Jan’s blogs about life

Web sites are quite useful tools to help out in your work. Making one shouldn’t be too difficult. For the uninitiated, it is a complete a mystery to them. And that’s where the web designers charge an exorbitant fee for their services. And yes, it can get pretty technical if you want build a web site with all kinds of features and widgets. For the truly great looking sites out there, those are done by professionals and created by advertising houses whose clients has big budget for graphic design and marketing. For the rest of us, be it small businesses, home business, part-timers, and hobbyist, that kind of budget is definitely too heavy for our pockets. Read more »

I have always wondered what the sleep vs. hibernate vs. the shutdown mode in Windows Vista meant. The last time I used the sleep mode it frozed my PC and it wouldn’t shutdown or startup properly. So while visiting a relative in Kuantan with nothing else much to do, I decided to explore the above three shutdown mode with my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. Read more »

I was pretty much conked off after my sales trip to Johor. Long distance driving to say the least was very tiring. Nevertheless I still managed to pull myself out from the bed after alarms went off and my wife called me on the phone to come over quickly for help to carry the goods over from the church to the SS14 field in Subang Jaya. Read more »

Lily came up with a bright idea to organize a jumble sale to kick start the accumulation of funds for the eventual hope of building our very own Grace USJ building. Mind you the amount is no small matter, but we are believing that what might not be possible in the physical will be possible in the Spirit if God is willing. All we need do is just step out in faith, in prayer and hope for the best. Read more »

This year is certainly a new beginning for me. I have been running my Cameron Highlands online website for several years and I’m receiving some online business proposal. Some of which, I have no idea how to proceed but definitely there is business opportunity. Read more »

Ouch! My water vending machine was attempted break in again! This will be the second time and the vandals broke my lock again! My home business is not going very well. Coin collection is not up to my expectation. Sheesh. I must be more careful in where I should invest my money. But I did do this out of desperation to find a way out the problem that I was facing from a tyrant boss previously. Sure God has brought me out of Egypt so to speak, but I still need to face the legacy of mess from the decision that I made. I should have been more patient but I was already almost like spiderman climbing up the walls on his impossible demands. Read more »

Hey, it is never easy to get off the launch pad and jump headlong into starting your own small or home business. To have an entrepreneur mind and spirit takes some doing. That’s why those who have worked for others do not feel the inclination to go off on their own because of their false sense of security of getting a monthly paycheck. Read more »

Finally fixed my soho-home-business.com website. After a long while evaluating which CMS to use, I’ve decided to go with Joomla. It has its advantages and disadvantages. And one of them is the URL which is not so SEO friendly. But I have encountered several websites where the URL isn’t SEO friendly and worse, they use the gibberish version instead of SEF URL. Read more »

Now I found out what was wrong with my new AirKu location. The old history has surfaced when I contacted Amazed Aims promo personnel to determine when is the best time to do a promotional launch. Make money quick? Not a chance here. It seems there was some heavy competition with some underhanded tactics by competitors. There were up to five vending machines placed there. Five! Crazy, no wonder the previous business owner quit. So did the rest. Now there is only one and I just moved in mine. Read more »

This is also very slow going, perhaps is the learning curve and the need to put together the disparate web components from various website to make it truly a complete workable income generating system.

So far, only my Site Build It! Cameron-Highland-Destination.com website is generating positive income from one year plus of hard work. Read more »