05.31.07

$100 Dollars Marketing Budget

Posted in E-commerce, Online Marketing at 11:10 am by admin

You know it well that every website is an isolated island, if you just starting off with your new website, what would you do if you have only $100 to market your website? Worst, what if the below is the only one you got?

Check out what the experts have to say, always remember, be creative – like Steve Wozniak (Apple cofounder) quoted:

�All the best things I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, (b) not having done it before ever. Every single thing that we came out with was really great, I�d never once done that thing in my life.�

Like the USD 100 with your face on it? Check out this very neat money maker. Special thanks to liewcf for teaching us how to print money with your pretty face on it

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05.30.07

Statcounter Upgraded!

Posted in E-commerce, Web Technologies at 8:39 pm by admin

Statcounter, one of the web analytics program strongly recommended by us (and supported by both our SEO shopping cart and SEO ecatalog software) , generously increase their logging from 100 to 500 for all their FREE Account!

For all the Free members, to increase your log size, just log into StatCounter and click the wrench icon beside your project. Click �Adjust Log Size�, and enter 500 in the box. Click �Adjust Project Log� and you�re done!

Find out more details on the statcoutner upgrade.

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05.11.07

Yellow Pages Dooms Day

Posted in E-commerce, Online Marketing at 5:59 pm by admin

Yellow Pages� Dooms Day
“Yellow Page(s) usage among people below 50 will drop to near ZERO in the next five years,” Bill Gates told a crowd of more than 1,000 people from the advertising, publishing and tech industries at recently held Microsoft’s Strategic Account Summit.

Will Bill Gates get it right? Well, ask yourself a question, when was the last time you flipped through your clunky Yellow Pages looking for products or services? Or you just simply “Google” for the stuff you are looking for ?? Heck, I even Google using my mobile looking for the book title i couldn’t seem to recall during my recent visit to popular *sorry gates, Google equals search now. NOT live or MSN.

Now you shouldn’t wondered why Malaysia Yellow Pages (Own and operated by the monopolistic TM) is looking for a buyer and asking for a merely RM25 Million “only”. Better sell it fast before it actually worth nothing more than a junk bond in few years time – if Bill Gates were proven right.

Well again, Bill Gates might be wrong, he actually quoted this back in 1981: “640K of memory should be enough for anybody.” But i won’t bet against it this time. Because I myself believe, if they (traditional yellow pages or directory companies) don’t transform fast enough, they will end-up in HELL.

Internet is already taking over. Search is the king. Think you can hide? Google already have a regional presence in Singapore and they will come and whack your a** soon.

Also, Blog no doubt will be one of major advertising channel as advertisers like its loyalty readers and “high trust”. That’s why services like reviewme, text-link-ad, adbrite etc are blossoming. As for Malaysia context wise, let’s watch and see whether Nuffnang or Advertlets will swamp the market.

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05.09.07

Statcounter Founder Wins Award

Posted in E-commerce, Entrepreneurship, Web Technologies at 1:15 am by yipwt

Statcounter Founder – Aodhan Cullen just being awarded as Young IT Person of the Year at the ICT Excellence Awards.

Update: Aodhan just nominated for Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs 2007, vote for him if you like and use his services!

StatCounter currently has over 1.3 million members and tracks 9 billion pageloads per month for 2 million websites. It’s one of our all time favorite website statistic tracking tool, we love it so much that we decide to build something so our customers can have it easily installed into both the SEO shopping cart and SEO e-catalog software.

Look at the picture above, don’t be fooled by the beard. He’s only 24 now (gosh, makes me feel old). The year he founded statcounter.com was back at 1999, when he was only 16. (i surrender, i admit i’m old) He started off with website design. But his clients were wondering how they can tell whether anyone has visited their website? It was after that he started to develop statcounter and it eventually grow into one of the most popular tool around the world with a PR9! (used to be PR10).

If you want a real-time web statistic counter that’s very easy to use (much easier than Google Analytics), please give statcounter a try. You will love it, especially when you use it with our webshaper shopping cart solution.

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