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Thursday, 28 January 2010
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an original post per day...
As you can see, my company's domain have now been redirected to this blog. For the time being, this will be the base of operation for any Metamorphosis Multimedia related news and announcements. In time, all the company blog posts from 2008 will also be migrated over and combined with existing entries.The general direction of M3 is to focus on social media as a distribution channel for all sorts of content including but not limited to videos, blog articles, promotions, product features, tutorials, and various other useful resources.
The idea is to post at least once a day. Somehow I need to dicipline myself in such a way that allow for a sustainable content stream that keeps people coming back to check out my latest boring antics.
The goal is to be somewhat entertaining. Hopefully I'll be able to offer up some advise or insights into social media, financial planning, and life in general.
If you don't see a new blog from me here on any given day, go check on my Chinese blog (if you read Chinese). Alternatively you could go to my new setup at Posterous where I'll be aggregating both of my blogs into one place at some point. I still love WordPress. It will always be my base. But I'm also exploring other services that can cater to my other needs, such as autoposting to Xanga. Please follow me on twitter as well if want to know the instant I'm taking a crap.
Nah! Just a bad joke, I know. Sorry.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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in the numbers...
Since I'm now in the finance industry, numbers have started to occupy a good amount of my daily thought process. Before it's all about the ideas and the creative explosions, but now, quantifiable data is starting to make more and more sense to me. This is why my recent blog stats is so upsetting to me.For someone who claims to be a social media specialist, the amount of inactivity I manage to accumulate is staggering. Sure, I've been busy with meetings, setting up blogs for clients, exploring various channels of income, advocating the importance of financial health, and immersing myself in my new company, etc...
If I were here to come up with excuses, I could go on all day long. But what I want to emphasize more is the simple truth that traffic comes from a sustained presence in multiple channels. In other words, if you show up enough, eventually someone is going to take a look and maybe you'll have something they want.
People such as myself often over think things. I try to come up with cleaver ideas for posts and spend days thinking about what and how to write what I want to say rather than actually sitting down and writing. In the end, the ideas fizzles out and the opportunity to connect was lost.
Inspiration is like raw passionate sex, once the moment of unfiltered emotions is gone, no amount of stimulus can recreate quite the same experience.
One of my worst habit as far as counter-productiveness goes is my tendency to pace around contemplating, formulating and planning what to write, say or do. What ends up happening is I construct these elaborate internal monologues that are in my mind pretty ground breaking and revolutionary, but unfortunately no one will ever know about them.
Being conscious of this behavior is my first step towards recovery. Now, whenever I think of something to say, I try to sit down at my computer and put my hand to the keyboard. No matter how silly the idea, it's better to have some record of it for future reference than to have nothing when I want to turn that idea into some sort of an action plan.
But going back to the numbers, as you can see, traffic to my blog have been steadily declining due to long periods of absence on my part. However, I can be slightly encouraged that with my activities being interlinked and pushed out to so many channels, I still get some random discovery here and there stemming from my network.
Relying on original content to generate traffic is always a long and laborious process, but if I can some how find ways to turn people onto other interesting resources and provide value to my readers that way, then my life could get a lot easier. For the time being, however, I'm on a crusade to build up my own presence with my bare hands. Which means you guys will have to deal with my monologuing for just a bit longer, and perhaps even more frequently.
I'm not against the idea of content recycling or auto-content for that matter, but I believe that I could have enough to share if I just stick to the idea of writing down most of my coherent thoughts into publishable blog posts. Hopefully I'll be able to cultivate enough business through my recent efforts to allow me the opportunity to spend more time in doing so.
We shall see. Now it's your turn to think about what's in the numbers for you. What are the stats and figures that's so intertwined with your lives that you might not have thought about previously? Now is a good time to give that some careful consideration. Feel free to share your experiences in the comments.
Monday, 21 December 2009
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i am YOUR IFA, mofos!
flickr photo by James Cridland
No, seriously. I mean, seriously!
So what exactly is an IFA?
IFA stands for independent financial adviser, feel free to read up on it here. Financial planning, asset management, investment, all that Jazz.
I've been approached numerous times by the insurance industry urging me to join their ranks. While I'm flattered by their confidence in my ability to peddle policies, I know better. I've never been too keen on being a salesman and I know I'm bound for greater things.
No, I'm not a stock broker, nor do I work for a bank. Clearly I do not sell insurance.
So what's the difference with the IFA field? Isn't it basically glorified sales anyways?
Well, no.
As an IFA, I'm whoever you want me to be. I can do your laundry, clean your house, watch your kids, coach their little league team, cook a mean turkey for Christmas, and most of all, take extremely good care of your mula. The key is choice and neutrality. I don't have to sell you products from a single provider, but rather, I'm able to pick from just about 80-90% of all available financial products the ones that best suit your needs and you can decide to buy or not to buy.
Yes, if your money is your kids, then I'm sort of a super nanny. They maybe naughty and bashful at times, but in my good hands, we can together watch them grow to be quite obese. That's what asset management is all about, raising fat kids.
Best of all, I don't take a cent of your money. My dough comes directly from the nice people from those product providers. What I do for you folks I do for free, out of the goodness of my heart, of course.
Sure, I can do pretty well.
You might be thinking to yourself, "Gee, that sounds like a load of hot air, Lehman Brothers!"
Objectively speaking, your logic is sound, but soon, I'll explain to you why I'm your best bet when it comes to investment and how the entire finance industry can benefit from my presence.
In the mean time, be afraid, be very afraid.
I'm here to help!
Yeah, every motherfucking last one of ya!
Sunday, 20 December 2009
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i'm now a full-time blogger!
photo by jimw
Just kidding. April fools!
Wait... did I get the dates mixed up again?
No... just putting off the inevitable once again.
Sorry boss, I know you told me not to tell people I'm new at this but I just can't help myself.
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i'm not a comedian but...
flickr photo by petesimon
Some people find me hilarious, or maybe I just think they do. Regardless of which, I think I'm capable of bringing joy and laughter to the masses if given the right viechle, the right opportunity, the right stage.
(Something tells me this isn't it, blogging that is.)
I may not be a comedian, but I can say rather funny things to entertain those around me. Those who know me well may have experienced this. Those who haven't yet can expect it tomorrow. Those who read this blog may find yourselves giggling at times for no apparent reason.
Entertainment is my life's purpose, the movies especially. To entertain is to give people something to think about, laugh about, cry about.
If my words here don't touch you in one way or another, then I'm not doing it right.
If you don't care, no one can make you.
Life is full of drama, full of surprises. Sometimes they may scare you, sometimes they can upset you, but if you look carefully enough, they may often time be darn funny. The key is to notice the joy in those experiences and laugh out load (LOL).
I hope that you're satisfied with this performance. I hereby bid you adieu and many pleasant dreams. Please come again, or better yet, subscribe to my RSS feed so you can stay constantly updated with my many a wise cracks.
About Me
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I'm Ken, a Chinese/American Filmmaker/Entrepreneur and now Financial Consultant in Hong Kong. A longtime user of Facebook, I'm now exploring various other social networks to broaden my horizon and meet new, interesting people.
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