Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

It’s My Birthday!

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Woot! I’ve finally lived to a ripe old age of 24 today!

Things in the works:

  1. Saving for Marriage
  2. Building lucrative Internet business
  3. Million Dollar Round Table target
  4. Purchasing own home
  5. Purchasing own car

Yup, I think that’s pretty much it! My top 5 largest goals to achieve before age 25!

Oh, and if any of you want to get me a laptop, I’d be more than happy to accept. How? Buy those ebooks on the right side of the screen under “Top 5 Affiliate Programs”.

Or you can send me money thru my Paypal Account: sebastiancheok [at] gmail [dot] com.

I’ll probably unload the 2 GB of information I’ve collected over the past year reading about Internet Marketing! Show me the money!

Have You Ever Noticed…

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

That it’s easier for you to get an email address from a person than a phone number?

I’m an insurance agent by profession, and part of my job is to do cold-calling, or finding new prospects to speak to. There are many ways to do this, but since I’m neither attractive or particularly appealing, I had to get creative with the way I get information from strangers.

Of course, plenty of experienced agents told me to get their phone numbers, and then call them to set an appointment to meet. But since I’ve had some experience in Internet Marketing, I decided to try a different method.

I printed a page stating “FREE EBOOK for those who complete my survey and provide an email address!”

Naturally people would get suspicious about people offering free gifts, but hey, email addresses are hardly intrusive. Why not just provide your email address for something free?

I’ve read an article a long time ago stating that if you wanna increase your chances of  getting contact information from a babe in a bar, you should ask for her email address. Again, because it’s less intrusive and if she doesn’t wanna see you again, she just needs to place you in her spam filters!

The relation to Internet Marketing? I guess I’m grateful for the new tactics I’ve learned and I’m glad I found a place for them in the offline world.

Enthusiasm!

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I’ve recently come back from 2 church camps, and I must blog about them!

No, I’m not gonna go all spiritual and deep with all my readers, because this is primarily a Business Building blog, and it would be inappropriate content!

But here’s something that I’ve learned in camp that IS relevant: Enthusiasm.

I was a facilitator for both camps, and part of the job of a facilitator is to bring your people whole-heartedly into the conversation. And because it’s a church camp, everything is voluntary, so you can’t threaten people into listening to you.

I’m a person that’s all about FUN. I believe that if you enjoy what you do, it will seem less of a chore than something that you would gladly do. And that’s especially important in church work because sometimes the work is long and tedious, but if you know how to enjoy yourself, you will continue on and learn even more ways you can contribute to church and be satisfied with the results.

So that’s what I did! I brought a sense of enthusiasm into my group, telling them that since they’re already here, they might as well enjoy themselves! And they have!

(You can tell by reading my Friendster comments.)

What has this got to do with Internet Marketing or Business Building?

I’ve got to admit. The lack of activity or income from IM has been extremely discouraging, and because of my lack of enthusiasm, my losing focus, I’ve just been slacking around the house.

Working for yourself is pretty much like being in a church group. You have to be self-motivated, and extremely enthusiastic, not losing sight of the goal despite the different obstacles you might face. And you also have to know that the people around you are also affected by your mood, in our case it would be our computer and ISP. (After all, if you aren’t motivated, they’re useless to you!)

Find a way to stick to your goals, and never forget what they are. Remember why you set down the path in the first place, and borrowing the words from “Meet the Robinsons“, Keep Moving Forward!