I have no Internet connection this weekend as I’m currently in Perak, Malaysia attending my wife’s cousin wedding ceremony. As usual I have my trusty Latitude accompanying me all the times, and with wife for sure.

How I start?
Sitting quietly without internet connection made me thinking what have I achieved so far.
My journey on internet entrepreneurship and blogging goes back on September last year, roughly about 3 months after I start working in Penang. Due to high workload and unfamiliar environment I’m facing of, I feel uneasy, stress and tension and start hating my job. It takes sometime for me to get familiar with it and right now, I’m pretty satisfied and happy with my job. In my opinion, there are huge different between working with local and MNC, small and big company.

Remember
Whenever I’m on this kind of situation, I always said this to myself. I should be grateful and feel lucky of what I have now. Think, there are million people out there who live in pain, hungry and stress multiple times worsen than me. That what we called human’s nature, you won’t be able to satisfy your desire and needs, all the time

Looking back around, my childhood friends, my neighbors, I was thinking what am I going to do now if I’m not study hard and push my self to be better that my parent (we’re below average family back then). I’m so grateful to have parent and family who love me so much and have awareness of what world with no proper education, which then push me to study hard. Thanks mom and dad and my family. Your kindness towards me is invaluable lesson which I can never forget.

Cert means success?
Well, cert won’t guarantee success for sure, and without cert, doesn’t mean you can’t success. I’m not saying that you need bunch of certificates to be success, but the process of getting it is more important since we’re exposed on many kind of interesting things, we meet a lot of friends, getting touch with latest technologies and etc. Unless you’re coming from middle class family, I should say that you have less of opportunities to taste this kind of thing, or be friend with some whiz kid who have genius plan ahead.

Back to my internet entrepreneurship journey, my effort is starting to be seen in terms of income although not much and my presence in internet started to be noticed (not by peoples, but by search engines, hehe). I have back my initial investment in web hosting and domain names within 3 months (RM150), which is beyond my initial plan. Consistency is the most important thing here, plus some technical skills, communications and don’t forget luck. Getting there on time, choosing right things at the beginning, your mentors and support from your family among other thing that cannot be denied in influencing your success here

Challenges
Journey won’t complete without challenges, but don’t forget, challenges make you stronger. At the same time, you will learn invaluable lesson from there every time you manage to get rid of it. As a family man and doing this on part time bases, it will be hard for me to balance between my day’s works, family and my internet stuff. When I just started, I spent too much time in front of computer, but soon after that I schedule my task, prioritize it and at the same time ‘work smart’ not ‘work hard’. Use your MS Outlook or Google Calendar to assist you.

Opportunities are everywhere
Internet business is booming every year and everyone is looking for an opportunity to get a slice of this multi billion dollar business. But how many of them is successful or at least manage to earn some income from there? I have no idea either, but you must have read in forums, blogs before about this, where most people is facing difficulties to earn from internet after even after spending hundreds or not thousands from their days work income.

Spent wisely
To be frank, I spent less than RM100 buying e-book, which are Paypal instruction and blogging starter kit from 2 Malaysian internet marketers. I buy both only when I need it. The rest… I find it myself. Its not those e-books is not good enough, but I don’t believe in myself to fully utilizing it, which I’m wondering will end up become one of my archive files. My principle is, when I need it, only than I’ll look for it. Asses or evaluate yourself before buying something, make sure you will be able to make most out of it.

Duplicate your formula
When you have 1 success formula, duplicate it and make it better. Plan your own route properly. Asses what your competitor has as new competitor appear everyday

I’m interested to know how you get involved in internet business or blogging. Are we on the same boat? Share your experience below.

p/s: Looks like this is the longest post I ever made so far. Apologizes for any grammatical mistakes