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Adrian Lee is a 20 year veteran in the retail industry, having worked with the largest retail group in his state. Currently, he provides website and internet marketing services to local businesses in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. He is also a website publisher, www.aboutsabah.com and www.dotcommembership.com are just some of his websites.

Get 50% Off Hosting On Black Friday

No Comments »Written on November 25th, 2011 by adrian
Categories: Web Hosting

Get Ready For 50% Discount Off Web Hosting On Black Friday

What was the No.1 trending topic for Black Friday in 2010? If you answered Hostgator's Black Friday promotions, that tells me you are involved in internet marketing! By the way, you would have been right. Hostgator's Black Friday promotion in 2010 generated an incredible amount of buzz. I can tell you that people from all over the world were lining up to snap up their offer. It was just an awesome deal.

Right now, they are gearing up for this year's Black Friday promotion and it will be just as awesome. We all need web hosting and our web hosting will grow. I expect they will have a record day this year.

Can you imagine the entire world rushing to your website on Black Friday? I cannot even imagine the resources needed to prevent their servers from crashing.

What You Can Expect For Web Hosting On Black Friday

For starters, 50% OFF on ALL hosting services. This includes shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated servers and Windows hosting. That probably means 50% off on the package you are planning to get. Of course, this does not include domain names.

This is just about the best time to get reseller hosting if you are involved in internet marketing. Nothing quite beats having a reseller package at your fingertips when you want to build websites on the go. You are not going to find a better price for this level of service any where on the internet.

Fancy getting your own dedicated server? So do I. I am not quite there yet but thanks to my awesome clients, I expect to have my own web server in the not too far future.

Web Hosting Deals For Black Friday

This promotion will bring already competitive hosting packages as low as:
  • Shared hosting: Now as low as $4.95, Will go for only: $2.48/month
  • Reseller Hosting: Now as low as $24.95, Will go for only: $12.48/month
  • VPS Hosting: Now as low as $19.95, Will go for only: $9.98/month for the first month
  • Dedicated Servers: Now as low as $174, Will go for only $87/month for the first month

For One Day Only
Black Friday promotion from Hostgator will only run for one day. The promotion will begin just after midnight, Friday, November 25th, 2011 Central Standard Time (-6 GMT). The special offer will run until 11:59PM CST Friday, November 25th, 2011.

You can sign up for Hostgator package below. If you do sign up here, you will be signing up under my affiliate link and I just want to let you know that I appreciate it.

Bonus If You Sign Up

If you sign up with Hostgator under my link, send me the receipt and once verified, I will give you a Premium Dot Com Membership.



Preview of what is inside Dot Com Membership Premium area:
1) Dripfeed Cash Membership
2) Clickbank OTO

A Marketplace For Business Opportunities

1 Comment »Written on November 17th, 2011 by adrian
Categories: Business

Looking For A Marketplace To Buy And Sell Business?

business opportunitiesWelcome to the marketplace for buying and selling a business in the United States. If you are looking to buy an operating business or to sell your business, check out this marketplace for business for sale listings. You can find business opportunities, a business for sale or even a website for sale.

This marketplace is a big US business listing. You can find many businesses available for sale, including franchises, websites for sale and more. People are basically trading their companies there, businesses that are large or small.

What sort of business opportunities? Why buy an existing business? Mainly because you can start operations straight away and generate revenue.

Say you are interested in a business for sale, you look into the retail category and see a listing for a Premium ice cream shop for sale. Premium is good, and the owners produces their premium ice-cream themselves based on recipes they have developed. They are willing to train the new owner and will hand over all the recipes.

On top of that, the location of the store sounds idea - in a shopping mall, high traffic flow, high visibility and they have a drive-thru window. This sounds promising. Here is the real business listing:
business opportunities at buytradebiz.com

A business listing for sale

As you can see, they have an annual revenue of $209,195, and they are asking for a sales price of $145,000. Since their annual profit is reported at $57,558, you can calculate that based on current operations, it will take 2 1/2 years to recover your investment. Of course, you would do your own market analysis based on the current business environment and see if the price will work for you.

Discover Thousands of Business Opportunities, Websites and Businesses for Sale

You can find a business for sale by browsing their categories, browse by region or by popular searches. Here are some of their categories:
  • Retailing Businesses
  • Service Businesses
  • Internet Businesses
  • Wholesale/Dist Businesses
  • Manufacturing Businesses
  • Construction Businesses
  • Business Real Estate
  • Religious Businesses
  • and more
Business opportunities are also listed by state or region in the United States. So whether you are looking to buy a business or looking for an investment in real assets, or looking for a franchise in a specific niche, BuyTradeBiz.com is the right place for you.

BuyTradeBiz.com - Business For Sale Listing

At BuyTradeBiz.com you will be able to search for large or small, retailing and manufacturing businesses for sale, list a business for sale, and research potential business opportunities. From business franchises to websites for sale. From small business listings, all the up to multimillion dollar listings.



Can A Website Increase Your Sales?

2 commentsWritten on November 10th, 2011 by adrian
Categories: Case Study

How An Offline Business Increased Their Sales With A Website

The question many business owners have is how can a website increase their revenue. My answer is that a website is an additional advertising channel that extends your marketing reach. Whether it can get you more prospects depends on how committed you are in extending your marketing activities online. It is not enough just to have a website on the internet. A website by itself does nothing for you unless you use it to get new prospects.

Case Study Of MifaSabah.com

This is a client of mine who is involved in the sales and installation of the popular Panasonic and York air-con brands, in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. He does not know how to access his website, neither does anyone in his office. In fact, his staff is more active on their facebook page than he is. But all you need to know is to check your emails.

His website was built in the second quarter of 2010, and ranks on the first page of Google for the brand, industry and location. These were the keywords we were after. Ranking well for local search will be the priority for most of my clients. Within the first 6 months, he closed a 5 figure deal to supply a secondary line of product to an off-shore client. The only reason why it was not a 6 figure deal was because of the incompatibility of electrical demands of the off-shore client. How would you like to increase your revenue by 5 figures?

In 2011, a local business owner needed help to meet his dateline to open a new restaurant in the city. It seemed that he had an issue with his previous air-conditioning contractor and they had a falling out. What the local business owner did was looked for an air-conditioning company using the search engines. That was how he found my client. I do not know the details of the job but I can tell you that in all probability, it added another 5 figure to his revenue.

Does this happen for all my clients? No. You still need an in-demand product or service, and you still need to be competent in what you do. I have had clients increase their bookings for tours, and increase their enrollment for their business. Both these clients typically go above and beyond what many businesses are willing to do where customer service is involved.

As website providers, we can get your website to rank on the search engines. We can help create content and videos for your company. We can connect you to social media sites. But you need to conduct your business in the most professional manner you can to succeed.

What You Website Must Do
  1. Tell your prospects what you can do for them.
  2. Show proof - awards, news articles, testimonials, videos
  3. Detail information on the inner pages for prospects who like to research your services
  4. Always make your contact information visible
  5. Tell them who you are, how long you have been in business
  6. Create a blog on your website and update it with news, products and promotions
  7. Enable comments and use a contact form
  8. Get them to opt-in to your auto responder
  9. Use social media and link them to your site
  10. Check and answer your emails, comments and social posts
Above all else, be involved. Many business, after doing all this just let it slide. It does not work that way - it just shows how uncommitted you are to your prospects who are online. This does not mean you have to be online every minute of the day, but having a same day response to inquires or comments is not too much to ask

About My Services
If you have a website and it does not contribute to your business, drop me an email and I will take a look for you. That part is free of charge, at least. My website design services can be found here.

Recommended Resources: Business Strength Mastery Advantage





Why Funny Print Ads Work

No Comments »Written on November 3rd, 2011 by adrian
Categories: Retail

Designing Print Ads For Impact

A print advertisement needs to catch the readers' attention, and concept designers strive to do this on every ad campaign. Print media like brochures, handbills and newspaper advertisement has to make an impression the first time a reader reads it. There are so much advertisement these days that you are competing for readers attention.

Print Ads have to make an impact and get your message across. It has to be relevant, it has to help them in their life. People don't buy on price alone, nor do they buy the product with the most features. Consumers buy products and services that fits their lifestyle. They buy the benefits the product provides, and the benefits depends on the needs and wants of the consumers.

Different segment of the market has different needs, that is why you cannot be everything to everybody. Not everyone will be your customer. What you want to do is to go after your target market with advertisements that are relevant to them. This might depend on their age group, their occupation or their income. In other words, this depends on their demographics.

Examples Of Funny Print Ads

Here is a collection of memorable and funny print ads by well known companies and brands.
Softlan print ad

Image source: www.netda.webdesignerdepot.com

Wonderbra print ad

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Pedigree print ad

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Pepsi Light ad

Image source: www.webdesignerdepot.com

cover girl anime ad

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Best Directory Submission Software

1 Comment »Written on November 1st, 2011 by adrian
Categories: Online Marketing

Possibly The Best Directory Submission Software For The Price

Directory submission, article submission and bookmark submission should be part of your search engine optimization (SEO) and traffic generation tactics. This ensures that your website can be found on the internet by people and search engine spiders, by the way of links to your website. The more links you have back to your website can help your rankings on the search engines, as well as your pagerank (page rank may or may not be much of an indicator these days).

This is commonly known as backlinking. However, this also depends on the quality of back-links. If the backlinks to your site is from established websites, they will carry more weight (also commonly known as link juice). As you might imagine, building back-links is a time consuming process and is one of the least enjoyable part of online marketing. Hence, many people chose to out-source this part of the job.

Out-sourcing can be the most effective use of your time, and it can free you from having to do the tedious jobs. There are many places where you can out-source your work for an affordable price. There are downsides to out-sourcing, you have to choose who to out-source to and although affordable, the money you spend does add up.

Automation Is The Key To Directory Submissions

Best 3-in-1 Directory Submission SoftwarePHP Dir Submit, formerly Submitter Script, is a powerful and easy to use turnkey PHP script that allows you to submit to website directories, article directories and bookmarking directories. You can get started right after you install the PHP script and submit to 300 website directories, 300 article directories and 300 social bookmarking sites. And it is 100% whitehat.

What Does It Do?
It is a web-based semi-automatic submission engine that you can use to submit websites, articles and bookmarks from one place. Once it is installed on your web server, you need to configure the program. The configuration is simple enough, it is found on a single page and is less than it takes to configure your wordpress blog.

You will need to install on your web server, it works for either Linux or Windows, requires Apache with PHP 5, MySQL and cURL. Most web hosting already meet these requirements.

It comes preloaded with hundreds of directory sites, you can add an unlimited number of other directories and bookmarking sites. It has a built in function to remove duplicate directories. You can also check the status of all submitted websites, articles and bookmarks with one click, and export submitted websites, articles and bookmarks to Excel. Here is the best part, you can out-source this to a VA (Virtual Assistant) and check their work as reported in the excel report.

Which brings us to the next step on how to make money with the best directory submission software.

Making Money With PHP Dir Submit

Yes, you can start a profitable directory submission service business without having to pay thousands of dollars for a program. Once installed, you will have an easy to use web-based SEO tool that anyone with an internet connection can use to quickly and easily submit websites, articles and bookmarks. If you choose to, you can use PHP Dir Submit as a directory submission software to submit your client websites.

I am sure you can see the ways you can set up a business with this software. You own the software license and it is installed on your web hosting, you can use it for your personal websites or start an business with this. Having tested the software and the admin dashboard, this might be one of the best directory submission software available.

Test-drive the Best Directory Submission Software from www.phpdirsubmit.com and check out the unlimited license.