About Tan Kian Ann

My name is Kian Ann and I’m the guy behind Blogopreneur. Let me just give you a short glimpse about my blogging history and what I’m doing here at Blogopreneur.

I’m a 25 year old bugger blogger located in the small country of Singapore. (Yeah I’m still young, and I’d be young at heart even when I’m 85! ) This blog chronicles my thoughts and ramblings about the stuff that is going on in Internet, or more specifically, the blogosphere.

I am doing this full time - blogging and blog marketing training, and I really want to reach out to companies and individuals in my area (or anywhere in the world if its possible by Skype), to help you people set up your blogs, optimize it for search engine traffic, and market it. Blogs are a wonderful way of communicating, and everyone should have a go at it.

So let me know if you need advice, or if there are people around you who want to set up an optimized blog!

My Blogging History

I got started with online journaling back in 2002, but I didn’t use a blog! I didn’t know of blogs then, so all I had was a secret Yahoo! mail account which I mailed to after penning my daily thoughts and frustrations in an email. In February 2005, I finally migrated to a blogger blog, but I kept the blog secret again, under a password protected page.

Then the day came in late 2005 when I decided that I should go public (erm… I mean, make my blog accessible to the public) and start writing more sensibly. I found a love and passion in writing online, and I started a hobby blog - Trekking Singapore and Beyond.

I later learnt about Internet marketing, Google Adsense and search optimization, and I got particularly interested in the idea of corporate blogging and blogging for money. That is why I’ve set up Blogopreneur.com - to really explore and dive into blog marketing and blog entrepreneurship.

Apart from frantically blogging behind the computer screen, I’m also an associate trainer at MyWebCulture, specializing in helping corporations and individuals use blogs to attain maximum Internet presence.

I love trekking and I love blogging. If my favourite trekking spots had Internet access, I will probably live in the wilderness for half of my time every year.

Oh yes… I’m a Singaporean Chinese, so Kian Ann is my first name. My last name is Tan. Over here, we put our surname before our given name, so I’d write Tan Kian Ann if you’d ask me to write my full name. People I’ve met online have been addressing me as Kian thinking that Ann is my last name. Well… I’m used to it, but it’ll be great to call me Kian Ann. I’ve thought of having a pen name or English name but I’m too lazy to switch my identity. Just call me Kian if you are lazy like me.

Get in Touch

Blogging is so much a social activity, and if we share the same interests or if you’d like to get in touch, I would really welcome hearing from you, whether in the real world or the virtual one.

Chat

We can start of from Skype. Add me and we can start chatting.

My Skype ID is tan_kian_ann.

Write

If you prefer to write, you can write to me using this form below.