I got an interesting comment about 2 weeks ago and I thought I’d share it with everyone.

Now before I do that and have some of you going that I shouldn’t be going around publicly sharing about what people write to me, let me set things up properly. All comments on this blog are public anyway, so it really doesn’t make a difference if I decide to put your comment as cover girl.

And if you want to reach me privately, you’d have to state that your ‘comment’ was meant for my eyes only. That’s touching. But I also reserve the right to share it if I want to, since this is my blog anyway. And we all love the drama don’t we?

Now with that tiny tirade over, let me post this comment by Michael Bolduc:

Is this a post from Adam Wong?
Do you mean to say that you only have $1126 cash, yet you drive a Mecedes? And, that you’re teaching others on Internet Marketing? That doesn’t make sense. You should make at least $10,000 a month before you teach others about Internet Marketing. Look at my website, and that’s a website that makes money. michaelbolduc.com (and Alexa doesn’t mean much exept that you have a lot of traffic). What matters most is that you’re making money. I have less than 1,000 visitors a month, yet I can earn up to $20,000 online in a single month as I have done in the past.

Wow. When I first read this, ‘I was thinking you is this idiot?’ because I felt that this guy was tad bit rude and also self-promotional. But anyway, Michael, please don’t take that to heart because it’s only my first impression after all.

So I went over to have a look at his website, not bad. I took a look at his Alexa ranking (since he mentioned it), not too good, so-so. And I went to Google his name. And I discovered he has a book selling on Amazon and so I just went to read some more.

Now if you’re as kay-poh (that means nosey, Michael) you might want to do all that as well. But anyway, after reading about him I discovered he placed a 2nd comment on my blog 5 minutes after the first:

It’s a great start! But I probably could help you TRIPLE this with the knowledge I have. I make on average $7-20k a month.

Wuuuu… very self-promotional. And he’s willing to help me. Interesting. There and then I wanted to hit my rebutt button and start trashing some words out but I didn’t have the time and so I’ve left till now to do the typing.

So I switched on my laptop tonight and I was ready to spill some acid but I discovered a 3rd comment on my blog by Michael:

Hi Adam,

You wrote:

“Interesting comment. I’m gonna blog about you… haha”

Sure. Please keep it positive. My comment wasn’t meant to
be posted live, but directly at you. It’s interesting
that you only have that much money - that’s all. (I sincerely
hope you grow that fast)

Of course that being said, “Everybody can teach us something.”
Certainly, as you start to make more money online your readers
will benefit from your advice.

Sincerely, Michael Bolduc

Awww man… just as I was about to be nasty, he sent a really nice comment. Which also meant that he’s actually coming back and taking the time to read my blog and my updates. And so what could I do? I mean here’s someone who’s a fan (I don’t care. Anyone who reads my blog automatically becomes my fan) and he’s taking the trouble to actually clear up any misunderstandings and wish me all the best in my online endeavours.

So here’s my reply to some of the questions you might have, Michael.

1. Yes I did only have $1126 in cash back then because as you will notice that blog post was made when I was just starting my journey in IM. So I really hadn’t made any profits yet. Of course this amount has gone up substantially since then.
2. Yes I drive a Mercedes but by no means did I say I own it. It belongs to my Mum (yes I’m a kid who lives with his parents), but the Merc doesn’t cost a bomb anyway. We got it for only S$16k (that’s US$10k). Not too shabby eh. And if any of you now start coming to ask me where to buy a Merc, please don’t.
3. I’m not teaching anyone how to do IM. This blog is about me having a place to air my thoughts as I go through what I go through learning how to make money online. I’m no guru nor do I claim to be one. Besides, if anyone really wanted to learn IM, they should really sign up for a good IM course and not read a blog and expect to be rich.
4. Alexa doesn’t mean much but it sure does beat having a good ranking than otherwise. More traffic would never hurt.

As for the part about you making $7K-$20k a month online, that’s great, I’m happy for you and I aim to be there soon as well.

Anyway Michael, I’m sure some of the readers of this blog may just be interested enough to visit your website or buy your book from Amazon. So thank me if your traffic does go up a wee bit ok?

And before I end this post, let me share one last comment from Michael:

Your book “Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires” is outstanding. The first day of implementing what you teach I had already started earning more money in my business per hour by using your formula: Income = Value X Time X Scalability. You communicate the strategy with absolute clarity. People are losing money if they don’t own this book. I hope to meet you some day. I visited Singapore last week, and visited your office. Your’re very impressive Adam - we have a lot in common. All the best, Michael Bolduc

That was a comment placed on Adam Khoo’s blog and you’re fawning all over him, Michael. Maybe I’d get some when I’m worth a million or two as well.

Out.

Hey man,

If you’ve been waiting for a new post, I’m sorry but I’ve been really busy with something (don’t I always use this line?). Anyway, the thing I’ve been really really busy with is that I’m revamping the copy of Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires.

Yup. I felt that the conversions on the sales page could be improved, so I’ve been really knocking my brains out just to make the message more compelling. It’s almost done soon (not yet) so once I’ve finished the updated copy, I’ll upload both the old and new copy and open it up to your comments and scrutiny.

No comment will be spared! Gimme all your feedback, good or bad, bouquets or brickbats.

And that’s where the contest is gonna come in. I’m gonna post the news about the change in salescopy for SSMM on either mine or Adam’s blog and we’re gonna invite comments on the copywriting like I mentioned above.

Because we want you to join in the analytical fun of praising or trashing my copywriting, we’re gonna give away a prize for the most helpful, informative, critical, slapbangjeewhiz comment that appears. You get the picture. So the best comment wins a prize.

And the prize is… well I’m not gonna reveal now because I want to have the A-OK from Adam first before I mention anything that’s gonna be given out for free. (it’s not CASH, if you’re wondering. So stop dreaming. Slap! Slap!)

UPDATE: We’re giving away the entire copy of SSMM to two winners. So if you’ve always wanted to get your grubby little hands on it but were too cheapskate to buy, here’s your chance to grab it. Really, all my blog readers should have got SSMM by now. anyway…

So look out for that pretty soon and we hope to see you participating in the contest. And of course it’s free to join. you can place as many comments as you want.

And just to end this post, here’s an email I just received 5 minutes ago about SSMM:

Hi Adam,

I’m Alex from Jakarta. I have just finished reading your book Secrets to a Self Made Millionaire and let me say to you that it has been THE most enlightening book I have read in my entire 25years - I have re-read your book 10times and I still cant get enough of it!

I have read Rich Dad Poor Dad a few years back & I have started accumulating positive cashflow generating assets since then, but your book makes Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad (and his subsequent books) look like a read for primary school students - Kiyosaki was so rudimentary when compared to your book.

Wow! The MOST enlightening book in his last 25 years! What a great testimonial for SSMM. But I probably can’t use it on the salescopy because of the references to Kiyosaki. So I decided to post it here on a more ‘private’ blog.

Out.

Take a look at the video we created for the new project I’m doing.

Our mission is to touch one million lives with the gift of gratitude. Big goal = big results.

Here’s the team I’ve been working with on this project:

They’re Ken, Wendy and Greg. ummm… respectively. The world map you see is dotted with My Gratitude Rock flags. Every flag represents one My Gratitude Rock we’ve sent to the leader in that country. Yes.. we’ve sent George Bush a rock as well.

It’s our intention to spread gratitude through people who have the most influence, so our world leaders are foremost in mind. We’ve sent 77 sets of MGR along with an individual letter and some of the bigger names we’ve sent to include George Bush, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, John Howard, Hu Jingtao, Shinzo Abe, etc, and of course our own PM Lee as well.

Lets see what type of storm we can cook up!

Visit www.MyGratitudeRock.com to find out more…

That’s right. $2.95. No typo.

This is the program I used to make US$17,462 in only 28 days of internet sales. You know in my previous blog post I shared about how I approached Adam (Khoo) to joint venture online and he basically threw this course binder� (yes, you’ll get a physical product) into my hands and said ‘Go read this.’

Which I did. I applied the techniques I learnt inside to Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires and that’s how my 5-digit income came about. True story and if you’ve been following this blog, you know it is.

Anyway the $2.95 deal is limited to only 250 copies.� (of course lah.. who’s gonna offer it at that price for long?).

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Hey folks! I know it’s been a bit since I wrote something, so I won’t give any sorry excuses this time. I’m late (and it’s not because the aliens got me).

Ok! With that lousy confession, let’s move on. The reason I’ve been away and abit busy at the moment is because of this - Gratitude.

Ha?

Yes, I’ve been busy being grateful. Grateful that we live in a decent country with lotsa trees, grateful that I can find food anytime of the night, grateful that I have my two hands and feet, grateful that I get to go to school. You get the picture. I was busy being grateful.

You see so many of us are just caught up in this daily swirl of work work work! And the worst bit is sometimes we don’t even know what for. So we neglect the blessings and the people we love all too often.

Hands up! Who’s guilty? I am. I’m a typical guy who grunts and sleeps whenever I get home. I don’t take the time to appreciate the goodness that I have in my home until now.

You see I’ve working with a great bunch of people over the last 2-3 months on a really special project. It’s special because when we got together to do it, we said we didn’t care if we didn’t make a single cent from it as long as we add value to Planet Earth.

Now obviously we didn’t plan for that to happen and we do want to make it successful but our vision holds true. Which is our focus is on spreading the message of gratitude.

Ok so what in the bejesus am I talking about? Here’s my new project:

It’s called My Gratitude Rock.

As you can see it’s pretty spiffy because we had a team of professionals come up with the graphics and stuff. Well, at least I think it’s spiffy.

But anyway, when you visit www.MyGratitudeRock.com you’ll see this page. Scroll a little downwards and you’ll see a button that says ‘View Presentation’. Click on that and a short presentation about gratitude will follow.

Now if you’ve been to The Interview With God, you’d be familiar with what we’re doing over here at MGR. So after you view the snazzy presentation, you go in to the website proper and heck go explore with what we have to offer.

If you’ve ever watched the movie ‘The Secret’, you’d know what a Gratitude Rock is all about. But if you don’t you can always go find out on MGR.

Anyway, we all know how wildly successful Interview With God was, so let’s see how far My Gratitude Rock goes. Next time I’ll share with you the entire slipbangboom process of setting this whole thing up. Lots of drama! I tell you! But I’ll keep it sanitized (don’t worry partners.. haha)

Anyway, the reason I created this blog was to share my experience of doing stuff online with fellow beginners. And I’d say I was a beginner all over doing MGR.

So hop on down to My Gratitude Rock, have a look at the presentation and let me know what you think. Good comments or� nasty jibes, place your comment here or not. I’ll leave it to you.. haha

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Out.

Holy Cow!

I’ve just been abducted by aliens and instead of probing me anally like they do with less intelligent homo sapiens, they broke some privacy laws, snooped around� and discovered that I have a Mensa certificate stating that I have a genius IQ.

So they� decided to blast me with their special� guinea pig brain-pulp lasers, reserved only for enhanced cranium specimens (like me)� and now I know how to write in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and even the language I failed in, Chinese!

Omigod! Thank the little green men from Mars!

Don’t believe me? Have a look:

You notice that this is one of the sites I’ve set with Adam. Looking at it now it’s obviously in English. But take a look at all the tiny flags you see on top. wuuuuuuu… very pretty too!

You see I actually took the time to translate the entire website into 9 other foreign langauges. Really! Trust me, I was the one that did it. So if we click on the tricolore and…

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oooh ahhhh! We get french all over. And we all know anything sounds good in french. Click on the Germans and now we get teutonic excellence oozing out� all over the pages.

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muahhaha! This multi-linguistic power the aliens have blessed me with is really fun! Japanese!

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Spanish!

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Even Arabic…

Arabic� goes from right to left. That’s why it’s all skewed that way.�

If you noticed, even the adsense ads are in the respective foreign languages.

This is super super� cool.

Now obviously you wouldn’t think for one second that aliens really fried my brain and turned me into a walking United Nations would you? (but if you did, cool…)

All I did was paste a bit of code into just one page if my website and viola! Now my website has 9 foreign languages (and english) built into it!

Which means that now my website is also relevant and readable to the millions of people who surf the internet in foreign languages.� And the number of non-english speaking people who log on to the world wide web is growing every single day (think China). Also the� content and the number of pages on my website has multiplied by another nine times, which is brilliant for SEO, traffic and links.

And you know what? It only took me 5 minutes to get this whole thing up and running. It is so simple and straightforward, you won’t believe it. And the translation’s pretty good too.

I tell you, software today is sooooo advanced. They can translate words into another language in the right context at the snap of your fingers. Bloody amazing…

I’m telling you, if you have a website that needs this sort of thing, you got to get this brilliant work of computing engineering. It’s fantastic! This is really a no-brainer… You’ve got to get this.

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woooooooo!