Articles for December 2006

To be a top blogging trainer in Singapore, I must learn more!

I figured out a couple of days ago that if I want to really make a good living out of blog marketing, training people on blogging, and advising corporations in Singapore how to establish their blog to reach out to their stakeholders, I must learn more than WordPress and its plugins. While WordPress is a brilliant [...]

Working at Home in Singapore

Two days ago met up with a few officers from a reputable educational institution in Singapore and in our discussions I was telling them about my endeavours on blogging and my dream lifestyle to be able to work at home (or rather, anywhere with an Internet connection). It seems to me that the notion of being [...]

Will Blogging really peak in 2007?

There has been a couple of posts going on in Steve Rubel’s Micropersuasion blog about blogging peaking in 2007. Will blogging really peak in 2007? According to the later post, Steve said According to AP, Gartner says the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. “The reason: [...]

Fortune 500 Blog Review: Sprint Nextel

Its been a while since I worked on the Fortune 500 Blogs Project. Today I shall do so, and here is my next review - Sprint Nextel! On one of Easton’s earlier posts, he has already highlighted one of the blogs that Sprint has, The Communications Insider. So while I keep that in mind, lets do [...]

Does Worktracker Work?

Yesterday I met up with my mentor and a couple of friends, wanting to forge a mastermind team to do some Internet business together. The discussion came to a point where we had differing opinions on the process of starting up the business. For sure, we know that every Internet business needs to have the [...]

Writing so people will not scan but read!

Copyblogger Brian Clark has recently wrote an excellent piece on writing exquisite subheads. I think this is a must learn skill if you are thinking of doing any form or writing on the Internet, may it be sales letters, or blogs or articles. People don’t READ, they SCAN I suspect its because of my own exposure [...]

How will Social Bookmarking sites evolve?

Seth Godin recently commented about the end of Digg, because many marketers are abusing the system to get traffic to their site. Sometimes they do this in ways that most of us would consider ethical (hey, please Digg this post if you think it’s worthwhile) while others are hiring clickfarms in India to do [...]

Okay, I’m back!… with better Alexa Rankings!

Alright! I’ve been “missing in action” for the past few days - I took a break, and its a pretty long one. My birthday was really wonderfully celebrated, spending 2 hours for dinner - hanging 15 levels up in the air and enjoying the view from Mount Faber and Sentosa. It was really fun. And [...]

What I learnt from Big Seminar, even though I didn’t attend it

Last Wednesday, I met up with a couple of friends in the SEO Web Design community, and each of us shared our experience and insights about our Internet endeavours. It was really interesting to find out that many of us have all gone into our own specialities. We all have different business models and strategies [...]

Two Quarters to Celebrate

Yesterday, I celebrate my blog being one quarter of a year old. This blog was set up on September 6th 2006! Yae! It was a quarter of hard work to bring this blog to where it is today. I love it… (sometimes too much) Today, I celebrate myself being [...]