Hey, I know I have not been updating this blog for awhile now and for a few weeks it was done. So to make it up for that, I am going to run through some background of my most successful project to date, BiggestFiresale.com.

The objective of BiggestFiresale is to

1. Create the biggest firesale ever in the history of Internet Marketing
2. Try to generate as much sales as possible with zero dollar

It was successfully launched on 18th November, 8AM EST. Overall, it was a HUGE success. With over 20 launches happened at the same week, and hardly a ‘Guru’ ;), together we have hit the following milestones:

1. Build up over 10,000 subscribers in the advance notification list.
2. Over 250,000 results for the keyword ‘biggestfiresale’.
3. Generated over $50,000 in sales within 24 hours.
4. Hit 6 Figure in less than 3 days.
5. In total generated over $170,000 in sales for the 10 days campaign.

And this project virtually cost ZERO dollar out of my pocket!

1. Products were contributed by 100 top marketers (THANK YOU VERY MUCH guys and gals)
2. Design by Sean Lowery of GraphicsQuick.com
3. More products written by Khai.
4. Virtual assistant volunteer by Dennis Sim and Tian Yan.
5. Copywriting by John Hostler
6. Hosting sponsored by ServInt.net

Well of course you could argue that my time is the cost. Yes it is, but what I am trying to proof here is you can make money without taking out money from your pocket right now. If I really want to be precise, yes there was cost for the domain name, autoresponder, some gifts, etc.. maybe add up to few hundred bucks, BUT that is virtually zero dollar when you look at the overall picture.

So therefore I can say IT IS possible to make money without any money!

But lots of hardwork. Hehe..

There was a lot of lesson learned from this project and we shall run through every single one of it.

In my next post about this, I am going to tell you how did this project came about and what was the ‘original’ plan Stay tune!

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On 18th November, the BIGGEST Firesale in Internet Marketing History is set to go live!
You can go to http://BiggestFiresale.com and check it out. It is going to be huge and what I am going to do here is WAY beyond last year’s SendUsTo.US which did $69,000 in 7 Days.

I am trying to achieve 7 figure with zero dollar. Lets see how this is going to turn out. A LOT of work has been going on behind the scene that is really beyond what I even anticipated. But as I mentioned before, there will be risk and work involved. Its how much your passion drive you to achieve it.
If you are interested to know, I’ve been clocking in almost 18 hours on average everyday since beginning of July. The zero dollar part is the one that increased the work tremendously.

If you will, show your support for this project, go to BiggestFiresale.com to sign up for the notification and also post it in your blog or social media profile to help spread the word
Will be updating everyone on this event here more often from now on.

So keep 18th November in mind. New milestone will be set. New mental barrier will be broken. Who says you cannot do huge launch with zero dollar?

how much really? not just money, but time
why am I bringing this up today? Well because I am having a huge software development that has been going on for over 1 year now. It is due to complete in 3 months time. So that is over 15 months of development on 1 masterpiece. Over $100,000 been spent on developing this Internet Marketing platform. Yes of course I do intend to make money out of it. But most importantly is to make money that is truly deserving. Delivering excellent software, user experience and something that will really help user.

But who knows, it may not be a big success? (obviously I will try my best not to let that happen) But really, we can never be 100% sure. However, what I am sure is about my passion for Internet Marketing. My passion in empowering and teaching people Internet Marketing skills so that they too can enjoy the kind of freedom that Internet Marketing has given me.

If people promise you the sky and the moon without lifting your finger or sweat, well forget it. I can tell you upfront that I have been working extremely hard to get to where I am today. BUT the difference that Internet Marketing can do for you is the marketplace is much bigger and easier to access. This is the one thing that can give you a slight edge over offline business.
And this can only grow bigger every minute.

Recently Toki Tover interviewed me on the beginning of my Internet Marketing career and what was some of the critical factor that is important that could make or break your IM journey.

Head over to Toki’s blog to listen the podcast.

Enjoy!

Its been a little over 12 months that I have been into this Internet Marketing world.

Prior to Internet Marketing, I was a lecturer and ran my own web development business. It was nothing much to shout about but I was the youngest lecturer in my college and it was fun! Web development has always been what I like to do since age of 14. I was just like anyone else during school. I did not do very well in school but I graduated top of my course (major Software Engineering) for my first degree. This is probably due to the fact that I studied what I love and not what I have to. I have to thank my brother who exposed me to the existance of Mr Bill Gates and why being a millionaire is a worthy goal. From age of around 15-17 onwards, I have set my mind to achieve my first million and first billion by age of 25 and 35 respectively. I think that was what changes my mindset. From dreaming the impossible to DOING the impossible. I believe that many times people were not able to achieve what they want is because of their mindset. Their mindset enclosed all possibilities. Who says you can’t do business at young age? Who says you must have lots of money to begin with? Who says ____ ? Its all in YOUR HEAD!
I don’t come from a rich family, nor am I given lots of money to begin with. But my dad make sure that he provide my bro and I the best education he can afford. I am very thankful for that. And my mom made sure that everything else is taken care of. So I won’t tell you how bad or poor of a condition I came from. I would say I came from family that is doing just averagely OKAY.

Fast forward to 12 months ago, I remember that I was attending World Internet Summit Malaysia back in November 2006. That was my first exposure to Internet Marketing. The night I left the last day of the event, I went into action immediately to start my first project, Adsense Blackhat Edition. This site pulls in over 5,000 subscriber and $10k in sales on the first month of launch! And that is without any “GURU” connection nor prior experience. In May 2007, I’ve attended World Internet Mega Summit Singapore and I signed up with Mike Filsaime’s i5Gold Mentoring program. Again, I took action immediately and the idea of SendUsTo.US firesale was conceived. We pulled in over $69,000 in 7 days. I’ve also pulled in $25,000 in 24 hours on another launch after that. October 2007, I shared my experience in Internet Millionaire Incubator, Singapore. And finally in November 2007, I am back at the very first Internet Marketing event which I have attended 12 months ago, World Internet Summit Malaysia, not as an attendee, but as a featured speaker!

Yes its been a crazy ride for the last 12 months but one thing for sure, I was never happier! But this shows you one thing, you don’t have to be a genius, expert, has lots of experience or even huge connection to be successful in Internet Marketing.

Which also lead me to initiate a project with Edmund Loh. This project is called IMGuerilla. The main objective of IMGuerilla is to empower any marketer, from beginners to advance, the necessary and essential information to succeed in Internet Marketing. And we are delivering this to your doorstep. IMGuerilla will be THE SILVER BULLET. We want to empower YOU with the right information to make 2008, your year of FREEDOM!

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Will you be there?
I will be speaking at World Internet Summit Malaysia tomorrow (Saturday) after lunch.

If you can make it, we shall catch up there!

I can’t wait to share my knowledge with everyone.

Pheww, finallly pulled it off. Overall it was an excellent experience. Nervous for the 1st minute and then it was all okay. Time flew real fast though. Wish I could have more time to present. There were many positive feedbacks from people and also couple of feedbacks which will help me to improve myself. There was one comment left on my blog about me asking the audience if they were willing to sacrifies 20 hours of work a day to achieve the success that I have. Well I do know that not everyone will be able to do that. But I don’t mean that the audience should take it literally rather its about you getting out of your comfort zone and go all out to achieve what you say you want to achieve. Many people often says that they want success and rich but thats all they ever do. And when things fail, they will find 101 reason to that. Or they will give themselves reason to fail.
Here are some photos of me onstage and offstage.

Thanks to Kelvin Yeo for presentation tips. It was excellent stuff. Also thanks to Dennis Sim, Khai, Edmund Loh and all the people that make this happen!
Next up will be World Internet Summit Malaysia!

I will be at Internet Millionaire Incubator 2 as a guest speaker in Singapore this weekend.

So if you are there, do catch up
I’ve been doing a lot of re-planning and re-thinking of my entire IM business ever since I got back from San Francisco. I’ve spoken to a few people and it has got me thinking. I shall tell you a bit more soon but for now I just want to share with you what Mike Filsaime personally shared with me, “Do Not Get Addicted to Making Money”. Go figure

Yes! I am now writing this from Airport Marriott San Francisco with Gobala and Melvin. The experience so far was great except for the jet-lag part. We are sleeping and waking up at all the wrong time. I will keep the flying experience next time. But just to keep this short and sharing with you guys some photos taken

Our mentor Mike Filsaime and Tom Beal

Harris Fellman — #1 Affiliate for SendUsTo.US

Jason James the rock star hehe

Robert Puddy - Launch Formula Marketing Guy

Steve Renner - The Affiliate Community Owner And also our good affiliate

Overall it has been great and this is just day 1 of the event and there’s much more to come. Tomorrow it will be a whole day with Keith Wellman, David Cavanagh, Harris Fellman, Simon Leung and many more!

The only set back so far was that Overture seems to have pulled off the data from displaying in their keyword tool which has let to breakdown of KeywordAnywhere. It couldn’t have happen at the worst possible time. 24 hours after Kelvin and I launched it! Gosh! But we are working out the solution already and will have something even better coming up within the next 10 to 14 days. So if you have bought it, sorry about the problem but we assure you it will be fixed and you will be well rewarded for staying with us

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Yes the event just over. And this event was really taking a lot out of me. Working almost like 20 hours daily for last 2 weeks! We moved the event forward by 1 week earlier actually. The reason is that initially Eric Rockefeller suppose to have a big launch on 31st. And we did not want to be overshadowed other launches, especially it involves Eric Rockefeller which I personally respect a lot.

So bringing this event forward gives us only 1 week time to pull in JV partners! Yes 1 week! So I had think out of the box and go wayyyy flat out and figure out how we can achieve the amount of JV partners we wanted. Initially we say alright, we will have about 80 JV partners. But in the end I told both of them that we need to ramp up this target because we have come this far and spend so much time into this, we should just go for homerun. So the target changed to 150 JV Partners which we achieved in just 7 days. I cracked my head and found several out of the box method that allow me to recruit a lot more JV partners in shorter time
So after JV recruitment, we were preparing all the accounts and triple check every single aspect of the launch.

On launch day, 3 of us gather at Gobala house along with Edmund Loh and Khai. Had a small party to celebrate the launch but we couldn’t party until 2 hours after launch because the server was swamp with too much traffic!! We had like 300 to 500 visitors at any one time and considering we have over 100 graphics on the sales page, this did not help at all. Immediately we moved all graphics over to Gobala’s server. And I also contacted my server company to upgrade the package immediately which will gives us double the amount of ram and resources. That did not help, the company moved the account into an isolated server but we were still having problems serving the downloads. On second day we ordered another dedicated server and moved all downloads to the new server. So on 3rd day we had 3 different servers to serve SendUsTo.US, 1 server for the sales copy and members area, 1 server for images and 1 server for files download. Lesson learned. Never save up on hosting. Its better to get a powerful dedicated server for that period of time just for the launch and then downgrade the site to normal hosting later
Sales was good. We got about 400 sales in Day 1! WOW! double WOW in fact. Our honest target was about 700 sales. So we were about 60% to our target in 1 day. 6 Days to go. On day 2, we were expecting much lower sale, maybe about 50% of day 1. But instead, we were almost matching day 1’s sale! So 2 days and we almost hit 800 sales. Target achieved. Day 3 to Day 5 is extremely low. Around 100+ sales each day. But we did ran a 24 hours affiliate contest to spice up things a little.

On Day 6, sales shot up by 50% compare to the day before. The last minute buyers start kicking in. We see that our partners and affiliates started to push for the last 48 hours. On Day 7, we manage to do over 200 sales. In total, we made over 1,400 sales and raked in $60,000 in revenue. It was single largest project that 3 of us have done.

Now the bad news is, my PayPal has been “LIMITED”. I did inform PayPal in advance prior to the launch but they still need further verification which I have provided. We are progressing but I hope it won’t take long as I heard some horror stories that it takes up to months!

Overall I’ve learned a lot and new mental barriers have been broken Thank you everyone for your support!

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