I hit the limits on Amazon Kindle Store

 

I had published 655 books on Amazon Kindle store. Now the system tells me that I cannot publish any more books in this account. 

Am I Back?

 I created this blog in 2004. Posted for 7 years and then migrated elsewhere. I forgot where I migrated to. I am glad this blog is still around. 

20 years had passed and many things had happened. My mother passed away about a year ago. My dad passed away 4 months ago. I am 66 years old, in semi retirement mode. 

With the help of ChatGPT, I have written and published more than 660 books. I published them on Amazon Kindle store and Google Store. I have a number of pen names.  I have written more than 200 books for my clients.   On average, I write and publish about 1-3 books a day. 

In the last few days, my obsession is on writing and publish books. Casey Goh is my mentor. He taught me about book publishing. 

I have created more than 300 FB groups. 

The business scene have changed. Many are struggling to find work and make a living. Business is bad for most people. To survive is already an achievement. 

Will I still be here tomorrow? I don't know. 
Will anyone care? I don't think anyone care. 

When I disappeared from Facebook for a month (last month), nobody asked about me. Nobody cares if I am alive or not. It's ok. 100 years from now, nobody knows that you and I existed.

Perhaps, if you blog on blogger,com, your name will outlive your lifespan.  Perhaps, you will live forever on these pages. 

Long live blogspot!

A year in review

Since Aug 2011 till now, I have not updated this blog. Many things have happened.

Marie left home and stayed in Salvation Army. She had lost her soul. She did well in her studies and has good friends.

Sarah is in Sec 1this year.  Sarah passed all her subjects and is going to St Anthony Sec next year. She is a happy child. But she is blowing up like a balloon.  She studied piano and guitar. She love anime.

I quited my job in April this year and stay at home. I might have a new job in Jan next year. Started the SIMM group in Aug 2011 and now it has more than 400+ members. 

I incurred huge paper loss on my unit trusts and shares. It took me 5 years of IM work to earn back the losses.

Went to New Zealand for one month in Dec 2011. Attended Fabian and Calvin's IM courses. 
I am still working hard on my IM. Added Fiverr as a new income stream since Jan 2011.  Will be publishing books on Kindle store in 2013.

I did blog on my own name blog but later i change it from a personal blog to a  commercial service site. I archive the blog somewhere. I think I will come back here again to post my personal thoughts.

At this age, I am surer of myself, of my gift, and wiser.  Dad is 85 and healthy this year.  Still visit my parents every Sunday morning without fail.


My friend Rita Goh had passed away. So is my sister in law. I remember my ex colleague Fatimah Annie. I remember my eldest sister Annie.

Wow

Unbelievable that I have not updated my post for so long! Reading my own blog is so nostalgic! Imagine how I started so early 2004?

After this blog, I continue blogging on  another blogger account and then I blog my own website under my name domain.

What a story my life has been.  I guess in a few years time,  I will be dead and I wonder what become of my website.  More than 50 years of life story and what becomes of it?

Forgotten. Won't it be a waste?

End Of Oct Report

Oct is a good month. I earned above $2,000. I doubled my income compared to last month. It's the highest since June. I work far less hours and yet doubled my income. Last few months I worked more than 12 hours a day. This month I work only 4 hours.

I got enough job next month to exceed this month income. Most of my income comes from website design. The amount is bigger. My ebook sales is still giving me a quarter of my income.

One advice from the millionaire guru is to sell high-ticket items. You charge people not by the number of hours work, but by the outcome. If I spend a few seconds to knock on the right spot and fix the problem, then I should be paid for the outcome. It takes me a few seconds to fix the problem but it took a lifetime to master the know-how. It's just like a magic show performance.

Although my income has increase with a day job, I have debts to clear. My goal is to clear all my debt by November so that I can spend a debt-free Christmas and have abundance to share with the less fortunate folks.

Now I can quickly set up a website with autoresponder in 6 hours. For that I can charge $600 for it. This month, I charged $600 for a day's work in copywriting.

My goal has been to earn $100 day. Now I realise that I have the potential to earn $600 a day if there's customers every day.

The reason why I am not earning to my potential is cos I am spending more than on production creation than on marketing. I am not upselling enough.

Here's one good advice for you. Spend at least 50% of your time on marketing.

I Found a New Language

It has been 7 years since I left my programming job as a senior Delphi programmer because there was no demand for Delphi programmers in Singapore.

The products that I dearly love so much had faded - dBase, Paradox, Delphi. I could not make a living doing what I love cos there was no demand.

With the advent of web 2.0 technologies, what will be the next best new programming language to learn. I want a language that is fun, easy to learn and application to the web technology.

Finally I found one that does what I want: the easiest programming language in the world, one that is cross platform across Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac Os, and one that produces web-based web applications.

The language is called Run Revolution. It has its root in Hypercard. Today I tried my first 'Hello' program. It's very cool. I love it. The codes are very short with English like syntax. Very much like Cobol.

Run Revolution is going to be my new toy, my new hobby, my new mistress. I can be sitting on my computer and tinkling with the codes for hours, and absorbed in my own world. This is an addiction man!

Welcome to the new world.

The Death of a Business

I spent the whole Sunday emailing all the contacts from the stack of name cards. I discovered that 1 in 10 emails bounced. It means that their businesses no longer exist. How transient business can be. Here today, gone tomorrow.

Anthony Yeo, the father of counselling passed away. He's in his 60s. He's a good man.

The whole of last week, I didn't had any new customers. Starts to make me panic. As usual, I continue to sms some prospects every morning. I send email to people. Maybe out of every 100 contacts, one might respond.

In business, one has to sell unceasingly. If you don't like to sell, business is not for you. Then it is better to work for someone else.