Work At Home Singapore

January 23, 2009

Developing Mobile Games In Your Bedroom

Filed under: Home Business Ideas — Tags: — Eureka @ 10:02 pm

Back in early 2006, the Media Development Authority of Singapore, launched a program called INVIGORATE, a mobile game development initiative targeted at Singapore-based companies and teams.  One specific target is a startup mobile game development studio.

With the maturity of 3G and now 3.5G mobile networks and with mobile phones getting smarter with every new model, creating mobiles games could be a lucrative venture for the tech savvy work at home entrepreneur. (.Singapore-based companies and teams can be home-based as well)

Trism Mobile Game And Tap Tap For iPhone

Demter's Trism Mobile Game For iPhone

In fact, a popular iPhone game, Trism, which became a hit in August 2008, has made its creator, Steve Demeter, a neat passive income of tens of thousands of dollars. Steve Demter, created Trism in his spare time, and made  $250,000 in its first two months on Apple’s “App Store” — enough to entice him to quit his job as an ATM software designer and start his own game development studio.

But you don’t need a studio to make big money with mobile games. Independent developers, like Ethan Nicholos, working as a one-man team, created iShoot, which, climb to No. 1 on Apple’s list of most popular paid applications. In just two weeks, iShoot netted Nicholas almost $400,000 in profits… and the application is still selling even today. That mountain of money has prompted Nicholas too to quit his day job at Sun Microsystems to pursue game development full time. The move was a decisive one for Nicholas. And his response to those who ridiculed his move to leave his lucrative day job was in the true spirit of a self-made businessman: This is why you will never be rich.

Another iPhone game success story is Tap Tap Revenge, The game, which is available for free on the App Store, has been downloaded over two million times. Tapulous, the developer of the game, recently started inserting advertisements in the game. With a strategy that has become increasingly popular during the broadband era, the company gave away their product for free, and then figured out how to generate revenue later (much like Google did with Gmail). The passive income from the advertisers would make the government handouts to the average Singaporeans  laughable.

Fret not if you not have the skills at mobile game development yet, go get a Diploma in Games Design and Development from the Singapore Polytechnic.

Isn’t this what the Singapore government wants us to do, go back to school in this current global recession?

Singapore also happens to be a fertile live testing ground for mobile games, because of the up to date mobile networks and the availability of the latest mobile phone models as soon as they get off the production lines. So if the iPhone does not impress you, develop a game for a Motorola Razr or a Samsung Innov8.

To get your creative juice flowing here are some mobile game ideas:

  • Mobile adventure games
  • Mobile community, “Sim-style” games
  • Games that allow two or more users to compete with each other over Bluetooth
    Or via a network.
  • Mobile games making full use of extended phone features such as the camera.
  • Location-aware mobile games.

The work at home mobile game development studio can be a lucrative venture for some enterprising individuals in Singapore, given the easy access to broadband connections, the high quality mobile networks, and the latest mobile phone models. Working at home developing mobiles games need not be a one-man effort either,  online collaboration/conference software make team work a breeze minus the traveling time on the crowded MRT.

January 18, 2009

The Law Of Attraction – Making It Work For Your Home Business

Filed under: Master Your Mind — Tags: , , — Eureka @ 5:35 am

Every now and then, I would visit the Popular bookstore to just browse around. What seems to amazed me at the last visit 3 days ago is that one particular book has been on the Best Seller List for almost three years running and is still up on the Best Seller List. The book is “The Secret” along with the DVD video version of it. The Secret is about the Law Of Attraction.

Most people experience a spark of hope after watching or reading “The Secret”. Most come away with a desire in their heart, to finally make their dreams come true; they just have to think and wish for them.  But  many of them soon saw that hope dwindle into frustration?

Many of them started muttering things like:

  • “It seems to work for other people, but I just can’t get it right.”
  • “I’m frustrated that sometimes I can get it to work, but sometimes I can’t. What’s the trick?”
  • “Why am I having so much trouble?”
  • “I think the universe is against me.”
  • “I’m trying very, VERY hard but still nothing is happening!”

These people are not alone. In reality about 97% of people couldn’t make the Law of Attraction work for them the first time round. Think about it, just like anything else, you have to practice many times before you see success.

But in practice, everything is easier said and done. When you’re frustrated, it’s hard to stay positive. And it’s especially harder to stay positive when the evidence all around you is screams negativity like the unstable economy or senseless acts of violence such as those recently seen in Mumbai.

And do you know what happens when you fail to stay positive? That’s right – you start attracting negative things in to your life.  You also would also need to work on your mental blueprint. Most people think positive but fails because their mental blueprint is consider for failure.

So how can you make the Law of Attraction work for you – without getting frustrated? How do those who successfully implement the Law of Attraction do it with such confidence and finesse?

Well, here’s three laws that make you less frustrated or tired of begging from the universe, because you will then know how to using the Law Of Attraction to start manifesting like a pro.

1. Allow Yourself To Receive
Just like a lost child who approaches a police officer and asks, “Excuse me Sir, can you tell me how to go to the post office? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you?” Well, if the child goes on and on asking, the police officer can’t even give an answer, right?

Well, it’s the same thing with your mind. If the only thing your mind is doing is transmit, transmit, transmit, the universe — which is trying to respond — can’t give you a single thing because you’re not allowing yourself to receive!

So, have the confidence in yourself and stop exhausting yourself by running around person to person begging for riches, and then wondering why nobody is dropping a penny in your cup (Hint: It’s because you’re running away too fast for them before they can even reach for their wallets).
Just think of your desires and leave it out there, go away, and trust that your cup will be filled with gold coins (or whatever it is you asked for) when the time is right.

2. Be Patient With Yourself
Receiving takes time. Sadly, many people give up just a couple of steps before the finish line because they’ve decided that if it’s not working by now, it’s never going to work at all. Worse still are those who throw in more and more energy because they think that with more resources, the results will come faster.
This is like expecting 9 mothers to conceive and deliver a baby in 1 month. You also can’t bake cookies in half the time by doubling the temperature. You’ll incinerate those cookies to ashes!

In simple terms: Everything in this world has a natural development time, and this fact will not change no matter what resources you throw at it.
So relax and be patient. Remember that you too, as part of the universe, are also governed by the laws of the universe, and you cannot change the natural development time.

If you remember this, you will less likely work yourself up into frustration, or worse, push yourself into a downward spiral of negativity.

3. Support and Educate Yourself
Like the child who is learning how to walk, you need support. You also need to guidance on how to do it, and also the role models to look up to.
Many people give up because they think that “The Secret” is the “be all and end all” solution. Well, it’s NOT. “The Secret” is just a small portion. It was never intended, and has never been, the whole answer.

Coming to the conclusion that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work when all you ever did to educate yourself was watch “The Secret” 19 times (without looking at changing the habits of other areas of your life) is like coming to the conclusion that exercising is not an effective way to lose weight because all you did is run on the treadmill for 2 hours a day (but you’re still stuffing yourself with fried foods and cheesecakes).

So seek and be hungry for new knowledge. Also, make an effort to be amongst people or communities where you can support each other, learn from each other and also share new knowledge that you have found.

While the Law of Attraction is not an overnight delivery service, it will indeed deliver, if you do your part too!

The Law Of Attraction works only if you do it right. The trick is you need to take action, both to attract the things you want and action to act on the things you received as a result of The Law Of Attraction.

Most work at home entrepreneurs did not succeed because they lack the mental blueprint for success.  They have the right knowledge, they have the right vehicle, they lack the right YOU (as in mindset, character, habit)

Find out about the forgotten laws that will actually make The Law Of Attraction works.

January 9, 2009

Part 3 Of 30 Steps To Setting Up Your Own Online Business

Filed under: Business Plans — Eureka @ 4:45 am

With the soft launch in place you now have a means to test the marketing effectiveness of your website. The following Steps will fine tuned your marketing and take your online business to higher levels.

Step 21
This is called test and measure. If you have started a PPC campaign, use the facilities in the PPC to check your results, like the number of hits and the number of conversions. Use an Ad Tracker program to check the effective of your sales copy.

Step 22
Improve your website conversion rate using the results of your testing. Drop the less effective headlines, advertising campaigns and keep the winner. Add more split testing.

Step 23
Grow your business by invited joint ventures partners. Use the Internet to search out successful businesses related to yours and invites them as JV partners.

Tools you can use:

  • Alexa.com to check the popularity of the websites
  • Google.com to check the page rank of the JV partner’s websites.

Step 24
Test and measure again. By the way, you would also do this with an offline business. However, the Internet allows you to do this more efficiently and quickly. The difference can be hours or days vs weeks or months with offline marketing tests.

Step 25
Improve your web site conversion again. You should have more visitors to your website now. So increasing the conversion rate will results in greater sales.
In fact, by now you should have web site that is making sales while you sleep. The remaining steps will outline some advance techniques use by experience Internet marketers to take you business to the next level.

Step 26
Develop more products by:

  • Expand horizontally – more products covering a wider range of the market
  • Expand Vertically – audio products, video products

Step 27
Create a viral marketing system. For example you can create a PDF file, which you can give away, free and inside is the order links to your audio or video products.  A PDF is also much smaller and easier to download, and you can embed click able links in the PDF file.

Day 28
Optimize your website for natural search engine traffic.

Day 29
Look for more online business opportunities.

Day 30
Contact your clients in your mailing list with JV offers and up sell offers.

Hope you enjoyed this trilogy of an online business you can create, working in the comfort of you own home, maybe even on the kitchen table.  As you get more involved, you will also discover the many paths and options that you can take to create online wealth.

Older Posts »

Copyright 2009 Work At Home Singapore