Today I login to my Paypal account and saw this Paypal policy update notice and when I click on it, I am really surprise to see that they finally allow we as Malaysian to withdraw fund into our local banks. This is what I read on:

When I tried to see my account has the withdrawal to local bank option, and I end up disappointing. I don’t know whether it wasn’t available to me or Paypal hasn’t make changes to their website yet. You may want to check your Paypal account is see if you have the withdrawal option available.

That means it might only available for certain customers. I am not sure what it means above, but I can confirmed that my account still don’t have the local bank withdrawal button, not even in add bank column.

One  good move is Paypal is incorporated Malaysian Ringgit as one of the major currencies in Paypal.

That’s mean you can do business in Malaysian Ringgit if you want to. This is after Paypal make specific changes to the user agreement as required by BNM.

In addition, for Malaysian resident customers, PayPal has made specific modifications to the User Agreement as required by Bank Negara Malaysia regarding your rights as consumers in Malaysia accessing the PayPal services.

Certainly this is a good move, I will monitoring my Paypal account in next few days and see if the local bank withdrawal option is available for me.Stay tune for more review on Paypal withdrawal option.

Updates From Reader:

It is confirm by the Paypal staff that we are going to enjoy the local bank withdrawal service, here is what Polarmanz posted here on the same day:

Guys … should we celebrate ???

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I wasn’t usual that hostgator send out email, in fact, I can’t remember when was the last time I receive their newsletter. But what I am more interest to share with you my personal opinion on their grow up history.

Brent Oxley started his entrepreneur at early as 11 years old (sixth grade). He sell candy in his school and had all the kids in his neighborhood working for him. Later, he sell watermelons at the age of 14 and started his internet business journey in the college day.

In fact, his internet business pathway is not a superhighway, he has been going through up and down through out the year and think of giving up the business as well, especially working on his web hosting business. To know more about his story, you can read here for details.

I am so inspire about his grow up business and I feel I am going through the same pathway like him and I have been going through the good and bad time like he mentioned in his business history. I don’t know much on technical stuffs, not a good copywriter (there are people even say my write up consists of grammar mistake), designer and not even a good online marketer but what I have is believe in online business.

A lot of people always have the misunderstanding on internet / online business. They thought this is some businesses that they don’t need to work hard to build at the beginning. If you are one of them who think the same way, you should change your mindset by now or give up trying internet business.

People always see how other successful entrepreneurs and like the idea of work from home. However, they refuse to go through the learning curve, they don’t want to commit enough time and efforts to grow the business. I think I can understand the common pitfalls that people are generally lazy, like to stay within the comfort zone and not willing to take up new challenge.

Working on internet business just like starting many other businesses, require determination, discipline, focus, passion and direction. If statistics show 90% of the new business will fail by the end of the first year, another 50% of the remaining 10% will fail in the next 5 years. This figure apply to internet business too.

I remember when I started in early day in 2005, I am getting excited about internet business and wanted to start one. Because I am not focus and discipline enough, I end up not able to achieve my business goal. In fact, I am still struggling until today to make it big.

I have been invited by my friend to start a joint venture and I am a little excited for a while, of course you can predict that I went into different JV and keep myself busy. After a while, I found that those JV doesn’t bear fruit and I have to start a new business venture again.

After reading this write up from Brent Oxley, I realise that focus is the key to success. I am glad that I made up my mind to reject some of the invitation since last year and just focus on my current business model. Right now, I feel like I am on the right track …

How about you? Do you have problem in your internet business? Feel free to share your thought here.

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Have you think about selling off these blogs that not making a lot of passive income?

I have a 2 blogs which I have been receiving consistent monthly passive income of USD$70 in the past one year. When come to domain renewal, I decided to sell it off last month instead of continue maintain it.

What I do is I put up listings in Flippa.com last month and I managed to sell it off for USD$800.

Here is the for sale listing:

Laptop Skin

Powerpoint Slides

This doesn’t sound a lots of money, but when I showed to my friend, Steven Yap and he did the same thing like I, he managed to sell blogs for whopping US$5,000 recently.

The reason his blog managed to sell better price compare to mine is his blog earning is much higher.

If you have blogs you intend to sell it off, you can do the same to cash out the profit up front, instead of waiting for another 5-10 months.

This week I am listing more blogs for sale. This is one of the blog I intend to offer for sale:

Budget Insurance

This is a high payment keyword niche and come with 10 unique contents. Do check out the listing details about this blogs.

If you are interest to buy this blog, you can either make an offer to me or you can head on to flippa.com (by clicking the link here) to make a bid price. The bidding price begin from $47 and the buy it now (BIN) is at US$147.

Updates: This blog sold within 3 days of listings!

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I am selling advertisement spaces in my most funny videos website right now. If you would like to get more exposure or want to drive more traffic to your sites, you can take a look at my advertisement rate here not taking any advertisement yet.

Some of the advantage to advertise in my blog:

1. Faster index by search engines,
2. Better exposure in terms of traffic from US, Canada, UK and Australia countries,
3. Organic search engines traffic,
4. Continuous growth traffic from various sources, expect to get 20K visitors a month this year.

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Iszuddin Ismail but better known as Kidino is a techie guy who play around a lot with the PHP, ASP and Perl Programming. I met him in year 2005 and at that time he was already a successful internet marketer. He specialise in affiliate marketing and DIY minisite. In fact, I learn a lot from him; he is very humble, willing to share his experience in internet marketing to me has contribute a lot to my learning journey. I am sure you will find him the same when you meet up with him in the blogging workshop.

This week we will be running 2 profit blogging workshop and you can refer to the schedule below for details:

Workshop 1
Date: 28th May 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 7.45pm – 9.45pm
Language: Malay
Location: Crystal Crown Hotel, PJ

Workshop 2
Date: 30th May 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 2.45pm – 4.45pm
Language: English
Location: Crystal Crown Hotel, PJ

This is the first attempt we venture into different market, depending on the response we will evaluate the response and plan for next malay workshop. If this turn out to be good response, we will continue to run. Otherwise, this could be the last time we run malay workshop.

Seat is very limited, if you want to join this session, make sure you register early.

See you at blogging workshop this week.

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Operating hours is from 08.00am till 11.00pm daily.

For more information, visit their website now.

My feedbacks on using this new customer service number:

Generally the people I talk to more polite and professional in terms of call handling. Probably they have changed to new customer service center and management.

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I am looking for a few intern bloggers and the details of the requirement is posted here.

This project will at least need your 3 – 6 months commitment without any with return and I am looking into building a long term relationship with people who are keen and serious. Either you work as full / part time is not important, the more important is you are able to deliver within the deadline.

Please only interested people need to apply.

Thanks,

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All of them attended the December 2008 bootcamp and are very excited to make money blogging. Let’s listen what they think about our coaching program.

If you are from Malaysia and would like to know more about how to make 5-figure income blogging, do check out our next free workshop in KL / Penang in this page. You can come to attend this 2 hours workshop to understand how people make comfortably income online through blogging.

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Do you know who is the youngest blogger in town or even in the world? In December, 2007 I wrote a review on the youngest blogger in the world. The record probably need to rewrite by now. What I even surprise is this youngest blogger I ever discovered is staying nearby my house. His name is Gloson and he started blogging in November 2008 when he was 11 years old.

According to Gloson in the interview, his mother Grace Khong encouraged him to start a blog in 2008. Gloson did so and got his blog up in July 2008. During the school holidays in November, instead of spending his holidays in like normal kids, he began actively blogging during the free time. This blog is about everything he learn!

Trust me, you will find somethings new to learn from his blog post. You will amaze that he even know more things than you in certain area. He uses words, pictures and videos to express the written topic. All I can said he is able to deliver the idea to the readers. He even know how to create a video and upload to YouTube! Can you?

I can see more and more bloggers in Malaysia are begin to show their talents.  How about you? Are you / your kids are making use of the free time to create something more meaningful?

You won’t surprise that I will do the same to teach my daughter to blog in future. Although I have setup the blog for her (Priscila Wong‘s Blog)  is to updates my friends, relatives about her pictures, I will teach her when come to the right time in future. Of course she will take over the blog and write her own contents.

Whose know she will even break Gloson Record in future, you will never know!

The Star paper featured about his story in Friday, 9th January.  You can check out the paper coverage and visit Gloson blog for more information about this young blogger.

Updates:
Gloson blog is featured again! This time he was appeared in 2 media.
1) He was featured in Sin Chew(????), a local most popular Chinese Newspaper.
2) He is also featured in Carl’s latest blog – YoungestBlogger.com and ranked 27 in Top 100′s Youngest Blogger list.

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