How My Internet Marketing Business Begin

This is the story of a high paid business man who hated his job to his guts and began the internet marketing business.

"The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life." – Buckminster Fuller

Yes, this is the story about me…about how I started my entrepreneurial journey.

If you remember, there was a dot com boom in the business world during the millennium time.

It was pretty like the current online technology boom, but much bigger, faster, and…unrealistic.

I was working in AT&T’s internet business unit in Hong Kong.

Shortly after I was on broad, the business unit got spin off and listed on NASDAQ with a new dot com name.

I was one of those fortunate people who ride that BIG technology wave and earn a lofty sum of money.

The income was so good that I took taxi to go to work everyday.

We had stock options. So we are the shareholders of a promising internet data center company listed on NASDAQ.

Most of the time, we are seating in the office pantry talking about when to cash out with millions and live our dream life.

One time, I was the sales person won a US$3 million datacenter service contract to get Sprint Telecom to sign up with our company.

I won a prize AND cash bonus in a sales contest.

But then….

The dot com bubble got bursted. We received a one-month notice to leave.

Actually, we expect that when the company filed a Chapter 11 several months ago.

After I packed myself, I entered another global telecom company which lay fiber optics under sea around the world to serve the traditional voice and data market.

Then the similar collapse happened in the telecom sector. The domino effort affected the telecom market triggered by the dot com industry.

The asia operation of that telecom company got down sized.

My quarterly sales commission was even withheld. And I needed to go through the labour tribunal to get my hard earn commission back.

It was brutal.

Anyone worked in that environment would feel the insecurity in the corporate world.

The old cliché "Get good grade at school. Then get a good job. Work hard then we can have a happy life." does not come true for most people in the 21st century.

I am one of those people who believed in that cliché created in the industrial age.

We worked our tail off for the company. But when the management headed the company to the wrong direction, people are laid off cruelly.

Our job survival are at the mercy of another person.

Even when the economy was good, we have to work overtime in the evening, weekend, and holiday.

We have to gossip to go along with the corporate culture…especially in the big company.

Yes, gossip is not just for fun. It is a survival skill.

Something was not right. It just seems something is missing.

The life is not fulfilling.

And if you read Rich Dad Poor Dad, you know the government and business corporations are pushing the retirement baggage to the individual by setting up the retirement pension plan.

It just a matter of when we have to be fully responsible for our own life.

We can make our conscious choice and be proactive about it today, or…

We can let other people to determine how we live. And we pick up the responsibility to make our life better if we can at where we got drop off

We have a choice.

So I picked the first one.

And that is how I started internet marketing business.

But there is a price always attached to any decision.

Follow that bold decision, I went through several different stages of evolution and breakthrough in my entrepreneurial journey.

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