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Received Paypal Money in Any Malaysia Bank Account

2009-11-06T07:37:00.003+08:00

It's really a good news for all Malaysian. Thanks to Paypal for this and Liewcf for sharing this info with us.
Below is the guide to received your money in Any Malaysia Bank Account:

Now, Malaysians can send & receive PayPal money in Malaysia Ringgit (MYR) currency, and withdraw PayPal money to local bank accounts!

Meaning, you can sell your stuff online and let PayPal handle the payment transactions, local or International! It truly opens a new door to Malaysia e-commerce business!

Note: Malaysians still cannot top-up their PayPal accounts from their bank accounts.

How to add Malaysia bank account to PayPal?

Login your PayPal account. Under “My Account” tab, click “Profile” then click “Add/Edit Bank Account“.
At the new page “Add a bank account in Malaysia“. You need to fill in your name, bank name, bank routing code, and your bank account number.

Updated: Don’t need to worry about the fixed “Surname” in the form. Just make sure your full name is included. The name’s arrangement (Surname Name or Name Surname) doesn’t matter. Click here for more information.

Tip: click on the “Details” link to find out your bank’s routing code
After you are done, you will be asked to review the details. Click “Add Bank Account” button if everything is correct.
You are done!

How to withdraw PayPal money to Malaysia bank account?

In your PayPal account, click on “Withdraw” under “My Account” tab. Then, click “Withdraw to your bank account” link under the options.
Note: It will take 2-3 business days to process the PayPal to Bank transaction. Withdrawal over RM400 is free of charge. If less than RM400 is withdrawn, PayPal will charge you RM3.00.
At the new page “Withdraw funds“, enter the amount in USD you want to withdraw and select the destination bank account.

Tip: Click on the “Currency converter” link to check the current PayPal currency conversation rate.

Click on “Continue” button to review your withdrawal information.
At the next page, make sure everything is correct before you click on the “Submit” button.
PayPal charge RM15 if the funds are returned because your bank information is incorrect or does not match!

After you clicked on the “Submit” button. Your withdrawal request is pending to process.
Wait 2-3 business day and the PayPal money should be in your selected Malaysia bank account! Cha-ching!

15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

2009-10-11T21:27:00.006+08:00

Another great post by Smashing Magazine, every web designer and web store owner should really look into it, to make your online store more successful. Below is the content and link to the original post.

Selling online can open up huge new markets for many businesses. When your store can be open 24/7 and you can reach a global market without the costs of mailings and call centers, it can be a huge boon to your business. But there are plenty of things to consider when designing an ecommerce site. It’s not as simple as throwing up some shopping cart software and plopping products into a database.

There are tons of mistakes that online retailers make every day, all of them avoidable with a little careful planning. And even if you’re already committing some of these mistakes, most of them are easy enough to fix. Avoiding them will greatly improve the experience of your customers.

Below are 15 of the most common mistakes that e-commerce sites make, as well as advice on how to avoid or fix them. Take the advice under consideration before embarking on a new e-commerce project or when thinking over your current ecommerce site, and make efforts to follow the recommendations outlined here.

1. A lack of detailed product information

When you’re shopping in a brick-and-mortar store, you have the advantage of being able to pick up an item, feel it, look at it from every angle, and read any information on the packaging or labels. Shopping online removes that interaction. Ecommerce sites need to do the best they can to improve upon the in-store shopping experience.

How often have we gone to an online store and found their descriptions to be completely lacking? And if a customer is left wondering about the specifics of a product, they’re more likely to go look for the information elsewhere. And unless your site’s price is significantly lower than your competitors’, they’ll likely just buy from the other site.

What To Do About It

Provide as much product information as you can. Sizes, materials, weight, dimensions, and any other pertinent information depending on what the product is. For example, in an online clothing store, you might include the fabric type, sizes and colors available, a size chart (usually linked from multiple products), the weight or thickness of the item, the cut and fit of the item, care instructions, and comments about the brand or designer. Using descriptive words rather than simply technical terms can have a greater impact on the consumer.

Examples

2. Hiding Contact Information

Consumers want to know that they’re dealing with a real company when they hand over their credit card information. They want to know that if they have a problem they’ll be able to talk to a real person and get the help they need. If your site doesn’t provide any contact information, or hides it so the consumer can’t find it easily, they’re less likely to trust your site, and therefore less likely to do business with you.

What To Do About It

Put your contact information in an easy-to-find place on every page of your website. The most obvious places to put your contact information are either in your header, the top of your sidebar, or in your footer. Provide multiple means of contact if possible. A contact form, email address, phone number, and mailing address all add to the level of customer trust. Remember, too, that the more expensive or technical the product you’re selling, the more likely a consumer is going to want more contact information.

Examples

3. A Long or Confusing Checkout Process

This is one of the most damaging mistakes an ecommerce site can make. You have to make it as easy as possible for your customers to hand over their credit card information and complete their order. The more steps you put between them placing an item in their cart and actually paying for it, the more opportunities you give them to leave your site without completing their purchase.

The ideal checkout process includes a single page for consumers to check their order and enter their billing and shipping information, and a confirmation page before they submit their order. Anything more than that is only an obstacle to completing the checkout process.

What To Do About It

Follow the ideal model as closely as you can. If you have to include other pages, try to make them as quick and easy to fill out as possible. Combine pages if you can, and use two-column layouts for certain sections (like putting billing and shipping information next to each other) to make pages appear shorter.

Examples

4. Requiring an Account to Order

This ties in directly to the previous item. If you require a customer to sign up for an account before they can place an order, it’s another obstacle you’ve placed in their path. Which is more important to you: getting the order or capturing customer information? Remember that the second option may mean losing some customers.

What To Do About It

There’s an easy fix for this. Instead of requiring a customer to sign up for an account before they order, offer them the option at the end of their ordering process. Give them the option to save their account information to make placing future orders easier or to track the status of their current order. Many customers will opt to save their information, and you won’t be driving away customers before they’ve completed their order.

Examples

5. An Inadequate Site Search Engine

If a customer knows exactly what they’re looking for, many will opt to use a search engine instead of sifting through categories and filters. You need to make sure that the search feature on your site works well, and preferably has filters for letting customers refine their results.

How often have you searched for a product on a large ecommerce site and been returned with hundreds of applicable results? While the variety of options can be nice, if half of those results are nothing like what you’re looking for, it’s more an inconvenience than anything else. Including a way for customers to filter their search results by category or feature eliminates this problem.

What To Do About It

Make sure the ecommerce software you’re using has a good built-in search engine, or look for plugins to extend its functionality. Ideally, an ecommerce search engine should let users search by keyword and then refine results based on the categories your site includes. Let users sort their search results based on standard criteria (most popular, highest or lowest price, newest item, etc.) as well as eliminating items that don’t fit within a certain category.

Examples

6. Poor Customer Service Options

This is similar to the hiding contact information bit above. You need to make it easy for customers to get in touch with you if they have a problem or question. Make it clear what the best way to contact you is if they have a technical question, a sales question, or they want to return an item. Offering a help request form for customers to fill out can instill more confidence than just an email address.

What To Do About It

Use a ticketing system for customer service inquiries, especially if you don’t have a phone number available. Make sure that you post a FAQ that covers common questions customers might have, like what your return policy is or what to do if they need to order parts or replacement items.

Examples

7. Tiny Product Images

Since consumers can’t physically handle the products you’re selling before placing an order on your website, you need to do as much as you can to recreate and improve upon that experience. Tiny product images don’t effectively do this.

What To Do About It

Either provide large images right on the product page or allow users to click on an image to zoom in. You want users to be able to view the image as large as is practical on an average monitor. This means an image that enlarges to 1024×768 pixels is a good size to aim for.

Examples

8. Only One Product Image

Unless your product is delivered digitally (and even sometimes if it is), you’ll want to provide multiple images from different angles. An image in each color, of the front, back, and sides, and even detailed shots of specific features can all go a long way toward making a consumer more likely to buy from you.

What To Do About It

This one’s simple: include more images. Four or five images of each product are ideal, offering enough views to allow a consumer to feel comfortable that they know exactly what they’re getting.

Examples

9. A Poor Shopping Cart Design

Your shopping cart is an incredibly important part of your ecommerce website. It needs to allow users to add multiple products, to revise the quantities or other options about those products, and it needs to remain transparent at the same time. Not exactly the easiest thing to do, right?

What To Do About It

Make sure your cart lets a user add an item and then return to the last page they were on. Even better: allow them to add an item to their cart without ever leaving the page they’re on (by using a mini cart). Let your customers edit the quantities of items in their cart or remove an item from their cart. And let them preview what shipping charges will be before they start the checkout process.

Examples

10. Lack of Payment Options

There are plenty of sites out there that only allow users to pay with Visa or MasterCard, or to only pay with a PayPal account. There’s no reason for this anymore. What about the person who has an AmEx and doesn’t have or want a PayPal account? What about the person who doesn’t have a credit card and wants to pay straight from their bank account? You need to provide as many payment solutions as is practical to optimize the number of orders you get.

What To Do About It

Use a payment service that lets customers pay with each major credit card, and preferably also with an electronic check. Adding a PayPal checkout option increases the choices your customers have, making them more likely to purchase from you. Considering different consumers have different preferences when it comes to making online payments, catering to as many as you can means you’ve expanded your customer base.

Examples

11. Not Including Related Products

You’ve probably noticed when you go to a brick and mortar store that they group similar products together, or otherwise make it easy for you to find products that are related to you. They’ll put a battery display in the electronics section, or include cell phone cases near the cell phones. The same can be done on your website, and can increase add-on sales for you business.

What To Do About It

Use an ecommerce platform that lets you include related products on product description pages. A platform that will let you manually choose related products can also give you a big advantage, since you may see relations that a software program doesn’t (such as coordinating clothing pieces to create an outfit).

Examples

12. Confusing Navigation

There’s nothing worse than trying to find a product on a site with confusing navigation. Or even worse, an online store that doesn’t use categories or otherwise separate their merchandise to make it easier to find a specific type of product. The same goes for sites that have categories with no products in them or with only one or two items. Why even bother with a category?

What To Do About It

Think through your categories and navigation elements carefully before you start putting products in your catalog. Make sure that every category has at least a few products in it, or else group smaller categories together (or include them in larger, similar categories). Make it easy for customers to look through different categories, get to their shopping cart, and otherwise move around your site.

Examples

13. Not Including Shipping Rates

There’s no good reason not to include accurate shipping rates on your site. I’ve abandoned purchases on numerous occasions because it said something like “We’ll email you with an accurate shipping quote for approval before processing your order.” When shopping online, I want to be able to complete my order all at one time, without having to wait around for an email to decide whether the shipping charges are too high. Include your rates on your site, no matter what.

What To Do About It

Most major shipping companies and the USPS offer shipping calculators on their website, and there are plugins or widgets available for most major shopping cart systems to figure shipping charges on your site. Use one. If you can’t use one for some reason, then use a flat shipping rate that’s high enough to cover whatever it is you need to ship. For particularly heavy or large items, you can always include a freight surcharge in the price (just be sure to indicate that’s where the additional cost is going).

Examples

14. Not Including Store Policies

Before a customer buys from you, they’ll likely want to know what your shipping policies, return policies, and other store rules are. And there’s no reason not to post this information in a FAQ or somewhere else on your site. Making your store policies clear upfront can save a lot of headaches later on from customers who are unhappy with an order they’ve placed.

What To Do About It

Use an FAQ or store policies section on your site to spell out exactly what your rules are for different kinds of customer interaction. It’s something that can save you tons of problems down the road.

Examples

15. Not Putting Focus on the Products

The goal of an ecommerce site is to sell products (or, at least, that’s what the goal should be). If your site puts more focus on bells and whistles or the design itself, it’s not achieving that primary goal. Make sure your site displays your products first, and everything else second.

What To Do About It

Think about how products are displayed in brick and mortar stores. While an in-store or window display may show a lot more than just the products for sale, they all contribute to showcasing the products in their most flattering light. Do the same with your website. Make sure that every design element present is doing something to showcase your products in their best possible light.

Examples

MIRC SME Development Week 2009

2009-10-11T20:56:00.003+08:00

Another event by MiRC for the SME. This event is from 19th October till 23rd October 2009. Kindly check out the below image for details or go to the MiRC website for more details

Switch from Blogger to WordPress in 6 steps

2009-10-10T23:44:00.005+08:00

For those who thinking to move from blogger to your own wordpress hosting, this is a good guide to avoid losing your reader.

Digital Inspiration’s Amit Agarwal compiled these useful step-by-step instructions:

Step 1: In case you haven’t done this already – register a new web domain, buy server space from some web hosting company that offers PHP/MySQL hosting and and install WordPress software on your new domain.

Step 2: Go to your WordPress Admin Dashboard > Tools > Import and select the Blogger option. Authorize WordPress to access your Google Account and within minutes, all your old blog posts and comments will be available on the new WordPress site.

Step 3: Copy this file into your WordPress themes directory. This is what you should copy over: blogger.php.txt

Step 4. Open your WordPress Dashboard and go to Pages -> Add New Page. Keep the title and URL of that page as blogger and select “blogger” from the Template drop-down. Save. There’s no need to add any content to this page.

Step 5. Open the template generator, type the full address of your new WordPress blog (including http:// and the trailing slash) and this tool will create a new classic template for your blogspot blog.

Step 6. Open your Blogger Dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML and choose “Revert to Classic Blog”. Copy-paste the template generated in Step 5 in the “Edit Template” area and click “Save Template Changes”.

Your are done. Open any page on your old Blogger blog and it should redirect you to the corresponding WordPress page. On the WordPress side, since we are using a permanent 301 redirect with the redirection URLs, all the Google Juice will probably pass to your new WordPress pages with time.

Update your RSS Feed: When you move from Blogger to WordPress, the address of your RSS feed will change as well. Go to Blogger -> Settings -> Site Feed, type the address of your new WordPress RSS feed here and Google Reader, Bloglines, etc. will automatically move to your new feed.

There you go, a complete and pain-free (for the most part) process that allows you to continue blogging without diminishing the user traffic that you have so painstakingly built over the years. Happy blogging!

Click here to see the link to the original link

Free Open Source Tool to Track Your Stock Investment

2009-10-10T23:34:00.003+08:00

Found this open source tool for you to track all your stock investment. Best of All, it support 23 Country including my country Malaysia. Yeah!!!

JStock is a free stock market software for 23 countries. It provides Real-Time stock info, Intraday stock price snapshot, stock indicator editor, Stock indicator scanner, Portfolio management and Market chit chat features. Free SMS/email alert supported[.]

JStock boasts a pretty impressive feature list. I can see the alerts (email/text/tray) being especially useful. Additionally, it is built on Java, so it runs on any OS.

Click here to try out this tool

How to log in automatically with Windows XP

2009-10-10T18:35:00.002+08:00

Recently, one of my customer is facing problem to login automatically to the window xp. After I check it I found out that the user account got a ASP.NET features. I google and found this blog and it provide me the current solution. Thanks to Kioskea.net. Below is the solution:

If you have recently updated your Windows with the Automatic Updates, you will notice that you will not be able to log automatically into your account. This is due to .NET Framework installation that automatically creates an additional account known as ASP.NET. This can be changed by the following method:

Using the Run feature

1. Go to the "Start" button and choose "Run"
2. Hence, copy and paste the command CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2. When done, click "OK"
3. From the given list, select the user that you want to allow automatic login on
4. Disable the option "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" and click "OK"
5. When done, enter the password for the user account to allow this option

郑水兴KLCC主讲不一样的投资方法-投资房地产的讲座

2009-10-03T22:18:00.003+08:00

Got Special Price ticket for the above Seminar. If interested kindly contact me. Below is this Chinese Property Talk Seminar Brief Details:

讲了这么多投资房地产的讲座，这一回我以最轻松的方式，告诉你一般人为何投资房地产不能成功，不能赚钱，那一切都因犯上非常普通的错误，而这个普通的错误是很容易面对。

事实上，超过80%的投资者第一次投资读犯上这些错误，而有经验的投资者也好不到哪里去，至少50%的投资者还是继续的犯上同样的错误，那些错误是什么呢？

下个星期日（10月11日）早上9点半到下午五点，欢迎在KLCC会展厅参加“郑水兴SWHENGTEE房地产投资讲座”了解一切，详情请联络 03-7983 0103

FOSS.MY 2009 is Coming This October

2009-10-02T11:58:00.004+08:00

FOSS.MY 2009 is coming this October. Do register yourself before 15 Oktober 2009 to get the special price ticket.A brief description about this event:

FOSS.my 2009 is Malaysia’s premier Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. FOSS.my 2009 is our second such conference, we aim for this to be an annual event bringing together professionals and enthusiasts from Malaysia, Singapore, Asia and the rest of the world for a two day grassroots driven FOSS conference.

FOSS.my is different from other events in that we focus only on FOSS and that this conference is purely non-commercial. There will be no marketing/sales talks by vendors (we are very strict on this!) so all that is presented is FOSS goodness! Instead, vendors will be encouraged to speak on the FOSS technical aspects of their projects/tools. This approach works better as it benefits all through knowledge sharing within the community.

We’ve got an excellent line up: 4 keynote speakers, 28 great talks and 8 Bird-of-Feather side sessions.

Richard Stallman (rms), the father of Free Software, will be keynoting on Free Software Movement, GNU software and GNU/Linux. There will be a substantial Q&A session where you can ask him your questions and even get an autograph. We’re arranging for Free Software Foundation merchandise to be sold so you can show your support for the FSF.

Secondly, Brian Aker will keynoting on Drizzle and MySQL database engines. He is the Director of Architecture at MySQL AB and he kick-started the Drizzle Project (an important fork of MySQL 6 which is jointly developed by Google, Canonical & Sun). He also worked on other MySQL storage engines (Archive , Federated, Memcached, CSV, Blackhole & WebMethods (HTTP) Storage Engine).

Our two Malaysia keynotes will be opening and closing the conference, respectively. John Lim is our opening keynote. He is the principle author of the ADOdb database abstraction library, an extremely widely used web infrastructure software, and it started right here in Malaysia!

Dr Yusseri Yusoff is our closing keynote. He has done amazing amounts of “behind-the-scenes” work in pushing through FOSS within the public sector and industry in Malaysia. He was instrumental in kicking off the Open Source Competency Center (OSCC) and many other FOSS government and private sector initiatives.

All in all, we have also got more international participation this time around:

James Morris (author of the kernel Crypto API, contributor to SELinux, LSM, Netfilter and IPsec)
Pradeepto (KDE hacker and co-founder of KDE India)
Harish Pillay (Fedora community, Open Source Architect/Evangelist RedHat Singapore)
Harish Mallipeddi (Performance Engineering team, Yahoo! R&D India)
Giuseppe Maxia (MySQL community)

Of course, Malaysian FOSS hackers will be present in full force. Redhuan Oon of ADempiere ERP fame, Nur Hussein on running Linux on Big Iron machines, Kris Khaira on Drupal, Errazuddin on Zend Framework, Mohan on Tomboy Web Sync, and many more will be presenting.

Check out the conference schedule: http://foss.my/2009/schedule/

Registration packages are available here http://foss.my/2009/registration-overview/

If you would like to register for the conference, please go to: http://foss.my/2009/registration/

Government Grants and Contemporary Financial Assistance

2009-10-02T00:35:00.002+08:00

I think this is a very good event to get to know what the Malaysia Government is offering. You check out more detail on the Facebook event link here

Date:	Thursday, October 15, 2009
Time:	9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:	Auditorium, Enterprise 4, TPM

Email:

ashleytan@incubator.com.my

This conference was conceived as part of MAD Incubator’s effort with the objective to provide a funding access platform for Malaysian entrepreneurs and technopreneurs, so they can obtain the latest updates of the government funds and alternative financial assistance.

Itinerary

08.30am Registration

09.00 Welcoming Address [Andrew Wong, MAD Inc.]

09.10 Opening Address [En. Shahazman, TPM]

09.20 Keynote Address [Roslan B Zakaria, MDeC]

09.30 Introduction of MSC Malaysia Pre-seed Fund & ICON Grant [MDeC]

10.00 Tea Break

10.15 Forum: Islamic Banking [Islamic Banks, Kuwait Finance House]

11.15 Forum: New Direction for Malaysia Investment Banking [Investment Banks]

12.00 Forum: Venture Capital and Private Equity [MAVCAP, Teak Capital, Netrove]

01.00pm Lunch

02.00 Government Grant Schemes [SME Corp., Cradle Fund, MATRADE, MOSTI]

03.00 Fund Raising 101 [Ingenious Haus Group]

03.30 Tea Break

03.45 Credit Guarantee Scheme [CGC, Prokhas]

04.30 Soft Loan Schemes [MIDF]

05.00 End of Program

*Note: The above itinerary is tentative and subject to change.

Enable curl in XAMPP on Windows XP

2009-09-26T23:31:00.001+08:00

I was trying to install Zen Cart in My Local Host, when running the installing script, it got error that the cURL in PHP is not enable. So I google and found this on Tildemark blogs & Sarugu.com. After I done the following step, the error massage when off. So below is the step:

By default cURL is disabled in XAMPP. To work the cURL Library you have to modify the php.ini files in your XAMPP folder. For this follow the steps posted here.

1) Locate the following files:
C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php4\php.ini

2) Uncomment the following line on your php.ini file by removing the semicolon.

;extension=php_curl.dll

3) Restart your apache server.

4) Check your phpinfo if curl was properly enabled.

销售与绩效管理分享会

2009-09-01T22:13:00.002+08:00

一场企业老板不容错过的分享会！

日期： 2009年9月4日（星期五）
时间： 9.00am – 5.00pm
地点： DiGi, D’House

座位有限，请早报名，以免向隅。

若有垂询，请联络：Iris Chin @ 016-3600293

The Death of Michael Jackson

2009-06-26T14:00:00.003+08:00

The news of Michael Jackson death had stunt the World. His death has been confirmed by this following medias:

Wall Street Journal
MSNBC

May he rest in peace.

Related News

Michael Jackson Dies After Heart Attack

Michael Jackson: the rise and fall

Michael Jackson's death: the timeline

The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox: 150+ Themes, Modules & Resources

2009-06-25T00:20:00.005+08:00

Looking for Drupal Useful stuffs? Found on the below site, check it out.

The site provide the below information:

Drupal is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. You can customize almost every aspect of it through the use of themes, plugins, and a little custom coding. Below are more than 150 resources to help you do just that, from themes to plugins to examples of sites running on Drupal.

75 Great Drupal Themes
16 of the Best Drupal-Powered Website Designs
30 of the Best Drupal Modules
25 Great Drupal Tutorials and Resources
15 Cheat Sheets and Debugging Tools

Click here to go the site.

How To Integrate Paypal With Your Wordpress Blog

2009-06-25T00:07:00.006+08:00

Found a very useful blog content about paypal which written by WP Dude. It provide the information about what is paypal, how paypal can help you gain income and different ways of using paypal.

In my opinion, Paypal is fast becoming the payment processor of choice for bloggers selling goods and services from their WordPress site. There are a number of ways to integrate Paypal with your blog, I look at a few scenarios here:

Just In case .. What is Paypal?

Paypal is a credit card payment processor. It acts as a middleman between your clients and you, processing transactions on your behalf. They do the hard work of securing and protecting people’s credit card details, you simple accept money and pay a small fee in return. You don’t have to have a merchant account for Paypal which makes it ideal for small companies or bloggers.

Paypal charges a fee per transaction of dependant upon your transaction value per month. I pay 3.4% + 20 pence per transaction, your fees will vary by location. There are no setup or monthly fees as there are with other payment processors. Full details on transaction fees can be seen at the transaction charge page

If you don’t have an account, you can sign up at Paypal.com.

It goes the other way too, you can send money to people securely, but this post will concentrate on income rather than expenditure. This is a gross simplification of Paypals services, but in a nutshell it allows you to send or receive money securely online. Your credit card details are never sent over the net. People trust paypal and will look for it over other payment processors such as WorldPay.

Now lets integrate paypal with our blog.

So You Want Payment

There are numerous scenarios where you may want to charge visitors to your site, I list them below with an integration idea:

Consulting Services/Service Contracts

You may sell a consulting service or sell your time at a fixed rate per hour. If you do, using a paypal button is probably the solution for you. Using this method, you set a small piece of html pointing to paypal which states your account details, the amount you want to charge.

There is a technical manual on configuring your buttons manually, or you can go to the button factory inside of your Paypal account and step through the process from =my account->profile -> my saved buttons. Beside is a sample button for donation so you can see the process in action, no refunds will be given

Donations / Tips

A popular way of monetising content is to offer your readers the chance to make a donation or leave you a tip. Paypal allows you to create a donation button in the same way you would create a fixed price button. Simply suggest that your readers may like to give you a tip with a big button and see what happens.

Membership sites

If you want to have premium content on your site, you may consider a membership site. Paypal has a subscription facility which allow you to take recurring payments from your customers.

You can create a subscription payment button as mentioned above, and then manually add you members to your site. The subscription service will take regular payments until your customer cancels the payment.

There are a number of membership site plugins which take this to a higher level, the hard work of coding paypal will already be done for you. Simply specify your account details and the rest will be done for you, most importantly the process of cancelling memberships when a subscriptions is cancelled is done automatically and your content is hidden from the non-member.

The membership site plugins I have used are Your Members and WP-Member. Both of these are premium plugins.

Physical Product Shopping Carts

You may want to sell physical products using a shopping cart system such as Amazon uses.

Paypal has a shopping cart and checkout process, where you would add a button to a page or posts which would add an item to a shopping cart, you also place a checkout button on your site so payment can be collected. This is a little cumbersome as html code needs to be added to each page, do I hear a problem which needs to be solved by a plugin …

I have used one e-commerce plugin which takes the hard work of creating product pages and integrating them with Paypal and it is called WP E-Commerce (the WordPress community is very boring with it’s naming standards I would have called it blog-u-shopper or WordPricer).

I am yet to be convinced that a blog is the best platform to sell stuff, a service such as Shoppify or an e-bay store is probaly better, but hey what do I know, if you are selling physical products successfully from a blog let me know in the comments section.

Pay to Post

Y0u may want to charge people to add a post to your system. For example a jobs board where there is a fee to add something to your blog. One of the simplest and best solutions I have found for this is a plugin called EasyPayPal. This also allows the simple creation of members only content so you really should check this one out.

Selling Ad Space

If you are in a position to sell Ad space on your blog, paypal may well be the processor you use.

You can setup an advertising page and setup paypal, buttons to sell ad space. The other option is to check out an ad plugin such as OIO Publisher which allows you to sell ad space and integrate it with your Paypal account to accept payment.

Info Products

If you have an e-book or webinar to sell, how do you integrate paypal with your site to take payment before your content is made available for download? The problem here is that you want to collect payment and protect your link until payment has been made.

wp-member the membership site solution I mention above does this as does EasyPayPal, but I would recommend you may want to look at e-junkie, this is an offsite payment processor and download fulfillment service. This takes the headache of delivering your info. product to your customers, my mantra is always if someone will take on a headache for me and the cost is okay go with them. The service starts at $5 per month.

Check Out The Many Paypal Plugins

There are a number of paypal plugins over and above what I mention, check out the plugin repository http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/paypal

Paypal Get’s My Thumbs Up

I hope this have given you some ideas for integrating paypal with your site. I have only touched on the solutions here to give you a feel for what paypal can do for you.

I have been using Paypal to collect payments for my services since I started this site, the trust people have in Paypal increases your likelihood of a conversion. I love the ease I can take payments, pay others and of course give refunds (I have a no fix no fee guarantee). The charges sometimes feel a little high, but removing the hassle of credit card security probably makes up for that.

Are You Ready to Become an Entrepreneur?

2009-06-17T15:44:00.004+08:00

A Free Seminart organized by Life Long Learning to share their experience and challenge by two speaker when they become an entrepreneur. The event details is :
Venue: 13th Floor Wisma MCA, Jalan Ampang, KL
Date: 20 June 2009
Time: 2.00pm - 4.00 pm
Tel : 03-2161 8044
email: info@lll.net.my
http://www.lll.net.my

MSC Pre Seed Fund WorkShop For 2009

2009-06-02T00:16:00.002+08:00

Want to get RM150K for your New Business Ideas? Then don't miss out the MSC Pre Seed Fund WorkShop which will be Held on the June, September and November 2009. Below is the details of the Workshop:

TEDx Kuala Lumpur

2009-05-28T09:51:00.004+08:00

Another good event worth looking into TEDx Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Below is the details for the above event.

TEDxKualaLumpur has confirmed its venue at Plug and Play on the 3rd
June from 3pm-6pm

For those who do not know what TED is visit http://www.TED.com and be
awed with some of the most inspiring talks in the world.
We are looking for a few remarkable speakers to fill in 4 slots for
the First TEDxKualaLumpur

As with each TED talk the max time permit is 18 minutes.
Do let me know as soon as possible if you are available and spread the word.
Email to thamkengyew[at]gmail.com

You can find out more and the register link to the event here : http://socialwalk.com/events/63-tedxkualalumpur/details

Barcamp Penang Coming this June

2009-05-28T09:42:00.002+08:00

Yeah... another Barcamp in Malaysia for 2009. Looking forward to it. Below is the details and link to the schedule of event. Do check it out and register yourself for the event, especially friends from Penang.

Start Time:	Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 8:00am
End Time:	Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 5:00pm
Location:	4th Floor, INTI College Penang

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is basically a very open, participant-driven workshop event where people share knowledge and ideas and expand their social and business network.

There is usually no particular theme. Those people who want to share ideas and knowledge - of any subject, in any field - could register for time and room (http://barcampp.pbworks.com/Schedule-for-BarCamp-Penang) to host their session. Then, the rest of the people could come to event for free and join any session that they are interested in. If they find that the session uninteresting, they could just leave and go to the next one.

For more information, see http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=82966103409

Asus P5GC-MX Realtek HD Audio Driver Problem

2009-05-08T11:20:00.004+08:00

Recently I came across 2 PC with the Asus P5GC-MX Motherboard facing no audio sound problem. After googling in the internet, finally I found the solution. A big thanks to Bram Van Damme for providing the following solution. Here is the solution:

Go to Device Manager/Device Drivers
Under System Devices find Microsoft UAA HD bus driver
Now, first disable it …
… and then uninstall it.
Close the Device Manager and run the Realtek setup
Tadaa, it works!

The original post from Bram is here

Mobile Application Development Workshop

2009-04-16T15:01:00.003+08:00

For those who interested in knowing more about Mobile application Development, you can consider to attend the workshop organize by iTrain.

Bootcamp #1 : Intro to Windows Mobile Development
Bootcamp #2 : Intro to Flash Lite Development
Bootcamp #3 : Intro to iPhone Development
Bootcamp #4 : Intro to Android Development

Each workshop is 1/2 day long and costs RM88.

Attendees to bring own laptops. Software installation to be advised later.

Foxmarks is now called Xmarks

2009-04-15T14:32:00.003+08:00

One of my favourite add on in Firefox Foxmarks is becoming Xmarks, currently the Xmarks only got Firefox Add-On. IE and Safari add on is still on progress. I think it would be nice to have the Chrome version too. Below is some of the features of the Xmarks:

Features Overview

Learn what the Xmarks add-on and website can do for you

Smarter Search

Xmarks will highlight the 3 top sites in your Google results based on how many people have bookmarked them. Simply move your mouse over the site info icon to learn more about that site.

Site Info built into your browser

Click on the Xmarks info icon in your location bar to see detailed information about the site you are on, and discover other great sites just like it.

Sync and Backup

Install Xmarks on each computer you use, and it seamlessly integrates with your web browser and keeps your bookmarks safely backed up and in sync.

The Xmarks browser add-on is coming soon to Internet Explorer and Safari.

BarCamp KL, Malaysia 2009 is back!!!

2009-03-19T21:41:00.001+08:00

Last year i attended my first barcamp KL, Malaysia. It was great. Looking forward for the 2009 BarCamp KL. So guys & gals... What you waiting for book you time and see you there. Highly recommended event.

Below the the information of this year Barcamp KL:

ATE 4th & 5th of April 2009 (whole day event on 4th and until 5pm on 5th April)

VENUE Level 4, Inti College Subang Jaya | More information »

DRESSING CODE Casual wear. Preferably, wear your t-shirt from any previous BarCamp event.

ENTRY Free for those who register online »

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is basically a very open, participant-driven workshop event where people share knowledge and ideas and expand their social and business network.

There is usually no particular theme. Those people who want to share ideas and knowledge - of any subject, in any field - could register for time and room to host their session. Then, the rest of the people could come to event for free and join any session that they are interested in. If they find that the session uninteresting, they could just leave and go to the next one.

There has been a lot of interesting topics in the past barcamp events. Check out the topics at the first BarCamp KL, StartupCamp KL and the recent BarCamp JB.

If you post anything about BarCamp KL on the web, please use the following tags and link back any of the links below .

Tagging

General: BarCampKL

Twitter: #BarCampKL

Links

Website: http://barcamp.my

Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20798441507

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51760281078

MIRC - ITrain KL Technite

2009-03-12T17:42:00.002+08:00

MIRC KL TechNite

Another event on March that you can consider to join and update yourself. For more information
you can visit MIRC site. http://www.mirc.org.my

Date: 27th March 2009 (Friday)
Time: 8pm - 10pm
Venue: Starbucks Outlet, Level 2, Bangsar Village II
Admission Fee: RM15/person

PROPOSED AGENDA
07.30pm Registration
07.55pm Welcoming Speech
By X-Train
08.00pm Sponsor Remark
08.30pm "The new financial rules. A provocative method in achieving total financial freedom"
- Capt Arivananthan, Wealth IQ Network.
09.00pm "Implementing a Low Cost Marketing Campaign via FaceBook"
- Vincent Cheng, XTrain
09.30pm "Profit Blogging to overcome your financial crisis"
- Melvin Ng, Asia Online Mastery
10.00pm Networking Session

For registration, please contact xTrain as follow:
Tel: 03-2166 1879
Email: info@itrain.com.my

Wow... I earned USD $12335.76 today in my Google Adsense

2009-03-05T23:26:00.005+08:00

Wow... guys and gals... take a look I earned 12335.76 today in my Google Adsense....

Want to know the secret???

The Secret is....

Visit Google AdSense Generator and enter the amount you want to make with AdSense, then you will get a AdSense screenshot with your desire earning. That’s it!

Haha... Try It our... or maybe print it out to motivate yourself to earn that much....

3 Free Seminar in March & April by MCA Life Long Learning Unit

2009-02-26T15:38:00.004+08:00

Another 3 free seminar by MCA Life Long Learning Unit. A great job by them. This 3 seminars are regarding Image Building, Tax Saving & Career Planning. Click on the Picture to see the details of the event.

For more details go to http://www.lll.net.my

Emax Computer Technology Info Site

Received Paypal Money in Any Malaysia Bank Account

How to add Malaysia bank account to PayPal?

How to withdraw PayPal money to Malaysia bank account?

15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

1. A lack of detailed product information

What To Do About It

Examples

2. Hiding Contact Information

What To Do About It

Examples

3. A Long or Confusing Checkout Process

What To Do About It

Examples

4. Requiring an Account to Order

What To Do About It

Examples

5. An Inadequate Site Search Engine

What To Do About It

Examples

6. Poor Customer Service Options

What To Do About It

Examples

7. Tiny Product Images

What To Do About It

Examples

8. Only One Product Image

What To Do About It

Examples

9. A Poor Shopping Cart Design

What To Do About It

Examples

10. Lack of Payment Options

What To Do About It

Examples

11. Not Including Related Products

What To Do About It

Examples

12. Confusing Navigation

What To Do About It

Examples

13. Not Including Shipping Rates

What To Do About It

Examples

14. Not Including Store Policies

What To Do About It

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15. Not Putting Focus on the Products

What To Do About It

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MIRC SME Development Week 2009

Switch from Blogger to WordPress in 6 steps

Free Open Source Tool to Track Your Stock Investment

How to log in automatically with Windows XP

Using the Run feature

郑水兴KLCC主讲不一样的投资方法-投资房地产的讲座

FOSS.MY 2009 is Coming This October

Government Grants and Contemporary Financial Assistance

I think this is a very good event to get to know what the Malaysia Government is offering. You check out more detail on the Facebook event link here

This conference was conceived as part of MAD Incubator’s effort with the objective to provide a funding access platform for Malaysian entrepreneurs and technopreneurs, so they can obtain the latest updates of the government funds and alternative financial assistance.

Itinerary

08.30am Registration

09.00 Welcoming Address [Andrew Wong, MAD Inc.]

09.10 Opening Address [En. Shahazman, TPM]

09.20 Keynote Address [Roslan B Zakaria, MDeC]

09.30 Introduction of MSC Malaysia Pre-seed Fund & ICON Grant [MDeC]

10.00 Tea Break

10.15 Forum: Islamic Banking [Islamic Banks, Kuwait Finance House]

11.15 Forum: New Direction for Malaysia Investment Banking [Investment Banks]

12.00 Forum: Venture Capital and Private Equity [MAVCAP, Teak Capital, Netrove]

01.00pm Lunch

02.00 Government Grant Schemes [SME Corp., Cradle Fund, MATRADE, MOSTI]

03.00 Fund Raising 101 [Ingenious Haus Group]

03.30 Tea Break

03.45 Credit Guarantee Scheme [CGC, Prokhas]

04.30 Soft Loan Schemes [MIDF]

05.00 End of Program *Note: The above itinerary is tentative and subject to change.

Enable curl in XAMPP on Windows XP

销售与绩效管理分享会

The Death of Michael Jackson

05.00 End of Program

*Note: The above itinerary is tentative and subject to change.