Alvin Phang Interview – Earn Money While You Sleep With Blogging

Written by Michael Dunlop | Posted in Interviews | 28 comments

Could you describe what you do and how you earn your living Alvin?

Sure thing, I am currently a full time blogger in Singapore and have been blogging since Oct 2006. My earnings are mainly from blog reviews, affiliate marketing, blog advertisements.

You are currently living what I call the Internet Lifestyle, what does the Internet Lifestyle mean to you?

Great question… it’s to give one the ability to sleep anytime of the day and wake up anytime of the day without worrying if you are able to make money online. Basically in short, make money while you are enjoying yourself.

I understand you recently got married! By having a blog, did that allow you to still earn money when you take time off work?

Yes of course it can, because the wonderful part about blogging is you can program your blog post to be automatically set to be publish at set times when you are away and your readers or customer will not realized you were away at the 1st place. I remember once, I was away for a holiday trip in Taiwan for 8 days and during the entire trip I did nothing but simply just enjoy myself but came back earning close to $4,000! It’s truly automatic in some sense as you can pre-program your blog to do stuff on its own.

How much have you earned from blogging to date and what’s your top tip for new bloggers trying to earn money from their blog?

I would say I have earn close to US$140,000+ Net Profit to date from blogging, my top tip for new bloggers is keep on updating your blog daily! The more content you create the more traffic you will get from search engines. People often say content is king but for me Knowledge is king, content comes later but having said that both would be useless still without marketing. Writing interesting content is actually not that hard, once you open your heart to your readers you would get readers to your blog. My tip for bloggers is always stay honest and be willing to share your knowledge with others as this will give you more process in the near future.

You are the author of “Atomic Blogging” one of the worlds top selling eBooks for bloggers who want to make more money online. Would you like to tell us more about how this could help us bloggers.

Atomic Blogging was first created way back un June 2007 and now since has upgraded to the latest version 3.0 which just launched in March 2009. The entire system was actually designed and tested based on my truth real experience when I was blogging @ www.GatherSuccess.com which began real successful online today. I am currently a trainer myself and I also teach in school to lectures and students, I decided to take my knowledge in blogging and wrote a guide of more then 150 with screen shots in them. With simple step-by-step instructions, this will help new bloggers get their blog setup almost in minutes just by following the simple steps with screenshots provided. Once the system is setup, there are also a WordPress theme and plugin that bloggers can installed into their WordPress blog and immediately start blogging using the system.

To further enchanced advanced bloggers, included are also 4 chapters of advanced traffic tactics that I have personally used them before which one of that got in over 300 comments from one blog post! I realized sometimes giving text tutorials were not enough, so I also included videos tutorials to guide them along for the installation process too. Overall I am happy to say then all my customers love the product and most of them doubled or even triple their traffic.

Wow you certainly have gone out of your way to provide such great value! Where do you think most bloggers go wrong?

I strongly believe in giving value and great customer service and that’s why I had so many raving reviews from everyone. The part where bloggers always go wrong at most times is they are PLAIN LAZY! They got very excited into blogging maybe for the 1st or 2nd week and may later lead on to another thing just because they thought it was better and easier… and advice to everyone is NEVER TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT. It will always end up you being more disappointed then you ever started at first. Commom signs of laziness would be, blog is not updated with content, no marketing is done on the blog, got distracted by something else and the list goes on….

For wanna-be bloggers, you got to love blogging in order to blog. That’s because you will be required to update your blog everyday as that is what all professional bloggers do.

If you could go back in a time machine to the time when you were just getting started, what advice would you give yourself regarding making money online?

I would have told myself earlier to generate a list of subscribers earlier! That’s because I only started list building after 6 months of marketing online!

What is the best advice you have ever been given?

this advice actually came from my dad actually, which he said to me ” What Ever You Do, Always Do It Different From Everyone Else And Be Unique”

And he also quoted “Never Give Up too”

What would you say is the biggest single reason for your success?

My biggest single reason for my success is that I am the sole bread winner of my family so I have no choice but to be successful in order to take care of my family.

If you were offered twice the amount of money you earn now to work a 9 – 5 job for “The Man”, would you take it and why?

OF COURSE NOT! I will never do it even if I am broke! That’s because I treasure and love the freedom of being your own boss – Why let others earn more when you can earn everything on your own and be happy about it

Thanks very much for the interview, Have you any plans (personal or business) that you can share with us about your future plans / goals / lifetime goals?

My goal for this year is to be a millionaire by the end of this year and my future plans is to be able to generate a 5 to 6 figure income monthly without doing a single thing. I know it’s not impossible because when there is a will there is always a way… advice to others always dream and think big because there is nothing wrong with it!

If you want to find out more about Alvin, then you can visit his personal blog or check out his eBook!

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28 comments so far… Leave a reply

Scott :: IrnMedia.net
March 21, 2009 10:17 AM

Wow, that is awesome, I like what he's doing; good luck to him for the future!
Charlie Dean
March 21, 2009 11:29 AM

Thats wicked, making money while you sleep is cool!
Marshall of SaveTimeOutsource
March 21, 2009 3:23 PM

Cool interview Michael, I like his dad's quote ” What Ever You Do, Always Do It Different From Everyone Else And Be Unique”

Michael Dunlop
March 21, 2009 7:21 PM

Thanks Marshall :) Yeh a wicked quote! Should have a page for all of these :P

jesus
March 21, 2009 4:46 PM

that's what i'm talking about men! good luck to him! i'll try follow some of his steps
Agent 001
March 21, 2009 5:31 PM

Awesome interview. Nice and useful answers from Alvin. I am sure it is going to help my blog improve.
Monica
March 21, 2009 7:24 PM

It's very interesting Idea. I will try.
WPDONE
March 21, 2009 7:56 PM

This guy know what is doing: post often, don't get lazy and be unique. Great Advice!
James Cunningham
March 22, 2009 12:26 PM

I wish I was any good at blogging, I dont like mornings and sometimes afternoons :D
Scotie
March 22, 2009 3:58 PM

Yeah interesting interview, and some good advice. I kinda realise that you have to keep posting every day, but it is always good to hear it being backed up by a pro blogger.

Michael Dunlop
March 22, 2009 4:03 PM

Exactly Scotie - I see a huge drop when I stop posting regularly on my blogs. Keep at it every day!

LowonganDi.com
March 22, 2009 4:43 PM

Michael, Awesome ;) I always get inspired by your website, Michael!
Kai Lo
March 22, 2009 5:22 PM

Great interview! Most people can only dream about the Internet Lifestyle. People like Alvin really make things happen.
Jeromy
March 22, 2009 6:08 PM

Great Interview! Much of this message is what drives me still after almost two years in the field of Internet Marketing...I have worked hard, learn a lot, it is persistance and knowing that success will come, must come for the better of my family. Glad I found your Blog! Jeromy

Michael Dunlop
March 24, 2009 6:12 PM

Thanks Jeromy :) Sure you will crack it soon if you haven't already :) Your here, thats the best start! :) ha

Paul Morales
March 22, 2009 10:37 PM

Job well done. Great interview I checked out his site too that's impressive.
Corey Freeman
March 23, 2009 2:04 AM

Fantastic interview! I love the quote "I have no choice but to be successful." It's a really inspiring saying. Thanks for the interview and for sharing your experiences. :)
Stuart Wooster
March 23, 2009 8:50 PM

Nice interview! Only just caught up with this one after tucking myself away writing for a few days :) Looking forward to more as always. With regards the eCourse, I finally cracked permalinks today that I had been meaning to do for ages. It was dicking me about with the htaccess file though Haha!

Michael Dunlop
March 24, 2009 6:11 PM

With the latest Wordpress, you don't even need to HTaccess it now :) And thanks, plenty more great interviews to come!

Alvin Phang
March 24, 2009 4:00 AM

Thanks for the great interview :)
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Steve Teo
March 24, 2009 3:31 PM

This guy is awesome. His Atomic Blogging is worth reading. Full of useful tips. Two thumbs up! :)
Salwa
March 25, 2009 3:37 AM

Another great interview. I just recently bought Atomic Blogging and hes techniques and methods really do works.
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March 26, 2009 3:06 AM

make money while you sleeping ... actually, other people is making the money for you
Adam Matthews
July 5, 2009 12:04 AM

Thank you for the insipiring interview! Keep up the great work!
Jake Rocheleau
July 18, 2009 5:38 PM

One of the most inspiring interviews I've read in a long time. Thanks for posting it up!
Malathy Badri
September 18, 2009 2:19 AM

Wonderful interview Michael. You have asked all the questions that might be on every blogger's mind. Alvin's answers emit honesty. Thanks a lot Michael.
Fazreen
April 18, 2010 10:41 AM

I love reading the real experience. by the way Michael, I have a question for you - which is better having one blog or many blogs in terms of making money? sorry for my English :)