Now my thinking is, trying not to get too far ahead of myself, but can it be possible to replicate this teaching of internet marketing and SEO, not just within Kuching, not just with what I am working on with Kevin, but why not around the whole world?
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Golly gosh, such a massive huge dream that could possibly come true?
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I would imagine that I will get a huge amount of emails from totally disgruntled SEO companies and individuals.
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Well, its not that I want to diplace or upset anyone in this line of business. All I am trying to do is to help folks who have little money to invest, to be able to afford help by providing a free tutelage service, and thus I guess its merely complementing SEO companies and what they are trying to achieve. I am not one for treading on anyone’s toes (or am I?).
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I think as I progress with Kevin and we begin to report back on good progress, I will see more folks coming to me and asking for my input. No – I sense that in the very early days that folks will be asking for my input – they do already so that’s only going to increase.
After all, I’ve proven myself to some extent that I am more than capable of producing ever increasing income from my own internet marketing efforts, and its not too shabby either. Who in their right mind would turn down the opportunity to learn the same craft for free?
That is not at all to say that I am the best at what I do. I am not! My income stats show to you that I am far from the best – but I am not corrupt like so many so-called internet marketer professionals are!
I merely want to share my abilities (which are constantly improving) with so many other people who deserve a good shot at earning their own income from internet marketing.
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This type of business venture (it seems to me) is ripe for monetary investment from some hefty backers. Facebook and Napster were built on free-to-use systems (Sean Fanning – the inventor of Napster is now worth god knows how many hundreds of millions, and Mark Zuckerburg – the initiator of Facebook – well, at the age of 23 he is reportedly worth some 1.5 billion dollars).
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My own income from internet marketing has progressed some 450 percent from a year ago! And that’s with me being fairly unfocused for quite a large part of the previous 12 months.
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Why can’t SEO and internet marketing be built upon a similar “free to use system“, in the sense that if you want to learn how to craft a good income you ‘sign up here’… and its totally free to use.
I know for a fact, and we all do (meaning all of you who read my blog), that there a hundreds of thousands (no – that should be MILLIONS) of guys and girls who want to give up on their day job to live the internet marketing dream. But yet they are not able to invest much money into seeing that dream through, even though they have the motivation.
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So, with that said, I’m not thinking about merely putting up free info on my blog and on the Warrior Forum 40 Day Challenge.
But I am thinking about actually setting up one-on-one programs. (If I could travel the world to provide that service I would very happily do so).
I believe that this is far better than simply providing free information online, even though providing free information in the first place is commdendable to the highest degree! I can name a number of IM folks who have done this, and they are to be hugely admired for doing so! A few of those ladies and gents comment on my blog quite often.
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But, take me and my total inability to learn maths at school, for example. If I had a personal tutor I would probably have understood at least some of trigonometry (what the heck is that? 
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Even though I would never be Albert Einstein, haha!
My parents could not afford a personal tutor for me or my sister though, so it means I missed out. Where my friends whose parents could afford to pay for their kids tutelage – well, they got ahead in their career far faster than I did. (My closest mates from way back in the old days from when I was first starting out in school are now earning massive incomes and they have really great career propects too (a few of them now are PhD’s and travel the world for their work) totally unlike myself - I have always been a black sheep, so to speek – I wonder, do I have a huge chip on my shoulder?. But yet, are they – my previous friends - happy? One of my friends from early days who is now earning upwards of £100k a year – yes, that is UK pounds, was for a time an alcoholic, which then put his marriage at real risk. He has kids too).
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Some of you may argue that this is what life is about – survival of the fittest. Nope, I disagree. Our western system finds the so-called fittest in very much the wrong way. Being great at remembering meaningless facts is pointless, and that is what much of our academic system is based upon. We should be judged much more upon our creative abilities and how we can manage our own lives. We should be judged much more upon our abilities to obtain true and innate happines! Its time to set up a degree programme on “how to be immensely happy in life!”
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Exams, exams. Baloney (as in spagetii), is what I say! Totally wrong idea about how to find who is best equipped to push a country forward in economic terms. And that frustrates me a lot!
But let’s not go there – I am an academic, yes, but I am not an academic theorist. I would imagine that Tim Ferriss may think along similar lines to myself even though he wanted to pursue his doctorate not too long ago 
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Okay, that’s enough food for thought. I want to get back to my Christmas Carols CD my mother sent me recently – from Scotland. Christmas carols from choirs in the cathedrals around England in the UK. Cannot get better than that – my mind blows out when I hear such beautiful songs! I adore Christmas carols and the Charles Dickens story – “A Chrismtas Carol”!
Helps to make one think very deeply about the true value of life!
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Hey Joseph,
Can you come to Jakarta and be my personal tutor (ha..ha). I think it will be an interesting idea if you can set up a free online class,let say make for 5 persons as a start which you have to select first , and every week you can monitor each persons development. But, I don’t agree with the idea of give everything free, at least charge a small fee every month. It’s not about “nothing is free in this world” concept here, but to keep people appreciate your effort and motivate themselves to move on and get serious with the lessons.
(p.s. pls contact me if you intend to do so..ha ha).
Don’t you think web 2.0 sites like Squidoo and hubpages are like a ” free to use system “?
You’re such a generous person Joseph ,it’s rare to have person like you in the internet marketing world.
Best,Stella
Haha Stella! I would love to come over to Jakarta!
I want to make this entirely free as far as money is concerned. But its not free as far as will to succeed is concerned!! That is how I will assess “candidates”. I want to involve those guys and girls who have a HUGE desire to succeed (for their own reasons) in making much better of their lives, and developing on what they have now to a far higher level.
That – again, does not have to depend on monetary gain entirely. Its more about the psychological gain and the sense of happiness that it can instill.
Its not easy to determine this, but I can tell pretty soon who really “wants”, and who does not. So, I’ll be in charge of quality control haha.
Squids and Hubs are free to use Stella. One of the best brains in the world is behind Squids. I want to emulate his thinking to some extent, if I am capable of doing so. He is a genius, I am not. But I will try… Seth Godin is his name.
Thanks for your kind words! I only wish that I can become much more generous by reaching out to far more people than I can do now. I need financial backing for that. I’ve asked a friend in Singapore if he can help me out there. We have to wait and see, but yes – I am very confident that someone will back my efforts merely because they will realize I am intent on helping so many people.
Thanks for your feedback Stella! Have a nice evening!
Jo
Joseph,
I see that you are now on a mission, and if your stamina and determination keep up in the long run this might be something worth a lot.
The problem I see with academics is that the information you learn is very easily outdated. I have three college degrees and have thought about getting another one but that is still to be seen. There are things such as being able to complete insanely boring tasks for a long period of time which later translates in a good work ethic which many schools excel at. You might find a teacher which really reaches out to you and helps you on your way. I have found two such people so far. Overall, though I do feel that it is overrated and many of the most successful people do not even have a high school diploma.
Success and academic education doesn’t correlate in any way whatsoever.
Tom
Hey Joseph,
Hugs.
Very Nice Idea! I guess Brazil has a Huge potential to marketing Online because theres just few fellas exploring it. Theres lots of dificulties working here in Brasil with online business but i guess its easier to get sucess. I see lots of keywords with 100.000 exact searches in month or more with very weak competition on google first page. I really dont know yet how to get my system to backlinks, what the article directory really works better, etc… A teacher would be great, hehe
ps: if you want to come to Brasil youre welcome, my friend.
I’m a man on a mission!
The best thing about my time at college and university was – I had a great time! But I’ve not used the training much and the bits of paper I have are lying in a drawer some place. They’ve proven to be fairly useless over the years since I gained them.
Yes, as you say – many of the most successful people are very lowly “qualified” (i.e. not even a college diploma). Sir Richard Branson springs to mind here – one of the best buiness brains around, but a total failure in academic achievement mainly due to his dyslexia, I trust. So I’m in full agreement with you – success and academic achievement do not necessarily mix.
Regards
Joseph
Hi Alexandre, is it mainly Portuguese in the Brazilian Google, or is it English? Obviously its not nearly as easy to get lots and lots of backlinks in Portuguese as it would be to do in English. I would imagine the vast majority of say – article directories, would not accept such an aritcle or such a bio box. But I think I’ve seen that in Squidoo though – where the articles are written in English but there is a different language used in the actual backlink. I presume Hub Pages accept that also. What is your own findings on this?
That’s very kind of you to invite me to Brazil Alexandre! I would love to. But next stop will be back to the United Kingdom in March or April – mainly to see my father who is unwell. But we’ll be doing a fair bit of travelling whilst there – England, Ireland and Scotland, so its not all doom and gloom.
Thanks again for the invite – would be nice to take you up on that some day!
Regards
Joseph
Hey Joseph, its mainly Portuguese in the Brazilian Google. I was thinking about it, put some articles in english directory with the backlinks to Brazil. Do you think its will loose the power of link or can i be penalized by Google? (man, reaaaaally sorry about my english;-)
If you want and if you have some minutes free in your time i can send you some keywords in portuguese with good number of searches and you can see if the competition is really easy as i said, but the research has to be in http://www.google.com.br.
Man, its great that youre a business man and the same time you have a very strong energy to help others. And we can feel it in your posts, for you its not just about money. Lots and lots of online marketer if had a half of your knowledge, never will think about to give all the information for free. Its rare and its great.
I do not know if you read the post of Tirone Shum, where he confesses to lying about how much all these months he actually earned. Do you think there are many online marketers who are also lying about their profits? I mean, between the famous marketers.
Regards,
Alexandre.
Hi Alexandre, for some reason your comment was not showing on the blog but did come thru to my email – so I posted it in for you
I cannot imagine that Google will penalize you for this – using “foreign” words in an English language article. Its more the article directories you should be concerned about. Its going to take a bit of digging and emailing to see if their T&C’s accept this procedure.
By all means send over those kwds Alexandre. Will be interesting to check them out!
Thanks for the positive feedback – always appreciated!
I’m just not satisfied with making more and more money and then… that’s it… I remember reading an email not long ago about one of those princes in Saudi Arabia or some place. He’s got a massive collection of cars and houses and yachts and even a few personal jets – all in his name. In every picture showing of him in the email, he never looked happy. I don’t believe that monetary wealth is really “wealth” as what we all dream it to be – if that makes sense. Having said that though, I am still very much intent on building this business so I can enjoy some of my own creature comforts that I’ve always dreamed about and at the same time re-invest in helping others to gain better understanding and ability in seeing success for themselves. I think for me at least, that is more in line with “true wealth”. An inner sense of contentment.
Mind you, its all very well to talk about it in my blog posts. I’ve got to put this into action too – and that’s the tricky part when you are pretty much on your own. But things are progressing with Kevin, so that’s a great start! Even though I’ve yet to venture onto the Warrior Forum – that makes me nervous
Oh, I have not read Tyrone’s post as of yet (or rather – seen the video – he loves his videos
). Without reading it first, I’m having a guess here – he lied because he wanted to gain a large following much more quickly than he could otherwise? After all, folks who share the internet marketing dream tend to be drawn to those other IM’ers who are making really big money, hence the reason why I know for a fact that there is a tremendous amount of embellishment of the facts when it comes to how to make money online and how much money some folks are making from following such and such a marketing method (take the glossy IM Clickbank products for starters). I’ll be sure to watch that though Alexandre – I really enjoy these sort of “reveal all” blog posts/ videos, so thanks for sharing! (A good marketing ploy in itself, and no doubt Tyrone will pull in even more subscribers and devotees than he has even now).
Do I think that many others are lying? Not necessarily blatantly lying, but embellishing facts to some extent at least – that is probably common-place. But I know that the folks that I follow up on their blog posts – again, folks who comment here too – they have no need to do that because they are creating very successful businesses within their own right. Just thought I best clarify that.
Thanks for coming by and commenting Alexandre! I’ll be waiting for those keyword phrases…
Regards
Joseph
Hi Alexandre, I have now watched the Tyrone Shum video where he apologizes for “lying” regards his internet marketing income.
Totally understandable though – he got caught up in the hype of the dream and was swept along with it. As Devin said in a comment just the other day on this blog – last post – its so easy to get caught up in purely making money and forget pretty much everything else in the pursuit of income.
He also mentions the fact that he does not work 4 hours per day but its more towards 5 or 6 hours a day. I said that I worked a 3 hour day the other day – pretty much true that – but I’ve so far worked a 12 hour day today and although I’m fed up with the slog, I’ve got a lot more to do. Not enjoying it either!
Nevertheless, its commendable that Tyrone has come clean like this and I have even more respect for him now for him doing so!
Regards
Joseph
Joseph,
I have just watched that video by “Tyrone” as well. It has been a while since I stumbled across his site, but my gut feeling told me that the guy was a fraud so I never came back again.
This is really good marketing as it now makes me want to give him a second chance.
That’s what its all about
Tom
Hey Tom, you “old” sceptic you! Lol!
I suspect he invests almost 6 figures in outsourcing fees, haha. But I imagine what he’s saying in the video is that if you take away the investment figures then he is below the 6 figure sum. I’m sure he still earns really well from his efforts online though.
Jo
Yes a brilliant article Im pleased to have found it
I think its “brilliant” too. Its a great concept and one that could very possibly be put into action, given the right mind set and a bit of backing, which is up till now very lacking.
I cannot afford the time to wait on government or company backing. This thought and desire is in my head now, not in 10 years time.
For sure, if Malaysian gov want to put some money in, then I am all for that, but I suspect that will never happen.
We’ll see how things progress, WebDesign. Thanks for your input!
Joseph
Hi! Nice blog creating awareness on internet marketing.Very helpful for people at home to earn.
Hi PCBR, thanks for your comment. That’s the idea behind the blog – helping me to express myself fluidly, whilst helping others to learn a number of methods to gain a more passive (and larger) income than the average 9 to 5 could ever allow for.
Thanks,
Joseph
“”I know for a fact, and we all do (meaning all of you who read my blog), that there a hundreds of thousands (no – that should be MILLIONS) of guys and girls who want to give up on their day job to live the internet marketing dream. But yet they are not able to invest much money into seeing that dream through, even though they have the motivation.”"
Very true. I’ve cancelled my driving lessons in order to use the money for hosting and such, and I’ve asked for domain names as birthday presents LOL. I’m completely broke, but I sure have the determination.
Jo, I’ve just managed to get the domain name I wanted for my IM blog, so I’ll give you and the other people I follow (such as Michelle) a heads-up as soon as I get it up online.
England, Scotland…Ireland? What’s wrong with Wales?? Lol. If you make it to Wales, I’ll take you out for a pint
(…..and I’ll bring my notebook and a pen haha).
Ben.
Hey Ben, I’m hearing you on that! I went through times when I owed the banks so much money that its somewhat crippling even to think about. But I have to hand it to you – asking for people to buy you a domain name instead of a “normal” birthday present is thoroughly admirable! And cancelling your driving lessons in order to invest in your IM business – sounds like you’ve certainly got what it takes to see a supreme success of your online business in the years to come!
I would appreciate the heads-up of your domain name for the IM blog, Ben, thanks in advance!
Wales – I used to live in Wales for a while, not too far from Snowdonia – in Bangor. Went to university there. But that was another disastrous period of my life – I dropped out. More of a mental thing than any other thing. But all my mates (whom I can count on two hands) live in either England or Ireland, while my family lives in Scotland. Hence the need to travel to those parts firstly.
Its a deep desire of mine though to travel the UK more extensively, even though my innate desire for travelling on the whole has disappeared since I’ve come to Malaysia. But my homelands still beckon. I merely need to increase income and thus be able to outsource a lot more while still being able to travel in luxury, and then I’ll be very possibly heading your way!
Where abouts in Wales do you live Ben? I’ll be in the Midlands of England for a while in the next 2 – 3 months (travelling to Scotland to begin in early March). You never know, we may be able to meet for a pint (of guiness – delicious stuff!) and a chat.
Best wishes with your IM progress Ben!
Joseph
Thankyou very much. Kind words. I’ve always prefered presents that I can actually use, rather than receving crap I’m going to hide uner my bed or throw on ebay.
I’m drop you a pm about my location. I’ll also be in the midlands over the next few months too. I’ll look forward to it.
- Ben.
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Hey Ben, perhaps we can meet up in the Midlands or some place. Not sure how long I’ll be there – maybe a couple of weeks. That will be towards end of March/ begining of April.
Jo
Hopefully. I should be down there for that time too!
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Sent you an email about that Ben. I see that you will be in the Northamptonshire area around the time I will be in the UK. Snap! I’m heading there too!
Joseph, Hi, I only quite recently came across your blog and you massively useful WF Thread. I note that one of the things we have in common is we are both expats in Asian countries … I’ve been in the Philippines full time now for over 4 years and love it.
One thing I don’t love, though, is the fact that the gap between effective Internet Marketing being very much a “western’s playground” and the millions of intelligent, hardworking Filipinos I live amongst is a huge gap … and education, in the sense of the ‘Here’s how you build a website’ type of education doesn’t seem to be the place to start.
I would love to participate in a cooperative teaching venture as you proposed in the title. But as you already have found from some of your tutoring attempts, even getting people to “do something” for more than a few days in a row is extremely difficult. When people have had everything they gain taken away regularly by ‘those in power’ for 400 years or more, the concept of working to build yourself an online business seems much harder to grasp than technicalities like link building and SEO.
In addition, although I don’t know much about the political environment in Malaysia, I do know that here in the Philippines, the minute I were to start any efforts involving Philippine citizens … even for free … I’d immediately be thrust into a huge web of government regulations, rules, oversight and fees … hmm, did I mention fees?
Again I didn’t write this solely to throw cold water on your dream, but merely to point out the fact that you certainly are not the first guy with thoughts along these lines, and there are certainly others of us out there willing to help … but the political, administrative challenges appear far greater than the technical.
Hi David, thanks for coming over and leaving your insights!
Philippines – a lovely country, with lovely people and a horribly corrupt gov! A bit like …., but I can’t say that or I’ll be flogged and thrown out.
I did at one time not long ago have rather a lot of Philippino friends so I know where you are coming from David. Yes – its all very well to “want” to help them change their own world for a far better place, but the actual doing of it is not nearly as easy as having the dream in the first place.
Interestingly though, quite a few of my outsourcing employees from over the past 3 years have been Filippino. And some of those (once they find out what I do) come to me and ask if I would be able to teach them. Most do not ever ask that of course, merely because they’d prefer to keep their “day job” and income from completing outsourcing tasks given to them from us guys and gals in the west. But there does seem to be a bit of a buzz about the idea of working the internet marketing dream – and that mainly stems from the Philippines and India/Pakistan. Not Malaysia, however! Not that I’m aware of anyhow. I could be mistaken.
Thoroughly unfair that – even if you were to offer you own services for free, you’d end up having to pay for all the red tape. Very unfair indeed! Corruption rules out once again!
I don’t believe anything is going to come of this anyway David. As I mentioned in my most recent post, I’m kinda banging my head on the proverbial brick wall. However, that’s in part due to the fact that I’ve hardly gone mad in trying to drum up interest. I could do far more in actual fact. But I’m trying to preserve my own energies and by doing so can maybe then go ahead and tackle this from a different angle in the months to come. I’m a great believer in that old saying “where there is a will there is a way”. In this case though, the outcome may be entirely different to the original perception, which is fine – as long as I can do something rather than merely giving up entirely and going away with my tail between my legs grumbling about my failure, lol!
In fact, a gentleman yesterday commented on my recent post asking why don’t I offer this sort of service to folks who follow my blog and followed along with the Warriors challenge. It kinda defeats my own purpose though – I wanted to become more a part of the community where I now live, rather then immersing myself even more in the online world behind the closed doors of my house here in central Kuching. The way things are now, even though I’ve been here for almost 18 months, in no way can I claim to be involved in even a fraction of the local community here, other than to buy their lovely hawker center food and drink a bit too much at my girlfriends hotel. That’s the only place I do meet some of the locals. So its not purely for altruistic reasons I wanted to do this David. It would make my own life a better place too.
Thanks again David for sharing your own experience in trying to do something similar! Best wishes and do keep in touch!
Joseph
Still following this thread…and just a though that came to me.
Rather than trying to offer classes, etc., and building on Mr Starr’s idea of the people following your blog…
Can you launch a website/(free) product via the web, hosted on a western server (I presume most of your websites are already hosted in the west?), but direct the content solely at the locals around you.
All about IM.
Step by step guides, etc.
How to achaieve the dream.
Possibly even a forum for the locals to collaborate and learn from each other on, and post their progress, and compare (like you would in a normal classroom enrironment when you compare test results). (I could help you with the forum by the way. Have much epxerience with vBulletin)).
Then once the site is up and running…hit grass roots level marketing.
Leaflets, local papers, magazines, local radio.
Then once you’ve built a following to the website, perhaps ‘suggeset’ a local weekly or fortnightly meet-up somewhere down town, or a conference hall or something.
Just a thought.
Ben.
This is a nice thought Ben and thanks for sharing!
I don’t think I’d want to go the forum route early on though – I think vBulletin costs $500 a year, is that right? And I suspect it would take quite a while to drum up any interest. There’s the scare though – what if I spend weeks on this site only to find that still there is no interest. So far, anyone (locals) I have asked to help me drum up interest seem to have done little to nothing to help. Seems kinda crazy this!
I think I may be going the wrong route. I suppose if I advertised something like “free English language lessons taught by UK university degree holder” I would probably get a different reaction. The idea of learning SEO and IM just does not seem to be hitting home.
Thanks though Ben for your insight on this!
Jo
That could possibly be down to the culture. The western world seems well versed in the internet and ecommerce. However, many of the eastern world countries are (unfortunately) behind in many aspects. Although I do believe they do many things better than us westerners in many ways.
Give 5-10 years, maybe IM, and playing the global markets will be rife when people realise it could pull them out of the relative poverty.
Ben.
There is no doubt that where I live Ben – its somewhat backwards. Kuala Lumpur – the Malaysian capital, is where its happening, as is the same in Singapore, which is fairly close to where I live.
The thing is though, imagine that I did manage to drum up a little bit of interest and over the period of a year some of my students did gain some success. Word would spread for sure, and in a sense it would be fairly cutting edge stuff going on here, simply because Sarawak is not nearly as advanced as most of the western world or Australia, Japan etc.
I’ll just keep putting the word around to folks whom I meet. You never know, maybe some one may be interested and focused enough to jump in and grab this bull by its proverbial horns!
Cheers Ben!
Joseph
That’s ended a good basic direction idea, Ben. Keeping it all online avoids any politics and mostly all the out-of-pocket costs. Good thinking.
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Hi David, I just took a look at your Philippines website, and I’m wondering how you yourself make your living over there. And what took you to the Philippines in the first place, if I may be so bold to ask? Obviously some thoughts spring immediately to my own mind, and very possibly you share many of the same reasons that I do for having come to live in Kuching. Interesting to hear from you, thanks!
Jo
Sorry to be tardy in the reply, Joseph. I’ve been pretty much covered up in non-Internet-related stuff the past few days.
The short answer to the question as to why I am in the Philippines is, I met a girl, fell in love, took her to the US where she got her citizenship and we both worked at various jobs (and our own “dirt-based” sales and service business, then we decided we liked living in the Philippines better than living in the US. So far I’m liking it just fine.
I worked 40 years in several capacities for the US government, so I am blessed with a ‘living wage’ pension, I don’t _have_ to earn a living, I already did.
How ever, even with often desultory methods, PhilFAQS and a few other websites already earn me close to what would be a living wage here, and things are certainly looking up for 2011.
Your thoughts about the tie-in of outsourcing with learning/teaching opportunities is a good one. My thought is, the uptake would be slow, though.
When outsourcing blog and IM work to workers in the Philippines first came onto the general IM radar, one of my first thoughts was, “Hey, if you hire a guy/gal to write articles, build links, do basic SEO-type things for your site, what keeps them from just working for a few months until they learn your techniques and then taking off on their own.”?
Answer pretty much is, not a thing. Yet very few ever seem to. This is far from a strictly Asian thing, it’s evident in many other cultures too … I see plenty of it with fellow Americans .. people see, but they don’t connect the dots. How to present the picture so that people grasp the opportunity, rather than just learning do’s and don’t's of back-linking or some such technicality? There’s the big issue.
But then again, all worthy causes have obstacles …
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Hi David, interesting story to tell then!
In some ways I would prefer to have other sources of income rather than merely relying on the internet. For sure – the internet can be a wonderful way to make a very good living, but if you are at it all the time it becomes a daily and nightly and early morningly grind and much of the fun is taken out of it. Just like any job for that matter.
I hear you regards to the question why don’t IM employees i.e. folks that do outsourcing work for a living – merely emulate what they have learned while working for employees from the western countries. Yes, for sure – most of the employees don’t wish to do that and seem to be happy with the daily grind. The others – they probably come across hungry eager individuals from the west who pile in lots of cash into outsourcing only to fail a few months down the way. I’ve heard that often happening. And then the others – same as many, many folks in the west – they know how to do the SEO but they can’t find the profitable niches. So many folks email me saying to me – bought your eBook, now know how to rank my site, but it ain’t making no money… There are too many pitfalls in the IM business for most “normal” folks to handle. Plus, I should imagine a monthly wage of say – 500 US bucks in the Philippines is plenty to live a comfortable life. And its fairly easy for a smart Filippino to get ahead these days at working as an outsourcer to the west – so may as well.
Regards
Joseph