<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102161614939226233</id><updated>2011-11-28T08:17:47.444+08:00</updated><category term='random thoughts'/><category term='internet marketing'/><category term='SMCC'/><category term='UYMG'/><category term='Stephen Pierce'/><title type='text'>First Step...</title><subtitle type='html'>The start of my internet marketing journey</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3102161614939226233/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>KesT</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102161614939226233.post-1944100087943153008</id><published>2007-10-02T01:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-03T10:23:32.112+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SMCC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UYMG'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stephen Pierce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='random thoughts'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:18;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;Information Overload…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;UYMG Malaysia 2007 came to an end today. I left at 550 pm before the whole session ended as I was rushing to the airport.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;It was the most hectic 4 days events that I had ever attended. We were in the beautiful Kuala Lumpur Convention centre daily from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm. There were many speakers and a lot of information was flowing freely daily. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I was really information overloaded and I will need the next few days to sort all things out. However, I would like to share a few things which stood out for me in the last few days.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Jaz      Lai’s session on “5 Lazy Steps on List Building Method” has given me a lot      more confidence that internet marketing is viable and it is not that      difficult after all. I was rather confused the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; few days until      this last session. It was really enlightening and what I had learned from      the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; 3 days came alive. Thanks, Jaz.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Strangely      enough, UYMG was not all talking about Internet, it encompassed all aspect      of business from vision, mission, leadership skill and even working on      inner belief system besides Internet marketing technique.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Pep      talk by Stephen on the last day in which he rebuked us on not being      serious with what we want to do really woke me up. I dare not cut corners      from then on.. If I want to be successful, I need to be serious about it. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;In one      of the session (could not remember which one), something bizarre happened      to me. I was close to tears as I was thinking of my wife and I felt I need      to do all this for her so that she will enjoy her life to the fullest now      and not later. This has given me the greatest motivation to move on. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;I had      signed up for the coaching session with Stephen as it has always been our      dream to be consultants and I believe I need to take this giant step of      faith. I want to be trained so that I can be rich but at the same time I      will have more flexible time to serve God, groom the young people and help      the less fortunate.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Overall, it’s been great 4 days. Go and join UYMG Australia in November in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Sydney&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. You will never regret!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Huh, I am still information overloaded and I need to unload them. Hahaha.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Read more update soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102161614939226233-1944100087943153008?l=smcckest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/feeds/1944100087943153008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3102161614939226233&amp;postID=1944100087943153008' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3102161614939226233/posts/default/1944100087943153008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3102161614939226233/posts/default/1944100087943153008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/2007/10/information-overload-uymg-malaysia-2007.html' title=''/><author><name>KesT</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102161614939226233.post-849305224498403014</id><published>2007-10-01T13:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-03T10:22:40.353+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SMCC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UYMG'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stephen Pierce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet marketing'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;You have watched&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;L.A. Confidential , &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;I.M. Confidential&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of us are so lost as what we can do with I.M. (Internet marketing) . Read on…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Everyone wants to be successful in their life. There are many ways to it and internet marketing is a new trend which allows each one of us to do it as any place any time. We all want to look and find ways to make to happen. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Many of us always said that we do not know what business to venture into or what kind of business opportunity exists. In UYMG&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Malaysia 2007, Stephen Pierce has done a simple exercise which is very powerful. I would like to share with you all. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;It is quite simple, really. You can take baby steps. Doing things as simple as the following steps can to start identify the businesses: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Identify what you know about. E.g&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;video games, parenting, gardening and etc&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Take one of the items you are most passionate about. E.g. Video games &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Look for things that associate with them. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;E.g. Maple story, hardware, etc&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Relook at the that item that you have chosen e.g. Maple story. Ask yourself what you are good at. E.g. Very good at strategizing and winning&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Go to internet to look for good keyword – do as many as possible. E.g. Maple story&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;to see what is areas that people are interested in. ( good site : inventory.overture.com)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Once you have identified that area, go to join a community (like myspace, forum etc) to build up your position.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Build up relationship with the community and put in the link of your website as a signature plus a slogan.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Start you business when you have product or sell affiliate products.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;You can do as many as you can from here.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;·&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;These are very simple steps that can jumpstart your internet business and are easy on your budget as well. Of course there are many more ways to get done and you should find and stick with those that work for you. Of course you may want to join future UYMG events to learn more. &lt;a href="http://www.smartmarketingclub.com/"&gt;http://www.smartmarketingclub.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Do it for yourself, do it for each other or do it for your children, BUT- do it for life! &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Here's to a healthy start for a long journey of optiMINDzation!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:16;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102161614939226233-849305224498403014?l=smcckest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/feeds/849305224498403014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3102161614939226233&amp;postID=849305224498403014' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3102161614939226233/posts/default/849305224498403014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3102161614939226233/posts/default/849305224498403014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/2007/09/you-have-watched-la-confidential-now-im.html' title=''/><author><name>KesT</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102161614939226233.post-8063410204581930724</id><published>2007-09-30T09:50:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T15:12:07.005+08:00</updated><title type='text'>2 Person that I admired a lot</title><content type='html'>Listening to both of them will motivate you to scale to greater height, Richard Tan (Success Resources) http://www.srpl.net/index3.php&lt;br /&gt;and Stephen Pierce ( Smart Marketing)&lt;br /&gt;http://www.smartmarketingclub.com/blog/&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x8QbqNWd5kU/Rv8BI5iGsVI/AAAAAAAAAAU/dHjcuHcTShA/s1600-h/DSCN5965.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x8QbqNWd5kU/Rv8BI5iGsVI/AAAAAAAAAAU/dHjcuHcTShA/s320/DSCN5965.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115808954110619986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x8QbqNWd5kU/Rv8A-5iGsUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/h_jQKK6J1Ng/s1600-h/DSCN5964.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x8QbqNWd5kU/Rv8A-5iGsUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/h_jQKK6J1Ng/s320/DSCN5964.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115808782311928130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102161614939226233-8063410204581930724?l=smcckest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/feeds/8063410204581930724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3102161614939226233&amp;postID=8063410204581930724' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3102161614939226233/posts/default/8063410204581930724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3102161614939226233/posts/default/8063410204581930724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smcckest.blogspot.com/2007/09/2-person-that-i-admired-lot.html' title='2 Person that I admired a lot'/><author><name>KesT</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x8QbqNWd5kU/Rv8BI5iGsVI/AAAAAAAAAAU/dHjcuHcTShA/s72-c/DSCN5965.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
