Who Am I ?

To anyone who know me for some time…I’m guessing they are laughing right now. Laughing at that photo.

“Is That The Mountain Tortoise / Blur Sotong (Cuttlefish) / Computer Nerd I Knew In Back In Secondary School?”

You see… I’m not exactly someone who often smiles or dress well. I’m not a guy who loves taking photos of myself. I’m not exactly photo-friendly either…in photos or in person. My eyebrows instinctively cave in into a frown…my arms cross each other the moment I’m standing still…my jaw hangs loose pulling my cheeks in and elongating my face.

The net result was I used to be mistaken as someone ten years older than I am.

Heck…there was once my sister’s friend mistook me as her father when we are standing side by side.

“Hi Uncle!”

That was a shocking and not-too-faltering comment.

That wasn’t the only “stab” I got. Years ago my friend took me to a hairdresser he frequented and recommended.

When he was done with me…I was frowning deeply. So deeply that the hairdresser and my friend thought I was boiling mad at what the former saying my sense of hair styling being so bad I looked like a nerdy clown from the 1980s.

The type of guy who wear big rimmed glasses and preps his hair just by pulling the comb from one side to the other, leaving his forehead high and exposed? I thought I only saw those type of old-fashioned guys in my father’s black and white photo album taken in the 1970s.

The hairdresser told me he was looking at one sitting in front of him right now, and I was staring hard at my self in the mirror digesting what the guy behind me just said.

But I wasn’t angry. It’s just that I never thought myself as one, until someone honestly told me his opinions.

That was when I decided to open up myself to the new world of…dressing well. I started becoming choosy in the clothes I buy…started browsing through fashion magazines once in a while…changed the way I do up my hair.

I’m going to make sure no one mistook me as my sister’s father again. Ever.

Sometimes it takes something nasty and pure honest comments to sting you hard in the back to realize something. And sometimes we realize certain important things earlier or later in life.

I realized very late that my appearance in front of others was simply PATHETIC. 21 years old…and I don’t know how to prep my hair properly.

But I was fortunate to realize something else which is as important, if not more important, than hair styling when I was 19 years old.

If that hairdresser is the critic that changed my hair style, Robert Kiyosaki will be the critic that changed my view of what my lifestyle should be like.

While I was serving my National Service in the Singapore Army, I chanced upon a little purple book titled “Rich Dad Poor Dad” in my section mate’s locker. Back then I have heard about that book and how popular it was.

Since he wasn’t reading it and we had no training for the following days…I borrowed the book from him.

What happened next was something I have never achieve before when it comes to reading books.

I tore through Rich Dad Poor Dad in 6 hours non-stop.

I’m not sure if it sounded fast for you…but I normally take up to a week to finish reading a single book, often reading 50 pages max in one sitting.

Robert Kiyosaki introduced me to the concept of passive income…and that working in a job for someone else probably isn’t going to allow me to do what I want.

It made me realized I won’t want to get up everyday at 6.30 in the morning, have a rushed breakfast only to squeeze myself with thousands of others in the trains going to work everyday.

It made me realized that I don’t want to work for 16 hours 7 days a week like a dog chained to a pole, and my mother was once forced to go through that torture…for 3 whole months. And she’s already well into her middle age.

It made me realized the importance of having cash work for you, and that you DON’T trade your time for money, for time is the MOST important resource anyone of us have right now. Once it’s gone…it’s gone.

Another book, 4-Hour WorkWeek by Timothy Ferriss, made me realize that I don’t want to waste my 20s and 30s being stuck in Singapore and missing out the fun and beauty other countries and cultures have to offer, like those I watched in Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

So…I started out by reading lots of generic business books trying to find my way around.

Eventually I wonder my way into internet marketing and MLM.

To be frank, I was initially very skeptical of MLM businesses due to personal experiences (that’s another story)…until I came across several experts. Now I’m a firm believer that MLM is one of the best ways for anyone to start a business.

Especially if they have been stuck in cubicles for most for their lives.

But still…if you have came across those ads with headlines such as “Internet Marketing Expert Earns $10,000 In A Single Day! Find Out How!”, I’ll be frank with you upfront.

If you are have no experience before…it will not happen. You don’t make $10,000 in 3 months. As Harvey Mackay states in his awesome book on networking…

“It takes years to become an overnight success.”

And if you’re motivated and brave enough to embark on your own personal learning journey to earn cash on the net, be prepared…

Your Poor Brain Will Be Mercilessly Jammed With So Much Info And Ads, You’ll Freeze Like A Lamb Blinded By Searchlights.

That’s what happened for me in the first 8 months or so when I started out. I downloaded all the free ebooks I can find on the net…and in the course of doing so subscribed to countless newsletters to gain access to those ebooks.

I printed out the good ones, read them and started implementing them. However normally after 1 week or so I will come across another enticing headline screaming “How To INSTANTLY Gain A Subscriber Base Of 10,000…” and then POOF! I’m off to reading the next ebook before I could fully implement whatever I learned in the previous ebook I was reading.

And I scanned each ebook thoroughly…Googling for more in depth information, like whether or not the position of the content on the website is going to affect search engine rankings. And eventually…I got lost.

I concentrated on technicalities instead of making sales, and got stuck in that pit hole for 8 whole months.

Not to mention I splashed almost US$8,000 attending seminars and purchasing eBooks before I finally decided to stop spinning my head with all those “free” information out there and settled down on a few home-study courses.

I can’t exactly explain why I got lost. Perhaps it’s just me. Since young I love reading pictorial books on machines and technology. You know all those cut-away diagrams showing the insides of tanks, jet aircraft and machine guns?

My writing mimicks the way professors explaining how to calculate Yield To Call price of a callable bond…

Don’t ask me what that is because I never understood that formula.

I’m trained for more than a decade to write for teachers to gain grades in school, not stirring up my customers’ emotions and getting them to whip out their credit cards in the marketplace.

I love the exact details of how things work, right down to the nuts and bolts…or down to the helium and deuterium atoms in a thermonuclear reaction.

Perhaps it can partly explain why my copywriting was initially disasterous and why I was paralyzed by all those information when I first started.

So…if you’re starting out, here’s a piece of advice from a lamb who managed to defrost from the paralyzed by over-analysis of analysis paralysis.

Find one, two or at most 3 home-study courses from real experts and stick with them for the next 6 months implementing what you learn from them. Granted…perhaps you can purchase one or two more ebooks to supplement whatever you think is missing but the trick is to tilt more towards sweating than sticking with the books.

Want to know the courses I’m have invested in and rely on? Visit my resources page here. You’re find a treasure trove there.

Starting out will always be a problem for anyone. For me it definitely was.

But that was years ago.

Coming back to the present…I have to say I’m very fortunate.

I’m fortunate that I came across Rich Dad Poor Dad and realized the importance of passive income at an early age, fortunate to realize that relying on my university degree and landing on a job may be equivalent to locking myself up in Guantanamo Bay.

(Not that I’m saying all jobs are bad, so are really exciting and challenging…but I’m too lazy and unmotivated to wake up to squeeze with thousands of others on the train in the morning and night for 5 days in a week.)

I’m fortunate to realize that too often the value of the tens of thousands of dollars invested into a university education does not land in the hands of the degree holder, but ultimately in the hands of corporations who employ university graduates. I myself, a university student, somehow think that the 5-figure sum invested in my university education may not benefit me but the company that’s going to hire me.

I’m just a conduit for the university to pass MY MONEY to corporations.

I’m fortunate to have parents who are supporting what I’m pursuing and giving me leeway to handle my university studies and my online business. I know of some friends whose parents who are so locked up in the mindset of the importance of “job security”, I think I must be one of the luckiest guy in the world to have parents willing to loan me thousands to pursue my own self-education and ventures.

I’m fortunate to have come across a MLM millionaire who spent 6 years in debt and living on ramen noodles before he made his first breakthrough. His teachings really changed the way I view myself and my MLM business, and I have already gotten results just by reading his newsletters. And yeah, I purchased 3 of his MLM courses and still constantly revising them.

And I’m fortunate to have a great upline who truly is one of the rare few who is a true team player and willing to spend quality time helping his downlines. Together we share a common mindset that building a MLM business is a team effort, we have to give value to our downlines to help them grow before we can be successful ourselves.

And through this great partnership we created a 45-Day training system which all our downlines can gain access to learn the core principles network marketing and internet marketing. Most importantly, our downlines can use this MLM training system to train their own downlines, leaving them time and resources to concentrate on implementation and getting results.

Network marketing is a people’s business…whether it is the retailing aspect or the recruiting aspect…and I consider myself fortunate to have a great team to learn relationship building and salesmanship with.

From the forums I have frequented & posted, from the people who approached me through my blog for help, from the network marketing courses I have purchased, this following statement is now fully drilled into my head.

You Can’t Build A MLM Business On Your Own,
And I’m Glad To Be In A Great Team Right Now.

The TEAM element is missing from most network marketing business out there, and it partly explains why 95% of network marketers, most of who are brave aspiring people trying to build a way towards a better life…

…fail miserably, and losing thousands and years. Some are scarred by the experience they abandon their dreams and went back to the way it was for them.

Which is truly a VERY sad outcome. I can’t imagine abandoning all the years I have spent into my freedom and quitting just because I can’t find the right guy to work with, or learn from.

So…as a small gesture to appreciate the great luxuries I had so far…

I’m using this blog to share the most important principles I had learned, the most effective traffic generation secrets I had gotten great results from.

Yeah…I know…there are lots of other sites out there providing great value to anyone trying to learn how to build a MLM business.

But I’m just trying to contribute a small token to this community. Whether it delivers value to you…I don’t really know, or rather really care. I just know back then while I was still a small kitten figuring out how those MLM tigers bring down buffalos, I needed true valuable information on how to do online prospecting.

Who are the real MLM top guns to learn from. Where can I find the best resources to build my business. When can I start to introduce my business opportunity to my prospect. How to write compelling copy to suck my prospects into my salesletter. And What it really takes.

So I figured that some brave souls out there are looking for information how to use MLM to improve their lives. There will always be such brave people like you, and I’m giving whatever I have that might help you to move forward faster.

I hate fluff and puff. So up-front right now I’m warning you that you’ll find only brutal, unadulterated honesty here.

So far I’m always lagging behind in conversations with my friends in school because I can’t see through the hidden meanings and the little subtleties. Some people in school find me boring to talk to because I don’t gossip and can’t catch up with all the rumours spreading around about who and who.

I’m a minimalist. I don’t like having towering spirals of cream on my cakes, nor enjoy adding tomato sauce on my chicken chops (they’re oily enough…).

So that’s what you’re likely to find here.

Dry. Boring. Unappealing content.

I hope you’ll like it.

Like the way I like having my beef satay pure, without the peanut sauce.

Now Back To The Hairdresser…

Upon reflection I’m so glad that I took upon my friend’s recommendation and had a haircut at that hairdresser.

I’m so glad he looked at me straight in the mirror and told me I looked like a clown from 1980s. I really appreciate his honest feedback…if not I would have still remain a walking fashion fossil.

30 years from now…if I sit in front of a hairdresser as a 50 year old man, I will be the one asking him or her.

“Hey hairdresser…how have you been spending the last 30 years of your life?”

“Well…Just cutting hair?”

“Hmm…wow you must a real specialist. I need your opinion…do I look like a 50 year old from the 1980s?”

“Nope. You still look like someone in your early 40s. You look rather tanned…you’re a construction worker?”

“Nope. I do HALO skydiving in the U.S, I dive alongside humpback whales in Australia, I race around Nürburgring in my Lamborghini in Germany, I test-fire .50 caliber sniper rifles in Britain, I help film documentaries for BBC in New Zealand, I practice Chinese herbal medicine in Beijing and Krav Maga in Israel.”

“Wah…where you get all the money and time to do that?”

“My MLM business. And several other businesses as well actually. But I got to say MLM helped me get started.”

“Ey…can you tell me more about your MLM business?”

Towards Your Success.

Kai Wei

OnlineMLMSystem.com