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The Hardest Customer To Satisfy In This World
Alvin Phang  
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I was just back from a small workshop today held in my home land Singapore. Unlike many days that I normally hold my seminars and previews workshop today was the most disappointed day of my life. It has nothing to do with students signing up but I finally realized a sad fact about my own country man. Before you read further and you happen to be a Singaporean please do not be offended, but I thought it would be great to share with everyone to know abit more about our culture :)

I been doing online business and training for about 2 years and I realized in this world there are seriously lots of weird people out there on the Internet. Here are a few experiences that I myself had encounter before.

- People who insist to meet me immediately and keep calling for appointment and does not tell me what the reason for meeting
- People who email me everyday for support and insist a instant response time ( some even within 2 hours )
- People who come knocking my house door and ask for help
- People who mail me mails to ask for help

Well you may not feel it weird but I would stay it’s pretty scary when people invade into your own private life and I dont think anyone loves that do we :) Anyway my main point I like to drive in this article is to share with you guys some of my experiences training people online and offline.

For some of you guys may have already know, I do conducting training in Singapore and most of my students are located here. I told myself when I first started training I very much wanted to created successful students in my course and I really do spent tons of time and effort meaning my students. Almost on every month I would at least meet my students about 2 to 3 times a month just to ensure they are still doing the work.

Recently I had a few students made quite good money online and I am really sad to say I was been made used off and I was shocked to hear that I have students requesting me to pay them money just to get a testimonial from them. For all the hard work I have done to give all the support they get from me and this is what I can in return. It really sad to see this but I finally realized it’s a truth fact Singaporeans are the hardest people to satisfy in this world.

But I would not blame them because the place where I am living now is really competitive and everyone right here is simply just killing each others just to make ends meet. It’s sad but I think Singapore is not the only country that face these problems I believe other countries too :)

Something in me feel really hurt that some of my students would do this to me as I ever spent hours and hours helping them but some just took it for granted. The worst is when I ever bother to go the extra mile to plan stuff for them to do and plan but however nothing is was done! Maybe I spoon feed people too much I guess :P But I do know I have friends who train people in Indonesia are really hard working people and they do respect the trainers compared to where I am here is totally different :P

I hope I did not offended anyone here but just want to seek if anyone who is a trainer and is also facing this problems with your students what would you do to motivate your students to work harder for themselves to see better results in their own online business? My goal as a trainer is to create successful students but the biggest problem I am facing now, student are addicated so much into the learning but they are just plain lazy to do the work :(

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Comment by harvey96 Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-08 10:31:44
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You are right. Everyone is competing here. There is a cantonese saying “After a disciple learnt everything from the master, there is no more master”. This is just part and parcel of our life. Think of it positively, you don’t loose much. Instead, it is worth to know someone “better” with that little price.

 
Comment by Alvin Huang Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-08 12:36:26
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Sorry to hear that my friend.

But as your business grows bigger and bigger. You will meet even more weird kind of people. And more people that will disappoint you. Just hang in there yah.

Alvin Huang

 
Comment by Jaz Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-10 12:54:21
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That’s one of the reason why I stop doing so much training and its better to concentrate on my own online business. Even thou the money is good when doing offline training.

All newbies go through the same phase. They can’t wait to bite their master. Why do I know this, I trained close to 100 people every week for 1 whole year. This is especially true in the IM niche.

Jaz Lai

P.S. Rem how you used to conduct workshop on the same place and time as mine. Luckily you are not a newbie anymore.

 
Comment by Dave Starr Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-10 17:09:15
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Alvin, I have seldom met anyone with as much enthi\usiasm as you show and literally no one whom I have seen be nore helpful to other bloggers. You do have to realize one thing:
There are a certain group of folks online who do not _want_ to succeeed. Oh, they say they do, they badger everyone they can get to listen for help and ad\vice and “free stuff”, give me “free stuff”. But when you show them how to make even the simplest6 start on the road to success, they will not take the firststep. They will pester youuntil they finally get bored and then wil find the next guru to complain to.

It’s hard indeed to separate these folks in your mind from the ones who truly want to succeed and actually will take the first steps, but it is a skill you must learn, just6 the same as learning about building traffic, keywords, etc.

be generous and helpful but keep back a bit of yourself to get you over the hard spots … and realize you cna only do what you cna do … it will never be enough for some.

 
Comment by Alvin Phang Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-11 00:14:10
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Hi guys, thanks for your kind feedback… it’s really touching to know that I have great readers and friends reading my blog :)

I think I do not want to give up teaching yet as I believe to be the No.1 Trainer in the World, I first have to be no.1 in my home land first.

I think my Goal of creating 50 successful students will take at least 2 years to create. Even though I trained a total of 100+ students already but so far I only have in hand about 5 or 6.

I think as time goes by I will slowly improve and I like to thanked everyone for their kind feedback :)

 
Comment by Maynas Chua dot com Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-18 11:22:09
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lolz, Alvin, relax broz.

Remember the 80/20 rule

focus :)

Stay strong, keep fighting

Eric Chua
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