It’s time to meet the second person I’ve selected as my Online Marketing Intern for the next 5 months. Be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed so we can post their progress throughout the months. This blog is one of the few places you’ll be able to watch me teach people how to create and make money from successful web sites online! No bull, no guru garbage, just pure experience and real world information.
Meet Prince Singh:
Here is a brief introduction about myself. My name is Manpreet Singh, however, among friends and family I am known as Prince, the nick-name which my mom gave me the day I was born. And no, I don’t think it has anything to do with the artist formerly known as Prince. I think it is more like the fairy tale Prince.
I was born, raised and educated in a northern state of India, Punjab. I am almost 36 now, and moved here to the United States before turning 21. In fact, I celebrated my 21st birthday here in California.
My educational and technical background is about as colorful (or colourful, ;-)) as it can get. And what makes it even more interesting is the fact that in my life there is no distinction between work and hobbies. They are all the same for me. I don’t do anything that I won’t do as a hobby, and that makes the work feel more like a hobby, and when I get paid to have fun, it makes it even more fun.
My formal education in India lead to a college degree (BS) in the field of Electronics, with Physics and Mathematics as minors. Then here in the US, I went to a private institute to get trained on Cisco Networking systems, and obtained a CCNA certificate, which led to employment as a network and systems engineer with the then world data center leader Exodus Communications. Further training (employer funded) opportunities were available during my tenure with Exodus, and I don’t think that I missed one single one of them. I got trained on firewalls, load balancing equipment, various competition brand routing equipment, telecommunication equipment, etc; but the one that was a major addition to my technical qualification was the Sun Solaris System administration training and certification conducted by Sun Microsystems at their own facility.
I am also a professional pilot, and a flight instructor. The formal certifications in this line of work, or hobby, include Airline Transport Pilot certification by the FAA, with Airplane single and multi engine, and both land and sea plane ratings, a Flight Instructor certificate with single and multi engine airplane, and instrument airplane ratings, a ground instructor certificate with advanced and instrument ratings, FAA aircraft maintenance technician certificate with airframe and power plant ratings.
There is a list of self taught tools of the trade as well; and I will just mention a few relevant ones: WordPress, Joomla, HTML, linux and windows server installation, management and security, internet SEO and website marketing, etc. And I did I mention that I am in love with WordPress? Well, I am. At this point in my life, WordPress is a friend, family, addiction and an obsession for me.
I love to write. I love to write about a lot of things. Some of the important ones are WordPress, religion and spirituality, relationships and parenting, aviation news and training related topics, consumer and aviation technology, travel, countries and cultures, and politics.
I love to create things. I created my own flight school business in 2002 with almost nothing in pocket, and grew it to be worth $4.5 million within 5 years. Recently, I have been working on various blogs, and want to create something special utilizing the blogs this time.
I am not working at the moment. You know, the official work thing, like go to work everyday? Well, I am taking a break from it, and am focusing on blogging full time. Like I said, I love blogging, I want to create something special with them, and it does not feel like working. On the contrary, blogging for me is relaxing, soothing and a calming experience.
There is a lot more to write “about me”, but if I do all that here in this one post, then what would I write in the book “about me” that I am planning to write sometime, and why would you buy it?
Few other things you should know about me though, before I finish up this post, is that I am focused, hard working (when the work is fun and hobby at the same time), believe in team play, insomniac, go-getter and helpful. When it comes down to being helpful, I have been accused of sometimes overdoing it. But do I care about it? No. As I know what goes around, comes around. And maybe this is why I ended up here with John at JTPratt, and he decided to help me!
Well guys, I think this is enough for now, but stay tuned. As we continue to develop this project, I will write more, and share more with all of you. Writing and sharing is the reason why we blog anyways, don’t we?
Its nice to know about Prince. I enjoy to read this article. Panjabi Putar thanks for sharing this post.
Wow JT.. I think you have two great interns..Prince Singh and Bill.. Just looking at their backgrounds it sure looks like you have picked two winners..very stable individuals from the sounds of it.. hope they do not disappoint..
Just was wondering why you did not pick someone(say an Internet Dummy) who was not as qualified but was driven to learn Internet Marketing.. this would surely show that you can teach anyone your course..
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Best o’ luck to you Prince. I look forward to hearing about your progress.
It’s good you love to write, I think the most important skill to have when setting out online is the ability to write well and write quickly about any topic. You need this to create loads of unique content every day and plenty of people get hung up on the writing part of blogging or site creation!
.-= Daniel Drude´s last blog ..Beginner Piano Lessons =-.
It was more important to start with someone like this than someone with no technical background, because this intern project will become future ebooks and lessons that anyone can use in the future.
Thanks a lot guys. This is very encouraging. I am sure that under John’s guidance and with his “teacher’s sharing spirit” we will got long ways, way beyond average threshold of success. I am happy to be a part of the team and am grateful for this opportunity to learn from john.
.-= av8erPrince´s last blog ..New Charter Pilot Jobs in India =-.
Congrats Prince! JT has a lot to teach you guys I’m sure. I know I’ve learned a lot from his posts in the short time since I found them!
.-= Boardwalk @ Compare Air Purifiers´s last blog ..Before You Buy Compare Air Purifiers & Know the Dangers! =-.
Hey Prince Congratulations! Just like you I also love to write and read things. I like your post.
I think this type of post act as an motivating force for the newbies like us.I hope that Prince will share us some more experience he had during this tenure with Jhon. I wish him best of Luck and hope to hear from him soon.
I really like your post on how you took the plunge into internet marketing i really inspired with your post thanks for sharing.
hey!!congratulations prince I really like a lot your post Punjabi boy thanks a lot.
You are a real prince Punjabi puttar…my good wishes are with you keep going great blog post…
Congratulation prince! That’s a great opportunity. To be able to learn the ropes from a real “guru” like JT.thanks man…
I really feel glad to know about you prince….you are nice guy…
Mr. Prince Singh I am inspired to your story that your hobbies and your work is same. It absolutely opposite to me. I worked what I do not like but just for handsome salary I am doing.