• Section: Money Guide - Category: Blogging for Cash
• Written by Alvin Phang

My determination is to succeed in everything I do in my business. You will be amazed to know that I failed at least 20 to 30 times or more before I reached to this stage and have spent at least $10k - $20k and had lots of bad experiences before I knew what I should do in order to succeed in my business.

Started at the age of 21 when I first read about the book Rich Dad Poor Dad in the army and that actually got me started to run my own business. Back then doing business was just like a hobby and I did not take it really seriously (which what 90% of business man always do and failed in the end). As times goes by I started to realize the reality of business and types of people in general.

Strange enough, I took just what I like and know the most and started a business in selling corporate gifts offline. But the thing that really spark me into Internet Marketing as actually this package I bought about a year ago when I was curious on learning how can I convert my

current offline business in corporate gifts into online business.

I was like many others and also like you who also wanted to understand and try out if this make money online thing is really real. So I start buying more courses and search online for resources to start a business online. Also I only treated it as a hobby business and was not really serious. But I realized I was only one of the handfuls of people who bought the information and actually take action on it!

It was until 1st Jan 2007, I remember I told my boss I am going to quit my job and do my internet business full time. At that moment of my life I knew this was the biggest shift of my life and I no longer will depend on a fixed salary ( Secret: the richest people in the world all have one thing in common they have business and they DO HAVE JOBS ). All of a sudden the things I do online started to change. I started to be more serious in my work and always had plans to think of ways to make even more money or more traffic for my online business.

And it was very real and true that strangely many people who ever tried to do business online WILL NEVER spend as much time as they have in a 9 to 5 job which they spend at least 8 hours working. Strangely when people do business they expect to see results for doing only 1 hour of work? It's strange right? But when a survey was done with my students almost out of every 10 student I have only 20% will take action. How strange that result was when they enrolled they told me they want results but with zero effort?

I did not really had much choice back then but only left with I need to make my online business work or else I would not have money to even eat. Depending only on my reminding savings of only about $2,000 cash. I was constantly on my computer doing lots of marketing online and started doing some crazy stuff.

After 1 month of marketing, testing creating websites and products. Guess what? Nothing actually happened! Just imagine how you would feel when you do so much in a month but got no results and worst I used to have a mentor even look down on me at that time! My emotions and desires was really rock bottom back then.

However, because of my determination and "thick skin" within the next day I was able to pull myself up and this key element of able to pull yourself together is extremely IMPORTANT. It had helped me numerous times to think positive and move on to my goals. I was very sure what I was working on would surely work and I kept on trying to get more traffic to my blog and product pages too. Truth enough light started to show in the next month and things getting easier to do.

Although I was not earning a lot from online business only about $20 or $50 from Adsense and affiliate commission but I told myself if I do so all these work to get only $50 all I need to do now is just duplicate the system! Using the system I have created, I realized my traffic grew by leaps and bounds. I was so hooked into checking seeing where my traffic came from and started to hunt for

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