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Meet Me at Asia Speaker Summit in Singapore!

Colin Fu — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:26:00 +0000

I was watching a movie earlier on TV. It is
entitled "Asteroid: The Sky is Falling..."

It is about an asteroid hitting the earth
while nobody in the world can do anything
to save the world after the American government
plan fail to destroy the Asteroid!

Despite the film violating almost every physical
law, I like about the film on two aspects.

1) The main character, Dr. Lily McKee starring
Annabella Sciorra had always wanted to follow
his dad footstep to become a medical doctor, but
ended up becoming an Astronomer. When she failed
to destroy a plummeting asteroid menaces the earth,
she was encouraged by her dad saying...
"Being a medical doctor, I save lives, but today
you have saved more lives than anybody else on earth!"

It suddenly striked me that you do not need to
be a medical doctor to save lives!

Since little my dad wanted me to become a medical
doctor for that reason, but I ended up becoming
an engineering doctor. The "worst" thing is
I turned out be a marketer selling information
online!

However, I know I save lives too. I have consulting
clients whom I help to increase their bottom line
results. To me, their businesses are like my businesses.
As I know if they fail, there maybe serious consequence
to their family like divorce, committing suicide and
stuff like that.

Thus, I want to ask you, being a marketer yourself, do
you save lives? Yes, you do, and in fact you can save
a lot of lives, but just not in the same way as the medical
doctors!

2) Another main character in the movie, Jack Wallach
starring Michael Biehn approached a female doctor who
was frustrated that she could not help as many people
as she wanted to. Jack said to her, "You cannot help
everybody, but you can try your best to help one person
at a time!"

Is that not the same for us as a marketer? There are
so many things we could do to improve our marketing
strategies and businesses, and I bet you could do
a million things now to make yourself and your clients
money, but it is important to know that we should try
our best to take things a step at a time! As long as you
can profit from one of your actions today, you will be
able to take another step tomorrow.

Yes, you are absolutely right that we all have our
social responsibilities!

It is the same for me, if I can help you in any way I would.

I was invited to speak at Asia Speaker Summit 2007 sharing the
stage with some of the most dynamic business speakers around the
world. Check it out at (not affiliate link) -
http://www.ColinFu.com/apss.html

If you are in Singapore during that period, by all means come
and say hello. I would love to meet you.

A week after that, I was invited as a distinguished guest to attend the
National Achiever Congress featuring Mark Victor Hansen, T Have Eker,
Stephen Pierce, Roger Hamilton, Jerry Clark et al. They will be told
about me! Wow!

Again, if you are around, please do get in touch.

Check out the details here (not affiliate link -
nothing to sell) -
National Achiever Congress
http://www.ColinFu.com/nac.html

During the time I am in Singapore, I will also be
rubbing shoulders with some of the top marketers.

Thus, what would be one single question that you would
want me to ask and ...
If your question was picked by me, I will pay you $50!
I will also record it specially for you.

Please do reply to this message with the most burning
question that you want me to ask. Do it now!

Colin Fu

ps: If you really want to find out how you can impact the world postively -
go and grab yourself a copy of Google Secret at
Google Secret

Empowering Others To Achieve Dreams

Colin Fu — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:02:00 +0000

Talk about how one can help others by setting up a charity

read more | digg story

Colin

Colin Fu — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:42:00 +0000

Hoooray! Today is so sunny!

Maybe I shall take today off and go and enjoy
teh sun?

Maybe Mr. President is right after all that Global
Warming is not that bad? (huh?!?!)

Colin Fu

This Makes You Smile!

Colin Fu — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:28:00 +0000

Spoof of Aleksey Vayner's "Impossible is Nothing" video resume, as featured on MSNBC, bound to give a few good laughs...!

Credits: Michelle Renee Coudon and Alexander Paul Morris

Surfing Directory?!

Colin Fu — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:51:00 +0000

The first step for me when building a good directory site is to make sure the directory is SEO friendly. This will attract a lot of clients wanting to be on your directory sites. Thus, you will never get worried that there is not enough clients. I am not going to discuss how I built my directory because it took efforts to sort it out. However, please refer to this site. It is awesome, and you can include some adsense ads as well.

It is vital that you include adsense on your site, because that is a way for you to moneytise the site! :)

Multiple Site Building for Google Adsense Revenue - Part 1

Colin Fu — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:43:00 +0000

If you are the webmaster of your own site you should consider building more. It simply makes sense to have more than one website, provided you are making money on the first. There are many ways to earn money with your own website, Google Adsense being one of them. With that affiliation alone, on all of you websites, traffic will increase and so will your income. Many sites + many pages + many pages indexed by Google = Money

As there are quite a lot to cover, I am going to divide this article into three parts and I am going to share with you about creating multiple quality sites fast in Part 1 of this article.

One of the most commonly asked questions when talking about creating multiple sites is

"How can I manage more than one site?"

Due to the advancement of software technology, this can be achieved easily. One would use a tool called ‘site builder'. Site Builder is basically a website editing tool. It is just like the Microsoft Words. The only difference is that Microsoft Words is used to edit documents while site builder is used to create websites. Examples of site builders are like DreamWeaver, Microsoft FrontPage and so on.

One of the pitfalls of site builders is cost. For example DreamWeaver costs at least $300. In addition, site-builder software can be overwhelming too if you are unfamiliar with them. Although they are ‘what you see is what you get" software, you still need to know a bit of html coding. Due to this, many people actually hire other people to put websites together for them. That might be alright for the ‘big guy' corporations that can truly afford that type of service, which can get expensive as specialists will charge a great deal. For the ‘small guy' business, however, a more practical tool that fits a tighter budget is appropriate.

Many websites like homestead.com, yahoo.com, web.com, build-a-business-website.com, and many more offer low monthly fees for building your own websites. Shop around and find one that fits your budget and start building. These websites offer tools that are extremely user friendly, and you have some flexibility to personalize your pages and add Google Adsense. The only disadvantage is that you are provided with templates which other people maybe using too. If that is not an issue for you, then, by all means for their services unless you want the hassle of playing with DreamWeaver or FrontPage.

Another tool to use is Page Generation software. What is page Generation software? It is basically a tool that creates multiple pages for your website(s) with just a click of a button. It is called by Google "One Click Button Publishing" system. When such tool was first released, it was a good news for a lot of people. With such tool, one can easily build multiple sites with thousands of pages within a few minutes and have them indexed by Google within a few hours! However, as the tool was so easy to use, the spammers saw the golden opportunity and started to spam the web with the tool. The infamous one was the Traffic Equalizer software which scraps the search engine results left right and center!

Due to the serious abuse of such a tool, Google in the end banned almost all the sites that were created using Traffic Equalizer software.

However, that does not mean all such tools are bad. There are some good ones out there transform your private label articles or resell-right ebooks into valuable informational websites for visitors. These are not scraped results from the search engines. One coming to mind is Website Article Wizard, which can be found at http://www.websitearticleswizard.com.

This is a tool that transforms whatever articles, which you own the rights to publish, into good looking websites. You could embed your affiliate links like Amazon's into each of the articles. If your visitors find the articles interesting and want to find out more, they will click the link leading them to any related book that one can buy from Amazon. You make the commission, when the book is finally purchased!

I have given you some idea on how to quickly build multiple quality sites fast, and I am going to share with you about writing contents for your site in Part 2.

Colin Fu is a Chartered engineer turned an Entrepreneur. He used to work for Intel Corporation as their technical consultant, and now he occasionally provides consultation to both Sony and British Telecom. His main purpose in life is to help others realize their dreams. Colin’s personal site is at http://www.ColinFu.com.

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Internet - Choosing Keywords Correctly

Colin Fu — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:31:00 +0000

By now you have likely heard that keywords and keyword phrases, are extremely important in having search engines display your website. So how do you choose them' Guess' Ask a friend' Check successful competitors sites' There is a better way!

First let's digress. There are a lot of things that affect your ranking in search engines and ultimately how many sales you make from you website. The quality of the (and amount of)content on your site, how many links point to your site, what keywords are used, how they are used, even the age of your site can play a factor. Large companies spend thousands on getting their companies to the top of the rankings and keeping them there. If you're a small company trying to compete with these large budgets, you are likely to come up short.

Read More by clicking Keyword Tools

Have you 'read' others' whinge?

Colin Fu — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:22:00 +0000

I have been onto WhigeIt.com site reading others' whinge. It was hillarious. Some of them are so petty and so true. Reading others whinge, make you realise that you are not alone, and sometimes, it even make you see life from a different angle!

Life is so short. Why do we spend so much times worrying about things happened in the past and things that you think are going to happen in the future?

Yes, I agree that we all need to whinge in certain extend. Fair enough, some people does not like to use the term "whinge", but whatever term you use, it means to let things off your chest. I think it will make you a happier person.

No worry, if nobody wants to listen to you, then go to WhingeIt.com.

A Meaningful Life

Colin Fu — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:16:00 +0000

wowoow!!! January is coming to an end now! Do you realise that if we do not try to make use of every single second now, 2007 is going to be here sooner than we think, and then when we look back in 2006, we would set the same goals again as what we are trying to do now for the whole new 2006! :)

To me goal setting is a very 'logical' process; you have to do this; you have to do that. It is not surprising that sometimes we cannot achieve the goals that we set because those goals are not really what we want to achieve in life. They are not connected to our life purpose!

Whenver I set goals, the first question that I ask myself is whether those goals are really connected to my life purpose. I want to make goal setting more on the emotional level rather than the logical level.

However, I did not use to do that. When times passed by, I learnt how to set goals and achieve them.

As far as goal setting is concerned, I had been through three stages...

In the far far away memory, I used to be somebody who wondered around the earth not knowing what I wanted to do. I did whatever I saw fit. When people drank I drank. When people smoked I smoked. When people slept I slept! They didn't even need to ask me! I lived an aimless life. A life that was totally wasted.

Then, I started to do what others told me to do. I always agreed with what others thought was good for me. At least that was better than living without any purpose right? You may think. Maybe, but I was not happy though. I did not have a sense of fulfilment. I completed what was required of me to a high standard. I lived in the lives of others. What I cared the most was about what the society would think about me; what my freinds and family would think about me. As time went by, I lost my identity. The identity that I was given when I was born to be. I forgot what I was here for.

Then, I came to realise that I could no longer live the way I lived. I did not want others' mentality to be my reality. Thus, now, I take others mentality merely as opinion and advice.

Those advice maybe good for me or maybe not. I am so focused that I shut out all the noises that come in between me and my dream. I try to live each day to the fullest, as if tommorrow is going to be my last. Yes it may be uncomfortable in the beginning, because suddenly I feel that I have to be always on the guard, just in case I fall in the trap of living for others again.

Everything becomes so goal orientated. However, when I get used to it, and I look back the day at the end of each day, I feel a sense of fulfilment. I have achieved something. All these will lead to the final destination of what I was born for.

I truly appreciate that each of us is unique in our own way. We have the life journey to walk. All these journeys are different, and you are the only judge to know which journey you should walk on.

Keep walking!

It is ok to Whinge Now!

Colin Fu — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:20:00 +0000

Why 'whinging' is viewed as bad, in general?

Do you know that this world is so full of "Personal Development"
until you can't even 'complain' to your friends when you feel like it or even worse when you really need to!

I am for sure not encouraging others to whinge just for the sake of whinging, but there are times that you do need to let things off your chest; you need to talk to somebody who cares enough to listen... etc...

If you want a place to whinge, there is somewhere you can do it now...at WhingeIt.com

It is a hillarious site... you can whinge about anything everything
on earth...

if you dream enough...

Colin Fu — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:34:00 +0000

When I was little, my mom always told me this - if you dreamed enough of Mickey Mouse, and Donald Duck and the likes, I would be able to go to the Disney land. I believed her so much that I started seeing Mickey and Donald in my dream every single night. It was beautiful. I even dreamed that I became the Prince for Cinderella one day... :P

Ok, I never did go to the Disney, but surprisingly, after a week of dreaming, my aunt gave me a Micky Mouse doll. A school friend of mine gave me her Donald Duck doll. I never did ask them for those dolls. 'Spooky' eh?

...and yes, you can figure that out, I am still not the Prince for Cinderella yet, ... and I am not sure I will ever be one... :P

Let's say, if I did beg my parents hard enough to take me to the Disney land, do you think my dream would have come true? If I had done my best to seek out the Cinderella then, do you think I would finally become a Prince?

Those are no longer my dreams anymore. Now, as I am fortunate enough to be on the earth, I just want to fulfill my life purpose to walk my journey.

Do you think that particular dream of mine will come true, if I dream enough and actually do everything I can to pursue it?

Is it too late?

Colin Fu — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:59:00 +0000

I was speaking to my Professor in the University (Warwick University). A very intellectual and kind gentleman - Professor John Flower. He is coming to 70 now I think, but he is still very active in giving his service to the university.

I remembered when he took me on as his research student, he was just stepping down as the Head of the Department. I was quite honoured actually to have him. I do miss him. Without him, I can honestly say that I would not be who I am today.

The reason about this rambling is that I felt emotional when John said to me over the phone
"Colin, I feel like I have very limited time now to do what I want to do. I wish I can see the opportunities before so that I can help more people"

I didn't believe it initially as it comes from somebody who, to me, has achieved a lot for himself and given a lot to others.

This conversation confirms further my appreciation of "Live your life to the full as it is too short to be wasted... It is time now to get up everyday and do the things that you are destined to do rather spending times on something that you are not meant to be doing as nobody knows when life is going to end!"

Do You Talk to Strangers?

Colin Fu — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:52:00 +0000

"Talking to Strangers" may sound weird to a lot of people, but do you know by doing that you may make a positive impact on somebody's else life?

On my way back today from Hertfordshire. I met a girl on the train. Got talking to her. She told me that her goal in life is to become a Top Horse Trainer/Rider. During the conversation, I gathered that she is very knowledgeable about horses. To be honest, I think she can write an encyclopedia about anything on horses! Now, a way to become an expert is to write articles. All the experts do that. Thus, I suggested to her to write a few articles and books on horses. She never knew she could do that, and now she is all motivated. She, her name is Stacy, BTW, became alive when she talked about horses, and she is waking up everyday looking forward to her day, as she works as a horse trainer. That is what I call living your life - doing something that you love to do!

On the platform - Liverpool Street Station, I was standing next to a 20+ man. He was reading a book on "How to Write a Winning CV".

I asked him, " What sorts of jobs are looking for?". He said "I am looking for something similar to what I am doing now. I do not like my work place. My boss is not a nice person. People in the office are very political". I asked him again, " Are you going to find a job that there is no politics, and maybe working for a good boss?" Guess what his answer was? "Oh well, it is like gambling, isn't it? You don't try, you don't know."

In my head I said to myself "Bingo!". Then I asked him again, "Have you thought of running your own business while you are still in this job?" Now, guess again what did he say? "I don't think I can do that though I love to work for myself." I said to him, using his language "Isn't that like gambling too? You never try you never know. Since either way is like gambling, why don't you gamble on something that would help you get to where you want to go instead of gamble on something that would lead you away from your dream?" He looked at me into the eyes..."ggeeee I never thought of that!" He continued, "Can I talk to you again?" I said "Sure, give me a ring anytime"

Now, tell me this? Why we human keeps repeating something that we do not want? Will it get us a different result? Why? Because of fear? Or because of comfort? Sometimes people said to me that life is a constant grind from sun up until sun down. Is that yours too?

However, we have a choice to change that! We just need to make a conscious decision ourselves, and follow through the decision that we make. I am not saying life would be easier after that! No... it may be even harder. To me, I feel more fulfilling doing something that I love doing. Life is too short to be wasted.

Then later on, I spoke to another 30+ lady at the later part of my journey. I just asked her a simple question " How was your day?" "Thanks goodness, it is Friday!", she said. Now, you and me would know immediately that her working hours are definitely not her favourites! I am not going into details about our conversations. Basically I asked her questions again to let her go for her dream. Before we part, she asked me what do I do. I said to her that I help people discover by themselves what their life purposes are. She asked for my number too.

Don't you think we would live a more fulfilling life, if we live with a purpose? A purpose that is only applicable to you. Everybody is here for a reason. I can guarantee that yours is different from mine.

I feel satisfied, because I know at the end of the day, I have made a positive shift in helping them thinking about their life goals. That is what I am here for...

So when is the last time you talked to the strangers to help them discover their life purposes? Have you discovered yours?

How long do you have?

Colin Fu — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:18:00 +0000

You wake up. You go to work. You finish work. You find a bit of evening entertainment. You go to bed. You wake up. You go to work...

Is that your life style at the moment? Is that what you truly enjoy? Is that what you were born for? Is that your true gift?

I just heard that a great Internet Marketer Corey Rudl passed away at the age of 34 in June this year... That was a blow for me. For those who are not familiar with Internet marketing, Corey was a very very successful online entrepreneur. He started his business from his kitchen table just a few short years ago selling a homemade booklet he had written on how to get the best deal on a new car. From that modest start Corey built an internet marketing empire that has generated $40 million dollars in revenue in just a few years.. But he died in a car crash in June this year...

Once again I am reminded of my own mortality... It crosses my mind that we all only live once, and nobody knows what is happening in the next minute. Reading the story of Corey, some of us may say what is the point to be so successful as we all face the same destiny anyway - death. Some of us may say life is short, we better live it to the full.

I am not a passive person. My ideology in life is to go for my dream. The death of Corey made me even more aware that the time is ticking away. There are only two choices for me - to live each day like the last day or to waste each day like I have 100 more years to live. If you were me what would you choose?

Would you want to live a life that when you look back at the very last minute, you know you have done something good to the mankind even though just that tiny amount or the opposite?

I truly believe that we don't come to the earth for no reason. We were made human for a purpose by the Lord. Yours is different from mine.

Are you content with a life that is so wasted that you would be able to tell the Father proudly that you have lived to glorify Him when you see Him?

Maybe you would, but certainly not me. I am fearful to live a useless life. I am fearful to live a life that somebody else wants me to live. I am fearful to live a life that is so conforming to the rules of our culture that I bury my own dream. I am fearful to live a life that does not let me unleash the power within that is given to me by the glory of God...

To me there is only One Life One Journey. You either walk the journey or stay still...

"...I lost again..."

Colin Fu — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:33:00 +0000

Last evening, I went to the Toastmaster Humorous Speech Competition to watch all the humorous speakers trying to outwit each others.

Undoubtedly, there were some excellent speakers. Their delivery, humors, facial expressions and so on are as good as Jack Dee's if not better! The difference is Jack is a comedian, while those contestants are speakers.

Personally, I know this veteran speaker for a few years now. He is a very respected figure in the industry. Claiming the crown of Champion has always been his dream which it is the ultimate goal for all the contestants, I am sure. When the results were announced, I saw a glimpse of disappointment on his face as he was not placed. I knew he was saying to himself "Oh dear, I lost again!"

Watching his performance, you can tell tremendous effort has been put into it. Speaking to him, he could tell you exactly how many words he was going to deliver and he did. That is what I call precision! However, it just was not his evening!

Have you been through that? You tried your very best to do something - be it preparing for examination, attending job interview, working hard for your boss, making your relationship work etc... But the end results go against you? No matter how hard you tried; no matter how confident you were; no matter how much positive thinking you engraved in your mind and soul; no matter how determined you were; you just fell flat on your face. Can you see yourself now when you were once in the situation or numerous situations like that? Can you feel what you felt then? Was it hurtful? Disappointing? What was the voice inside you telling you then? Can you listen to it again now?

I had been through these countless of times. There was once that the situation was so so bad that I wanted to end my life - that was about 9 or 10 years ago. Thanks Lord, He stopped me from doing that. After that, do you think I am spared from all the adversity? Yeah Right!

During all these ups and downs, I learn one valuable lesson - we are all flesh. We bounce to go through down times, and it is OK to have a bad moment. It is OK to have a bad day or even a bad week.

Everybody has a down moment. The question is how strong you are to pick yourself up; How determined you are to fight against the odd to go after your dream. You may fall again ... before reaping your success.

Everybody is at least once a loser in their life time. I can guarantee you that. May I urge you though, be a loser who continues to fight; be a loser who takes heart of what you believe in; be a loser who will never ever give in; be a loser who is determined to rise to excellence!

...Got Right to be Wrong...Joss Stone

Colin Fu — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:27:00 +0000

Somebody is playing Joss Stone's "Right To Be Wrong"...

Hey, don't you think it is so true that

"I've got a right to be wrong,
My mistakes will make me strong,
I'm stepping out into the great unknown,
I'm feeling wings though I 've never flown,
I've got a mind of my own,
I'm flesh and blood to the bone,
I'm not made of stone,
Got a right to be wrong,
So just leave me alone

I've got a right to be wrong,
I've been held down too long,
I've got to break free,
So I can finally breathe,
I've got a right to be wrong,
Got to sing my own song,
I might be singing out of key,
But it sure feels good to me,
Got a right to be wrong,
So just leave me alone...

You're entitled to your opinion,
But it's really my decision,
I can't turn back I'm on a mission
If you care don't you dare blur my vision
Let me be all that I can be
Don't smother me with negativity
Whatever's out there waiting for me
I'm going to face it willingly...

It is too long to type...just realised that Blogger disables the "Copy and Paste"
function!!!

Anyway...isn't it better to be wrong than not to take any action at all?

The Winners' Mindset

Colin Fu — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:20:00 +0000

Have you come across anybody who is an expert in finding all sorts of excuses when things do not work out? Everything and everybody is at fault except they themselves?

Accountability is one of the very important attribute that you must possess if you want to be a winner in life.

Man... I remember, I used to keep blaming my circumstances for everything. If I did not want to do anything, I would just come up with excuses like "Somebody must have done that already; nah, it is too risky; nah...I am not sure if I can do that..." Because of all these baseless excuses, I had wasted my life in the past...

You may say that it is what others always tell you when you want to do something new...

ha! You think you are alone? No. Even, Henry Ford faced the issue. Look at the life of Christ. How many times, the Satan tried to tempt Him away from His mission? He never swayed because He knew what His end Goal is!

Sometimes, I feel that the world is a lot like making it through a jungle. It's going to be tough at times.

People may laugh at you.
People may tell you you're crazy.
People may tell you you'll never be successful with it.
People are going to turn you down and at times it's going to hurt your feelings.

Those people are the naysayers in the jungle that will try to pull you down. The people who will try and stop you from completing your journey and will try to keep you from achieving your freedom that lies on the other side. These people may not do it purposely. It is just the way we all were brought up!

To make it through, you have to start to take resposibility of your own life. Find out what really excite you. What is the thing that you would love doing day-un and day-out the moment you wake up if nothing is a barrier.

When you find your passion, you need to keep your head up - you need to be focused on your goal and you need to have your sights so laser focused on what you want that nothing will get in your way. You have to become a RHINO! You have to be so tough that nothing is going to stop you!

Then here comes a day ... Bing Go - you are there - the journey may be tedious, but you know you will get there eventually.

That is the Winners' mindset!

Life and The Journey

Colin Fu — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:41:00 +0000

Each of us has only one life - yes, we all just live once, and to me, there is only one journey. It is upto us to make the journey which ever way we want. We can live a fulfilling and inspiring life or we can live a life that we ourselves are not happy about...but we are too fearful to change it.

Ironically, there are times that people who love us would actually encourage us to stay the 'same' for whatever reasons. One of the very common ones is that they are scared of 'losing us' as we become somebody whom they are no longer familiar with.

It does not matter whether one is Athiest or not, each of us is given 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 52 weeks a year. We are all created equal. That does not mean that our final destiny will be the same too.

It is really upto us to make our lives work for us.

I am always puzzled about a saying -" in order to be spiritually rich, one has to be materially poor". hmmm...