Author Archives: Andrew Wee

About Andrew Wee

My name is Andrew Wee. I'm 32 years old, live in Singapore and am happily married with a 2 month old daughter. I've gone through a list of various occupations including: * journalist (for a business newspaper) * Internet content developer (for one of Asia's largest media group's Singapore Press Holdings) * trainer in entrepreneurship, business building, life skills * photographer/photojournalist * real estate agent * consultant * entrepreneur (I think that's enough for now...more later!) This is a personal space to express my goals, dreams and aspirations.

How to use data to grow your online business

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You could call the Internet economy, the information economy where data and knowledge have value. You could also call it the digital economy where the bits and bytes contain information that you could use to grow your business.

While most marketers will be aware of online news sources and spy tools, it’s worth taking a step back to gain a wider perspective of what’s out there and how you can use it to your advantage.

Whether you have your own product or you’re promoting someone else’s product as an affiliate, distributor or reseller, you can benefit from the following 3 types of business intelligence.

Technology intelligence: You might be doing search engine optimization (SEO) or some form of paid traffic. Now, stop. How much time do you Continue reading →

The Mindware Recode anti-product launch

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Note: This is a long-ish read, which may take 10 minutes to go through (but it’s worth it).

There is a saying by motivational speaker Zig Ziglar that goes “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

For most of my 20-year career (most of it spent online, thought the same principles of relationship building and business building apply as much to virtual business as much as brick-and-mortar ones), I’ve focused on a couple of values:

  • Say what you do when you teach, but more importantly do what you say.
  • Understand the expectations of your students/customers, then go beyond it.
  • Always aim to be better.

A mentor, who owned Continue reading →

How to get what you really want

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Are you happy with everything you have right now?

If so, stop reading this and head elsewhere.

If not, read on.

The following steps will help if you want to be successful in business and/or your personal life:

  • Having goals
  • Having a way to reach those goals
  • Reaching those goals

Sounds easy, doesn’t it? I guess most of us know Continue reading →

Kindle writing challenge week 1: $1,000 on the line

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Note: If you haven’t checked out the original post, you can read it Kindle writing challenge, you can go read it now. It’s ok, I’ll wait.

Ok, read it? Cool.

We’re into day 9 of the challenge and with $1,000 on the line for meeting the target, you can look at my progress at the Google Doc I created to track my progress.

Having not written anything that was long in the past 6 months, it took some Continue reading →