My 300th Posting

I was in NTUC Income 2 years ago when I started this blog. Tan Kin Lian was our boss then and I visited his blog "tankinlian.blogspot.com" regularly. He made use of his blog to promote NTUC Income and shared his view about Current Affairs and Financial Planning. I found his blog to be educational and was able to reach out to the public fairly effectively.

I'm certainly not as influential or knowledgeable as him but I decided to start my blog in a small way to reach out to my policyholders. I wanted to make it part of my service to them, giving them insurance updates and health knowledge to keep them Healthy and Wealthy.

Its not easy maintaining a blog given my standard of English and limited financial knowledge. Even today, I still need to spend a lot of time vetting through every posting to reduce my language error and to research on what to write next. I nearly gave up within a year because nobody reads my blog and readership can be as low as 1-2 visitors per day. I pondered if I should focus on my work instead. However, whenever I decided to start focusing on my work, I find it hard to stop writing and let this blog dies off. I reckoned that it has become a habit to log in daily and write whenever something strike my mind.

Through some perseverance, this blog started to benefit me in some ways.

1) My Financial knowledge improved because I had unknowingly forced myself to read more and to learn from others. I get to know many other local financial bloggers and gained a lot of insights from them.

2) My English improved slightly. I really regretted not learning my English properly during my secondary school days. Taking up a Grammar or Writing course cost so much and I don't have the money to sign up.

3) Some of my policyholders like my service and starts reading my blog though no referrals from them yet.

4) This blog had generated a few leads for me and help improve my income slightly.

This is my 300th posting. I had changed the theme of my blog and I look forward my 600th posting from today onwards. I'll continue to learn and give my readers practical tips to improve Health and Wealth. I also like to thank all those who had contributed with their comments, whether positive or negative in these 300 postings. Each comment helps to mound me into a better adviser.