Writing and Promoting ‘Secrets of Self Made Millionaires’

Today, it really helps than half of the people who come have seen or heard about me from the press, TV or from their friends. It feels great when people come up to you like old friends and congratulate you and ask for autographs. It feels really great to know that all my hard work really paid off now that ‘Secrets of Self Made Millionaires’ is officially the highest selling non-fiction book in Singapore (Ranked #1Straits Times Life! Best-seller list). It topped the list just after 2 weeks of its launched. In the next couple of weeks, I will be doing rounds of talks and author signings at MPH, Borders, Popular, Harris, Times and so on…

While I had a lot of faith that I had written a truly good book that would interest and benefit everyone, I could never be sure that it would become a best-seller until the public believed in it enough to buy it. What I also a learnt over the years is that writing a good book is only half the job in creating a National Best-Seller. You must also put in a lot of work in selling your book to the bookstores who will decide on the shelf space, in store posters, book talks and other kinds of promotions.

One of the main reasons why I wrote this book is because over the last 15 years I have been motivating students to score straights As in school and working professionals to become highly motivated performers at their work place. However, I truly recognize that even with all the great academic credentials and hard work, people can never become rich unless they learn then 7 essential money skills like investing, controlling expenses, building multiple income streams and so on…

I wrote this book because I truly wanted to give people the ultimate handbook/bible on wealth creation. So they will know exactly how I did it and how they can do the same. As I read the hundreds of money-making books over the years, I discovered that many of them inspired people to get rich and told them what to do. Unfortunately, there was not enough practical information that gave people the steps of HOW to do it. For example, many of these books teach people to invest in stocks & mutual funds to get high returns. The trouble is that sometimes too little information can sometime be more dangerous that having no information at all.

So many poor people who lack the appropriate training in company valuations and stock pickings listen to this advice and find themselves losing money in a stock market which they do not understand anything enough about. The reason I know this is because I was one of those people. It took me many years of mistakes and losses before I finally figured on how to invest at high returns while keeping my risks extremely low (I hate to take risks). While there are great books out there that reach investors and entrepreneurs the exact techniques of investing and business  building, these books tend to be too technical and academic in nature. Much of what they teach is hard to apply, especially to the layman.