My Experience Travelling Bandung Jakarta

I have never been to Jakarta on my own before, and on 27 October 2007, that’s the first time I go there on my own. Yup, that’s for the Internet marketing Bootcamp. I want to share my travelling experience with you all. There are several things that I’m really ‘blank’. Ilive in Bandung. I don’t know Jakarta streets, I don’t know how to get to the place, I really afraid to get lost in Jakarta. It is a very vast city, and you can get lost if you don’t know exactly where to go. And then I decide to search. Yup, ask uncle google, that’s how my story went smoother; but not as smooth as I thought ^^ though.

First I considered how I could get to Jakarta. I could go by car, by train or by plane, and I choose to travel by car. Why? Because it offers the best deal, price – travel time. If you go by plane, that would cost you more than 100k Rp for 45 min flights. If you go by train, it would cost you 75k Rp (Argo Gede) for 3 hr travel time. But If you go by car, it will only cost you 60k for 2 hr travel time. Well, if you kinda’ short of money, I recommend you using the travel car. Now, the question change. Which travel car should I use. There are several travel car in Bandung, i.e. Cipaganti, X-trans, City Trans, Transporter, Baraya, Transline and I guess there are lots more. Baraya offers the cheapest price. You should only pay 35k, but I didn’t choose this as it didn’t guarantee ‘1 person go’ and their earliest time is at 6am. I want to go to Jakarta by 5am. Then I chose Cipaganti. Their max seat is 10 – compare to X-trans, 11 for the same 60k price. I didn’t research on others travel car because I really don’t have time to do this. As soon as I figured Cipaganti is better, I chose it. Transporter actually offer the best comfort. Their max passengers are only 6, but I figured this out after I went back to Bandung. Oh, I forgot, They use almost the same type of car, Pregio, Travello or others similar car (or I should say minibus).

At Jakarta, as travel car is a shuttle service a.k.a. point to point, I choose Cikini as my drop point as they told me Cikini is closer to Borobudur Hotel (my Bootcamp place), and I could go to Borobudur Hotel by taxi. BAM! Suddenly several bad stories about Jakarta’s taxi appeared. If you are newbies and don’t really know Jakarta, and your appearance is kinda’ wealthy, the taxi driver will take you round and round the city until the argo (taxi-meter) reach they considered price. And also there are several stories about robbery in taxi. The taxi driver will have their friends join the taxi and they will take you to a quiet place and they will rob you. And of course there are other story about rape, and so on. Of course these stories really frightened me. But who am I? I remember that I have my GOD; there are nothing could scared me because HE always be with me. That is what He promised in Matthew 28:20.

And guess what… the story became easy. I really have a smooth travel. I take a taxi in the opposite of Cipaganti pool at Cikini, and it only cost me 10k to reach Borobudur Hotel. Some said that only Blue Bird is the most trustworthy taxi company, but I don’t believe them. I chose any taxi coming across, and I really had a save journey. The taxi driver didn’t take the round way, (Well I kinda’ knew it because I had searched on Jakarta Street Map before, and it only took 10 min to reach Borobudur Hotel) and he is really really friendly. I talked a lot with him, how long he have been a taxi driver, where he lived and so on. And the same thing went on while I went back to Bandung. I chose any taxi, went to Cikini, and go back to Bandung. Really smooth isn’t it? Just believe in GOD and Thy will be with you any time, any where. I was really afraid at first but as soon as I remember His promise, He comfort me. Thanks GOD! Can’t wait to have another travelling with Him. ^^ Pray for my success in this Internet Business, ok? I hope I can travel around the world then. Success for US!

Global Internet Summit 9 - 11 November 2007 Review

On 9 to 11 November, 2007 there was Global Internet Summit held on Plaza BBD (Jl. Imam Bonjol 61 Jakarta, near Bunderan HI). I was one of the participant. I didn’t attend the 9^th and 11^th. I only take the 10^th November seminar. Well, actually I wanted to join all the event but I can’t. I already had the research on the hotel, but my health didn’t allow me to join all the event. I caught a really bad flu at 10^th, I didn’t really know why, maybe because of my low fitness at that time and the really cold hall for the seminar. So I can only share you about what I get from the 10^th seminar.

There were 4 speakers at 10^th. Adam Davies – the PPC kid, Terence Tan, Shaune Clarke – the Interviewer guru, and Jaz Lai – the designer. Most of them talked about Traffic generation. Yup, that’s the main thing we should worked on to generate income from the internet. Terence talked about several technique to generate traffic, i.e. Article Marketing, Traffic Recycling, Blogging, Forums, Error pages Optimizing, Blog Comments, Directory Submission and Classified sites. Almost all of them are free traffic generation. No TRAFFIC = No SALES. Adam focused on PPC, showing us 3 of 8 his PPC technique. Those are Feature and Benefit, Ask a question, and Story Teller technique. Shaune taught us to write a Killer Sales Copy (Copywriting) and the power of interview to generate ideas, products, traffic, and guru’s testimonial for us. The last speaker, Jaz Lai showed us how to build high quality list and LAZY method to generate traffic. From those 4 speakers, I’ve mentioned, I really like Jaz Lai. He is kinda’ similar to me, want to generate huge internet income with a LAZY method. LAZY means, don’t have to blogging every time, go to forum every time, update site every time, and other routine activity. I also like Shaune as he showed me a new idea. Yeah, I think interview is a new idea, but I don’t really feel that I’m for this technique.

As a conclusion, I don’t regret to participate in the Global Internet Summit. I gained a lot of information. What I regret is that I cannot join all of the event. Well, maybe next year ok? I will summarize each speakers in my next blog. So, ‘feed’ my blog ^^

Fauzi Bowo's Policy against Bicycle Roadway in Jakarta

Recently, I read the newspaper and the headline grabbed my attention. It was ‘Bike to Work’ campaign and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia, with his wife, some of minister along with Fauzi Bowo; Jakarta’s latest chosen governor were promoting it. Jakarta’s streets lately has become more and more crowded, from the small street to the large road, even the highway; almost all of them jam on high traffic time, that is while people go to work and go back from work. We know that a large number of the people working in Jakarta don’t stay at that city. They stay at satellite cities; Depok, Bogor, Bekasi, Tangerang, and other surrounding ones. That’s the reason why the government promoted the ‘Bike to Work’ campaign. That’s all good right? Just imagine the loss we suffer from the traffic jam. They said that more than 1bil. Rp is wasted every hour. What a huge number! Pollutants, health and psychological aspect is also affected. So bike to work campaign is all for good right?

I’m for the campaign but I have some question to ask. How can people go to work by bike as their house is located outside of Jakarta. Should they cycle their bike for 20-30 km? Insane! I think the government doesn’t well prepared for their campaign. It’s better if they provide several massive parking lots in Jakarta’s gateway. So outsiders can park their car, then cycle their bike. Or if the location is too far, there are convenient and clean public transportation to facilitate them so they can stop at the bicycle parking lot and cycle to their office. But for this idea, it really needs a scattered strategic areas of bicycle parking lot, massive parking lots in Jakarta gateway and real convenient public transportation. That means it really needs a HUGE amount of money.

I guess the ‘Bike to Work’ idea is for those who live in Jakarta. For those whose house are located less or equal to 5km from their office. Fauzi Bowo said that he won’t build any bicycle roadway in Jakarta if the bicycle quantity below 1mil. Yet, today there are only 3k cyclers around the city. This is what I’m ridicule at. I think if he wants people to go to work by bike, he should provide the facilities first (such as bicycle roadway) then he could expect an increasing number of people cycle to work. Just wait and see what is he going to do then.

Jakarta Flooded AGAIN!

Jakarta Flood November 2007

Jakarta is the capitol city of Indonesia. It is the most populated city yet the place where the most money rolling. Last year, Jakarta drowned and the economy stuck for almost a week. And now the indication of such thing will occur again is increasing. Last week, there were several place in Jakarta flooded for almost 1 meter high. And since it is yet the peak of raining season, we can imagine what will happen if it is the peak of raining season.

I wonder what the government did for the recent months. Didn’t they do something to avoid this? Yesterday, I heard the news that only 5 of 12 water pump controlling the flood canal were working. The others had been broken down and they still trying to fix it. This is what I didn’t like. They keep TRYing to avoid the flood. When it is almost the time to raining season, they begin to try to do something to eliminate the effect. But I guess that’s not what we want right? We all want the government DO the right thing. Sometimes we hear that they are willing to do something. But what’s the result? I guess there are too much talking and poor action. So stop TRYing and start DOing. Sometimes we don’t realize that we are the reason why the flood keep coming. We always blame the government of poor precautious action. But who realize that all of us should be responsible for the flood. When were the last time we throw the garbage through our own car side window? When were the last time people throwing garbage to the river? To make Indonesia better, all of Indonesian people should be involved. Let’s do something good for our country. We LOVE Indonesia. Be blessed Indonesia!

Setup Wordpress Blog in Your Own Computer

Yesterday, I spent several hours to setup wordpress blog. Wordpress is installed really easy. Next, I will guide you to wordpress setup, but first let me give you why I wanna try wordpress. I have try blogger and it is not easily customized (or I don't know how :D) I wanna have several plugins but it can only be installed via 'add page element' (html thing) and I found it uneasy. Of course as a blogger newbie I wanna try each element one by one and I for that I need internet connection. Wordpress win in this area; I can setup wordpress blog in my own computer and try several plugins without internet connection (My internet connection is not fast ~ 20 to 35 kbps for real ~ even they said that it is a broadband network) and after you find your wordpress blog nice you can upload it to your website easily. Wow that's what I said convinience.

These are steps for Wordpress setup in your own computer :

1. You will need Xampp as your http server. Download Xampp here. (choose the windows installer)
2. Install Xampp to your own desired folder and make sure you enable apache and mysql as services.
3. Now your Xampp is running.
4. Download wordpress setup installer here.
5. Extract it to \htdocs\
6. Now open your browser and type localhost for the address.
7. Open the phpMyAdmin tab in the Tools tab on the left.
8. On the Create new database field, type Wordpress (or your desired database name) and choose the utf8_unicode_ci as your collation, and click create.
9. Open wp-config-sample.php on \htdocs\wordpress\ (you can open it with notepad)
10. Change 'putyourdbnamehere' with 'your desired database name' (the one you create on phpMyAdmin), 'usernamehere' with 'root' , and 'yourpasswordhere' with 'your desired database password'.
11. Save wp-config-sample.php as wp-config.php
12. Open your browser again and type http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
13. Fill the field with your desired blog thing and viola, Wordpress is installed on your own computer.
14. You can download wordpress plugin here.
15. If you need more documentation, visit wordpress codex.

Warcraft III, Early Human Strategy

Warcraft III is one of my favourite games. I use to play it with my brother. (Yeah I have a brother. I will talk about him here.) Warcraft III is better played with friends. If you are alone at home, you can join the Battle.net and play with or against Warcraft III players around the world. Interesting isn't it?

There are 4 races you can choose. Human, Orc, Night Elf and Undead. The story of Warcraft III can be found here. I personally choose human. I can't play the other races, even they are pretty similar. I think you will find more resources if you search on google ^^; (yeah, i can't tell you much because i'm not that competent in Warcraft III)

Here I will tell you my strategy in Warcraft III. As a human, I have several advantages. Peasants can be a militia and they can help you creeping. Peasants are cheap. They only cost you 75 gold and use 1 food. Compare to the footman (that is cost 135 gold and use 2 food), they have similar attack damage, but the most difference is that peasant has an ultra low hp, 225, compare to footman 425. In the beginning of the game I order 4 peasants to gold mine, 1 to build barrack and shift build the farm and shift to harvest lumber (Shift is the order sequence) In the very early game, you won't need any hero. The game will be determined by who has the more number. Next I will build 3 peasants. The first peasant come out build the farm and shift build to altar and shift to harvest lumber. The second peasant come out rally to the gold mine. The third peasant come out harvest lumber, and build another peasant, rally to harvest lumber). After the barrack completed, build footman until it reach 4. After the altar complete, train your hero (I choose archmage as it can summon water elemental to help you creep) You will upgrade your town hall to keep as soon as your resources allowed. Now choose 1 peasant to build another farm and shift build to blacksmith. After the farm finished, create 2 more peasants and rally to harvest lumber. Choose one of them to build another farm. You will already have your footman and hero creeping at this time. Create 3 more footman and rally it to your hero. Train another hero.

I think this early human strategy is completed. After this step, you will build your army with your own desired. You'd better know what your enemy is playing and build the counter for them. That's why continuous spying is really important. You can train a peasant, change to militia and send them spying. Don't forget to expand as you will need more resources.

Internet Marketing Bootcamp Review – 3

There are 8 Web Marketing Principles that should be considered STRONGLY. Those are :

1. Take ACTION
Want to be successful online? Just do it! You can read theories on how to make HUGE money online but if you never practice, it’s a waste of your time.

2. Do CORRECTLY
Sometimes it is good to do something right, but it is far better if you do something correctly. Your good website won’t produce you any money if you don’t do it correctly.

3. Cause – Effect
For everything you do, there will be effects.

4. Effect – Cause
For everything happens, there must be causes. You should KNOW WHY something happens.

5. Give REASON
Your lead won’t buy if you don’t give them REASON.

6. Demand – Competition
Whether there are demands, there are competition.

7. BIG Demand – BIG Competition
If you are a beginner, avoid big competition. Compete in small niches first to create your confidence.

8. FOCUS
You will find a lots and lots of technique in making money online but stay focus on your method.

Disclaimer: This is only a review, so forgive me if this is not a really complete guide. If you want to know further, I suggest you join the WorldInternetAcademy or the Internet Marketing Bootcamp.

Review by Ade Kurnia Tan
Internet Marketing Bootcamp graduate
Internet Marketing Bootcamp by Fabian Lim, CEO of AsiaInternetAcademy.com

Internet Marketing Bootcamp Review – 2

There are 2 basic laws that should be met to thrive in the huge and growing internet marketing. That is value creation and differentiation. Value creation is your reason given to your leads and makes them willing to buy your products. Some people tend to sell something without even thinking about the benefit of their products to their customers. They want a huge profit but they don’t develop the value of their products. That’s one reason why not many internet marketer survive. Value creation is all about helping people. Help people to make money, save money, save time and solve problem. Your product MUST meet these people needs and hopefully you will gain more ^^

Differentiate your product than others is one thing. You will meet competition when there are demands and it can’t be avoided. If we say that our product is the best, compare to whom? Everything is RELATIVE. So make your product really different than the others. If you don’t have your own product, you can offer your leads some more benefits such as bonuses, services, guarantees and so on. Hopefully you can thrive in this internet marketing business. Next review onwards, keep following me! ^$^

Disclaimer: This is only a review, so forgive me if this is not a really complete guide. If you want to know further, I suggest you join the WorldInternetAcademy or the Internet Marketing Bootcamp.

Review by Ade Kurnia Tan
Internet Marketing Bootcamp graduate
Internet Marketing Bootcamp by Fabian Lim, CEO of AsiaInternetAcademy.com