Jul 05 2008
Liew CF & Andy Low @ Webmaster Malaysia Gathering 2008
Today I attended the Webmaster Malaysia gathering of the year in The Curve. I didn’t mingle around much, but managed to talk to two notable dotcom figures for a while.
First of all, I finally met - the famous tech blogger Liew CF of LiewCF.com! I’ve been following his blog for a while and learning from him. He started blogging years ago and later his income generated from blog exceeded that of his full time job. Now he is a full time professional blogger!
He has been earning mainly from Google Adsense. Though he didn’t reveal how much, the US$ X,000 figure he said aroused much curiosity among the audience. Though the X figure is a single digit in US Dollar as he said, I do believe it’s a double-digit in Ringgit Malaysia!
He was one of the speakers today and he said it’s his first public talk (really?) But he has successfully captivated our attention and regaled all of us. Let’s wish him success and continue to grow from strength to strength!
The second dotcom figure I met is Andy Low of HomeTuitionCare.com.my, a tuition agency business online. I’m glad that he graduated from University of Malaya (UM) too - same with me!
One might think that his business is a competitor to my NextLevel Tutor Network. In a loose sense, maybe. But I think he is not because our business models are different. He charges tutors commission for each successful tuition assignment, while I charge tutors a fixed fee upon joining.
Even if we are competitors, I still like to get to know him as there may still be things we can do together in the future. Who knows maybe we may form alliance and harness each other’s strengths to serve our customers?
As one of the speakers mentioned today, such webmaster gathering should be conducted more often. I have also got some idea on conducting our future gatherings in the Internet Business Fellowship (IBF) later.
Thanks and kudos to the organizer!
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This is ANDY LOW from as mentioned above. Same feeling of glad and pleasure to meet the founder of Nextlevel.com.sg and Nextlevel.com.my. His website is one of pioneer in our tuition industry, and I thought this great website is found by a Singapore company. Surprisingly, I find out that, the owner, Ricky Soo, who is local Malaysian , earning Singapore Dollar. What I can say is that: A great website with a great Idea from a great founder. I never see this as competition, as we should always see things from a point of view of win-win situation. Hope that we can work out something in future
Funnily, I didn’t shake your hand on that day Ricky.
Sorry Danny. It was my not my good hair day and I was a bit anti-social
Anyway, I had to leave earlier and didn’t even have chance to get name cards from a few people I had talked to…
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thank you, ricky. It was my first public talk, really. hopefully i can do better next time. thanks for your support
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hi rick, did not realize you at webmaster the other day. how ya find my talk? useful? feel free to comment so can improve. do catch up next time!
Hi Adrian, nice to hear from you that day. Your talk is very informative and interesting. You know you generated the most number of questions among all speakers!
Catch up with you next time.
wish i could join the gathering.
it clashed with another appoinment I had..
never mind..i’m sure there’ll be a next time
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