CloudFlare is know as a solution which enhance your website’s security, operation and performance. CloudFlare provides a proxy in between site visitor and CloudFlare’s server that can cache website content also filter our malicious traffic prior to it hits your web hosting server. CloudFlare is great for every website, which include dynamic and static website.

Advantage of using CloudFlare

• Website overall performance enhanced, a standard website with CloudFlare loads two time faster then without using CloudFlare
• CloudFlare offer bot and threat protection, it makes use of data coming from 3rd party website, together with the data from the neighborhood, to recognize malicious threats on the Internet and avoid the hits earlier then it even access to your website.
• Spam comments also been protected from CloudFlare, it utilized data from own neighborhood as well as 3rd party guide to eliminate the amount of spam comment to your website.
• CloudFlare also notifying visitor of infected workstation, it notify human visitor with an contaminated workstation that they must make a change to clear on the virus or malware in their computers.
• In case your web server unabailable, your visitor still able to access your website because CloudFlare provides the visitor a access your website from it’s cache
• To reduce your webhosting’s CPU ultilization, CloudFlare diversify your traffic with it resources and less request and hits to your web hosting server, this reduce the CPU usage of your web hosting account.
• CloudFlare’s New Website Analytics system retains statistics for every hits and provides unique insight of search engine spiders and threats.

CloudFlare’s worldwide CDN (Content Delivery Network) provide 13 or more server around the globe. The CDN instantly caches your static page at those server (or so called distributed your content to the globe) therefore the static page will be located nearer to your visitor when delivering your dynamic website content straight from your web hosting server

Take a look on how CloudFlare work here

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Buying Facebook likes by paying the service is much more faster, you may buy facebook likes in website like fiverr, gigbucks, tenbux, zeerk and many more, easily cost you $5 to $10 for thousand facebook likes.

While getting free likes, it will cost you some time, let me introduce you 2 website that I lately explore.

1. YouLikeHits

Upon registration for YouLikeHits, you will receive a 50 point as credit. You may use it to exchange for facebook like simply by 2 point per facebook like. Once you insufficient point, you may simply like other’s page and earn point to exchange for other’s to like your page.

You may claim 100 free point every 24 hours at YouLikeHits, or use other methods such as Twitter follow, Google + circles, Myspace friend, Youtube subscriber, Stumble upon follower, Digg follower and Website hits to earn more points.

Advantage: You may become premium member for 24 hour once you liking 200 page or following 200 people, be premium allow your your submission on higher priority which bring faster like or following.

Once you refer some one to YouLikeHits, you will earn 100 point per referral.

2. AddMeFast

The best for AddMeFast is the autosurf for website hits, this allow you to earn point easily by just open your web browser. You may also earn point easily by viewing people youtube movie.

For AddMeFast, you may earn point from Facebook Likes, Google Circles, Google +1, Twitter Followers, YouTube Views, YouTube Subscribe, YouTube Likes, Pinterest Followers, SoundCloud, and Website Hits.

AddMeFast offer you a daily bonus of 100 points, and 200 points per referral by refer someone to join this website. In order to get more point, there are another option which costing money is “buy points“, by comparing with youlikehits, add me fast actually selling the points cheaper

Tips: Both website is base on bidding system, the higher you place your bid, the faster you gain likes or follower, so in order to earn more point, you may collecting points for many day then only you submit your bidding in higher point.

Getting Free facebook likes at YouLikeHits and AddMeFast actually helping your page  to gain higher figure, but most like in there is not valuable to convert any sales to your business or services. In order to get real human likes,  paid advertising in facebook still the best way, earn real people to covert sales.

To further illustrate what is cloud computing, three significant features had to be pinpointed. Firstly, it is highly in demand, thus selling every minute/ hours; secondly it is elastic, which suggest that users can have as much or as little services required at any given time; and thirdly, the services is fully govern by a provider, which suggested cloud hosting. With the advancement on information system, the innovation of computing and the idea on producing a fast moving internet along with a weak economy had boost the curiosity in cloud computing.

Usually, a cloud can be either privatise of publicly owned. A publicly owned cloud sells its services to anyone and everyone in the visual world; and presently, the largest cloud hosting provider is Amazon. A privatised cloud is when a cloud hosting provider sells their services to a selected number of people. Also there are times when a cloud hosting provider utilises a public cloud resources to form their private cloud, and such event suggests virtual private cloud. However, privatised or publicly owned, the function of cloud computing is to offer an easy yet straight forward entry to computing resources or IT services.

To understand more about what is cloud computing, the 7 type of cloud computing services had to be acknowledged.

First is the web-based cloud service where the user is able to utilise a certain services without needing to fully developed the whole application, for instance, program that is used in credit card processing.

Secondly is the Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) application with the goal to provide a series of application to several users, especially to those that are using a browser, this can be commonly seen while conducting a sales service.

Third is the Platform-as-a-Service function where users are allowed to manoeuvre his/her own applications/ software freely but with a main requirement of using the cloud provider’s network.

Following is the utility cloud services where it provides users with a virtual storage and server options in which users can administer; it also allows the creation of a virtual data centre.

Managed services are the next in line where it shows the ‘oldest iteration of cloud solutions’. In this process, cloud providers will be the one using the application in order to monitor a service or to incorporate anti-spam services.

Last but not least is the service commerce where it established the incorporation of SaaS and managed services by providing a hub where users can interact between one another. Such application involves expense tracking, tracking of orders or virtual assistance services.

ITIL so called The Information Technology Infrastructure Library, equipped an organisation with a complete set of ideas, responsibilities, checklist and plans which are essential in the governing of its IT infrastructure, and such framework includes, all methods used in the assistance of the IT performance, along with the demonstration of conformity within a fixed rules and regulations. It creates a backbone to an organisation because an organisation’s IT strategy and business plan have to move coherently in order to achieve the maximum productivity and performance.

ITIL training represents the exercise of a proactive management skill in the recognition of optimal IT infrastructure, in order to portray a consistent, trustworthy and endless enhancement services in an organisation. Its core intention is to determine the management processes, and to govern and manage the relevant interfaces (i.e. department, employees) in an organisation; as to guarantee the consistency of IT accessibility, trustworthiness and uniformity through the monitoring process. The biggest concern of an organisation is the monitoring and supervision of incurred overhead cost, but with ITIL system, such can be done effortlessly.

With the increasing demand on the ITIL training, several distinguish advantages can be highlighted. The most outstanding achievement of ITIL is that it proves to generate higher profits and promote positive inflow of revenue to an organisation, since the organisation have an exceptional chance to meliorate the Information Technology services which improve the efficiency of workers in their everyday job. The objective of fulfilling the interest and needs of the customers can also be done fluently.

Besides, ITIL training had generated other clear benefits to an organisation such as the increase in productivity level, the improvement seen in working ability of the employees within the organisation as well as the maintenance of competency on the improvements made. As a result, many organisations had chosen to have an ITIL certification in order to outshine their competitors in the market. Also, long term ITIL practises had proven to save more monetary means as unnecessary or impractical IT business expenditure can be discarded. Therefore, by encouraging business personnel to take part in the ITIL training to obtain the ITIL certification is necessary as it will generate more good than harm to an organisation.

The main objective by Robert Kiyosaki in creating this boardgame is to share his financial knowledge of the rich dad poor dad ontology. He encourages self education on the money subject and had a good insight on how to generate more income through the study of financial statement or how to make your money grow without much effort which will eventually get you out of the ‘rat race’. All the teaching conducted by Robert Kiyosaki in this cashflow 101 boardgame is about passive income and how to think out of the box.

This is not only a magnificent board game, but it is also fun to play with. What’s more, it teaches you a thing or two every time you play it, even after you had played it for a hundred times. How? The idea of passive income itself requires more creative thinking to fully grab hold of how it actually works, hence, with the help of this boardgame; you can have a brief idea on how to manage your everyday businesses without much hiccups.

As stated in his writing of rich dad poor dad, Robert Kiyosaki incorporates some of his personal findings into this cashflow board game. Such can be seen as this boardgame comes in two stages. One is ‘the rat race’. In this stage, players’ objective is to escape from the ‘rat race’ by generating positive cash flow or ‘passive income’. This can be achieved with the purchases of properties, businesses or investments like mutual fund or stock. The key is to make sure your earnings exceed your expenses. However, during this stage, no winners will be named.

Once you have successfully fled from the ‘rate race’ and stepped into the second stage which is call ‘the fast track’.  You will obtain a ‘new earnings’ by increasing your passive income by 100. In order to win, your goal is to purchase your ‘dream’ which will be selected at the beginning of the game; or by achieving a set target, with an additional $50,000 through purchases of business opportunities.

While playing, ‘score cards’ and financial statement will also be included. Players have to jot down their financial statement for easy reference. Sounds pretty interesting right? So go the nearest boardgame outlet and grab yourself a cash flow game here in Penang. A set of boardgame cost approximate RM199, else you may participate any cashflow 101 boardgame session around Penang. A minimum of 2 players and maximum of 6 players, if you interested to try, just drop me a message here, and probably we can organize one game session if there are 4 to 6 players.

For whatever reason, practitioners have been hard-pressed to establish their legitimacy in the world of professional digital marketers.

They are seen as opportunists on their best days and scavengers on their worst ones. It seems that those intent on being affiliate marketers are challenged on every front in the current Web business environment.

By now most Web professionals are well aware of the Internet tax issue and how it impacts them. There are now a handful of states where working as an affiliate is no longer as attractive, or as attractive a marketing opportunity as it was a few years ago.

Affiliate marketers are even starting to get snubbed by those in related industries. In early September of 2011, email service provider MailChimp notified users that it would prevent affiliate marketers from using its service. That’s pretty bad by itself, but what makes it worse is the company they were in; providers of escort services, gambling and vendors of illegal goods were also in the mix. Anyone sending email with affiliate offers is subject to losing out in a significant way if their account is closed, but in many ways affiliates lose as that bad reputation continues to linger in the minds of digital Web workers.

So, what will affiliate marketers do in the long run? Likely, what they have been doing all along as an industry — continuing to find new and innovative ways to profit from their digital experience, improving upon their technologies and processes and, more importantly, continuing to expand their influence for those just now exploring how to monetize their Web properties. Fortunately, there is no shortage of enterprises willing to step up and show them the way.

This edition of Website Magazine presents 50 of the top affiliate networks on the ’Net today.

Readers will find some big names including Google, Amazon and eBay, which round out the first three positions. With thousands of networks currently in existence, there are also many others that are definitely worthy of a mention. Some of those that are routinely on our radar include PeerFly (#6), buy.at (#17), DirectCPV ((#18) and Neverblue (#34).

With nearly 1,000 networks across the globe, showcasing 50 that are worthy of readers’ greater attention is no simple task. Networks emerge, merge and evolve faster than in any business vertical we’ve come across. With so much movement, it’s not easy to know who you can trust. If this list provides anything to readers, it should be as a valuable starting point to explore the many opportunities and offers available to those serious about performance-based marketing.

1. Google.com
2. Amazon.com
3. Ebay.com
4. CJ.com
5. Clickbank.com
6. peerfly.com
7. webgains.com
8. pepperjamnetwork.com
9. pantheranetwork.com
10. dollarade.com
11. epicdirectnetwork.com
12. maxbounty.com
13. paydotcom.com
14. clixgalore.com
15. pointclicktrack.com
16. avantlink.com
17. buy.at
18. directcpv.com
19. mediatraffic.com
20. affiliatebot.com
21. adonnetwork.com
22. revenueads.com
23. ampedmedia.com
24. affiliatescout.com
25. w4.com
26. axill.com
27. motiveinteractive.com
28. mediawhiz.com
29. rextopia.com
30. directleads.com
31. sparkleads.com
32. affiliatewindow.com
33. cxdigitalmedia.com
34. neverblue.com
35. getads.com
36. revenuestreet.com
37. leadbolt.com
38. trafficvance.com
39. shareresults.com
40. cpapath.com
41. globalmatrixmedia.com
42. cpaprosperity.com
43. dandingo.com
44. convert2media.com
45. clicksor.com
46. shareasale.com
47. tradedoubler.com
48. clickbooth.com
49. 7search.com
50. adscendmedia.com

Source from Website Magazine 2012 February issue.

Lately I found a great article written by Jeff Scott, Director of Online Marketing Services, and I would like to share here to lets you guys know in deep on the important of search engine traffic:

If you build it, will they come?
You have a domain name … CHECK! You have a website … CHECK! Now will millions of people come flooding to your website? … NOT SO FAST! Just like any type of business, if you want people to find out about your new website, you need to take certain steps to market your site so it stands out from the crowd and people find you.

The major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) have BILlIONS of different web pages in their results, so making the correct marketing decisions is critical to the long-term success of your website.

The Traffics is at the top
According to some studies, almost 90% of web searchers never make it to the second page of the results. What does that mean for your website? Simple. If you’re not ranked high on the search engines, you’re missing out on the majority of the traffic.

And as more and more people use search engines (vs. phonebook ads) to find the product/service they need, being ranked at the top can mean a large stream of potential customers visiting your business website every day.

Importance of Key Phrases
People use “key phrases” on search engines to find what they’re looking for. For example, if you’re a Mexican food restaurant in Phoenix, people might type in “phoenix Mexican restaurant” or “Mexican food in phoenix” to find your website.

Since there are dozens of different key phrases that searchers might use, it’s important that you identify all the different ways people might be looking for you.
These are the key phrases that you’ll want to use for “Search Engine Optimization (SEO)” to drive more traffic to your website.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
It all starts with a solid foundation … if your website is not “search engine friendly” then it can be difficult for your website to be noticed by the search engines.

Since there are dozens of different technical factors that can prevent your site from showing up on search engines, it’s recommended you ask your Webmaster/Designer to ensure your website follows proper SEO guidelines.

Importance of Backlinks 
Once your website is “SEO friendly,” it’s time to focus on “backlinks.” Getting other websites to link back to your website is one of the most important factors to improving your rankings on search engines.

How do you get bacldinks?
There are several ways, including writing content and posting on other people’s sites, mentioning your webpage on popular social communities, and participating in online forums in your industry.

“Backlinking” can often be time-consuming and difficult but it’s a critical step that needs to be performed.

1. After create your fan page, you can see “invite friend” in your right sidebar.

2. Click on it and tick one by one for each of your friend, but with few thousand contact, it is very time consuming if you tick one by one, and also very memory consuming for your workstation. It might hang halfway in the middle of thousand tick. So how to invite all friend to like my facebook fan page?

After I google around, there are some javascript method which require to paste at your Internet Address bar and hit enter, but there are a risk if this javascript is not performing the correct action as you want, your account might be compromise if the javascript is some malware script. Other then this method, there are another method with Google Chrome browser, just require to install additional extension name “facebook inviter” Once you install, you had additional button name “Toggle All“

3. Do the same as above 1 and 2. after that you can see “toggle all” button, but don’t directly click it because all the friend display in the box is partially of your friend list only, probably 200 or 300, you need to scroll it to your last contact (make sure it is last contact), and click “Toggle All”

4. All your friend selected, and click submit.

5. Lastly, if you wish to get more exposure and likes, look for friend or some one you trusted, who had a lot of friend list as well. Grant him/her admin rights at your fan page and his/her perform the above step. (install facebook inviter, and invite his/her friend)

That all for my method to invite all friend to like my facebook fan page. This method is not that effective if you look for awesome figure of likes in your facebook, you may try facebook ads as a white hat method or buy fake likes in fiverr as a black hat method.

NCCC is a non government organization (NGO) , their vision is to develop a independent mechanism  for consumer with the ability to solve problems in a fair, simple and efficient mediation system, and their mission is function as intermediaries between the government bodies, private sector and consumers in identifying solutions to any complaints.

I had few experience with NCCC previously, one of it is a complaints toward Digi Telecommunucation, after I file a consumer complaints online in NCCC’s website, I never get any respond from NCCC, but I do receive call from DiGi within a month, a special department which handle feedback from NCCC call me to resolve the issue. A credit to DiGi here because they handle customer complaints effectively.

Lately, I had file a complaint in NCCC’s website on Absolute Fitness regarding their unfair services. As you can see above date, approximate 3 week after I make complaints, I receive a carbon copy letter from NCCC to Absolute Fitness. Unfortunately, they do not do a respond before the stated date.

I contact NCCC and ask for the next action, they mention if the respondent do not make respond, mean they actually commit it, what the complainant complaints is the right issue. They will advice consumer to file higher level complaints at Tribunal Consumer Claims, I will write more about Tribunal Consumer Claims proccess shortly after I go through the whole process of the complaints.

For National Consumer Complaints Center, they do offer 3 level of process to the consumer:
1st, they receive complaints from complainant, they will record the complaints, ensure with strong evidents such as IC, company name, and address, after that they will analyst the issue.

2nd. NCCC will direct consumer to the relevant authority, or directly to the claim on behalf of the complainant to the respondent, NCCC will write a letters of complaint to the demands or to negotiate to resolve the complaint is made.

3rd, NCCC will receive respond from respondent, and direct it to the complainant and advice further action to be taken.

As you can see in NCCC’s website, a lot of case study available, from small to medium enterprise, businesses who provide lousy and bad services do receive their penalties and consumer get back their consumer rights. At the same time, also a lot of people who file their complaints and did not get any respond from NCCC. As clarify by NCCC, they lack of resources and some how they will late in process consumer complaints, also if you never receive any letter, mean they contact the respondent directly via phone or related department or by email (Like my DiGi’s complaints which do not get any respond from NCCC)

You can make an e-adual at http://www.nccc.org.my/v2/index.php/e-aduan, remember to provide National Consumer Complaints Center a sufficient information in order for them to process it effectively.

For my self, the deep impression for me is “Pearl Milk Tea” which is the favorite drink for teenager. Other then milk tea, BlackBall had different type of desserts such as smoothies and crushed ice.

Environment in Blackball is nice, suitable for a group of friend to hang out or small discussion between communities.

No need to queue after order at the counter, you will receive this ordering device and back to your seat, enjoy the environment and chit chat with your friend.

When your order is ready, the ordering device will beep and light up, just bring this device to the counter and exchange for your drinks.

One of the BlackBall signature desserts. Hot one as above, while cold one as below.

You may visit their facebook page at fb.com/blackball.my

Pricing wise, is an affordable location for teen and working adult, for environment is good, but it might be a little bit hot if the weather is in warm session, probably they need to put additional air conditioner or huge fan.

Lastly, we also receive 10 complimentary drink from the shop owners. Awesome!