After some searching works , readings and discussions I decide to name my online shop www.tudung-bawal.com (this is not my first domain). It is very straight forward, everybody will instantly what is my business all about when looking at the name of my website(this is part of the many tips you can find in the internet). For this e-commerce website I have decided to use OScommerce

To make things more interesting, starting from designing, coding, testing and promoting was done by myself(actually no budget to hire people).  So from this activity I learn alot about PHP coding, photoshop, SEO and so on. Every tips and tutorials I followed from the internet in order to materialized my first online shop.

Alhamdullilah, everything when well and I launched my website. From time to time, my website started to gain its own popularity, my website has got no.1 ranking in google for the keyword “tudung bawal”. My sales increase locally and even internationally(UK, US, Australia). During the operation, anything regarding the backends will be hendle by me and anything related to frontend will be cover by wife.

One thing that is not so good about my business is its seasonal. My online shop has manage to stand for a few years, until tudung bawal is not a trend anymore and the arrival of the blogging era.

Next: Blog makes money…….

Ader sorang kawan aku ni, dia memang kaki gadget(solo lagi ni). Dia yang start namakan gadget-gadget ni. last-last aku pon rase seronok nak ikut. So ari ni aku nak namakan gadget aku yang pertama Muyandroid.(cara nama ni pun aku tiru gak, takper di member aku).

Si Muyandroid ni sebenarnya aku nyer Android smart phone dari HTC(HTC tattoo). Kalau korang tau HTC tattoo ni phone android yang paling murah masa aku beli dulu la. Aku malas nak citer pnajang lebar pasal android ni korang bleh tanya Mr G akalu nak tau. Tapi aku rase saper yang macam Geek sket mesti dah tau benda ni.

Kesimpulannya, phone ni agak ok untuk digunakan dengan function yang pelbagai. Kalau korang ader account 3G, memang best jugak la phone ni. Cumer mungkin tak sehebat maner bagi diorang yang kaki gadget. kat bawah ni aku nyer overall comment.

Pros: Design yang simple dan tak besar sangat. Fuction yang pelbagai(berbaloi)

Cons: Camera yang tak best sangat, no auto focus and tak shake friendly. Support yang lembab(software upagrade) dari HTC

Picture courtesy of HTC

I had tried so many programs available in the Internet and all was up to the free version only(reading email, watching ads,etc). Non was a success. Later, I decided to try a paid version. The first paid program I’d join was a MLM base ebooks selling program. It was about RM40 in order to join the program. We will be given  our own website in order to promote our e-books. I’d tried so hard to promote my first venture, from classified, email, forums and even flyers(did not materialize). I had manage to get quite a number of downlines, but the not so easy part is to ask them to join as a paid members. Before I manage to make anybody a paid member, the website of this program suddenly disappeared and history. Below is one example of the ads that I used to post which I manage to dig back from the internet

Talking about own website, I remember starting my first website using Geocities free service during my Universty days(2000). My first website was called cerihik.com which a portal for people to submit thier stories to be publish on the Internet. I would say it maybe among the first of its kind in malaysia at that time but unfortunately I did not take it seriously and I stop maintaining the website after about a year in operation.(can believe ka this…up to you).below is a snapshot of my Intro page

From the power of Internet you can view my first website here.

After so many failures, I was then introduced to a forum which full of information on online busines, Digital Point Forum. Here is the place i learn a lot about Internet, website, ecommerce, Graphic design, ebay, paypal,etc. Here is the point were I start to get involved in a real online business. Will be contine……….

Borak punya borak, last sekali sampai gak kat counter dan kitorang dapatlah kopi free ni, kitaorang pon dengan bangga nye berjalan balek sambil diperhatikan mereka-meraka ayng masih dalam barisan dengan semangat yang membara. So korang tunggu apa lagi copat la gi amek kopi free korang…

p/s: nak kata sedap sangat tak pon lagi sedap kopi pak ali warung bawah pokok

Back to my business experience, its all started when my wife bought me a present. It was a digital Casio watch, a digital “aspal” (short form for  asli palsu) Casio watch to be exact. I did not realized it until being told by my wife. Somehow at that point of time an idea came up from my head to become a reseller of this product. The strategy at that time was to have small margin but bis sales and next is all History……ha ha not yet la… yes at that particular time I’ve manage get a big number of sales but I’m not business tycoon yet (even now). Thinking of it, its not that easy even running a business of selling replicas watch. There is always a challenge. But one thing that is very very very important from my experience is customer support. At that time, i try to find a way to make my watch a bit different from others, so what did i do? I introduce a quality check and period of warranty

Probably other sellers have this as well, but for me it really came originally from my little head and it really works. What i did was I give all my product a 30 days money back warranty and at the same time I will check all my stocks when I received it from my supplier. I will do a complete functional test to all my watches before it can be released for sale. It was quite a tedious work since I’m doing it alone but it is worth it. The warranty period given really enhance my product values from other sellers and at the same time i can minimized product return from customer since I have check upfront any defect products.

I wish to continue more but I’m out of the mood now, so if God willing I will continue the story of my journey other time.

Salam

Yang satu ni bawak kete macam orang gila, kalau tak gila pon aku rase dah tak tahan nak terberak la tuh. Yang satu lagi ni plak, dia ingat jalan ni kaum kerabat dia yang punya. Kat tengah-tengah Jam boleh plak menyengkang kat tengah-tengah jalan. Macam-macam ada kat dunia ni.

Tapi aku tak salahkan plat WTF tulah dan aku yakin bukan semua orang kat malaysia yang ada plat WTF ni camtu(yang tak tu jangan marah aku lak). Aku rase dugaan aku je dapat jumpa kete WTF yang WTF.  Tapi secara peribadi aku agak suka dengan nombor plat WTF ni aku pon takleh nak explain kenapa.

Basically, blog aku kali ni akan memaparkan kisah-kisah tentang apa yang aku suka buat, apa yang aku suka tengok dan dengar dan apa yang aku plan nak buat in the future. Aku akan gunakan bahasa rojak(BM, BI,pasar), so kalau kadang-kadang tak paham tak pe, boleh tanye aku anytime.

Dulu(sampai sekarang pon) aku ada beberapa blog yang berasingan macam blog pertanian, blog photograpy(gambarje) dan blog magic trick(untuk adsense je ni). Sekarang ni aku akan cuba gabungkan semua dalam blog ni dengan konsep yang lebih informative lagi(yang magic trick punya tak kot). Disebabkan aku ni banyak sangat hobi so susah sket nak maintain banyak sangat blog.

Aku rase sampai sini je dulu……jadi nantikan post aku yang seterusnya. Salam.