Before you embark on any business venture, develop a business strategy is important to lower your risk and increase your chances of success. Today, I will like to share with you the secrets of my guerrilla business strategy.

1. Develop your business roadmap

Without a business roadmap, you will not be able to navigate your business from the start to the destination. It will be like you are at a foreign country without a map and you will not have an idea of how to get to your destination.

With a business plan, you will have a vision of how your business will look like when it is completed. From there, you can work out your plans backwards from Z to A.

2. Learn from the top gurus

I believe the fastest and most efficient way to  jumpstart your business or career is to learn from the top gurus of the market leaders. This is because they have gone through the “School of Hard Rocks” and have learned what’s not working and what’s working and therefore you can learn from their mistakes.

One way to learn from them is through their books or get information from wikipedia or from the internet search engine. The other way to learn from them is through their seminars or workshops. Of course this come with a price you have to pay.

3. Network with like-minded community members

Networking with like-minded people by sharing your experiences with other members can broaden your knowledge and benefit everybody. This is because “10 brains work better than 1 brain”

You can even build up a support group to encourage each other members, pull them up when your friends are down and keep pushing them until they reach their goals.

4. Understand the principles of making a living

Making money is never easy in any business whether it is internet marketing, trading or investing. The truth is no further from the fact.

The first step is to build up your credibility. Without a strong reputation, people will not trust you and less to buy from you. To build up your brand, you have to commit your time, effort and hard work to always deliver quality work to your content, product or service consistently.

The next step is that you must be passionate in your professional. This is because you will bound to face difficulties and if you do not really loved what you do, you will not be able to overcome the setbacks you faced.

The third step is you must work smart. Like learning the guerrilla business strategy from me. He He.

5. Project Schedule with Key Performance Indicator

Setting a schedule deadline is important because you can allocate the tasks to be done in order to complete the project on time.

You also need to implement Key Performance Indicator (KPI) that needs to done so that you can focus on the top priorities duties to be completed and not be distracted by other things.

With that, I give you all my blessing in your business adventure.

To Your Success.

Can the 3G iphone lives up to its expectations?

After using the phone for the past 3 days, I can say that it is a very intelligent, intuitive and interactive phone.

Intelligent: Artificial Intelligence

The iphone can automatically pick up the strongest signal from your surroundings. If your area has WIFI, 3G or GPRS network, it will connect to WIFI. Similarly, if your network has 3G or only GPRS, it will select 3G.

Intuitive: See, Hear, Touch & Feel

The iphone has a motion detect sensors in-built. This means that if the phone is turned from a vertical position to a horizontal position, the photos or webpages will respond accordingly to present the best viewing experience.

You can listen to music and at the same time surf the internet, read your emails or view your photos.

There is only 1 Home button. The rest of the navigation is by touch-screen. And I can say that Apple has delivered the most user-friendly phone in this earth.

Holding the phone make you feels great and the design of the phone is outstanding.

Interactive: Networking with People & Computers

The iphone allows you to contact and remenber people via easy navigation interface.

Searching people contacts, photos & information have never been so easy and friendly.

With GPS & Google Maps built-in, you will never be lost anywhere in the world. Regardless of which country you are in, you can search for airports, trains stations, buildings, starbucks, mcdonalds or any attractions easily and conveniently.

The iphone can be connected to your computers iTunes to synchronize with all your data like bookmarks, photos, music & video.

In a nutshell, it is a 4-in-1 device: Phone + iPod + GPS + Internet.

P.S: Before I decide to buy the phone, I am quite skeptical with regard to the signal strength & connectivity issues raised by consumers. But after using the phone for some time, the iphone did not let me down. The signal strength is good and network coverage is performing quite well so far.

In order to earn a living from business, you have to sell something to your customers.

1. Marketer: Sell Your Product or Service i.e. eBook, specialistion, software, seminar, music, games and so on.

2. Affiliate: Sell Other People Product or Service i.e. iTunes (partnership with major music & movie producers), brokerage services, insurance, property agent, fund reseller, car or electronics distributors.

Master the above 2 revenue strategies are not enough.

To produce profitable & long term success, you need to constantly overcome all challenges, overtake yourself & to overwin others in order to survive.

If you do what everyone else is doing, you will get what everyone gets.
Therefore, you need to do a lot more than the common people.

Internet Marketing can be one of your answer to success.

This is because machine can do more than a human being.

An online store is opened 24/7 and accessible by the global market audience.

The iMarketer is flexible to market changes and can adjust its strategies accordingly to competition. It can differentiate itself from the rest and all payment transaction can be made instantly and electronically.

To expand the business, it can leverage on an army of affiliate to promote its product or service. And lastly, it can be fully automated without human intervention after the system is properly in place and fully optimize.

Living in this planet Earth, we are always competing against one another:

- For higher economy progress
- For higher standard of living
- For higher education level
- For better physical appearance
- For awards in the Olympic Games
- For championship in the World Cup

We (Human Beings) compete almost for everything in order to be ahead of everyone else.

But the ultimate question to ask yourself is who are you really competing with?
Are you competing to live up against your parent’s expectation? or Are you competing against your peers? or Are you competing against your opponent?

I believe the answer is Yourself.

You see the only person that can Change yourself is Not
your parents, your god, your siblings, your mentors or your friends.

It is You.

And only You can change yourself.

You set the benchmark of your life achievement. As long as you know that you have exceeded yourself in the area of your life i.e. wealth, people relationship, health & fitness, contribution etc you have succeeded.

Once you able to see and understand this, you will live a happier and more successful life.

To Your Happiness.

Google Inc. a public listed US company with a market capitalization of US $167.66B is one of the largest listed company in the US Stock Market. His main earning revenue is advertising from internet search, social networking, video sharing and many others. The company is co-funded by 2 Stanford University Students Larry Page and Sergey Bin. His headquarter a.k.a Googleplex is located at California in the Silicon Valley. The company has a strong culture of Live, Work, Play & Give and I will explain to you why Google is voted the #1 company to work for in the America.

Live

Everyday, their employee a.k.a Googlers come to work very happy thinking of how to solve a problem, meeting highly talent people, sharing their ideas, playing at the game room, challenging themselves to stretch their limit and inspire them to change the world. Some of them even want to stay in their office after work cos they feel that it’s so much fun than going back home! Can you imagine that!!

There’s a rumor that there is a dude who has just joined Google and not able to find a flat so he stay at Googleplex for a month … “He lived a lot better than Tom Hanks in the Terminal. Meals are provided and couches are everywhere”

Work

Their working environment is casual, fun, challenging, inspiring and motivative. New employee are name “Nogglers” while more experience workers are called “Googlers”. The workplace of their employees are so individual & personal that reflect so much of their employees joys and commitment their jobs. You can even bring your pets to work and allow them to wander around the office!! Can you imagine that !!! wow !!!

Over the years, Google has grow stronger & stronger through introducing new & innovative products & services, acquisitions and partnerships. The company has a strong corporate emphasis on freedom, inspiration, environmentalism and philanthropy. Every year, it receive 1 million applications ! and there is about 3000 applicants per day! wow!!!

Play

It’s kinda of like campus-lifestyle working at Google. In fact, I think it’s better than university campus. There are free food, free drink, free candy everywhere. Facilities like Gym, Swimming Pools, Game Room, Volleyball beach, Childcare center, Hair Saloon, Free Laundry, Yoga and even massage service. Can you imagine that! wow!

There are lava lamps placing all over the corridors, whiteboards can be found at many places with all kind of written ideas with multiple languages to encourage creativity & respect for different nationalities of employees.

Give

Some comments from their employees are:

“At the end of the day….what’s inspire googler is more than fun & work…it’s employee’s ability to change the world!”
“It’s a unique and amazing company to work in. Staff are empowered to share their ideas, opinions & creativity and if their team support your idea, you can go ahead to do the project”
“Everyone really work hard for the company and want the company to succeed”
“They are really talented people…”
“It’s a structure different from the rest of the community”

Can you imagine going to work so happy every morning and coming home so happy after work???!!!

I believe that if the company GIVE so much, the company will RECEIVE even more. And A lot more, I really believe. A unique corporate culture that integrate office-like working environment with fun campus-like lifestyle to offset the intense working pressure to achieve the highest worker productivity.

Working in such an environment is truly amazing. If I’m employed, I don’t think I feel like going home after work as well…

Googleplex is the truly the place to fulfill your dream and to Live, Work, Play & Give Freely.

P.S: Any Human Resource Googlers, if you ever read the post above and you are impressed by my work, kindly consider to employ me. “Ha Ha”. I have included a video link of the life working in Googleplex. Enjoy!

Today, I will like to discuss about organizing your website using sub-domain & sub-directory.

Let’s say you decide to host a website i.e. www.yourdomain.com

If you want to include pages like Home, About, Product, Service, Links, Contact, etc you can organize your website using sub-directory like this way:

www.yourdomain.com/home
www.yourdomain.com/about
www.yourdomain.com/product
www.yourdomain.com/service
www.yourdomain.com/links
www.yourdomain.com/contact

Sub-directory is normally used on lightweight or static page and if you going to host heavyweight & dynamic pages you can organize your website using Sub-domain for instance:

sales.yourdomain.com
finance.yourdomain.com
manpower.yourdomain.com
operation.yourdomain.com
it.yourdomain.com

There are several advantages of using sub-domain to manage your website:

1. Load Balancing: If a visitor enter your website (www.yourdomain.com) and if your website is experiencing extremely high traffic, a technique called load balancing can redirect the visitor request to another server (www2.yourdomain.com) which contain the same website information.

2. Scalability: If your primary server is unable to handle such high volume of traffic, you can migrate the sub-domain together with all the associated files to another dedicated server easily & hassle-free.

3. Free Registration: You do not need to register your sub-domain with a registrar. Sub-domain feature is usually included in the web-host.

As far as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is concern, both sub-directory & sub-domain achieve approximately the same results.