Business - Living The Dream Lifestyle

The truth of wealth on Fastlane is revealed

October 23, 2010 By Terence Chang 4 Comments

I am so glad that I got this book right on time, while most people will have to wait. It was a great read on Friday night and early 5:30AM Saturday morning at Starbucks. It took me 10 hours to finish the entire book, while I did skip few slowlane chapters.

If you are reading this post, you are definitely someone like me, who wants to live the dream lifestyle. You are interested in knowing how you can make a lifetime wealth in matter of very short time. You want to be a successful entrepreneur who live the dream lifestyle.

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime By MJ DeMarco is, indeed, a book that DON”T teach you how to GET RICH QUICK.

It’s not a midnight infomercial product.
It’s not a book ask you to buy more books, DVD, subscribe to affiliate program or anything.

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Filed Under: Entrepreneur, Success story Tagged With: Book, Fastlane, Millionaire

Inexpensive ways to operate your online business – Voice

October 21, 2010 By Terence Chang Leave a Comment

If you read my blog post about my new direction of running online business and creating passive income to support my lifestyle, you will know that making advertising income on your websites is the easiest way to achieve that. Today, I received a small amount of affiliate revenue that cover the cost of the Toll Free service entirely.

Shamelessly, I believe I am really good finding inexpensive deals online to save money while running my online business. In late 2008, I talked about using long gone AOL’s AIM phoneline and Skype and even Yahoo Voice to communicate with my customers. I also talked about using a great Toll Free service from Kall8.com to receive incoming call, voice mail and fax.

With the Google Voice in the market, I have successfully using Google Voice to take care of communication. Now Kall8 will handle my incoming fax solely. If you are thinking to make extra affiliate income, make sure you signup their Toll Free services, affiliate program and promote Kall8. It pays off eventually.

Back on the topic. This is how I use inexpensive phone system to communicate with my customers.

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Filed Under: Business Operation Tagged With: Google Voice, Skype, Toll Free, Voice, VOIP, Yahoo Voice

Create passive income business to support dream lifestyle

October 21, 2010 By Terence Chang Leave a Comment

Passive Income

To achieve my dream lifestyle to travel around the world, passive income is the only way to make it happen. In the past few years, I have tried many things and now identify the direction. I am learning it the hard way. I should know better few years ago.

Regardless which method you choose, there are bottom line requirements to make this true passive income business.

Automation – The only way to make passive income is NOT to work on it. Or simply spent few hours a week to do minor tasks.
Outsource – Let other people do the work for you
Scalable & Profitable – The only way ensure your business model can last a long time, the business must be scalable and profitable.

Basically, it follows The 4-Hour Workweek principle.

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Filed Under: e-commerce, Entrepreneur, Opportunity Tagged With: Passive Income

Where to go from here?

August 17, 2010 By Terence Chang 2 Comments

Lately, I have been thinking where I will be going in 5 years? I have not updated my blog for almost two months. It’s not because I am lazy, but I am very busy. That is really not what I want as life-style entrepreneur. Wanting to be an Internet entrepreneur so badly, I constantly remind myself to take time off and use my time wisely and efficiently. If I can’t reserve time to enjoy life, what’s to point to be a life-style entrepreneur?

So I decided to start playing golf. Recently, my wife and I signup golf class. We should have done this a long time ago.

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Filed Under: Entrepreneur, Progress

Marketing Tips for Dummies

June 5, 2010 By Terence Chang 5 Comments

No. I am not writing the book to teach people about marketing. I am learning it the hard way like dummy. Ever since I started my own business, I have been learning marketing everyday. Some works and some don’t. This post is basically about what I have learned in the past. You may find this useful.

As a self-made Internet entrepreneur from scratch, I have to say that I would rather know sell million crappy products than sell zero life saver product. In other works, marketing is #1 key factor to success for any business! Period!

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Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Marketing

Local Search Marketing! Are your business on Google Map?

June 3, 2010 By Terence Chang 1 Comment

In the past 9 months, I have been working very hard doing reverse engineering to figure out how to improve Google Map Listing (now known as Google Place). Google map may not be used as much as the traditional search, but Google Map is definitely become more popular everywhere.

Is your business listed and verified on Google Map?

Recently, I was asked to help a local computer repair shop to get their Google map listing back, because their competitor took over their unverified business listing and reviews. They lost all the phone calls and customers. That’s how important Google map can impact a local business.

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Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Google Map, Google Places, Local Search Marketing

Free Restaurant Website Example with Blogger

May 12, 2010 By Terence Chang 5 Comments

You may ask me what in the world does Terence has anything to do with building a restaurant web site?

Obviously, you don’t know me that much. In the past two years, I have been working very hard as sole Internet entrepreneur to help local businesses pay less and do more on the Internet. I have built many large scale web sites for corporations as well as for small local businesses.

With my search engine optimization knowledge at local sector, I’ve helped more local businesses getting on top of major search engines. Local search marketing has become one of my very strong skills on my resume even I left Corporate-America a long time ago.

Many local businesses, especially local restaurants, don’t have huge budget to pay for their own domain, web hosting and hire designer to do all the works. However, running local business without a web site is like sell a product without a brand and business card.

So I have been asked many times by some very small restaurants to show them how easy they can host their own restaurant websites without spending fortune. Yes. there are ways to do so. Using blogger.com’s free blog platform is FREE and easy. The idea is to start a web site a minimum cost. When the web site bring enough revenue, the business can decide to move on their own domain, and web hosting. In other words, I still prefer to host the web site on WordPress blog platform.

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Filed Under: Business, Marketing, Web Hosting Tagged With: Restaurant Marketing

Never too small to be big

February 22, 2010 By Terence Chang 1 Comment

Not too long ago, I post Upscale business with partnership on this blog. I was very exciting about forming a mutual partnership with a much larger competitor. The good news is that the partnership is officially live.

There is lesson to learn here.

It’s never too small to be big!

I was told countless times that I should not do business in the crowded industry. I did it anyway, because I see the opportunities. Yes. I am very small, but I have a big heart.

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