Social Proof Why Malaysians Should Be Making Money Online Via Blogging

There are lots of Malaysians secretly making thousands of dollars on the Internet - a fact that is largely ignored by the Malaysian public.

Malaysians are also susceptible to trends just like anyone else - meaning that they will only consider a business opportunity when many others are getting involved in it or when their friends started making money from it.

Ask yourselves this question:

How many seminars and talks have you attended that has truly changed your life?

I know one which might…

Blogging is the key to financial freedom and residual income

My friends Melvin Ng & Steven Wong are running one of the most affordable seminars in the heart of KL/PJ and I had a chance to preview their content.

It is a hands on Blogging Boot Camp that is designed to help any technical dummy to start their own blogs and help existing bloggers increase their profits using a turn-key Search Engine Optimization (SEO) blueprint.

I also happen to be a real life testament to their blogging techniques. I’ve comfortably retired from ever needing to work in a 9-5 job because I’ve used some of their methods to create a network of blogs (assets) that is generating me a 4-figure income on autopilot (not including my other sources of income from writing). So if someone tell me that you can’t make money with blogs, then we’ll see who gets up and drive to work every morning.

(I don’t mean to brag, but I’m driving this point in because a lot of people out there are in need of a SERIOUS reality check about the potential of online marketing.)

Click HERE to check it out.

If you haven’t started an Internet marketing business or you lack the motivation of starting one, then here’s 5 reasons why you should…

(1) Blogs toppled the Malaysian Government

The downfall of the ruling party - their failure to get a 2/3 majority in the general elections is widely publicized in the news.

It is not a secret that the opposition coalition has been using Blogging, YouTube, Social Marketing, Web 2.0 and Viral Marketing to spread their campaigns around.

(taken from Jeff Ooi dot com.)

Those who say that blogging doesn’t make money or influence anyone should learn from the politicians.

If you don’t have a blog today, you are outdated.

(2) Some of the tools you use everyday are gold mines and you don’t know it

Do you use Google a lot?

How about YouTube?

FaceBook as well…

Yep, the stuff that you use on a daily basis has been used by bloggers to make money massively and drive tons of traffic to their websites as well.

(3) Insurance, MLM and Real Estate Opportunities are going out of style because of oil price hike

These are great industries to be in and you can earn a lot of money from each and every one of them. After all, Malaysian is supposed to be a land of opportunity, right?

At one point in time, everyone wanted to join the MLM band wagon. There are lots of people getting into the insurance industry, others becoming real estate negotiators and so on…

But I notice that the trends are shifting. For one good reason:

Petrol Prices.

The state of the Malaysian economy NOT good.

The recent increase in oil prices by RM0.80 is going to turn a lot of industries inside out and the scary thing is - the salaries of most Malaysians are NOT going to match the price hike.

Yup, a hundred Ringgit can barely fill a tank for my Honda CRV.

It’s NOT COOL to be driving all over town to meet clients (buying them lunch) and getting caught in traffic jams that drains your petrol.

Blogging is definitely IN because of it’s LOW COST model and LOW MAINTAINANCE. You can even get a blog started with less than a hundred Ringgit.

(4) Low Cost High Profit Businesses

With people spending less money because of the economy, they tend to take less risks. They just don’t have the stomach for it.

Take the food industry for example… it’s getting more and more competitive (e.g. the price of rice going up).

It’s hard to dump a hundred thousand dollars for a business with no guarantee of return of investment.

Even for FOREX & other stock market ‘opportunities’, you still have to come out with lots of capital.

If I had that kind of capital, I would rather invest in a team of bloggers and create a few hundred blogs.

(5) Large corporations are turning to blogs

Blogging gives large corporations ‘a face’.

In the past, corporations are considered impersonal and structured - very hard for the common buyer to interact with them.

Now with the rise of blogs, people are able to relate to them and check new updates every now and then.

It’s time to generate some passive income.

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The Battle Against The Blobs

I hate being fat.

I used hate myself even more because of the fact that I’ve gotten so used to being fat at one point that I had ’sort of’ accepted being fat as a reality - my reality…

16 weeks ago, I DECLARED an all out ‘WAR against the WEIGHT’… and I’ve won my first battle!

Disclaimer: (You are about to see some grotesque pictures of my formally obese body - so don’t blame me if you can’t eat your lunch)

16 Weeks (18/2/08) Ago Versus Now (09/06/08)

Front View

Side View

Rear View

Guys And Girls, Meet Trainer Qunling

It is my great honor to introduce to you my friend, fitness trainer, mentor and inspiration - Trainer Qunling.

He is the one responsible for replacing my obscene, obese body with something acceptable.

I’ve spent the last 16 weeks undergoing intense, fat burning, muscle building, back-breaking workouts with Qunling who happens to be a very experienced and results oriented fitness trainer.

Even as I stare into the mirror every morning, I thought that I’ve undergone a brain transplant because ‘it doesn’t look like (the old) me anymore’!

This guy does more than help his clients lose weight… he’s the Da Vinci of fitness when it comes to building bodies because he treats his client’s results as a work of art and turns it into his masterpiece.

Not only that, his intimate knowledge of fitness and weight loss has given me more than a better body but a new inspiration - not just in fitness, but in building up mental strength when it comes to handling challenges as well!

(He has blogged about me as well - read his post here)

Why I’ve Been Secretive About My Training…

If you really want to know, then here is a flashback regarding my once in a lifetime encounter with Qunling….

Sometime after the middle of January, I fell sick. I was so sick for such a long period of time that it became a HUGE turning point in my life.

For a more detailed story on what happened, read my previous blog post - The Power Of Turning Problems Into Opportunities.

You see, I’ve been obese for years.

I’ve tried virtually every other diet plan to the point that if network marketing reps (MLMers) approached me with their weight loss products in an attempted to convert me into a customer, I think I would bankrupt their company because of their money back guarantee! (this is exaggerating… of course… but I’ve tried them all over the years - Detox, Atkins, Herbalife, High Protein but none of them worked!)

So I continued to eat like a pig and I turned a deaf year towards persecution.

My brother Khai Lee once posted a heartwarming entry about Protecting The Fat Kids From Getting Punished During Chinese New Year.

Here’s what he said:

“My older brother, who has long ago decided being fat was no big deal (pun), has to endure this.

“Good thing he developed a few defense mechanisms against my extended family. The most powerful being “Wall of ignorance”. It’s almost as though he puts on an invisible cloak, as he goes for the next plate of rice.”

Don’t get me wrong… I’m not offended by his remark.

In fact, if you read his blog post carefully, he was simply sympathizing with fat people as they endure the tribunal of the ‘horizontally-challenged inquisition party’

Although I thank my brother for his sympathy, deep down I KNEW that I shouldn’t accept this as my fate.

The future is NOT written in stone and neither should I accept my plump predicament as a fatso enclosed in a bloated body while being forced to endure an onslaught of ‘Yo’ Momma’s so fat…’ jokes for the rest of my life.

It’s time to make a change.

Qunling emailed me one day because he needed my help with Internet marketing so I met up with him at McDonalds (yup… McD… Ironically I began Fighting Fats in a Fat laden Fast Food joint)

Seeking a permanent solution, I popped the million dollar question, “Qunling, can you help me to lose weight?”

He said, “yes’… even though my mind gave me a thousand reasons why I would fail before I even started (these ‘demonic’ dream stealing voices must be silenced or they will rob your future).

I began the grueling task to change my habits and I started my journey down a ‘narrower’ road (pun intended).

I made a deal with myself - this is my LAST RESORT.

If this doesn’t work, I might as well be fat for the rest of my life.

Therefore I kept this a secret as much as I could, especially from my parents and my brothers… not because I perceived that they wouldn’t support my decision, but because I want my RESULTS to speak LOUDER than my resolutions.

The Torture Begins

Shedding an obscene amount of weight is really a ‘heavy’ matter…

I’m a peace loving guy by nature, but after going through weeks of Qunling’s training, I’ve learned dozens of ways that you can torture someone else…

Running Non-stop while carrying a heavy barbell

Killer Exercise Routines

Excruciating Pain - Lifting Weights While Holding 25Kgs In The Bag

The Hardest Of All - Scaling A Slope With 30Kgs Of Weight And No ROPE

These pictures are not intended to scare you. In fact, I would consider myself a sucker for pain - otherwise I wouldn’t come back for more.

Finishing The Race

After 16 weeks of exercise, I’ve finally reached my first milestone.

I’ve lost 6.5 Kg, Dropped 6.2% in terms of Bodily fats, increase half a kg of lean muscle, and lost 4.1 inches on my waist (I need to get a new wardrobe!)

Here’s Trainer Qunling’s official report regarding my progress…

Trainer’s Comments:

- Not being able to even do 1 push up on day 1, doing more than 200 in 1 training session now

- Not being able to even do 1 pull up, doing 5-8 reps without any assistance now

- Not being able to jog for even 5 minutes, he can now jog with 40kg plus of resistance

- Started off with hypertension, now having a regulated blood pressure

- Started off with a high beating heart rate, now with a low and constant resting heart rate on a daily basis

- Started off with a set of “man boobs” , now its forming into a set of man chest

- Massive fat loss from the body especially the waist, cutting off the spare tyre

- Used to out of the fitness chart beyond obese, now in the category of acceptable

My Take On Fitness Today…

Here’s my take on my fitness journey with Qunling…

You don’t know the meaning of pain until you are trained by Qunling.

His fitness regime is hell incarnate… But his results - are nothing short of heavenly!

Qunling’s training proves that you can turn the impossible to the possible no matter what your circumstances are.

I’m living proof of his declaration - that there is no such thing as ‘I CANNOT… but simply I WILL NOT’

As I look back and ponder, I recall that my life is filled with moments of ‘fat loss’ inspiration but lacking the desire and the methods to pull it off…

So for nostalgia sake, I’ll just share with you my top 5 inspirations that gave me the strength I’ve needed through tough times…

(5) Shoemoney used to be fat

Top blogger Shoemoney blogged about how he used to weight 420 pounds. Indeed, he was at least TWICE my weight to the point that the ONLY way for him to lose weight was surgery.

Although I find that surgery is drastic, what inspired me was the fact that it isn’t cool to be obese and I had to do whatever it takes to be slim - after all… diabetes and sleep apnea is no laughing matter.

Anyway… thanks, Shoemoney… for the following quotes and giving us fat people a reason to fight on:

• Cruelty - People are always asking me why I never get mad or upset about what people might say about me online. Please.. I was called so many vicious names by so many people and worse you think some critique online is going to make me upset?
• Envy - I never feel envious of other people… You kind of get over that after always being picked last for teams in high school and never having any girls want to be more then a friend.
• Working Hard - I always had to be THAT much better then all my competition for almost anything because of my weight. Society is pretty hardcore on the overweight and I probably had it easy being a male. Overweight females really get it bad from our society. You learn to pull your weight (no pun intended) and then some.

(4) My parents and my brothers

Mom and dad is always concerned about my weight. My brothers Khai Lee and Khai Yong are also fitness enthusiasts who have even undergone ‘monkish’ diets just to keep fit.

I guess, being the fattest one in the house is no different from having a bulls eye painted on your stomach as an easy target for people’s ‘health’ concerns.

So mom, dad, brothers, don’t worry about me… your concern has paid off

(3) Watching Love On A Diet Many Times

I’ve watched this movie a dozen times.

It’s a love story about how Sammi Cheng waited for her lover to return but unfortunately, she put on tons of weight while waiting for him. Andy Lau (who happens to be equally fat) helped her to shed off the pounds in time for her to reunite with her lover.

The plot may seem quite silly depending on your perspective, but I’m deeply inspired by the resolve to lose weight.

Each time I’ve failed to lose weight so I would watch it again.

(2) Watching my trainer in action

Qunling is a MACHINE…

Qunling is currently living on essential fats - that means about only 6% of his body consists of the fats he needs to survive. The rest of it is PURE muscle.

Watching him perform his workouts is quite terrifying actually but one thing’s for sure… he always pushes to the next level.

What inspires me is that one day, I will be just like him and he is willing to see to it that I achieve optimal results.

(1) Yuenn’s perseverance

My wife is my biggest motivation factor. She has patiently encouraged me on a daily basis to eat healthily and live life to the fullest.

Ask yourself this… how would you feel if you marry someone only to have them live alone for years after you’re gone? Would you leave this earth in peace knowing that your loved ones are left behind all alone?

I’ve personally pondered this question a lot because even though both my grandmothers are alive and well, they are living the rest of their life widowed because both my grandfathers are no longer around.

I hope my wife and I will live to a ripe old age together.

Although we may never know what the future holds for us, at least we know one thing is for sure that there are certain things in life that are within our control.

Health is one of them - so never ever neglect your health because I’ve learned the hard way - no matter how much money I make on the Internet, it will be worth nothing if you are too sick to enjoy it.

So what next?

Well…

I’m beginning my next 16 week challenge starting today.

Time to push new limits and achieve more results.

Boy, I can’t hardly wait

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I Almost Got Killed In A Car Accident

2 nights ago, I almost thought it would be my last.

This was a serious car accident - although it may not look like it from the picture above, I was saved for one reason (read the rest of the story to find out).

I came back from Melvin & Steven’s seminar, exhausted after a tiring day of doing sales and promotion for their event and I stopped my car at a traffic light.

The next thing I knew, I was hit in the driver’s seat by a drunk driver at high speed.

Here’s how it happened.

I was stationary at a traffic light waiting for the light to turn green when all of a sudden, a car started flying towards my direction. With almost no time to react, I knew in a split second that I was a sitting duck as my car was stationary. I didn’t even have time to scream nor did I have the time to brace myself for the impact.

The shock was mentally paralyzing. I couldn’t even tell if I was brutally injured or not.

It was a miracle that I was alive and I even emerged with little injuries.

So what saved my life?

This is a photo that I took at the workshop the next day. Apparently the greatest impact was at the section in the red circle. This was the hardest location that the driver had hit and I thank God that it was there and not 2 inches to the left. Any closer, and I would be dead or seriously hospitalized as a result of the impact at that speed!

It was a miracle that everyone was okay, including my wife and the drunk driver.

Guess what… I wasn’t ready to go yet. I guess God still has plans for me or God isn’t done with me yet.

Should the worst happen, I would’ve left this earth with much regret - haven’t made my first million for starters.

It was still a very long night.

I had to drive my ‘totaled’ car back home and to the workshop the next day to settle all the damages.

The night of the accident was a night that I barely slept - still traumatized by the accident, and contemplating my life as I was this close to the brink of death.

As I closed my eyes, I can still see that car coming…

Fortunately, it’s been two days since that unfortunate event and I’m getting back on track… thankful to be alive

P.S. On hindsight, as I analyzed the whole situation, I came to realize that I was there for a weird reason… If I weren’t there, the drunk driver could’ve ran up the curb at that speed and he would be killed if the car overturned. My car sorta ’saved his life’ by acting as a cushion.

Please leave your comments and share with us your thoughts - what’s your worst accident or what you would’ve done if today is your last day on earth.

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Blogging Plus Affiliate Marketing Equals Super Affiliate Blogger!

Gobala Krishnan has just released a ground breaking product. This is one product that I would highly recommend because of the following reasons:

• It combines two of the most lucrative business models on the Internet - very useful for those who are into blogging and affiliate marketing. Now you can enjoy the synergy of combining BOTH!
• How to find laser targeted affiliate programs for your blog - including ways to track your program for sales.
• How to use the system to build a huge mailing list
• How to get lots of traffic from the search engine - perfect for any blogger
• How to maximize your PPC campaign and increase your return on your investment

It also comes with:

• Normal Blog Page - Your normal blog posts, with the blog look-and-feel
• Landing Page - Highly effective page for PPC advertising
• Exit Page - Highly effective page for funneling clicks to affiliate links
• Salesletter Page - Sell your own products, from the same blog
• Custom 404 Page - Make money from outdated links!
• Link Building Page - Automate your entire link building campaign!

Best of all, it even comes with an effective landing page generator… GOODBYE HTML!

Click here to check it out now:

Technorati tags: Super Affiliate Blogger, Super Affiliate Blogger Review

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Khai’s Updates For May 2008

It’s that time again for About Khai Dot Com’s Monthly Update. I’m feeling SUPER FIRED UP about many things going on in my life now (read all the way to the end to find out more)!

The Big Mo’

I’m a big fan of Donald Trump and I’ve bought this book to feed my voracious self-improvement reading appetite.

One thing I’ve learnt from The Donald - You MUST have THE BIG MO’.

The big MO is all about Momentum.

He says that if you have momentum, you must keep it up at all costs no matter what aspect of your life you are dealing with.

Of late, my momentum in business and life is skyrocketing. I’ve made more money, increased my clientele, started more projects and I’m feeling healthier than EVER! Things are good but the biggest danger is to rest on your laurels. The worst thing about getting momentum is to LOSE IT later on. When you lose momentum, you will have to work twice or three times as hard just to get back to where you were, and I’ve experienced periods where losing momentum really bites into your income and your ego.

So the most important thing about having momentum, is to increase your intensity - KEEP GOING FORWARD and NEVER STOP.

If you keep your momentum up, you will reap rewards beyond your wildest dreams. If you don’t have the momentum now, you must start building it TODAY or you will never take off!

The next few sections, I will share with you why I’ve been gaining momentum…

Aboutkhai.com Increase From PR3 to PR4

During the last Google update, the ‘Google Gods’ were kind enough to bless this blog by increasing it’s page rank from 3 to 4!

Although PR4 is nothing much to shout about (compared to 5), it proves one thing - stick to Google’s rules and your site’s rank will increase naturally. Even my Hire-Khai page has a page rank of 3 (increase from 2).

A lot of people has been asking me how I did it. It is very simple actually. I submitted my blog to a couple of blog directories and I exchanged links with other bloggers and people in the Internet marketing industry. But most important of all, I write GOOD CONTENT and people link to me naturally.

Getting relevant links is very important because it tells Google that your site is an authority.

I also rank No.1 for the keywords ‘Khai’ and ‘Product Creation Expert’ and page one for the keyword ‘Copywriting’ and ‘Copywriting Expert’ in Malaysia. Although these keywords don’t bring in much targeted traffic, it is there merely to satisfy my ego (especially when you consider that there are hundreds of Malays and Koreans with the name ‘Khai’… so it’s good to appear first )

My next target by the next PR update is to get a PR of 5 - so if anyone is interested in exchanging links, be sure to Contact Me.

Massive Fat Loss Success!

A lot of people have also been asking me this question, “Khai, you’ve lost so much WEIGHT! What’s Your Secret!”

Another has said, “Khai, your stomach has disappeared!”

It was so funny because I went to a seminar to catch up with my other Internet marketing friends. Some of them were expecting to see this huge monstrous fatso that has the waist size of an equator, and people didn’t call out my name until I called them first - and I was standing RIGHT IN FRONT of them! I suspect that they didn’t recognize me because they didn’t want to call out to a ’stranger’ so it was really funny to see their expressions.

I must admit, a few months ago, I was severely Obese. I was so fat that if fat percentages were summarized into a chart, I would EXCEED the scale!

Today, I’m still overweight, BUT… I’ve not only ‘re-entered the chart’, my belt size has dropped by so many inches, that my pants no longer fit anymore. DAMN… now I need to get a whole new wardrobe!

Unfortunately, I’m NOT going to post any photos on my before and after (those of you who’ve met me in person will only get this privilege) - I’m only going to do it ONE MONTH from now because I’ve made a promise to shed more weight and I will reveal my ‘weight loss’ secret by then (so stay tuned).

In The Process Of Forming A Company

Although I don’t have a very specific timeline, I’m in the process (the beginning stages) of forming an Internet marketing company with my Internet marketing friends (who also happen to be my close buddies) - Melvin Ng and Alfred Ko.

If you don’t know who they are, Melvin is a niche marketing EXPERT who makes a very good living through his niche sites. He is also a PPC expert who has made 4-5 figure checks just from promoting other people’s products! Melvin’s accomplishments also include pulling off a 5 figure launch with his partners Vince Tan and Gobala Krishnan - which is $69,000 within 7 days for Send Us To US fire sale. I feel truly blessed to be working very closely with Melvin because he is a very trustworthy partner who brings years of Internet marketing experience to our partnership.

I also feel very blessed to be associated with Alfred Ko - he’s my No.1 SEO guy who’s services has made me thousands of U.S. dollars by driving traffic to my niche sites. He has also made massive sales in famous Internet marketing launches like Affiliate Elite, Project Pill Gates and The Secret Classroom by DOMINATING almost every single search result of the first page of Google (he has even made 4 figure commissions from big launches without a mailing list!)

In partnerships, there must always be synergy. Partnerships usually work best when every party treat each other as equals and share their resources willingly for the good of the team. We each have great skills that we can benefit from each other - Melvin with his PPC skills and expertise in niches, Alfred with his ‘aggressive’ SEO skills and me with my copywriting and content creation expertise. Hopefully, we will be able to realize our plans by the end of this year.

My goal for the company by the end of the year is to form a PRODUCT CREATION TEAM and an SEO TEAM that we will use to dominate niche marketing and create hundreds of niche sites. God willing… by the end of the year, my dreams will come true.

Appointed Team Leader For Melvin & Steven’s Seminar

Speaking of Melvin, he is gearing up (along with his partner - Steven Wong) his mentoring skills because he is about to begin his previews for his Blogging Boot Camp - an intensive seminar/course held in Malaysia that will help any newbie or blogger to make massive money online.

So what does that gotta do with me?

Well as most of you know, I have connections with a lot of Internet marketing speakers and coaches like Sen Ze, World Internet Summit speaker Vince Tan and Work at home Guru Gobala Krishnan. They are all prominent speakers and most of the time, I’ve been enlisted to help them out with their seminars (I was Vince’s chief copywriter and product creator and I helped Gobala with the cameras during his mastermind sessions).

It is always a pleasure to help others out because it is NOT EASY to organize a seminar (I’ve extensive experience in setting up opportunity meetings during my MLM days) and this time around, I’m helping our as a Team leader to help organize his blogging seminar.

For the first time in months, I’ll be driving to hotels wearing a long sleeve shirt and long pants (reminiscing my MLM days…) - a clear change in environment compared to the utopian Internet marketing lifestyle!

His site will be up soon and I will post details about it as soon as they give me the green light.

Making Autopilot Money In Niche Marketing

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again - the money is in niche marketing and I LOVE niche marketing!

My sites are mostly on autopilot now. One of my BEST sites are generating me about $500 to $1,000 a month (RM1,550 - RM3,100) and the best thing is the page rank of those niche sites has increased to PR4 as well!

Here are a couple of screen shots of my recent commissions:

This just goes to show, you don’t have to spend years in Internet marketing in order to make a decent living online. The most important thing about niche marketing is to develop your own system - which is a system that allows you to build niche sites over and over again by using the same repetitive process. When you can do ONE thing right, you will be equipped with the skill of doing the same thing over and over again correctly (in different niches).

I attribute the success of my niche sites to Andrew Hansen - the author and founder of the infamous Niche Marketing On Crack system.

Click here to get ideas for niche marketing from his special report.

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