The Young Marketeer

Nowadays, my world is surrounded by cold, not natural cold. Artificial cold from AC: from my very own room to the student common hall at my residence, to the lecture hall to the RAPID KL buses. Air conditioned is my worst enemy of all and it will be forever.

I have no class today. Did some beading, meet Mr Amran regarding financial support procedures and a long waited visit to Popular Bookstore at 1Utama, Damansara. A very long bus ride to reach that destination.

If I want to be one of the famous people in Malaysia, I would like to be this young man. His man is Edmund Loh and he is 21 years old. He is a dropout from school but not in real life. A young lad with a tremendous strong and healthy dose of self-confidence.

Loh dropped out of secondary school due to family problems and struggled to make ends meet by working in a chemical manufacturing factory. He worked from Monday to Friday, and on weekends went to college to study CFP, Certified Financial Planning.

Loh has many dreams of starting his own business, including running a burger stall. Just like me lah. I want to open so many business ventures but nothing yet seems to be near to reality. Giving up is way beyond my vocabulary. I am still working on it physically and mentally.

Coming back to Loh, his business, just like any other ones, did not give him any return until the third month. “He is a self-taught Internet marketer who registered his company, Amloh Enterprise in 2006” and has been running the show on his own ever since. His working pattern is very different from any other working people as he starts work at 6pm, until midnight I assume.

I work on various time zones, with no fixed schedule, as my clients are located in English-speaking countries like US, UK and Australia.

What alludes me most is one of the statement that he claimed,

“Already, in some other countries, people as young as eight or nine years old are doing this.”

What!!! Is online marketing getting easier, or is the younger generation growing to be more enthusiastic about growing up faster to do the things that adults do? Is the older generation going to be obsolete soon? Like the one after 30..ehhmmm.