Here is the latest update on the development of my latest book. The editing and illustrations are half-way done so the book is scheduled to be launched in about a month. Meanwhile, take a look at the draft cover and feel free to give me your comments! Here is what you can expect in the book….

Do you have a burning desire to build a very successful business of your own? Do you want to create the financial abundance, freedom and lifelong security that your very own business will bring? In this book, I will reveal to you my secrets of building a multi-million dollar business starting from scratch. The best part is that you don’t need to have lots of capital to invest, a prestigious degree or years of experience.

Whether you are just starting out in business or an experienced entrepreneur, this book will give you powerful ideas and strategies that will multiply your business sales and profits exponentially.

What You Will Master in this Book….

· Why 90% of Businesses Fail…and how the 10% Succeed
· The Mindset & Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
· Develop the million-dollar idea that will blow away the competition
· A Step-by Step Guide on building a business system that works without you
· How to start a business with very little capital and turn in millions within 16 months
· Build a Powerful Brand & Establish Yourself As the Market Leader
· Powerful Marketing Strategies that Will Kill the Competition
· Build a championship team of employees and partners
· Master the Art of Cash Flow… How to Roll Millions with just a Few Thousand Dollars

Chapter 1: The Making of A Millionaire Entrepreneur
Chapter 2: The Success Factors of Millionaire Entrepreneurs
Chapter 3: The Million-Dollar Business Idea
Chapter 4: Building a Business that Works…Without You
Chapter 5: Multiplying Your Business Profits
Chapter 6: How to Generate Millions in Sales and Profits
Chapter 7: Building a Championship Team
Chapter 8: Mastering Your Money
Chapter 9: Growing Your Business Empire

And here is a special gift for being a dedicated reader of my blog, download and read the first draft chapter for free!

Enjoy!

From left:
Katherine Sia (AKLTG), Kiatimon Lersvidhaya (Thai partner), Golf (Thai partner), Patrick Cheo (CEO), Adam Khoo (That’s Me), Kiatibut Lersvidhaya (Thai partner), Tim (My Thai Trainer) and Gerald Lum (Sing-Thai Partner)

On Sunday, I was up in Bangkok to run our first ever introductory workshop for the Superkids and ‘I Am Gifted, So Are You!’ program in Thailand. After so many Thais have sent their children all the way to Singapore to attend our life transformational camps, I figured that it was time to open up a permanent office in Bangkok.

Together with me was our Lady Thai Trainer Varoon Charastrakul (also known as ‘Tim’). Here is an inspirational story that I would like to share with you about Tim. Tim was one of the top students in Thailand when she won a scholarship to study Engineering in Singapore at NTU (Nanyang Technological Institute) four years ago.

When she first started studying in NTU, she started struggling in her subjects because of her poor command of her English language. She hated English and believed that she could never score As in her subjects because of her handicap in English and that there was no way she could compete with her counterparts in Singapore.

That was when she enrolled in my PATTERNS OF EXCELLENCE PROGRAM (POE) three years ago. By the way, she worked and saved the $2000+ course fees on her own, not a small amount for a foreign student! During the POE program, she learnt about the power of beliefs and techniques on how to model the strategies of accelerated learning.

Two years later, she graduated with a FIRST CLASS HONOURS DEGREE in Engineering from NTU. She was then offered a job by one of the top consulting firms in the region for $4,000+ a month. After working for less than a year, she decided to quit her job and join ADAM KHOO EDUCATION GROUP full time because she wanted to fulfill her dream and passion for training students to also achieve their fullest potential. I am very proud to have her on my team.

I am very proud to announce that my company ran its first series of camps for 300+ teens and children (and their parents) in China, and it was 100% conducted in Mandarin (Hua Yu). Ii was extremely successful and we will be looking to spread our life transformational programs to make a difference to the lives of millions of Chinese children there! A big thank you goes out to Frederick Tan (managing director, Adam Khoo Learning Centre) and Danny Tong & Melvin Chew, the two trainers who did an excellent job!

Adam Khoo Learning Centre has actually been operating in Su Zhou for the last 2 years already, conducting weekly English lessons through the ‘I Can Read’ Program (we are the Master Franchisees there). It was just last month that we decided to run our flagship life transformational kids camps. We are also running our first camp in Thailand this year! (yes, 100% in Thai…Sawardee Krap)

Dear Friends

You may have realized that I have not been blogging my philosophies for the last two months. Well, the reason is because I have been spending the last 60 days intensively writing my 8th book ‘Secrets of Building Million-Dollar Businesses’! Yes!!!! It is Completed!!! I would say that among all my other books, this is the one I am most passionate and proud if. It reveals all my insights and learnings on how to build successful businesses. It draws the lessons I have learnt from the time I started my first mobile disco business at 15 years old to the $30 million group of businesses I own today.

So, why am I so passionate about this particular book? Well, So, why did I write this book? Well, in the last ten years, I have seen so many of my friends start businesses with full of hope and dreams, only to see them crash and burn. And these were intelligent, hardworking and passionate individuals, many of them with business degrees.

So, why did they fail? Well, simply because intelligence, passion and hard work is simply NOT ENOUGH to build a successful business. I have found that to become a successful entrepreneur, you have to possess a specific set of mindsets and skill sets. Unfortunately, these mindsets and skill sets are something you can never learn in school or even in university.

You may have heard that less than 10% of businesses ever succeed. I am telling your from experience that it is NOT because these 10% were smarter or luckier than the rest. It is just because they did business THE RIGHT WAY. Well, in this book, I am going to show you the right way…step by step on exactly how you can build a multi-million dollar business starting from scratch.

Now that my manuscript is done, there is still a whole lot of work to be done before you will see it on the bookshelves. Here is the process of getting my manuscript into print…

1) Send for editing (my mum is doing this for me)
2) Get my illustrator (Aik Cher) to draw some cartoons and illustrations for the book
3) Send to a designer to design the cover and layout
4) Get an ISBN number from MITA (ministry of information and the arts)
5) Work with my distributors and the bookstores to get it launched
6) Get my publishing division to organize a book launch, author signing and get lots of publicity in the newspapers and magazines

The whole process is going to take at least 2 months+. In the meantime, I will tease you with extracts from my chapters and show you the book covers, layouts and pictures as they come out.

P.S. Those of you who are graduates of my programme will get the opportunity to buy this book at a super duper discount that you can never get at the bookshops by pre-ordering the book ad getting the very first collector’s item print

Dear friends,

Just want to share a recent proud moment in my life. I was extremely honored and humbled to receive the Eminent Alumni Award from NUS Business School last week.

I still find it hard to believe that I could have been selected as one of the most successful business leaders among a class of thousands of elite students who have passed through the doors of NUS Business School in the last few decades.

Adam Khoo receiving the award from Mr. Lee Yi Shyan, Minister for Trade and Industry

What amazes me the most about receiving this award was the fact that two decades ago, nobody ever believed that I would qualify for a tertiary education (not even myself), let alone the National University of Singapore.

As a student in my teens, I was a slow learner and an underachiever. Fights in school had gotten me expelled in Primary four. I did so badly for my PSLE that I was rejected from all six secondary schools that I had applied for. Back then in Ping Yi Secondary School (a neighborhood school in Chai Chee), I was told by my friends that I would be lucky to qualify for a polytechnic and that going to university was an unrealistic dream.

Then at the end of secondary one, something happened that would change and define my life forever. After attending a motivational program for teens, I learnt about the power of positive thinking and began to discover accelerated learning techniques that would allow me to learn five times faster than before.

Empowered and inspired, I leant to dream big. I set the audacious goals of becoming one of the top students in Singapore and making my first million by the age of 26. That was the time when I set the goal of going into NUS Business School, where I would get the best business education I needed to pursue my entrepreneurial dream!

While I started by first business at the age of 15 (a mobile disco business I founded in secondary three) and a training business at the age of 21, NUS Business School helped to give me the essential knowledge, skills and opportunities that gave me the competitive edge in building Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group to become one of Singapore’s largest education and training company.

Indeed, dreams do come true. However, I have learnt that you have to first start by believing in yourself and daring to dream big. If a once hopeless underachiever like myself can rise to become a top student and among the top business leaders, then anyone can! All of us have the phenomenal potential to design our own destiny. I am very proud to say that NUS Business School has played a significant role in helping me to design mine!