In Singapore, there is a Singapore dream that epitomize the successful Singaporean.
Singapore Dream
It goes something like this: He attends primary and secondary schools, then attends junior colleges, all the time scoring either close to 100 marks and getting straight As while excelling in sports and other extra curriculum activities. Then, he got a scholarship to study in the universities, find a good job in the government sector or multinationals corporations, and got married. Have a few kids, then acquire more assets like cars, properties and so on. Then when he reached 60 years old, he would retire with his grandchildren all around. And then....he dies.
Kiasu and Kiasi
I believe that this Kiasu and Kiasi dream is sold to every single one of us since we learn to listen to words and are able to talk. Anyone that fails to live up to this dream is a failure in that aspect.
Living Dangerously
There are many ways to live, and a stable and unpredictable life is what many people would like. Living dangerously is reserved for the rich and the powerful. Fast cars and skydiving. I believe that once you have stored up enough savings, you can take a break from work. Go overseas or stay at home to meditate. You might be amazed at what you are missing all these years, trying to make the Singapore dream come true.
220 days in Adsense Guild
This week is another record week. Updates as follows:
Website rankings updates:
19/11/2011 - 341,151 (Pagerank 2/10)
Second site vs this Blog (with minimal marketing)
19/11/2011 - 464,050, (website - Pagerank 0/10)
19/11/2011 - 1,311,371 (blog)
Website rankings updates:
19/11/2011 - 341,151 (Pagerank 2/10)
Second site vs this Blog (with minimal marketing)
19/11/2011 - 464,050, (website - Pagerank 0/10)
19/11/2011 - 1,311,371 (blog)
11 Questions For Should I Be Leaving My Job
Answer 'Yes', 'No' or 'Maybe' to the following questions:
1. Do you try to reach the office as late as possible?
2. Do you try to leave the office as early as possible?
3. Would you find the slightest reason to take medical leave?
4. Do you volunteer for challenging tasks?
5. Are you surfing the net in the office whenever you are bored?
6. Do you attend investment or side business seminars during the weekends?
7. Do you feel tired after a work day for a prolonged period?
8. Do you notice a lack in interest in doing anything? For example, you find the world boring and yourself lacking in energy.
9. Do you complain to your co-workers?
10. Are you noticing more white-hairs?
11. Do you think there are no prospects in your current job?
Scoring Criteria:
If you have answered 'Yes' for more than 50% of the above questions, then seriously you might need to look for another job for a change in environment.
If you have answered 'Maybe' for more than 50% of the above questions, then you need to watch out for borderline tiredness. A one-week break might cure it.
If you have answered 'No' for more than 50% of the above questions, then congrats. You shouldnt even be here in the first place. Your bosses are treating you very well.
1. Do you try to reach the office as late as possible?
2. Do you try to leave the office as early as possible?
3. Would you find the slightest reason to take medical leave?
4. Do you volunteer for challenging tasks?
5. Are you surfing the net in the office whenever you are bored?
6. Do you attend investment or side business seminars during the weekends?
7. Do you feel tired after a work day for a prolonged period?
8. Do you notice a lack in interest in doing anything? For example, you find the world boring and yourself lacking in energy.
9. Do you complain to your co-workers?
10. Are you noticing more white-hairs?
11. Do you think there are no prospects in your current job?
Scoring Criteria:
If you have answered 'Yes' for more than 50% of the above questions, then seriously you might need to look for another job for a change in environment.
If you have answered 'Maybe' for more than 50% of the above questions, then you need to watch out for borderline tiredness. A one-week break might cure it.
If you have answered 'No' for more than 50% of the above questions, then congrats. You shouldnt even be here in the first place. Your bosses are treating you very well.
Benefits Of Starting Your Own Business
Last week, we discussed the downside of starting your own business. This week, we going to be touching on the upside of owning your own business:
Collect All The Revenue
When you own a business, either with someone working for you or you working alone, all the revenue that comes in goes into your pockets. This is different from working from someone, such as being a salesman, and seeing the revenue going into the employer's.
Flexibility Of Time
Some days you felt like working hard, some days you felt like taking a break. Other times, you might want to settle something important in your life in the mornings, and only can work in the nights. Regardless of your working circumstances, there are lots of flexibility when having your own business. What's more, if you have no dates over the weekend, you can work your weekends off, and earn more money at the same time.
Unlimited Income
Every employer will give a standard 3-5% increment in monthly salary every year. This is not really proportional to the amount of effort that you have put in. For example, if you are working on 12 hours workdays, you might still be getting the same amount of salary, versus another employee working the standard 8 hours per working day.
So, if you have decided to embark on own your business, these are the benefits that you would be getting. But, do be warned though, that the enormous returns might not come immediately, and your first paycheck might be 6 months later or a year later. If you have set aside enough money for your daily expenses, and daily operating costs, for the next 12-18 months, then you are ready to start your journey.
The Adsense Guild program is very suitable for such a goal. It is not a get-rich quick scheme, but presents a robust online business model that would generates revenues for those who would put in the hard work and time.
Collect All The Revenue
When you own a business, either with someone working for you or you working alone, all the revenue that comes in goes into your pockets. This is different from working from someone, such as being a salesman, and seeing the revenue going into the employer's.
Flexibility Of Time
Some days you felt like working hard, some days you felt like taking a break. Other times, you might want to settle something important in your life in the mornings, and only can work in the nights. Regardless of your working circumstances, there are lots of flexibility when having your own business. What's more, if you have no dates over the weekend, you can work your weekends off, and earn more money at the same time.
Unlimited Income
Every employer will give a standard 3-5% increment in monthly salary every year. This is not really proportional to the amount of effort that you have put in. For example, if you are working on 12 hours workdays, you might still be getting the same amount of salary, versus another employee working the standard 8 hours per working day.
So, if you have decided to embark on own your business, these are the benefits that you would be getting. But, do be warned though, that the enormous returns might not come immediately, and your first paycheck might be 6 months later or a year later. If you have set aside enough money for your daily expenses, and daily operating costs, for the next 12-18 months, then you are ready to start your journey.
The Adsense Guild program is very suitable for such a goal. It is not a get-rich quick scheme, but presents a robust online business model that would generates revenues for those who would put in the hard work and time.
213 days in Adsense Guild
Ever since joining Adsense Guild, I am surrounded with people who have the same goal as me. That is, to make passive income that will supplement either my day job income, or to become an independent income by itself.
So far, it seems like sites that are basically auto-blogs are affected the most. With lower income earnings, and lesser traffic. Updates for this week as follows:
Website rankings updates:
12/11/2011 - 349,829 <- Hardly moving in ranking
Second site vs this Blog (with minimal marketing)
12/11/2011 - 473,052, (website)
12/11/2011 -1,310,828 (blog)
What You Would Lose When You Go Into Full-time Internet Marketing
There are so many websites telling people that if they want to get rich they should be quitting their jobs and going into business themselves. I wont deny that going into business is good and there are lots of money to be made than working for someone else.
However, what these sites did not tell you is that in any business, the customers do not really care about your paper qualifications. You can have the best mba, bachelor degrees from the top universities in the world, and yet if you dont have any value add to your customers, they will abandon you in no time.
Such is the contrast to working for someone else. In Singapore, employers generally hire based on your qualifications first. This is so evident in government agencies, statutory boards and the multi-national corporations (MNCS). They also compensate appropriately for your experience.
Now, I hoped I have not burst your dream of starting your own business, online or offline. But I were a lot like you when I started 213 days ago. Luckily, I did not throw away my job. Looking back, despite the progress made in earning passive income, if I knew there were so much work involved in internet marketing, I would not want to go into it. So many hours of free time were spent on it.
Did I mention the frustration of hiring freelancers to do some of the work for me? Money really makes the world goes round. When you pay too little, nobody would want to do anything for you. When you pay the right amount, freelancers would raise issue that they arent familiar with your website material and need to be paid more for more time spent on the assigned tasks. All these time, money is just dripping out of my own pockets.
If after reading this posting, and you still want to join Adsense Guild, then you would have joined a group of elite internet marketing gurus, myself excluded :(
Adsense Guild Members Are Progressing Well
Progress has been good for everyone in the Guild for the month of October, with higher earnings. This is despite so many people in other internet marketing forums, complaining that their Adsense earnings have been hurt by the recent google algorithm updates.So far, it seems like sites that are basically auto-blogs are affected the most. With lower income earnings, and lesser traffic. Updates for this week as follows:
Website rankings updates:
12/11/2011 - 349,829 <- Hardly moving in ranking
Second site vs this Blog (with minimal marketing)
12/11/2011 - 473,052, (website)
12/11/2011 -1,310,828 (blog)
Ranking of This Blog On Adsense Guild
This blog has suffered the fate of ranking lower and lower. Most probably Google has detected that there are hardly anything, other than my rambling about the performance of my sites. If you have came across this site, because you would like to quit your job and join the internet marketing crowd, do you know what you are losing?What You Would Lose When You Go Into Full-time Internet Marketing
There are so many websites telling people that if they want to get rich they should be quitting their jobs and going into business themselves. I wont deny that going into business is good and there are lots of money to be made than working for someone else.
However, what these sites did not tell you is that in any business, the customers do not really care about your paper qualifications. You can have the best mba, bachelor degrees from the top universities in the world, and yet if you dont have any value add to your customers, they will abandon you in no time.
Such is the contrast to working for someone else. In Singapore, employers generally hire based on your qualifications first. This is so evident in government agencies, statutory boards and the multi-national corporations (MNCS). They also compensate appropriately for your experience.
Now, I hoped I have not burst your dream of starting your own business, online or offline. But I were a lot like you when I started 213 days ago. Luckily, I did not throw away my job. Looking back, despite the progress made in earning passive income, if I knew there were so much work involved in internet marketing, I would not want to go into it. So many hours of free time were spent on it.
Did I mention the frustration of hiring freelancers to do some of the work for me? Money really makes the world goes round. When you pay too little, nobody would want to do anything for you. When you pay the right amount, freelancers would raise issue that they arent familiar with your website material and need to be paid more for more time spent on the assigned tasks. All these time, money is just dripping out of my own pockets.
If after reading this posting, and you still want to join Adsense Guild, then you would have joined a group of elite internet marketing gurus, myself excluded :(
207 days in Adsense Guild
Website rankings updates:
06/11/2011 - 350,505
Second site vs this Blog (with minimal marketing)
06/11/2011 - 478,131, (website)
06/11/2011 -1,211,959 (blog) <- Seems like the ranking for this blog is dropping everyday. This is obvious for there are hardly any visitors, except for myself.
I am happy with the progress I have made so far, working on the websites whenever I can pluck out free time from my extremely demanding day job. As of today, I am working from 8am until 10pm every weekday and weekends working from 8am to 4pm. With this kind of work life, if not for the monthly income, nobody would want to spend so many hours in the office.
Greatly welcomed the 2 days of break from work, allowing me to have a certain perspective on my life and catching up on other aspects, achieving some form of work-life balance.
06/11/2011 - 350,505
Second site vs this Blog (with minimal marketing)
06/11/2011 - 478,131, (website)
06/11/2011 -1,211,959 (blog) <- Seems like the ranking for this blog is dropping everyday. This is obvious for there are hardly any visitors, except for myself.
I am happy with the progress I have made so far, working on the websites whenever I can pluck out free time from my extremely demanding day job. As of today, I am working from 8am until 10pm every weekday and weekends working from 8am to 4pm. With this kind of work life, if not for the monthly income, nobody would want to spend so many hours in the office.
Greatly welcomed the 2 days of break from work, allowing me to have a certain perspective on my life and catching up on other aspects, achieving some form of work-life balance.
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