Lessons from Shecky’s (sheckys.com) CEO Chris Hoffman: TAKE RISKS! Hoffman left his lucrative Wall Street job and started the national lifestyle company from his apt. 12 yrs later, a multimillion dollar business loved by millions of women=)

Check out Shecky’s FUN Beauty Night Out and Girls Night Out events around the country throughout the year. (in LA & SF 12/1-10) I LOVE THEIR GOODIE BAGS!! So practical and the bag itself is SO worth several tickets already!! Great idea to hang out with girlfriends and boyfriends =)  http://www.sheckys.com/events/

Read Chris Hoffman and Shecky’s inspiring story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shecky%27s_Media,_Inc.

I am so thankful to have Shecky’s support for my Paradisehunter.com global host contest to help me become top 2 voted in the world ( www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html)!! Voting ends 12/15. You can vote once everyday. You can win a $200 Shecky’s Paradise Hunter Voting For Li Goodie Bag!! Just vote and msg me li2000@gmail.com or FB msg!  =) Thanks!

Happy Early Thanksgiving my dearest friend!

I have officially been chosen to be world’s top 40 in Paradise Hunter global host contest as a semi finalist!!!!! As a Chinese immigrant & English not being my native language, I am thrilled to make it to top 40 out of nearly 700 applicants from 21 countries, I know this will not happen without YOUR HELP! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!

Voting has started NOW and will last for the next 3 weeks till about Dec 10. Top 5 voted will be the finalists to interview/screen test and the winner will be announced in Jan. Our goal is to be number 1 and the final winner, so these 3 weeks are the most critical time that YOU can make a difference! VOTE HERE!! www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html

It’s not only to win this contest, but to inspire others to chase their dreams despite the odds! This is what you can do to help

1 VOTE EVERYDAY for the next 3 weeks! You don’t need to register your email, just put in verifications and it takes a few seconds! You can only vote once a day so pls share with friends to help our effort!

2 Email the link to all your friends, family to vote, you are inspiring them by sharing the message! Each vote does make a difference!

3 Post the link on your facebook page, twitter, community discussion boards, email lists and anywhere people can see!

4 Ask media to cover the story, post it on your blog to share with friends!

5 Suggest friends to add me on facebook, twitter via li2000 for updates on contest and our exciting voter’s lucky drawing sponsored by SHECKY’S! (sheckys.com)

Amazing achievement we have done for the 1st voting!

1 12261 votes, top 3 in US, top 5 in the world and the only Chinese in top 40!!

2 1230 facebook friends shared my voting link, which is like a 12 million visitor website’s post rate!!

3 4784 views on my voting youtube video!

4 A number of Chinese and American media covered my top voted story in USA including frontpage news by the largest Chinese website in North America sina.com (Alexa top 1 website) and the largest Chinese TV in NY sinovision!

5 Many celebrity voted and supported our effort from media, art and business across the world such as international celebrity pianist Lang Lang, celebrity fashion designer Zang Toi, NBC legendary anchor Chuck Scarborough, model/entrepreneur Melania Trump, TV “The Bachelor” star and entrepreneur Prince Lorenzo Borghese, the most famous woman in China by PEOPLE Yue-Sai Kan, NYC TV host Ornella Fado, WPIX host/reporter Kaity Tong and Howard Thompson, Actress Kerry Washington, Nightlife visionary CEO Chris Hoffman, Philip Chang head of Sinovision (the largest Chinese TV in NY) and NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell!

6 Generous voter’s sponsorship by America’s top lifestyle brand SHECKY’S (check out their BEAUTY NIGHT OUT AND GIRLS NIGHT OUT AROUND THE COUNTRY on sheckys.com))

If someone like me who barely spoke English 10 years ago can be voted top to host a TV show by the world, you can achieve your dream too! Another great news: our generous sponsor SHECKY’S will give out more voter prizes!!! =) due to the overwhelming amount of support we have! We will draw winners for the first round soon so stay tuned! 

Facebook: li2000 Twitter: lijingusa blog: lijing.tumblr.com I am so thankful to share this journey with you and be your friend!! VOTE & SHARE! THANK YOU!!!

I am the front page headline photo news “Li #1 in US” along with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman for CA Governor on Sina.com North America, an Alexa world’s top 15 site with 3 BILLION page views PER DAY!! This is crazy and huge.

News on sina.com  http://dailynews.sina.com/bg/news/usa/uslocal/chinapress/20101023/04071932469.html

News on China Press, sinovision.net

http://epaper.sinovision.net/?pid=4913&zoom=out

Keep voting, once everyday! URL: www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html

Li Jing’s voter prize sponsored by America’s top lifestyle brand SHECKY’S (sheckys.com)

http://lijing.tumblr.com/post/1315767492/i-am-excited-to-announce-a-fabulous-prize-for-you

So surreal and fun to see New York Times Square was transformed into a street fair during the 2010 Autumn Carnival! My favorite: Italian sausage, look at the shape! Shea Butter, do you know it never expires? The sign says so! And I am so glad to bumped into an interviewee, John, TWICE. He is from Alberta Canada! The company hosting Paradise Hunter is based there, so of course photo-op! What’s your favorite street fairs?

It was so exciting and heartwarming to meet my friends who are voting for me and support my Paradise Hunter host contest! (www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html) It is especially fun at the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office’s CMJ international film festival party! I loved meeting Howard Thompson, WPIX reporter and host of the very unique/great show “Help me Howard” ( http://weblogs.wpix.com/news/helpmehoward/), handsome actor Joe O’Dell, lovely Xiaojuan, and my former CBS boss!

It was very touching when I heard TECO’s Director General Mr. Andrew Kao and Press officer Ashley Sun said, I VOTED FOR YOU! They are the people who support my dream, a dream I have for 10 years, even we didn’t meet often but they are there for this dream!  I know there are thousands of friends are doing the same everyday. Without them, I won’t have more than 5000 votes and become world’s top 5 in this contest, and the ONLY Asian in top 30. I am hoping more Asians and minorities would have joined: they are more than half of the world population!  I am very thankful and have learned a ton! The best part? Meeting so many great people along the way, winning is a process and I am loving it! 

I am excited to announce a FABULOUS prize for YOU to vote for my Paradise Hunter host contest!  (www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html)

America’s top lifestyle and girlfriend brand SHECKY’S has become our generous sponsor!  SHECKY’S is known for its wildly popular goodie bags. It will make a special “SHECKY’S PARADISE LI GOODIE BAG” valued at $200 for our winners! To find out more, click here (actual content may vary) 

http://www.sheckys.com/events/5574/girls-night-out-philadelphia-fall-2010/?partners=&keys=goodiebag

Check out SHECKY’S super fun Girls Night Out events across America!  The new beauty’s night out in NYC is on Nov 3-4.  http://www.sheckys.com/events/4269/beauty-night-out-new-york-city-fall-2010/

To enter, vote for Li (you can vote once a day =) www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html, then add Li on Facebook via li2000@gmail.com and send a Facebook msg or email li2000@gmail.com when you vote.  Currently I am world’s top 10 and 10 days ago, we had 0, please keep voting and sharing it with your friends, posting on facebook, twitter etc! It only takes a few seconds!

TWO voters will be randomly chosen to receive a $200 SHECKY’S PARADISE LI GOODIE BAG! One after Nov 5 and one after the final selection in late 2010. 
Please also know that it will be a long competition and only persistence wins! (Make voting a daily habit =)
Stage 1: top 10 most voted candidates enter the semi final-VOTER PRIZE 1 
Stage 2: Top 5 most voted enter the final round
The winner will be chosen by judges about Jan. 2011-VOTER PRIZE 2

Vote once everyday here: www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html
Check out our lovely sponsor: www.Sheckys.com  Special thanks to Chris =)
Li Jing and Shecky’s reserve the rights to make changes and decisions when there are questions.
 
Keep voting, dream your dream, it can happen & have fun! THANK YOU!!

Tonight is the first time I held a prize for my Paradise Hunter host voters (www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html). The winner is Ludgy Wu! A lovely and stylish Filmmaker!  Now I got #1 votes in NY, #2 in US, #7 in the world, it’s all because of my supporters/friends voting for me everyday!  I wish I could take all of my voters out but for now, one at a time =) Becoming a winner was interesting for Ludgy because

1 He only has 7 friends on Facebook and I am one of them! Ludgy said I was actually one of the reasons he started using Facebook. Wow, I am honored =) We met a few months ago at Asian American Film Festival when I asked Ludgy to check out FB, and now he became my 1st prize winner! Life is interesting and you just got to try and connect. We had a great conversation and quite some drinks.

2 By looking at Ludgy, you’d never know he is actually HALF Asian! Yes, Ludgy said his father is Korean and mother is Haitian. Talking about not judging people by looks. He is such a good looking and kind guy. I am so happy that I have so many great people like Ludgy to vote for me everyday.

3 Ludgy said he initially didn’t believe he won, since he only has 7 friends on FB, but hey! In life, you got to believe and he was the first to comment and confirm when I posted my drinking award on Facebook.

We had a great time at Public House New York (41 St & Lexington Ave) and it was huge. It was both of our first times being there and I LOVED the music, a professional-finance type crowd. So if you are in NYC, it would be a cool place for drinks. 

Holding this award is a way to say thank you to my voters. I just entered the Paradise Hunter worldwide host contest a week ago and received more than 2441 votes now. So many people supported and voted for me everyday, from NY to China, Finland, Australia, Spain! I wish I can take all of them out for drinks and thank everyone! So I decided to start with one and had a great time with Ludgy! (He even gave me some sunglass style feedback at Ann Taylor Loft =)

Thank you Ludgy for voting and a fun time! Thank you EVERYONE for believing in me and your votes!  And yes, vote everyday!

www.paradisehunter.com/vote/Li-Jing.html