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Hi Rose,

Thanks for the link. Will check it out that website soon. Thanks again my dear

Hi Rose,

thanks for writing. So far my business alhamdullillah, get more orders from Malaysia. Now, I include our traditional bengkung in my web, which is getting quite difficult to find it here. So far the response has been very good. I am the distributor for bengkung from Singapore.

I even received order from US, our Malay lady who is migrating there bought it, surprisingly. Well, that's what you call global audience when you have a website.

Anyway, I have been reading a lot on how to improve my web and get more traffic. I am revamping my site now. Thanks for your advise, I also read about those external link etc.... I am in the process of removing all those link. Thank you dear and please email me more details.

Good to know that you received order from Phillippine, and glad they have received it safely. Last year, I shipped to Ukraine...quite worried but alhamdullillah, she received it safely and quite fast which she is happy about it.

Well, good to know you will balik kampung. Hope everything fine for you here and your family. Selamat Tahun Baru to you and family.

By the way, can you email me your website address please? At least I can see what I can improve on my web from yours.

Thanks.

Good to know this forum had make great progress lately.

cheers

Hi momoftwo,

Sorry for not replying to your posting earlier. Yes, we've been to S'pore to wrap up the PR, which was a breeze btw. My family in S'pore told me that it will be difficult for my daughter to get a university place in S'pore because competition is very stiff, so here I am, still stuck in the U.K.!

Business front, launched a Wordpress business blog roughly two weeks ago, did feature a collection of my Malay antiques on the blog and I received 2 enquiries from Malaysians (orang melayu). Not sure whether I want to sell my collection though.

We're trying to brush up our website and invest in some lighting equipment so that our photos online look as professional as those taken in the studio.

After that I was hoping to join Amazon as a seller... see how it goes...

I got to know another Malay girl in America who started a blog selling designer handbags  and a few designer clothes...but don't know what arrangement she has with the designer store in the US...whether its drop shipping or, sale or return basis.

In the meantime, keep plugging away... Not sure what happened to Hana? I think she's busy selling to the Malaysians.

Hi Momoftwo,

I was looking at your avatar and a thought came to my mind: have you ever consider selling modern, fashionable Muslim clothes online?
To give you an example: this San Diego company - probably one of the few ones online that sell such fashionable clothes.

http://www.artizara.com

Accidentally, we're using the same web hosting company as them.

I hope you don't mind my asking this but how come it takes 1 to 2 months, is that the normal turnaround for shipment from supplier? If you ask the customer to pay when the order arrives, there is that risk that she has change her mind and will not pay, so payment should be made when she places the order.
I'm sure I've seen some websites that take pre-orders for clothes.

Kalau tidak ada modalkan, another way to do it I suppose, is see whether you can approach any seller at Geylang atau Arab Str, boutique ke…wholesaler ke..yang interested in having internet presence and willing to pay you commission on sales.

Difficult for me to advise. Since we sell antiques, I don't have any dealings with wholesalers, suppliers or manufacturers (not yet anyway) maybe Hana can help you.

Besides using multiply, try putting them on Blogger.com too, its free kan? With Blogger, you can promote the blog and link with other blogs worldwide (eg, blogs by Muslim fashionista), not sure how multiply works.

I’ve seen this live traffic feed called “FeedJit” it is so cool that I’m going to install it on our blog.

IMHO this niche its scalable. If you do eventually proceed to a website like antizara (the hosting co. is in USA btw), you can add other products for women…halal chocolate, selendang, trendy pins for the hijabs… apa lagi? Muslim swimwear…wedding clothes for Muslimah, ‘halal’ perfume…makeup the list is endless…

Bear in mind, if you sell clothes online, you need a generous ‘refund’ policy, bound to have returns.

Regarding not able to stay focus, I have that problem all the time, so I’ve decided to just stay focus on our antik biz and not dabble in anything else.

I think that is a very good idea asking for a deposit - say 50% but make sure deposit itu cukup untuk you bayar your supplier.

Once the order arrives, you can ask the customer to pay the balance. So if she changes her mind, you won't be out of pocket.

Pelahan pelahan lah. Try this pre-order first, once you gain more confidence can approach more wholesalers or sellers who want internet presence.

If you need to go out and meet people, schedule it on days when your husband is at home and can keep an eye on your children - saturday afternoon, sunday ke atau evenings.

With Antizara, I will not be surprised if they sourced their products from countries like Jordan. You can also do the same - beli in Ringgit or Rupiah or Vietnamese currency - murah murah sekali, jual in US dollars.

Don't think it is a good idea to have two blogs with the same content (spamming), just use one. Its good to know that Wordpress blog has better presence than Blogger, since my blog is also in Wordpress.

Best of luck!

Hi Rose

Thanks for the link. Am looking into it for sure!

I want to ask you since your blog is wordpress, how to monetize huh?

If I want to put advertisement kat sidebar, download plugin yang mana?

Thanks in advance