If you have been reading or searching online what is said about Paypal in Malaysia, then you will have noticed that Paypal in Malaysia offers now more features than before. In a nutshell : Paypal accepts payment in Ringgit Malaysia (RM).  You can also withdraw this PayPal money directly to any Malaysia local bank account. I have a summary on it here.

You can register at http://www.google.com.my/stimulus; One AdWords coupon per company only.

If you don’t know what Google Adwords is, you can real all about it here at www.google.com/adwords

If you need help setting up your Google Adwords Campaign, you can also choose contact us.

One would be almost a fool not to see the advantages of having a twitter.com account. And you have such an account, start tweeting the news and link it to your blog and website. People that are interested in you or your company will follow you and recommend, relist, retweet you to their own community. Call it the online word of mouth.

If you think your staff will waste time on twitter.com, well don’t worry, get the biggest tweeter in your company and make that one into the house tweeter and blogger and come up with a monthly slideshow on the benefits of twitter for your business. If there is not benefit (I doubt that), then you will soon find out…

Eitherways, don’t just talk about it but get it now at http://twitter.com

I don’t want to read all this, I got no time or I would not understand it anways. just get it done for my company, we will pay you a reasonable fee.

Or continue reading and learn how we did it.

Twitter according to WikiPedia : “Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.” source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

I have setup a number of accounts myself for www.cmd.com.my, I will call these community content boxes. Within minutes people (some are spammers and twitter zombies, I know…) started to follow us. This really works.

Here are our twitter ID’s : www.twitter.com/CMD_COM_MY (main CMD company account), twitter.com/malaysia_seo (our SEO related project in Malaysia), twitter.com/seokualalumpur (seo in Kuala Lumpur related info), twitter.com/CMD_E_Commerce (our Cubecart / E-commerce / E-catalogs related projects), twitter.com/cmdblogs (business blogs by CMD, blog related info, we currently use wordpress)

Then we have setup some product/service related accounts (you cannot put everything into one twitter, it will get too full, unfocused).  This is to stick to the topic at hand within a twitter account.

This helps to keep things where they belong.

Then I proceeded with making some categories to classify the information in our twitter list.

• internet-access-malaysia
• malaysia-unclassified
• football-malaysia
• transport-in-malaysia
• food-malaysia
• internet-hosting-malaysia
• it-developments-malaysia
• online-sales-in-malaysia
• politics-in-malaysia
• diving-in-malaysia
• tourism-malaysia
• gadgets-in-malaysia
• online-ads-in-malaysia
• blogs-in-malaysia
• news-in-malaysia
• seo-in-thailand
• google-adwords
• seo-in-malaysia
• telecoms-in-malaysia

My own twitter ID is http://twitter.com/jangeirnaert alias http://twitter.com/tropicaljantie but I don’t use that for business related matters. Better keep your personal twitter and company twitter separated.

Last thing use tweetdeck.com to manage multiple twitter accounts and keep spammers or twitter zombies out with truetwit.com. This will keep twitter spam out… and make users authenticate themselves.

So far my twitter tip for today.

Related top postings on twitter for business :

• 4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business – ReadWriteEnterprise Gartner released a report today that highlights the different ways that companies are adopting Twitter for business use.
• 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
• How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business | Copyblogger
• 62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business – WebWorkerDailyTwitter for Business FAQ Twitter is still a scary, untamed frontier for many businesses.
• Twitter for Business FAQ. Twitter is still a scary, untamed frontier for many businesses

Hi,

In order to streamline your support requests and better serve you as a CMD customer, we now utilize a support ticket system.

Every support request of a CMD customer is assigned a unique ticket number which you can use to track the progress and responses online.

In order to get support as a CMD customer we require you to register with a known and valid email address.

We only provide support to active and known CMD customers in relation to the project that CMD is providing to you.

We are not a general “all topics” helpdesk.

Not all topics will be supported FOC. In some cases we would even suggest you to purchase a support contract.

You can submit your questions here  in our support system : http://www.cmd.my/support

And since websites have to be like a bit organized, one should make a business and marketing plan first… I have noticed that sometimes customer that ask to make websites or blogs don’t really give much thought about proper structure text. Maybe making a business-plan might help to sort things out.

Take a look at http://www.paloalto.com/ their business plan and marketing plan software.

Most websites for SME’s can be quite simple, especially when they are an extension of the core business and focus on what the customers really wants. I think that for example this business plan and marketing plan software can be helpful in analyzing what your business is actually about… before you go to a web-design bureau or copywriter to build “something”…

Just launched the new landingpage for Smajpremium.com (still tuning it on SEO level). This project is for a premium gifts company in Brunei.

In a nutshell, this project has 3 main levels :

• www.smajpremium.com landingpage
• www.smajnow.com newsletter / blog attached
• www.smajstore.com / secondary store with different type of items.

Smajpremium.com landingpage

Right here : the Add-on Collector :: Add-ons for Firefox.

In the News

Today we shared statistics on the value of sharing, and how Email vs. Twitter vs. Facebook perform at various stages of sharing.  You can read more about this on the ShareThis Blog or in MediaPost’s article.

Sharing vs. Search

Many of our publishers are seeing increasing results from sharing. Here are a few network-wide observations. Stay tuned to our blog and site for more insights in coming weeks.

• Sharing can make up 5-10% of your overall traffic.
• Sharing can make up 15-30% of your search traffic.
• Sharing drives 25-50% more engagement (page views/unique) than search.

Not seeing these results yet? Contact pubrelations@sharethis.com to learn about better sharing practices for your site.

2009 Growth

ShareThis network saw a 200% increase in “shares per page view” in 2009: This means that on average, for every page view served on your sites, you doubled your rate of sharing. The auto-preference and on-hover features are contributing to this increase. Keep up the good work and let us know if we can help further improve your sharing success.

Yahoo! Integration is a Success: Since rolling out this feature in October, we’ve seen connected users usage rates increase dramatically, meaning your content is being shared more often.  We’re seeing four shares per user from Yahoo! connected users, which is higher than our average. Stay tuned for more social connections in 2010 that will further increase your traffic and engagement.

source : email from sharethis. see also http://sharethis.com/blog/2009/12/16/the-value-of-sharing-social-engagement/

China’s network information center said that individuals are effectively barred from registering domain names ending with .cn unless they have a business license to show they’re a bona fide company.

The announcement came after a report by China Central Television (CCTV) aired criticism of the registration process and linked it to the prevalence of pornographic websites.

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) published a notice Sunday saying that applicants must submit written applications to the registration agents. The written materials must include an application form with an official seal, an enterprise business license and the registrant’s ID card.

CNNIC plans to verify the information of the owners of personal site in the nation. Those found unqualified to have a site will be required to update the information in five working days, otherwise they will be shut down.

source : http://business.globaltimes.cn/china-economy/2009-12/491515.html