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July 15th 2008 witnessed a record set for this country (Malaysia). For the first time ever, after 51 years of Independence the Public get to see a live debate between two representatives - the Government and the Opposition.

The live debate was aired at 2100 hrs or 0900 p.m. Malaysian time on TV9 and the repeat broadcast was at 2300 hrs or 1100 p.m. on TV3. I missed the LIVE telecast because my wife was watching her favorite show - Cinderella - on TV 3. And that’s how we get to know that there’s going to be a repeat of the debate.

It’s a good thing my wife watched her favorite show…

The whole debate was nothing but series of flashback of unrelated past events, personal slanders and typical Kopitiam talk.

Except for Anwar Ibrahim’s mesmerizing speech…

Again, the Government, represented by the Information Minister: Ahmad Shabery Chik had taken after the predecessor: Zainuddin Maidin when he was interviewed by Al-Jazeera some time ago in an effort to rebut Anwar’s statement in an interview by the same channel before that.

Totally and ‘utterly’ rubbish…

Looks like there’s a big chance that the Malaysian Cabinet had to make a change after the live debate in the Information Ministry

Really. I’m NOT kidding!

Zam and Shabery had a LOT in common especially in ‘delivering speech’.

During the Al-Jazeera interview, Zam made himself sounds like an amateur whereby he’s supposed to be at the advance level, if he understand what ‘advance’ means.

Zam can write. Shabery can write. Both had the reputation as editor for popular local daily but when it comes to represent their fact and figures orally, they flop miserably!

WHAT HAD GONE WRONG WITH THE DEBATE?

Actually, this debate reminds me of the match between Nadal and Federer during Wimbledon.

If you’re a tennis fan or a sport fan, maybe you’ve followed the match. But if you not, let me tell you that Federer DID NOT win the game.

Nadal did.

What interest me after the match was the statistic and one thing in particular - the unforced error.

If you noticed, the total unforced error made by Nadal was like 27 (if I recalled correctly). And Federer, well being the World Number One as he is now, he made TWICE that number!

52 to be exact…

Maybe that’s cost him the tournament. I don’t know. But I suspect it’s one of the main factor for his loses.

Shabery Chick did the same thing as Federer.

NO. He’s not the Number One debater for Malaysia (I’m not sure if anyone know for sure) but he made too much ‘unforced’ error.

Let me try and spell a few right off the bat…

Giving history classes. Now, I understand that Shabery need to make a point and he need to make it fast and impactful. If he’s smart (which clearly shown throughout the debate that he’s NOT), he should know the fact that he’s up against someone who’ve got STANDING OVATION after his speech at United Nations some time ago.

Standing ovation at the UN…

That was not KID stuff and Shabery seems to forget that part of the history.

Sir, the podium is nothing like the blank white paper. That’s why they have Public Speaking classes. That’s why they have Toastmasters. And if you need to make a point using history, then learn how to do it well.

My favorite ‘model’ for this is none other than Tun Mahathir.

Tun knew a lot about using history to make a statement. In fact, that’s the thing he encourage fellow Malaysian to study. Not just memorizing dates and who did what to who and how, but what’s the lessons, what’s the motive behind all that.

For example, if he wanted to use the historical background of Anwar as a rebellion right from his heydays in the Uni, he need to relate that as a fact that what ‘motivate’ Anwar back then will only put this nation right where Anwar wants it - on the street!

And back that up with some ‘real’ fact and figures, and bring everything back to the matter at hand which is ‘Today Form the Government, Tomorrow Reduce Oil Price’.

And what does Anwar’s history got to do with all this? Come on…

That brings us to the next point…

Lack of solid evidence. I try to listen hard. Every time Shabery make his speech, I silenced everything around me (my wife especially who keeps asking me questions after questions) and I almost broke my TV speaker (I think) But even with that, it’s hard for me to get a single ’solid’ point from Shabery!

All I heard coming out from his mouth was a barrage of background personal attack.

That Sir, belongs on the street. Not on National TV Broadcast.

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SIDEBAR:
Funny thing to note - the debate was not aired on RTM where it’s
the Government main communication channel

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Overall delivery. Again, I need to remind our ‘beloved’ Ministers to know ‘thy enemy’ before having funny ideas such as open debate aired on National TV.

Be prepared. It’s better to PREPARE than to repair!

And I do honestly think that our current Government is beyond repair.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS?

Honestly, when I wake up tomorrow, I still had to think about my job. I still had to drive my car. I still have to eat my breakfast.

No matter who wins the debate, who lose his position, or who lose face - I still have to survive.

Will they care if we’re about to take a pay-cut?

Will they care if we lose our job?

Will they knock our door and hand us a fat cheque to ease our burden?

In your dreams friend!

We have to deal with the pay-cut.

We have to crawl the earth for new job.

We have to work our a** before we could get even a ‘thin’ cheque.

Can you depend on the Government?

How could you when the Government is depending on YOU.

So what can you learn from this?

It’s not the damn debate nor Political figure nor policy that’ll change our current situation but it all depend on ONE person - You!

I mean We…

Only we can make the difference.

Heck, with the current numbers of Opposition members in the Parliament, the price of oil still increase.

And the best thing that the Opposition can do was to walk out in the middle of a debate or shout their heart out some time, some where on the street outside the Parliament, thinking somehow this will bring the best out of thing.

Well friend, looks like they’re on the right track BUT on the wrong TRAIN!

I told someone earlier today that we are FREE to choose our action.

We’re however NOT free to choose the consequences.

Walk away as far as you like. Shout as loud as you like. You’re just on the wrong train.

It doesn’t matter if you’re on the right track because you’ll always be misinterpreted.

That’s all I got to say.

This debate is nothing but ‘the bet’. It’s everybody’s guess who the winner is.

Maybe it’s the highest wager

Dear Friend,

Just finished reading a 25 pages ‘new report’ but IRONICALLY it was released last year - 2007.

It’s was written by someone who believe in making money by NOT working hard but by working smart. Ironically, it’s a well known fact that making money online is HARD work.

If it’s easy and even the laziest, uninformed, and newest soul who join an online business venture can make money straight away, I guess many off-line companies will be begging for workers.

Why work hard in ‘reality’ when you can laze around in Cyberworld and get paid handsomely?

It’s just ‘insane’ to continue with the job isn’t it?

IRONICALLY, IT’S PLAIN INSANE TO LAZILY MAKE ONLINE

Plus, if you’re competing in Affiliate Marketing, that’s ‘double’ insane.

Call me a sceptic, prejudice, or what-may-you but I’ve live long enough to know this. And I’ve gone through some Good-times and Bad-times to stick by my conviction.

I said ‘conviction’ not belief which makes my statement a few notches higher than merely believing.

Maybe if I throw in a challenge right now to those who say,”You can be a lazy bump but you still can make money online!” many will come forth to prove that I’m wrong.

Or WILL they?

Ironically, World Wide Web is one of the place where you’ll be amply reward according to your HARD work.

Let’s take John Reese for example.

If you’ve been around online for quite some time, you’ll recognize John as one of those TRAFFIC maestro. In fact, in Gurudaq.com there are only a handful of names listed for their online web traffic expertise. One of them is John Reese.

The others include Michael Green.

So recently, John released his long awaited Traffic Secrets 2.0. Again, if you’ve been around long enough, the ‘2.0′ extension is a way of showing that this is ‘the latest version’.

And it’s using Web 2.0 strategies.

And do you also know that it took Reese more than a year to test and refine all the strategies for his Traffic Secrets 2.0? Just look at his eyes (in his free video) and you can straight away tell that,”Hey Reese, I think you can use some extra sleep!”

Now, if you think he just ‘laze around’ for the whole one year plus, I believe the eyes provide enough evidence to shove that thought through its thinker mouth to their back-side! (and what comes out from the back-side?

If he’s lazy, I tell ya, it’ll took him another 3 more years before he can came out with the concept and by that time Web 2.0 might be obsolete…

BUT YOU CAN BE LAZY

Hmmm…that’s music to your ears isn’t it?

But not Online! NOT in the World Wide Web.

Online, you’ve got to be ‘un-lazy’ just to keep up. And be Super ‘un-lazy’ to get ahead.

Let’s take ’selecting niche’ for example.

You know it’s a Grandmother-grandfather story when it comes to selecting a niche before you even think of going Online, right?

And let’s say you’re lazy, so you decided to slap a free blog (cheap!), find a few free PLR articles or materials, and start posting, day-in, day-out. And you even see your dream car, dream house or dream partner while posting. Hmmm…how nice…

Snap!

Can you trully believe you’ll make a fortune just by doing this?

Come on…

The ‘real’ earner are making thousands of these free blogs and thousands of posting day-in, day-out! And that doesn’t include their time spends on traffic generating activities. Activity like ‘pinging’ hundreds of Ping services…

…while you still ‘dreaming’ making money lazily online!

Get a life friend.

Ironically, it’s not as simple as we ‘dream’ it to be.

Of course, I won’t be so cruel to say that it’s not possible at all to be lazy but still making substantial online income.

Of course it’s POSSIBLE…

And that’s attract me to own and study this report.

Just beware of the truth that…

“You can be lazy after you remove the ‘un’ from ‘un-lazy’”

That’s all for our ironic chat. If you’re not that lazy, type a few words in the comment box so we can chat some more. Love to read from ya

Dear Friend,

How is it going for ya? I hope everything’s cool.

I want to start this post with some ‘negative’ notes and I promise, by the end of this, it’ll turn positive.

You know, there’s a lot of regretable things that happen in my life. Some could easily be dealt with and forgotten but some had grave consequences. And I want to share one of my own with you here.

Hope you’re all ears.

It got to do with my Online venture. It got to do with this domain - karungwang.

You see, as time goes by, as my knowledge and skills accumulate over the years, I regret that I didn’t do my venture right from the beginning.

Heck! I didn’t set the fundation right BEFORE I begin.

After finish reading ‘Day 3′ of the Affiliate Masters Course by Dr. Ken Evoy, I realized that I didn’t set my venture.

Ditto when I read his Make Your Content Presell.

I could not remember what I was thinking back then but right now, I know it’s incorrect. It’s insufficient. And it’s plain regretable!

If I knew back then what I know now, there are possibilities that I’m more successful.

What’s the thing that I’m deeply regret?

Not doing my research thoroughly.

I focus mainly on how to monetize my venture which supposed to be the last item on the equation C–>T–> P –> M.

How I wish it was different back then…

So, I hope you learn from my wrongdoing and step up with the right foot forward.

Get you RESEARCH done and do it thoroughly.

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU’VE DONE IT RIGHT?

I’ll keep the diagnosis plain and simple.

When you find yourself ‘not struggling’ to add content…

When you find yourself ’smoothly’ add another income stream…

When you find yourself ‘easily’ attract people to your site…

When you find yourself ‘not a bit worried’ about the latest software, tactics, or overnight success strategies…

…You’ve done it right!

I congratulate you if you can tick ‘positive’ check-mark next to the things that I just mentioned

I personally find it a struggle to add content and add new income stream.

I hope that doesn’t happen to you. Really.

WHAT’S THE BEST THING FOR ME TO DO?

If you’re in my shoes right now, what do you think would be the best way for me to handle this?

Is it best for me to flip this domain and start all over again?

Is it best for me to leave thing as they are and just move on?

Is it best for me to leave this whole thing entirely and do something else? Going offline maybe?

What do you think would be best for me?

I know, after consulting a few friends, most suggest I leave thing as they are and move on.

They said,”It’s no use crying over spilt milk.” I heard them. And I’m thinking hard about it.

History had also shown that many successful Webmasters had build more ‘fail’ websites before building a truly successful one.

I know about it.

And I’m thinking it hard.

Like Ken said,”It’s better to PREPARE than to REPAIR.” How blind I was back then…

Maybe ‘karungwang’ was meant for other market or other segment. My suspicion is maybe it was not meant for English speaking folks.

Clearly, my research back then was not thorough.

It’s time for a change.

And a BIG one too.

What do you think?

Dear Friend,

Let’s move along.

I assumed you’ve done your keyword research. And I assumed you’ve found a ‘nice’ search-result page ratio for your targeted niche. If you haven’t, why haven’t you? What’s holding you back?
No time?
Too much work?

If that’s the case, maybe you want to consider doing something else. I repeat what I’ve emphsized in the previous post - even though this is a part time thingy, just like a hobby, we need some action. We need to get up and flex some bones (at least the finger bones).

SO NOW…

Next thing on the list is finding contents.

There’s been a huge debate on duplicate content and its devastating effect especially if you want to rank high on the Search Engine like Google.

But let me assure you, based on the wonderful work of one dedicated soul whom I subscribed to his e-mail list to receive the current works and ideas that he’s working on, Search Engine STILL crawl your duplicate content source e.g. articles, and send traffic to it.

In fact, he even build a website and SOLELY fill it with duplicate contents. How’s that for a test?

Oh! I’m referring to the works of Johnathan Leger - originator of the 7 Dollar script. Ring a bell ;-)?

Why I’m mentioning this?

You need content on your site.

But you don’t need to create your own content if you don’t want to. You can choose to publish content of others or you simply get a free PLR source (which I intend to help you with later).

Once you get your content then you can monetize it with program such as Adsense.

NOTE: If you want to publish articles of others on your site or blog, make sure you include the authors ‘resource info’, usually located at the bottom of the article. I’ve written quite a few articles myself and submitted them to directories like Ezinearticles.com and GoArticles.com. Just go there, search my name using ’search’ function, choose ‘find author’, and walla! Feel free to post them on your blog (if it suits). just make sure the resource box is included.

So now, there’s little to worry about duplicate content.

What about PLR resources?

I’ll supply you with a bundle of them towards the end of this series. I’ll list down what will be included with it and you can download them all or subject of your choice. I’m still working on categorizing them to help you make a choice.

After all have been said and done…

DON’T COMMIT TO THIS FATAL MISTAKE

What is it?

“I’ve built it so they will come!”

There’s no such thing my friend. Yes you’ve built it but they won’t simply come. You need to ‘call them in’. And this is called ‘Traffic Generation’.

How you generate traffic to your site?

Good question. Tough to answer because there’s no simple, ‘work all the time’ ways. But there’s some doable, practical and maybe you’ll find it enjoyable strategies. They are:

• Send ‘ping’ using ping services. Try PingOmatic, Feedshark or PingGoat (I personally used all 3).
• Leave comment on other people blogs. Use your common sense. Leave ‘comment’ not Ads!
• Join online community i.e. Forum. Just make sure you join a relevant one, not just for the sake of advertising.

I want to include Web 2.0 strategies like Social Bookmarking, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, etc. but to be honest, I’m still testing and learning the rope myself so I dare not suggest anything fo now. I do Squidoo though but that’s just for testing.

I’ve not made any conclusion yet.

If you already know how to use all these, by all means knock yourself out with them. So far, what works pretty well for me are Squidoo, forum and Digg.

That’s why I strongly suggest you start with Blogger.

Here’s some added advantage you instantly enjoy with Blogger:

• It owns by Google so it gets indexed pretty fast
• Plus it gets even faster when you put Adsense ads because Google needs to spider your site before displaying relevant ads

NOW CAN YOU RELAX?

Almost.

To make sure your site gets better Search Engine ranking and gets lots of traffic through organic search (don’t trouble yourself with all these jargons), make sure you site gets frequent update.

Post frequently - daily for the first 7 days, 3 days once after that, and every week after a month or so.

If you’re superlazy, post when you got something to say (like what I’m doing right now

Give it some times, and positively with your groundwork, you’ll soon see the result.

For now, don’t try to beat the system, find shortcut or use fast-lane strategies because you either get confused or you’ll burn out.

Worst, if you have to start everything all over again (I knew how it feels. Been there, done that

For now, keep your chin up and be on the look out for my PLR resource.

I plan to make it utterly attractive for all of you :)