Dr Irfan Khairi. His name needs no introduction in the world of
online business here in Malaysia. He made sensations here when he
became a Malaysian Ringgit millionaire at the age of 25 while he was
still studying if I’m not mistaken. That was in 2002. His success
doesn’t come overnight of course, he was figuring out ways to make
money online ever since the age of 18. So basically, he took well about 7
years to find the right formula!
He has written a number of books here and currently hot in the
market are his ‘Secrets of Internet Millionaires Revealed’ book that
was launched in UK in October 2006. That book of his has now more or
less became the ‘must-have’ guide book for those who are seeking
ways to make it big online here in Malaysia. He’s also pretty good
at organizing workshops, directly teaching and sharing his secrets
with interested parties. His one-day workshop doesn’t come cheap or
course; it costs a whopping Malaysian Ringgit $790.00 as of time of
writing.
We at Sahabatul Ventures has tremendous amount of respect for Dr
Irfan Khairi. To make it clear to everyone, we are not affiliated
nor associated with him or his business in any way. However, we do
share a common interest that is to help others in establishing their
very own online business venture. While his approach is stubbornly
strict to one formula, we at Sahabatul Ventures are more adventurous
and have a number of online marketing tricks fit for any business
occasions.
Frankly speaking, we are not at all amused with Dr Irfan Khairi’s
successes. There are many more unknown success stories that a lot of
other Malaysians are not aware of. This is mainly because such
successful entrepreneurs prefer to lay low and adopt low profiles to
avoid the attention of the mass media. I know this may sound too
good to be true but what I’m about to share with everyone today is
for real:
- A simple ‘kampung’ (ordinary person) Malaysian Malay man
from Kedah who only finished high school became a self-made
Malaysian Ringgit millionaire in 16 months through selling
‘Tongkat Ali’ or Eurycoma Longifolia on eBay and Yahoo!
GeoCities ! This is in 1995!
- In 1998, an ordinary Malaysian Chinese man from Penang who
also only finished high school and could hardly write and speak
English became a Malaysian Ringgit millionaire in 23 months
simply through his hobby! This guy loves to shoot videos and one
day he sent a few short video clips of Malaysian natural
sceneries to websites such as Discovery & National Geographic
via email and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). His work was so good
and that caught the eyes of Discovery & National Geographic
editors! They paid him top dollars for his work and you may have
seen his short videos on such channels without ever realizing
that it was created by a typical ordinary Malaysian!
Now, that is what we at Sahabatul Ventures call truly amazing and
unbelievable success stories! Now, let’s go back to Dr Irfan Khairi.
One thing that we realized is that Dr Irfan Khairi may indirectly
provide the wrong impression and message to the Malaysian
communities especially. He claims to be a true online business
expert as if every other expert on the field is either incompetent
or incomplete. The way he promotes his skills, products and skills
might also gave the impressions that it is easy to make money or become a
millionaire online. To date, we have not seen anybody making much
noise about it but it is high time that somebody did.
For the benefit of everyone especially all Malaysians interested
in making money online, we would like to clear the air once and for
all. With all due respect Dr Irfan Khairi, you are probably the only
person in the world today who dares to claim oneself as a true
expert in online business or any other type of money making
opportunities. Even the world’s current highly regarded and well
known internet experts such Joel Comm and Michael Cheney did not
proclaim themselves as true experts in their fields!
In actual truth, making money online successfully doesn’t mean
that one have to strictly follow a standard formula. A standard
formula would eventually become obsolete and would no longer work
for anybody when more and more people start to use them. There is no
one single formula, as matter of fact there are hundreds, thousands
and possibly millions of ways to make money online. There is no true
expert on this field; everyone has their very own way that works.
Nobody is better than the rest actually.
To make millions online, you need to be cunning and have a lot of
patience. That’s how things are in online businesses. If you do not
have patience, persistence, intelligence and perseverance, you would
never make millions online! It requires a lot of hard work dedicated
full time. So, don’t get wild eyed in hearing any online success
stories and be gullible enough to think that you can strike it rich
and become a millionaire by going online tomorrow. If you feel that
that your current comfort zone of working 9 to 5 in a comfortable
office is sufficient enough for you, stick to it. Chasing online
rainbows are not for lazy bones and day dreamers.
We are not discouraging you from going for online businesses. As
matter of fact, we would love to see more and more people achieved
their financial freedom through online businesses. Our worry is that
there are a growing number of people who failed miserably in their
attempts to be successful online and that would indirectly give
online business opportunities a very bad reputation. We put this
blame to those who indirectly gave false hopes to the public, making
them believe that everyone can make it rich online. Such
irresponsible acts only made things worst for everybody.
Let’s go back to Dr Irfan Khairi now. No matter how this article
may sound, we are not in any way whatsoever taking cheap pot shots
at Dr Irfan Khairi. He is a highly respectable professional
intellect here in Malaysia and no 10 cents worth of comments made by
people like us over at Sahabatul Ventures can deny that. We highly
recommend Dr Irfan Khairi’s products and services to those who would
like to learn what online businesses are all about. Read his book at
least and then ask yourself whether this is right for you. You
really have to look deep inside yourself before answering that
question. If you are patient enough, cunning enough, persistent
enough and willing to weather every single online storm ahead, join
the online bandwagon and put every single effort to it passionately!
There is no turning back, let us warn you!
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About the author |
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Saidul A Shaari
is the principal and founder of
Sahabatul
Ventures, specializing in helping aspiring home based entrepreneurs
establish and setup their online businesses cost effectively.
An enterprising business individual who turn half ideas into real
money making opportunities.
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