# Power up your website with words

My business friend was complaining to me that she fails in making her online business works as the visitor rate is low and draws no attention to them. She got a very beautiful interactive website there to sell her clothing and accessories, but the business comes worst than in eBay. She was thinking hard how to make her online store to active again.

There are many way you can do to promote and sell your website. It is just like you have a shop, you need to make advertisement about your business. For website business, you can advertise through business directory, host ads in related website, create fan page in Facebook and many more.

I suggest that she gets another web programmer to evaluate her website and withdraw those weaknesses there. One of the things got to do was change of the wording. The current one seems cannot deliver the proper message to visitor how to shop from her website.

Not that you know, the wording use in the web content is the most effective tool to explain and make the first approach to the customer. If you are not good in putting it up, seo copywriting can help in this area. Keyword use in your website is the one to drive business to your site when SEO campaign is run. Professional Seo copywriting service can help you to set your apart from competition. Word is the first thing in your website to drive attention. They able to make the word goes magic into capture attention, persuade, enlighten, creation emotion, make customer think and call them to action. It also gives great help in making your customer remember your company and feel good about your business.

PayPal PowerUp Party

This party was the first ever PayPal Asia Community event here in Malaysia. Needless to say, I'm proud to be one of the invited guest, there are many more members who wants to go but their RSVP-ed got rejected due to limited space. The night, there are roughly 250+ ppl at the club.

I'm just a small potato in Paypal network, where I only use it to receive my online funds, withdraw funds and making payment on those purchases from eBay. Currently Paypal is on the way of expanding and enhancing its function for online business and at the same time helping merchants and protect buyers.

The night, there are many making fortune merchants gather there. I even met my secondary schmate who was working full time in her eBay International business. She shared with us her ups and downs with eBay and Paypal. Knowing that now both eBay and Paypal are very strict and before any risk happen to seller, they immediatedly stop seller from listing, remove listed item for certain reason or freeze account. I roughly know about this restriction too since I'm selling in eBay.

OK, lets see what's up on the party. Due to traffic jam at city centre, we only reach there at 7.45pm.

Candle lit all way up
The place is exactly at the same stairway up to entrance of Tamarind Hill Restaurant.

Upon entry and registration, we received a passport wallet with the event schedule inside and 3 games vouchers.


Free flow of drink and dinner were served throughout the night. There were beer, wine and chilled juices. Dinner was a bit out of my expectation, they only served some finger foods, anyway it is quite special and taste ok.


The floor plan


The environment


The programme

The games are -
Wheel of Fortune - Can spin 1 time only, many gift items on the board and for cash there are RM10 and RM50. We got a stress ball and notepad back.

Grab A Grand - Put your hand into a blow fan box, stir the paper up in the air and grab the flying papers as much as you can for up to 3 times. Those papers are printed with numbers which indicate the amount of cash. We both successfully grab RM42.


Big Man in action
Deal or No Deal - Pick 3 envelopes out of 6. The 1st envelope actually determine the price you will get, after revealing yourself the later 2 envelopes price. It is either you deal the offer given by the game master or take the envelope price you choose. We both deal for a total of RM60.


Follow your heart or brain?
Everyone gets to play all games for once and no one back with empty handed. All in all, we only manage to grab back RM102. Mummy Moon got around RM250. It is all depends how good are you with the games, especially at the Grab a Grand, those good hand are able to grab RM70-80+.

There is only 1 grand winner on the lucky draw round, cash prize worth RM10k. We no luck for it. Another prize round was about guessing the item price. The one who got the nearer price guessed to the actual item price will win back the item. In between, there are short speech by Paypal's management and Merchant Award presentation ceremony. Trophies were presented to those top sales online seller and longest community members with Paypal.

Overall it is a good party. I like it whereby no loud music background and guests are comfortable as in overall. We got no time to sit down and relax as everyone busy queue up to finish the games and it is almost comes to the end of the party when all program finish.

Before we left, we each got a big box of door prize consists of a collar T and a zip case.



It was unexpectedly nice and I was so surprise when I open up the case and found a very nice set of USB gadgets. There is a 4 ports slim hub, mouse, AV earphone, device cable and network connector.

We truly enjoy the event, indeed it is fruitful night without paying a single cent. Well done to Paypal! Hopefully you are here again next year to celebrate another great time round at a bigger venue to accommodate more members. Besides that, may be can host some related e-business talk and workshop to equip us with more knowledge and benefit of being an online merchant.

# Business website

It is very common now for all business and services line to own a website. It is a perfect essential tool to help your business and market growth. That day during the Paypal Power Up party night, a friend of mine who selling some books in eBay, she so wanted to setup her own online store, but worried the problem of web traffic and customer.

I'm sure with the powerful search engine available on the Internet; all business putting up got the opportunity to make an online market place. You don’t need to know what is all about the World Wide Web or you need know how to setup the whole thing. Need not to worried that, just tell the web designer and programmer what you want the world know about your business, choose a best ecommerce hosting (if you plan to do selling online) and let them to work on it. Just to make sure you choose a good web hosting site to host your content and the one offering good support in long term.

At WebHostingChoice.com, here is the web hosting directory where you can find the best of all you want in different hosting need. You can compare a few hosting package and what other service and support offer by hosting company. It makes you easy to make your selection here. I better show it to my friend and have her to consider setup a website for her business soon.

Power Up. PayPal.

Not long ago, I got an email invitation to join the PayPal PowerUp Party celebration. I actually took sometimes to digest the message whether is it a spam or this thing gonna to be happen. After reading all details with my name on, listed all about the event and venue of the party, I don't think they will play a prank there.

One of our secrets is out…but we have a few more and we want you to be the first to hear them in person. So we’re throwing an exclusive party and you’re invited!

Plus, we want to recognise you as a top member of our community and say 'Thanks for all of your support'!

WHY:
Why not?! We can’t think of a better way to announce more great news to you. So, come and find out in person what else there is to celebrate.

WHAT:
An evening of fun, music, dance, free flow drinks, dinner, prizes, awards, and special entertainment. You could be one of our lucky winners. We’ll be giving away more than US$20,000 in cash, prizes and awards.

WHERE:
Only the hottest newly opened bar - Neo Restaurant & Luxe Lounge
19 Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur (opposite Equatorial Hotel)

WHEN:
Friday, December 11th, 2009 from 19:00 until late - by invitation only.
Capacity is limited so hurry and RSVP by Dec 8th.

In seeing on the WHAT is so attractive, without thinking who I want to bring to go with, I immdiatedly RSVP my attendance. Tonight is the day and I will bring my darling to go with me. It was sooo long we didn't go on clubbing. The organiser also promised that we will not back with empty-handed, there are door prizes, goodie-bags and etc.

Just find out that this restaurant is new in town, it is stylish, classy and serve good food too. Mummy Moon got this invitation too and she is going to join in for the great night. Can't wait for it now, I hope it will be a fun night to all of us.

# Clog pipe

I'm very particular what to wash down at the kitchen sink pipe. If stuck something in, it will be very hard to dig it out, especially if accidentally drop a chopstick inside. Normally I will pick up all big pieces of waste from the sink hole if I found any.

Once I found the water flow out is slow, I know the rubbish down the pipe must be clog there. Not long ago, I found this clog remover from Cosway which work so effectively to remove waste under the kitchen sinks pipe. Every now and then I will pour in some to flush out the rubbish.

I'm so lucky...

...being one of the winner to walk away a Kipling bag worth RM529.

I joined this contest since September ago through email. I was totally surprise and excited when I'm getting it this morning.


First, got to say many Thanks to Barb for posting this contest info on her FB status. I submitted my contest entry to try my luck without putting high hope on getting it, cause only 8 will got it. At the same time, I'm very happy for Barb too, she also one of the winner on the same bag.


When I saw this delivery slip on the night I back from SG, I was still thinking hard who is the sender; that should not be came from online seller, since I'm not purchase anything before away home for holiday.

The happiness and secret was reveal when I saw this bag inside a big parcel box. This contest was actually from Senyum Magazine, it is a free magazine which available at Jusco, Isetan, Pavillion, Japan club or anywhere else. Every month there will be contest and some info of Malaysia in it.


Lets check about the bag – Kipling Tiani M IF Cloudy


A very practical and multi-functional handbag offering you extra pockets and a removable shoulder strap.

Large shoulder bag with removable shoulder strap / Across body
Go-anywhere choice for every moment in daily life.

Size: 43 L x 26 H x 21 W cm
Material: crinkle nylon

• Dual carry handles in cotton webbing with leather grips (58cmx4cm)
• Adjustable, and removable shoulder strap (128cmx4cm)
• Zipped main compartment containing:
  - Zipped pocket
  - Mobile phone drop pocket
  - 2 Pen pockets
  - Clipped key cord
  
• Swing monkey clip

This is how my contest entry like,

Q1. Do you think that Kipling Tiani M-IF Cloudy is good for on business and Shopping?
Yes, It is best for both business and shopping.

Q2. Why do you want to get the bag?
I never own a Kipling bag before and I'm sure this stylish bag will draw lots of attention from my sisters. The design is simple yet sweet to my liking. I want it so badly for the reason I don't have this shape of bag before. I'm sure will like it to bits.

I'm still on cloud 9 and I think it will last for at least a few days. This bag gonna to be my big present for this Christmas. Yay!

# Diet control

Majority lady we doesn't like to grow an inch wider. Since after becoming a mummy, I have great problem in maintaining my weight and those are like waist and tummy. It is the most obvious part to go wider, if I slightly not control my diet.

Those slimming center model with their successful loose weight reviews really so tempting to me. I was actually thinking want to go for it and try to see how effectively it works on me. But I'm afraid if they give me slimming pills to eat which I think more or less will cause some side effect.

Anyway I believe if I control my diet well with less carbo intake, my body still can be slim down easily. I still prefer to loose weight in a health way.

# Health saving account

I'm so sad to know that nowadays many private hospital are not comes to save life first at any emergency but to see whether you got money or not before they take you in. Patient was just pass away without giving the very first hand emergency treatment. How sad this can be to the patient to suffer in pain and the patient's family to lost their love ones. This materialize world really take us to death path easily.

Having a health savings account is a must now for all young and old. With HSA we got the benefit to withdraw tax-free cash to cover part of the medical cost. It comes helpful when those non-hospitalized cases are not cover under HDHP plan, there are eligible to use HSA money to make payment.

Short Getaway to Singapore

I will be away for a short trip (3 days 3 nights) to Singapore with Mummy Moon leaving the hubs and kids at home... (muahahaha)

This is my 3rd time visit Singapore and also accompany Moon for the first time. We pretty need this trip to refresh and recharge ourself from the hectic housewife life. Hey, don't think a SAHM don't need this, we also very stress out at home facing the house and kids every day. We plan to do shopping, meeting friends, go Night Safari and Sentosa Island. During our absent, the kids will be in good hand of our parents.

This evening we will broad on Aeroline Express bus and return on Sunday before midnight. I hope we can have a great time to do what we like during the days away from home and kids.

Till then, have a nice weekend to all!

# New LCD telly

Yesterday morning, after on the TV for half an hour, it suddenly no show of anything and also without any signal. This faithful old TV has ended its life span for more than 10 years. Quickly I sms-ed hubby about it and without much thought of coming back to check, he got a new Philip 32" LCD TV back immediately. Of cause the happiest one is Terry because he has been missed his favourite cartoon all day long.

Since Terry knows how to switch on the TV and operate the home theater system, I found that the disc deck got something wrong now. So far it still able to load and play on. I think very soon it will give us problem too. With kids at home, I think it is better to use some average cost home theater set rather than those expansive one.

ParenThots Family Day

Last Saturday (28/11) went to ParenThots Family Day at Bangsar together with Moon & Yan Yan. I know all about this from her and since I'm not join this kind of public event before, I think it is a good chance for me and the boy to explore this fun day.

We reached there about 10.30am and thank God the sky was pretty fine when the event starts (in the morning it was quite gloomy, I'm worried if still rain sure we cannot make it).

We were there also to give support to Mummy Merryn, her crafty-craft booth was participate in the event to demostrate some art works. Once we reached, we saw Merryn's booth from far with the attractive banners. I came to know Merryn not long ago. This art talented mummy does lots of art works with her 2 years old boy. I'm glad to meet her and her family that day.


Clowns sculpturing balloons


KUNTUM mascot
There are games, free goodies, free food tasting, clowns and inflatables. Terry not really enjoy all this. Basically he not saw all this before and it is totally new to him. He afraid of the 2 colourful clown and kept hiding behind me. When brought him over to bounce at the inflatable house with other kids, he scared again, even Yan Yan keep pulling him in he also don't want to play. Till other kids went off, only by then he got warm up and join in.


We went round to play all games that suitable for them like the games like darts, penalty shootout (football), buzz wire, catch a fish, throw rings over the bottles and etc. The boy of cause no patient to queue up and wait. When wanted to play, he just keep waiting beyond the first queue, beside the table and wanted to play immediatedly by pulling my hand to reach out the games for him to play. Of cause I don't do that, luckily he not cried bucket and the booth assistant is kind enough to let this small boy to play. Since he cut queue, I also didn't let the boy to take the allocation time for each games, just let him touch it, play and go. I think I need to teach him what is queue up and wait for your turn things.

So far he is still a scary-cat, need me to accompany him to play all games and go everywhere. He was happy when he gets some goodies from the games booth. Lastly, we dropped by Merryn's craft booth and she guided the kids to fold Origami.

We left the place at 11.45am without spending on anything :P

# Reason to celebrate

December is here and this month also lots of celebration, gathering and traveling to do. Most of it can't be left out from food and more eating rounds. I think I started to put on weight after coming back from my Singapore trip.

I really can't resist eating those specialty foods there and of cause not left out shopping on those items that couldn't get here. I admit that I'm eating quite a lot there and eating at odd hours also the main reason why I put on weight. As I'm reading on the best weight loss supplement advertorial now, should I take this? I better eat more vege and fruit this few days to balance up my diet.