Ask Melvin Ng

Since the middle of last year, having tasted success while partnering up with Vince Tan and Gobala Krishnan on the SendUsTo.US project, I’ve since decided that it’s much more fun if you can find the right partners to work with in your business.

When we were working on that firesale, we practically meet up a few times a week for over a month, just working on the project. The fun, camaraderie and the friendship that was built during the process was just priceless. I don’t think I’ve ever had that much Starbucks coffee before that period of time in my life.

That chapter has already ended, while new chapters are being opened.

Since early this year, I’ve been working on 2 huge projects in my business. The Profit Blogging System Bootcamp which is my main offline business, and a blogging empire which constitutes the major part of my online business.

For the seminar, my partner is Steven Wong. Working with him on the business has been nothing short of an awesome learning experience.

Steven is someone who has the utmost integrity, and his sales prowess is a hundred times better than me. If not for him, I don’t think I would have been able to pull off the seminar successfully.

On my online blogging empire front, I’m very proud to have Khai and Alfred Ko as my partners. We have lots of fun together because not only do we work, we have fun playing board and card games as well. Another main advantage besides having fun working with different partners is the opportunity to leverage on each others’ strength and weaknesses.

At the end of the day, money is just the end result of it. The memories are made up of the journey attaining it. To be able to share it with someone else is even sweeter. We also cross motivate each other and keep each other in check so that we don’t start slacking. Sometimes, when working alone, we tend to give ourselves too many excuses, and start getting lazy.

In future, if other opportunities present themselves for me to work with someone else, I’d take it anytime.

Tagged with: alfred ko • khai • steven wong

My good friend, Gobala Krishnan, recently launched his own physical book aptly titled The New Millionaires.

I’m half way through the book, and I find it to be a refreshing read. His writing style is friendly, honest and conversational. Oh and did I mention that i was also featured in the book?

Yeah, he interviewed me some time back and the interview was transcribed and put into the book as well. It’s pretty short though as compared to some of the other interviews.

Basically I talked about the mindset, expectations, and the principles. In my humble opinion, the most important thing to deal with is the mind, because once you overcome that part of it, the technical aspect of it is not even a challenge at all.

Also, there are a couple of my other good buddies being featured in the book, such as Sunny Tan, Kidino, Vince Tan, Edmund Loh and Zamri Nanyan. I have also met Hafiz before and would love to meet with some of the other featured marketers there such as Liew CF whom I’ve chat on MSN before, and Donald, the dropshipping guru, whom I’ve heard a great deal about.

Having said that, good luck and grab your copy if you’re from Malaysia! It’s available at MPH.

Tagged with: edmund loh • gobala krishnan • kidino • liew cf • sunny tan • vince tan • zamri nanyan

If you’re looking for some free stuff, I would recommend that you check out Stephanie Mulac’s birthday giveway. It will be on this Sunday. In fact, her birthday is just a few days after mine.

Now, I first met Stephanie and her family last year when I was at the WIME in San Francisco.

(One for the album)

(Ain’t she just cute???)

Based on the short duration that I got to know them, I find them to be one of the most sincere and passionate marketing family I personally know. They sure have BIG hearts, so when Steph told me about her birthday giveway, I just had to blog about it.

Check out the freebies here now!

Tagged with: birthday giveaway • stephanie mulac

I was browsing through the bookshop today and going through one of my favorite magazines when my jaw dropped!

I saw an article about my good friend, buddy and business partner, Khai of AboutKhai.com He was featured in the lastest edition of Personal Money, on the write up of generating passive income.

And come to think of it, he had the cheek NOT to tell me earlier!!!

Nevertheless, I called him right away and congratulated him. Proud of you dude and keep it up!

Tagged with: khai • passive income • personal money

My friend Kidino is organizing a contest for the best Minisite Template Design. I’m pretty bad at template designs, so when Kidino told me about his latest pet project MinisiteGallery.com, I was excited about it because from now on, I know where to go to when I need any templates.

As an incentive to kickstart his site, he’s organizing a best template design contest. Check it out here:

http://www.minisitegallery.com/contest

Tagged with: design contest • kidino • minisite template