Cover Story in Teens’ Crossroads Magazine

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My 4th article for Darul Arqam’s Teens’ Crossroads magazine, and InsyaAllah not the last. The brief given was to write an article which would uplift and motivate the youths when faced with setbacks in their school days. I had chosen the title “The Art of Failing Forward“.

You can download the article via a link under eLearning.

What Does Your Wallet Say About You?

Interesting read. Behaviour expert and MSN agony aunt Dr Pam Spurr gives you the low-down on what your wallet says about you at a personal level. Find out more here: http://money.uk.msn.com/consumer/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=9164156

I giggled and recognized my wallet immediately: I’m number 9. The description too was interesting. Which one are you?

Introducing MarketingPress.Net Website

Phase 2 of my aim to deliver better content to my readers. To recap, I analyzed Hafihz.com’s readers and noticed that there were 3 segments:

1. Readers who can relate to my lifestyle and ideas in general
2. Readers who love my motivation articles specifically
3. Readers who love my marketing articles specifically

Weeks ago I launched StressBurner to cater to segment 2. The response has been good. Please visit the site by clicking this url: www.stressburner.com .

Today I’m happy to announce a site for segment 3. Introducing MarketingPress.Net:

This site will feature blogging tips from a marketing perspective, plus juicy plugins to help beef up your WordPress. Click on the above picture or the following link to visit this new site: www.marketingpress.net .

Yeppie, two new sites to better serve readers like you! Let me know what you think ya. c”,)

Top Motivation Site

Soon to be.

Background Information:

• 4 subcribers in first 2 days of production (it’s still fresh from bubble wraps)
• Catered to Hafihz.com readers who are feeling “so-so” with marketing, but especially love my motivational articles. This site is designed for you.
• Some articles may be similar to Hafihz.com’s motivational articles. However there will not be any religious sources in the posts featured in Stressburner.com since it is serving a different lifestyle of readers. However these similar articles will be boosted with other material that I could not discuss in here, but can do so since the site now is all about burning stress and motivating success.

Click on the picture to visit the site. I recommend you subscribing to Stressburner.com today and follow along as this website grows in content and design with the aim of helping you to burn stress and motivate success.

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PS: Don’t worry, Hafihz.com will still be as as active as ever. This will not turn into a ghost town, guaranteed. It’s just that now more of my thoughts on motivation can be shared with you at a site especially for such content.

Oh, and I can hear the marketeers crying “What about us?” Stay tuned my marketing readers… your own site is already up now. I just want it to be extra juicy on the packaging before presenting it to you. Get ready though, this new site will be jam packed with marketing tips and tools. Stay tuned. =)

Your Life in a Flash

Super cool and presentable. Spice up your About Page with this gem:

107 Terms for New Marketers (Free eBook)

What in the world is “WYSIWYG”? How about “RSS”? Having trouble getting the hang of the marketing vocabulary on the web?

Introducing 107 Terms for New Marketers. This eBook explains 107 terms to get you started into the world of e-marketing. I recommend this for instructors as course material to your students and anyone who wants to get alittle e-savvy.

And yes, I’m giving it away FREE. In return, I hope you can spare few seconds to link back to Hafihz.com or post a comment under this article. Also tell technorati how much you love this site by clicking this link:

For more updates on other freebies, I recommend subscribing to Hafihz.com. Thank you for your support, and here’s the download link to 107 Terms for New Marketers. Enjoy.

Exclusive Hafihz.com Banners for Your Site

Fresh from the drawing board. These are some banners to show your support for this site. Feel free to use these banners (right click and select “save image as”) so that you can place on your site. These are the most common ad sizes, but let me know if you need one specially for your site and I’ll see what I can do.

Full Banner 468×60 pixels:

Half Banner 234×60 pixels:

Micro Button 88×31 pixels:

Sidebar Button 120×90 pixels:

Square Button 125×125 pixels:

Feed Headline Animator 180×100 pixels:

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

Spring Widget 175×300 pixels

If you want banners for your own site, please contact me or brother Shaikr who does some pretty neat banners as well.

8 Tips To Run a Nasi Lemak Business

… and  I just made myself hungry. Anyhow, add some business smarts to your future Nasi Lemak empire with these 8 tips:

1. A website dedicated to Nasi Lemak. Talk about all things associated with Nasi Lemak, from the history to ingredients to the best places to find Nasi Lemak. Offer “Daily Nasi Lemak Tips”. Don’t laugh now… I think your subscription numbers will be huge.
2. Brand your Nasi Lemak like how Old Chang Kee branded the kueh.
3. Dress up extraordinarily well when seling your Nasi Lemak. I know this dude at Clementi who sells Nasi Ayam Penyek (Chicken Rice with a touch of spice) wearing shades and a chef’s suit in the middle of a normal coffeeshop area. Generating word-of-mouth he is, as people talk about him. Maybe I’d ask him to give a class on viral marketing.
4. Stress upon an ingredient in your Nasi Lemak which is positively unique from other Nasi Lemaks.
5. Dress up your Nasi Lemak the old school way. Go back to past archives of what Nasi Lemak ought to be, and package your Nasi Lemak as “Nasi Lemak Asli”.
6. Create a story behind your Nasi Lemak. It could be one starting like “Many generations ago…” or “From the straits of Indonesia…” , something like that. Food with history seemingly tastes better.
7. Give a value-added service with your Nasi Lemak. Maybe a tissue? Simple thoughts like this show your customers that you gave a thought for their consumption of your product.
8. Create intelligence in the packaging. Traditional wrapping means that the rice or sambal might fall out of the packaging. Create a packaging that’s unique, patent it and who knows, you might turn from a Nasi Lemak seller to a Food Packaging company.

“The Nasi Lemak Stall” …. hmmm.

Homer Simpson’s Nightmare - The Walkstation

This product combines a treadmill and a computer workstation, and its makers hope to land them in the future workplace. Are you kidding me?

Two Must Have Wordpress Plugins That Target

As promised to readers in my previous article on Building Intelligent Websites, today I will share two applications that will help target your new readers from regular ones. Here’s Seth Godin’s take:

One opportunity that’s underused is the idea of using cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbies. It’s more work at first, but it can offer two experiences to two different sorts of people. (Source: In the Middle, Starting)

Here are two WordPress applications I recommend to offer that added differentiated service:

1. What Would Seth Godin Do Wordpress Plugin: - allows you to add a customized header at the beginning of your page. New visitors will see a different message (customizable) from regular readers.
2. Wordpress Popup Scheduler Plugin: - makes popups less annoying. You can set the popup (for subscription or special announcements) to appear only for new users at the specific page which they visit your site.

Do you have your own favorite plugins that do targeting? Share them here.

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