Hey, what’s up you guys.
How was your Christmas?
Time really flies, huh.
Just a bash of an eyelid and now, it’s the end of the year again.
I have quite a lot of people askng me where have I been for the past 2 months as I have not been sending out much emails.
Well, here’s I have been doing…
In October, after my successful launch of Inbox Cash Blueprint, I took a short break in Oct and do nothing but relax and have fun.
I was booked through out the whole of November for speaking gigs and I travelled to 5 different places to share tips and secrets on how I achieve success online.
I went to Indonesian, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and it was real fun mingling with success entrepreneurs and see how most of them overcame all odds to be successful.
After my world tour in Dec, I wrap it up with two SOLD OUT Inbox Cash Explosion workshop in Malaysia and Singapore.
The feedbacks from the workshop are fantastic and in every workshop that I conducted, there will be a few fellas who will go on to make a lot of money.
And I am now expecting to see some results from the participants.
As I take a break for the past 2 weeks…
When I come to think about it, it doesn’t seem too long ago when I was struggling financially… trying to save every penny so I could pay my debts.
This happened barely 4 years ago, when I also took the risk of venturing into a new online business that is quite unheard of in Singapore at that time.
Back then, I pretty much shut myself from the world, focusing entirely on this business.
In fact, I didn’t even manage to celebrate Christmas or the New Year with my love ones.
I was like this underground guerilla marketer in the basement busy drafting plans to dominate the internet with this huge marketing campaign – except that I didn’t had a basement.
Most of the products and content that you see are actually created in my little bedroom. I literally built my online business from scratch.
So, to cut the long story short, after I ran my retail business to the ground… I was just too tired of doing anything new that was remotely difficult.
I wanted a proven business model that I could just copy and apply right away.
I didn’t dare risking the odds trying to re-invent the wheel.
I just picked out an available business model that is proven to make money, focused on it and stuck with it all the way. So there it was, I got my first online business set up.
There were times when things got more challenging… especially when you are a newbie in this new industry; it’s really hard not to get tempted by so many new business opportunities that promise to bring you financial freedom.
Everything sounds too good to turn away.
It definitely took a lot of discipline for me to say “no” to them.
Because, if you guys have been paying attention, you realize that history has a tendency of repeating itself.
New opportunities come up and people start hoping from one opportunity to another, without accomplishing what they originally set out to do.
Experience has taught me that, I didn’t need the next ‘big thing’ to become rich.
All I need to do is just focus on one thing that has proven to work and keep doing it.
Unfortunately, several people have the false impression that having hundreds of websites means having a higher income and they end up struggling to pay to maintain these websites.
If they could just pick the most profitable niche amongst the many websites that they have and just focus entirely on it, they will definitely see a dramatic increase in their income.
But I have to admit though, earning the first $10,000 is probably the toughest part of this business. There’s a lot of trial and error work to be done.
But once you’re able to hit the mark, things start to become easier.
The guessing work have already been done, all you need to do is to repeat the things that works.
So that’s exactly what I did… But I didn’t do it just for another $10,000 in cash.
I wanted more. You may think that would also mean that I may have to put in a lot more work than already did right?
So I spend a couple of nights in the bedroom trying to figure how I can do more by doing less. And if possible, automate my whole business – that would definitely been great.
By the fifth night, I got it figured.
And I’m kinda embarrassed by the fact that it actually took me this long to come up with this idea. It’s pretty common sense if you were to think about it.
And trust me on this one, my friend. If anybody were to tell you that there is no such thing as an automated business… I’m telling you, they are dead wrong.
In fact, 99% of your business can be automated.
You just have to get somebody to do it for you! So, instead of doing all the work that I’m already used to. I hired 2 guys, both experts in their fields, to handle the different departments of my business.
Just a figure of speech, but they are like my arms and legs of my business. Anytime, I can just go on a holiday knowing that I could rely on them to help me run my business.
So, in mid 2008, I accumulated more than 20,000 subscribers to my list and I was already pulling in a stable low-end 5-figure monthly income.
I was turning my annual income into my quarter income.
Another year later – in mid 2009, I achieved another breakthrough.
I managed to scale up my business; with the help of my 2 assistance.
And in less than 3 months, I finally hit the 6 figure per month mark.
I was already making a lot more in ONE month than I could make in the whole of last year.
I finally succeeded in turning my annual income into my monthly income.
Not only that, I also got the privilege of just putting my business aside and I managed to travel to 6 different countries for holidays – A feat that I never thought possible when I was managing my retail business.
So you see, there isn’t really any secret to becoming successful online. It’s about doing the same boring things that work.
And it all deal with focus, consistency and automation.
I will talk more about these next time.
I’ll wrap up this year with this blog post. And I hope it will help you in the upcoming year ahead. I wish you well and may you have a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2010.
I’ll talk to you soon,
Jaz Lai
