Work to Live . Live to Work

It has come to a point where it is just blank in the head to blog in this blog.

Before it becomes like a burden to blog for the sake of blogging, exiting this today and come back when more important things like businesses are settled :)

Today is my birthday, 34yrs of age. Guess I come a long way? haha!

My birthday wish:
- Good health for parents and everyone

The rest? With good heath, everything is possible :)
Last year, my wish was 'My birthday wish is to be able to semi retired by my next birthday.' And seriously I really thought I would have made it if not for the economy crisis that hit everyone so badly.

It might had reset everything that I wanted but hey, at least I am still able to fight it out with another 365 opportunities.

Over the months, I been deep in thoughts about what I really want in life. Continue to pursue greatness through the businesses that I am running? Spend more time with families whom I neglected quite a lot these few years since I started venturing into the business world in 2005 when BAK2u was first set up? The answer will keep on changing as like the questions, the importance varies over time too.

Whatever it is, here lies the next 365 opportunities infront.
Carpe' Diem

Before I started BAK2u.com, I read up many self-help books that always encourage the readers to attend as many conferences, seminars, talks as one can. And I did attending as many as I can including those that are totally unrelated to what I want to do.

Even after I started BAK2u, I still do the same but not as much .. however over the years I learnt something that has become very common for anyone that attended such events.

A bunch of them will get very excited about it and may just want to start running their businesses or implement something newly learnt with immediate effect.

Another group on the other corner will do exactly the opposite.... think and rethink and then strategize and re-strategize again and again.

Lastly, there will be this group, that wonder why they wasted their time (and money) attending something that they already know and the speakers are crappy out to con their money only! :)

I think like many I rotated randomly between these 3 groups of people. hahah!!

Lesson learnt: 'Action First and Plan Along the Way'

It moves in a very quick pace... the discussion started immediately over the weekend about BLOG2u and yesternite, it was sealed to move ahead with its new direction.

There will be drastic changes to the business model of BLOG2u, where we will be taking advertisers/bloggers service to a new whole new direction and move it up to regional market instead of just in Singapore itself.

Other areas that are not in line will most likely be seeking for new owners to concentrate more on the core business. New players will be brought in including several heads of other companies to sit on the board too. In a few months time, we hope that all will be ready to kick start it.

I am surprised that Federal Hotel dont give a damn about emails and inquiries sent to them about their hotel rates for guests stay.

We wrote to them on 14 of April and till date no one bother to give a call or reply any single emails sent to them. Either their business must be darn good or they just dont give a damn about anything. Either way, their customer service leaves much to be desired.

Was thinking hard about what to write since this morning. There been so much changes recently between the companies much affected by the credit crunch. But none-the-less, still gonna let BLOG2u bloggers know what is going on and the direction that we may be taking.

Well, not so much as to close it down .. this is never my thought nor the direction but more of trying to re-adjust and re-strategize the whole entire business model. The blogsphere changes very fast, so fast that many extensions of it have sprouted out many great businesses surrounding the new media itself. One of the up and coming is jamiq.com which I believe will fly when it takes off.

Taking a step back for the past months have been great for me when I leave BLOG2u as then I totally lost confident in steering it in the original direction, and not to mention BAK2u was hit very hard with sales spiralling down like crazy.

I am in 2 minds actually .. and still is as the decision to be made is not just about myself but it will affect others, to the bloggers that believe and support us since day 1, the people that we work with. Also the flaws and weakeness that were discovered...

One thing that wont be affected with will be SGBloggers.com as it is great portal for many students blogging there.

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Hi!

This is Paddy Tan, perhaps more known as the founder of BLOG2u but the
fellow that leave the company recently and now back... drama..mama :)

I am writing this mail to all our members here, to let you know that BLOG2u
be undergoing some changes for a while, to face the evolving business
climate in the new media space. We know that in this fast changing
advertising industry, we have to change in order to stay relevant and above
the water catching up with competitors, clients, PR firms, marketing
agencies and bloggers. Thus we decided to consolidate all that we learnt
from the past years and change internally first.

Hopefully from all these, when we are more ready we will be more relevant to
serve you and the clients. :)

SGBloggers.com will continue to run with no changes to it.

Sincerely,
Paddy Tan

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