It’s actually 4am right now, Mother’s day coming around the corner and I thought it would be great to write a post dedicated to the people I love the most which is my dad and mum 
Also as I am about to share with you my personal real story with you, I hope you will be motivated to start or build up your internet business online
Introduction
My name is Alvin Phang and I started my first venture in business way back in 2003. At that time I was really young and did not even went through any form of business school but started my first off line business selling corporate gifts through the influences of a book called “Rich Dad Poor Dad.” In that book it says this “That 90% population of the world are poor and middle class people and the rest of the 10% are rich”. It was also quoted in the book that the only way to be rich was to start a business and that was the only reason why I started one at first place
During the first 12 months of running the corporate gifts and event business I was really not making lots of money as I remembered the highest profits I had made back then in one month was only SG$400 and that was not even enough to cover the rental ( of SG$1,500 a month ) of the shop I rented. To make things worst, I even had 3 other partners to worked with in which 2 of them were sleeping partners and most of the marketing was planned and managed by me.
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.
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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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