When I just started my home based business over a year ago, I was so clueless about everything. There are so many things to consider and reconsider. The items, the budget, the marketing, and since I wanted to do an online base store, one of the most important thing to consider is the e-commerce software.
As my HTML skill was almost zero, I need something that is easy enough to use for a newbie like me. And I need software that can control the inventory as well and can keep customers data base that I can refer to when I needed to.
The other thing that is great to have is the customizable HTML codes if we want to change our web design/lay out to be stand out from other e-store.
And the other most important for me is the BUDGET for shopping cart software. As a small online store, my budget was rather limited, and I prefer to invest on inventory rather than to buy an expensive software for shopping cart. And I don't like to have a "surprise " like hidden fees to pay later on.
If you are thinking to have your own business you should consider ecommerce software it offers all of the best features.
It even offer a 10 days free trial! No hidden fee on that.
It also has integral payment system option, and you can add your own payment options too. If you are like me, worry when you try you might encounter some technical problems, well worry no more they have the online support and customer service to guide you.
It's also has a different type of shopping cart programs to start with, it is depends on what we need at the moment . And it's not all, when your business is growing, you can upgrade your software to meet your demand.
Why not try the 10 Days FREE TRIALecommerce software now?
Friday, March 28, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
How much is your website/blog worth?
Ok ladies, this is fun! I just know this last night from my brother. He checked my Mia Bambina website value at www.yourwebsitevalue.com
And this is what they estimated for my e-store www.miabambina.com
Description
Online store in Malaysia for moms and babies. Cloth diapers, nursing bra, washable diapers
Website Value
Potential: $16,789
Important Note:
It seems that this website has a lot of pages, however, it does not get traffic in relation to those number of pages otherwise, this website could be worth as much as $16,789.
(read about how accurate is the estimate price below, for website that sell products it is often underestimated.)
And this is what they estimated for miabambina.blogspot.com
Website Value
Potential: $84,800
Important Note:
It seems that this website has a lot of traffic, but not alot of web recognition. This probably means that it get a lot of direct traffic (bookmarks). This can be good. It may also indicate that all traffic is paid for. In such a case, we would estimate this website real worth to be no more than $18,677.
Wow that is not bad for a blog like mine.... so...ehm..(clearing my throat ...) anybody want to buy it? for $18,677? It is a bargain if you see the potential can be as high as $ 84.800! LMOF....
So...of you go...why don't you try to see how much is your blog/ website worth? Just for FUN of it!
And this is how much my personal blog worth:
http://2handedoctopus.blogspot.com
2 handed octopus BlogSpot
Description
N/A
Website Value
Potential: $6,594,015
Important Note:
It seems that this website has a lot of traffic, but not alot of web recognition. This probably means that it get a lot of direct traffic (bookmarks). This can be good. It may also indicate that all traffic is paid for. In such a case, we would estimate this website real worth to be no more than $450.
Eh the price went up! hehehe...not $10
Understanding the Result
We can only estimate websites based on what is publicly known. If the website is content-based, the estimator is very good.
The website could be worth a lot more if it gathers users information or/and if it is part of a bigger business.
Take the result lightly and in good perspective.
How accurate is the estimate?
In terms of comparing two websites, its probably very good. If the website is content based only, its probably very good. However, it's probably under-estimated for website that gathers user information (such as emails) or sell services/products. For example, we estimate google worth around 2Billions, but we all know google is worth alot more. But if google only had web pages (no clients, no services, no products) with the same History/Popularity/Friendliness/Interest/Recognition/Depth, our estimate would probably be quite good.
Criteria of the Analysis: Website History
This criteria tell us how long the website has been on the Internet.
Criteria of the Analysis: Website Popularity
The top 500 websites gets about 90% of all Internet traffic. So if your website is at position 2,000,000, it definitly means not many people visits it.
Criteria of the Analysis: Friendliness
Is your website friendly enough so other webmaster link to it? Would you rather have a friend named "google" than have a friend named "noname"? The importance of your friends are important in this criteria.
Criteria of the Analysis: Interest
Not only it is hard to get people to visit your website, but how many pages can you get them to look at before they go away.
Criteria of the Analysis: Recognition
This is the measurement of how many other websites links to you. Friendliness is the quality of your friend. Recognition is the quantity of your friend.
Criteria of the Analysis: Depth Potential
This criteria evaluate the size of your website in the quantity of recognized accessible pages.
Our Sources
We uses a combinations of many services in order to provide an estimate as accurate as possible. We also use information from major search engines and other database banks. Furthermore, we also do a quick analysis of our own. The combinations of all these informations and a tested formula brings a good comparative estimate.
And this is what they estimated for my e-store www.miabambina.com
Description
Online store in Malaysia for moms and babies. Cloth diapers, nursing bra, washable diapers
Website Value
| $945 |  | Track this Value! |
Potential: $16,789
Important Note:
It seems that this website has a lot of pages, however, it does not get traffic in relation to those number of pages otherwise, this website could be worth as much as $16,789.
(read about how accurate is the estimate price below, for website that sell products it is often underestimated.)
And this is what they estimated for miabambina.blogspot.com
Website Value
| $18,677 | | Track this Value! |
Potential: $84,800
Important Note:
It seems that this website has a lot of traffic, but not alot of web recognition. This probably means that it get a lot of direct traffic (bookmarks). This can be good. It may also indicate that all traffic is paid for. In such a case, we would estimate this website real worth to be no more than $18,677.
Wow that is not bad for a blog like mine.... so...ehm..(clearing my throat ...) anybody want to buy it? for $18,677? It is a bargain if you see the potential can be as high as $ 84.800! LMOF....
So...of you go...why don't you try to see how much is your blog/ website worth? Just for FUN of it!
And this is how much my personal blog worth:
http://2handedoctopus.blogspot.com
2 handed octopus BlogSpot
Description
N/A
Website Value
| $450 | | Track this Value! |
Potential: $6,594,015
Important Note:
It seems that this website has a lot of traffic, but not alot of web recognition. This probably means that it get a lot of direct traffic (bookmarks). This can be good. It may also indicate that all traffic is paid for. In such a case, we would estimate this website real worth to be no more than $450.
Eh the price went up! hehehe...not $10
Understanding the Result
We can only estimate websites based on what is publicly known. If the website is content-based, the estimator is very good.
The website could be worth a lot more if it gathers users information or/and if it is part of a bigger business.
Take the result lightly and in good perspective.
How accurate is the estimate?
In terms of comparing two websites, its probably very good. If the website is content based only, its probably very good. However, it's probably under-estimated for website that gathers user information (such as emails) or sell services/products. For example, we estimate google worth around 2Billions, but we all know google is worth alot more. But if google only had web pages (no clients, no services, no products) with the same History/Popularity/Friendliness/Interest/Recognition/Depth, our estimate would probably be quite good.
Criteria of the Analysis: Website History
This criteria tell us how long the website has been on the Internet.
Criteria of the Analysis: Website Popularity
The top 500 websites gets about 90% of all Internet traffic. So if your website is at position 2,000,000, it definitly means not many people visits it.
Criteria of the Analysis: Friendliness
Is your website friendly enough so other webmaster link to it? Would you rather have a friend named "google" than have a friend named "noname"? The importance of your friends are important in this criteria.
Criteria of the Analysis: Interest
Not only it is hard to get people to visit your website, but how many pages can you get them to look at before they go away.
Criteria of the Analysis: Recognition
This is the measurement of how many other websites links to you. Friendliness is the quality of your friend. Recognition is the quantity of your friend.
Criteria of the Analysis: Depth Potential
This criteria evaluate the size of your website in the quantity of recognized accessible pages.
Our Sources
We uses a combinations of many services in order to provide an estimate as accurate as possible. We also use information from major search engines and other database banks. Furthermore, we also do a quick analysis of our own. The combinations of all these informations and a tested formula brings a good comparative estimate.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Maya at Day Care
So you read it or heard it. And that is true , Maya Angela Rocco is now in the day care, am I crazy or lazy to take care of her? nope...
It is happened not by purpose actually.
Indiana's school is near by our school, it is on the walking distance , about 10 minutes. And Maya is so used to send her to school with me. From the time she was about 3 months old I took her along in the sling, to send her sis to school. She is already feel familiar with the school and teacher plus she knows that her big sis is there too.
So 2 weeks ago, I was just thinking , I want to let Maya see the class and mix around with the other children. The principal actually has mentioned that If I want I can let Maya play in the playground every morning before the bell ring , just to let Maya develop her social skill around other children.
So when I brought her there, she was so calm and curious about the class, the friends , the teacher, the toys, everything.... I was surprise to see her so calm and relax, and enjoy the whole new environment. So I was thinking, while the teacher took care of her, and Maya is ok with her, I went to talk to the principal, asking about how is Indy doing at school and asking about the day care program.
When I was about to left her, I called her, and smile and I said , " Mama go first and come back later , you stay with teacher, ok?" She was just looked back at me and smile....
HUH??
Then I went to talk to the principal and chit chatting a bit . And I went back to her class , take a peek inside, and the teacher give me a look and whisper: "she is ok here...do you want to leave her here? "
Me:"But I don't even bring her clothes, diapers, drinks, etc!"
Teacher :" you can ask her kakak to bring it over if you want:
Me: " hmm ok...I try to leave her here, she looks to enjoy it anyway!"
So I went home and prepare her diapers, drinks, clothes, wipes. And asked my maid to send it to school.
And I picked her about 11.30. The first 3 days of course I picked her early. She was still on the trial basis the first week. And I saw that she is great there.
She follow the teacher, eat together with friends, brush her teeth, wash her hands before and after meal.
Now is her second week already. And she is the high spirit every morning. She can put on her own shoes ( wrong side of course!) and grab my hand and say:" Mama come....come Mama, go mama....."
Her schedule is
8 am: Arriving at the class room and having breakfast
8.30 : Outdoor activity and sport
9.00 : Go back to the class, to have either: story time, singing and rhymes, art and craft
10.00: Milk time. Each kids must bring their own milk and milk bottle
10.30: Play and rest
11.00: Lunch time
11.30: waiting for Mama to come....
The good thing about Tuna Sari preschool and Daycare center is they teacher teach the children to be potty train. I am so amazed with this, while other daycare refuse to accept kids that havent potty train yet, but this day care even voluntary offer me: do you want us to potty train her now?
Tuna Sari been around for 21 years. It is a friendly school, the premises doesn't look new and modern, but it has a great home feeling and the teacher and principal are great.
The first time I brought Indy there 2 years ago I just like it and feel like I send my girl to the right school. And I think Maya also feel the same :-D
Here are my girls in the morning before school....
She was so excited to go to see her teacher and friends
So far she is very attached to her teacher, Teacher Lin. This was when I dropped her at school
Before the class start.This was a mixed group , not only for Maya's age group. They are just waiting and playing for the bell to ring. Some kids are still crying when the parents left them.
Maya looked quiet here
Maya however, she is still abit reserve when there are too many parents or other teachers around her. But by the time the class start she acts good :)
It is happened not by purpose actually.
Indiana's school is near by our school, it is on the walking distance , about 10 minutes. And Maya is so used to send her to school with me. From the time she was about 3 months old I took her along in the sling, to send her sis to school. She is already feel familiar with the school and teacher plus she knows that her big sis is there too.
So 2 weeks ago, I was just thinking , I want to let Maya see the class and mix around with the other children. The principal actually has mentioned that If I want I can let Maya play in the playground every morning before the bell ring , just to let Maya develop her social skill around other children.
So when I brought her there, she was so calm and curious about the class, the friends , the teacher, the toys, everything.... I was surprise to see her so calm and relax, and enjoy the whole new environment. So I was thinking, while the teacher took care of her, and Maya is ok with her, I went to talk to the principal, asking about how is Indy doing at school and asking about the day care program.
When I was about to left her, I called her, and smile and I said , " Mama go first and come back later , you stay with teacher, ok?" She was just looked back at me and smile....
HUH??
Then I went to talk to the principal and chit chatting a bit . And I went back to her class , take a peek inside, and the teacher give me a look and whisper: "she is ok here...do you want to leave her here? "
Me:"But I don't even bring her clothes, diapers, drinks, etc!"
Teacher :" you can ask her kakak to bring it over if you want:
Me: " hmm ok...I try to leave her here, she looks to enjoy it anyway!"
So I went home and prepare her diapers, drinks, clothes, wipes. And asked my maid to send it to school.
And I picked her about 11.30. The first 3 days of course I picked her early. She was still on the trial basis the first week. And I saw that she is great there.
She follow the teacher, eat together with friends, brush her teeth, wash her hands before and after meal.
Now is her second week already. And she is the high spirit every morning. She can put on her own shoes ( wrong side of course!) and grab my hand and say:" Mama come....come Mama, go mama....."
Her schedule is
8 am: Arriving at the class room and having breakfast
8.30 : Outdoor activity and sport
9.00 : Go back to the class, to have either: story time, singing and rhymes, art and craft
10.00: Milk time. Each kids must bring their own milk and milk bottle
10.30: Play and rest
11.00: Lunch time
11.30: waiting for Mama to come....
The good thing about Tuna Sari preschool and Daycare center is they teacher teach the children to be potty train. I am so amazed with this, while other daycare refuse to accept kids that havent potty train yet, but this day care even voluntary offer me: do you want us to potty train her now?
Tuna Sari been around for 21 years. It is a friendly school, the premises doesn't look new and modern, but it has a great home feeling and the teacher and principal are great.
The first time I brought Indy there 2 years ago I just like it and feel like I send my girl to the right school. And I think Maya also feel the same :-D
Here are my girls in the morning before school....
She was so excited to go to see her teacher and friends
So far she is very attached to her teacher, Teacher Lin. This was when I dropped her at school
Before the class start.This was a mixed group , not only for Maya's age group. They are just waiting and playing for the bell to ring. Some kids are still crying when the parents left them.
Maya looked quiet here
Maya however, she is still abit reserve when there are too many parents or other teachers around her. But by the time the class start she acts good :)
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tagging Along game
got tagged by Hip- OH-Mamma.
I have randomly selected 5 of you to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!) It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially! The benefits of Viral Linking:
*One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!
*Increase your Google PageRank fast
*Attract large volume of new traffic to your site
*Build your community
*Make new friends!
The Strategist Notebook, Link Addiction, Ardour of the Heart, When Life Becomes a Book, The Malaysian Life, Yogatta.com,What goes under the sun, Roshidan’s Cyber Station, Sasha says, Arts of Physics, And the legend lives, My View, My Life, A Simple Life, Juliana RW, The Callalily Space, Petra, Summer in Blue, Confessions of an Army Wife, Bless’ Sanctuary, Happy Life, http://bless519.bravejournal.com/, La Place de Cherie, Chez Francine, Le bric a brac de Cherie, Little Peanut, Pea in a Pod, The Creative In Me, Me and Mine, Me and my Two Boys, My Life is Peachy, Chat, My Happy Place, Raising Sandy, I am Dzoi, Snapshots of Life, My BIG Picture, Welcome To My World, Hannah, Michellie, Lisa, Ris, Scotty’s Princess, REPAH, Misyel, Rhapsody, joanjoyce, read my mind, moms..... check nyo, monmy's little corner, Nyumix's Blog, Rose, Agnes, Glad to be here, SewCute, Make each day your masterpiece, Hip-O-Mama
,2handedoctopus
As stated, I'm tagging 5 friends to continue with this chain:-
Celine
Montessorimum
Christine
Dana
Faye
I have randomly selected 5 of you to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!) It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially! The benefits of Viral Linking:
*One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!
*Increase your Google PageRank fast
*Attract large volume of new traffic to your site
*Build your community
*Make new friends!
The Strategist Notebook, Link Addiction, Ardour of the Heart, When Life Becomes a Book, The Malaysian Life, Yogatta.com,What goes under the sun, Roshidan’s Cyber Station, Sasha says, Arts of Physics, And the legend lives, My View, My Life, A Simple Life, Juliana RW, The Callalily Space, Petra, Summer in Blue, Confessions of an Army Wife, Bless’ Sanctuary, Happy Life, http://bless519.bravejournal.com/, La Place de Cherie, Chez Francine, Le bric a brac de Cherie, Little Peanut, Pea in a Pod, The Creative In Me, Me and Mine, Me and my Two Boys, My Life is Peachy, Chat, My Happy Place, Raising Sandy, I am Dzoi, Snapshots of Life, My BIG Picture, Welcome To My World, Hannah, Michellie, Lisa, Ris, Scotty’s Princess, REPAH, Misyel, Rhapsody, joanjoyce, read my mind, moms..... check nyo, monmy's little corner, Nyumix's Blog, Rose, Agnes, Glad to be here, SewCute, Make each day your masterpiece, Hip-O-Mama
,2handedoctopus
As stated, I'm tagging 5 friends to continue with this chain:-
Celine
Montessorimum
Christine
Dana
Faye
Maya's Sunday
So yesterday was Mamma and Papa's day for Maya. Indy gotta go to her best friend b'day party. So we dropper her after her ballet class at 12 noon and then we drove to Shangri-La Tanjung Aru to have our usual lunch ritual at TATU.
Oh and yes...I haven't mentioned that Maya is on daycare now! haha... Just started about a week a go. And she LOVES it! I will blog about this soon. She is much independent now. And she refuse to be fed, she want to try to feed her self.
So here she is , feeding her self porridge:
AAAAAAAAAAAAH
hmmm nyum nyum nyum
And then we met our friends at the Shangri-La,and they offered us to use the pool. I didn't prepare any swimsuits at all , so did my husband. But Maya can wear the diaper without insert as swim diaper, and I got plenty of wipes with me , that can work as emergency towel ! My dh just went swim with his short anyway. ( and he dried him self with my sling afterward haha...see how useful selling can be?)
Right now I am into embroidery diaper or hand painted one, here is one of Maya's collections of embroidery diaper , this one I just took out the insert , so now it's performs as swim diaper:
She always or I must say , she must got this balloon when we went to Shangri-La.
And then she walked by the pool and said : Akooooow....a kooow....... no no.. she didn't mean DOG but she meant WATER, in italian AQUA is for water.
Mamma ....it is abit cold.....but I love water
Do you like my monkey jumpin' style?
Weeeeeeee....... weeeeeeeeeeee.
It was about 1 - 2 p.m and the sun were bright but the got sun shade at the kiddie pool. Which is great!
And then she saw a BALL ( of course) ...and so there was the highlight for the day....2 of her favorite things together : AQUA and BALL!
Papa new gymnastic routine : lift up the baby and the ball......It's good to toned up your upper body muscles. 1, 2, 3,4.......1,2,3,4......1,2,3,4.....
After swim... she was thinking : where can I swim more...? here or there? where is that ball?
She stay another 5 minutes playing in the shower outdoor, I must grabbed her and dried her. She screamed and throwing a tantrum...but it was enough for the day we decided and we were heading home.....
Tomorrow is your school day anyway , Maya!
Oh and yes...I haven't mentioned that Maya is on daycare now! haha... Just started about a week a go. And she LOVES it! I will blog about this soon. She is much independent now. And she refuse to be fed, she want to try to feed her self.
So here she is , feeding her self porridge:
AAAAAAAAAAAAH
hmmm nyum nyum nyumAnd then she continued to eat the olives:
And then we met our friends at the Shangri-La,and they offered us to use the pool. I didn't prepare any swimsuits at all , so did my husband. But Maya can wear the diaper without insert as swim diaper, and I got plenty of wipes with me , that can work as emergency towel ! My dh just went swim with his short anyway. ( and he dried him self with my sling afterward haha...see how useful selling can be?)
Right now I am into embroidery diaper or hand painted one, here is one of Maya's collections of embroidery diaper , this one I just took out the insert , so now it's performs as swim diaper:
She always or I must say , she must got this balloon when we went to Shangri-La.And then she walked by the pool and said : Akooooow....a kooow....... no no.. she didn't mean DOG but she meant WATER, in italian AQUA is for water.
Mamma ....it is abit cold.....but I love water
Do you like my monkey jumpin' style?
Weeeeeeee....... weeeeeeeeeeee.
It was about 1 - 2 p.m and the sun were bright but the got sun shade at the kiddie pool. Which is great!And then she saw a BALL ( of course) ...and so there was the highlight for the day....2 of her favorite things together : AQUA and BALL!
Papa new gymnastic routine : lift up the baby and the ball......It's good to toned up your upper body muscles. 1, 2, 3,4.......1,2,3,4......1,2,3,4.....
After swim... she was thinking : where can I swim more...? here or there? where is that ball?She stay another 5 minutes playing in the shower outdoor, I must grabbed her and dried her. She screamed and throwing a tantrum...but it was enough for the day we decided and we were heading home.....
Tomorrow is your school day anyway , Maya!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Moms get paid for blogging!
When I was just start to blog about one year ago, the whole idea is just to share my life as mom and wife, while running a small online store. But as months passed by, and I read and visit more and more other moms blogs, I am really impress that other mom's blog are quite impressive!
Intrigue by other moms ideas , I was searching for get paid for blogging. Who doesn't like the idea to earn some extra money? Specially for moms who like to shop...:)
With so many options , I found out of Smorty. And just to try my luck I register and wait for my blog to be approve. And the day after it is!
That is a fast service. No hassle at all...and then there are "tasks" waiting for me to blog about.
I am excited of course.
We can choose what we want to blog about and submit to them and when it is confirm , we will get paid weekly.
If you are like me, the first time you might worry how to start, but Smorty website is easy to navigate and we can even post in multiple blogs to earn more.
The next thing is the REFERRAL program which I think it is very interesting.
So who said that blog are just for fun...we can earn money too from here.
So moms lash out your writing skills and get paid for blogging
Intrigue by other moms ideas , I was searching for get paid for blogging. Who doesn't like the idea to earn some extra money? Specially for moms who like to shop...:)
With so many options , I found out of Smorty. And just to try my luck I register and wait for my blog to be approve. And the day after it is!
That is a fast service. No hassle at all...and then there are "tasks" waiting for me to blog about.
I am excited of course.
We can choose what we want to blog about and submit to them and when it is confirm , we will get paid weekly.
If you are like me, the first time you might worry how to start, but Smorty website is easy to navigate and we can even post in multiple blogs to earn more.
The next thing is the REFERRAL program which I think it is very interesting.
So who said that blog are just for fun...we can earn money too from here.
So moms lash out your writing skills and get paid for blogging
Saturday, March 1, 2008
KK from the sky
All of these photos were taken by my dad , during his flight back to Jakarta via Singapore. After a full week for rain, finally there was some sun coming out.
Kota Kinabalu , the land and the sea and the island........ the view during take off.
This is Sutera Harbour from the sky.
Ok you all people, what island is this?
And this?
I think this is Tanjung Aru. Is it? there is the runway of the airport. I can see Shangri-la at the tip , and is that Waikiki Condo ? For sure this is not Sutera Harbour.
And the plan went further up....
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