With a great portion of the middle age people and most young generation know well about Internet, selling online is something many businesses should look into in the very near future, if not now.

A business with conventional brick and mortar store can always setup an online store to complement their business. To market an online store take quite a while and it is important the store is setup and the web address is fully marketed to anyone who visit your store. There many ways you can achieve this :-

1. Add your web address (URL) to your store’s sign board
2. Print your web address in your receipts.
3. Print your web address in your plastic bag or shopping bag
4. Prepare a small gift that you can give to your customers when they buy something from you. Add your URL in that gift.
5. Print a simple catalog or card to explain briefly about your online store and give a copy to each and everyone who visit your store.
6. One of the best way to get your customer to try out the online store is to price one special item on your online store with very special price and encourage them to buy online to enjoy the special discount. In this way, they will get notice of your URL and may buy more online at later date.

Building an online store that accept Credit Card, Maybank2U, RHB Online, Hong Leong Online, Alliance Online, PosPay, Mobile Money now cost only RM 2000 to setup. Additional payment required will be the payment of RM 68.00 per month for the use of payment gateway to accept credit card.

To know more about setting up an online store for only RM 2000, proceed here >> 

I passed by Bank Simpanan Nasional this morning and found that Western Union sign has been added to its front door. It is great to know that there is now one additional bank that handle Western Union in Malaysia.

Other bank and organization that you can perform Western Union transaction are :-

1) CIMB Bank
2) Pos Malaysia
3) RHB Bank
4) Bank Rakyat

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I have been the beta tester of Google Payment via Western Union since last December until it was lifted out of Beta. I must agree that getting paid from Google via Western Union has the main advantage that you will get your money about a month earlier than if get it via check. That translated to a few hundred dollars a year base on current 1 Month FD interest of 3.35 %. Not to mention that you will also save the USD 24 cheque delivery fee via DHL.

My experience of fund collection at CIMB is that the queue at the Western Union can sometime be very long but since I am a premium banking customer of CIMB, I did not need to queue.

Unless during the beta period, Google set the maximum payment via Western Union at USD 2800 and for those whose month earning is more than 2800USD will have to rely on cheque payment again

The recent Google Page Rank update has “affected” quite a number of webmaster worldwide.  The page rank of sites that sell links had their PR value reduced by up to 2 in many cases. From PR 5 to 3 or from PR 4 to 2.  Many of my sites that sell Text Link ADs were similarly affected.

While traffics to the sites were not affected so far but eCPM value has decreased by some extent and I am not sure at this stage if that is related to the updated PR value. I am been think for a while on whether to remove the Text Links from my site with the hope that PR will be restored at later stage but that will mean that I need to let go those earning from TLA.

To confirm whether the removal of TLA will restore the PR value, I have request TLA  to removed TLA from two of my sites that sold only a few links and proceed to remove TLA code from those sites. From there I will request for a reconsideration by Google in a few days.

I will monitor the effect of it in future posts.