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Study is one of the most important stuff in our life. We cannot survive without study in this challenging world. Therefore, I picked a book ~ 时间投资法 to read. It is about time investment. Yes. Time is another valuable stuff that we always wasted. Playing PC games all day long is just wasting our precious time (unless you are pro gamer). Same apply to movie, shopping or other entertainment. Certain amount time spend on them is okay but not too much like most of the people do.

Time_Investment

Above picture was taken from original Japanese book (They translated to Chinese version as 时间投资法). It has interesting concept that separated all our tasks into 4 segments ~

  1. important and urgent
  2. not important but urgent
  3. important not urgent
  4. not important and not urgent.

The first segment is like working hour. While second segment is for task like traveling to work, make up before go to work. Third is the most important ~ studying, family fellowship, recharged and fitness. And lastly forth represents the tasks that we should do less ~ watch television, play games and wondering on Internet.

Here are the summary of time investment.

  1. Reasons of time management is not working
    • There is no best way to time management
    • Hard to assess the effect of time management
  2. Reasons of new actions cannot last
    • No motive for action
    • Time needed to make it as habit
    • Did not study failures
    • Copy exactly the practice of the experts
    • Hope for better but no action taken
  3. 5 principles of golden time
    • Don’t hesitate to invest anywhere in order to create time
    • Pay attention on the outcome of certain time like hourly pay rate
    • Don’t simply be ‘Mr nice guy’
    • Priority to do what you like first, good in and tasks that bring income
    • Plan stuffs accordingly, put some buffer
  4. 5 ways to increase golden time
    • Pay attention to current problems
    • Drop / skip unnecessary tasks
    • Assign tasks to others
    • Improve the effectiveness of must do tasks
    • Do what you plan, write what you do

Be sure to get a copy of this wonderful book. You will gain more time by reading it. :)

Fix slow loading website

Website loading speed is very important. Nobody likes to wait long for a website to load. Therefore, a good hosting is a must. And you need to have supportive team from them too. Else it will take even longer time if your hosting have problem.

My friends told me that my blog was slow during loading. I tested myself and discovered the same issue ~ slowness like “waiting for www.jayceooi.com” for 10 to 20 seconds. Then the website started to load. How to improve the loading time then? Check your hosting server status is the first time that you need to do.

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Server Status

As you can see, there is alert on server load ~ Box under heavy load — you may experience degraded system performance. You need to contact support team if you continue seeing this message. Else your website will be as slow as turtle.

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Service Status

Another thing to check is the service status. All of the services should be okay most of the time. A good hosting will rectify any issue occurs without us inform them. However, I did face problem with my previous hosting company. I need to contact them to bring up the SQL server myself. And they don’t even know that that SQL server was down. What a joke… By the way, my hosting support team solved the issue before I report it. ;)

Finally, be sure that you select a good web hosting like I did. I am using HostMonster. How about you?

Focus on getting traffic not revenue

Money… Money… Money… Not everyone loves money. However, we cannot survive without it. That’s the simple rule of life. We need money to buy food, pay for daily needs and a place to stay. I am one of the participants in the rat race. Hopefully, will get out from there sooner.

Getting more advertising in your blog does not mean to bring more income. And it will slow down the loading of your website. Some of the readers might go away due to too much advertising. They will like to get the information that they need and not the advertising. Unless the advertising match their interest.

My blogs’ loading speed is slow lately. My friends told me else I did not notice it also. It is not directly due to many advertising but the hosting server response. It is slow when you key in the address and you need to wait until around 10 – 20 seconds for the page to start loading. Hmm… What is going on here?

Anyway, I will focus on the content rather than advertising from now on. With better keywords, they do bring more traffic. And that’s good if you have more CPM ads. Else you will have hard to earn if readers don’t click on CPC ads. Just take my blogs for example, my readers don’t like to click on image CPC ads. Therefore, the CPC ads earning is too low compare to CPM ads.

Finally, read more to gain more knowledge. It will help you to write better article == bring more traffic. And make sure your marketing is correct too. ;)

Stock market performance was flat on August 2009. Yup. I looked back several stock indexes like FBM KLCI, Straits Times, Hang Seng, DOW and NASDAQ. Only Shanghai Composite dropped like hell. Lot of investment researches said that August and September are not suitable to invest due to low volume on Summer holidays. Yup. They were true on August. However, the stock market started to climb back again starting on September. How far can it go from there?

FBM_KLCI_September

Looking forward on middle of October to come. There will be another round of corporate quarterly reports coming out. Keeping my money for it then.

Replied within 1 hour from Phyllisia Ng. And it was off office hour at 11:30pm. Woo, that is really a great support indeed. But not good for personal life. We should not be doing any office work when at home. Hmm… Maybe she was still in the office that time. Oh no… That’s even worst. :P

Anyway, the support from Innity team is getting better by using email rather than their support ticketing system. Remember to email them and not using any online support system. Their email reply is lot faster. But the earning from Innity still under perform when compare to other company. Less reader will click on image CPC ads. So less income. Wish that there will be more CPM ad campaigns given. ;)

Innity team, keep up the good work!




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