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Interested In Internet Marketing?

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Internet marketing is a very broad subject. If you understand how broad offline marketing and sales is, it is the same for online or internet marketing. Therefore, in order for your online marketing campaign to be successful, there must be a group of marketers that truly focus on doing it. It is complex and the methods are variety. Fortunately there are few distinguished techniques for you to start. While the others, they can be implemented later accordingly.

1) WEBSITE - Why having a properly designed website is very important to optimize your online marketing?

The purpose of marketing is to create leads.  Once you have leads, then it is up to the sales team to close the deal. Among the leads, there are people whom you can close them right on the spot. For others, there must be some leads nurturing effort before they are convinced to engage on your products or services.

The campaign that you make to get people to visit your website is called marketing. It can be via both ways; online and offline or just one at a time. Once the visitors are at the home page, your website is taking the role of a salesman. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that your products’ website is your online sales men. That factor alone is a very good reason for you to invest for a well designed website.

Now, you’ve understood the function of your website. Let’s get to understand in brief about what are the visitors’ expectations and behaviours about any website:

  • People come to web sites to satisfy goals, to do tasks, to get answers to questions.
  • They come for information, for the content that they think (or hope) is there
  • Answers a question or helps them complete a task
  • Information is easy to find and easy to understand
  • They expect the content to be accurate, up to date, and credible
  • They don’t read much, especially before they get to the page that has the information they want.
  • Even on information pages, they skim and scan before they start to read.
  • They want to read only enough to meet their needs.

Let’s discuss about the vital points to consider….opps! I’m sorry. I have to catch an appointment now. We’ll continue later, ok? :)

Iphone 3G will be available in Malaysia next week!

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

iphone

Just today, Maxis has finally announced that it will offer iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB from 20 March onwards. Looking at the plan, you can even get the iPhone 8GB for FREE!

So what is the buzz with iPhone 3G? iPhone 3G actually combines three products in one – a revolutionary phone, widescreen iPod and breakthrough internet device. With fast 3G networking, GPS mapping and support for enterprise features, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips.

One of the best things about iPhone is that you get access to the groundbreaking App Store, which provides access to tens of thousands of applications like games, social networking, financial planning, health management, etc. It has generated more than 500 million downloads to date.

I know many of my friends have been eagerly anticipating this revolutionary phone. Some of them have even bought their iPhones from the US, European or Singaporean markets.

Maxis will offer the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3G models with 4 new postpaid plans called iValue, starting from RM100 per month. For customers who sign up for iValue 4 plan, the iPhone 3G 8GB will be free of charge. I think these bundled voice and data plans are the first of their kind in Malaysia. Below are the new service plans.

Price Plan :

iValue 1

iValue 2

iValue 3

iValue 4

Monthly fee

RM100

RM155

RM250

RM375

Voice credit (mins)

333 mins

666 mins

1,500 mins

2,500 mins

Data credit (MB)

500MB

1GB

2GB

3GB

iPhone 8GB

RM1,510

RM1,260

RM680

RM0 (FREE!)

iPhone 16GB

RM1,890

RM1,640

RM1,060

RM260

 Looking at the prices above, the iPhones are much cheaper than the ones you get from outside of Malaysia. Most of my friends bought their iPhone 3G for around RM2000. But these Maxis plans monthly charges are on definitely the high side - the cheapest is RM100/month. Plus, you’ll be bounded by 24-months contract too.

Anyway, it’s about time iPhone is finally sold in Malaysia especially with all the iPhone fans we have here. Actually, iPhone 3G is now already available in over 70 countries around the world. I am still puzzled as to why it took so long for iPhone to be offered in Malaysia.

You can learn more, or book an iPhone 3G at www.maxis.com.my/iPhone. The launch will be held at 7pm on March 20 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, where customers can collect their pre-booked iPhones. Walk-in customers may also book iPhones there.

e-ryza: Brain of Malaysia?

Friday, January 16th, 2009

I came across a news that Malaysia’s very own information kiosk utilising the touchscreen concept, e-ryza, was launched in KL Sentral yesterday.

Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman said the kiosk, called the Brain of Malaysia, would serve as a platform to promote “Zoom! Malaysia”, the ministry’s campaign to promote domestic tourism.

The news claimed that the kiosk has web access, video mail, bill payment and e-ticketing services, among others. It also provides Internet access at a low rate, 20 sen for every two minutes.

So far, 100 kiosks have been installed at various places like the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT), KL Sentral and a few shopping malls in Klang Valley. Another 100 units will be installed this year at public areas in all states and airports.

With the cost of RM40k per unit, I really hope the kiosks will be fully utilized..