I have been playing Car Town for a week now and find it quite interesting as it is related to cars and modification. It is still a very simple game but is quite fun. Anyhow, I was amazed that they are able to land themselves some advertisers. They are not at the side panel or on top of the game where most people will automatically ignore. But they are in the game themselves.

After I click on the lady saying “Check out the new CR-Z!”, it will prompt me this screen

Prompting for the Honda CR-Z showroom, and as expected, we got into the showroom. And finally the showroom. It is quite a smart idea from the Car Town developer team. A whole new Social Media Marketing and Internet Marketing has been created.

If you have a lot of wordpress blogs like me, you will soon discover that you have trouble maintaining them and logging to each on of them to make some updates. I have too many blogs with wordpress and also website that is powered by wordpress. With ManageWP, you can manage multiple wordpress blogs for Free. The controls is quite powerful.

You can control your posts, pages, categories, tags, comments, plugins, themes, updates and users from their control panel. Moreover, there is tabs each time you open up something so you can switch between different blog posting very quickly and update them with one single login.  The control panel basically looks like below.

ManageWP is currently in beta, and the user guide is quite limited, to get started, you will need to download their Worker Plugin, uplaod and activate it. Then you will need to provide your url, username, and password. This is my only concern as I have to give my password to all my blogs, you will have to expose them to ManageWP.  I might be more comfortable with the ManageWP self hosted version when they are out, but it will cost some money I believe.

I have always believe in website uptime affecting our SEO ranking and reduces the return visitor. This is one of the very important criteria when you pick a webhosting and not the price. I am using this service from AreMySitesUp, as poor as many of you out there, I am using the free service with 5 domain name. This is fine with me, the only downside for the free account is that this website will delete inactive users, because I do not need to check the website for my status, I tend not to login to the website.

Anyhow, I think it is a nice service to share. Let me know if you use other service for monitoring your website uptime.

Site: http://aremysitesup.com

Other than files, you need to also move your database. If you are use to the GUI, you know that there is limitation exporting and importing. This is especially true when you have a large database. Through phpmyadmin, it is also a lot slower compare to method whereby you export large MySQL via SSH.

The command:-

mysqldump -u [username] -p [DB name] | gzip > [dbname].sql.gz

It will prompt for password, type in the password for this access to the database. You will get a file name exactly like what you have typed at the end of above command ([dbname].sql.gz).

Use an ftp program to download the file.

Because the file is compress, you are downloading it even faster, and you can un-compress it on your new webhosting.

To Import the large MySQL

gzip [dbname].sql.gz

then

mysql -u [username] -p [DB name] < [dbname].sql

** If you uses a different username and DB name in your new webhost, use the new value in the bracket

I hope this this will actually make moving your wordpress or your website to another webhosting much easier.

Twitter Worldcup is a page created by twitter to accomodate all the tweets about those 32 countries that will be playing in South Africa. There are also individual page on different matches that will playing whereby you will track tweets of both countries.

If you are renewing or planing to purchase a Malaysia domains, you should take a look at this news officially announce by MYNIC. They release a public announce that all domain renewal and purchase of .my domains will enjoy 50% off. Most domain provider does not publish this so you will have to contact them, I personally tried this with exabytes and immediately I got the 50% off, it is simple and can save you some money.

Here are the deals:-

• .my domains – RM120/year now is RM60/year
• .com.my, .net.my, .org.my, .edu.my, .gov.my, .mil.my – RM80/year now is RM40/year
• .name.my – RM32/year now RM16/year

So happen that my domain expiring this month, I am not sure if you can do that with domain expiring next year or end of this year. But check with your domain provider. If you own a lot of .my domain, this is quite some huge discount for domains.

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This is one interesting news release by Google themselves at Inside Adsense. Many website publisher wonders about the percentage publisher earn from Google Adsense. Finally we got a concrete answer and the magic number is 68%.

The money you make from adsense is actually 68% of what advertiser would pay to Google. This is a pretty attractive as we know that most middle parties would take around 50%. This is the very first time Google is exposing this numbers. It may just be different few years ago, but it is good that Google is setting the standard high as a new player in this market would need to give better deal to attract publishers.

Search partners would get 51% of the revenue share. I am guess that this would also include the Mozilla Firefox (or they may get a better deal). While adsense for mobile is still remain undisclosed due to the fact that they are still growing and changing quickly.

It is also said that the revenue split between web publisher and advertiser are not guarantee to stay permanent.

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Will Google TV or Internet TV replace our Astro soon? It would always depends, not on what is available or if youtube video is good enought for bigger screen LDC/Plasma/3D TV, but strictly depend on our Internet Speed provided by TMNet since they are holding the backbone of our phone network. While mobile speed has it limitation at 14mpbs for 3G (yet, we are so far away from this) until it reaches the 4th generation cellular wireless standard.

I must say that ShoeMoney System is a pretty tempting system when I heard that Jeremy is coming out with some online traning program about making money online. Most people in this field would know that he is one of the top Guru out there. Unfortunately, this traning does not come cheap, a whooping $197/month. This is not cheap especially for someone who is staying in Malaysia. This would be about 1/3 of the pay for a fresh grads.

Nevertheless, the important stuff is what is inside. There are some pretty good stuff that is worth learning. It is straight forward and some in this week, there is 2 videos which focuses on arbitrage and you can apply right away to make money. Similar one Internet Marketing seminar I have attended, you need to find your own niche product but this is more straight forward and the last video actually shown Jeremy himself performing the action and making some money. It is pretty hands on, and it touches most of the details.

About the coupon code, I did not get any, not sure if I am doing it wrong. It claim that through out the system, they will give out when we finish some video. I did not finish so much as it was only 15 days trial. Overall, I think it is quite good as you can download the video (you will need some flash downloader), then convert them to play on mobile device or your iPhone.

New Webminar is release shown bi-monthly or every two weeks. Here you will get some training and he will answer some questions that are posted via their system.

Also there is some pretty old podcast that is taken from Net Income, WebmasterRadio.fm, which might also give you some insight about the Internet Marketing, SEO, and Money Making ideas. If you are trying to learn some real money making tricks you definitely should take a look at ShoeMoney System.

Be warn that this is not the only amount you are paying since you will need to invest more to do a blog/website, arbitrage, CPA, or whatever you will start from this system. I hope that this review on the ShoeMoney System is useful as it is my personal view on the system for the whole 15 days I am in this program. Now I am no longer there, until when I make some money from the stuff I learn there.

Update:
I think some of you guys may think that I am bias, but I believe it might just be worth it to join at the end or close to the end of this program and download the videos. This is just a sudden I tough of mine. I know that the webinar can be downloaded from week 1. But the updated video may no longer be there as when I join there is like 8 videos in total only and 3 of them is updated in this week. (Hopefully Jeremy doesn’t see this).

Personally, I joined an Internet Marketing from Fabian Lim for like RM3k, and as of today, I am still getting spam from him asking for more money or joining some of his new classes, I felt like unsubscribing from the mailing list but other half felt the pain for losing the money. So compare with this, this is definitely better if the trick above works.

This is not a common topic I would write on this blog, but since my vent out my disappointment on the new Nokia E72 keeps restarting. I receive some traffic and comment regarding this issue. At first, my problem temporarily stop because I upgrade the first firmware as soon as it pop up on my phone. But after some time, even the Facebook application comes with the phone will cause my phone to restart.

Earlier I had wrote to Nokia about this issue. They provide me with two option. Option one was to reboot my E72 and remove the battery. Wait for 5 minutes before starting the phone again. This option did not help at all.

But the second option is doing fine so far. No more restart, especially software like nimbuzz. But this is hard reset (Remember to BACKUP). Using Nokia PC Suite does fine for me, backup everything, even on your SD card. After backup, type in *#7370# and it will prompt for lock code, it should be 12345. Your phone is now good as new, and everything is totally gone. I restore most part of the backup, other than my setting (I decide to do my setting all over again). After that my problem is gone.

Do this at your own risk!

I had always like buying domain, not sure why, may due to the fact that it is pretty cheap. Choosing a domain is more than just picking a nice Mobile Number or Car License Plate, because it affect how people remembers, how people would type it, how Search Engine would pick it up, it also gives an impression to other people and most importantly it is your brand.

Guidlines for Choosing a Domain
Try to get domain that is related to your search keyword. Most of the time, someone already got the dotCom. But you can always add like mydomain.com, thedomain.com, domainworld.com and much more.

Another trick is that you can opt for dash (-) in domain, but it may not be great because people does not like dash as much as Search Engines. So if you get car-classifieds.com, you can get better SEO score, but you might loose some people to carclassifieds.com.

There are also method where you could make out a new name, like most big companies would do, but it would require marketing cost to do branding. Of course if it sticks near to the keyword, it would gives you a double effect.

Long or Short? I would try to have it max at two words, but if characters is short, I will look at three words domain as well. I don’t mind the character as long as people can remembers easily. But it is not advisable to go as long as 64 characthers (which is the longest you can go). I would not even try 20 characters.

Buy from someone else? If you have the budget, you can opt for this, but domain squatters usually wants to make big amount of money, so you will most probably need to have some USD in hand.

.Com or .Net? I will only go for .Com now, unless there is a superb domain out there that I would spend money to keep. Yes, we have some successful .net and even .org. But you should know that you are promoting someone else domain each time you promote yours. And the .com owner will sell you at a high price once you have got your name establish, and it doesn’t matter if the name is a crap name or somewords you made up.

Domain Research
I like AjaxWhois, not sure why, but might be the green colours and it is instant but it only gives you .com and .net results.

Google Keyword Tool has always been a big help in researching for keywords.

Some thesaurus will open up your choice of words

I think this process applies to Blogspot.com, Wordpress.com and even profile name like Twitter (which I have successfully sold one previously). What is your process or choosing a domain?

It seems that more and more people are starting their own eCommerce store in Malaysia. One of the reason is due to Facebook as we can see more and more advertisements on Facebook because it could reach a huge amount of audiance simply at no cost (but time to get friends or fans). Social Network Marketing could be done is so many method using Facebook alone, via Status Update, Fan Page, Groups, Pictures and even creating a whole new user simply for Advertisements. I think Fan Page would be sufficient for most because you could allow more than one admin whereby it will be great for companies with a lot of people in the marketing team.

Another reason because of Classifieds and Forum trade like Mudah and Lowyat, trading online becomes more or a norm. This will be good for those who could get their hand on some niche product and open up opportunity for younger entrepreneur since entry cost for online business is very minimal compare to the conventional brick and mortar stores.

What is the cost?

If you are interested to start one, you simply need a domain and hosting. Domain cost around USD10 while a cheap hosting could be as low as USD25/year. While shopping cart script is available free depending on what you want to build. The famous Shopping Cart available Zen Cart, OsCommerce, MagentoCommerce, CubeCart and lots more. Try some out to know their feature and if it meet your needs.

How to Market?
I always like to say “The best website serve no purpose without any visitor”, which is very much true, unless you want to keep something online but not wanting the world to know about it. There is so much method, and more if you could come out some idea of your own. Social Network Marketing is popular among small and big corporation to promote their product and services. While PPC is still popular but requires knowledge in buying the right keywork and having the right setting. There are also other method to be explore like Email Marketing, Social Network Advertisements, Offline Advertisements and much more.