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??  :-)

English version? >>

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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? ;-)

Versi Bahasa Malaysia? >>

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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?

• What is webmail (web-based email)? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmail]
• About Yahoo! mail [http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/]
  
• Yahoo! mail in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_mail]
• Yahoo! mail blog [http://www.ymailblog.com/]
  
• Yahoo! mail mobile [http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail]
  
• Yahoo! mail for Firefox [http://bit.ly/7cbayE]
  

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

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How to create your own Gmail (Google email) >>

.: Gmail, as copied from Wiki:

"Gmail is a free, advertising-supported webmail, POP3, and IMAP service provided by Google. In the United Kingdom and Germany it is officially called Google Mail.

Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still with beta status. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite."

Gmail brings wonders to me. Using the same Gmail account, I am able to access most of Google services. What you need is just your Gmail, and you're good to go~ Without futher ado, let's us learn how to sign up for a free Gmail account.



How to create your own Gmail (Google email) -

Download:

• mirror: [http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TV5PGSBP]
  
• mirror: [http://www.4shared.com/file/191299840/2d09bc80/How_to_create_your_own_Gmail__.html]
  

Need to know more?

• What is webmail (web-based email)? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmail]
• About Gmail [http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about.html]
• Gmail in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail]
• Gmail blog [http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/]
• Gmail Twitter [http://twitter.com/gmail]
• Gmail mobile [http://www.google.com/mobile/]
• Gmail addons for Firefox [http://bit.ly/8ImiSB]
  

IM-AIOExplained: "One Gmail account gives you the keys to most of Google free services~~" Kinda neat, rite??   ;-)

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How to create a strong password for an email? (or any account) >>

.: Hi~

How to create a strong password for my email or any online account??

Mmm, you probably reading this post from my email-making ebook (Gmail and Yahoo! mail) or from my other post. And I assume that you already using a strong password, but would you like to know if your password is strong enough?

   image credit to: chotda

Password = Watchword

Citing the definition from Wiki, a password is "A secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource (example: an access code is a type of password)." The password must be kept secret from those not allowed access, and I mean it from all of them.

So how to create a super password?

It's hard to determine a very super strong password. The success of superbness of your password can happen only when:

• your password is super long which you'll need to apply for a special account because of your password contains 999 forever-changing characters or more
• somehow or somewhat that site of yours have super technology or encryption that ultimately prevents your password from being cracked
  
• the world is at peace, no hacker even mind to hack your account or hunt for your personal information
• plus other out-of-this-world-maybe reasons..

Sorry to worry you, below is how you can create a strong password (or use it and modify your current password).

• add extra characters inside: 8, 9, or more is recommended for a strong password.
• easy to remember, hard to guess, and never directly related to you
  
• a mixture of upper and lower case letters
• plus a mixture of numbers, and the ASCII-thing (special characters and punctuation signs)
• using my resemblance method (for bi-lingual IMers) and other methods
  

The resemblance method

I would love to share you my personal resemblance method but we should start with other strong methods. I've found 2 version that is quite handy and incorporate some of their techniques in mine.

1. Read the Microsoft 6 steps to build a strong password, using a simple and catchy sentence here.
2. Learn Scalet's method using simple and catchy sentence with a little twist-unique password for each account that you have.
   

The resemblance technique is basically simple sentences using bi-lingual word and meaning. This type of password is used together with the previous Microsoft's 6 steps. Take "love to eat durian so much" as our example.

1. We starts with l2eduriansm
2. then it becomes l2Eduriansm
3. and l2Edueendsm
4. l2EdueanDsm
5. l2Edu3anDsm
6. lastly, l2Edu3@nD> (a 10 letter password)
   

Explanation:

• substitute 'to' and it becomes '2'
• for the word 'eat', use capital 'E'
  
• here we use other language pronunciation but we spelled it our way. So, this is the resemblance part  mentioned before. Durian, a native fruit in Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, and we change the spelling as 'due-end'. Here the pronunciation of 'due-end' resembles 'durian'. (it sounds like 'durian' a little bit) ;-P
• then add another upper case in our password, 'D'
  
• another number substitution 'e' to '3'
  
• and lastly incorporate the special characters. 'a' becomes '@' and 'sm' becomes '>'
• then it is done - 'l2Edu3@nD>' (do not use this password, okay?) ;-)
  

Say, another example is "major league is next week".

1. majorlinxwk
2. mejalinxwk
3. mejalinxw6
   
4. mEJ4linxw6
5. mEJ4[in*w6 (still a 10 letter password)
   

Explanation:

• 'next' is 'nx', 'week' is 'wk'
• 'major' sounds like meja in Malay. (meja is actually means table). Another resemblance in pronunciation.
  
• spell it in our own way - 'wk' (week) becomes 'w6'
  
• use numbers and capital letters
• change some letters with special characters, the letter 'L' becomes '[' and 'nx' (next) becomes 'n*'
  

My resemblance methods should give you a strange, not found in dictionary, but memorable and quite a strong password. (I've double check both paswords in Yahoo! mail and Gmail email sign up and the results is super strong password). ;-) Hope this blog post of mine will helps you creating a strong password, not just for your email but practically for any account.

These links is good for you~~

• [http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/how-to-choose-and-remember-secure-passwords/] - another method using master password
  
• [http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/choose-good-security-questions-and-better-answers/] - still deciding what is your best security question?
  
• [http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/supportmgr/archive/2009/04/08/please-enter-your-password-more-than-a-passing-decision.aspx] - creating a strong password with their 4 tips
  
• [http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/secret.aspx] - how to keep secret of your password

References:

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password] - What is a password.
  
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength] - Levels of password strength.
  
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII] - the signs and other characters.
  
• [http://psynch.com/docs/choosing-good-passwords.html] - Hitachi's guide of choosing a good password.
  
• [http://www.csoonline.com/article/220721/How_to_Write_Good_Passwords] - a method by Sarah D. Scalet in CSO.
  
• [http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/create.aspx] - contains Microsoft's 6 strong steps to create a password.
• [http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/hacking101/a/password.htm] - passwords that make dictionary go blur blur~~ X-D

IM-AIOExplained: "It happens that using the same password for my Twitter and my email teaches me the to use different super password for each and every account that I have." My Twitter account have been suspended before.. :-(

Bahasa malaysia version? >>

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