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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Apa itu Niche dan Kenapa Menge-Niche Penting Pulak untuk Internet Marketer?

.: Assalamu'alaikum~
:-)

Selepas bersedia dengan emel dan kata laluan yang kuat, kini kita beralih pula dengan bab pertama perniagaan atas talian (perniagaan internet/online business) dengan menggunakan teknik-teknik pemasaran internet (internet marketing), iaitu mengenai Niche. Perkasa asas tentang Niche ialah:
  1. Apakah Niche itu.
  2. dan Kenapa menge-Niche sangat penting untuk kita.
Kita mulakan dengan suasana "baru hendak membuka perniagaan internet."

Image credits to: codiceinternet.

Semasa hendak memulakan sesuatu perniagaan, kita mestilah memilih apa yang hendak kita jual. Ada dua kategori popular untuk perniagaan online ini, menjual barangan/produk atau menyediakan perkhidmatan. Dengan menjadikan internet sebagai premis perniagaan, kita perlu melihat samaada terdapatnya permintaan (pasaran) untuk produk atau perkhidmatan kita tadi.

Ini kerana, jika adanya permintaan...
= maka pasaran kita sudah ada,
= maka akan ada pembeli,
= maka kita boleh mula menjual.
= Berita baik, bukan?   :-)

Berkaitan dengan pembeli, atau tahap permintaan, dua aspek ini perlu dikaji dengan bersungguh-sungguh. Secara ringkasnya, pembeli dan permintaan sangat berkait rapat.
  • Jika pembeli ramai, maka pasaran untuk sesuatu produk atau perkhidmatan itu secara logiknya adalah pasaran yang besar kerana permintaannya banyak.
  • Jika kurang pembeli, maka pasarannya boleh dikatakan kecil sahaja (kerana permintaannya sedikit). Beza pasaran yang besar dan kecil ini bakal mempengaruhi keputusan kita untuk terus berusaha menjual atau tidak.

Akan tetapi, antara pasaran yang besar dengan pasaran yang kecil ini, terdapatnya satu pasaran aneh lagi unik. Tidak dipengaruhi oleh faktor bilangan pembeli, permintaannya untuk produk atau perkhidmatan darinya tetap ada. Ianya lebih mudah digelar pasaran yang khas istimewa, kerana pembelinya hanya mahukan barangan-barangan tertentu sahaja atau perkhidmatan yang khas untuk mereka sahaja.

Pasaran ini agak sukar untuk diganti dengan produk-produk lain, ataupun diberi layanan/perkhidmatan yang berbeza. Mereka tetap nak yang itu juga. Inilah yang dikatakan pasaran Niche tadi.

Niche, dengan kaa lainnya ialah pasaran yang mempunyai permintaan khas terhadap sesuatu barangan atau perkhidmatan yang tertentu.

Pasaran yang sebeginilah yang dicari-cari oleh seorang internet marketer untuk perniagaan online nya. Anda, (dan juga saya), lebih-lebih lagi untuk mereka yang baru menceburkan diri dalam bidang internet marketing ini, adalah wajib untuk mencari pasaran Niche mereka sendiri.

Apa rasionalnya apa best nya apa pentingnya menge-Niche (mencari Niche) ini?

Kebiasaannya, untuk pasaran yang luas dan besar, produk-produk atau perkhidmatan yang kita jual atau sediakan adalah dari jenis yang memuaskan hati semua para pelanggan kita. Tidak kira umur, jantina, tempat tinggal, kuasa membeli, dan lain-lain, semuanya akan 'berpuas hati' dengan barangan dan perkhidmatan yang sedia ada. Tapi apabila kita menge-Niche, kita hanya akan memuaskan hati sebilangan kecil pelanggan dari pasaran yang besar tadi.

Kenapa mahu sebilangan kecil pelanggan saja? Bayangkan contoh ini. Pasaran besar: menjual ubat. Pasaran kecil sedikit dari itu: menjual pencuci muka. Kecil lagi: menjual pencuci untuk muka yang berminyak. Lagi kecil dari itu: menjual pencuci untuk muka remaja lelaki yang berminyak (ini sudah dikira sebagai pasaran niche). Pasaran besar iaitu menjual ubat tadi mencakupi hampir semua pelanggan kita. Pasaran besar ni sahaja sudah menjana berjuta-juta ringgit. Jika kita ambil sedikit sahaja pelanggan dari pasaran besar ini, bayangkan anda ambil sedikit saja dari juta-juta ringgit dari pasaran besar tadi, haa.. Berapa banyak itu? ;-)

image credits: illustir.

Perlu diingatkan juga, persaingan dalam menyediakan produk-produk dan perkhidmatan untuk pasaran Niche ini amatlah sengit, tetapi, jika anda adalah satu-satunya atau yang terawal sekali menjual dalam pasaran Niche tersebut, anda secara automatis akan menjadi market leader dan tempat rujukan yang utama berbanding mereka yang kemudiannya memasuki pasaran Niche itu tadi.

Tambahan pula, jika anda bermula dari Niche dahulu, lama kelamaan anda akan memasuki pasaran yang besar satu hari nanti. Jika anda seorang freshie internet marketing ini, dengan menge-Niche anda akan dapat merasa income dunia marketing dengan lebih cepat lagi. (Jadi anda akan lebih bersemangat untuk terus maju dalam dunia perniagaan online ini). Jadi, itulah sebabnya kenapa menge-Niche sangat penting untuk kita~~
;-)


IM-AIOExplained: "Siapa cepat, dia dapat Niche dulu~~"  :-D

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Friday, April 2, 2010

How to Find & Choose a Profitable Niche? Ver 3.0: Money-Niche Examples >>

.: Greetings~~

I hope that you already finished reading the 'Eye & Ear' and the '5 Value Picks' posts. And now, it's the time to practice them~~
:-D

First and foremost, we need to know what is the 3 for-sure-money-niche in our real world, which, magically applies in our online business world too. It's not a niche literally, (my mistake) but this 3 "general niche" contains a lot of niche with for-sure chances to make money.

While internet marketing world is not limited to these general niches, but each of this niche if done correctly it will definitely make you earn more than your annual salary. ;-)
Image credits to: AMagill.

You wondered why it is called money-niches?

It is because these niches generate lots and lots of money. It is a niche where nobody will resists in spending their money buying products from this money niches. They will buy because they need them to solve their problems, the demand for the products is high and continuous. A money-niche is like a very large pie of cash, and you will make money even if you manage to get even a little slice of this money-niche pie. Hee :-)

But, before that, we need to know two kind of products can be sold online. One is coming from the non-internet world, the physical product, and the other one is the digital product (a product created by using computer software).

Both products can be marketed successfully in any general niche that we gonna learn today. Sometimes your targeted niche may demands for digital products only, and some niche may marketable for both type of products. Do your research and choose wisely~

So, here is the 3 general niches that is labeled as the money-niche~~
  1. Money money
  2. Healthy healthy
  3. Happy happy information~ This is is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally good, heehee~ :-D

Got it?   ;-)

(Ignore the wordy rhyme, okay?) The first money-niche is about the money itself. It is not about logic, but many of IMers out there is making money in this niche. It is already proven, it is recession-proof, it is weather-proof, time-proof, and many many proof out there. Example from this niche?
  • How to make more money without using any~
  • What is the ultimate 21 deadly money mistakes that can make me lose all my salary?
  • Where can I lazily get money for free?

OK, sorry, sorry~ that is not a very good example. Some example of money niche is about tax, credit cards, credit scores, making money, forex, retirement savings, blah blah blah (almost anything that related with earning more money, making more money, getting more money, etc). Some people are getting crazy being crazy and definitely crazy simply by reading how they can make more money~ ;-)

Now, the Healthy healthy money-niche.
Being healthy all the time is one of our ultimate dream. How come any of us who wants to be sick all the time? Nobody right? (Nobody - Wonder girls). Example of healthy healthy niche: acne cure (facial problems), lose weight, beautiful hair, looks and becomes younger, six packs, baby products, sickness recovery, keeps healthy, and blah blah blah again~

The third one, Happy happy information is a money-niche out of this world~
Can you imagine people is so desperate, is so atrocious, so furious just about getting the right information? How about getting the first to know that information? Or the one who had the only information?? Sometimes, information equals to.. power, money, status, our continuity, etc.. (I think you get the idea already). After we get the information we wanted, we become happy~ So a happy happy information is a money-niche that covers all information we (probably) can sells it to people who needs it the most.

And not all information can be sold, and I am sure you know what type information is that. Full stop. Happy happy information is a money-niche filled with prickly buyers~ You give them wrong information, bad one or low quality information, unrelated, then you get unhappy buyers. Unhappy buyers = you're untrustworthy = no more buyers for you. Simple formula.

Example of happy happy information: DIY guides, how to/repairing e-books, help videos/articles/phone calls, online helps/tutors/instant messaging, reviews, etc that covers about money money, healthy healthy, being happy, all sorts or any kinds of information.

You should keep in mind, even though this happy happy information niche is extremely easy to create by ourselves, the free version of happy happy information is the greatest money-niche of all~ ;-)

I didn't expect this turns to be this lengthy, hope this helps us on how to choose and spot our profitable niche, okay? (Share with us if you had better information or questions inside comments below)~~
:-)
Image credits to: swanksalot.

IM-AIOExplained: "Money is in the money-niche?"
;-)

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

How to Find & Choose a Profitable Niche? Ver 2.0: 5 Value Picks >>

.: Have you tried the simplest way to spot your niche?   :-)

In my previous post, the first task for us to complete is to spot our niche by using the simplest method ever. Now, the second part of our lesson is to choose and select which niche is going to give more profit among all niches we've found earlier.

Before we continue, let us immerse ourselves in this motivational quote~~   ;-)
A Living is made by selling something that someone needs at least once a year, and a Million is made by selling something that everybody needs every day. "
by ~ Thorton Wilder, American Dramatist, 1897-1975.

This quote gives us the ultimate clue in obtaining our real million - in order to get that money, we sells something that everybody needs every day. Seriously straightforward~   X-D And because we are doing online business, instead of targeting big market with more buyers, we choose to sells in much smaller market, a niche market where every buyers buys every day (achieving this target alone can give us 4 figures income per month)~~   ;-)

To choose a profitable niche, we need to sort out our niches first. We need to keep in mind that what we want is a niche which will be valuable (aka profitable) when we do online business with it. Below is the five criteria for a niche to be considered valuable:
  • it give us higher profit,
  • it is more popular than the rest,
  • always get continuous demands,
  • sells better with accessories,
  • and if we're lucky, a recurring niche is the most valuable niche of all~   ;-)
One of the necessary tools to help us in determining how valuable a certain niche is by using Google Insights, a free IM tools by Google. Of course there is a lot of (better) tools out there, such as the birdy Niche Blueprint 2.0 or the handy stream of Micro Niche Finder, as starters we use this free tools first. :-)

Stay tuned for the next post - an example post how we gonna spot and choose a niche, narrow it down, and start niche-ing our online business without spending a penny~~   ;-)


IM-AIOExplained: "The best pick will yield better results and higher profits??"

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Friday, March 5, 2010

How to Find & Choose a Profitable Niche? Ver 1.0: Eye and Ear >>

.: Greetings to my dear niche colleagues~~
:-D

It's been kinda busy lately and now it's time to follow up my previous post. (Being busy is good thing, makes me think and think and think about my next post~~). Today's target: min 3 articles posted. Heeheehee~   ;-)

After reading and getting a hint what is a niche definition before, we need to take action. Yes, niche-ing is good, it takes lots of our unnecessary workload out and left us to finish a more simpler and manageable tasks. But how to choose and spot a niche? More importantly, a profitable one?

First, we talk about niche spotting. Based on my previous study, the easiest way to spot a niche is by 'opening our eyes wide and listening with both ears'. Quite ironic, but that is the simplest way ever in spotting a niche, honestly! :-)

Open our eyes wide: Spot any TV/newspaper/banner/brochure/internet/whatever ads near you.
Listen with both ears: Spot any needs/demands/requests/wants/claims/problems/whatever you heard around your community.

Why are you doing this? It is primarily because a niche is a distinct market of demand for a products or a services. By taking note of what people wants and needs, we will be able to notice what way can we serve (sells to) them. Logic?   ;-)

image credits to: Ryan Somma.

The eye reasoning: Usually, ads in TV or newspaper is the ads from companies which have been making real money with their existing products or services. They know that their ads do caters a big portion of the market. Our initial job actually has been simplified by them - which is looking for buyers for our products/services (while at the same time confirming there is a demand for it). So, what we need to do now is to narrow down their ads to find a smaller and special market, and that is our niche.

The ear reasoning: This one is pretty tricky, but it is very direct. We heard straightaway what our prospect wants. They usually will asks for solution, or need help in solving their problems, for example how to repair their home appliances, or how to care their plants, etc. Sometimes we can heard current trends from them, what is the newest fashion, best homemade recipes, etc and this type of verbal information is definitely the niche we need to grab.

So, that is my two simplest way to spot a niche market. Start watching and listen to your surroundings, and then grab your niche one by one~~   ;-)


IM-AIOExplained: "Happy niche-spotting~~" :-D

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

What is Niche Definition and Why Niche-ing is Important for Internet Marketers?

.: Greetings~~

Okay, here comes the first hurdle of our online business. Determining our business niche - what is a niche and why knowing about it is important.

To start our online business, we need to choose what we want to sell - products or services. After that, we need to find if there is any demand for it. When there is no one buys, it has no demands. Demands exists = buyers exists = we can start selling, yayy!~~  :-D

Now we talks about buyers (demands). A large number of buyers do shows a big market, few buyers, well, the market for that particular products/services is (currently) small. This big and small market can influence our business priorities either to seriously start selling or not, because for big market, logically we can sells more compared to smaller market.

However, there is one market which is not so small nor not too big, but is filled with buyers who demands for special needs. This market exists in almost any type of market, does not matter of it's size. It is actually a narrowed down market, where here our buyers demands for specific type of products or services (they can be quite demanding too). And this special market is called the niche market.

Again, niche, in a simple definition is a distinct market of demand for a products or a services.

This so-called niche market is what we internet marketers search for. And yes, definitely for beginners, you need to get this special market no matter what, by hook or by crook. But why niche market is so special, so that important?

When dealing with big market, normally we create such product or services that is customized for all buyers. We mass produce gadgets, medicines of general use or we provide services which able to suits all type of buyers. Well, that is obvious because many would use them, but niche market is kinda special and it is very profitable.

Niche market consists of buyers with special demands. Special demands need special product created for them. Special demands also in need of special service catered for them too. And, because we sells generalized items before, this niche market is left behind. Nobody or there is only a few who caters this special market for them. And that means opportunity for us - whoever able to give them what they need, he or she might become the sole provider or their primary resource for that niche. Wow, imagine how much we will earn if we are the one~  ;-)

That is why we need to focus on this niche market. ;-)

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IM-AIOExplained: "Starts Small Stay Focused and Finish Big~~"  :-D

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Isu: Halalkah Haramkah Perniagaan Internet??

.: Anda seorang Muslim Internet Marketers?
:-)

Sebelum m2mdoh terpesong hanyut hanyut ke topik 'MLM', post ini cuba berkongsikan pandangan peribadi. Tak kisah anda mazhab apa, umur berapa, jantina yang mana, diharap agar fikir-fikirkan hal ini sebelum benar-benar serius dengan perihal perniagaan online dan internet marketing.

Jadi, perniagaan internet ni Halal ke Haram?

Ada banyak faktor perlu dilihat dikaji difikirkan sebelum menyatakan mana-mana perniagaan internet ini sebagai halal atau haram. Utamakan pandangan agama kita dahulu sebelum menggunakan pandangan logik akal, pandangan sosial, dan bermacam-macam pandangan yang ada.


Ini adalah beberapa isi yang dipetik dari pautan di atas ini bercampur dengan pandangan peribadi yang boleh kita fikir-fikirkan sebelum memasuki mana-mana dunia perniagaan internet. Kalau hati kuat menyetujui ianya Halal, maka tanyakanlah pada ulama-ulama kita, panel syariah kita, dan kemudian lakukanlah. Jika hati kuat menyetujui ianya Haram, maka tinggalkanlah tanpa berpaling-paling lagi. Ini kes dunia akhirat hidup mati, rezeki yang diberi kepada badan yang dipinjam dari Ilahi, masa depan anak-anak generasi ke generasi..

Tidak membawa mudarat dan tidak pula memberi mudarat
  • Niat : Niat berniaga adalah semata-mata hanya kerana Allah. Allah yang menentukan samada hari ini kita akan dapat menjual ebook kita, hari esok dapat komisen menjual produk, atau berapa banyak pun yang akan kita dapat semuanya ditentukan Allah. Jika belum rezeki kita, bagaimana usaha pun memang tidak memperolehinya. Dapat atau tidak bukan di luar kuasa kita, tetapi yang sepatutnya kita buat ialah berusaha menjual dan tawakkal.
  • Tujuan perniagaan : Antara asas penting dalam perniagaan Islam ialah menjaga kebajikan dan kemaslahatan umat manusia (tanpa mengira anda seorang Islam atau tidak). Bagi umat Islam yang berniaga, kita Muslim Internet Marketers berniaga dengan niat ikhlas menjaga kebajikan, kita tidak mengambil apa yang menjadi hak orang lain, kita tidak mencuri atau menzalimi sesiapa, menciplak hasil kerja, mengeluarkan produk yang tidak berkualiti dan lain-lain. Memanglah berniaga agar mendapat keuntungan, tetapi keuntungan itu hasil membantu pelanggan atau pengguna produk-produk kita.
  • Strategi perniagaan : Kejujuran seseorang peniaga dan Internet Marketers beragama Islam menjadi titik ukur kemajuan perniagaan itu kelak. Sales page (laman jualan) atau blog atau mana-mana laman web yang mengelirukan, memberi jaminan yang tidak ditepati, keuntungan/bukti yang diubahsuai dengan Photoshop, testimoni yang melampau-lampau, segala-galanya yang boleh mempersoalkan kejujuran diri kita sebagai Muslim Internet Marketers sepatutnya kita jauhi, hindari AKA jangan buat langsung penipuan ini. Beri ikut kemampuan, kebolehan, yang penting jujur dalam perniagaan.
  • Mengira keuntungan : Profit Margin terlampau tinggi/Harga kos untuk menghasilkan sesebuah ebook atau barang jualan tidak setimpal dengan harga jualan. Berkenaan hal ini adalah lebih untuk kita memikirkan tujuan kita berniaga di internet kembali, bukan untuk keuntungan semata-mata, tapi untuk mendapat keberkatan dari Allah, di samping memberikan manfaat kepada pembeli. Letakkanlah harga yang berpatutan, jika harga yang tinggi dikenakan maka berilah bonus-bonus yang setimpal, khidmat bantuan selepas jualan yang lama, jaminan yang kuat, dan sebagainya.
Perniagaan yang berasaskan internet, dibuat dengan menggunakan internet, atau mana-mana perniagaan sekalipun, Halal Haramnya bergantung bagaimana kita menjalankan urusan perniagaan kita. Biar sedikit pun, atau sekuman pun urusan yang dilakukan dengan cara yang Haram, perniagaan Halal akan menjadi Haram. Gunakan akal yang diberikan Allah untuk menjalankan memikirkan memajukan perniagaan internet secara Islamik agar rezeki yang kita dapat bukan sahaja berkat dan  bermanfaat, tapi turut membentuk jiwa usahawan yang bersih dan prihatin.  :-)


Rujukan/Pautan berkaitan:
  • Permai1.tripod.com : Garis Panduan Tingkah Laku Etika Islam Dalam Perniagaan
  • SmartUsaha.com : Etika perniagaan, Pandangan Islam dan kepentingannya.
  • Zaharuddin.net : Perniagaan Internet Halal atau Haram.
  • Baitul-maal.com : Etika ekonomi Islam, norma Islam dalam ekonomi, kejujuran (Shiddiq), Amanah, Nasehat.
  • WangCyber.com : Adab, etika dan hukum dalam perniagaan internet.
  • MajalahIM.com : Perniagaan Internet Halal atau Haram?
  • Google Books preview : Etika dan amalan perniagaan, oleh Wan Sabri Wan Hussin
  • WangCyber.com : Hakikat sebenar buat duit di internet - lihat 3 jenis perniagaan dalam kategori Halal dan Haram; ada warna hijau, oren dan merah.
  • JerungPerkasa.com : Isi nombor (3). Adakah perniagaan internet ini Halal dan tiada unsur penipuan?

IM-AIOExplained: "Perniagaan yang Halal, rezeki yang Halal, generasi yang Halal Toyyiba~~"
;-)

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Bagaimana Memulakan Perniagaan dgn Internet Marketing? >>

.: Urmm... Payah jugak soalan nih~ ;-P

Sebelum bermula, apa kata kita lihat dahulu makna Internet marketing dan online business bersama-sama~~

Internet marketing (pemasaran internet/pengiklanan internet) bermaksud usaha yang dilakukan untuk memasarkan produk-produk atau perkhidmatan melalui internet, manakala online business (electronic commerce = perniagaan online) membawa maksud menjalankan aktiviti-aktiviti perniagaan dengan menggunakan atau melibatkan teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi, ICT.

Dengan kata lain,
  • Internet marketing ialah cara-cara dan usaha kita untuk menarik pelanggan datang ke laman web untuk membeli produk atau perkhidmatan yang ktia tawarkan.
  • Online business pula ialah perniagaan kita yang dijalankan dengan menggunakan teknologi-teknologi yang berkaitan dengan internet
Maknanya, kita menjalankan online business (perniagaan online), dan untuk menarik pelanggan kepada perniagaan kita gunakan teknik-teknik internet marketing (pemasaran internet)~  :-)

5 Langkah

Setelah mengetahui hubungkait antara dua perkara ini, maka bolehlah kita menjawab soalan yang diatas tadi - Bagaimana hendak memulakan perniagaan online dengan internet marketing. Secara teorinya, untuk bermula kita hanya perlukan 5 langkah ini sahaja, tetapi praktikalnya lebih dari 5 tau~~  ;-)
  1. Cari Niche anda
  2. Praktikkan SEO + Blog secara konsisten
  3. Daftar sebagai Affiliate
  4. Masukkan Autoresponder
  5. Buat Internet Marketing habis-habisan~~  :-D
Untuk makluman, 5 langkah di atas bukan satu-satunya cara untuk kita menjana pendapatan dari internet (sebab ia boleh dilakukan dengan bermacam-macam cara). Tetapi teori asasnya tetap sama.

Kalau diikutkan, sekarang juga anda sudah boleh mula mencari maklumat tentang 5 langkah di atas. Cuma Google-kan, dan anda dapat temui banyak informasi percuma di luar sana. Bersedialah dengan emel anda, dan, adalah lebih baik jika anda terus usahakan selain hanya membaca/menulis/membuat perancangan sahaja. Kalau dah usaha barulah nampak hasilnya, kalau tidak berjaya kita bertanya dan usaha lagi~~

Sebelum m2mdoh menamatkan post ini, ingin dimaklumkan bahawa blog ini akan cuba membantu anda dalam memulakan perniagaan online dengan info-info berguna dan percuma. M2mdoh lakukan bahagian m2mdoh, anda lakukan bahagian anda. Jangan tunggu lama-lama, sebab yang lain pun sama berniaga.  ;-)


IM-AIOExplained: "Jangan takut bermula, tapi takutlah tak sempat nak mula apa-apa.."
Are you ready??  :-)
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Friday, February 5, 2010

Imbasan Post Berkaitan dengan Emel >>

.: Assalamu'alaikum~~
(^o^),v

Post yang sebelum ini menyentuh bagaimana kita memulakan dunia internet marketing ini dengan membuat emel. Emel sebenarnya tool kita yang pertama sekali dalam dunia IM, dan tool ini boleh dimanipulasikan agar 'bekerja' untuk kita. Memang Y! mail dan Gmail yang menjadi pilihan utama untuk membuat emel, tetapi, berapa banyakkah akaun emel yang perlu dibuat??

3 Kegunaan utama

3 akaun sahaja sudah pun mencukupi - satu untuk memuatturun freebies, satu lagi untuk khas untuk aktiviti perniagaan internet, dan akaun emel yang terakhir untuk kegunaan peribadi. Akaun saranan m2mdoh? Y! mail untuk kegunaan yang pertama, Gmail untuk perniagaan, dan yang terakhir gunakan perkhidmatan emel yang anda gemari.

Akaun Y! mail sangat baik dijadikan akaun mengumpul freebies (ebook percuma, muaturun percuma, termasuklah offer dan emel follow up yang bertimbun-timbun) kerana ia menyediakan ruang simpanan yang tidak terhingga. Gmail pula bagus untuk aktivit perniagaan kerana perkhidmatan-perkhidmatan percuma mereka, contohnya Blogger, carian kata kunci (keyword), mengesan trend, melakukan analisa dan pelbagai lagi yang boleh digunakan secara percuma~ Dengan syarat, kita faham bagaimana mengunakannya. ;-)

Inilah imbasan beberapa perkara penting mengenai akaun emel (dalam susunan pembacaan)~~

  1. Menghantar dan membaca emel adalah perkara yang biasa dilakukan selepas membuka emel. Sebagai seorang internet marketer, kita ada 7 cara memanipulasikan akaun emel kita.
  2. Sebelum itu, anggaplah ini titik pertama dalam dunia IM kita - gunakan nama pengguna (username/login ID) yang sesuai dan berkaitan untuk akaun emel.
  3. Dengan nama pengguna yang bagus, sekarang bagaimana kita boleh melindungi akaun emel kita - antara caranya ialah dengan memilih kata laluan yang tepat.
  4. Anda pasti bahawa kata laluan anda kata laluan yang kuat?
  5. Mengapa m2mdoh gemar menggunakan Yahoo! mail dan Gmail?
  6. Atau anda mencari penyedia perkhidmatan emel yang lain?
Selepas post berkaitan emel ini, kita akan beralih pula kepada topik seterusnya dalam dunia Internet marketing. Kita akan sama-sama mempelajari bagaimana mewujudkan perniagaan online dan menjana pendapatan daripadanya. Kita akan menggunakan pendekatan melalui blog dan tools yang berkaitan kelak. Nantikan~~ ;-D


IM-AIOExplained: "Haa, lepas ni kita akan kerap menggunakan perkhidmatan percuma Google. Pastikan anda telah mendaftar utuk akaun Gmail anda~~ " ;-)

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Senarai ringkas kilat kilat perbezaan Gmail dan Y! mail >>

.: Ini ialah antara perbezaan ringkas untuk perkhidmatan emel percuma yang disediakan oleh Y! mail dan Gmail. (suka-suka nak letak kilat, kononnya ringkas dan cepat~~)  ;-P


  • Saiz ruang percuma yang ditawarkan
    • Y! mail: tidak terhad
    • Gmail: buat masa ini adalah sebanyak 7GB++ (akan datang: infinity storage)
  • Kemudahan ber-chatting
    • Y! mail: Yahoo! messenger yang telah diintegrasi bersama
    • Gmail: Google Talk pun turut diintergrasi juga
    • Kebolehan untuk dibuka dalam tab baru
      • Y! mail: Yep (classic dan layout baru dua-dua boleh)
      • Gmail: Huhu, tak boleyy.. (default adalah dalam bentuk paparan conversational)
      • Had saiz kepilan (attachment)
        • hampir kesemua jenis dokumen dan fail, gambar, zip/rar boleh dikepil bersama, kecuali fail .exe
        • Y! mail: 25MB
        • Gmail: 25MB
      • Tema, rekabentuk dan wallpaper
        • Y! mail: warna sahaja (yang diketahui setakat ini)
        • Gmail: ada yang BSP (buat sendiri punya = DIY) atau gunakan tema yang sudah tersedia (ada animasi lagi)
        • Kelajuan untuk load sampai habis
          • Y! mail: kalau style classic - sederhana laju, yang style modern - agak perlahan.
          • Gmail: paparan bentuk HTML - boleh tahan laju woo, paparan default punya - sederhana laju.
          • Aplikasi yang ada
            • Y! mail: Picnik, Flickr, Drop.io, myPhotos oleh Xoopit, PayPal, Evite~~
            • Gmail: macham-macham adaaa (kebanyakannya dalam Google Labs)
            • Kemudahan tersendiri yang unik
              • Y! mail: tarik-kemudian-lepas (drag and drop), fungsi mengesan emel yang baharu diterima secara automatik (auto-check for new messages), carian dalam emel sendiri (search inside mail), fungsi simpan sendiri (auto-save drafts), lebih mudah melihat kepilan (easier access to attachments), ada kalendar, kaedah pintas yang menjimatkan masa (time-saving shortcuts - susah pulak nak translate yang ini...)
              • Gmail: macham-macham adaaa (kebanyakannya dalam Google Labs)
              • Kemampuan mengesan emel spam
                • Y! mail: sederhana
                • Gmail: sederhana
                • Baca emel dari telefon bimbit?
                  • Y! mail: layari [m.yahoo.com/mail]
                  • Gmail: layari [m.google.com/mail]



                IM-AIOExplained: "Dua-dua bagus, pakai aja~~"   ;-D

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                Wednesday, February 3, 2010

                7 Cara Memanipulasi Emel bagi Internet Marketer >>

                .: Benarkah akaun emel percuma boleh digunakan selain menghantar dan menerima emel??

                ;-)  Boleh aja~~ :-

                Selalunya, apabila membuka emel, memang akan membaca, menbuang atau membalas balik emel-emel yang kita dapat. Kadang kala untuk mencetak flight itinerary yang dihantar syarikat penerbangan, membaca newsletter atau blog post terbaru, membuat pengesahan pendaftaran untuk laman sosial yang baru disertai, dan pelbagai lagi jenis emel yang kita dapat hampir setiap hari. Tetapi, sebagai internet marketer, emel boleh digunakan selain daripada fungsinya yang biasa kita gunakan.

                Digunakan <-> dimanipulasikan?

                Secara peribadi, m2mdoh menggunakan lebih dari satu akaun emel. Setiap satunya digunakan dengan tujuan yang berbeza-beza, agar memudahkan proses mengurus 'inventori' emel yang sememangnya bertambah-tambah. Y! mail dan Gmail, antara dua penyedia akaun emel percuma yang sangat-sangat membantu dalam dunia IM. Jadi, apakah cara-cara untuk memanipulasi akaun emel kita ini?

                • Manipulasi #1: Digunakan untuk tujuan perniagaan internet
                  • Walaupun sesetengah antara kita kurang selesa dan pening menggunakan lebih dari satu akaun emel, tetapi dengan memiliki akaun emel yang berbeza untuk kegunaan peribadi dan perniagaan, sangat-sangat membantu mengurangkan kepeningan yang ada. Satu sebabnya lagi, agar kelak kita tidaklah tersalah hantar emel, contohnya terhantar emel peribadi kepada bos, kan malu jadinya nanti..
                • Manipulasi #2: Tempat menyimpan semua freebies dan muaturun  ;-)
                  • Yang ini layann~~ Kenapa buat banyak akaun emel sebab salah satu emel itu nanti gunanya menyimpan semua muaturun dan offer dan follow up emel dan bermacam-macam emel apabila kita berikan untuk mendapatkan mana-mana freebies di internet. (panjang berjela jela) ;-P  Tak kisah nak cakapa nafsu ka, gila ka, sesungguhnya banyak freebies (ebook, transkrip audio, video percuma dll) dari IMers di luar sana sangat-sangat berguna untuk bahan bacaan dan menambah ilmu kita dalam dunia IM. Jadi, download jangan tak download, tapi asingkan dari akaun emel peribadi.
                • Manipulasi #3: Menyimpan salinan dokumen-dokumen (atau sebagai storan kedua)
                  • Pernah mengalami USB pendrive/harddisk yang penuh? Nak simpan banyak lagi barang tapi sudah tidak muat. Jadi, dengan menggunakan storan untuk emel, kita bolehlah menyimpan dokumen-dokumen atau gambar-gambar sebelum dipindahkan ke dalam USB yang baru. Kadang-kadang, apabila bekerja dari cyber cafe, terlupa membawa USB, jadi emel boleh menjadi storan kedua untuk menyimpan kerja-kerja kita tadi. Taip emel yang baharu, kepilkan (attach) dokumen yang dikehendaki, kemudian hantar kembali kepada alamat emel anda sendiri.
                • Manipulasi #4: Medium perhubungan dengan rakan niaga
                  • Oleh kerana Y! mail dan Gmail telah mengintegrasikan 'instant messenging' dalam akaun emel mereka, maka kita boleh terus berbincang atau berkongsi maklumat serentak dengan hanya membuka emel sahaja. Jadi kini kita sudah boleh terus bersembang tanpa perlu install software berlainan, atau membuka softwarenya. Menyenangkan kerja dan menjimatkan masa.
                • Manipulasi #5: Kumpul semua junk emails dalam satu tempat
                  • Apabila kita sign up untuk freebies dari IMers lain (atau dari laman sesawang), kemungkinan untuk menerima junk emel meningkat dengan dahsyatnya. Kenapa? Kerana emel-emel follow up kadang-kadang (selalunya) mengandungi offer-offer atau majlis undangan ke webinar, seminar, atau preview produk-produk baru. Emel-emel ini bukannya emel spam, kerna kita sendiri yang setuju berikan emel untuk mereka, dengan balasan diberikan pautan untuk download freebies diorang. Jadi, sebagai langkah bijak, biarlah semua junk emel berkumpul satu tempat sahaja.
                • Manipulasi #6: Untuk memberi komen di blog/laman web
                  • Kegunaan emel yang lain adalah untuk meninggalkan komen~ m2mdoh sendiri sebenarnya kurang gemar untuk memberi komen, tetapi jika anda mempunyai jawapan untuk persoalan/masalah pada blog mereka, maka anda amat digalakkan untuk membantu dengan memberi komen. Dan, untuk memberi komen, ia perlukan emel. Jadi gunakan emel anda tadi dan selepas itu barulah anda dapat menulis komen anda. (Di samping itu, sertakan juga pautan ke blog/laman sesawang anda juga.)
                • Manipulasi #7: Sebagai 'Online reminder/event planner draft'
                  • Anda sedar tidak terdapatnya fungsi untuk membuat reminder dan mencatit nota pada emel anda? Jadi, selain daripada menggunakan notepad atau word atau open office, apa kata anda terus sahaja gunakan nota pada akaun emel untuk menulis catatan-catatan anda. Gunakan reminder, kalendar untuk menulis tarikh-tarikh, masa pertemuan atau rancangan anda. Di samping itu, dengan cara ini, anda tidak perlu sentiasa membawa USB anda setiap masa, atau perlu menggunakan komputer di rumah untuk melihat jadual-jadual anda.
                Jadi, adalah diharapkan 7 cara memanipulasi emel ini dapat membantu sedikit sebanyak dalam urusan internet marketing anda. Jadi, selepas ini anda bolehlah menggunakan sepenuhnya kuasa akaun emel anda selain dari membaca atau menghantar emel sahaja.


                IM-AIOExplained: "Gunakan dengan barangan percuma dengan bijak"   :-D

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                Tuesday, February 2, 2010

                Kata Laluan yg Lemah, Sederhana, Baik dan Kuat >>

                .: Ini ialah blog post bergambar untuk menunjukkan tahap kekuatan sesuatu kata laluan itu.


                Hee~ ;-)
                (Post ini adalah tepat semasa ditulis). Di sini kita bolehlah melihat bagaimana pemilihan abjad/aksara dalam kata laluan kita itu mempengaruhi tahap kekuatannya. Bandingkan perbezaan antara tahap kata laluan pada Y! mail (pada sebelah kiri) dan juga Gmail (berada di sebelah kanan) yang berbeza-beza.

                Contoh kata laluan - deskripsi


                123456789 - hanya mengandungi nombor sahaja





                12345abcd - kombinasi nombor dan abjad





                abcdefghj - mengandungi abjad sahaja
                12345ABCD - nombor dengan abjad dalam huruf besar





                12345Abcd - kombinasi nombor + huruf besar + huruf kecil
                aBC12345d - dengan susunan yang berlainan





                aB12C345d - susunan rawak + penggunaan nombor + huruf besar dan kecil
                aB1?(345d - kata laluan yang mengandungi simbol bacaan
                @B12C345d - dengan beberapa aksara khusus
                aB12C3$%d - lebih banyak aksara khusus





                Jadi, untuk mana-mana kata laluan, kita boleh simpulkan bahawa kata laluan yang dilabelkan...


                Too short atau Weak  = Kata laluan yang  lemah (mudah dipecah masuk)
                Very Strong = Lata laluan yang kuat dan lebih selamat.


                Perbezaannya seakan-akan tidak berapa ketara, tetapi, berdasarkan pengalaman dan pembacaan yang lepas, adalah digalakkan untuk kita menggunakan tahap kekuatan dari Y! mail kerana ia lebih tepat dalam menentukan kata laluan yang bagus atau tidak. Bagaimanapun, anda sebagai pengguna hendaklah berwaspada dengan apa jua akaun online anda di internet. Salah satu caranya ialah dengan membuat kata laluan yang kuat dan sukar dipecahmasuk.



                IM-AIOExplained: "Tak kisah apa jua kegunaan akaun di internet, semuanya mestilah dilindungi dengan baik." ;-)

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                Saturday, January 30, 2010

                How to Start My Internet Marketing Business?

                .: Urmm... This question is tough~~ ;-P

                Before we continue, Internet marketing and online business, do we really understands what both term means?

                Internet marketing in other words means that efforts made to markets one products or services over the internet, while online business (electronic commerce) means doing business activities by using or utilizing information and communication technologies, ICT.

                My way of saying these terms is, internet marketing is practically our way to attract traffic to our site so they use and buy our products or services, while online business is how we carry out our business activities using internet-related technology.

                We create our online business, and we attract our prospects using internet marketing. Simple and sweet~ ;-)

                From my observation and information gathered from a lot of downloading and reading pdfs, we can say that, to do online business, by using our blog as our platform, can be simplified into 5 grueling yet entertaining tasks~ ;-)
                1. Find our Niche
                2. Do SEO a little bit + Blog consistently
                3. Become an Affiliate
                4. Embed our Autoresponder
                5. Carry out Internet Marketing

                While this not a definite way to do online business, (because it can be done in sooo many ways) but this 5 tasks is a sure method used by others to make profits from internet. I myself personally do not have my own stable online business, but I do have my niche sites ready, hehe ;-)

                I am sure that from my 5 tasks above you can probably start searching your online quest right now because there is a lot of free information out there. Be prepared with your emails and instead of making and creating and writing plans, just take actions and you will get your results. Do not afraid of doing mistakes but be afraid of doing the same mistakes over and over again, okay?

                Before I end my post, I just want to let you know that this blog in due time will guide you step by step in doing internet marketing for our online business - using free tools and widgets, getting more information from my recommended sources plus how to track and manage it. (This blog covers everything related to internet marketing) :-)


                IM-AIOExplained: "This is it - the moment we choose to create our own path for our own future~"
                Are you ready? ;-)

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                Thursday, January 28, 2010

                A Recap of my Email Related Posts >>

                .: Aloha~~
                (^o^)v

                My previous post shares about how we start with the power of email as our first tools in doing internet marketing. future news and info about email will be posted later, we should admit that  email is one of the important key to enter the world of online business. While I do suggest you to use both Yahoo! mail and Gmail services, you may wonder how many emails should you create?

                3 Main purposes

                3 email accounts would be good - one for downloading freebies, one for business use and the last one for my personal use. My recommendation? Y! mail for the first purpose, Gmail for online business, and for personal use you can use any email services to your liking.

                Y! mail is great for collecting free downloads by other internet marketer out there (including collecting all limited or trial offers or junk mails) because of it's unlimited storage, and Gmail is great for internet marketing because their offers many great services for us. Google Blogger, keyword searching, spotting trends, analytics, etc and believe me, all of them is super beneficial for us to use. Provided, we understands what we are doing. ;-)

                To summarize my earlier post about emails, here it is in numbered points (in reading order)~~

                1. Most of us use our email account purely for writing and reading emails. But as an internet marketer, we have another 7 uses for our email account.
                2. Before creating one, consider this is your online business jumpstart - use best and suitable username or login ID for your email account.
                3. With good username, now comes to how we can protect our email. One way to do it - use strong password.
                4. Are you sure that you are using strong password?
                  • This is a graphical post about the level of strength for your password.
                5. Why I said that I Loooove to use Y! mail and Gmail?
                6. Looking for other email services? Or you're using other email than Y! mail and Gmail?

                After that email opening post, now we will move on to the next chapter of Internet Marketing - All in One, Explained~~ ;-)  How to have your own online business and using IM tools to make money from it. My approach is using blog as my business medium~~

                Err, it took me two years to write about email only?? What did I've done? (Since December y2K9 and January y2K10)  X-D ;-P


                IM-AIOExplained: "Trust me, you will use Google services a lot after this. Do create your own Gmail account now for your own convenience~~ " ;-)

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                List of Free Email Service Providers >>

                .: Thought that you might want to use other email services~~

                Here is a list of free web-based email services for you~~ :-D


                • Y! mail - Get free web-based email from Yahoo! Access email from anywhere, enjoy unlimited storage space, and feel secure with award-winning spam protection.


                • Gmail - 7+ GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. Gmail is email that's intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun.


                • MSN Live Hotmail - Powerful free e-mail with security from Microsoft - Windows Live Hotmail is a best in class e-mail service that helps you organize and manage all your online stuff in one place.


                • AOL Mail - It's easy to stay in touch with AOL Mail. Unlimited storage, world class spam and virus protection, and social updates make AOL the best free email.


                • Lycos Mail - Get more from your email with LYCOS Mail. Your LYCOS e-mail account offers 5 GB of storage, as well as: 5GB mail storage; POP3/IMAP access; advanced spam filtering; virus checking; domain and address blocking; and no ads.


                • Excite Mail - Excite is the leading personalization Web portal, featuring world-class search, content and functionality. From financial portfolios to sports scores, local weather forecasts to movie listings, Excite gathers what matters most to you every day. It's like your very own online personal assistant.


                • Mail.com - Mail.com, the best personalized free web-based email and content provider.


                • Inbox.com - Get a free email account from Inbox.com. Rated as one of the best free web-based email services by About.com and TopTenReviews. Offers 5 gigabytes of webmail storage.


                • Crawler email - Crawler portal offers personalized homepage, free 5GB webmail, Games, Screensavers, Wallpapers, Yellow Pages, Ringtones and more!


                • Mail2Web - Check your email from anywhere in the world. mail2web.com offers email hosting services for all your email needs. Check your email for free.


                • Karoo.co.uk - Welcome to Karoo, the local portal for Hull and East Yorkshire


                • Hushmail - Hushmail offers private, secure free email accounts.  Email is encrypted and spam/virus scanned.


                • Fastmail.fm - Fast and secure email hosting services. Reliable SMTP, IMAP, POP and web access. SSL available. Personal, business and family options. Free and paid accounts.


                  Do you want to check if there is other person who use your preferred username? This site actually verifies whether the user email and their mailbox is really exists.


                  • Verify-Email - Verify email address online using free email verification tool.


                  Read and check whether did you receive any of this emails~~ X-O  What's great about this site is you can see that there is 'categories' which emails is hoaxes, which emails brings viruses, invalid lottery-winning emails, etc~


                  • Hoax-Slayer - Stay informed about the latest email hoaxes and scams by subscribing to the Hoax-Slayer Newsletter.


                  Free temporary email address - I wonder how can we put good use in this? ;-P


                  • 10 Minute Mail - Temporary disposable e-mail service to beat spam.  Avoid spam with a free secure e-mail address.


                  • Mail Expire - free temporary email aliases.  mailexpire offers email addresses for free to help fight spam.


                  • My Trash Mail - Free Spam blocker which uses anonymous email. Absolutely genial!


                  • Mailinator - Let them eat spam! Free web-based addresses created as messages are received, with no registration required. Messages are deleted after a few hours.


                  • Guerilla Mail - This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.


                  My preferred choice? Still Y! mail and Gmail~ :-)  How about you?


                  IM-AIOExplained: "Love free stuff and free service soo much~~" X-D

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                  Thursday, January 21, 2010

                  A Quick List of Y! mail and Gmail Differences >>

                  .:

                  Here is a quick comparison which highlights the differences between Yahoo! mail (Y! mail) and Google Mail (Gmail) services.


                  • Free storage space
                    • Y! mail: unlimited
                    • Gmail: currently is 7GB++ (infinity storage: incoming)
                  • Instant chat
                    • Y! mail: Yahoo! messenger built-in
                    • Gmail: Google Talk built-in
                    • Ability to opens in new tab
                      • Y! mail: Yes (both in new and classic layout)
                      • Gmail: Nope (default is in conversational view)
                      • Attachment size limit
                        • Y! mail: 25MB (all documents, pictures, compressed, except .exe files)
                        • Gmail: 25MB
                      • New theme and layout
                        • Y! mail: colors only
                        • Gmail: DIY and animated themes and layout
                        • Loading speed
                          • Y! mail: classic-moderate, new modern layout-quite slow
                          • Gmail: HTML view-fast, default view-moderate.
                          • Apps
                            • Y! mail: picnik, flickr, drop.io, myPhotos by Xoopit, PayPal, evite~~
                            • Gmail: too many (most of them is in Google Labs) 
                            • Special services
                              • Y! mail: drag and drop, auto-check for new messages, search inside mail, auto-save drafts, easier access to attachments, calendar timeline, time-saving shortcuts
                              • Gmail: too many (most of them is in Google Labs)
                              • Spam detection
                                • Y! mail: moderate
                                • Gmail: moderate
                                • Going mobile?



                                IM-AIOExplained: "Use both and gain it all~~"   ;-D

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                                Wednesday, January 20, 2010

                                7 other email uses for an internet marketer >>


                                .: Is there really any other way to use my email account??

                                Email account, as a normal end user, were usually used for 2 basic purposes - writing and reading emails. We use it to reply our friend's email, read our weekly subscribed newsletter or maybe print out our flight itinerary. But as an internet marketer, email can serve us more purposes instead of writing and reading it.

                                Actually, I use more than one email myself. Each of my email is used for different purposes, mainly to simplify my everyday tasks and organize my stuff. Y! mail and Gmail is currently my preferred web-based email. And I would love to recommend you to do the same thing, as this really helps you a lot. So, what is the other uses of email that can benefits internet marketer like us? :-)


                                surprise (e)mail from MacBook
                                image credits to: lucac4

                                • To differentiate our personal and business use
                                  • Although some might think that having too much email accounts can make you dizzy, by having different email for personal use and business use, it actually a life saver. We wouldn't want to accidentally emailed our boss or our colleagues about our horrible party last night, or sends our work report to our great grandfather, wouldn't we? Personal emails really won't mix well with our work.
                                • As our freebies reservoir   ;-)
                                  • This is one of my preferred way how to use my multiple email accounts. Call it temptation or what, but I will definitely agree with you that free stuff is really good. Ebooks, audio transcripts, free videos, etc and all of this is worth to download and used in my online business. To avoid freebies from cluttering my other emails, I make one special account exclusively for this purpose.
                                • Back up our documents and project draft (as our secondary storage)
                                  • Have you experienced your USB flash drive is full to fit in your latest documents, project drafts, ebooks, excels etc? Or sometimes you did lost your USB flash drive somewhere and that mini storage of yours contains your most-prized online documents? Now, by using your email unlimited space, your can back up your documents online, without any fear of losing it or even buy extra USB storage.
                                • Means of communication between partners
                                  • As now both Y! mail and Gmail has their build-in instant messenging along with their email service, this allows us to work and exchange information right on the spot (without the need to open the software). This enables us to do multi-tasking and greatly saves our time.
                                • Collect junk mails all in one place
                                  • Sign up for freebies from other internet sites means that you will definitely to receive more junk mails, contains more offer and and more freebies. This emails cannot be labelled as spam mail because we did choose to receive their emails in the first place. So, to make things organized, use one email account to purposely receives all of this junk mails. ;-)
                                • For blog or site commentating
                                  • I myself admits that I love to read others blog, but I'm not into giving comments so much. Sometimes, where I find that I do have the answers for their problems or questions, I need to use my email before being able to give comments. Here, is our chance to expose our blogs or site. By giving out our email, usually, we can include the link back to our site (some sites or blogs prohibit this). So, our email is used when we want to give comments and also to promotes our internet site.
                                • Online reminder or planner
                                  • Becoming an internet marketer is not an easy task. We need to prepare and makes plans ahead of time to get the first prospect and give the first exposure from others. While most of us use our personal computer or laptop at home (I mean using our own preferred software to jot down our future activities or ideas), we can use the online reminder/calendar from our email to records our plans. Instead of being 'stuck' with your home computer, now we can carry on our online business almost anywhere~~ ;-)

                                Hope this will help us to use our email and internet at it's full potential. Email benefits us in many ways, plus right now it is likely functions as the door to open more great and awesome opportunities and services in our internet marketing world~~

                                IM-AIOExplained: "Use any of them as you like it~~"   :-D

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                                Saturday, January 16, 2010

                                How to create your own Y! mail (Yahoo! mail) >>

                                .: Yahoo! mail, description from Wiki,

                                "Yahoo! Mail (shortened to Y! Mail) is a free web mail service provided by Yahoo!. It was inaugurated in 1997 and serves over 280 million users as of 2009.

                                Currently, Yahoo! offers two versions of Yahoo! Mail: an Outlook-like Ajax interface powered by Yahoo!'s Zimbra introduced in 2007, as well as the traditional static-web-page "Yahoo! Mail Classic," which continues the availability of the simpler 1997-2006 interface for the brand's considerable installed base of users. In early 2008, Yahoo! started offering unlimited mail storage even to its non-paying users, in response to heated competition in the free-web mail market segment."

                                Y! mail is one of my earliest web-based email since 1998. I have a lot of them, but I totally forgot all my passwords... (each email with different password - what am I thinking at that time??) What I love the most about Yahoo! mail is, it's classic interface and the ability to open my email in multiple tabs (unlike Gmail conversational view). Why classic? I love speed so much~~ ;-)



                                So here is how to create our own Yahoo! mail from Docstoc~~



                                How to create your own Yahoo! mail -


                                Need to know more?

                                IM-AIOExplained: "I love Yahoo! messenger's game and their  unlimited storage email space~~"

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                                  Weak, Fair, Good and Very Strong Password >>

                                  .: A graphical post to show the differences of strength level for a password.

                                  This is accurate at time of posting. We'll see how each strength meter shows which is better and stronger password. Here it goes~

                                  Yahoo! mail meter (right side), Gmail meter (left side)~~


                                  123456789 - numbers only






                                  12345abcd - numbers and letters






                                  abcdefghj - words only
                                  12345ABCD - with capital letters






                                  12345Abcd - one capital letter
                                  aBC12345d - different order






                                  aB12C345d - small and capital letters, numbers
                                  aB1?(345d - using simbol
                                  @B12C345d - special character
                                  aB12C3$%d - more special characters






                                  Too short means weak = Very vulnerable password.
                                  Very Strong means harder to crack = Great password.


                                  The differences is not that big, but from my reading and understanding, we should use Yahoo! mail meter as it is more accurate in determining whether our password is good or not. And if you want to learn how to make a better and stronger password, you may refer to this post of mine - How to create a Strong password for email (or any account).


                                  IM-AIOExplained: "Choose for better and stronger password for all account."

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                                  Friday, January 15, 2010

                                  3 sebab kenapa kata laluan tidak dipilih sembarangan >>

                                  .: Assalamu'alaikum dan Hye~~


                                  Kata laluan boleh diibaratkan sebagai 'kunci' untuk membuka bilik internet. Ada kata laluan yg panjang, ada kata laluan yang kecil, ada yang kuat dan ada juga yang lemah. Dan yang sebaik-baik kata laluan ialah kata laluan yang kuat kerana lebih selamat dan terjamin.

                                  Jadi, kenapa pemilihan kata laluan begitu penting?

                                  Sebagai seorang internet marketer, kata laluan adalah salah satu faktor kritikal untuk akaun internet kita. Kita menguruskan dan membuka laman web kita dengan menggunakan kata laluan. Jika tiada kata laluan, sesiapa pun boleh mengakses akaun kita. Tetapi, apabila kita mempunyai kata laluan, ianya mesti dijaga dan dibuat dengan kuat untuk mengurangkan risiko kerugian di kemudian hari.



                                  Menjaga keselamatan maklumat peribadi
                                  Kata laluan tidak dipilih sembarangan kerana kita tidak mahu kita menjadi mangsa internet. Internet boleh menjadi kawan atau menjadi lawan, bergantung bagaimana ia digunakan. Ini kerana maklumat peribadi seperti nama penuh, nombor kad pengenalan, tarikh lahir, alamat tempat tinggal, nombor telefon dan lain-lainnya boleh dipergunakan oleh pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab. Mereka boleh menyamar sebagai diri kita atau menjual maklumat kita kepada pihak lain. Dengan mengetahui kata laluan sahaja membolehkan maklumat peribadi anda diketahui. Anda pastinya tidak mahu menjadi mangsa 'klon' anda sendiri bukan?

                                  Menjaga simpanan wang di bank
                                  Dari segi keselamatan, pihak bank sememangnya telah mempunyai kawalan keselamatan yang tinggi untuk menjaga akaun bank kita. Tetapi, untuk perbankan internet, kita perlukan perantara untuk mengakses akaun bank kita tadi. Perantara tersebut biasanya menggunakan emel dan/atau nombor telefon mudah alih. Yang menjadi peluang untuk mereka ialah akaun emel kita. Emel lebih mudah dipecahmasuk berbanding akaun bank. Jadi, dengan memilih kata laluan yang kuat sekurang-kurangnya emel kita lebih selamat, sekaligus menyelamatkan simpanan wang juga.

                                  Mengelak hasil kerja kita dari dicuri
                                  Pengajaran paling berharga buat seorang internet marketer semestinya apabila hasil kerja yang dirancang dan disiapkan sebelum ini telah dicuri dan dijual kepada orang ramai. Ebook, rakaman temuramah, transkrip rakaman, video-video dan sebagainya telah bocor (leak) dan dimuaturun oleh pesaing dan prospek anda. Belum lagi dicampur dengan semua list prospek kita yang telah bocor, dan berapa keuntungan yang telah mereka dapat. Bagaimana ini boleh terjadi? Kerana kata laluan kita tidak kuat atau dipilih secara sambil lewa sahaja.

                                  Dibawah ini ada beberapa pautan (berbahasa Inggeris) yang baik untuk membuka minda, membuka mata kita betapa pentingnya memilih kata laluan yang baik dan kuat~~


                                  Harapannya, agar kita semua akan lebih berwaspada akan mengambil berat tentang keselamatan dan kekuatan kata laluan akaun internet masing-masing. Sebagai seorang internet marketer, perkara ini sememangnya diutamakan dahulu untuk mengelakkan sebarang kehilangan atau kerugian pada masa depan.


                                  IM-AIOExplained: "Better safe than sorry~~" ;-)

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