only move on to the next one. If you make it, congrats! You’ve found your way to success!

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

All my products are unique (HAHA!). To be frank, I rarely launch new product to the market and I will do it if I think it’s good to share with others.

Recently, I launched a new program calls “List Nitro: Turbo-Charged List Building”. In this no-fluff report, you’ll discover how you can generate a responsive list of 5,000+ in just under 3 months (or 90 days)!

This foolproof system is simple, proven and fast. It works for ANYONE who uses it – even if you’re a complete beginner!

Currently the registration is CLOSED. But I’d like to give you the “Back-Door” access to all John’s readers here. Here’s the link: http://www.listnitro.com/backdoor.html. This is my way of saying thank you for reading my interview J

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

I’m not working at any project right. I’ve just released my List Nitro and I want to fine tune the product. As I said, focus on ONE thing at a time.

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

If you want to make real money online, you must treat Internet marketing as ‘real’ business too. You must always remember that online business is still a business. You must put as much effort as you can in order to see the results quickly.

Let’s put it this way, if you take your online business as another “part-time job”, then you’ll make a “part-time income”. If you take your online business seriously, then you’ll make a “serious income”. As simple as that J

So ask yourself a question, “You want to make a part-time income or serious income?” You make the decision.

Thanks, everyone!

Dennis Sim
–www.dennissim.com

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

This is Patricia Lin from BestWebsiteDeals.com and I am an internet marketer from Singapore. I started my internet marketing career back in 2006 when I was in University and went full-time into it after graduation just last year. I must say that my internet marketing journey has been very fulfilling because it has got me featured in the local newspaper for affiliate marketing, on a local TV primetime talkshow for making money through my blog and basically started a whole new life after graduation for me. You can find out more about me at my personal site, PatriciaLin.com

Now, 3 years into internet marketing, I have established my IM expertise in the area of website flipping. Because the demand for services by internet marketers has always been high, I decided to go into website flipping to meet the demands of internet marketers who are looking to get websites created for their businesses, personal use and for investment purposes.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

My first success in internet marketing came in the year of 2007 when I went into affiliate marketing and took time to promote several profitable clickbank products as well as online services that paid out good affiliate commissions on some of the websites that I set up together with Calvin (my boyfriend). We basically set up keyword-rich sites and drove traffic to them and at the same time, promoted the affiliate products amidst the content that we posted.

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

One obstacle which I overcame was telling everyone the business I was doing. Internet marketing was fairly unheard of back in 2006 and having to convince people what I did was really tough. But I have learnt a lot from it because it taught me the lesson – not to be afraid of chasing after my dreams. There will always be people who are going to try to stop you from going after your ideals, dreams and goals. Hence it’s important to remain focused and determined in achieving what you set out to do.

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

Learning is a continuous process. You learn from both successes and failures. Do not be afraid to fail in the first place. Those who find IM hard need to reframe their thought process and should focus on only one aspect of IM that they are interested in. There is no point trying to be a Jack of All Trades – trying to pick up article marketing, SEO, blogging, affiliate marketing and end up confusing themselves a lot further than they were when they started. It’s important for them to know what works for them and what doesn’t and move on.

5. Share with us about the uniqueness of one of your products.

The individual websites that I create are my products. I have come up with PLR ebook products but none satisfy me as much as each of the websites I sell to the general public as well as to my private clients. My products are unique virtual real estate properties that are uniquely and professionally designed to reflect the importance of each niche. Each of my website comes with a ready system guaranteed to help one set up an online business that will generate them profits. In all my internet marketing endeavours, nothing beats having a website and investing in it because it is low in cost and reaps high revenue.

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

One project I’m working on right now is WorkFromHomeSingaporeans.com. It’s basically a free IM training portal targeted towards mainly Singaporeans. It is meant to help Singaporeans be more exposed to the possibilities of working from home and the opportunities to do so with the use of the internet. The website was just launched earlier this year and we are hoping to develop it further as time goes by.

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

Internet marketing will always be evolving but the fundamentals will be the same. So long as you stick to the basics of delivering good products (if you are a product creator/developer), providing good content (if you are a writer/blogger/content-provider) and providing good value and benefit to your consumers, you will definitely be able to establish a career within this industry.

Most importantly, follow your passion and success will follow you.

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

My name is Michael Lee and I’m currently living in
the Philippines. I specialize in the persuasion and
self-improvement niche.

My IM area of expertise is in copywriting, e-book marketing
and article marketing.

I have written sales copy for a number of reputable
personalities, including Ewen Chia, Kevin Hogan, and
Mike Mograbi.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

Back then, I was intrigued by those online people “getting 6
to 7 figures annually on autopilot”. I started researching,
visiting forums, and even asking famous online marketers on
the various aspects of internet marketing. Some were glad to
guide me in my journey.

Since I am quite familiar with self-improvement after having
read tons of books about it, I decided to create a product
in the self-help topic that fascinated me the most: persuasion
and influence. I thoroughly researched, studied, and tested
the deepest secrets of persuasion.

I created my main product entitled “How to be an Expert Persuader”
at http://www.20daypersuasion.com . It’s a course that reveals
how to easily and quickly persuade anyone to do what you want,
using breakthrough techniques on persuasion and conversational
hypnosis.

It is very useful whether you want to create satisfying
relationships, boost your earnings, and tremendously succeed in
your pursuits. People were very interested in the course, and
it became a massive success!

By then, I was doing internet marketing during my spare time
because I’m still a bit unsure if I should be leaving the
comfort zone of the corporate world.

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

I remembered sleeping 3 hours a day and sacrificing my health
to attain success. (I don’t recommend putting your health at risk,
but I do recommend working harder than most people.)

Most people are afraid to get out, and are satisfied to be within,
the comfort zone of the corporate world; I’m not. I want to be my
own boss and pursue my passion.

It’s extremely difficult, but it’s all worth it in the end. I’m
now enjoying my work and have full control over my schedule.

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

One of the biggest reasons why people don’t succeed can be traced from the
very evil word known as “excuses.”

I often hear various excuses. Some say, “I’ll try” or “I’ll see.” No way.
As Yoda said, “It’s either you do it or you don’t. There is no try.” To try
is to exert a half-hearted effort. It is such a weak word. In any endeavor,
you have to push yourself to the limit. Full steam ahead.

There’s no need to make everything perfect before you take action.
Perfectionists never get anywhere because they never start until the
perfect conditions are met. And since nothing is perfect, expecting
perfection is a waste of valuable time.

The important thing is to adjust along the way. The more you don’t start
doing something, the harder it is to get started. If your will to do
something is weak, it will get weaker and weaker until you finally decide
to quit.

Use the power of momentum. Take the all-important first step, and you’re
halfway done. Take the next step, and another, then another. You will
become stronger and stronger as you take more and more steps until you
find yourself on fire and on a roll.

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

My all-time bestseller is “How To Be An Expert Persuader” at
http://www.20daypersuasion.com . It’s a course that reveals
how to easily and quickly change people’s behavior and way
of thinking, so you can have it “your way.”

What makes it unique? It’s designed to help you become a powerful
persuasion expert, step-by-step, in only 20 days or less.

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

I’m currently revising and adding a lot of powerful information in my
Expert Persuader Course at http://www.20daypersuasion.com. I’ve learned
several breakthrough persuasion techniques since I’ve last revised it,
and I will be including them in the updated version.

I will probably increase the price when this huge 2nd edition of my program
launches, but all customers who got a copy of the Expert Persuader Course
before the updated version goes live will get the 2nd edition for FREE.

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

Never give up until you are absolutely sure that it is hopeless or unless
it is better to spend time on another pursuit. For beginners who want to
get their feet wet but do not have the capital, try Bum Marketing
(http://www.bummarketingmethod.com). It is an ideal method for newbies.

Once you make money and have enough confidence to earn more, re-invest a
portion of it in paid advertisements and outsource your article writing so
you may have more time in managing your business and less time doing manual
tasks that other people can do. Some of the great outsourcing sites
include elance.com, rentacoder.com, and scriptlance.com.

Thanks a lot,
Mike

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

My name is Fabian and I’m from Singapore…I’m known pretty much as a prolific article marketer and list builder in various niches. My areas of expertise are article marketing, list building and affiliate marketing.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

My first success came pretty early in my Internet marketing career. The first step is always the first sale. Once you can get that first sale, your belief becomes stronger and you start taking more positive actions to reach your goals.

I still remember my first sale – it was a $20 Clickbank affiliate sale. I used Google Adwords to get that sale and I was probably about $15 in profit, so I was pretty happy with that at that time. In the next few days, I started having $100+ days and I started to belief that there was really lots of money to be made online. So that sort of gave me that confidence to go on and work at things.

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

The biggest obstacle personally for me was cash flow. I like to use a mix of paid and free traffic generation methods and the paid methods are all about how much money you can invest to increase your profits. If you put in $1 in a machine and it produces $2 every time, how many dollars would you put in? That’s a question often posed in Internet marketing courses and it resonates well with me.

So the thing I have learnt is to maximize your current resources and reinvest a portion of the profits into the business. If you maximize your resources, you have more cash to distribute back into marketing which increases your profits again. The secret to increasing profits is to improve the 4 major parts of business (number of leads, conversion rates, average profit per transaction, repeat purchases) by just 5% to 10% constantly.

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

The biggest thing is to find out your ‘Why’. Once your ‘why’ is very strong, you’re on the straight line to success. If you find out the reason why you’re going into Internet business, and it is a very strong reason, you will then take lots of positive actions (studying marketing, testing, creating products etc) that will take you to your goal.

For example, a reason might to be quit your day job. Or working just a few hours a day so you might be able to have more family time. I personally find that the successful marketers are those who had a very strong desire to strike out on their own, quit their day jobs and build a real business.

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

I have a product called Article Insider Profits at http://www.articleinsiderprofits.com which shares my formula for article marketing success. It is not the usual article marketing product that talks about Bum Marketing. Instead, I talk about building a real business of your own on the back of article marketing.

Bum Marketing is more for promoting affiliate products, and I take that concept and turn article marketing into a part of a bigger whole, which produces greater long-term profits and brand name recognition.

So I feel that’s unique.

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

I’m currently working on a few projects. One is the http://www.RealInternetEmpire.com program in which I personally build a list, risk-free. There isn’t a better ‘do nothing and build a list’ deal out there.

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

Treat Internet marketing well and it will treat you well But seriously, the key is to really want it and desire it. Once you have that belief, desire and enthusiasm for Internet marketing success, you will find that you will be more focused, creative and action-driven.

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Some bio:
Full name: Andrew Wee
Bio: Andrew blogs about blogging, affiliate marketing and social traffic generation at WhoIsAndrewWee.com . He is also co-founder of internet marketing resource site, InternetMarketingCookbook.com

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

Andrew Wee.
I live in Singapore.

Although some may think of me as a blogger, I am also involved in creating product, helped launched products and provide consulting to internet marketers, merchants and affiliate networks.

In addition, I speak regularly at industry events, including the Affiliate Summit, the largest tradeshow/seminar for affiliate marketers, and the Facebook Developer’s Garage seminar series.

I’m also a member of the Yahoo! MyBlogLog advisory board.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

Back in 2006, I had a conversation with a fellow internet marketer about doing a case study focused on earning US$1,000 within 24 hours.

I created a product over 2 days, covering the basics of affiliate marketing. I priced it at $9.97 and placed it online.

I actually didn’t make $1,000 in 24 hours…

I hit that in 12 hours. At the end of the 24 hour period, I racked up $1,500 in sales. Almost all of it was pure profit.

Things have been going swimmingly ever since.

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

Being able to focus. With numerous opportunities available online, it’s easy to get sidetracked.

Here’s one dirty secret the “gurus” would have you believe.
Although it sounds fun to have 100 websites making $1 per day, the reality is the effort of maintaining that many websites, or avoid getting them blacklisted/spamboxed/delisted is pretty high.

So you’re much better off focusing on one, or a maximum of 2, major projects at one time.

Once you’ve stabilized that successful site, you can move on to your next project, or if you choose too, you can funnel off cashflow from your first site to fund your second site and take it easy.
That’s the way to create a passive stream of income.

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

Internet marketing is hard only because most people are not willing to put in the time and effort to master their core business.
You’re familiar with the 80:20 Pareto principle.

Online, I think the 90:10 rule holds true.
10% of the marketers make 90% of the income.
You want to be in the 10%.

Too many marketers shortchange themselves by meeting the bare minimum – eg: meeting the bare requirement to fill up an ebook, putting in the bare minimum of time to get a project off the ground.
Bare minimum thinking will lead to bare minimum results.

Forget about reading blogs and forums, and spend more time on your business.

Do a time audit if you need to. If you find you’re spending 90% of your time reading ebooks, forums, blogs, or other non-productive activities, take it as a wakeup call to get back to basics.

A focus on taking action can only yield results.

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

I get many emails from blog readers about
a) setting up their internet business
b) growing their internet business from a few hundred dollars a month to something that they can actually live on

Because I can’t spend too much time answering every email (I follow my own advice and am focused on managing my business), I roped in a partner, Danielle Nagami from MsDanielle.com to help me develop an internet marketing resource site.

Danielle’s a search engine optimization (SEO) and linkbuilding specialist, who’s worked with some of the biggest merchants to achieve page 1 and 2 rankings for some of the most competitive keywords in finance.

The result is our “baby” – InternetMarketingCookbook.com which was launched on August 1st.

The site is unique because we’ve shared the techniques that we’ve used to build our businesses and it’s based on our own testing and optimization process.

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

Besides the InternetMarketingCookbook, another site I’m in the process of developing is an affiliate marketing resource site. The launch date has not been confirmed yet, but it should be available sometime in late September.

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

The one tip which will guarantee you success is the one that most people don’t want to hear: hard work.

If you’re focused on your goal (you have them written out, don’t you?) and are putting in consistent effort geared towards achieving it, there’s no reason why you should not be successful in your online efforts.

Readers can follow up with my projects at WhoIsAndrewWee.com and follow me at http://twitter.com/andrewwee

To get on Andrew’s private maling list and access exclusive content, check out http://whoisandrewwee.com/membersonly/

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

Hi there. I’m Desmond Ong from DesmondBlog.com. I’m currently staying in Kuala Lumpur. I don’t have a specific area of IM expertise but I am widely known as a site flipping expert, product launch expert and niche marketing expert.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

My first success took some time because I’ve wasted a lot of time making money through eBay. I started making the big pile of money when I started to get into the niche marketing business.

I was selling $97 eBooks and I was hooked when I started to sold a few copies in the first week.

I like to call myself SEO-retarded because I am simply too lazy to learn about the search engines and how to game it. So, driving organic traffic was definitely something that I was not good at. I managed to overcome that by paying for traffic through PPC.

That’s how I managed to get those sales for my eBooks.

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

I think the worst obstacle that I’ve got is probably not having enough time to manage my online business. As I am a college student, it’s pretty difficult for me to juggle my social life, family, education as well as my online business.

I find that I could take good care of my time better as soon as I started using a to-do list.

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

Action SCREAMS louder than words.

I’ve trained A LOT of people and given them A LOT of opportunities and most of them just gave up halfway because they don’t take actions and procrastinate too much.

There’s no way you will be making money online if you don’t take action. It’s like waiting for a free lunch – which is not possible.

I also think that a lot of people who think IM is hard like to blame other people for their failures. They tend to blame the gurus for their mistakes which is just stupid in my opinion.

They need to understand that for every mistake they made, they are learning something new – and learned how to avoid that same mistake again.

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

I would say the most unique product or service that I’ve ever created is probably my personal coaching program that is not for sale.

I worked really hard to train my students from zeros to heros because I can see the joys when some of my students called me up in the middle of the nights just to tell me they raked in $500 or so.

I pay very close attention to my private students because I want them to learn what they deserved to learn and guide them away from those so-called gurus.

I also have a product called The Site Flipping Code (www.siteflippingcode.com) which I created together with my business partner, Jani G from London. That is the first ever product where I actually partner someone else instead of developing the whole product myself. Also, I’ve spent countless hours to develop and test the product’s quality. So, I guess that makes it a unique product.

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

I am working on a new product launch called The Niche Funnel System (http://www.nichefunnelsystem/) which is a gigantic course about effective and easy niche marketing.

I’ve seen a lot of internet marketers made the #1 mistake – not thinking long term. If you look at the top dogs in IM, all of them have businesses in information business or more particularly, niche marketing businesses AND all of them think long term.

That is how The Niche Funnel System comes into play.

This course will teach you about how to run a network of niche sites that can bring in 5-figure passive income just by following step-by-step instructions and skip most of the mistakes that most internet marketers are making.

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

Just do it. Nike says just do it. So, just do it.

When I got started, everyone was convincing me that I was heading to the wrong direction – and I proved them wrong a couple of years later. If you believe in what you’re doing – I suggest you to just do it.

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1. Please introduce your name, who you are, which country are you staying in and your area of IM expertise

Hi everyone, I am Davion Wong and I live in the sunny island of Singapore.

My forte is niche marketing and article marketing. Currently ranked Top 50 out of 180,000 authors in EzineArticles, I have created a complete hybrid income system for traffic generation, lead capture and sales conversion.

Article marketing alone has brought in over 3 million visitors within 2 years and it is part of the system.

Another part of the system is my blog network as I own a growing network of WordPress blogs in various niches.

My company now markets in over 10 niches.

2. Share with us your first success in Internet Marketing and how did you do that

I experienced my first success in Internet Marketing when I managed to build it from zero to a 5-figure monthly income within 12 months.

But it was not always rosy and the initial year, 2006 to 2007 was a year of hard knocks.

I had to learn from scratch and there was no kind soul to offer the help needed.

One thing I learnt was to stay focused. By staying focused, I worked on a single course of action, a single plan and was able to scale it up.

If I may add, my faith has been the primary reason and source of my strength when I face disappointments in the business.

3. Share with us one obstacle which you have overcome and you have learnt alot from it

Never be afraid to try. Frankly, when I first heard about article marketing, I was quite skeptical and it took me a long while to decide to start writing my 1st article.

However, when that very first was ranked No.1 in Google out of 2,000,000 results, I was completely won over. That led me to scale up my article marketing efforts and I now have well over 1000 articles online driving 1000s of visitors daily to my sites.

The second challenge came when WordPress blogging caught on. Once again, I was faced with the challenge of learning something new.

But my article marketing experience told me that it is possible and well, I started and have never regretted the decision since then. Now, I own a network of blogs that continue to grow fast!

4. Share with us one mindset tip you would like to share with others, especially those who find IM hard

I know that a lot of newbies come online to “test” water. I was one of them except that I had the mindset of wanting to succeed.

This is very important as online marketing may seem difficult initially and with the mire of information overload, many newbies and even those who have been trying for a year or two give up.

Know your strengths and develop a simple to follow plan. Frankly, the first hurdle is always the first sale. Once you get it, you will get hooked.

Trust me, I have taught a number of folks, and one of more students told me that ever since he made his first sale, that totally broke his mindset that money cannot be made online.

Once you make your first sale, it is time to scale things up.

Now, successful marketers succeed not because they are smarter or what. They just follow a simple formula, if something works, scale it up.

So if you realize that article marketing works for you, then scale it up. Write more, submit more and outsource.

The important thing is to find something that works for you, improve and fine tune the process and automate it by outsourcing.

That is my secret to multiplying income streams.

If you need some help, contact me.

5. Share with us one product/ service of yours which you feel is very unique

I am going to be greedy here as I am proud of my products!

For those who seriously want to start making real money online, check out “Article Cash Robots” at http://www.ArticleCashRobots.com.

Since it was published in Oct 2008, thousands of this complete article marketing blueprint have been sold.

And for all those who have the patience and determination to build a recession-proof business, read my “Grow My Cash Lists” report at http://www.GrowMyCashLists.com

This is a complete list building system that takes you through the A to Z of building a 10K list that you can continue selling to. It’s truly Push Button cash!

6. One project you are working on right now and you would like my readers to know

I am concurrenly working on 2 projects.

The first one will be ready in Aug. There will be a soft launch only. It is a membership site where I show anyone how to build a 6 figure income from scratch.

The membership provides the training material and 2 income streams – Fast Track Profit Packs and Turnkey Businesses and is a highly affordable membership.

For those who are totally lost or not making enough money, this membership could well be the key to it. It is perfect for newbies and experienced marketers alike.

The second project is a mega-scale project. Here’s a sneak peek:

If you have heard of SENuke, SEOBruteforce and Mass Article Control, then you will be awed by this mass domination system I am building.

It is a complete submission, link building and traffic generation system that automates all these.

Now, I have been hearing folks complaining about these high-priced “toys” and so, when it is ready, I am going to offer it at a reasonable pricing.

My desire is to make sure that even the average guy can afford this software and finally be able to make some serious income.

So watch out for it!

7. One last tip you want to share with my readers

Stay focused and don’t give up too fast. If you have the gumption, seriously want to make it online but need help, feel free to contact me at >> davionw08 @ gmail.com

Cheers,
Davion Wong
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