Market your product by social media marketing

Why social media marketing ?

Visiting social sites is now the fourth most popular activity on the internet, just ahead of checking e-mails. Question is are you taking full advantage of this opportunity? The 5 Reasons:

1. Size
Facebook has over 500 million active users globally. On an average, 70-100 tweets happen by the second. Every second a new member joins LinkedIn. YouTube receives over 2 billion viewers each day. This is the kind of enormity social networking sites promote. Once you've decide to embark on social media marketing professionally, chances are, you will be communicating and promoting what you and your company has to offer to this massive community.

2. It is cost effective
There are different advertising campaigns or model that you could choose to invest on and make use of; nevertheless, social media marketing is still the most cost efficient. Here you donot have mounds of cost associated with paper, ink, and printing.

3. Boost website traffic
Social media is probably the fastest and easiest means of redirecting traffic to your website. When users are interested in getting to know more about your company via the social media profiles registered, all they have to do is click the link to your main website and they will be taken to your business website. What happens here is that prospective customers are being attracted to your site. This potentially increases traffic to your website and thus continues the cycle of revenue increase.

4. The virtual version of "word-of mouth"
Social media marketing campaign is a powerful means to generate more buzz about your brand. Many users are exposed to your product brands online and when they use this product, they are more inclined to tell others about it. More online conversations about your product will mean that there is a greater chance of more customers or simply visitors to your website. Some of the big brands like Coke, Ford, Dell, IBM, Burger King are some of the well known brands have powerfully used social media platforms to endorse themselves.

5. Attraction
Using social media marketing strategies you will reduce the possibility of what is called 'ad blindness'. Traditional advertising methods, such as banner ads, are no longer as effective as they use to be; simply because users of the internet are no longer paying attention to them. However, this does not mean that social media marketing have to be your only marketing strategy. Using it alongside the traditional marketing methods will mean an increase in the volume of traffic to the website. Social media marketing, if well planned, implemented, organized and properly maintained, increases online branding, web traffic and ultimately, sales conversions.

Data taken from http://www.clickpro.com.my/services-smm.php

Some of the company that provide you the services:

Just Simple (M) Sdn Bhd

 Orangutan Solutions Sdn. Bhd

UPOD Media Sdn Bhd

ClickPro Media Sdn. Bhd.

ALI BABA your way...

Do your ever heard about ALIBABA? ALIBABA EXPRESS? this is a B2B or B2C web.

 

Here some fact from Alibaba group of company..

 

Alibaba Group is a family of Internet-based businesses which makes it easy for anyone to buy or sell online anywhere in the world. Since its inception, it has developed leading businesses in consumer e-commerce, online payment, business-to-business marketplaces and cloud computing, reaching Internet users in more than 240 countries and regions. Alibaba Group consists of 25 business units and is focused on fostering the development of an open, collaborative and prosperous e-commerce ecosystem.

 

Alibaba Group was founded in 1999 by 18 people led by Jack Ma, a former English teacher from Hangzhou, China who has aspired to help make the Internet accessible, trustworthy and beneficial for everyone. The privately held Alibaba Group, including its affiliated entities, employs more than 24,000 people in some 70 cities in Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.

 

 

I have this experience of using his web service in 2009 where my wife wanted to start his baby product business which I did mentioned in the previous articles.

 

In this web site, you can search any item that you like to search, ANYTHING...!!! From a part of a product to the complete product.. All in you finger tip.. Says you looking for a trousers, you either can search a complete pant with variety of design with different kind of materials or you can search it by part. Example you can search for cloth, an type of cloth with many type of thickness, then you can search zip, belt loops materials and so on.. then you can start sewing your trousers locally in your shop or house.

 

This is a fantastic platform provided by ALIBABA group for Malaysia like us to be entrepreneur. Cheap, affordable prices, bombastic design and reasonable quality make your product profitable and sellable to world wide.

 

The last thing that I going to say,

 

MUST TRY !!!

 

Photo of Jack Ma source from http://news.alibaba.com/specials/aboutalibaba/aligroup/jack.html

Drop your documents to dropbox

We always in hurry and it is norm that you will forgot to take or bring your USB flash drive. Do you felt disappointed and your day turn upside down? This was same happen to the Dropbox founder, Drew Houston in year 2007. Then by his initiative, he started to create a his own personal use usage.

Trendy USB flash drive in the market
Source: http://hitslot.com/2012/02/19/usb-flash-drive-for-fans-of-transformers/

Dropbox is a company that provide file hosting service that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, and client software. you can create a special folder on each of your computers which Dropbox then synchronises so that it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents) regardless of which computer is used to view it. Files placed in this folder also are accessible through a website and mobile phone applications.

Let explore their advantages...

Dropbox is faster than many other filehosting sites.

When you upload on Dropbox you gain rights to your files that you have uploaded unlike many other cloud storage services where file hosting own permissions.

Interface is very simple.

It is safe.

Mobile apps are available for Dropbox.

Dropbox sync all your file at the time that you edit them

 

I have use this service more than 2 years, Samsung offered a 50gb of Dropbox space if you purchase their Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I quickly grab that phone once the advertise come out in our local newspaper.

 

"It is easy and simple to use, really help my day."

Shafa, 2013

 

For those who always travel either business or personnel purposes, this app really help you out. I travel to Phuket with my loving wife on February 2013, our 5 days journey by car from Kuala Lumpur experience us many beautiful views, the culture and so on. This make our camera storage rapidly filled up. But by using this Dropbox app, I uploaded all my photos to the folder so that I can erase the data in the camera. While boating the island, I feel secured if in case my camera fall into the sea because all the photos that I took previously have been back up in my Dropbox folder.

 

This also can be applied while you having your business trip where you no need to bring your big size external storage or your computer. Just access the dropbox from anywhere and you will get your file immediately.

 

Here some tips I got from you tube that might help you to start dropbox.

 

 

 

Snap & Go with Samsung WB250F

World is moving fast - faster and the technologies are along with the ride. Technologies are getting quicker and affording us instant access and split-second connections.

Today’s email is tomorrow’s snail mail.

I would like to introduce my latest camera, Samsung WB250F.

Source: http://www.samsung.com/latin_en/consumer/cameras-camcorders/cameras/compact/EC-WB250FBDWPA-features

It is amazing gadget where this camera equip with many feature such as follows:

• Connect to Wi-Fi networks and share your shots
• Save and back-up photos easily and automatically
• Control it intuitively with Hybrid Touch User Interface
• Shoot from near or far with 24mm lens and 18x zoom

Purchased on 13 April 2013 with cost RM 690.00 at Digital mall, Petaling jaya. The package is include the camera, a soft casing, 8gb memory card and screen protector.

Source: My Camera

Why do I post this camera? Is it fantastic enough to attract you to read this article? mmm... Let's begin..

This camera is build with Wi-Fi where it can connect to the web easily. No matter where you go, as long as Wi-Fi exist, you are able to connect your camera wireless to the web.

Once I snap the photo, I can immediately send it to my client or my customer the photo trough email. Not require a computer at all. It is so easy at your finger tip. Says are flying to Europe for business purposes where the weight that you have to carry is limited. With this camera, you are connected to whole world without have to carry a laptop as a medium to store and send over those photos.


Furthermore, it is also can link to your smart phone. You can download and install at the android market or using the given CD. In real time, all the photo that you captured will automatically send to your mobile phone via Wi-Fi.

For those who require regular back up to prevent data damage. There is a software to will auto backup to your computer even while sleeping. No risk of data lost and it is totally free of mind.

Here some of the photo that I pick from my file. enjoy it!!

 

 Dhani Asfa
Source: My Camera

 

 

Dhia Adriana

Source: My Camera

 

 

Pipe Jacking Machine in the Jacking Pit

Source: My Camera

 

 

 

Jacking of DN450 RCP progressing
Source: My Camera



B2B in digital world

 

B2B or B to B or BtoB? what is that? do you heard before in newspaper? especially Harian Metro or Sinar Harian? Do you believe the existence?

 

Yes, but I believed the one that you think is differ than what I going to write. B2B for today article is Business to Business and I going to zoom into the marketing aspect. If you a entrepreneur or future toke, you have to read this article till the end then.

 

Please spend a moment to watch the below video (very interesting!!!)

 

 

Business to business in marketing term, is a transaction in between business, says between wholesaler and retailer. This is differ when the deal is between retailer and consumer, which they call B2C (business to consumer).

 

In the other view of communication, business to business refers to methods by which employees from different companies can connect with one another through social media.

 

From the video, we have learn that the web business are huge and the growth rate in significantly high. The ease of communication make the business become easy and faster where the buyer either retailer or wholesaler not require to travel more just to make the deal process. They can view, share or get the information earlier by using the digital media.

 

I want to share my experience in year 2010 after my second baby born. My wife intended to start baby products business such as daily wear and accessories. The first step that we do is open the laptop and Google the web. Unbelievable, there are too many blogs, website and article about the baby products.

 

China base web called Alibaba is a platform that we can connect to the manufacture, dealer, agent or wholesaler, just type whatever product you want, they will bring it to you.

 

The beautiful part of this web is that they can classify the product into many categories. Such as the country the product been produce, type of products, product materials, the price rang with the real time price offered and so on.

 

We spent many weeks looking into the design that we require with reasonable price that the other side can offer. It is easy as ABC and you don't waste time to travel and money to pay the petrol and toll. After we have agreed with the offer, we make decision to visit the manufacture which is locate in one of small district in Guang Zhou. This visit is important where I can physically meet the people that I deal virtually and also to verify the product that which have been agreed in previous deal.

 

During the stay, we have meeting with many manufactures where broadening our network between the manufacture. We found out that not only the manufacture, almost every agent, wholesaler, & retailer n that district are expose to the globe promoting their product. They said that this is the easiest way to connect with the global to introduce their product and the return is bombastic. Once the product up to the web, just like pisang goreng in Malaysia.

 

I will stop here and insyaallah will continue my journey in other article. Don't miss it, come and visit my blog regularly.