The are other examples: Shaun Tan aka Sen Ze (one of the local pioneers in online salesletter and blogging), Shaiful Sham, Patrick Chan, Irfan Khairi (he also only just started in seminar business after gotten affiliated with Azizi Ali), and even a good friend of mine who specializes in SMS marketing niche. Fione Tan and husband also write blogs regularly as their marketing tool — I’m not 100% in agreement with their marketing ploys though — If eOneNet’s blog doesn’t practice censorship, you’ll see my points in one of my posts there.

In general: One should never belittle others to convince people that you’re good. Instead, show us that you truly are good and innovative on your own way. I think every netrepreneurs should respect a certain set netiquettes in their marketing actions, and no businesses should not make misleading claims just to sell stuff quicker.
(Don’t worry Gobala, this is not specifically regarding you because I think you’d doing just fine and came up with really useful stuff all these while).

BTW, fyi, I’m finishing my Master thesis on Technopreneurship at a local leading management school which is how I gathered all these info based on my many years of observation (direct study since 2002 in Malaysia).

If welcome, I’ll share bits and pieces of my findings over the next few months/years while I venture into a specific Internet niche myself (in addition to several other net-centric businesses I run since 1998). Yes, I’m quite a low-key person — hardly much info about me all these years, but we do have LinkedIn today. And Google is a little devil, isn’t it?

I think I completely missed your book launch, right? I wanted to go for it, though, just forgot when it was..

Think I’ve read somewhere in your blog about teachers and doers. At Pajamanation, we have this agenda to push for more professions called “formerly teachers, now entrepreneurs” and vice versa. (Our CEO is a Resident Entrepreneur at U of Cambridge and a full professor of entrepreneurship at U of Monaco). We believe that only entrepreneurs can teach entrepenuership (but most are not good teachers!), and only teachers can deliver good coaching (but many have no idea what entrepreneurship is all about).

In fact, you seem to be already preaching/coaching about micropreneurship in your websites, just thru a different medium — very Web-centric instead of a mixture of web and mainstream advertising.

Getting featured on the newspaper has already opened up the connection (from Web-only to Online-Offline). Isn’t that what you wanted with your full version of NST “interview”?

I think comparing to Fione Tan is a bit off, her business model is entirely different, she runs a seminar business. Same with Irfan Khairi.

She’s been featured in countless newspapers, magazines and tv shows (obviously even beaten Dr Irfan Khairi). And she’s not even 30 yet (but she’s just gotten married).

Not everyone can be Fione Tan, but, with Web 2.0, your chances are better. Heck, anyone can even beat Irfan, or even Gobala – the market is getting saturated and the competitions are getting fierce.

How? Think “commons-based peer production”! (hint: ask me or “click me”). RM100K/month? How about RM1M or more per month? Welcome to the World Wide Work (Social WORKING)!

That’s a good start – getting media coverage.

Perhaps in the future more people will know
that there are many other Malaysians making
money from the Internet quietly.

In the meantime, we’ll keep on pushing.

BTW, I hope my book with the link to The
Malaysian Revolution on the front page will
open up more eyes…

Zamri Nanyan