Again I'm submitting to the obsession that is called blogging!
I guess this time is bcos i have a just came home from the full-day internet marketing seminar with a splitting headache and just can't resist the urge to have a little rant!

I realise that there are many of these kinda talks and seminars going ard these days..
Perhaps its due to the fact that S'poreans are so kiasu n will jump at anything that either offers them the chance to "upgrade" or to make lots of money (in whichever order preferred)!!

These guys kept pitching to us, trying to get us to buy more of their programmes or courses, all day!!
I mean we already paid them abt S$500 to be there.. being promised that by the time we left, we would be somewhat competent with the methods of internet marketing (i guess it was silly to have believed them in the 1st place!) and able to start with some kind of an internet business..

Of cos they tried to entice everyone with their reports of personal earnings of about USD$10k per month in sales revenue over the internet..
All this without a real, tangible product..
Hmmm... Yet i guess many people bought into it.. As far as i can tell anyways..

Personally, I’m not particularly convinced by their sales figures (perhaps because of my training I’m overly cynical) as I think they’re easily fabricated and not subject to any verification. After all, if they were really making that much money they wouldn’t be so keen on getting us to sign up for all these programmes/courses and giving all these freebies to the point that they almost sound desperate! I think, like all these Option/Share Trading seminars/courses, the speakers are probably earning much more from the seminars/courses than they are from their actual trading!

I’m also rather sceptical when it comes to the affiliate marketing system. It sounds too close to MLMs for my comfort. If you really think about it, if everyone at the seminar today, or any other of their seminars for that matter, were to sign up and have these resale rights to their products (which was one of the things they offerred), wouldn’t all of us by competing against each other and completely flooding the market? On that point alone, I fail to see how we could possibly generate those kinds of revenue! Maybe someone could explain..

Anyways.. i think that's enough ranting for one day.. i still can't believe that i'm keeping a blog.. I guess only time will tell how long this lasts! ;)

irony or ironies.. Clement Ee owning a blog..
I've always maintained that i couldn't understand why people had them.. i still don't..
I've never had the discipline to keep a journal n would not even know how to begin to write one..
n it feels really wierd to write down my thoughts for someone else to read through.. hmm..

More ironic the fact that i chose "intellectual property rights' as the blog name..
bcos altho i undertook a Masters degree in it.. n supposedly specialised in it..
i neither practice it nor agree with its very existence!!

So why then am i finally creating this blog? How did i manage to get myself sucked into this strange ritual? well.. to be really honest (my godsis really hates the fact that i repeatedly use this phrase.. she says it gives people the impression that i'm not honest the rest of the time.. i think its merely semantics.. anyways.. i digress..) it was something i just learnt today as part of this course on internet marketing that i'm currently undertaking.. yes yes.. i did not know something as simple as setting up a blog.. then again.. in my defense.. i've never had the compulsion to.. n perhaps if i really wanted to before.. it would probably have been a relatively easy thing to have done..

of cos the real reason for doing this is, as i've said, to learn more abt internet marketing.. n perhaps.. if u stay tuned i mite be tempted to do some with this blog or perhaps even share some of the invaluable skills learnt.. ;)