Dear Valued Reader,
Hi and thank you for investing in this book. What is staring at you right now is a series of exclusive interviews with some of South East Asia’s finest marketers.
Here’s a quick introduction about me before we get into the juicy point of this powerful material: my name is Joseph Then from sunny-side Singapore and I have been marketing on the Internet for the last 5 years.
I work as a party entertainer and developed my business on the Internet. I still enjoy doing them, but I cannot say the same back in the Year 2000 when I quit my daytime job.
Telling you that my first year of Internet Marketing was hell is probably an understatement – the loss of “today’s money,” fear of failing and not being able to pay my bills on time were real.
I made a grand total of ZERO income in my first year from Internet Marketing – what an achievement. I didn’t count on sapping out my credit card. In almost every night that year, I looked at my wife and my 6-month old son, and I wondered if I was right to quit my job to be self-employed, especially since my savings were depleted and I had yet to make any solid income online.
I will never forget those miserable days, and the nights were worse. /
Yet, I didn’t give up. In my second year, I achieved my first success when I purchased a Web site on eBay.com with my last USD$2,000.00, which I had accumulated by luck (beg, borrow or steal, you name it!). That Web site brought me a steady income of USD$1,000.00 to USD$2,000.00 every month.
Finally, I was making money online! Then, the rest was history.
I continued to venture into various online businesses. Yes, I lost some money to unworkable businesses, earned a little from some, but the few hits on the bull’s eye brought back profits that made up more than the amount of money I lost in other investments.
Today, I have several profit-pulling Web sites that are making me money and even my wife has joined in to work with me – minus the skepticism she had 5 years ago. ☺
Just last November, I had the chance to meet Edmund Loh in person at the Tampines MRT station.
He’s Malaysian but since he was staying only in Johor Bahru (which is 20 minutes from my place), we didn’t pass up the chance to meet in person. It is not everyday that I meet Internet Marketers.
Edmund has proven to be a great Internet Marketing partner in success, before and after the meeting. We struck some joint ventures as well as helped each other out building our online businesses.
While working on my online businesses, I have also come to learn that several other Asians share the same desire to make a living online.
I know what it’s like to live for a long period of time without money and the risks are there, whether we like to regard it or not.
With that in mind, I thought, “Since there are definitely other Internet Marketers in South East Asia who are making money (quietly), and even more who want to learn from them, why don’t we bridge the gap by gathering a group of ‘hidden’ South East Asian marketers in one ultimate compilation of success interviews?” I conveyed my genuine desire to help these beginning South East Asian marketers to Edmund.
