January 7, 2010 By

2010 – My New Direction

I’ve been developing content sites since 2001. I’ve been making money from affiliate commissions since 2002. I’ve been making money from AdSense since 2004. I’ve been selling information products since 2006. I’ve been speaking at seminars since 2008.

Now I’m going to quit it all. Everything has to go.

Why? Because I’m going to turn THIRTY soon and I feel like my life is going to end in a flash, so I want to enjoy every single day and spend all the hard earned money to experience life to it’s fullest.

(Ok, you didn’t really believe that, did you?)

31-1 But yes, I’m doing a complete u-turn for the sake of future business growth. If I can give you one reason why, it’s because of the book Good to Great.

I highly recommend that you read it too. It will reveal the truth about why some companies experience dramatic growth, and others don’t. As I was reading it, I began  to realize how related it was to what I want to achieve in life.

Money, for me, is not important. Sure, it was important in the beginning when I was dead broke, but after I started making a steady five-figure income every month, making MORE money just wasn’t that exciting anymore.

What I really want to do is make a difference. I want to make a change in people’s lives, and get a small mention for myself in history books.

“Gobala Krishnan, the guy who…”

The guy who what? Made a lot of money on the Internet? Quit his job at 25 with $30k in debt and never looked back?

No I want history to remember me for how I helped others, not myself. After reading Good to Great, I realized the only way to achieve it is by being the best in the world at something.

But what? What can I be the best in the world at?

I will tell you what I discovered in the next post.

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January 4, 2009 By

My 2009 New Year Resolution

Ok everyone has one, so do I. Actually I have two of them, one for my personal life and one for business. I’ll share my business one here.

  1. Create more high quality information products
  2. Improve the experience and value of my seminars
  3. Publish a Bahasa Melayu version of The New Millionaires
  4. Get a good PHP lead developer

I think 2008 was more of a trial-and-error year for me. I got out of the home environment and started a new office. Then I started my first seminar series and have already done two this year. But it’s also a year full of mistakes, most of which just ate up a lot of my time and resulted in no increase of my online income.

It sucks, but I hope I’ve learned from the lessons.

Let me start from what I already have. I have two solid, selling products namely WordPress Adsense System and Super Affiliate Blogger which needs some TLC and updates. Instead of merely updating the images and screenshots, I’m going to turn both into solid membership sites with an offer so great, no one will refuse me. Hehe..

Blog Paycheck is doing fine, no updates required really but perhaps it’s time to up the ante and make it even better. I’m also working on rebranding myself better with online videos, tutorials, and a feature-packed blogging membership site.

I’m also planning to tap into the Bahasa Melayu market here in Malaysia, and already have a few top-notch products lined up, the first of which, Rahsia ClickBank,  will be launched in February (oops, I don’t think I’m supposed to give away so many details yet)

From now on, no more automated content-scraping sites. Although I had cut down massively from 2007, there were still a few automated sites that I was testing out. I think it’s high-time to shift to solid, original websites that will stand the test of time and generate a much better return in the long run.

Also, I’m cutting down the amount of blogs I actively write for. Besides GobalaKrishnan.com and ProfitBlogger.com all the other blogs have to go. I simple have no time to write for all, and besides most people remember me for this blog anyways, and constantly check this blog. Also, GobalaKrishnan.com is more SEO-efficient and has better traffic than most of the other blogs.

The Internet Millionaires blog is the first to go, and all its content will be absorbed by this blog via WordPress import.

And the final, most important thing, is to find and secure a good PHP lead developer who is experienced in WordPress and e-commerce. If I can find that one guy, my entire business will literally explode and reach heights I have only dreamed of.

Well, 2009, here I come.

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