Rice Blogger

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.

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?
Read the rest of this entry »

This is quite irritating, as youtube advertisements are actually playing before and after the video you would like to play. This new YouTube ads have no skip buttong, you will have to watch the whole 30 seconds ads.

But this would be a new channel for Internet markerter to buy some advertisements slots, and this would be limited to those who could make video advertisements.

I am currently exploring the use of email marketing as I know that there are a lot of people in the affiliate marketing uses this. I do not intend to use them for affiliate marketing purpose, but just to keep my members updated, so it may be a monthly thing going on. I tend to keep away from email marketing all this while because I kept the perception of it as spam, but then I notice that some online community are sending monthly newsletter which I am keen to get updated. So will give this a try.

First I will need a good software that supports HTML, if you have any software in mind free/paid is fine, as long the price is decent and I can do a trial before purchasing. Currently I am giving these two software a try for free:-

• MailList Controller Free 7.2
• Sendblaster – Limitation but it is withing my needs

If you have any experience in this field, feel free to drop me a comments as I will need help in this as much as possible. I do not want to do this wrong the first time.

Marketing through other sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or Youtube would be consider as Social Network Marketing. SNM is still very new as you can see those sites above are only created few years ago and today, there is more and more people using these channels to promote and advertise their website or products.

Previously I have covered some tips to do some of the Social Network Marketing on Facebook like making pages and having a ads banner on your facebook profile. I have been using them on some of my websites and blogs and some proven to be pretty successful and there is more interaction day by day.

I started using full feeds on my facebook page that I have created, then slowly I do only excerpt rss feed because my final intention is to have visitor to visit my website.

It has been a month and although it is not as high as search engine traffic but I am currently getting 5.67% of my traffic from Facebook alone and as my fan grows, I will actually increase this value / or increase the visitor referred by facebook.