Buffet Restaurant - Seoul Garden - Open Its Way at Compass Point in Sengkang

One of my favourite hotpot/barbeque buffet restaurant - Seoul Garden, made its way to the nearest mall, just walking distance in the community where I live in Singapore.

The new branch is at Compass Point Mall in Sengkang and is located at #03-18. This branch is undeniably smaller than the one in Ngee Ann City but it basically offers the same set of eat-all-you-can foodies.

We were asked to wait for about 20 minutes before we were able to grab our seats because as expected lots of people just love the affordable and yummy buffet from Seoul Garden.

Someone Like You - Charlie Puth and Emily Luther Version

Listening to this version of Adele's "Someone Like You" gave me the shiver.

I heard that you've settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Yeah.

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday it was the time of our lives
We were born and raised
In a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over, yeah.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Nothing compares
No worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes
They are memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Characteristics Every Internet Entrepreneur Should Have To Attain Online Business Success

Over the years, we have seen how the internet has greatly influenced people around the world. Now, almost every bit of information that we need is just a click away as long as you have an internet connection. Not only that, businesses also made a way to make customers lives’ easier and more convenient by developing means to sell and allow purchases online. All of these wouldn’t be possible without the internet. Truly, the Internet has leveled the playing field for everybody. With the advancement of online technology, online entrepreneurs were born. These entrepreneurs were neither made overnight nor a result of a secret formula. Each of them developed their own guidelines that they strictly followed in order to succeed. Others had a chance to work with already successful web marketers, which gave them the opportunity to observe and follow their techniques and habits that also led them on the road to success.

So, what characteristics made these internet entrepreneurs successful? Are these characteristics still a mystery to the online business world? This article aims to satisfy the curiosity of fellow entrepreneurs and hopefully at the end of the article, they will more or less get an idea how to work their way to the path of success.

Here’s a rundown of some of the characteristics common to successful entrepreneurs:

• Target goal. Successful people always start their business by having a clear and definite goal or roadmap of what they want to achieve and where they are headed. After setting a definite goal, the next thing that successful businessmen do is to set a definite time frame to achieve that target. By having a specific goal in mind and a deadline to meet, they can put all their best efforts and focus all their energy towards achieving that goal.

• Aim High and Dream Big. Successful businessmen are not born. They all started as simple individuals who were not afraid to dream big so they took all the risk to reach that dream. Their dream served as an inspiration for them to strive hard and do everything to fulfill it.

• Enthusiasm to Learn. Since the online industry is a fast paced and always evolving environment, to be successful, internet entrepreneurs should always look for ways to improve their craft. They should never stop learning and should always be eager to learn new things. Different ways of doing things are discovered everyday so it’s important to keep up to date with everyone else especially with the competitors.

• Tenacity or Strong Sense of Determination. Working one's way to the top is not an easy task in a constantly evolving world of the internet industry; moreover, being on top won't be an assurance of staying there for long. Successful entrepreneurs have also encountered several difficulties and challenges, they have made wrong decisions, and they all had a taste of failure. But these circumstances did not hold them back; instead they have learned how to use them to their advantage. These top entrepreneurs never quit. They came into the business mentally and psychologically prepared and they have also learned how to easily adapt to advancements in terms of technology. So, if you want to be like them, you should learn how to observe maximum tolerance when confronted with difficulties and challenges.

• Self-Discipline. Great amount of self-discipline is required if one wants to succeed in the online business. Each amount of effort exerted counts. Remember the saying "You reap what you sow"? It may be a cliché but this holds true in the marketing industry. The amount of success that one will get totally depends on the amount of effort that an entrepreneur is willing to give in his business.

• Endurance. Don't expect to see results of your efforts overnight. Be realistic. The tower of Babel was not built overnight and the same goes for businesses. If you don’t see a favorable result after a few months, then that’s okay as long as you know that you are giving your best and you have done proper research and that you are applying the effective marketing strategies that you have obtained from your research. Just stay focused on your goal and give it some time for you to see the results of all your hardships. In SEO, for example, it may take quite a while for you to gain high natural rankings in search engines.

• Daredevil. Every successful internet entrepreneur took all the necessary risks that led them to their rightful positions. Don't be afraid to fail, always look at the positive side instead of letting yourself drown for fear of failure. We have to admit, the people who had the courage to venture and break into new markets are the same people making names in the industry now. So, the next time that a creative idea pops into your mind, take the risk and invest because you'll never know what will happen tomorrow. What may be unpopular and unfamiliar now, may be a blockbuster hit in the coming days.

• Innovative. Always try something new. Learn to experiment with new things. Think outside the box. Get out of your comfort zone. Think of creative ways to boost your business. Be unique. Having your own style and being unique will give an edge to your business and will make your name popular for breaking the stereotyped standards.

• Flexibility. To stay in the internet business, you have to learn how to be flexible and easily adapt to changes. Since the online industry is a constantly evolving world wherein, almost everyday, new things are being introduced and implemented, a good entrepreneur should learn how to adapt to these changes and quickly find ways to reconcile these changes to their current business strategies.

• Decisive and Action Oriented. Successful internet entrepreneurs know how to think right on their feet. They make decisions quickly and execute them immediately without sacrificing the end result. In case they make wrong decisions, they can easily think of ways to fix this without having the business suffer for this mistake. In short, they know how to apply damage control in worst case scenarios.

The traits listed above are only some of the qualities that a successful internet entrepreneur possesses. Being a successful internet entrepreneur is no easy task. No one is born with all these qualities, but they can be developed and nurtured by anyone. I guarantee you that it's worth all the effort once you've seen the results of your hard work.

Suspended AdWords Account? Tested Remedies to Bypass AdWords Ban

Google unmercifully ban advertisers who do not obey their Terms and Conditions. If you are searching on the search engines to find solutions for your banned accounts, you are lucky to have found this post which will give enlightenment on how you can create active AdWords accounts without getting banned.

There are thousands of e-books and online tutorials giving the promise to let you out of Google AdWords ban, but in the end you will just be wasting precious effort and money as you will not find the exact solution to your AdWords ban problem.

Google does not think twice in suspending affiliates and biz ops who are using AdWords to promote businesses and products. How do I know this? Experience in Affiliate Marketing and SEO field. I have dealt with various clients complaining that they were affected with AdWords Account Suspension. What's strange was that I have innocent clients who are also legitimate business owners who have been affected in the suspension spree. Another bad thing is that godly Google would not lift the suspension ever from advertisers who were doomed to receive such penalty.

But if you are still a Google fan like me, who's still very eager to get back to Google AdWords, just keep on reading till the end of this post, as you're about to learn how the AdWords Account Suspension can be bypassed.

Google Will Never Ever Tell You Why They Banned An AdWords Account

Smarty Google is aware that you would do anything to sneak out of their suspension measures. Are you familiar with the following mails they sent when you try to know the reason for your account suspension

“I have reconsulted the specialist team about your account suspension, and have confirmed that our team’s decision is correct and final. Your ads will no longer run on Google. This policy will apply to all accounts you have created. As noted in our Terms and Conditions, Google reserves the right to terminate advertisements for any reason. To view our Terms and Conditions, please visit https://adwords.google.com/select/tsandcsfinder.

Our support team is unable to provide any further information. Please do not contact us again. For questions about other Google products, please visit http://www.google.com/support. We appreciate your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Google AdWords Team”

Of course, Google is too smart to be deceived that if they tell you the reason why they banned you, you will always devise methods to combat whatever mistake you did before and Google plays clever by replying sweet innocent emails.

What's the Reason Google Suspended Your Account?

It's your AdWords activities which is responsible your account got banned. If you had more than two AdWords accounts and you were bidding on the same keyword, YOU ARE IN FOR LIFE. Google will make sure that you wouldn't be able to promote sites on AdWords again using the same credit card, personal name, EVER AGAIN.

Suspended? What now?

Your advertising world can still happily revolve. Google AdWords Team wouldn't care if you go trying other means to promote products and sites. Don't be surprise to read in Google AdWords forums where the AdWords Employees themselves give recommendations that you promote sites on Bing and Yahoo and forget Google. Here's an example that I have read which originally posted by an AdWords Staff:

"Our two major competitors are Yahoo! Search Marketing, and MSN adCenter – each of which offers a CPC advertising program. Many members of this forum have had positive things to say about them."

Fine. So Now is the Time for You to Think About this AdWords Suspension Scenario

• You created an AdWords account.
• Your address matches the address of another Google advertiser.
• Your Mac Address and computer IP is same as the other advertiser who was previously suspended in AdWords.
• Your ads, keywords and price bids are undeniably the same as the suspended AdWords account holder

Please accept the reality that Google has the smartest earthlings on the Web. They know how to relate the pieces of information with their unmatched technological crawlers.

So yes. You have to keep in mind the following tips and tricks to bypass AdWords suspension.

• Flash your browser cookies each time before switching between different accounts. If you are using Firefox you can use an add-on called "Better Privacy"
• Use a Proxy or a DSL service which can provide you dynamic IPs. If you have a wireless dongle or mobile broadband connection, you have to use it. Be sure to disconnect/connect your wireless connection whenever you have to switch between different accounts.
• Use a VCC (Virtual Credit Card) to fund your account. Entropay works for non-US residents and there are lot others. Make sure that the VCCs are not from the banned list of Adwords.
• Make sure that you don't have the same information as the previously banned account such as billing address, contact name, company address, etc.
• Avoid using Google products for your account creation such as Chrome, Gmail, Google Desktop, etc. For browser, I always go for Firefox and create account mails in AOL, Hotmail and Mail.com.
• The best solution is to use you own Virtual Machine to create and access AdWords accounts. On my end, I'm using a software called VMWare in which I install a new Virtual Machine instance per account.
• Use a different Mac address if you suspect that Google was able to catch the Mac address of your PC. This is specially true if you have followed all the above measures and still got suspended by AdWords. So don't forget this precaution from day one.

So yes, I really hope the above suggestions works for you as they worked well for my clients. :-)

Help Tips for Non-English PPC and SEO

In doing PPC and SEO, you would eventually want to explore new territory. And this would include employing other languages. But even in the age of Google Translate, mere translation does not guarantee success in selling your goods to other nationalities, lest you risk being swallowed alive by other companies who have better language departments. That is why it is important that you know the following tips so that your search marketing efforts do not get “lost in translation”.

Carefully consider the language

The closer you translate the better your chances of selling. So don’t just rely on a translate tool to do the dirty work for you. Make an effort to create selling text, as if you wanted to sincerely sell to your non-English speaking audience. How about the language of telenovelas for the Spanish set? Crazy as it may sound, it may actually work.

In addition, look up potential foreign websites in a keyword research tool and look for the keywords they use. You will stumble upon native keywords and phrases that will be an accurate reflection of the website’s market, and you could use these too to enrich the foreign iterations of your site.

Get expert translating without compromising spending

Mere translation won’t cut it. You would need to make sure your landing page would also effectively convert. Know expressions, pitch techniques and other stuff that get other nationalities interested. Sometimes the frank American approach won’t work with Italian sensationalism, so that is something to consider.

This doesn’t stop with the ads you place on Google Adwords. You must also pay attention to the language used in the whole page, as this will be the clincher part for your application.

At the same time, also explore the keywords that will cater to those in that particular region. You can be most definite that the terms in use here will be different from the ones used to sell in English, so make good on your international keyword research. Know, once and for all, what terms will entice them to buy.

Link to other local pages

Since you’re now catering to a different country, you might as well link to other countries using pages which are related to the products that you are promoting. If your site will be selling biking gear to Brazil, you may consider hooking up with forums and blogs in the country to promote your site.

Use keyword research tools to get actual foreign market information

Of course, you wouldn’t know the actual domains and keywords being used unless you research the foreign markets you are targeting. Thankfully, there are keyword research tools that can help you get that information. One such powerful tool is KeywordSpy which covers over 30 countries.

Through the Research module, you can just switch the dropdown bar on the top right whenever you do a search on the domain or keyword. For a search on the domain, you will see the ad copies for countries including non-English speaking countries such as Greece, Mexico, France, Spain and a whole lot more!

On the other hand, through the Tracking module of KeywordSpy, you can see the performance in real time of the ad copies, and PPC and organic keywords in over 30 countries. You employ a similar way of researching the data from foreign markets as in the Research module; except in this method, you will unlock other keywords you can potentially use, at a faster, more frequently updating basis.

Remember, the world does not revolve around you and your tried and true marketing strategy. Don’t just use a new language; imbibe it and harness it to make you dominate as you penetrate new frontiers in the search engine arena.