Updates of where I'm at. Closure. :)

I thought I would close down this blog after having been inactive with it for so long. Call it fate or call it just procrastination, but it seems like this blog might be helping me even up to now. just in case you have been reading my posts, here's the updates.

KASH
KASH has disbanded during the first quarter of this year due to low ROIs. Even so, I learnt a lot after having been a part KASH, right from the beginning to its last days. From having found myself forming a group with total strangers(except Hakeem) and moving forward with them, to putting new-found skills into place, to dealing with clients, to communication(or miscommunication) and implementation of new ideas within the group members.

Websites & Webpages
Almost all of the websites that I had been working on have been removed as well since I did not renew the domain payment. I figured I shall just move on to more stable websites as the previous ones were pretty much test runs. now the only websites I maintain(or help to maintain) are www.sendayuhomespa.com & www.ereviewcentre.com

eBay, Amazon & other merchandising/affiliates sites
My eBay account too have long been inactive as I rarely log in there nowadays. As for Amazon, I have long been out of it eversince they change they're payment system for affiliates. The same goes for the other merchandising/affiliates sites.

As a whole, the useful technical skills I've acquired from this long journey of Internet Marketing are hosting, domains, basic scripts, basics of SEOs and PPC, web analytics, online payments and more just to name a few. Overall, I realised, it's not just the skill of Internet Marketing that will make a business work. It takes more than that. It's the many different skills put together like communication skills, perseverance, dexterity & foresight.

Now, I'm part of running a family business, www.sendayuhomespa.com. But that's a whole new story altogether. You can connect with me on Twitter or Facebook to get updates, or simply just for the sake of friendship and more.

Thank you for reading my blog. :)

For your further readings, here are past posts related to KASH:
In chronological order (top to be more recent, bottom to be oldest)
About KA$H
juggling to my success
KA$H is big
my first closed deal for KA$H
more things to do
new update
KA$H KA$H KA$H
one thing affects everything
salman and nurhakeem beginning part 2
salman and nurhakeem beginning part 1
december 1st
KA$H n rastafari
meet KA$H
from imtmac to KA$H
i'm back!
slow and steady

Where am I right now

It's becoming less and less frequent that I am updating this blog but here's just to keep you guys upsdated as to where am I at the moment.

KASH:
KA$H is embarking on a new project of T-Shirts. Honestly I am a bit lost in this but I'll just ride the wave and follow the team's direction. We embarking onto this because the current projects are currently not moving that well. However, we are never giving up.

www.sggemstonejewellery.com:
There have been visitors to the site but no sales nor enquiries. This sub-project of KA$H is my responsibility and I had been struggling to keep up with it in terms of making it better. However the best part about this project is that because both Irie Gems and KA$H is depending on me, I am given no choice but to work on it. I find this to be one way of motivation.

eBay:
My eBay account was temporarily suspended because I had unwittingly violated one of their policies. It's one lesson learnt.

Racing Suit:
This project is the brainchild of a cousin of mine. I had been given the task by them for the hosting and the domain name. The hosting will be provided by KA$H(at a fee of course). The fee will be provided soon enough. Right now I will be researching on the suitable domain name for them.

Others:
Just some weeks ago, I received a call from a guy in Florida asking about B&H capsules. So far that is the second time that somebody has enquired me regarding that. He was asking me about the price of it including the delivery. But I was too slow to react so I lost the sale but it was a lesson learnt.


That's all folks!

eBay Panic!

here's why i need to get the 20 feedback for my ebay account! (ps: im still not ready yet!) The following is an email I had received:

"Hey guys, 7 people's site have been fully created.Zencart w header, ebay listing template, store listing template asfollows:* Tutiwati : my925sterlingsilver.com* Thomas Ham : Xanaduarts.asia* Chong Beng : cluelesscollection.com* Nelly Jimron : girldollclothes.com* Francis Lim : Goodbioenergy.com* Angie Ang : myfengshuiharmony.com* James Hau : sterlingjewelrydreams.com We still owe:Siew Eng, Chang Wee, Eng Lye, Allan, Brendan, Teng Keng and Eric Lim Ppl who owe us* Eunice : need to get back to us on niche* Cheng Sun : need to get back to us on niche* Hui Hui : need to get back to us on niche* Hui Ying : dns/hosting not propogated, need to get back to us* Elaine Tan : hosting not purchased yet...* Victor Gan : need to get back to us on niche For the FEBRUARY 09 People, we'll be meeting you next week,specifically: 30th March to 4th April and then 6 & 7th April. We'll meet 3 people per day. Will post more details later during theday on how to book your slot. regards,Ming Chern"

About KA$H

KA$H eMarketing Consultancy was founded in July 2008 by four entrepreneurial individuals. Initially starting out as four separate gentlemen making a living by marketing their own products, niches or services, they now have come together to provide a valued service from the expertise and experience they each have acquired.

Now, our service extends to as far as the Middle East and to the Asian region. We aim to realize the dream and desire of any business or company wanting to have an extensive base of buyers.

Need our service?

enquiries@kash-emarketing.com

Juggling to My Success

yo.

wassup ya'all!

:)

as time goes by, the responsibility and things I need to accomplish becomes more and more if I really want to declare myself as a true internet marketeer.

Currently, I find myself learning how to juggle between my day time job (Rastafari), KA$H, and eBay. And I DO find that to be really a handful already. but of course, no excuses to keep trying.

Eversince my eBay course, my email inbox gets new mail a whole lot more frequent. to a point i sometimes can't seem to keep up. It's mainly because of the googlegroup i am subscribed to to. This googlegroup keeps us all eBay course participants in the loop of new updates or calls for help, etc. I find myself having a sense of guilt for not actively participating and not responding to their calls as soon as I can.

Just for your info, I am in 2 google groups at the moment. one for eBay and one for the Internet Marketing Bootcamp in June 2008. every now and then too, for the IMB googlegroup there are fellow coursemates who dropped an email to give an update of how they are doing. Just recently 2 members shared the website that they've created after trying for months. Check it out:

http://www.giftideasgenerator.com/buynow.html
http://www.truevineglobal.com/index-1.html

It's really impressive I must say.

Alright stay tuned all!

KA$H is BIG.

its amazing how GREAT KA$H is becoming. earlier just now I shared with them what I have learnt in eBay. The whole group agreed with how great TERAPEAK is in providing crucial info for market research in eBay. In fact, Hakeem really got excited in learning that. Most importantly, I feel I did managed to keep them in the loop as best as I can.

After that we discussed on an idea for the springrolls. Here's a quick info regarding the springrolls:
Koh had come into contact with the company Den Industry. Den Industry had been dealing with frozen food as wholesale. Koh had worked a deal to market for them. But only recently had things been picking up and more serious. Den Industry wants to create a chain of stalls in Singapore and KA$H is the one to make it a reality for them. What a great deal this really is.

I really look forward for its progress.

Lately, I've been busy with the gemstones website, especially on its technical part. I'm also going into eBay for that. I had already created an eBay ID for that.

There was a GoogleGroup created out of the eBay course. It really keeps me updated with members of the group continously giving their inputs. But unfortunately I have not really been doing enough to stay on par with the other fast moving coursemates. I feel I am a little behind to some of them. But it's okay because most importantly I know I'm still moving.

On another note, Hakeem's blog has brought more visitors to my blog. It's really great! I found this out after checking the statistics in Google Analytics.

KA$H is made up of really great individuals. All of them each had been inspiring me and kept motivated and rooted to my goals. Hakeem, who recently went through a major break-up with his lady after being in the relationship for four years, is still staying focused with his work. He is the greatest example I have known personally for being professional. Alan, a retiree but still doesn't give up learning and continuously active in keeping himself updated despite his age and sometimes lack of technical know-how. Koh, is the most driven amongst all. I'm really grateful to have found them.

KA$H LIVES!

My first Closed Deal for KA$H

What a great milestone for KA$H today.

What a great milestone for myself as an internet marketeer actually.

Today, I helped to close a deal for KA$H, a hosting service for an uprising company. From that, I effectively generated SGD$80 for KA$H.

This uprising company is being set up by a cousin of mine. I'm so glad to be a small part of it. I will provide a link down here once it's up and running.

Most importantly, I have brought in money for KA$H. I am so proud of myself.
APPLAUSE PLEASE! lol....

I will be generating more money as an internet marketeer.

Stay tuned!!!

"eBay Tools of Mass Domination" Course

Yesterday and today I attended the course "EBay Tools for Mass Domination" conducted by Benjamin Marc Wee.

Like every other courses I attended, it felt GREAT just being there. Getting fed the knowledge was GREATER, meeting more people there was the GREATEST!

This course I have to say is really different in imparting the much-needed knowledge to us in just 2 short days. For some reason, it was a calm and conducive environment. The best 2 things I liked about this particular course was The eBay Game and the sharing session.

For the Game we were divided into groups of 5 each where we were given the tasks to work as a team to rake in the most cash after 31 game-days(each day is 3 minutes). My team eventually got second in place but most importantly it helped us understand the crucial elements in making it in eBay.

During the sharing session, each and every one of us shared how and what we want to market on eBay. It was really great as I get to learn about the other coursemates better from there. But best of all, I got to reach out to the whole class as I made a call to those who wanted to market the items that I have since I have the source.

One of the crucial things to make it in eBay is actually www.terapeak.com as this is where we can do the market research.

Myself and 6 other coursemates have already signed up for a terapeak account and this is really good.

As for the follow-ups of this course, there will be a gathering session and a consultation session. I most definitely look forward to all this.

This really DOES FEEL GOOD!

HELL YEAH!

lol....

stay tuned guys!

More Things To Do

Just had another weekly meeting with KA$H. So from that, here are more things to do on my part:

1. Remove current form in www.sggemstonejewellery.com and then attaching a Wufoo form to the PayPal button.
2. Testing out the payment.
3. Inform the writer from www.elance.com to write up for springrolls as well.
4. Studying the cpanel of www.sggemstonejewellery.com
   

Tomorrow, is my EBAY course! YAHOO!!!!

Things To Do

Sometimes I got lost with the things I need to do for my internet marketing. So here are the things i need to do as of the moment:

1. Embed google analytics into http://www.sggemstonejewellery.com/
2. Embed google analytics into http://www.salman-internetmarketingjournal.blogspot.com/
3. Create "Purchase Successful" page for http://www.sggemstonejewellery.com/
4. Update "Buy Now" button once KA$H's paypal account is ready
5. Articles for sggemstonejewellery.com
6. PPC campaign for sggemstonejewellery.com
7. Preparation for Ebay Course
8. Redirecting my emails account into 1.
9. Creating the codes for each item on http://www.sggemstonejewellery.com/

PS: These are just for my own checklist, but it's for your info too my beloved readers. X-P

Stay tuned!!!!

Hiring a Writer

i needed a a freelance writer so I have just created an account in elance.com.

Here's what i posted there:

"www.sggemstonejewellery.com requires a writer to provide content for its website and further articles for its promotion. Singapore-based writers are preferred."

This is actually a call to any writers out there too. Contact me immediately if you want this job.

new update

it's 6am right now friday morning. and I have not slept. lol..

well yesterday night just had another weekly meeting with KA$H. just the common update of sghawkerfood.com and sggemstonejewellery.com. Hakeem had been quite bothered with the appearance of sghawkerfood.com especially after he had seen soshiok.com that Koh had come across. So he had asked us for feedback and what can be improved. That we did, but myself and Koh said to him we are not so bothered by the design and outlook of it. It is more of the content and marketing for it that we are currently lacking heavily and that's what Koh and I are more concerned about. Yesterday's meeting Alan wasn't around.

If you are new here, and have no idea about KA$H. Here's a brief explanation of what we do. We are a company that provide online marketing for business owners or anyone at all. We can promote and enhance the popularity and demand for any service or products of any business. We also provide hosting services for your websites. Currently we have four projects running. We consists of 5 motivated individuals.

So back to yesterday night's meeting, Hakeem and Koh provided me with the assistance i need in creating a form for the website. sggemstone require some write-ups or articles for it. Since I had got no time to that, i had decided that we sould be hiring a writer. And that is what we have no. During the week that just passed, Hakeem got a writer to help me with the write-ups for gemstonese website.

In case you have not known yet, myself and Koh we're doing on sggemstonejewellery.com, Koh and Allan doing on the Ka$h Hosting website.

last saturday meeting/sharing. Here's what Hakeem wrote in his blog:

"We continue to have a short discussion till 1.30pm and then made our way to Mc Cafe and continue my lesson there. My presentation manage to get everyone to focus on the lesson rather than the surrounding. Pheeeew....It went smoothly.."

Here's some pictures of that sharing session:

last saturday too we opened a joint account with me, hakeem and koh, and the debit card will be ready in 2 weeks time. this joint account will be used for paypal, ppc and more.

KA$H KA$H KA$H

Hi guys.

Here's just a quick update:

1. KA$H has a new member by the name of Anthony which makes KA$H a group of 5 people.
2. KA$H will be creating a joint bank account this Saturday.
3. This Saturday KA$H will have a teaching/sharing session conducted by Hakeem and Koh. This session includes one person from out of KA$H.
4. I have been busy with the gemstones website which is already up and running but definitely needs to be fine-tuned more. Here's the url: http://www.sggemstonejewellery.com/
5. Hakeem has provided me a box of KA$H namecards with my name and contact on it. This will be given out to as many people as possible, especially during the 7th and 8th February when I'll be attending the eBay course.
6. KA$H currently has 3 websites. (refer to "creations of KA$H" on the sidebar)

Alright that's all folks!

One Thing Affects Everything

Ever heard of "everything affects everything"? Or "one thing affects another" ?

Well that's probably what's happening to me right now. I've been so occupied with my day job (as a General Manager of Rastafari) that I've been real slow with my internet marketing activities. In fact, for the past 2 weeks, I have to admit I practically did not do a thing related to internet marketing. The most that I did was reading emails from fellow internet marketeers and replying to some. My internet marketing has been affected because of my 11-hours-a-day job and my recent family situation. I became high-strung, lost focus and low-willpowered.

That is why I am grateful for the people I have around me. I am grateful for the members of KA$H who never stops their effort in earning through internet marketing and making KA$H a success story. It was just yesterday night that we had our meeting, and from there that I got my spirits and motivation back. How can I ever forget that I actually loved the great feeling of success in internet marketing be it just tiny and humble steps? If not for them, I would be totally off track from my actual goal in earning passively through the internet.

Apart from KA$H, I am also grateful for a lady by the name of Liza whom I had met in Asia Internet Congress 2008. I had been exchanging a few emails with her and she too had unknowingly played a part in motivating me. Even though it's as simple as asking me simple questions related to internet marketing and asking me why I had not been updating my blog. It is people like Liza too that keeps me rooted to my goals. It is true that when you make your goals public, you will have the feeling of obligation to accomplish it, and this is how Liza is helping to motivate me.

One thing affects another. Hence one thing can affect Everything. Even you, if you are an accidental reader, so just drop me a friendly message and I'll forever be grateful to you too!

Stay tuned, in one of my upcoming entries, I'll tell you of a cousin by the name of Khair who had offered me to work with him for 2 small companies

Towards SUCCESS!

PS: if you want to know more details of any of my experiences, just drop me a message or comment!

Selling on LiveJournal

At Rastafari, a part-timer by the name of Aqilah, i found out, is selling stuffs online using livejournal. here's her link:
http://marchingcuffs.livejournal.com/

The amount that she claimed that she had made was around the figure of SGD$3000 throughout the periods of 2 years.

She also provided me with the following links for me to check where people sell stuffs online. You can check them out too:

http://sgflea.livejournal.com

http://sgflea.livejournal.com

http://sgselltrade.livejournal.com

Salman and Nurhakeem : The Beginning (Part 2)

So how what happened next?
We decided right then and there we will find the means to sign up for it, meaning we will go at every lengths to get the money. We will go at every lengths to get SGD$2.5k
Hakeem already started sending some people smses to source for money. He incidentally has an uncle owing him a good $1000. That night itself we decided, if we couldn’t raise the money in time, and we manage to get an amount, we would resort to sending one of us for the course and then teach the other. That night itself and the weeks that followed was really amazing. I fell sick that night for some reason! But well the days that came by after that night, I called and messaged a few friends, asking for some amount that they would have to lend me. I don’t like the sound of that really, borrowing. I mean who does, do you really like to be in debt? Well the motivation and desire was just too great to miss the opportunity. I called up an elder cousin whom I think would be open to providing some loan for me for a good cause or so I thought. The conversation between me and him did not go that well. We even almost got into an argument as to whether my parents should be informed. I was totally against that idea definitely. We ended that conversation but I still thank him no matter. In one of the coming days I talked to my brother and did talk to him about what I wanted to with my life and all. I had him to apply for a loan. And that loan, that damn loan, gawsh we had to wait for days to know if the application was successful. One week before the closing date of the registration of this course I want to attend to, I found out Hakeem had got the money and already signed up for it. It was just me left, and that week itself I found out that the application for the loan was unsuccessful. It was a real downer for me I tell you. A real downer. By this time my mum already found out I wanted to sign up for this course. And my mother and me did get into an argument, with me being such a hard-head against accepting money from them(my parents). I left home and did not return home the next 2 nights, crashing and bumming at a cousin’s place. I just wanted to enjoy some peaceful time on my own. The second night my mum gave me a call and again we got into an argument for accepting the money from them. 1 day before the deadline of the registration, I thought to myself, probably by guidance from God or from my mum’s daily prayers, I just thought, if really I do want to make a change for myself in life and the people around me, and now that there’s the means for me to go for it, then what’s stopping me from accepting it?

problems with X-Site Pro 2

I JUST WANT TO COMPLAIN AND ASK FOR HELP RIGHT NOW THAT I CAN'T FIND MY FILES THAT I HAD DONE WITH X-SITE PRO 2. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT THAT X-SITE PRO 2 HAS NO "OPEN FILES" ????????

My PPC camppaigns and XSite Pro 2

I have just created one super duper professional cool looking website using xsitepro 2. I will provide the link once its uploaded.

On another note i just realised something. That I'm making a loss again with ppc. My total charges by adwords is USD$477 whereas ive only earned USD$375 from amazon. That's a loss of USD$122! well that's okay. I'm still figuring out. Im not stopping that's for sure.

Alright have a nice day all!

Xsite Pro 2, Aidah Omar, Frederick Mah and more

KA$H just met up again for its weekly meetings just now. here's a quick recap for myself on what we covered:

1. our monthly pool of money shall be spent on domains, hosting and the programmer for our food-based website
2. we will be setting up a shared bank account. this is for the convenience of our online marketing like ebay and paypal etc
3. i have to contribute $50 to our group for our monthly pool
4. Koh taught me on how to start using Xsite Pro 2 for the purpose of our gemstones
5. Hakeem taught me about how i got mixed up on my hosting and domains
6. by next meeting i have to prepare at least 2 pages for the gemstones using XsitePro 2
7. Koh and Alan will be meeting up with one more client/business partner this coming Saturday

on another note, yesterday i met trey77 online while looking through the forums in the World Internet Academy website. I got to know him better and found out he's a Malaysian and has been doing internet marketing for more than 1 year. It's always great to know that there are already normal everyday people already doing internet marketing and are still fine. I chit chatted with him through the forum and hope to hear from him again soon.

on another different note, on the Tuesday that just passed, I had lunch with Aidah Omar. She was the one i liased with when I signed up for the Internet Marketing Bootcamp in June 2008. Aidah was really helpful and I appreciated her a lot. She's one of the few people that made it possible for me to get started in this journey of internet marketing. Quitting Success Resources, Aidah Omar currently has 3 of her business already running. Isn't that great???? I definitely think so! you can google her name to find out more.

okay one last note, Frederick Mah, has encouraged the graduates of IMB June 2008 to post more positive comments and sharing onto the googlegroup that he created for us. Just like myself, Frederick Mah is one of the grads too. I intend to post one soon and providing this link.

Alright that's all for now. Drop a comment guys! I NEED FEEDBACK!!!

THANKSSS!!!! and have a nice day :D

Day 3 of Asia Internet Congress 2008

here's a few pictures of the Asia Internet Congress 2008:

And this is KA$H:

Click http://www.asiainternetacademy.com/aic2008/ to see more pics.

By the way I will be singing up for Benjamin's eBay course which is in January.

Hell YEAH!

=D