Blog Pilihan 2009

Selama 2009 kemarin, blog apa aja sih yang paling sering dikunjungin. Setelah merangkum dari bookmark browser di kantor dan di rumah, juga termasuk browser Google Chrome dan Firefox. Maka inilah Blog pilihan zidni.blogspot.com di 2009:

1. Blog Roni Yuzirman (TDA)

roniyuzirman.wordpress.com

Tertarik dengan isinya yang berisi tentang hal-hal baru, apalagi kalau resensi bukunya. Pilihan bukunya bagus dan bisa jadi acuan sebelum ke toko buku. Juga seputar sharing pak Roni setelah bertemu dengan orang-orang yang menginspirasi beliau.

2. Blog Anindya Bakrie

aninbakrie.com

Pastinya baca blognya Pak Anin awalnya karena jarang-jarang ada CEO indonesia mau nge-blog. Tetapi, setelah beberapa bulan dibaca, isinya selalu tentang optimisme, nggak pernah tentang pesimisme. Kalau ada pembahasan tentang suatu masalah, pasti ada solusinya. Mungkin ini juga yang menyebabkan beliau bisa jadi pebisnis ulung, karena selalu optimis.

3. Blog Adzan Wahyu

adzan101.blogspot.com

Ini blognya temen kampus dulu, karena bacaannya banyak dan pergaulannya luas, isi blognya juga jadi seru buat dibaca. Isinya tentang perjalanan usahanya, keluah kesah, pokoknya blognya pak Anin dengan skala yang lebih mikro.

4. Failblog

failblog.org

kalau ini murni buat hiburan, banyak gambar-gambar lucu dan aneh.

Selain blog di atas, ada juga web-web kartun kayak dilbert.com sama phdcomics.com dan tentu saja portal berita detik.com dan vivanews.com.

Working or Training

Last week my big boss held an review meeting for presenting the data about 2008 achievement and employee performance. The presentation involved all the group member under IT in big meeting room. As you all know that my big boss is senior person in IT, especially in Telecommunication IT in Indonesia. He's career is started in 1980 until now, that makes him almost 30 years experienced in IT.

There are several thing that being highlighted in the meeting, one of them is training man days. He presented the overall man days for training in IT group, then break down to get the average man days for training and the last thing is to preview who's the training man (the man with longest training man days) in last year. The normal training man days for a year is about 5 to 7 man days per year.

Last year I attended several training both in IT technical and non-technical training. Several non-technical training that I have joined were training for trainers and Making Attractive Visualization training.

The technical training that I have join is, Siebel CRM System and Billing Mediation and Rating training. Several training is just an free lunch session with vendor, such as Over The Air Provisioning and Oracle. :)

BTW, some of Siebel CRM training materials could be found in siebelcrmmaterials.com or it.toolbox.com.

Adwords Error

Bisa Posting (lagi) di Wordpress.com

Alhamdulillah, akhirnya suspendnya berakhir setelah mengirimkan email ke mark di Wordpress.com. Pagi tadi pas cek account di wordpress.com ternyata suspendnya sudah dibuka.

Sekarang waktunya untuk mengalihkan traffic di wordpress.com ke hosting pribadi. Saatnya memulai pengalihan traffic :)

Kena Warning dari Wordpress.com

Kemarin pas mau posting di Wordpress.com kena warning.
Akibatnya nggak bisa posting di wordpress.com.

berikut cuplikan isi warningnya.

Warning: We have a concern about some of the content on your blog. Please click here to contact us as soon as possible to resolve the issue and re-enable posting.

How Blogsvertise Assign Tasks

Recently I have problem get tasks from Blogsvertise with my new Blog with Google Pagerank 3. After emailing to Blogsvertise Helpdesk, then I got explanation on how Blogsvertise assign their task and how mechanishm on Grab Bag Task (GBT). Here's the reply email from Blogsvertise Helpdesk.

Hi - Zid

We send out emails with new tasks every day using two different methods. Sometimes our computer picks bloggers at complete random to send out tasks to. Other times, our advertiser's ask that we focus on bloggers who write about certain categories such as travel, or finance. We also factor in a blogger's track record and how quickly they have responded to our assignments in the past.

To increase the number of tasks you get try working on your readership.

I will keep you in mind for any campaigns I am working on in the next few days. Thanks for your eagerness to get more assignments- it is always appreciated and remembered!

When bloggers reject tasks, the tasks are then put into the grab bag. We can not predict when you will receive a grab bag. Please keep checking in!

Thanks,

Jennifer
Account Representative

Online Business Case: How Sports Store Use Online Marketing like Obama

Online marketing is one of the best things to reach more customer in the whole world, some of the advantages in online marketing is they could reach wider market using efficient cost, an example for this one is how Obama reach his voter starting from young people to parents using facebook online social network. His campaign team starts by creating Obama profile in social network and connect as many as potential voter.

This online marketing continue moving on new phase, as Obama starts to enter the youtube by supplying his video campaign to the online video sharing. By entering the youtube, his voter that want to see his online debate or his speech won’t need to continue watching television or record in DVD just to see the debate.

Sports equipment store as online store that targeting young people should see how Obama use internet marketing effectively. Sports equipments store could start by creating his customer network in social network and try to get his customer testimony on their services. Then online marketing could continue to provide sports equipment advertisement video online and also they could provide the how-to video for their products offered in the stores, for example how to wear baseball gloves correctly and tips in playing baseball.

Online Business Case: Online Car Insurance

Car insurance like other financial product now also available in the internet. online auto car insurance services trying to help customer to access insurance services in simple ways. Today no customer had enough time to visit car insurance marketing office just for asking information and fill the application by paper based. With online service, customer could cut the time for get the information and applying auto insurance.

But, before choosing your car insurance. You need to searching the car insurance company track record, trace for any complaint records related to those auto insurance company. The other thing to do is compare the auto insurance rates from two car insurance companies and find the best rates offered. Compare the rates from your car insurance company with other well-known insurance company rates.

By comparing those rates, customer will get not only cheap car insurance, but also the best deal they could achieve from the insurance company.

Online Business Case: EZunsecured Online Loan Services

Online business loan is solution for various loan problem faced by business owner. Online business financing will decrease loan problem effectively by providing one stop solution for business loan problem.

An example of online loan services is ezunsecured that will help customer to consult at any time in any places that exist internet connection. Using online services, business owner able to compare similar service provided from other similar service provider.

ezunsecured.com arranges lower interest rate for business owner and they use small business segment as their market shares, so customer will experience benefit of online loan services.

New Rich: King, Programmer then Investor

In last decade’s world’s billionaire list we saw a lot of changes. Starts from early nineties with Sultan or King that hold big five billionaires of the world to the late nineties that comes era of technology business take the top billionaire list. The latest update of this billionaire list will be in following years that investor era had come to take the top billionaire list.

Nouveau Riche is French for ‘New Rich’; this nouveau riche phenomenon is explaining the billionaire list changes in the following years. In the early nineties Bill Gates is nobody in the Billionaire list, but as Nouveau Riche builds his wealth on technology in early eighties, Bill Gates become number one billionaire in the world using the success of Microsoft operating system and software during nineties, Bill Gates also received an amount of fortune in his Microsoft revenue.

This year Nouveau Riche is Warren Buffet number one in the list of Billionaire with his investment. Start from nothing in the eighties, Buffet continues to invest in potential company that made his wealth bigger. In this year Buffet already the number one thanks to terrific performance of company that he put investment on it.

Order Pesan Taksi Alphard atau Taksi TV via Telepon

Akhir-akhir ini angkutan taksi makin canggih aja, mulai dari taksi dengan TV kabel Taksi TransCab, taksi dengan armada Mercedes Benz Taksi Silver Bird, taksi dengan armada VW Caravelle Taksi Maxicab, sampai yang terakhir Taksi yang pake armada Alphard Taksi Tiara Express. Untuk taksi dengan armada mobil mewah seperti Taksi Tiara Express, sebenarnya sudah ada sejak awal 2008 ini, misalnya Taksi Silver Bird yang menggunakan armada Mercedes Benz sampai Taksi bandara Maxicab yang menggunakan armada VW Caravelle.

Untuk tarif yang dikenakan ke penggunanya tidak terlalu mahal dengan tarif buka pintu 10.000 rupiah cukup terjangkaulah untuk sekelas ALphard atau Mercedes Benz. Masing-masing taksi di atas dapat dipesan dengan melalui telepon ke call center masing-masing.

Berikut list call center untuk order:

1. Taksi Tiara Express 021-57990707
2. Taksi Silver Bird 021- 798-1234, 794-1234, 798-1001
3. Taksi Transcab 021-583 55 500

So, silakan dipilih dipilih taksinya :)

Taksi Tiara Express

Taksi Silver Bird akhirnya dapat saingan, grup Express meluncurkan taksi Tiara Express yang menggunakan Toyota Alphard sebagai armada taksi eksekutifnya. Selama ini hanya ada taksi Silver Bird yang memasang tarif diatas taksi reguler, bahkan untuk kelas taksi minibus belum ada yang menawarkan. Tiara Express menawarkan alternatif untuk penumpang banyak dan angkutan mewah dan nyaman.

Berikut tarif Tiara Express:
Buka pintu (flag fall) Rp. 10.000,- per km, Selanjutnya Rp. 5.000,-
Waktu tunggu per jam Rp. 50.000,-
Tidak ada minimum payment dan cancellation fee
Fasilitas : GPS,LCD, internet

Jadi, untuk pak Roni yang mau beli alphar, kayaknya ganti yang lain aja pak :)

Ternyata bukan cuma taksi dengan armada Alphard saja, banyak juga taksi dengan fasilitas wah lainnya dan nomor telepon call center nya.

Step to Change Your Name In Paypal

Here's the step to change your name in Paypal account.
From Paypal support team, nice team with quick response. :)

Dear Zidni Agni,

Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern.

You can change the name on your account only for a typographical error
or a legal name change. You can't change the name on your account to
another person's name.

To make a name change, submit a request through our secure form.

1. Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com/.

2. Click the "Contact Us" link.

3. Click "Contact Customer Service."

4. Select "My Account" in the choose a Topic box and select "Name
Change" in the Choose a subtopic box.

5. Enter "Can I change my name?" in the step 3 box, and click
"Continue."

6. Click the question "Can I change the name on my PayPal account?"

7. Click the "secure form" link in the answer.

8. Follow the online instructions.

You can upload the requested files or fax the cover sheet along with the
requested documents. Since uploaded files are received almost instantly
and electronically attached to the claim details, our agent can review
your claim more quickly. Faxed documents are reviewed in the order they
are received and generally require 3-5 business days for the review
process to be completed. Occasionally a longer time period is required,
for instance if the fax is illegible or pages are missing.

We appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter, and
wish you continued success on PayPal.

Sincerely,
Abequel
PayPal, an eBay Company

Perubahan Nama di Account Paypal

Akhirnya setelah mencoba merubah nama account di bank BCA dan berakhir dengan anjuran perubahan KTP oleh mbak-mbak BCA, mencari di Internet, tanya-tanya ke kanan kiri. Hari ini Nama di account Paypal sudah sesuai dengan nama di Bank Account BCA. :D

Ternyata Paypal memang sudah membuat step-step khusus untuk perubahan nama, bahkan menyangkut masalah legal-nya. Mulai dari form yang khusus untuk perubahan nama sampai dokumen legal yang harus dilampirkan...phiuuh.

Langkah-langkah perubahan lengkapnya akan di-posting di tulisan berikutnya.

But the ending is great, so lets withdraw some Benjamin :)

Internet Marketing Concept - Definition (1)

Past few days, I've been asking by some friends about the internet marketing. Some pointing out to asiabrain or even the new rumahgratis. Questions they always asks, such as:

1. Is it true that internet marketing is MLM via internet?
2. are we have to make ebook to sell in internet?

And so many more positive or negative side of internet marketing. Lets start with some points.

Internet Marketing is Marketing channel with many business model

Internet marketing, or for short IM, is one marketing channel to do business, and like some marketing channel it has many business model. For example, Television, if you have your own channel (ie. Zid Channel), then you'll be able to sell your channel through cable TV as Pay TV, sell prime time TV Commercial to advertising agency, or sell some program to product related to the program and offer them in main sponsor or even an Advertorial.

Same with Television, In IM, if you have a Website, you could sell it as a pay site, commercial banner (link, image or pop-up) or even do some advertorial on your website content.

So, you don't have to make some e-book, sell unuseful product to others or even ask you friends to transfer some moeny to join some network.


Internet Marketing like all Business, It could be leverage to gain more profit

Start with one store, after the ROI, leverage to 2 or 3 store. Start with one property, leverage to 2 property and so on. Same like all of them, start with one web, after it generate a sustainable profit, move to another one.

follow this cycle : Research >> Create >> Content >> Traffic >> Monetize >> Automate

Continue to the next series....

Paid Review -- Online Business Journey (3)

After trying the online business model of PPC and affiliate marketing, this is the case of paid review business model. How much revenue that you'll get for a paid review?. The simple one web sample, lets say that you have PageRank 4 website, then the average revenue for the first month is about 50 USD to 100 USD. The revenue is depends on how you much revew request that you'll get.

The complete simple case for paid review:
1. The initial moeny that you should invest is 0 (null)
2. Build a free blog, either on wordpress or blogger/blogspot (I would prefer blogger, cause you could extend it to advertising business model)
3. Write a topic that's hot in populated country, for example Indonesia, you could write about the
new telecommunication Operator (ie. Axis)
4. Gain your reader by promote your web to mailing list or private forum(ie. company private forum, mailing list or alumni mailing list).
5. Made your self a credit card and register to paypal.
5. Register your blog to reviewme or blogvertise.
6. Start doing your review request
7. And here's the motivational pics :)

PPC Affiliate - Online Business Journey (2)

What is Affiliate online business model?, basically this type of business model is something that known as the middleman, you dont have to made your own products to sell, all you need to do is just sell others people product and get commision for product that you sold to customer.

Then what is PPC, PPC is an avertising model that based on click, for example Google Adwords. So, how to combine the PPC and Affiliate? it is simply to put your affiliate product promotion link in the PPC to generate the sales :P.

Then hows the steps:
1. Register your self to Affiliate website - ie. amazon affiliate, commision juction(for walmart and others)
2. Register to PPC website - ie. Google Adwords
3. Made your self a promotion in PPC using your affiliate link
4. Monitor your promotion and research the best keywords
5. After several months, entertain yourself with motivational pics :D


continue to next series......

Online Business Journey (1)

Here's my make money online journey :) (till April 2008)

November 2007:
Start to learn make money online from free seminar by Fabian lim

December 2007:
Start a blog about House and Apartment
Buy domain to sell books online

January 2008:
Marketing and making sales in Books online

February 2008:
Quit the Books online
Start a PPC on Adwords

March 2008:
100 USD on Amazon Affiliate :D

April 2008:
Start the paid review
20 USD on paid review

continue to next series.......