My wife was telling me the other day that one of her friend is interested in setting up a website to start selling products and asked how to about registering her own domain name and the hosting services for hosting the website.

I told her to go to GoDaddy to register her domain and HostGator for the hosting services because I have been using these 2 services for the past 14 months and must admit that I am very satisfied with the services provided and the uptime in keeping the website available.

However, after some thinking, I feel that it is not just so simple of buying of your domain and the website hosting because there are much more things that you may need to know. I find it very simple because I have invested in thousands of dollars for a internet bootcamp and many more courses on internet marketing where I have learned a great deal and slowly from there, I started to hone my skills.

For anyone who is interested in signing up for basic internet skills’ course, my friend Roger Loh is organizing a Basic Internet Skills hands on workshop where he will cover all about marketing products on the internet for 2 full days.

If you are interested in marketing products online and wants to know how, register for Roger’s workshop. I assure you that you are paying way lesser than what I paid when I went for my internet marketing bootcamp but you will still be getting all the information and tools you need to start a marketing business online.

Hurry up and register now as the special offer price will be valid till 10th August!

Cheers!

Eugene Goh

During early this year, I have set up another blog using my company’s name as the website and was focusing on marketing and personal development in the other blog. In that blog, I was focusing on all sorts of marketing including internet marketing, network marketing and direct marketing and tools and materials that will help me in my personal development.

However, after some time, I discover that the amount of traffic going to that blog is not as frequent as I thought it would be, which then dawned on me that nobody will actually find the words Eureca Marketing even if that is my company.

Like what Jeffrey Combs says, could it be of a synchronistic event that it so happens I read of an article of someone who coined a phrase or strategy, market it extensively, resulting with a huge success and lots of people started copying and made a similar one. If, the original marketing strategy was focused on the name of the person or even the person who made it, could the end result be ending with lesser copies?

At the same time, Mike Filsaime has also been emphasizing the importance of sending the emails out from name and not on the idea or project that he or she is working on.

Since I have 2 synchronistic events that directly and indirectly focused on the building up of one’s name, I have decided to focus on just my name’s blog and more importantly, branding my own name.

I believe there are many Eugene Goh’s around the world but I think there will be just a very small percentage of people who are named Eugene Goh and focusing on marketing and home business.

On top of blogging on marketing and home business, I will still cover the usual things like my travel and attractions, personal development, family and fun and etc.

Keep a look out for more things coming your way and I can guarantee that you will benefit from my future postings.

Cheers!

Eugene Goh

In 6 days’ time, Beijing will be having their opening ceremony of the Olympics 2008 in China.

Almost everybody in China is proud of hosting the Olympics and I must admit that during travel to Beijing this year, the attitude of the local Pekinese is really good and everyone that you greet are so jovial and so polite, unlike Beijing a few years ago.

I still remember that I was in Thailand in 2002 when they announced that Beijing has won the host for 2008 Olympics and you can see the elation of the people that got the news over the news channel. Since then, lots of work has commenced and I heard a commentary previously saying that the Olympics have not started but the design of the construction that China is building for the Olympics could be awarded some great awards and set some world records.

I was departing from the new Beijing Airport Terminal 3 in early July and I am amazed at the sheer size of the airport. The new airport is huge with more than 60 gates and I understand that the old Terminal 1 will be fully dedicated to flights departing for other cities that is co-hosting the Olympics.

The picture shown is what you see upon clearing the immigration and security check, impressive isn’t it?

My brother and sister in law with their family, who are stationed in Shanghai, are back in Singapore for their summer vacation. Before coming to Singapore, my brother called and asked if it is all right for him to bring the Nitendo Wii to Singapore so that his kids can play when they are bored and of course, I said Yes.

I have always been enjoying playing console games until my endeavor into my part time business where I felt that playing games was a waste of time because it will not help me to achieve my goals sooner. Therefore, it has been more than a couple of years that I had actually sat down and enjoy playing games.

When the Nitendo Wii was fixed up on Sunday, I had my first share of playing together with my wife and I felt really relaxed. It was really a nice feeling and ever since then, I decided to set aside about half an hour each weekday to play the Nitendo Wii to relax a little.

Sometimes, you cannot help but to admit that every thing happens for a reason.

I was invited to attend a Success Permission Seminar preview by Dr. Sundardas 2 days ago and Dr. Sundardas was talking about Childhood Programming. One of the questions was “I am often described as a serious person and I have difficulty enjoying life” and my answer to that question was Yes.

The missing permission for this statement was “The Permission To Be A Child” and guess what, I seem to have my real life issues of being too tensed and too serious, having imbalance in my life of focusing too much on work and not relaxing enough that may be causing me not to achieve my goals in life sooner.

Everything in life has to be balanced!

Now that I know what I am missing and with just setting aside half an hour each weekday to play the Nitendo Wii, I know I am heading in the right direction of having a great balance in my life.

What about you? Are you working too much without play or are you playing too much without work? Either one is bad because that means you are not having a balance in your life and when that happens, the one that is overly deprived will one day sabotaged you!

Starting doing something now before it is too late.

All the best!

Eugene Goh

I was with my colleagues in China in end June and we were near the North Korea border during one of the trip. In my previous post, I had written that I had my first walk in Hunchun and Hunchun is the city that is nearest to North Korea in China.

On the Sunday when were about to leave Hunchun for Yanji to catch a flight to Changchun, we stopped by a place called the broken bridge and that is the closest where I got to North Korea. We could hear the radio playing Korean songs and with Korean commentary and surprisingly there was no border police on both ends but we did not dare to go near as we were fearful of getting shot.

I took a picture of North Korea from the Chinese border and that is the closest I would want to be near to North Korea because up till this point in time, North Korea is a mystery to me.