Course Summary :-

01. Learn to manage your own website

02. Learn to sell on eBay & Paypal – More details here

03. Social Media & Marketing

Managed Your Own Website :-

In this segment, I will be guiding you on how to create your own website where you will be able to start your own business.  Not only that, create emails with your very own domain name to give your clients a more professional impression on how you plan to start your business.

Brief Overview on Managing Your Own Website

-          Setting Up Your Website

-          Creating categories

-          Creating Products

-          Accepting international payment

-          Accepting local payment

-          Bringing Traffic into your website

So hurry up and sign up today!  Take advantage of the early registration to enjoy a discount of RM400!

  For the past a year and half, I’ve been taking a break from teaching due to focusing on a new business which has eventually come to pass.  And of course, a good space where I would be able to conduct classes.  Yes, I’ve gotten a new place where I can finally pursue my passion in teaching.  So be sure to check in here often, as I will be updating my workshop for 2012.  Where I will be able to help and guide you in starting your very own online business!

Chinese New Year will arrive in less than 2 weeks time, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you a Blessed Chinese New Year.  May the year of the Rabbit will bring peace, wealth and health to you and your family.  Looking forward to serve you in 2011.

Best regards,
Alex

01. Head over this site https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new , select Administrator : I own the domain name and enter your domain name.  After that click Get Started

.

02. Once you reached the next page.  Just fill up the Account Administration details.  For the Organization Information, is optional.  But you can fill it up if you already have a company.  Just follow the above illustration on how to get started and click continue.

03. Create your administrator account for google apps.  In this case, try to not to use username such as admin or administrator.  As normally people will tend to hack your email that way.  So create something out of the blue and never use this email to send to anyone.  Just remember that this is to manage your google apps only, you can create another email admin later for that purpose.  Once you’re done just click on agree the terms and condition buttons and continue.

04. You will be brought to this following page on verifying your account. Click continue.

05. You should be seeing the page above (Sign in, in case it requires you to before you see this page).

• From here select Upload an html file to your Server
• Download this html verification file
• open a new tab by going to http://members.000webhost.com/login.php & sign into your account.
• Once signed in. Click on Go To CPanel

  [caption id="" align="" ]

  [/caption]

• Scroll down until you see FILE MANAGER and click on it.

  

• Click on Public HTML (Sign in again if it prompts you)

  

• Click on UPLOAD

  

• Click the Browse button first, and locate the file you downloaded from Google Apps.  And after that, once you selected the file, click on the GREEN TICK button.  After that it should show you a successful message stated your file have been uploaded.

  

• Go back to the Google Apps page and this time click on verify and you are done. And it should bring you to the main Google Apps Page.
• If you would like to create other emails accounts you can follow this guide.

06. Now, go back to your CPanel (http://members.000webhost.com/login.php).  And this time go select modify MX Records.

[caption id="" align="" ]

[/caption]

07. Type in ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. at the New MX Record, and click UPDATE.

You should be able to send and receive your emails to your new domain now.  To access your email is :-
http://mail.google.com/a/domainname.  But if you want to access your email for instance by creating your own domain such as http://mail.kangtao.cz.cc.  This is what you need to do.

08. Access the email settings by clicking on Service Settings –> Email.  After that click on change URL.

09. Inside this page, select the second item and type in the name such as mail(or whatever you want to call it) inside the box. And click continue.

10. It should direct you to this page, and now open a new page to access your cz.cc (http://www.nic.cz.cc/login.php)

11. Sign in and then go to the Registered Domain.  Then click on Manage (like the previous method post).  But this time, instead of clicking on Nameserver, click on Zone Records instead.

12. Here, what you need to do is type in the name that you enter on step 08.  Change the record type to CNAME, and then enter the content to ghs.google.com.  And then click on create Zone record. And you’re done for this part already.

13. Head back to the google apps page (please refer to Step 10) and then click on I’ve completed these steps.  So now you can access your email with the domain name you assigned for the google apps.

We’re done here.  So next stop, installing a shopping cart to your newly built website.

Domain Name

Basically this will be your brand name whereby people will remember you for.  If you already have a company, you could use your company name as your Domain Name.  Example my company is 328 Gallery Sdn. Bhd., so I decide to use http://www.328gallery.com as my domain name.  For more details on domain names you may consider going through Wikipedia to find out more.  At the moment you can either opt for a paid domain or a free domain instead.  Again this comes with credibility issues if you would prefer to get a paid or a free domain instead.  My suggestion is that you may want to try to use free options first before going into paid services.  The reason is because you might want to sort of “test water” to see how your website performs later.

Free Domain Names :-
1. cz.cc – Free & quite new as a lot of domain names still available.
2. co.cc – Free for personal usage, but requires to pay for commercial.

Paid Domain Names :-
1. Exabytes – Consist of local domain name such as .com.my & etc.
2. RisingNic

After you have signed up with either one of the domain names, it’s time to look for a place to host your website.  Again, you can either opt for a paid server or a free one instead.  The difference between paid and free web servers is that, for paid servers you will get support whereby for free servers you won’t.  You would also like to consider the location of your web server where it is currently located.  As it determines on the majority of your future potential clients will come from.  But for now, free servers are always good to start off your website.

Free website :-
1. 000Webhost - Server located in US

Paid Website :-
1. 328Tech - Server located in US
2. Exabytes- Server located in Malaysia

The illustration that I will be using below is based on the domain name cz.cc and 000Webhost.

01. Type in your preferred domain name that you would like to use and click Check Availability.  Normally if the name has been taken, it tends to give you another name for you to choose.  But if your name is available please head on to the next step, else keep trying to find the best name you would like to have.

02. Change the domain option to 2 years, so you won’t have to renew it every year.  And click on check out.

03. Fill up the details and click on Create Account

.

04. After that it will prompt you to check your email to get the activation key.

05. Go to your email address you sign up with, and open up the email.  You should be able to see your login name as well as password, along with the activation key.  Copy and paste the activation key onto the selected area and click Verify Activation Key. (Please be aware that your verification key is not the same as mine).

06. You should be brought to the following page and then click on the Finish Free Registration button.  And let it run for a while, and it should show a success page like the one below.

Ok.  Once you seen the message as above.  We’ll leave it as it is, and now head over to 000Webhost to create a web server.

07. Click on the sign up button as shown in the picture above.

08. When you go to the next page.  Fill up the I want to host my own domain, and entered the domain name that you register with cz.cc.  After that, fill up the rest of the particulars and create account.

09. If you have followed the steps correctly, it will prompt you to wait for a while before your account is activate.  Once activated it will bring you to the page as shown as above.  Make sure you take note of the username which is shown on the left side on account information.  Bookmark the member ( http://members.000webhost.com/ )page as you will be using this often.

Once you’re done, we’re going back to the to the cz.cc My Account page once again to link our domain name to your webserver.  Sign into the account by using the account you registered just now.

10. After signing in, it will prompt you to refer to your friends. Normally just skip this stage for now as it is not important. Once inside your account, click on Registered Domain. You should see your domain name as shown as below.

11. Click on Manage and it will bring you to the following page.

12. Click on Nameserver and it will prompt you to go to another page.

13. Then enter in the following details as shown above.
Namersever 1 :

ns01.000webhost.com
Nameserver 2 : ns02.000webhost.com
Click update.
It will then prompt up the information Nameservers Updated!

Just wait a few minutes for the server to link.  And to see if your website is up, go and type in the domain name that you register with cz.cc and it should show something like the above.  Once you have seen that page, then you should be good to go, to the next step.

It’s been a while since I last updated this website due to time as well as I was busy with other work at the moment.  And I have temporary disable the free course for the time being, as there seems to be a lot of non-genuine sellers which makes my job difficult.  Anyway, I will be reopening the free course soon once I set up a proper system.  But in the mean time while I’m updating the latest information on eBay, I shall briefly inform you on the latest services that I’m currently providing.

As you all know that, I only do one to one or group workshop which are currently situation in Kuching.  But with the help of technology right now, I will be able to teach you through webinars.  What is a webinar you may ask?  It’s like a seminar, but it will be conducted through a website where you will be sitting comfortably at home while I do my presentations as well as your practical on how to sell your item on eBay at the same time.

How this works is that, you will be able to actually see what I’m doing and I will be conversing with you with my microphone so you would be able to hear me as well.  So it is suggested that you should use a headset with a microphone so that you will be able to talk to me as well or ask questions during the webinar is conducted.

The good news is that, the course will indeed be cheaper, plus you’ll be getting the same amount of things that I’ve included with the package.  And this will be a very exciting beginning for me, not only that I am able to teach but also able to follow up with the help of forums where I will be personally managing it.

Another service I’m offering is a mentoring programme where I will help you do the initial work in getting your eBay site running as well as developing a shopping cart site for you if you don’t have one yet.  This will be a 3 months course, whereby I will help you manage your eBay account, all you need to do is check when the money goes in you ship out the item.  For more information check out the Mentoring Programme for more information.

Anyway, if you have any further questions feel free to contact me via the contact us page.  And I will get back to you as soon as possible.  At the moment I’m targeting to have my first webinar some time in middle or end of July to see the numbers.  It will be conducted 3 times a week, so in case the class is full (max of 5 participants) you can be rescheduled for the next class session.

My classes can be conducted in English, Chinese as well as Malay if required, as I have other associates also education specialist to assist you in your course.  If you would like to find out more about this courses, please use the contact us page to let me know if you are interested.

Surprisingly when I opened up my account to check, it stated IBG Credit. So I guess it’s considered a local transfer rather than international transfer. Who knows, but I do get complaints from people stating that the exchange rate is very low. Yes, I do agree with that the exchange rates are not reasonable but I guess they pretty much included the transfer fees or bank charges that could incurred during the transfer. Never the less, I always tell people to set your own exchange rates. So normally when I sell stuff online especially in USD, I would charge my clients about 1 USD = RM3.1 or RM3.2. So at least when I do a conversion through Paypal it wouldn’t be so bad, but ended up earning a little bit from the exchange rates. So why are you complaining about? Banks exchange rates are not that good either, so you’ve just got to learn how to give and take.

Anyway, I wouldn’t want to go into more details on that. But here’s the proof of my withdrawal, and of course this time I need to clear a bit, because it’s a little bit sensitive showing how much I withdraw this time round. Hehehe. Anyway, I did another withdrawal as well on the 2nd of February to Maybank account, as I heard it was faster. Well, I’ll just wait and see.

Oh before I forget, the swift code for CIMB Bank is CIBBMYKL. Apparently previously Paypal made a mistake in placing the swift code information. Anyway, they have fixed it already and I was able to withdraw no problems. So don’t just sit there, start selling and get some extra cash for this coming Chinese New Year

Yes, apparently it has already been a few days after the New Year and I hope everyone is doing well.  Never the less, I would like to wish everyone a Blessed New Year.  I’ve always look forward for the New Year as it always gives me hope to start off something fresh and of course leave everything negative behind.  So let us all start a fresh and shake off what ever discouragement we have from last year, and try again this year.

So what will I have been doing for the past few weeks was that, I’m actually going to have an open seminar whereby I’ll be introducing eBay to people.  I’ve already have the venue, but I’m still waiting for the green light by them.  As I believe they are also trying to gather as many people to attend this brief promo.  So I’m looking forward to that event which I think will happen hopefully within the next few weeks.

I’m also experimenting another method on how to sell on eBay, and we shall see how it will turn out.  Basically it’s a new account, so I’m sort of like starting from scratch again.  Anyway, I’m opened to questions so feel free to drop me a message or leave a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.  Wishing all of you a Blessed New Year once more.

Anyway, just to update what actually have been happening for the past year was that I’ve been trying to adjust my lifestyle especially with the baby around.  Yes, that was mainly the reason why I have been a bit quiet in this section here.  As a lot of adjustment needed to be made.  And of course the time selling on eBay is also a bit difficult for me due to certain time have been taken just to take care of the little one.  Not that I’m complaining or anything, as a matter a fact it was indeed a good and fun experience for me.  But never the less, work is still important and my baby girl is already 1 years ++.  So I can start to go back teaching once again, something which I have miss for a very long time.

I’m currently experimenting a new method in listing my products and trying to see how the outcome would be.  And also I’m currently repackaging my course fees as well as methods of teaching.  There will still be a free course, but just to let you know that eBay won’t be paying for the phone bills anymore.  So I guess we need to resort to Skype or MSN or any other instant messengers that support voice.

For group courses, I will be planning to do a bit of traveling in the near future.  So most likely I’ll be flying around Sarawak.  And if I so by happened to be in your town or city, I won’t mind staying another extra 2-3 days to hold a course.  So do check me out in a couple of weeks, as how I will plan for my year 2010 program specially just for you.   For personal or group seminars do contact me via the contact page and I’ll get in touch with you soon.

Thank you for continuous support, and I hope to see all of you soon.