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Razlan

My name is Razlan and I’m the guy behind Viral Voices. Let me take a moment to give you a bit of glimpse at who I am.

I’m a 28 year old Malaysian living in Singapore. I am single, living on my own in a wonderful part of Singapore, and I earn a living as a key account manager with JobStreet.com, one of the top job sites in Asia Pacific.

I’ve been blogging since mid-2005 on a number of sites. I started out with just one at You Got Me Blogging - a blog about my daily life, work rants, photos, and miscellaneous topics that take my fancy from time to time.

In 2005 the Singapore Idol fever swept Singapore. Along with thousands of Idol fans, I found myself blogging day and night about the reality show. As Season 1 drew to a climatic end on 1st December, my blog was widely known as the blog to go for all things Idol. By then I was an avid supporter of the eventual-winner Taufik Batisah - a delightful person whom I have the honour of getting to know personally.

Few weeks down the road, TaufikBatisah.net was born and endorsed as the official site for the newly crowned Idol. I was beside myself. Eventually I left my Blogger blog, filled it up with Adsense for a dollar or two a month, and set up You Got Me Blogging at its current home.

As you’ll be able to tell from my blogs, I’m an avid reader, love to travel, enjoy good food and wine, and a movie fanatic.

I hope that’s given a glimpse of who I am and what I do. If you’re a blogger and want to improve your blog then I’d love to keep in touch. I’d love to hear from you about your experiences of blogging in the comments sections on my posts.

June 6, 2007 | Filed Under General | 4 Comments 

Welcome to Viral Voices

This is the first entry into Viral Voices. The purpose of this blog is to record my learning experience in putting the strategies and tactics in building, marketing and monetising this very blog, as outline by the totally awesome Blog Profit Blueprint (aff) by Yaro Starak.

My name is Razlan and I am the owner of this blog. I started Viral Voices as part of my web communication business (now no longer running) back in 2005. Back then I was an avid blogger, running several blogs at the same time - so much so that I was given the opportunity by my then-boss to set up a business unit doing web services - as part of a recruitment company. With a team of five young people - two programmers, one web designer, one graphic designer, and one copywriter - we journeyed for about 12 months before I decided to take a change in my career.

That spelled the end of my blogging enthusiasm. Partly because my new job as a conference producer was really, really taxing. I also saw that, despite my best effort with my profitable web site, the revenue was miniscule, and I don’t really see blogging as a viable business venture…

… until I read Yaro’s Blog Profit Blueprint (aff). I changed my mind. In fact, I got my act together and breathed a new life into Viral Voices.

What you are reading now will be a real-life testament for the blueprint. Stay tuned to this blog for more news and updates as I get down blogging!

June 5, 2007 | Filed Under General | 2 Comments 

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