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At that time, I did not worry much about if the business was making money as I was still in army that time and I used most of my savings and salary just to pay off the rental of the shop and from there just gain lots of experiences from running the offline business.
Doing Offline Business Is Hard!
If you ever tried running an offline business, I can tell you for sure that it¡¯s fall more worst then online marketing! You know why? It¡¯s because you have to be physically around the shop EVERYDAY just to generate sales and that¡¯s no fun guys! I can still remember the times when after work, I would rush down to the flea markets just to stand there the whole day just to setup my store. After many hours of standing that trying to sell my stuff, the most I would make in a day was around SG$100 and to make things worst the rental back then I paid was SG$80 a day! So you can imagine how bad business was! I was really losing lots and lost of money!
Enough Was Enough I Close The Company After 1 Year
As the business was not doing well and my partners were all basically too lazy to market the business, I told myself enough was enough I want to close the company! In about 2 months, the business was close and the nightmare came when we still had rental of $1,500 to pay every month split within ourselves. I can tell you from 1st hand experience paying for rental and not making money out of it is a HUGE PAIN to your wallet!
Other Things I Did During Those 2 Years
On top of the business I did, I also spent well over $6,000+ in joining mlm programs , sign up once as a insurance agent for 1 week and quit
and I ever went for training as a real estate agent for 1 week and quit too
I virtually tried everything there was in the marketplace just to make money!
I Started Working As An IT Administrator Shortly
I remember when I told my parents about my failure of my business, my dad did not like the idea of me running my business but only my mum was always there supporting me all the way. So I decided to keep it cool after I closed my business and just so happens I just finish my army I started to find a job and worked as an IT Administrator.
Back then, my pay was only about SG$1,600 a month. At first I love my job, but as times go by there were more and more tasks allocated to my job. I started to dislike my job more and more and especially so when I heard companies were paying my company SG$6,000 for one worker to work for them! I was really angry back then, why am I limiting myself to just this low pay of mine.
My dad backend, was of course quite happy I got a job as he never really support the idea of me starting any business back then where as my mum supported me almost in everything I tried before. But that did not stop me from starting another one again
Some Where In 2005, I Started Another Business
After about 5 months of working in the company, I just could not take the pressure of always getting under paid and over worked. I decided to find one of my old partners and founded a company call SGBULK back then ( As Of Today Is Known As Socialmatic ). This time round I was much smarter, I continue to do what I know best and that was corporate gifts and setup an online shopping mall at www.SGBULK.com.
The great thing about this model was there were no rental to be paid for running the business and the cost to run it was only less then SG$100 a month
However, business still did not run as well as expected when I started my first online business. So I decided to explore into learning about Internet Marketing in June 2006.
I Was A Real Newbie Back Then
I did not know who was who back then and I was simply blindling learning from different Gurus. The shocking thing I realized back then which also applies in today context was that, there were many fake Gurus out there and it was really hard to find a good honest Guru. For some reason, Corey Rudl came to me as an honest marketer. I then decided to buy my first online internet marketing course from Corey Rudl which cost me about US$500 for a 10 set DVD set ( Now known as The Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business on The Internet ).
In that DVD internet course, it actually taught me about creating a digital product and it said that selling digital products was really profitable. I was really skeptical about that back then but I did something which I think 90% OF PEOPLE WILL NEVER DO which was I TOOK ACTION and do it anyway just to see if it works. So back then I decided to create my first ebook call Dotatips.
I Was Amazed I Got 10 Sales In My First Month!
I actually earned my first US$100 online after I started marketing the website and soon after I was convinced digital products can be sold online and the best part the profit margin was 100% not 40% like in my traditional offline business!
I started to be more interested into online marketing and started to venture further into it and for some reason I don know how but ended up I join Success University. That program was basically a pure online muti level marketing program where people sign up motivation courses online and you earn a commission from your downlines .
One of the major reason also why I also joined that program because the team back then in Singapore called Online Income Hub leaded by Jaz Lai & 4 other partners back then conduct lots of really affordable Internet related courses to teach us how to marketing the business online. I was really amazed by the content provided by the company as you can actually attend a full 3 hour internet courses conducted by Jaz back then for only SG$10 in each session
I got pretty much of all my basic skills in online business gained up from attending all those $10 workshops
( Thanks Jaz )
My Team Of Downline Started To Grow And GatherSuccess Was Born!
I was pretty good at getting people to join the program and I had a huge team to support and my team very much wanted to know how I did my marketing so I decided to setup this blog just to give them updates of what was happening in the business.
So if you read my old posts on this blog, you will realized I promoted Success University pretty lots of times
It was until I discovered Clickbank, it totally changed my life! The commission rate from Clickbank was really far more attractive compared to Success University as they pay as high as 70% commission and the amazing thing it was much easier to sell digital products then a MLM product
A Huge Turning Point Came In July 2006!
In July 2006, when my dad was still driving full time a taxi driver ( He used to be the boss of Alvin¡¯s Claypot at Parkway Parade, you can read more about my dad here ). He actually met into an car accident in that year which nearly caused him to be the ICU for 7 days and I can tell you it¡¯s not a great feeling to see your own dad in the hospital.
My dad soon after became a bit handicap as he had a major injury on this forehead and had some memory issues. To make thing worst, my dad also had a debt of SG$80,000 in his credit cards which I had to resolve in the family. And, because of my father¡¯s condition my mother had to look after him 24/7 while my sibling still had to study, I was the ONLY person in my family support my family ( Just imagine the amount of pressure I had ).
I Quit My Job In Dec 2006
Do note while the things mentioned above was all done, I was still working and on 31st Dec 2006 I decided to make a major decision to quit my job once and for all! It was a really hard one for me as you can imagine I also needed to support my family too
However I did not just quit just let that, I was actually left with $3,000 in my bank account and I told my mother if within the next 6 months I am not able to make at least $1,000 I will find a job again.
Also back then, I also had a goal and that was to make my first SG$100,000 in that year and I told myself I was going to do all that all online! With the pressure of supporting my family and a ¡°NEVER GIVE UP¡± attitude I was really all setup to meet my goals and worked very hard from then on!
In Jan 2007 I Started Blogging Full Time
Because I really had no other choice but only to make money from my online business, I start to blog more seriously and provided as much content as possible on my blog and trying to market my blog really a lot! And guess what, my traffic actually grew by almost 400% if not more and that only happen because I took more action into it and became more serious about it
I Started Creating My First Blogging Product In Mar 2007
Many people now know me as the creator of Atomic Blogging but actually the very first product I ever created on blogging was called BlogCashGuide .When I first launched that product and started to market it using blogs and ppc I was amazed my income from selling my products and other affiliate programs generated about US$300 to US$600 a month!
An Idea To Created My First Tutorial Guide Book Came In May 2007
While I was busy marketing affiliate products like what many newbies always do at the start, I was also busy marketing this blog at the same time as I wanted to really monetized from this blog so whatever I did back then was also posted on this blog too
The popularity of this blog started to grow really big and that gave me an idea why not I create a tutorial guide about what I did on this blog and create a guide book for it! Soon after Atomic Blogging was born!
When I first launched Atomic Blogging online, it actually generated well over $3,000 in the first 5 days and it was a real shocking moment of my life and I am finally hitting the thousand dollar mark. On top of that, there were more traffic coming into this blog and I was generating on a average US$1,000 to US$2,000 from this blog from selling affiliate programs and selling ads.
Fast Forward To Today May 2008
I currently made a range of US$5,000 to US$9,000 a month from my efforts on blogging and selling affiliate programs and GatherSuccess today is ranked 5,858 out of 115 Million blogs around world making it one of the most popular blogs in the world
Also about my goal to make SG$100,000 last year, I only did managed to make about SG$40,000 which I was really happy already because that is so much more compared to my lousy pay of SG$1,600 back then
I have some big plans coming out this year and I am targeting to earn at least US$250,000 by this year all online. I will be posting my updates as I go along this journey into making my Million Dollar so do subscribe to my blog to keep yourself updated
Summary And Thoughts
If there is one thing I would like you to take back from this story that I just shared with you is NEVER EVER TAKES THINGS YOU HAVE FOR GRANTED and you must NEVER EVER WANT TO GIVE UP THAT EASILY because you can see from my story I have constantly fail in my business for the past 5 years to be where I am today
Many times you will fail regardless how hard you try and try and TRY AGAIN! But the formula to success is you must learn to LOVE TO FAIL! Do you know why? It¡¯s only when you fail to many times will you be able to learn from your mistakes and IMPROVE and GROW your business.
If you are interested to get more updates of my process to making my million dollar goal do remember to subscribe to this blog and do comment below on what are your thoughts about this article
To my dad and father: I always love and treasure every moment I have with you and I liked to thank God always for taking care and looking their shoulders every single day
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Hi Alvin
YEah really liked reading you story here and surely would like to do likewise . I am almost in a similar situation, age against me and no luck with Jobs so am trying my hand at blogging . I finally managed to gathered some funds and bought atomicblogging. The information is well writtem, simple and easy to understand. I am now also planning to have a target for the next year or two and taking what you have written sure to be there soon
Keep on with the writing of the various articles that you write and am sure a lot of people will learn from you as well as I am starting to learn.
My first obstacle that I have to over is TRAFFIC to my blog and once I have done so am sure that my business will grow as well
Raj
Thanks for your support Raj
Do remember to try out the traffic tactics that I have mentioned at the last few chapters¡¦ they really work very well 
Wow, I really find your story very touching. And considering that you overcame so many obstacles in your life, it made me ponder very much on how I seem to always waste mine.
I hear you, Alvin, and I¡¯m going to follow your example in my own efforts in making money online. Thank you very much for the share!
We all have stories to tell of our life and a common denominator in them all, without exeption is that all of us are faced with challenges and experiences of some sort or another to overcome. We need to see the joy in all of these no matter how difficult they may be and that the thought of giving up is never an option. On a deeper level giving up would to me be much, much harderI believe.
Also learn from your successess as well as failures.
A great article Alvin that certainly resonates with me.
Doug.
Nice and sweet. Interesting hard facts of life ¡¦
Very nice story
Great Post there Alvin, A honest post on what you did. I hope I can learn from you and also motivate others to learn online. Good luck on your GOAL for this year.
All the best!
Try not to hope Gerrard, you should start saying you WILL
Thanks for sharing this story with us. I think it all gives us the feeling that we have a chance to succeed also.
Great Story alvin !! It really inspire me a lot. One Question. How did you create your very first product? maybe you can share with us here. By the way, thanks for the sharing.
I just followed what the videos taught me to do and I do it¡¦
Yes, I read about your article!
Q: Is all this worthwhile¡¦?
Alvin, you just got to ask yourself this question,
Q: Is all this worthwhile¡¦?
How would you want your Future to be for
1) You
2) Your Family> Parent
3) Your Own Family> Wife & childrens
We all Earn a Living but would you Earn your Destiny¡¦?
This is what I want to say!
For now it¡¯s for my family and love ones
Nice of you to share your some of your private side with us, Alvin.
Your story really is an inspiration to everyone.
Best wishes in your future endevors.
I guess the key is really to take action. Most people don¡¯t manage to make money because they read a lot but never take action. They are suffering from information overload.
There are actually a lot of good IM products out there, you just need to find one that a lot of people are recommending and that meet your needs and follow through everything that the products tells you. Do the dirty job of testing and testing until you hit the sweet spot. Most importantly is to set goals. Without it, there¡¯s no way to measure whether you are getting closer or further.
Hi Alvin,
Thanks for writing such a wonderful post. This is indeed a morale booster story. It somewhat refreshed my brain to a more positive state.
I¡¯d like to thank you for exposing me to Internet Marketing during my Poly days. After 6 months of reading Internet Marketing related books, I¡¯m now seizing the chance with my 3 months break before Army to try out Internet Marketing. Hopefully it¡¯ll take out fine. Even if it doesn¡¯t, I¡¯ll heed your advice and not give up! GO GO AND GO!
For those newbies who are starting out Internet Marketing and have some cash to spare. I¡¯d say invest in a mentor instead of spending cash buying more and more Internet Marketing books. Most of the stuffs I bought and read are pretty much rehashed materials that Alvin had taught in his Atomic Blogging. It was painful to see wasted cash like this.
Through the workshop I attended with Alvin and the value he has/had provided in his blog, he¡¯s no doubt one mentor I¡¯d approach if I had the spare cash. How sad to have only $200 in my local Bank with my parents constantly withdrawing for their daily needs.
Alvin: I¡¯ve seen you grown from a mere 2k/month to now 16k/month. Definitely, you¡¯ll hit your million dollar mark. Believe in your current belief/values and continue to over-deliver.
Jeremy
I admire your courage, determination and hardwork. I hope I can be like you one day.
I always believe if he can do it, so can you. It¡¯s whether you can put in as much hardwork as Alvin does.
Don¡¯t give up HY Chong
Thanks for your encouragement!
YEAH..Lets not HOPE..DIE DIE MUST DO IT¡¦Is always nice to know and learn from people who are motivated.Lets Keep GOing~
Alvin
It is so nice to actually read a story that is honest and full of integrity. So much information on the internet today is not like that and those true values are missing. I really believe that missing values are not only present on the internet but also out in the world wherever you are.
I have bought your atomic blogging product but I haven¡¯t had time to read it (I WILL)so that I too can have a story like yours.
I will definitely subscribe to this blog because as I said before it is full of honesty, integrity and love and that my friend is what we need in todays world.
At present I am in the same position as you are and I am finding it really difficult to market my sites as I just don¡¯t have any spare cash. The other point is that I work two jobs. I really want to get out of the rat race - is there any way that you can promote websites or blogs without having to pay for advertising at the beginning, and if so, how can this be done.
I wish you success with your goal for the year Alvin and I WILL be in the same position real soon.
Thanks again for your post.
Lesley
Alvin,
Just read your story, we have similar stories and guess what I just bought your atomic blogging book, I must say I am really over blown with killer strategies I have learnt and would be implementing to expand my Business and Increase my Income.
I am a Nigerian, doing full time internet marketing haven fired my boss in July 2006, by the grace of God I will be holding my first affiliate marketing seminar in Nigeria on the 30th of May showing other determined Nigerians how to make money online.
Looking forward to attending any live seminar you will be holding anywhere in the World.
regards
Hafiz Lecky
MD/CEO
Lecky Konsult International LTD
ok bro¡¦
give me 6 month to make lot of money¡¦same like u
Wow guys I never expected so many great comments on my story..
I am glad you guys understood the main point of the story and that was never to give up hope and always take action 
Hey Alvin
Great story and well done¡¦ this certainly inspires all of us to keep going.
The online business is different in that most of our efforts bring an income like a dripping tap and then suddenly 1 of our efforts will bring an income like a fully open and gushing tap.
We need to persevere until we find that gushing tap.
From your story it appears you didn¡¯t keep buying the next shiny product that came along and get overwhelmed with information. You took action on the IMC course which produced results. This is something we all need to learn from.
Keep those great posts coming.
Cheers
Ian McConnell
in sunny Western Australia
http://Ian-McConnell.com/
Alvin, Great life story!
I believe you can achieve more when you shared more about your success.
Staying in focus is one of the most important in internet business.
I was facing this problem many times, especially when you don¡¯t have enough time.
Alvin, you are one of the most friendly internet experts who I trust on.
Thanks guy!
Kent
people love life stories don¡¯t they¡¦ That¡¯s a really long post Alvin¡¦ Congrats for coming this far¡¦
This is a very nice article, full of interesting facts, personal growth and insight. Thanks for sharing this story about ¡°you.¡± By the way, thanks also for sharing a picture of you and your family.
Be Pro-Family to Live your Dream!
Thanks. You have done well.
Keep it up!