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I recently did an interview with West Loh who is a very passionate and successful Internet entrepreneur. His also Malaysian-Chinese which the same background as my partner is, so we had something in common already before the Interview.
It was a real pleasure to interview West because he shared with me a lot of his insights on how he works, his daily habits to get him up and going in the mornings, and many more great tips on living an excellent and fulfilling life. Here’s a profile of who West is:
Profile of West Loh
West is a passionate, life-loving internet entrepreneur. His education includes both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in exercise physiology and sport science, and he also has an MBA (Masters of Business Administration).
West has been and always will be a student and advocate of maximising human potential through self education, improvement and modelling of successful people. Through his blog he will share his entire treasury of strategies, quotes and secrets that he’s accumulated in his personal journal over the years.
West’s passionate pursuit of personal growth began in 1999 during a workshop he was taking to become a personal trainer. Since then, he has immersed himself in the teachings of the worlds best and copiously studied their traits, habits and thoughts. Over the years he has personally met many of these people including Robert and Kim Kiyosaki, John Gray, Tom Hopkins, Kurek Ashley, John Burley, Brendan Nichols, Brian Tracy, Noel Whittaker, David Schirmer, Dolf De Roos and Dr John De Martini. There are still a many people he would like to meet in future including Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Yanni Chryssomalis.
West enjoys playing competitive tennis and golf. He inspires and motivates people to keep fit through his group fitness classes, and teaches personal trainers how to maximise training efficiency and build their businesses. He has also given several keynote presentations in various topics including fat loss, nutrition, success, internet marketing and business. West has interests in property investing, ebaying and internet marketing.
In this video I explain how I increased my Twitter followers from 12,550 people to adding 1,910 people in just 5 days. I also explain the 3 important reasons why this happened and how to convert these folllowers to subscribers on my database.
In this tutorial I will explain to you how to use Jing to communicate with your outsourcers or staff. This is a free tool that anyone can download from Jing Project.
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Troy’s been in the Internet marketing industry for over a decade and personally knows people like Frank Kern and Kirt Christensen. He started making money back in the days when the Internet was built upon emails and newsgroups, which was the main form of communication. Move forward a decade and even with social media such as FaceBook, Twitter and other forms of web 2.0 communications, he still believes in using email to communicate with his customers. This is one thing he believes will not change in years to come as he says in the interview.
In the past, Troy has spoken at the Internet Marketing Super Conference and has been a facilitator for Tony Robbins. He has sold numerous Internet businesses as well and continues to succeed online with his most recent website launch of Listcrew.
The reason why I interview Troy was to find out how to build large email lists that could successfully generate income, since his been doing it for over a decade. It is a topic that is hotly talked about all the time. Additionally if you combine your list with Troy’s system you can collaborate with other like minded people in your industry and build an even larger list. Best of all this system is FREE to join.
Personally, I have been using Listcrew for a few months and it has shown some great results. Just in one week alone my email list increased by 70 subscribers. So I can verify that this system works!
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Krizia is a former personal chef and a food writer. She specialized in French cuisine and I published a critically acclaimed lifestyle and bilingual French food guide that sold in Canada, France, the U.S., Germany and the U.K. The guide was voted by Air Canada En Route magazine.
She’s got a very interesting story and is someone who has successfully applied the concept of a print magazine to blogging in a niche market. One of her blogs talks about how to eat the right food to help anyone age well, which is at Eat Smart, Age Smart
She also has a second blog, which is a beauty review site that provides lots of information about which beauty products are good to use and lots of tips on beauty.
The reason why I interviewed Krizia was to find out how she generated around $5,000 a month from these two blogs in a short amount of time. Furthermore, her success story did come at a cost at the beginning and she will share this with you in the interview.
Setting your Internet business on autopilot requires you to determine which systems can be automated using technology and which systems can be outsourced to people. Focus on eliminating unnecessary costs by using technology first. Then hire staff to handle the rest of the systems. For example if you had to enter in all your transactions from your website into your accounting software, could this have been eliminated if a script was written to do this automatically? It may cost you $10,000 a year to have a staff doing data entry, when it would have only cost you $1,000 to get someone to write the script that will last forever. Here is a three step process to switch on autopilot:
Outsource your customer support
Find a good webmaster to manage your website
Have a business manager to handle day to day tasks
Customer Support
The first step any Internet business owner needs to take is to outsource or hire staff to manage their customer support. In my case, I hired virtual assistants who didn’t need to be in the office and could answer all customer support issues anywhere for me. I provided them with a list of commonly asked questions, which is the website’s FAQ page and also a manual that outlined some procedures of the business. For the better part of it, it doesn’t cost as much as what people think. Most virtual assistants can start as low as $3 per hour and they can be found online. To date my best virtual assistant costs me $2 per hour. Here is a list of leading virtual assistant sites where I have found my best virtual assistants to date:
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Yaro Starak is the first true Internet marketing expert I ever came across. I remember very clearly one night I was searching for ideas on how to improve my dragonboating business. If I had not been searching for Internet business strategies I would not have come across Yaro’s blog, Entrepreneurs-Journey. I connected with him straight away when I read his business time-line. Since then, Yaro has been both a mentor and friend I truly value. I love reading his blog posts and religiously apply his teachings about blogging.
In this interview you will hear Yaro explain how he became a professional blogger who makes over $500,000 a year and only works 2 hours a day. Though, it was not always smooth sailing because Yaro goes on to explain that he did put in a lot of hard work when he started his blog.
Yaro’s Blogging Journey
Since 1998, Yaro has created numerous Internet businesses that he has both managed and sold. As you find out from his blog, he documents his successes and failures from each of these businesses. Thanks to Yaro, we can learn from his mistakes and fast track our success, simply by applying the principles he teaches. Some of his coaching programs he has released are:
All of these programs provide more value than they are worth and that’s why I am happy to say they are definitely something I recommend checking out. Just to let you know, I am not trying to promote these coaching programs to you as they are currently closed for intake. So don’t be worried if that’s what you are thinking. My intentions are to show you how it’s possible to create products based on your own strengths and successes, similar to what Yaro has done (where his done exceptionally well in).
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Recently I was chatting to a few people in the Blog Mastermind forum that I am part of and I came across an interesting article that Josh wrote. So after reading that article I decided to visit his website The World’s Strongest Librarian, which really intrigued me. Josh has an inspiring story that he shares and I was touched by what he has accomplished. It triggered me to contact him and get an interview so that he could share his story. Let me tell you more about who Josh is..
Josh Hanagarne: World’s Strongest Librarian
He claims to be a nobody and I don’t believe that to be true because he is the World’s Strongest Librarian according to his readers. Josh has had a life long battle with Tourette’s Syndrome, which in itself has it’s challenges and complications. Though, that has not let it get in the way of Josh’s life. His an inspiration because he writes great stories on his blog that encourages and supports others to be better. Additionally he shares how he became the World’s Strong Librarian using strengthening exercises that helped combat Tourette’s Syndrome.
The reason for the interview was two fold. One was to learn more about Josh and his inspiring story and two, he has a popular blog that captures a wide audience of readers. In the interview I asked Josh how he grew his blog and was able to feature a guest post on ProBlogger. Not everyone’s writing suits ProBlogger, so it was a great achievement.
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Back in May, I attended the Ultimate Marketing Seminar that was held in Sydney over a weekend. At that event I met an excellent speaker called Ari Galper. He talked about Creating The Human Touch With A Live Chat System and it got me really excited about the benefits of using a system like this. I was very intrigued and decided to email Ari and asked him if he would do an interview with me and share with you his strategy and systems. Therefore this interview came about. Before we get into the interview, let me tell you a little about Ari first..
Ari Galper – Creator Of ChatWise
Ari Galper is a very well known and sought-after international speaker and trainer. When I emailed him to do an interview he was travelling over to the UK to promote his Chatwise system and it wasn’t until a month later when we could do this interview. So his a busy man!
Furthermore, Ari has a decade of experience showing people his breakthrough sales strategies used in global companies such as UPS and QUALCOMM. He also created the sales training program called Unlock The Game™, where this system helps businesses convert more sales online via an online chat system such as Chatwise. It’s one of the most widely used programs with large businesses.
I recently did an interview with West Loh who is a very passionate and successful Internet entrepreneur. His also Malaysian-Chinese which the same background as my partner is, so we had something in common already before the Interview.
My name is Tyrone Shum and I'm on a journey to outsource and automate my business to allow me to work only 12 hours a week. On this website I share with you my outsourcing strategies to achieve this goal and I have a passion to teach others about what I do. Read more 