by Gobala Krishnan on December 17, 2009
Two weeks ago we conducted our first hands-on 2-day Internet marketing coaching program. Previously, we only did one-day seminars with no hands-on. So this was kind of new and exciting for us. My main concern was the Internet access. Although we did experience some slow Internet speed intermittently, overall the connection was good and enabled [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on November 9, 2008
Start-Up Camp Malaysia is an interesting event you could attend if you want to know more about how to engineer your own start-up company. According to the website: Startup Camp, a.k.a “The Unconference for the Startup Community”, is an unconference-style event that’s dedicated to bringing together the various members of the startup community for a [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on November 9, 2008
Global Entrepreneurship Week Malaysia happens from November 17-23. This event covers a lot of talks on entrepreneurship in Malaysia, although through the badly organized event listing description I find it difficult to understand exactly what they are and how you may benefit from them. Besides it seems more targeted towards CEOs and multinational companies, but [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on August 6, 2008
One thing I noticed about a lot of people selling information products in Malaysia; they design and create a product for the Malaysian market. This is ok if the topic applies only to the Malaysian market (for example what I did with Chapter-M or like Steven Wong’s Credit Card Solution), but if the topic is [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on August 4, 2008
Anyone using the MRR2 (Middle Ring Road 2) that connects Kepong to would probably notice at how uneven and suspiciously fragile it looks. At times when on the MRR2 I would think to myself "This thing looks like it may just collapse from under me". And for the second time, it showed sings that it [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on July 31, 2008
My mom used to call it "tiffin carrier". They call it "mangkuk tingkat". It’s making a comeback, although this time with the power of the Internet. At MangkukTingkat.com you can order Malaysian food and get it sent to your home, perfect for busy Klang Valley people who unfortunately have very little time to eat or [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on July 24, 2008
The Star today reported that Malaysia’s inflation rate hit a 27-year high of 7.7% in June 2008, compared to 3.8% in May 2008. It almost doubled in a period of one month mostly due to the increase in petrol price. This is generally speaking, bad news for most Malaysians as a high inflation rate can [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on June 4, 2008
Here I am still in the office at 8.32pm. It’s not that I’m very hardworking, it’s just that the recent news that the petrol price in Malaysia is going to increase to RM2.70 per liter caused panic among my fellow Malaysians who would literally drive a mile to save a penny. In other words, it’s [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on May 8, 2008
Here I am all eager to do out fifth teleseminar, and for some reason the teleseminar admin page just will not load in my location. I assume others can access it but from my office area it’s taking way way too long. So I could not: See how many people are online See and questions [...]
by Gobala Krishnan on April 8, 2008
[Edited: Added our Teleseminar 05 to this article and republished it. Sorry for the tech difficulties as I could not access my teleseminar page to answer questions but I do have a good recorded audio version -gk] [display_podcast] One of the most popular ways to make money on the Internet from Malaysia, is blogging. When [...]