About Yasir Khan
At York University Convocation
The Early Years
My name is Yasir Khan and I was born on Aug 28, 1985 in Pakistan. Since the very beginning, I went to The City School, one of the best schools of my country. As far as I remember, till the age of 15, I wanted to be an astronaut, because one of my uncles worked in NASA. Until that age, I also had a major fascination with science, simply because my dad was a Mechanical Engineer and my mom was a Medical Doctor.
It was at the end of High School that I started getting more interested in business. Although I always used to hear that “being an engineer was THE thing to get into”, through my biased research, I somehow figured that it was the “business people” who ended up making the most money. That was a big enough reason for me to switch my focus to business.
In 2003, I got admission in Lahore University of Management Sciences and started doing Economics over there. Economics wasn’t exactly business and the fact that there were 15 answers to the same question drove me crazy. I switched to Accounting and Finance soon.
Through a change in circumstances in 2006, my family moved to Canada.
Coming to Canada:
Coming to Canada was something totally new for me. I was given admission at York University, Toronto, where I started doing Finance.
Even though Finance really interested me, I wanted to be known for something different. For that reason, I started reading biographies of people who were successful in many different fields.
The Forex Craze:
I will be honest with you. Since the very start, I never liked the idea of “going to work”. Now, that does not mean I was lazy. I just never wanted to work for anyone else.
I learnt about Forex trading from a friend of mine. Listening to all the hype, I decided to give it a try. I lost my first $500 in the first month but I did not quit. I thought “there has to be a code I have to crack in order to make tons of money trading currencies!”.
A year later, after losing a total of $5,500 (a lot of money for me at that time), I came to the conclusion that there was no secret code to crack, that the market was random and that I would quit forex.
The Internet Marketing Craze:
With the currency trading not helping me become a millionaire, I wanted to try my luck in something different. In July 2008, I came across Plug-in-Profit website, started by Stone Evans. The sales pitch of the website conveyed this idea: Start a website for free, put in $300, make $5000 every month.
So I tried it out, and instead of wasting only $300, I managed to throw over $5000 down the drain.
Even though I decided to quit the PIPS website that I had built, I started studying SEO, affiliate marketing and all the various techniques the “successful” people were using in order to make money.
I visited the Warrior Forum, bought countless internet marketing ebooks and courses, subscribed for thousands of “free” mailing lists which were supposed to provide me the most coveted secrets and finally started understanding what SEO and online marketing is all about.
Quantum SEO Labs:
In February 2009, I decided to form this company. The reason for doing so is simple. I was having success with SEO and internet marketing, and I wanted to help others out.
In the beginning, marketing this company was very difficult. I had to spend around 6-8 hours everyday (without taking the weekend off) in order to get it up and running. In the first 2 months, I got no sales and very little traffic. But through hard-work, I now have a steady stream of traffic to the website.
How Can I Help You?
Apart from Quantum SEO Labs, I have many other websites in different niches which have started getting profitable. Apart from the websites, I have also been trying affiliate marketing and CPA networks.
Because I have gone through a lot of difficult times trying to learn how internet marketing & SEO works, I am confident that I can help you in your online endevours as well.
If you are struggling to get traffic to your website, feel free to contact me for help.
The Future:
Even though I do not have a crystal ball with me, I forsee a very bright future.
From an academic point of view, I am keeping myself busy. I am currently doing my MBA from the DeGroote School of Business, which will be completed by 2011.
But doing a degree is only a part of the education. I am fully involved in managing my business and websites as we speak.
Even though I have quite a number of websites already, I am always looking for more opportunities to expand my reach and increase my business. Towards that goal, I see myself expanding into niches totally unrelated to Online Marketing.
However, one of my major goals is to share my experiences with you. If you come to my blog and learn something new, it would justify the existence of my blog. I strongly feel that my time spent learning internet marketing & SEO will help you by reducing your learning curve.
In the end, if you have any questions or comments, please dont be shy to contact me!
23 comments ↓
The careeer path between yours and mine looks the same. Also shifted myself from Forex to webmastering after loosing tons of money.
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You mainly have the same story as mine. Actually, i believe that we done and still do the same things. Thanks for sharing.
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Your career path looks interesting
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Huge list of useful resource, just coming at right time. Thanks a ton. Just love article from smashingmagazine
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Have a nice day, I really like this page and appreciate your efforts and skills and wish you all the best….
J Alex
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That is nice to know that you are also doing good in SEO
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Hi excellent website! Does running a blog similar to this take a great deal of work? I’ve absolutely no expertise in programming but I was hoping to start my own blog in the near future. Anyways, should you have any suggestions or tips for new blog owners please share. I understand this is off topic but I simply needed to ask. Thanks!
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Very nice bio man. I have taken a similar path (although I haven’t lost nearly as much money as you seem to have). But sometimes that’s what it takes to succeed.
I’m from Ontario as well (about an hour from TO). Would be cool to get in touch.
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Very good site you have here. There is much to learn about SEO here, you have provided great info. I have never seen such a big list of different SEO techniques to use. Thanks
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Assalam-0-Alaikum,
Yasir, it’s good to see that still their are people like you. Who want to learn and earn something from life rather then following the old mechanical & structured way of life. I also changed my field 3 times to search the best & most interesting field for myself. Now I’m about to finish my “Masters in Advertising” in the end of 2011. I do have a knowledge & experience of SEO, blogging, online marketing and social media activities. Planning to start my own business online. I’m also interested in your knowledge that you have found by your own experience, can you share it with me.
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Thanks Bro, it’s really nice to read your blog, it reminded me my old days……
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Maybe you could help me improving my SEO techniques and skills.
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Nice information about yourself. As I am also an internet marketer, I have gone through many of the things you have mentioned. Finally, from the past 1-2 years, things have started to fall in place alhamdulillah and my earnings have reached a decent level mashallah.
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Very good bio. I am very impressed by you.
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Salam, great article and interesting read. Please email me and we can talk about a business together.
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I am impressed from your blog dear .
Keep it up
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interesting journey you’ve had. im currently studying seo&sem myself and feel that seo is losing the importance among marketers. as getting a site up in the search engines is not a big achievement. maintaining its position is which is impossible to do without quality content.
But your blogs are very insightful. pleasure reading them.
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Very good site you have here. There is much to learn about SEO here, you have provided great info. I have never seen such a big list of different SEO techniques to use. Thanks
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Hi Yasir,
I want to know more on Virtual Assistant as well as Online Marketing, Sir Yasir with the content of your input and write ups it seems to me that you want to extend help. In this juncture, may i ask your input on online marketing?
Thanks and More Power
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You are awesome dude! me learned lot of from this website. Thank you very much
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Really Impressed. Very good going
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Harsha
http://www.loksewaexam.com
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hi! i’m at the job at the moment so i did not have the time to read all of the article, but i do like the things i read and i’ll read some more on your blog when i get home.. Got a lot of things to complete here =) do you happen to have a username at facebook?
Thank you, Maldiverna Resor
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Impressive credentials from someone so young, super. Your company yields quite a bit unlike http://www.esmokedepot.com. thank you for the great article and very interesting site. Great site. I have bookmarked this at several sites.
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A.A YAsir Khan I m really very impressed by your biography. Now i want to work with you. I have ever heard that you do some work at soft wares. Now you are working at senuke. Kindly grant me opportunity to work with you. thanks.
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