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| We breed the excellence |
| Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
Maybe you realize we have few bloggers to help us to manage the Ambatch blog.
Today I would like to introduce 2 guys to you.
1. Suwandi Chow - Indonesia
He's the guy with motivation to share his knowledge of web publishing. He has helped us to manage the Indo Blog for 1 month.
Thanks Suwandi.
 2. Vincent Seah - Singapore.
He is a graduate of Master Publisher Program. His motivation impresses me. So we allow him to manage our Singapore/Malaysia section of this blog. I am sure he is going to share what he learns from us with our friends from Singapore and Malaysia.
Since he is just a fresh graduate, please feel free to advice him and let him know how to improve.
We are looking forward to see how Vicent grows to become a world-class web publisher.Labels: general |
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| Am I Enough? |
| Monday, July 30, 2007 |
I talked to my students few days ago.
"I always feel insufficient. It's like there are many things left on my table, that I should pick them up...."
I agree we have too many things to learn. I study new thing every day and never give up. However, you cannot keep to learn without taking action.
New Knowledge Comes From Experience
The difference between a newbie or pro is....Pro can customize the knowledge that fit his personality. The process of customization relies on experience.
If you don't take action, how you can master the knowledge.
Newbie, they "read" the knowledge. Pro, they digest the knowledge.
Pro...they breath in Oxygen and breath out Carbon Dioxide....
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 2:45 PM |
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| To our friends of Master Publisher Program |
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Our first Master Publisher Program is going to finish.
However, it is just the starting date of the life of web publisher. I believe you will face a lot of difficulties during the startup process. I know you can conquer them. Remember that you have completed so many tasks and assignments, up to now you're still there.
Our relationship is lasted forever. Our "Private MPP Forum" is a communication platform between us. Sometimes, you may need our help, or I need your support. We never know!
Indeed, I am going to exchange resources to selected candidates. We also encourage partnership projects between the graduates.
Don't leave us. See u in our private forum.Labels: general |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 10:39 AM |
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| Components of Success - Timing, Environment & You |
| Saturday, July 28, 2007 |
Success - the most desired feeling of us.
I always use "success" to describe the progress of an issue or case or project e.g. business, sales, personal relationships..etc.
Like our business project, it succeeds because of the reasonance of 3 factors - Timing, Environment and You. You may hear many times. People complain something fail because of wrong timing, wrong position OR themselves.
OK! However, most of us may try to put the relationship of final result and overselves together. Yes. You are one of the components, just 1/3. The project results depend on 3 factors, anyway.
You think you can fully control the "timing" and "environment"? Definitely we cannot. We can manage what we do but most external factors are out of control. It's the fact.
That's why I always share with my friend "Luck is very important to us".
But luck loves to come to the people (YOU) who pay effort with heart.
Even if the result is not satisfied, you have tried your best and paid full effort. You should not regret, and you are successful according to the factor "YOU".
Somehow we cannot control everything in our life, right?Labels: general |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 10:37 AM |
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| The Coolest Young Entrepreneurs in America |
| Friday, July 27, 2007 |
I just checked an article "The Coolest Young Entrepreneurs in America" at Yahoo.com.
They are the men whom I respect. They may not be the millionaires. Some of them are too far from this 7-figure level.
I love to learn from young entrepreneurs (actually I'm just 31). I can see their motivation and faith. They are like a mirror in front of me.
I always believe, more entrepreneurs in a country, more powerful this country is according to economic aspect.
When you are tired and want to quit your business, please check this article. It will bring you back.Labels: general |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 11:24 PM |
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| Free source code of my old invention |
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I found a guy who used my name to sell a script called "Targeted Visitor" for a long time. Actually I tried to contact him not to sell this scripts many times.
He got the reseller right from VIP Profit Zone. It's an old project with Mike Mograbi from 2004 to 2006. We stopped all reseller rights.
Below is the information of that guy:
Domain: www.seositemaker.com
Detlev Schroder (schroder@nitmail.com.br)
Address:Rua Cel. Americo Froes, 14sala 203-204Niteroi, RIO Grande do Norte, BR
Targeted Visitor is a webpage generator invented in mid 2000. It may be the first and the oldest page generator in the world. At that moment, this software worked very well due to lack of competition.
After 7-years, the performance of this software cannot be as good as before. Obviously the environment changes. Except you pick the very "low competitive" keyword, this software can perform very well.
I intend to give out the source code of this software "next week". You cannot expect you can generate tons of traffic by using this software. Indeed, you need "right keywords".
I think it's a good lesson for you to see how I developed this tool 7-years ago. From the design logic and approach, you may get some hints of the SEO strategies especially for on-site optimization.
Good Luck
Category: http://opensource.ambatch.com/Labels: open source |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 10:24 AM |
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| Sponsorship of Bangkok Universiade 2007 |
| Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
Ambatch.com, a leading web publishing firm, sponsors the event Bangkok Universiade 2007.
The Universiade is an International multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The name is a combination of the words "University" and "Olympiad". The Universiade is often referred to in English as the World University Games or World Student Games.
Ambatch.com will advertise this Universiade event across its website network in Thailand. It estimates there are around 1.5 million unique visitors will come to the Universiade's website from 1st to 15th August.
We are looking forward to the big success of Bangkok Universiade 2007.Labels: general |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 3:05 PM |
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| Revenue Optimization |
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 Revenue Optimization - if building website is not your hobby, then our purpose should be "make money".
If you cannot make "1 buck" from your website, basically you don't need to take care of this "optimization process".
To make money from your website, you can sell services, products and advertisements.
Different revenue models have different entrance levels.
1. Selling Advertisements
It's the easiest model for web publisher. Since 2003, pay-per-click advertising program like Google Adwords offered a publisher program - Google Adsense, more people can enjoy the money making process on the internet.
Nowadays, there are many publisher programs available like Bidvertiser, Adbrite, Yahoo Publisher Program..etc. You can choose either one to suit your current business model.
Indeed, more programs don't mean you have better profit potential. More new publishers come from Asia and South America are competing the same size of biscuit with you. From the annual financial report from either Google and Yahoo, the growth of the revenue from their advertising program don't grow sharply. However, the no. of the web publishers grow enormously.
Many people complain it is tough to make a dime from Google. They are 50% right.
Honestly if you can approach the global market properly, it's not so difficult to make good money from PPC program like Adsense.
2. Selling Products & Services
This model has higher entrance level compared to PPC program.
However, we still have wide range of the models with different entrance levels.
A. Selling digital products & services
The boom of digital products and services make this industry over competitive (according to newbie's level)
For example, anyone can create a ebook (just a pdf file).
Website membership is sightly a little bit difficult because it requires some more website programming knowledge. However, it is not difficult for you to create such website because too many web scripts are available in the market.
Software (e.g. VB, C++, .net) is better coz it requires more programming knowledge. The entrace level is the highest one compared to other kind of digital products.
If you currently have a brand name in the market, then it is still easy to sell these products and services. For the new comers, you need to gain some credibility before selling these kinds of products. The sales volume is quite depending on your reputation plus marketing campaign.
B. Selling physical products
Selling physical product has the highest entrance level. Compared to the digital products, this business is less competitive. Most starters do not consider this business since they are afraid of the complexity and the capital size of the model.
Indeed, it's not difficult to sell physical products. At least, it doesn't depend on my reputation. It relies on the credbility of the website far more than the name of "Kelvin Hui".
The ownership of this e-commerce model is transferable. This means, there is always a "value" behind it.
The logistic and merchandising process can be solved by find a right partner with you. Like my model, I have several partners to manage these process for me, and I focus on site building and sales conversion.
Personally, I suggest the publisher in intermediate level to try to sell the physical products.Labels: path to excellence, revenue optimization |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 11:34 AM |
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| My experience |
| Monday, July 23, 2007 |
The Shanghai trip is impressive.
This is a business trip of visiting various science parks in Shanghai. In the mean time, we will have several meetings with the local enterpreneurs.
At this moment, most companies are focusing on the "out-source" business similar to the situation of India. The models are quite similar, and I expect the competition will become higher.
Therefore I suggest the local enterpreneurs look at the new model - develop their own products and build a brand.
"Out-sourcing" - it's an ideal model for the country with low labour cost. Since the living standard of China tends to become higher, the profit margin of out sourcing business will be lower.
Local businesses have taken a lot of IT knowledge due to the out-source business. Therefore, it is wise to invest in their own brands and products.Labels: general |
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| Meeting with the management board of China.com |
| Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
 China.com (or CDC Software) is one of the leading website in mainland China. Under this China.com, it has several sister websites with the theme of Web 2.0. This company offers online gaming, SMS, enterprise software and related business services in mainland China.
This company is listed in NASDAQ and HKSE.
Tomorrow I will go to Shanghai to meet the management people of CDC Software.
Personally, I think I can learn a lot from them especially for the operation strategies inside the studio. Anyway, I am interested to see how they invest to develop web technology.
During that trip, I will see my friend working in Baidu.com. I am very interested at the progress of their work in Japan.Labels: general |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 11:27 AM |
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| Website Features for Community Building |
| Saturday, July 14, 2007 |
To build a good community inside the website, we cannot rely on a single feature.
What does it mean?
We know a web community can bring sustainable growth of website traffic. It's essential for the long term development of any website. It's also the value of your domain.
Indeed, some web publishers misunderstand that they MUST use a "FORUM" to build a community. Forum is one of the great web features for community building. Nobody can challenge.
Actually, a single website can have more than 1 feature for community building. Take a look at Yahoo, this company offers "Answers", "Messenger", "Personals", "Groups"..etc. Yahoo also acquired Del.icio.us and MyBlogLog for the further development of its internal community.
Yahoo is still ranked No.1 website according to the traffic volume on the earth. Maybe you like Google more than Yahoo, it's the fact that the traffic volume of Yahoo is the highest one.
If you have a forum and want to grow it bigger, definitely you can ask for a help from my friend Ryan Chua.
According to my experience, a forum can help and do a great job in traffic stablization. However, the speed of community formation by a forum may not be as fast as the other web features.
For me, I will use more than 1 (mostly 3 to 4) web features to build a big community for a single domain. They are integrated and produce 1+1 = 3 effect.
Like my Chinese project, I use an in-house web script and combine it with the forum, the traffic grows 300% faster than using a forum alone. Unlike the forum, I don't need to take care of the admin work of the community inside the in-house web script because it is a software for the people to interact for wide range of the topics.
It's like you open 2 doors to allow the visitors to come to your home. It's always faster, right?
I suggest you to use different web scripts to build a community instead of relying on a forum alone. You need to face the fact that not many people love to stay at the forum. And a forum is not the only way for community building on the internet.
Anyway coin has 2 sides. Forum has its own value.Labels: path to excellence, traffic generation |
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| Traffic Generation |
| Friday, July 13, 2007 |
 I bet traffic generation is the most interesting subject you want to listen. Indeed, it's the most sensitive topic, too.
Traffic is always in dynamic status. It's the flow of human beings. It's not just a mouse click.
Different business models need different traffic generation strategies. There is no sure-fire strategy for all businesses.
To find people to visit your website, it can be a free or paid action. Good traffic generation method is a cost-effective way to bring visitors to your website. Instead of using Pay-Per-Click or search engine optimization strategies, the return (net result) is more important than the nature of strategies.
Definitely I use many strategies. I never rely on ONE strategies because I have several business models in my hand.
I try not to use the term "generation" for the whole picture of traffic. "Generation" is a good term to describe the process of "external" traffic management process, but it is not the whole picture of the internet business.
The mechanism of traffic management is:
New Visitor > Website > Return to the Website
Traffic generation is an accumulation process. We have external and internal traffic strategies to manage the traffic. We cannot rely on either one to sustain our business.
Philosophy of Traffic:
It's my experience after managing over billions of unique visitors across my website in these 7 years. I cannot say my approach is an answer. In fact, the philosophy is based on experience.
1. Direct Access
2. Referral Traffic
Referral Traffic
I want to talk about "Referral Traffic" first. It's because most webmasters believe "referral traffic" is almost equal to "everything".
Referral traffic means the other websites (or another online media) refer visitors to the one of yours. Your referral can be search engine, blog, directories, forum..etc.
You can generate referral traffic by free or paid methods.
1. Search Engines: you can generate free traffic by using SEO methods or paid traffic by joining the advertising programs like Google Adwords or Yahoo Overture.
2. Blog & Forum: These websites are more community style. It's like friend visiting the other friends' website. E.g. Mybloglog. People see your pic and are interested to visit your website. People visit your site because of "YOU" instead of your website.
3. Others: It's as simple as a webmaster puts your website URL on his site with or without introduction.
The common characteristic of referral traffic is: the visitors go to your website from another by clicking the "hyperlink".
We also classify referral traffic generation as the external traffic management. It can bring new and old visitors to a website. "New" blood is focused.
Direct Access
It's what we talk about "internal traffic management".
For the process of traffic management, you know it is a process of accumulation.
From the 100 to 10000 unique visitors, how many of them repeat to come to your website?
Direct access is the most stable and reliable traffic source. For a new website, it is quite impossible to have a good direct traffic. You need to bring people by using referral traffic strategies, then provide the content, tools to keep people returning to your website.
To keep people come back, we have many strategies like:
1. Direct bookmark
2. Easy to remember domain name (it's your brand, the most valuable asset of a website)
3. More valuable contents and web tools (it's why people come to your website), and think about their updated frequency.
4. Email
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It's the general picture you should know as a webmaster.
You can learn more ideas about traffic generation strategies by:
1. Check the tag of this site "traffic generation"
2. To download the detailed guideline and action plan.
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 12:30 PM |
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| Website is not a virtual real estate |
| Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
Website is not real estate. This concept is totally wrong.
Try to think about it. What's the average price of the property in your country 20 years ago? Could you use the same amount to buy the same thing now?
We know it's impossible, why? Inflation.
The price of property may fluctuate due to deflation, inflation, government policy, supply and demand. However, the price will keep to grow in long term basis. It's inflation.
I have no idea how inflation can add value to a website. Indeed, the entrance level of web publishing will become lower and lower due to the popularity of IT.
Only the site content which can bring traffic and revenue, these factors can add value to your website regardless of inflation.
10 years ago....how much did you pay for a domain? maybe hundreds bucks for one. How about now? US$9 or less, you can make a deal.
How come website is real estate, it doesn't make any sense.Labels: understand the whole picture |
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Web publishing is a long term investment.
So what is a good website according to business purpose?
1. Traffic Growth
We know website cannot survive without traffic. Traffic growth means the popularity of your website increase. Adding new features and contents are essential for the growth. Look at Google and Yahoo, these companies keep to add new features.
Consistent traffic growth at one domain is always better than using multiple domains. Investing in multiple domains to maximize the revenue, it makes sense. However, you cannot manage too many domains (hundreds to thousands). It is because this strategy cannot add value to the "domain" - the "brand".
Don't overlook the branding effect. For long term success, the brand can help you to do a lot of things.
2. Revenue Growth
Without revenue, it is no point to invest in web publishing business. Maximize the revenue growth by employing different advertising models. Consistent growth of revenue, it means your site value keeps to increase.
3. Repeatable Management Model
It's tough to manage many websites. You need teammates. If the site relies on a lot of professional knowledge, it's very difficult to handover the project. Like blogging, it's difficult to ask the other guy to do it for you.
4. Reinvesting
You make $100 from your site but spend all bucks. You have no reserve to re-invest on your website. It means....your site cannot grow fast.
Keep some reserves for the growth of the site.Labels: understand the whole picture |
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| Your First Step |
| Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
 Your First Step
This web publishing business is too attractive, you want to try, right?
OK! You would imagine whether Kelvin Hui can offer you a sure-fire guide to you?
My answer is "Yes" and "No".
For this web publishing, it can be an art or science. Before you want to build your own "MySpace" or "YouTube", I suggest you to learn how to walk.
1. Be comfortable to build a website
It's the most difficult part in the whole experience. Not many webmasters really like to build the websites. They don't like what they are doing.
I think you have similar experience. You are not comfortable when you solve a "new problem" and handle a "new task". Compared to the old task, you are quite confident because of "adaptatoin".
It's like you move to another country. You adapt the new culture, food and living style.
Similar to website building, you adapt the new process ever in your life. During the start, maybe you don't like the programming code, complicated web functions, control the server...etc, and even you don't like to write anything on the website.
It's normal. Very normal. It's because you are adapting a new living environment. You live with the website.
To make sure you can adapt the process easily, I suggest you to....
2. Start from Small
There is no special skill required to build a website. I mean a small website. If you needed "Amazon-like" website, definitely you will face a lot of technical problems.
Starting from small, it doesn't mean your ability is not ok to afford it. Indeed, it is a process to adapt the new living style - living with your website (like your baby).
When the young teens and even your children can build a site by using Xanga, Blogger, Myspace...why you can say you "cannot"?
Using such services are free. No need to pay. You do what you like. What we want is to "adapt" the process.
OK! I can join this free service and get an account easily, then what should I do with that site?
3. Write What You Like
Only write what you are interested. Definitely you can make video and share the photo, it is fine. The writing process is to share what you know, you have and you like.
If you are not interested in that subject, basically you cannot write anything. Everyone is unique. I believe they have their own strength. You don't need to do any market research.
Just write what you like. Remember that our goal is to "adapt" the process.
A website is used to build connection. Without visitors, your website is not meaningful...so...
4. Find Your Audience
You want someone read your blog/site, post comment and return to see you every day.
The best method is to join the blog/site community like MyBlogLog.com and let the other people know you are around them.
To build connection with new friend, it is good to check another blog and leave comment.
Always remember that - a website is for communication, interaction and building relationship.
The no. of the visitors on your website depends on how you put effort to develop relationship.
You can find more blog posts on this website at the tag:
1. Your First Step
2. You can also move to the next topic of "The Path to Excellence" - Traffic GenerationLabels: path to excellence, your first step |
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| Can You become the next giant? |
| Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
 How to Walk?
Are you going to build another "Google", "YouTube", "Wikipedia" or "MySpace"? If yes, then congradulation!
Please read the content below carefully......
The Elements for Building a Giant
1. Unique Idea Unique. It means not many similar things happen on the earth. Maybe it is the first or second one. To brainstorm an unique idea, somehow it cannot be controlled by us. 
Indeed, it quite depends on:
a. How do we think about the world?
b. What is the living and working environment?
c. Our life experience
Based on these 3 factors, different people make different conclusion, even if on the same subject.
2. Guts
Idea is always an idea. If we don't take action, the idea is meaningless. However, there are not many people having guts to take action. They cannot handle "failure". "why the other people succeed but not mine?". All successes are based on failures. Coin has 2 sides. Many people just look at one side but miss the other side. It's common problem of human beings, but it's normal. Having guts to take action is not easy. Taking too much risks is fatal to your life. So it is good to have guts to take 'a small risk". Guts - all founders of the internet giants have "GUTS".
3. Work Hard to Prove the Concept
The giants speak less, but take a lot of actions. They prove the concepts that work in the market, not for themselves.
4. Venture Capital
Money..Money and Money. Money is the blood of business. Without money, you cannot startup properly.
How much am I required to build the site like Google? Many millions at least. How about Youtube or Myspace...maybe much more.
A website is not just a website. Do you know how much the companies pay for the marketing and advertising during startup?
That's why venture capital is here. They support the potential venture projects.
5. Luck
Do you have luck?
You have idea, guts, working hard and venture capital. Without luck, you cannot really achieve what you want.
There are many projects supported by venture capital companies, but how many of them succeed.....frankly, only 20% of them.
Youtube has luck. In Asia, youtube becomes hot due to some people sharing the controversial videos. The local presses feature the video on the newspaper, TV program and radio. They feature the "videos", not "youtube". It helps the users to form a new behaviour.
They go to Youtube to watch the videos themselves.
It's luck. You never know where your luck comes. However, all of us know luck only comes to the people who have well-preparation.
Since we cannot assume luck is always with us, we need to start from small (betting small, taking small risk) with guts, and accumulate the success step by step.
Maybe we cannot achieve the success similar to the giants like Google and Youtube. We can still earn a good living from web publishing.Labels: understand the whole picture |
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*****************************************************  Is it too good to be true?
It is the most common question when the people see the "big fat cheque" made by the web publishers.
"How can I imagine that I could make money by building such website?"
This is my mom's response under my expectation. Indeed, many people overlook the power of information technology.
Before the internet age, people were still looking for information by other ways like newspaper, TV programs, mouths, radio..
Until now, people can almost access everything by internet.
The process is the same. People love to access information. The difference is...the speed is much faster today.
 I want to know how?
The check is too attractive. Nobody can forget it.
Do you really know the story behind the check? Every penny, it has its own story....I bet you want to know the story behind the penny made by the website, right?
If you are a normal person, you will go to either "Google" or "Yahoo" even "MSN Live" to look for any information or "SECRETS" about making money by a website.
In the search engines, you can find information "A", "B"...."X", and somehow you come to this website "ambatch.com" accidentically. You have no idea whether this site can answer your question, but anyway, it is no lose to check one more site :-)
Do you have a website?
It's a very stupid question. If you ask this question to the group below "18", mostly 70% of them have a site from Xanga, Blogger, Live Space and My Space..etc. Their sites are like a platform of entertainment - a channel to communicate with their friends.
Why do they build a website?
Why do the young people love to build a website? Most answer it - "For Fun". It's difficult to find the answer like "I want to make money from the website". Making money is not the primary force to drive them to build a funny website.
But I want to make money from a website...
Then the next question is: Do you have a website?
If you didn't know the business potential of a website, most likely you would not build a site. At least, you may think you have another way to make money like investing in another business, stock investment, real estate.
No matter you decide to build a site, I would like to pass you a concept.
Any website which cannot faciliate the "human interaction" or "communication", it is never a good website.
Do you remember the purpose of internet?
Yes...for communication - remove the barrier of communication, enhance the information flow between human beings.
We still remember that, the side product of internet...."email" came first, and then "web page".
Email is for communication for sure. Then how about webpage?
At the "Old Stone Age", Webpage was used to display the information that we could not do it by using email...e.g. 10,000 words with images, audio...
At that moment, webpage could faciliate 'one-way' communication (Email is 2-way). If you wanted to contact the webmasters, you would find his email on the webpage and send him a message.
Today (the Modern Age), thanks for the great technology, a webpage can provide 2-way and even multi-way communication. You can see internet users prefer to stay at the "blog", "community sites", and definitely we cannot forget the powerful internet tools e.g. search engines, file sharing.
Therefore, if you are going to build a website, what is the purpose of it?
Please forget the programming work. It's not your job. You are a philosopher to think about the game plan. You need to think how to play this game properly, and how you can build a lot of connections from your website. It's the source of money.
To become a successful web publisher, programming skill is the least important. You know, up to these 7 years, I cannot do any programming work no matter html, php, VB...etc. It's not an execuse for you not to build a site based on this reason.
The Driving Force
I've been in this business for 7 years (since Year 2000). All my business models and strategies are driven by only 1 purpose - "For Fun". I treat my business like a "game" and that's why, I never feel I am busy or face high pressure.
Since it's a game - you play it, not "work" on it. If you have children, you can ask....what are you doing now....I bet they will not answer this.."I'm working on Playstation 3..". It doesn't make any sense.
The "whole picture" is bigger and longer than this article. You can find more blog posts on this website at the tag:
1. Understand The Whole Picture
2. Or you can move to the next topic of "The Path to Excellence" - You First StepLabels: path to excellence, understand the whole picture |
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| 60 Days Left |
| Monday, July 09, 2007 |
After around 60 days, my wife will give the first son in my life.
To be a daddy, I have no experience for sure. I know it's a life changing process...from single, to couple and then parent.
I never imagine I will become a daddy even if I am eager to form a family. My wife and my son will be the most important assets in my life.
Some people said a businessman will become more conservative after forming a family. I quite agree this point. At least, I need to think and think again before making any decision, especially for business.
It's no good for my career? It depends. It seems "conservative" is a good character for me. It's because I was too aggressive in the last 7 years.
Today I know how to balance.
So if someone talk about my career goal, I think my answer will be "Do what I am doing great today. Tomorrow? Leave it tomorrow.".Labels: general |
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| Thursday, July 05, 2007 |
 I bet you understand this fact.
1. If traffic is the oxygen of your online business, then forums is the blood which carries your oxygen.
2. Only websites which facilitate communication and interaction will eventually be awarded by sustainable high traffic volume. (Don’t forget that the Internet was created to enhance communication.)
Currently, there is no similar material available in the market. So basically you cannot find a reference book to enhance your knowledge and experience.
I am lucky. I know a guy called Ryan Chua who manages the biggest online “BMW” forum in Asia. He shared a lot of experiences with me about community traffic management.
If you can master a forum, you are the KING of community traffic.
I urged Ryan to write down all his tips and share it with our friends. This is the book I must have (and you must have, too).
Last week, I bought Ryan’s book for all my private students. Each student got one copy. I paid Ryan thousands dollars personally, and invited him to be the instructor of my private coaching program.
It’s the first time I pay for an ebook.
If you are interested, you can download this book here.
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 11:27 AM |
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| Save Her Life |
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 |
 10 days ago, It was a rainy day. I found a small kitty on the street. I picked it up and brought it to my home.
This kitty is around 1 month old. It's a baby girl.
4 days ago, I found something happened to her. She didn't want to eat, only slept and slept.
I thought she might miss her mom and that's why she didn't eat.
Until today, I found her weight dropped too much. I brought her to see veterinarian.
He informed me the kitty would die if she didn't eat. The real reason of her situation is...she got a big sore inside the mouth.She was very painful, I understood.
The veterinarian helped to remove the sore, and injected the antibiotics into her body.
The coming few days are very crucial. I must feed her myself with water and soft cat food.
I hope I will save her successfully. Life is priceless. Pray for her.Labels: general |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 2:53 PM |
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| Make Extra $100 Bucks Effortless? |
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
 Maybe you are too busy to make 6 figure every month, then this post may not be for you.
I believe our wealth is an accumulation process. It grows step by step. Therefore, I am always serious at every penny (even $100 is good).
2 months ago, I apply a program which allows me to sell 'text links". Look at the graphic at left hand side, or scroll down to see the left hand side of this blog, you can find the text links like "Theater Tickets" and "Games".
Who are they?
They are my advertisers who referred by Text Link Ads.
I was not serious during applying this program, but....
Before I applied this program, honestly I was not quite confident on this kind of publishing program. You know, I have no idea how they refer advertisers to me. For the payout, since it is not a "pay per click" program, I don't know how it works.
TLA has done a great job
Within 1 week, TLA referred 2 advertisers to me. They put ads on my site based on a monthly subscription mode. I don't know how much they pay TLA, but in fact, I make $100 last month from this program. The most beautiful thing is.....
Text Link Ads pays me via Paypal (you can choose to get the payment by check) :-)
It's easy to apply this program..
If you have a blog site, then Text Link Ads is ideal to you. Simply applying the program by filling the form (international users are welcome, you know, I live in Hong Kong), then wait for 24 hours for approval process.
This program is very flexible. Even if you use free domain like blogspot.com, it is still ok. Also, it is free to signup, you lose nothing, right!
Enjoy this effortless $100 together!Labels: revenue optimization, your first step |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 6:07 PM |
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| The first commercial software I design.... |
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 Today I saw my programmer using my old software which I developed in 2004. It's called Multilingual Marketer.
I developed a lot of in-house software in these 7 years. However, Multilingual Marketer is the first one I developed for commercial purpose.
How could I brainstorm this idea? In 2003, I joined the Google Adsense Publisher program. I found that there were numerous strategies to maximize my income potential. One of the greatest strategies is to diversify the website languages from English to Spanish, Japanese...etc. It is a sustainable strategy Better than using blackhat strategy, translating the site into multilingual is legal and sustainable, WHY? I talked to Google directly I really had guts. I showed the concepts and software to the Google guys. I got their official reply and said my idea was " OK". Does this software work today? Is it still available today? Yes. It works when you understand the purpose of this software. It's still available to the public but we don't like to hard sell anything. It's our style. Labels: general |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 4:09 PM |
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| New web publishing system |
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One of our web publishing systems at Goutie.com is finished its beta testing.
After 4 months testing, our comment is....it's performance is better than our expectation according to the website architecture and community formation.
Goutie.com is an article content sharing website with the profit sharing idea. By using the SEO friendly architecture with the small input of seeding keywords and articles, it works well automatically.
We set this beta test in Chinese language because we want to know more information of this market. Definitely, we have English version.
We are going to offer the scripts of both Chinese and English version to you in July. I know no many people can work comfortably with this kind of scripts. That's why our programmers will help you to install and setup this program.
My website script is like an art product. We don't offer it to too many people.Labels: become advanced |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 9:59 AM |
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| About Kelvin Hui |
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Name: Kelvin Hui
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