Paypal Now Accepts Credit Card in MYR

December 22, 2009 Administrative / Food for Thought
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Better still you can get Paypal to transfer your money to you bank of choice. All Malaysian banks are listed in Paypal website. Isn’t this great?

Last week, I just got my money transferred from USD to my Maybank account. Isn’t this cool?

What does this means for you and me? Malaysians now have great potential to:

  • Setup E-Commerce to Generate Revenue Online
  • Automate Payment Processing on Your Website
  • You can now accept Credit Cards just like ATM Deposits

Of course, there’s a minimal overhead costs for this. Paypal have charges for accepting credit cards and it is automatically deducted from your funds received.

If the amount is small or profit margin is tight, then you may need to calculate your costs. Otherwise, it is just a small fees to absorb on our side.

So, if you’re not sign up yet, click below banner to sign up (it’s free just like email):
Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

May E-Commerce Brings You More Profits and Happy Holidays!

Which Country is the Fastest in Buying iPhones?

December 19, 2009 Marketing
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What does this data mean for mobile marketers? Although the iPhone is most dominant in US markets, it may be worth investing in marketing campaigns for the iPhone in other markets, especially those that are fast growing. …


Sunway to open “Nite Park”, Malaysia

December 18, 2009 Marketing
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Leo Burnett was responsible for the overall look and feel of all visuals in marketing collaterals. Carat managed the campaign’s media bookings for radio, press and magazine advertorials. Go Communications handles the theme park’s public …


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What The Road System Makes Me Realize…

October 22, 2009 Food for Thought
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RoadComparing today and yesterday’s trip to fetch my wife after a training class, I found that traveling on the same road on both days can varies in the time taken to arrive at the destination.

Yesterday, I left office at about 7.00 PM. and reach to the destination on 8.00 PM. It takes 1 hour for me to reach there. And today, the same road, but leaving office at 5.00 PM, I’ve reach there at 5.15 PM.

In my quest of saving time from unnecessary wastage, I’m wondering that just by traveling at different times can save me a big amount of time (and money too). Isn’t this interesting?!

Over the past few months, I’ve been trying different timing of starting my journey to and from my home and office. Observing the amount of time spent with different combination, I’m trying to work out a pattern.

338505_logbookPattern is used by human to predict outcomes from a given set of inputs. The more complete the pattern, the better the prediction model is. So, similarly for success, if we are in the journey to discover the pattern that works for us, we will eventually make it to our destination by applying the right sequence of variables.

Would you agree? That patterns to success does exists.

5 Cases for Paper Carrier Bags to Get Viral

October 13, 2009 Marketing
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Got this from my friend Tony, who forwarded an email with such interesting photos and thought I put it up to share with you.

Don’t you think this is having a good viral effect?

People would be looking at it and talk about it. Probably would ask the person holding and ask “Hey, where did you get this cool bag?”. Hmmm… interesting!

Click on each photo to enlarge it. Enjoy!

bag-2bag-3bag-5

bag-8bag-9


Have you seen anything similar? Let’s provoke our thoughts.

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

September 30, 2009 Food for Thought / Marketing / Product R&D / Sales
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The above quote from Leornado da Vinci.

Whether it is in communication, presentation, web design, UI design, always keep it simple. That is where sophistication comes in.

People pay higher price for sophistication rather than complex.

Complex is interesting. Simple is usable. If you have the time, go through the slides below.

Secrets of Simplicity: rules for being simple and usable (Giles Colborne)

The 3 Twitter Benefits for Business are…

September 29, 2009 Marketing
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Do you agree that small things make the biggest impact. One of a good example is Twitter.

Less is more. With 140 characters for each message, Twitter has grown wild and have been successful within the web in a very short time.

Now that Twitter is around for a while and there’s an established presence, entrepreneurs and companies should start looking at leveraging on Twitter.

Without delving too deep, let’s start by looking at what are the benefits we can expect from using Twitter.

Establish Loyalty

Loyalty allows a business or company to have consistent revenue based on repeat purchases and referrals.

Twitter allows you to be more accessible, more sociable, more trustworthy.

Maintain Sight

This is pure marketing, out of sight = out of mind. A consistent flow of short messages can maintain relationship and remind your followers of your existence.

Build up a List of Contacts

Allow people to follow you in twitter. All your updates will be visible to them once they follow you.

This is the asset of many marketing efforts. A targeted list or database of contacts, not just any contacts, will provide leverage on future marketing efforts almost immediately, making it much easier to boost up sales.

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This is what I’ve written back in year 2002

September 28, 2009 Food for Thought
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My article about Knowledge Workers written back when I just started business not long ago.

In my opinion, knowledge worker is an important concept to grasp.

Just a little side note, I’m currently working on increasing value for everyone I know (my colleagues) by turning them to knowledge workers rather than labor workers.

Labor vs Knowledge

As it may be obvious, knowledge is power.

Those who work on improving on knowledge has higher chance of earning a better income with better lifestyle. Compared to laborious work, it is more towards active income where the income stops as soon as the work stops.

Anyway, here is my article written back in Oct 2002:

Knowledge Workers, The New Workforce

There’s some grammar mistakes along the way, please don’t laugh too hard.

Do let me know your thoughts, ok?

Clarity = Power, But How To Have Clarity?

September 27, 2009 Others
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thoughtsAn advice given from H.L. Hunt if you want to be financially successful (a self-made billionaire who died in 1974). First you need to decide what you want to accomplish. The point here is clarity. Strong definition is vital to any success.

Along my experiences, there are many times I found myself not too clear of what I wanted. Impatience causes me to convey weak messages to my colleagues and expect them to work on it, which then doesn’t happen.

So, the golden question is: How to be clearly defined?

Let’s use tools to help us along.
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Experience is measured by the mistakes made, not by years.

September 27, 2009 Food for Thought
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How many mistakes we made? Big and small.

Along the way, we learn from the mistakes in order to not repeat the same mistakes again.

That’s advancements.

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