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For the month of November 2008, introduce Hafihz.com to 3 …

PS: Yesterday I managed to remember 4 names, using the first point.

Event: The Asian Muslim Consumer Showcase 2008
Venue: Singapore Expo Hall 5A
Date: 24th - 27 October 2008
Review: Honestly I expected more crowd on a Sunday. The products were diverse, with certain booths clearly monopolozing (notably bridal …

Major announcement appeared in my email today from Brian Gardner, creator of the Revolution Wordpress Theme (the theme I’m using for this blog).
Read more: http://www.briangardner.com/blog/revolution-going-open-source.htm
The playing field has changed, and for the better for consumers …

… and it’s a serious problem. Coz having the ability to call people by name gives you an extreme competitive advantage over people like me.

You’re able to ger closer to people
You offer better personalized service …

The strongest business networks are the genuine ones. And you’ll know the signs…

You’ve not met for months, years, but at that moment, you can talk for hours at ease.
You rarely sigh at the thought of …

The Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings identified these to be the world’s top 100 universities in 2008. These institutions represent 20 countries. Whilst North America dominates with 42 universities, Europe and Asia …

“Vlog” is short for “video blog”, a blog which uses video heavily as its prime content. Sometimes Vlogs are also referred to as “moblogs” because these are short with mobile phones.
Some reasons why Vlogs are …

Marketeers have to be good storytellers:

You have to be able to sell the story to the finance dude.
You have to be able to communicate the story of the product and its benefits to customers.
You have …

Generally, we’d prefer the familiar over the unpredictable, and for good reasons:

We like things that are familiar.
Being predictable allows for flexibility and planning.
We are at ease with routines.

At the core of your business is your …

Before you decide to expand, switch markets. venture into new frontiers, remember the above.
Recently I took a trip to the nearby donut shop during lunchtime, all excited to get my cheese chocolate special. What greeted …

Like all other articles, this advice is for me first before it is towards others.
About 10 minutes ago I was walking towards the coffeeshop to take my usual nightly kopi break, when I chanced upon …

Once upon a time, I was an anti-blogger. I couldn’t understand the maturity of the medium nor the people who would want to tell the whole world about their thoughts. Then one day, I came …

The latest financial crunch is making airwaves. An impending gloom of recession is expected to emerge from the states, with Asia counting on its economic boom bubble (lead by China) to tackle the crisis.
What does …

(We take 5 from my subscription series to bring this important posting)
You might have the above. Here are the symptoms:

The latest buzz, and suddenly you claim to be the latest expert.
You disregard teachers, pick up …

Cutting Edge Site Subscription Tip 5: Diverse Promotions
Unless you’re someone famous, getting high subscriber counts cannot be achieved passively. You’ve got to be creative, go out of your comfort zone and actively promote subscription.
And we’re …

Cutting Edge Site Subscription Tip 4: Permission Marketing
Permission marketing is about waiting for the green light from potential customers before shoving to them all that you’re excited about but in that which they have little …

Weekend’s here, so I’ve decided to take a break from my Cutting Edge Site Subscription Series and show you the dark side of this whole business.

Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.
Little satisfaction. …

Cutting Edge Site Subscription Tip 3: Start Regular
To build the intitial base of subscribers, chances are you’d have to post more and more frequently in the early stages of your blogging. Here’s are my thoughts:

Frequent …

Cutting Edge Site Subscription Tip 2: Flying Purple Cows

Cows are boring. Purple cows are Seth Godin’s briliance. Flying purple cows, and that should get you noticed.
Subscription calls are like cows. So make them purple, and …

On top of comments from previous post (Welcome 100), I received a handful of smses asking me to share my subscription generating methods.
So this will be the first of a series of articles, all about …

This took lots of background work and marketing. Lots.

Maybe I’ll design a course on this whole subscription business. What say you?

At my workplace, I get comments from colleagues and members of public about everything under the sun. And after each remark (well, almost all of ‘em), I’d take that red squarish sticky notepad of mine, …