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I have attended a business skill workshop at AKLTG this evening. The topic for today’s business skill workshop is on “Secrets of Influence And Persuasion“.

So far, this is the fourth workshop conducted in 2009 for the graduates of the Wealth Academy, Patterns of Excellence and Millionaire Business Academy programs.

The trainer for tonight was Stuart Tan who is a famous local NLP coach and Internet marketing expert at AKLTG. He is also the trainer of the Patterns of Excellence program.

This business skill workshop on influence and persuasion is perhaps a response to people who might have wondered why some successful people have the charisma to hold their customers, friends and the audience in thrall.

I think most people would call it the “charisma” of that person. Whereas, some people would have said it is the “X-Factor” from within. Who are the people possessed such charisma and X-Factor then?

Well, successful people like Donald Trump have the charisma, Bill Gates has built his fortune with it, and Anthony Robbins also has the X-factor to captivate and command thousands from his audiences.

The 3-hour business skill workshop was arranged in this evening to introduce the power of NLP to the WA, POE and MBA graduates. Anyone who wishes to know how you would be able to possess similar traits like the successful people and learn how to successfully influence & persuade others can actually get some head-ups in this useful workshop.

You could be a salesperson selling a product or a service, a parent trying to foster better relationships with your children and spouse, or even an employee trying to put across your ideas to your bosses.

I believe the introductory workshop has helped people to understand and use the power from within and achieve success in anything that you do.

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I saw an advertisement in the newspaper 2 days ago and got to know that Alvin Phang of GatherSuccess would be holding a free Internet marketing seminar entitled Blogging Mastery this evening.

I was interested to attend the seminar as I’m following GatherSuccess Blog closely. So, I went straight to the seminar after work without taking my dinner.

Actually, I have had attended Alvin Phang’s seminar before but it was a paid one which was not too cheap 🙁 Luckily, this Blogging Mastery seminar is free 🙂

I saw Alvin Phang’s mother and wife when I was doing the registration at the counter. They were helping him out with the administrative work there. They also provided free snacks, coffee and tea so I think it was worth to attend the Blogging Mastery seminar 🙂

As compared with the previous paid seminar, I find that this evening’s seminar is a better one in terms of presentation. The message that Alvin Phang was trying to convey was much clearer than the previous one.

Although the topics that Alvin Phang had covered are standard Internet marketing stuff, those audiences who are new to Internet marketing and Blogging would find it very attractive and informative. 

At least, Alvin Phang ensures that anybody, including non-Internet-proficient people, can pick up the required Internet skills easily if he or she is willing to work hard and put in a lot of effort. 

I also believe that anybody who has the urge to succeed will make his or her dreams come true.

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I attended a personal development training program entitled Personal Effectiveness (Supervisory) yesterday and today. This is a 2 full-day sponsored training program to teach people on how to develope yourself so as to become a better person.

The topics that the Personal Effectiveness (Supervisory) training program covered include how to have a right mindset, how to set goals, how to manage your time, how to manage stress, how to do financial planning and so on.

I think all these informations are valuable things that we can learn to make ourselves more effective in dealing with our daily lives. We are what we think so it is very important to cultivate our mind in such a way that we occupy our mind with positve thinking.

We are what we think

We must learn to discard all the negative thoughts that we might have because these are the things that hinder us from moving forward. Positive thoughts will attract positive things to come to us and make our lives better. 

So, I think this Personal Effectiveness (Supervisory) training program is a good course for anybody who wishes to develope yourself and cultivate your mind with positive thinking.

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When I was attending the free preview of the Millionaire Business Academy seminar, the speaker of that night was Patrick Cheo. He is the Group CEO of AKLTG and he is the person who actually runs the business for the company.

Patrick Cheo has shared a lot of good tips with us and given us many ideas on how we can start up a business for ourselves. I think what he has said is very meaningful. He said that one of the criteria to succeed in any business is PERSISTENT.

This reminds me of a poem that I had read from an anthology. The poem goes like this :

PERSISTENCE

Nothing in the world
can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination
alone are omnipotent.
The slogan “PRESS ON” has solved
and always will solve
the problems of the human race.

~ Calvin Coolidge

This is indeed a great poem. So, if we feel that the going is very tough, we should remember that the slogan is to “PRESS ON” — no matter what problem we might face. I believe it will pay off to be persistent.

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I bought Adam Khoo’s book entitled “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” in October 2008. I really enjoy reading this book as I find that there are many good tips and resourceful information for anybody who wishes to start up his/her own business.

There is a course associated to this “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book and its name is “Millionaire Business Academy” program.

I saw AKLTG was advertising this MBA program in the newspaper last year but I was just too busy with my work although I was very interested to attend the free introductory preview of the Millionaire Business Academy seminar.

I missed the last MBA preview in December last year and I thought it will resume in January this year. However, to my surprise, AKLTG didn’t continue with the preview until April. I didn’t know that it took them so long to start the free introductory preview of the MBA seminar again.

This week, I’m so delighted to see AKLTG is advertising the Millionaire Business Academy program again in the newspaper so I quickly marked the date in the desk calendar to remind myself to attend the free MBA preview since I like the “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book so much.

So, I’m not going to give the free introductory preview of the Millionaire Business Academy seminar a miss this time round.

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I received a phone call a few days ago from a seminar organiser who was asking me whether I would be interested to attend an Income List Booster seminar conducted by a local internet marketer. 

My answer was a “Yes” since I’m quite free nowadays. Honestly, I find it enjoyable to attend free seminars and talks in recent 1-2 years. I will usually find time to attend non-work related seminars so as to find out the current market trend as well as to have a feel of the market response. 

Furthermore, I can take the opportunity to see how the hosts or speakers do their presentation and public speaking. They will be the models for me to learn from if I need to do classroom training for the skilled workers again in the future.

So, I attended the internet marketing seminar on the topic of Income List Booster this evening. The speaker for today was Jaz Lai who is a famous internet marketer internationally but not many local people have heard of his name. What an irony? 

Basically, what Jaz Lai had covered this evening is quite the standard internet marketing stuff except that the methods that he uses are somehow quite different from others. I would say he goes against the norm in certain area and I find it an eye-opener for me.

His easy-going style makes him more approachable and likeable than other local internet marketers or presenters. Jaz Lai even mocks about his poor written English during the seminar. I find him frank and honest enough to admit that.

Frankly speaking, I have already learnt the internet marketing basics from the WordPress Jumpstart course that I took up in 2007 so I don’t think I will sign up for Jaz Lai’s Income List Booster course.

He even slashed the course fee quite significantly as the initial response was not too positive. You can see that internet marketers get the hit from the global economic downturn too just like the full-time working people.

So, who says internet marketing or online business is recession-proof?

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I just attended a business skill workshop at AKLTG this evening. The topic for today’s business skill workshop is on “Smart Cash Flow Planning“.

This is the third workshop conducted in 2009 for the graduates of the Wealth Aceademy as well as Millionaire Business Academy programs.

They combined the WA and MBA graduates because they believe that graduates from both programs share a common goal which is to achieve life-long financial success and freedom.

There are inevitably insecurities and uncertainties in the air in view of the current market situations. Thus, AKLTG has decided to take this opportunity to share some tips on “Smart Cashflow Planning” for both the personal and business aspects for the WA and MBA graduates.

I think this is a good idea to let the graduates learn something on cashflow planning instead of sitting around and waiting for things to get better. Furthermore, nobody knows when the economic downturn will start to pick up. Another 6 months? 12 months? 24 months? Or more?!

These are the topics that were covered during the workshop :

• Cashflow Planning for Yourself & Your Family
• Cashflow Management for Your Business
• Raising Cash for Your Business & Its Implications
• How to Deal with Destruction in Active Income

Besides the AKLTG trainer, they had also invited a Business Financial Manager for SME Banking of Standard Chartered Bank to share his experience in facilitating cashflow management solutions for local SMEs.

The intention is to share some tips with the graduates on how to leverage on new initiatives and improve our cashflow whether we are running or intending to start a Sole Proprietor, Partnership, Private Limited companies, or even non-profit organisation.

Well, I think all these are great information for us to know and learn because most of us don’t get to know these financial information from elsewhere.

I have really learnt something from today’s business skill workshop on “Smart Cash Flow Planning”. Hopefully I can use the information to help myself manage my cashflow better.

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I started my first Blog in the classroom during my WordPress Jumpstart course that I had taken up in August 2007. This course was a joint venture between my ex-colleague and his partners. 

I happened to bump into my ex-colleague in the street and he persuaded me to enrol for his course. I was thinking that I could learn a new skill and the course fee was not expensive so I took up the offer to sign up for the WordPress Jumpstart course.

Surprisely, I was his first batch of students. There were 9 students, 2 trainers and 1 admin assistant in the class. Apparently, I was the guinea pig of their joint venture 🙂 This is how I started up my Blogging journey.

The trainer told us to prepare 3 topics and then narrow down to one for the class assignment. We picked the topic that we wanted to use and then wrote 10 articles about this topic. After which, we shall put it in our first Blog and got ready to publish them.

The trainers also taught us on how to apply for Adsense account so as to monetise from our Blog. Besides this, we also learnt some other Blogging techniques which were so new to me. 

Frankly speaking, all these techniques were really like aliens to me as they involved a lot of technical skills and I was not internet-proficient during those days.

Anyway, I’m glad that I had taken up the WordPress Jumpstart course and have learnt a new skill. Perhaps this is one of the best courses that I have ever attended.

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As I had mentioned in my previous Blog post, I already know the techniques of creating a free-hosted Blogger Blog as well as a paid self-hosted WordPress Blog. This is because I had taken up a WordPress Jumpstart course in 2007 so I’m actually very familiar with the WordPress Blog setup process.

Thus, I don’t think I have learnt many new stuffs in the Wealth Academy business skill workshop on the topic of Advanced Blogging except for the type of software used for installing the WordPress Blog. I was taught to use Fantastico to install Blog since the WordPress Jumpstart course as it is one of the most popular installation softwares so far.

Fantastico De Luxe icon is a blue smiley which can be found in the web server under the “Software / Services” section once you log in to the cPanel administration panel. Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. Its scripts are executed from the administration area of cPanel.

However, one of the drawbacks of using Fantastico is that the WordPress software version is not the latest. For example, it could give you an older WordPress version such as version 2.5.1 when a newer version, say 2.6.2, is already available. You need to upgrade the WordPress Blog version after you have installed the old one.

Actually, I didn’t know about this Fantastico drawback until I had attended the WA business skill workshop on Advanced Blogging. The trainer, Stuart Tan, told us that one of the methods to overcome this drawback is to use the Simple Scripts which is a one-click installer that automates script installation.

So, I think one of the benefits of attending the WA business skill workshop on Advanced Blogging on 02 March is to discover Simple Scripts and learn how to use it to install the latest WordPress Blog software. Well, it is still a gain after all.

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I attended a business skill workshop at the AKLTG last week. It was a 4-hour workshop that started from 7pm to 11pm on 02 March.

This business skill workshop was not open for the public as it was specially conducted for and catered to the graduates of the Wealth Academy program to attend. Obviously, I’m one of the WA graduates since I was invited through email.

The various business skill workshops are in fact part of the Wealth Academy program to equip its graduates with more skill sets besides learning the techniques on the stock market investment and personal development aspects.

The topic of the business skill workshop as conducted on 02 March was on Advanced Blogging. The purpose was to teach the WA graduates on how to Generate Income Streams through BLOGs via the workshop.

Stuart Tan was the trainer of this workshop and he is an established internet marketer cum NLP coach. He had covered quite a number of items in this business skill workshop on Advanced Blogging.

Basically, Stuart Tan was showing the WA graduates on how to set up a free hosting Blogger.com (or Blogspot) Blog and  how to set up a paid self-hosted Blog using BlueHost service with a domain name.

He even went into details on how to register an Gmail account, how to apply for Adsense and Adwords accounts with Google. Besides this, Stuart Tan also showed his audiences on how to set up a FaceBook and Twitter accounts to drive traffics to our Blogs.

Frankly speaking, I have already learnt and known most of these setups except for the FaceBook and Twitter which I don’t have the intention to register for one at the present moment.

To my surprise, many people who attended the workshop have not heard about most of the internet terms as mentioned above before. Whereas, these terms are not aliens to me and I can boldly say that I am ahead of many people.

You can also tell that I know the Advanced Blogging techniques pretty well by looking at my “Laingan.com” Blog 🙂

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