Build your own business based on a website like Pulau-Pangkor.com

Recently I got an email of someone telling me the Pangkor website was nice but how would I make any money with "just giving" information? "And if you make money, where is the scam?" Of course there is no scam. It's perfectly possible to earn money with a website without scamming!

You bet I make the money with "just information". The whole principle of our website is to deliver decent information required by visitors that leads to a sale. The sale can be anything, a hotelroom, an ebook, a piece of bicycle or diving equipment through EBay.

But how to build? Do you need a flashy looking website? Do you need to hire a professional web designer? To be honest, most web designers do known how to make a beautiful LOOKING website but do NOT know how to make the website sell.

I spend zero dollars on promotion, even better, Mr. Google pays me every month a handsome amount of money for the quality of my website. And what I can do, YOU can do. And no, it's no scam. Here's what AJ from Love-for-roses.com wrote in the SBI forums about the price of SBI, which some people think is way too high....:

"I renewed my roses site a few days ago, which cost me nz$470 at todays exchange rate. I did some rough comparisons to how much that cost, compared to another non SBI site (I can't use SBI for this one, I need databases and some other stuff).

domain and hosting: $160 a year (all prices are in my NZ dollars)
I have to purchase more bandwidth. I think that's going to be an extra $120 a year. Otherwise I run the risk of paying BIG dollars for each MB that I go over my limit. The price you pay for more visitors eh?
I also have off site storage space as no more room for all my images and videos. Im nearly at my limit of how much I can store in my folders, and I dont have any more upgrade options....which means buying more space rather than a higher end plan. Another $120 a year
I forget how much my getresponse mailout stuff is, I think around $200 a year.
I'm going to get a 1 month subscription to wordtracker for this site (can't use the sbi brainstormer, as its against the TOU). Thats $100 in NZ $.... The full year is us$399

So to all those people who say sbi is way overpriced and you only need cheap hosting and a $5 domain name. My costs are about $800 a year, compared to $470 with my SBI site. And the fact that my site is down regularly for server updates etc. That really annoys me.
Cheers, AJ "

You may want to read his post in the SBI forums. http://forums.sitesell.com/posting.php?mode=quote&p=742802 (login name and password: pulau-pangkor.com

AJ is a respected SBI user, involved in the new templates soon be available in Sitesell. In other words, he's not just the guy next door in this sense.



Build your own business based on a website like Pulau-Pangkor.com

Outdoor activities with children

Outdoor activities with children, these days more and more it seems children get less space to explore the world. The first 10 years of my life I couldn't play outside, it was simply too busy, too dangerous with cars and motorbikes. These days it's in the big cities probably worse.

For that reason I am always happy to see children who do get the possibility to play outside, or come on adventures like I had yesterday with Nazlina's daughter Johanna. We cycled, hiked, did the rope course, and we went for 2 hours swimming, a full day. Here's the whole story

Outdoor activities with children

Marina Cove Lumut

The Marina Cove Resort is a hotel near Teluk Batik. It's a pleasant hotel with swimming pool and restaurant in the middle of the jungle of Teluk Batik which makes it perfect for jungletrekking and team building

More at the Marina Cove

Puteri Bayu

Pangkor island has plenty of accommodation. Unfortunately it seems people only want to visit in the peak season which is... right now. The Puteri Bayu (formerly known as Sri Bayu) is one of the more popular hotels and it makes all sense. It's the only resort with chalets at the Parir Bogak beach. It's really nice resort with all you can expect from a beach resort.

Puteri Bayu

Moon Festival at Pangkor Island

Early October it was the annual Moon Festival celebration at Pangkor. I went to the Chinese school at Pasir Bogak to see what this year would bring. It was quite a party, many high officials, including the Malaysian prime minister (who is actually from Pangkor) joined the party. See the video what happened:



More about the moon festival and more photos

Mukah Head Lighthouse

Teluk Bahang has quite a few surprises and the Mukah Head Lighthouse is one of them. The lighthouse is over 100 years old and build on a hill top over 240 meter high. It's a beautiful short hike up the hill through a tropical rainforest. We shot many photos during our trip. See for your self:

Teluk Bahang: Mukah Head Lighthouse

Orang Asli and their crafts

The Orang Asli are the original inhabitants of Malaysia. 0.5 % of the present Malaysian population belong to this group of indigenous people. As they mostly live in more remote areas and the level of their education is not always too high, many make their money in crafts work.



And it is that crafts work that deserves attention. We found a good organisation representing the Orang Asli: Elevyn. Check it out:

Orang Asli Malaysia and their craftswork

Penang websites

Penang is since many years one of the major tourist destination. Obviously there are many websites dedicated to Penang. Our own Pulau Pangkor website pays attention to Penang but only in minor ways. Read our Penang section here.

The problem with islands like Penang is that there is so much to tell. And because of that it is searching for a needle in a haystack. Which website is good? Where do you find relevant info? There are some good ones.

Nazlina's website handles about Penang from the point of Heritage view. Being a good writer with a clear point of view, her articles are very to the point. Naz knows her stuff and she has great photos. This is one of the major starting points if you want to learn about Penang

www.penangheritagecity.com

Tze's Penang Passion does different things. Tze's photo material is superb, she too knows what she is talking about. But what really makes the difference with Tze's website is the love she has for Penang. She really loves the island in all its glory and differences. It's a very different kind of site compared to Nazlina's and I would say, they complement each other...

www.penangpassion.com

Penang has a lot to offer and if you consider traveling to Malaysia, Penang should not be missed. Visit these three sites...

www.penangheritagecity.com
www.penangpassion.com
www.pulau-pangkor.com/penang.html

Have fun in Penang