Tutorial: How to sell your product online thru blogger

This tutorial is specially written for those who live in Malaysia. The latest ecommerce trend in Malaysia shows that a huge number of blogger use their blog to sell various things and products. Many have make it as a permanent income besides growing competition between paid hosting ecommerce site and free blog.

Ok let us see how you can start a business online by only use a blog as a platform.

1. Set up an account at www.blogger.com 
2. Give a catchy yet appropriate name for your blog cum business.
3. Find thing or product that can sell. Snap a good photo and start selling by uploading them as blog entry. Dont forget to write the details (Price, Information, Size, Colors, Availability etc etc)
   
4. Dont worry about your blog template. Search for a thousand of blog template and decor it with free widget and script. (Important script and widget : Chatbox, Orderform, Comments, Search Form,Google Blog Follower etc)
   
5. Target your customer. Promote your blog by leaving comments, ads and review at others blog.
6. List your blog at famous blog shopping directory like yourshoppingkaki.blogspot.com, http://blogshoppingdirectory.blogspot.com/ etc etc
7. Create your blog banner and exchange it with others blog owner especially those who receive huge traffic. 
8. Exchange links.
   
9. Entertain your customer kindly. Reply each and every inquiry, comment and critic.
10. Dont overprice. Since you already have a free space to start your business, offer your item with price lower than market price
11. Reward your returning customer by offering them discount and free gift
12. Held a contest and give away presents for the winner
13. Provide precise information regarding payment and shipping. Don't make your customer hesitate.
    

5 reason why shopping online is preferabale

1. You save on your petrol, parking fees, time and energy
2. You can search varieties of product and compare it at one time.
   
3. Flexible time of shopping even at the midnight
4. You have a brief information from reviews and comments from others
5. It´s privacy that matters!!
   

Example of Paper Work and Business Plan for Loan Application

All proposals and paper works are in Bahasa Malaysia.

Feel free to download it here contoh_pelan_perniagaan.pdf

Trademark registration

I am glad that our trade mark application have been accepted. Now nobody in Malaysia can use the brand and the tagline above, without pertaining permission from us.

Why it is very important to register your brand, tagline, company name etc etc.?

Protects a word, phrase, symbol, design, or combination of these things. Basically, you get something trademarked to protect your product's name, logos, and such ilk. Examples of trademarked items are the names "Coke," "Coca-cola," "McDonald's," the McDonald's golden M logo, stuff like that. In a nutshell, you can only trademark a clever little word, catch phrase, or design, and use it to market your goods and services.

At Ardentedu, we also offer a service for trademark registration and consultation. I know many of you did not know how is the process, the complexity and more important the price and fees. So let us consult and help you to register your brand and symbol. Contact us now for a very special price and offer......03 4147 3985

Affiliate Marketing

One of the popular internet marketing solution, is the so call Affiliate Marketing. Usually internet marketer use affiliate program to get customer or client to buy their product.

Affiliate program nowadays offer a great return. Those who actively engaged with affiliate program use various technic and strategies to lure customer to buy product from their affiliate.

One of the common strategy is to use a back link to direct customer to a specific web page of that product. Affiliate networking between potential and satisfy customer could contribute to a successful marketing program and an increment in sales.

I advise you to start with these few resources

What is Affiliate Marketing
Successful tips for newbie affiliate

Video on Affiliate Marketing Strategies

Marketing Strategies for small business

Small businesses typically have a limited marketing budget if any at all. Does that mean you can't run with the big dogs? Absolutely not. It just means you have to think a little more creatively. How about launching your marketing campaign by doing one of the following:

• Call your vendors or associates and ask them to participate with you in co-op advertising.
• Take some time to send your existing customers' referrals and buying incentives.
• Have you thought about introducing yourself to the media? Free publicity has the potential to boost your business. Position yourself as an expert in your field.
• Invite people into your store by piggybacking onto an event. What about a concert coming to town, willing to sell those tickets for them? If not, how about a walkathon that is taking place in your area, why not be public outreach and distribute their material?

When you do spend money on marketing, don't forget to create a way to track those marketing efforts. You can do this by coding your ads, using multiple toll-free telephone numbers, and asking prospects where they heard about you. This enables you to notice when a marketing tactic stops working. You can then quickly replace it with a better choice or method.

How to do Guerilla Marketing

Mr Clean Guerrilla Marketing

Guerilla Marketing - The Bottom Line

In order to fully understand and utilize Guerilla Marketing, you must comprehend the world around you. That's right, the one that bombards "potential customers" with advertisements everywhere they look. On any given day, your potential customers see thousands of advertisements and have developed an automatic filter to them. Therefore, you must stand out if you are ever to be remembered!

When developing your Guerilla Marketing Plan, remember these rules:

• Time is not on your side - make your impact fast and to the point
• Keep it current - your customers know their current events, try and use that to your benefit
• Shock treatment - use the element of surprise or displacement to get noticed
• Be a Smart Guerilla - doing illegal acts to get noticed may help get you noticed by can also land you in jail.

Marketing Strategy Help

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More tips

Co-author of Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days, Jay Conrad Levinson, has laid out some other key principles to help explain the essence of guerrilla marketing:

• Guerrilla marketing is based on human psychology and the way people think and react vs. judgment and guesswork.
• With guerrilla marketing, there's an emphasis on profits, not just sales.
• A good measure of guerrilla marketing is the number of relationships you build over a particular period of time.
• Guerrilla marketing employs a focus on markets and target audiences vs. trying to be all things to mass markets.
• There's a concentration on three specific ways to increase business: new referrals, more transactions from existing customers and larger transactions from existing customers.
• Instead of out-and-out competition, guerrilla marketing supports cooperation with other businesses.
• Guerrilla marketing is made up of many elements all working together and supporting each component of the program.
• Technology is the guerrilla marketer's friend. Use it. Leverage it. Profit from it.

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Internet Marketing

Internet marketing has had a large impact on several previously retail-oriented industries including music, film, pharmaceuticals, banking, flea markets, as well as the advertising industry itself. Internet marketing is now overtaking radio marketing in terms of market share.^[3] In the music industry, many consumers have been purchasing and downloading music (e.g., MP3 files) over the Internet for several years in addition to purchasing compact discs. By 2008 Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store has become the largest music vendor in the United States.^[4]

The number of banks offering the ability to perform banking tasks online has also increased. Online banking is believed to appeal to customers because it is more convenient than visiting bank branches. Currently over 150 million U.S. adults now bank online, with increasing Internet connection speed being the primary reason for fast growth in the online banking industry.^{[citation needed]} Of those individuals who use the Internet, 44 percent now perform banking activities over the Internet.^{[citation needed]}

Internet auctions have gained popularity. Unique items that could only previously be found at flea markets are being sold on eBay. Specialized e-stores sell items ranging from antiques to movie props.^[5][6] As the premier online reselling platform, eBay is often used as a price-basis for specialized items. Buyers and sellers often look at prices on the website before going to flea markets; the price shown on eBay often becomes the item's selling price. It is increasingly common for flea market vendors to place a targeted advertisement on the Internet for each item they are selling online, all while running their business out of their homes.

The effect on the advertising industry itself has been profound. In just a few years, online advertising has grown to be worth tens of billions of dollars annually.^[7][8][9] PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that US$16.9 billion was spent on Internet marketing in the U.S. in 2006.^[10]

Internet marketing has had a growing impact on the electoral process. In 2008 candidates for President heavily utilized Internet marketing strategies to reach constituents. During the 2007 primaries candidates added on averaged over 500 social network supporters per day to help spread their message.^[11] Democratic candidate Barack Obama raised over US$1 million in a single day, largely due to online donors.^[12]

^{From the Wikipedia..........best source of free informations}

Internet Marketing Tools: Web 2.0

Internet has became such a powerful tool for almost everything. People are using the web to find all about their life. From daily meal to a multi million dollar trading and dealing.

So what you can expect for your product to be seen, marketed and sold if you dont fully utilize the net?

Let us see the new concept of Web 2.0 in the marketing. Forget about ebook

Social Networking : Ning provide a free social networking tool for you to create your online marketing fields. Invite people who share the same interest like you and market your product. use your social networking platform to recruit new marketer and seller. Invite them for virtual meeting and gathering. Inform them specifically about any update on your services or products.

Blog: Blog has been used widely nowadays. Although it is a conventional tool but yet the power of penetrating the market by mean of blogging is there. Many corporate people now writing about their company and firma. They even write bias about their companies products and services. As techcrunch said in the famous bubble video, blog it even it is wrong! But dont get caught if you are telling lie about your product.....hehehe

Wiki: Wiki means freedom. freedom to express and evaluate something. Let your targeted customer and clients express themselves about your product. Give them access to your producti information so that they can give valuable suggestion and opinion.

Forum: Wohoo.....This is another conventional yet effective medium for you to promote your product. But then forum seems to be so low class....but nvm...just give a try

Email (yeah its conventional).....you know it rite.......fwd fwd fwd and keep forwarding......

High Paying Keywords

So how much have I earned for my Adsense?Write about
1. Entertainment
2. Properties
3. Insurance
4. Internet and Technology

Money Making Blog 5xmom

I came across this blog few years back, while I am still studying in Germany. No doubt this blog has been such a phenomenon to many pro blogger, as it has make its notable mark in the blogger atmosphere. 5xmom writer is a women with kids and family. Many thing we can elarn from her career as blogger.

Time management
Family management
Life management
Emotional management
etc
This a the question that you should answer before you become a proffesional blogger. Nevertheless many has succeed. 5x mom is one of them.

Her blog use a paid hosting hosted by Godaddy. The data as follows:

Registrant:
Chan Lilian

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: 5XMOM.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.UMSY.COM
NS2.UMSY.COM

She use wordpress with a theme from one of the wp themes creator from singapore named eraculous

So this a short review of 5xmom. See you

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Blend Your Adsense With CSS

This is a nice simple tutorial. It is a guide to using css to customize the look of you google adsense. Later I will release a variety of examples for you to use on your own website. Customising the look of the google ads can be very good as it can make the ads blend into your site's design and cause it to look less cumbersome and gaudy.Using CSS With Adsense


When I first think of customising my ads I first need to work out what type of ads I am going to use. For m example I will be using the bann er ads which are 468px x 60px. I chose these as they are easy to fit into site designs and for different widths of screen. I will also be showing this tutorial through adobe photoshop. If you use a different image editting program it shouldn't be too difficult to see what I am doing at each stage.
Designing The Ad Background

Okay so this will be simple. Open up photoshop and select a page of width 468px and height 90px (greater than the height of the ads so we can can add gradients at top and bottom). When we start designing we must keep in mind one important thing - the background of the ads must be a solid colour. So with photoshop open create a new layer and fill the whole working area a background colour. For this example I am going to use #FEF1F9 as it blends in with this site but you can use any colour of your chose. The will be the background for the ads. Next is to create the gradient at the top. To do this open the marquee tool and chose fixed size of 468px wide and 15px high. Create a new layer and fill it with any colour as it will be getting changed. Change the layer properties for this layer as:
Fill Opacity: 0% Gradient Overlay: Overlay - 100%, Linear, 90 degress, From base background colour with opacity set to 0 to black set to 100%.

Read More here

Tags: css, adsense, blen

Blend your adsense color

Edit your Adsense ads to match the look of
your website.


Did you know that with just a few clicks
in your Google Adsense account you can
customize the look of your ads to match
that of your site and content?


Pretty cool huh?


Think about it, if it matches your content
and website, don't you think it will be
much easier to get visitors to click on
your ads?


You bet it will!


If a visitor reads your content, they are
going to be looking for "what to do next"
when they're done.


Give a consistent look and feel throughout
your site and they'll click your ads like
crazy!


Why?


Because the ads don't look like ads, they
look like links to more content!

Who is copying who

Read here Most porn surfers from Kota Baru and Kuantan

BY SALHAN K. AHMAD

PETALING JAYA: Internet surfers in Kota Baru and Kuantan topped the list of local pornographic website visitors, according to Google Trends.

The most searched entries are “bogel” (nudity), “gambar bogel” (nude pictures), “seks Melayu” (sex involving Malays) and “cerita seks” (sex stories).

Google Trends is a leading Internet application provider by online search engine Google.

A check by mStar Online, The Star’s Malay online portal, found that Internet users in Alor Star, Kota Kinabalu, Batu Pahat, Johor Baru and Petaling Jaya preferred the entry “bogel”.

Kota Baru surfers searched mostly for “sex” and “porn” while surfers in Batu Pahat, Petaling Jaya, Johor Baru, Klang and Shah Alam searched mostly for “Melayu bogel” (nude Malays).

“Gambar bogel” is a favourite among Internet users in Kuantan, Kota Baru, Alor Star, Kota Kinabalu, Batu Pahat, Johor Baru and Petaling Jaya.

“Seks Melayu” is also popular among those in Klang, Batu Pahat, Johor Baru, Petaling Jaya and Ipoh.

Universiti Malaya psychologist Assoc Prof Dr Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar viewed the development as a normal phenomenon, especially in Kelantan which practised conservative policies in sensitive matters such as sexuality.

“If a teenager was the one who searched for it, it is normal because of puberty and he has to learn about sexuality to understand the changes they experience.

“If teenagers ask their parents or peers, how much information can they get? In Kelantan, parents are not open to talking about sexuality with their children,” she said, adding that some parents tend to regard the subject as a taboo.

Dr Jas Laile also said some research studies found that searching for sex materials online could lead to addiction.

However, she pointed out that the data in Google Trends did not give a full picture because it did not show information such as the age group of the Internet users.

“We cannot make a general conclusion, because if one aspect in the survey was wrong everything would be wrong,” she said.

Google Trends, at its official website, said the data shown was not an accurate yardstick as it only analysed part of the entries in Google.

According to information and technology communications writer Oon Yeoh, most Internet users who searched for sex materials were new users.

He said they would explore cyberspace because it could give them endless information compared with other media.

from the Star Dated http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/12/10/nation/16280253&sec=nation Okt 2006Read mine from July 2006

Make Money Online thru Blog

With that out of the way, let’s get started:

1. Contextual Advertising

Surprise, surprise. Advertising is easily the most popular blog monetization tactic, mostly due to it being the easiest thing to implement. Advertising comes in many forms, and contextual advertising is the most popular due to Google Adsense and it’s general success with blogs and niche sites.

I’m going to assume everyone reading this is familiar with it, but I think it should be mentioned that too many bloggers assume that Adsense is the best solution for their blog. For some blogs and topics it works great, for others, not very well at all.

My advice is to not limit your blog to one ad network or just one form of advertising. Other contextual options include the Yahoo Publisher Network, Chitika, Clicksor, AdSonar, and others. It’s not easy to manually test all these though if you’re shuffling ad tags around and randomly allocating your impressions to them, using a ad network management tool like RMX Direct can help you manage, evaluate, and control your various ad networks.

2. Display Advertising

As I mentioned above, contextual networks aren’t always the best solution for blogs. In some cases there aren’t enough advertisers in niche topics, and in others the users just isn’t likely to click. In this case, you want to be working with ad networks that provide CPM display advertising. This means you get paid something for every ad viewed, opposed to only getting paid per click.

Just like with contextual networks, it’s important to use multiple display ad networks to get more variety from your ads, to not let any one network control your inventory, and to make sure you’re earning the most amount of money possible.4. Text Link Advertising

Another somewhat unobtrusive form of advertising is using services like Text Link Ads or Adbrite to sell text ads directly to companies. This is pretty low effort and often doesn’t take up too much space on a site, so it’s easy to implement and try out. It should be noted though that you need significant traffic for it to be a big source of income.

5. Affiliate Links

One of the older web monetization methods is still as good today as it’s always been. If you’ve got a blog in a specific area, there’s a very large chance that there are companies out there that sell products or services your users are interested in. You can earn some nice income recommending or linking to those products.

Amazon.com is probably the most common affiliate merchant used by bloggers, but I’d advise finding other unique merchants who may pay better and be more specific to your topic. Amazon is always there as an option, but you’re more likely to get more help from the merchant if you go with a smaller company.

Another nice thing about affiliate links is that they fit well with quality content. Reviewing products and services for your users is valuable content, and if you can make money off it as well it’s a great combination. A word of warning though that you shouldn’t change your reviews or be biased due to the fact you can make money off a referral.

While traffic also helps for affiliate links, it can sometimes be an easier way to generate income without high traffic levels like advertising requires. As an example I did a review of a web analytics application a couple of years ago, and this blog had very little traffic at that point. I referred two sales through that review though that still earn me $150 a month every month two years later. Read more here

Introduction to Open Source

Introduction

Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:
1. Free Redistribution

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
2. Source Code

The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
3. Derived Works

The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code

The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

Read more here at Open Source Institute

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons. Open source software is computer software whose source code is available under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is often developed in a public, collaborative manner. It is the most prominent example of open source development and often compared to user generated content.[1]

1.List of Open Source Software
2.Open Surce remository at SourceForge

Thank you Geng The Movie

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Suddenly my page hit increase because of the backlink in the lescopaque forum. For those who is still blur what lescopaque mean, in our language Lescopaque mean last kopek-last provision. It has the french sound but I do belief it nuthing to do with the French language.

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INDERECTLY THIS IS ALSO ANOTHER TIPS TO INCREASE WEB TRAFFIC.

"Write commentary about what CURRENTLY happening around you, then link to them."

"Dont forget to leave comment...k....."

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My Adsense Check

In the previous entry, I wrote that I will receive the second Adsense check. So it just arrived last week. This is the picture.