Deffective Affiliate Marketing Programs

by Musthofa Hadi


So many affiliate programs provide and offered to us. But actually, we have to be more selective to deal with. Because in my opinion, not all affiliate programs suitable for us exactly.

There are some reasons for my point here, such as I will try to describe here:
1. Know the product characteristics first before you decide to buy it.
2. Understand the way you may contact to its potensial market.
3. Better inner-interest means better productivity for you to move on the market.
4. Do learn the detail prove from some testimonials and read it carefully.
5. Promotional acts are very crucial things to blow up your URL.
6. Do not emotionally influence by their execellent web-copywriting, think rationally.
7. Some of those offering are deffective.

E-Business Investment Challanges

by Musthofa Hadi


There are some crucial challange on IT for business investment. No matter whether is it a small or even a big business, they both have some common problem or challanges, actually.

Here are some of that challanges:
1. IT for business investment always need a lot of fund. It would requiring a strategic budgeting from the company.

2. Many companies move on IT investment based on a simple prediction and lack understanding of product specifications and features. So, they believe that a product which on a market trend position are always the best.

3. The other problem is lack of knowledge and mastering the new product operational, so off course it would bring larger risk of product damage by the reason of wrong step of usage.

4. The wrong calculation of the depresiation versus technology trend. Not just calculating the economic linear depresiaton such as in accounting methods. The great dynamic of techno-trend will result more quick expired of usage. Even we may found it still in a good condition, physically.

How e-business IS Could Going Bad?

by Musthofa Hadi

Some issues that commonly happen on setup e-business IS that bring to be fail, there are:

1. A matter of miss-perception, what I just try to say here is a wrong perception that believe that IS is the major thing. Actually NO!.. NEVER forget commitment and consistency.

2. The information system that hve been build less of interactiveness.

3. And the other one is come from the subject, the human resources. It will bring a serious problem if they do not adaptive enough to the proccess of developing system.

IT Investment Strategy - Be Best

by Musthofa Hadi

This is actually a second choice of IT investment strategies. And here are some advantages of the "Be Best" strategy;

1. The human resources always be motivated to exploring the most optimal ways to do things for the company.

2. Boosting the issues and policies on efficiency, so it also means a low cost and higher productivity.

3. And off course, it could bring a higher contribution margin. So, the company could larger opportunity on developing some new strategy because they have more financial strenght.

IT Investment Strategy - Be 1st

by Musthofa Hadi

YES, just the same rule on business also on marketing. Here, one of the most powerfull strategy on IT investment for the company is just BE FIRST.

What are the advantages of this strategy? some of them that we could define here are:

1. A great motivation of human resources to always develop and adapting the new technology.

2. Empowering the company brand image on market or public.

3. Resulting some new opportunity by the strenght of the absolute advantages of being the pioneer.

4. The company would have a great opportunity to be the market leader.

Focus is The Main Key

by Musthofa Hadi

For online business, being focus is one of the top key to be success. Even, I can say that if we are out off focus, our business will be grow too slow.
No need to enforcing our resources to do some business at the same time, I think,- especially when our business still on the start up phase. Believe me, I will destroy you at all.

Learning e-Business is a Great Investment

There are a lot of reasons why learning e-business is so important now. You might already known some of those reasons from the other sources. But, now I would like to share my opinion to you all.
by Musthofa Hadi


So, when I've been asked a kind of question like "why we need to learn e-business?" Here are my answers:

1. E-business is your future business.
Every business function had been set to be computerized and link to internet. And on other hands, we also can see the amazing number of transactions and dollars on e-business technology usage. I have a data that on 2005 there are U.S. $ 172 billion shopping online, up from just $38.8 billion in 2000. What an amazing trend, isn't it?
This also tell us about how large the opportunity still exist.

2. E-business is about how to doing business on a very smart way.
Yes, VERY SMART. And all the task could set automatically. We just set up first, and then 'the machine' will do the other works for you. Even when you are sleeping, or do any other activities.

3. E-business is about how to doing business on a very efficient way.
One of the main advantages of the internet technology is the scheme of 24 hours and 7 days a week. Even, it can be accessed anywhere. So, would you mind to tell me the other ways to make a network of relationship more faster now? Can you give any other easier way to do so?

4. Learning e-business include learning about any kinds of business models
So, it's just the same like we do one thing, but we could achieve some things together at the same time. By learn e-business we also study about a lot of business model -at the off-line way.

4. Enhance of the modern technology.
The technology have been build for us, so let us be the person who learn to take some benefit from it, do not waste it.