We were always proud of the fact that Exabytes has always been a great role model for young minds to learn and be exposed to entrepreneurship. On 22 February 2017, students from Sentral College Penang paid us a visit at the Exabytes HQ Office.
Vickson Tan, the Exabytes Creative Manager, conducted a sharing session with the students, who learned how Exabytes was first formed as well as the organisational structure of Exabytes.
We are glad that we were able to inspire the students through the sharing session. We were also given the opportunity to broaden their minds by offering them a tour around our office structure and observe our workflow!
Thank you once again for choosing Exabytes as your learning platform. We hope to see you guys someday!
We’ve been receiving questions from everyone about when will MWA2017 be open for submission.
We sincerely apologise on the delay of the submission opening, but fret not – MWA2017 has finally started!
If this is your first time hearing about MWA, you can have a look at our Awards Presentation Ceremony 2016 (link), to have an idea on what MWA is about.
MWA 2017
To summarise, MWA2017 is the third in the series, seeking to recognise and reward the outstanding performance, talent and effort of the best web developers, web designers and web agencies; and at the same time encourage creativity, sharing and improvement of overall web design quality in the country.
How to Join?
Here are few simple steps to submit your website:
Step 1:
Check out which category your website belongs to – Personal, Commercial or E-Commerce. If you are not sure which category you should submit, here is the guideline:
Personal: This category is for individual websites. For eg, blogs or any websites that are built for own usage & sharing
Commercial: This category is for company or business websites. For eg, any business that showcases their profile on website for customers to refer.
E-Commerce: This category is for business websites with add-to-cart system and payment gateway.
Step 2:
After determining your category, submit your website by filling up its details HERE
Step 3:
After submission, your website will be verified by MWA independent judges within 7-14 days. A notification on the approval of the website will be sent through another email.
Step 4:
Share it to your friends and get as many votes as you can! Once you do, leave the rest to the judges to evaluate your website
Yeap, the submission process is as simple as it is. If you have a beautifully designed website, come and join MWA 2017 to get recognition!
Let us help you solve this. Email spam are like irritating dead bugs that float around inside your email inbox. Some emails are attached with malicious links or viruses that will ruin your mailbox.
However, with the help of “SpamAssassin”, you have an automated email filtering system that uses a variety of techniques to identify and filter email spam effectively.
Once it is enabled on cPanel, it works wonders in reducing the unwanted emails in your email accounts.
How Does SpamAssassin Work?
SpamAssassin uses scores rate algorithms to help users determine spam emails and get them to manage spam more effectively. It helps you screen each incoming email and gives each of them a score based on spam characteristics.
Once determined, users can mark incoming emails with certain scores to a specific folder, or choose to delete them automatically.
Here are the steps to configure and enable this function;
Step 1: Login to your cPanel.
Step 2: Go to Email categories and search for “Apache SpamAssassin.”
Step 3: Click on the “Enable SpamAssassin” button at the bottom of the page to enable SpamAssassin.
** If you are hosted with us, our new configuration for Apache SpamAssassin by default is set to enabled.
Step 4: Apache SpamAssassin Configuration
**Notes
Click Save to store your changes.
To add more than five addresses to the blacklist or whitelist, enter addresses in the first five text boxes and click Save. Additional text boxes will appear.
When you add addresses to the blacklist or whitelist, use * as a wildcard to represent multiple characters and ? to represent a single-character wildcard. The following examples demonstrate how to properly use wildcards in the blacklist:
If you interested to know more about Anti-Spam Solution, please visit our SpamExperts to protect yourself from spam, viruses, phishing email and malware links.
On last Saturday (21 January 2017), we had a great evening at the Award Presentation Ceremony of Malaysia Website Awards 2016. First of all, a thousand thanks for your attendance and fantastic support! Without your great support, our event will not be a success.
Here is a little throwback for those who did not manage to join us!
Firstly, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our co-organizers – Invest Penang; Our sponsors: Mynic Berhad, Molpay & OpenSRS
As well as our gift sponsors – Frambie, Printcious & StockUnlimited
Without their great support towards this community event, the Award Presentation Ceremony won’t be a great success.
At 7.15PM, Mr Chan Kee Siak – the CEO of Exabytes Group, kick-started the ceremony with an opening speech.
In his speech, he mentioned that compared to only 2 categories for website submission in 2015, we have decided to open another category, making it a total of 3 categories for MWA 2016:
Personal : This category is for individual websites
Commercial : This category is for company or business websites
E-Commerce : This category if for business websites with add-to-cart system and payment gateway
There are 42 winners in total for 2016! We were so glad that some of the winners flew to Penang all the way from East Malaysia just to attend the Award Presentation Ceremony. We sincerely appreciate your effort and time to join us for the evening.
Here are the winners of Site of The Year of MWA2016:
Commercial Category Chin Kwan How // Maniqure Group Sdn Bhd // maniqure.my
Personal Category Elisha Rusli // Role Over Play Dead // roleoverplaydead.com
Is backup & restore wordpress important? Apparently many of us don’t see it as important until we need to run a restore.
When an attack/disaster takes place, it might be too late to find a solution to solve the problem. Is your website/blog using WordPress as your content management system (CMS)? If so, Softaculous backup can make sure you can run a restore when disasters happen.
Step 1:
Login to your cPanel – > look for Softaculous -> WordPress
Step 2: Click the Backup and Restore Button on the upper right of the page.
Step 3: If you have previously enabled WordPress Auto-Backup, you should see backup record showing as below.
Step 4: If you wish to restore to the previous state, click in the “Restore” button.
If you wish to Manually Backup in Softaculous
please refer to the steps below.
Step1: Back to your Softaculous -> WordPress
Step 2: Click on the button as shown below.
Step 3:
Proceed with backup in the final step.
So there you go, the steps to perform backup and restore. Just like the old saying ‘better be safe than sorry, make sure you backup your website data all the time.
Shall anything bad happens, you can restore things to the previous state. Simple and easy, rite?
Percentage of People Who Use a Smartphone in Malaysia
The smartphone penetration rate for Malaysians reached 81% in year 2016, and is estimated to continue growing in 2017.
People are 5 times more likely to leave a mobile site that isn’t mobile-friendly.
Searching information on the go on smartphones is so convenient as everyone can now have access to information instantly.
Moreover, in May 2016, Google announced that being Mobile Friendly is one of the important ranking factors for Google search results.
But how exactly can you transform your website into a mobile friendly one?
Simple! Simply sign up for our EBiz Pro Website Solution that is equipped with Weebly Website Builder.
With Weebly Website Builder (also a 100% mobile-friendly tool), you can simply CLICK & DRAG to build your website!
Speed is Everything!
When it comes to website loading speed, if your website cannot load within 3 seconds on smartphone, it needs improvement in order to keep its visitors!
Believe it or not, nearly half of all website visitors will leave a mobile site if the pages don’t load within 3 seconds.
Even worse, they will head straight to your competitors’ sites after leaving yours.
Looking for the EASIEST way to optimize your website and increase your website loading speed?
The Most Effective way is to upgrade to our SSD VPS hosting as SSDs offer lower access time, less latency and are 100x faster than the usual shared hosting drives.
Summary
Owning a website is a MUST for business nowadays but that is just the beginning.
Having great website content that engages and converts your visitors to actual sales (to achieve this, get the help from a good copywriting company, such as Giant Writer), optimizing the UI/UX of your website, and creating the best online experience are important ongoing processes.
Video advertising is a rising force of digital marketing with very impressive growth this year. Many say 2016 is the year of videos – so true as consumer preference and major trends now show that many are switching to video oriented platforms across YouTube, Native Facebook Video, Instagram video, Twitter video and more.
The fact is, if you don’t include a video marketing strategy as part of your content marketing plan, you’re missing out on a great deal!
Wish to launch a video ad campaign to kick-start your 2017 Marketing plan? Learn HOW these videos became so successful. Remember, regardless of the type of videos, STORY is still the most important ingredient in making sure your video ads can go viral.
Without further ado, let’s watch all of them that went VIRAL!
We were so happy that there were 113 of you who joined us on 7 December 2016! Even though the venue is in town and it was quite hard to find parking, we were thrilled to find some of you taking the initiative to come earlier so that you guys won’t miss this event.
Last Wednesday, on 7 December 2016, we gladly welcomed an entourage of MBA students from University of Victoria, coming for a visitation at our Headquarters office in Penang.
Zoey was sharing about the vision and mission of CAT & Invest Penang
Ms Ooi – Senior Business Development Manager of Exabytes also shared about the journey of Exabytes.
Once again, thank you for the great opportunity! To the students from University of Victoria, we hope you had fun and have learned much about e-Commerce & hosting services from this tour.
When year end approaches, we know there will be a surge in sales.
The shopping atmosphere is amazing, and some of us even became “supershoppers” to grab all the insane deals that we cannot resist.
Even if your business is already running the year-end sales, I am sure you can grab a few more ideas to maximize the total revenue of 2023.
In this article, we will explore few proven strategies that can give your year end promotion a significant sales boost.
From leveraging exclusive product bundles to implementing targeted email campaigns and providing exceptional customer service, these strategies will empower you to engage customers, drive conversions, and end the year on a high note.
Get ready to elevate your sales game and make this year-end promotion your most successful one yet.
1. Launch discounts and limited-time offers campaign during the big dates on the ecommerce calendar.
From #MYCYERSALES, 1111 Singles Day, 1212 Deal, Black Friday, Cyber Monday to Christmas deal, the market now is full of flash marketing and sales.
I’m sure your competitors are already doing it and you should tap on this opportunity to double, or even triple your closing sales.
It’s the year end, and if your business almost runs out of marketing fund, you can consider having a partnership with other players to leverage your brand presence.
Consider using social media marketing such as Facebook Advertising and Google Ads Marketing (SEM) to greatly increase the awareness about your crazy year end sales.
This strategy is a powerful approach to boost sales.
By combining complementary products into enticing packages, we offer customers exceptional value and cost savings.
This streamlined shopping experience saves time and increases the likelihood of a purchase.
Bundles provide convenience and a comprehensive solution to customers’ needs.
They foster loyalty and engagement, building enduring relationships.
Limited-time promotions and exclusive discounts create urgency and excitement, driving sales and revenue growth.
This generates a sense of excitement and stimulates customer engagement, propelling sales growth and boosting revenue.
By delivering significant cost savings, streamlining the shopping experience, adding value through complementary products, and engendering a sense of exclusivity, we are able to attract customers, drive higher sales volumes, and position our brand as a trusted purveyor of exceptional value.
3. Boosting sales with existing customers
Focusing on existing customers is a strategic approach to maximize year-end sales.
By nurturing and engaging with our loyal customer base, we can leverage their trust and familiarity with our brand to drive repeat purchases and increase their average order value.
Implementing personalized offers and exclusive discounts tailored specifically for our existing customers demonstrates our appreciation for their continued support.
Providing exceptional customer service and a seamless shopping experience further strengthens their loyalty and encourages them to spread positive word-of-mouth.
By actively engaging with our existing customers through targeted marketing campaigns and loyalty programs, we can boost year-end sales and foster long-term customer relationships.
4. Optimize your keywords and interest targeting
Do you know customers’ online search behaviour changes towards the year end?
Try changing the bidding strategy of your Google Ads search campaigns so that they work well for your business at year end.
Sounds complicated?
For further clarification, contact our Google Ads Specialist for a free no-obligation consultation.
We always welcome any question and response from you.
5. Get smart about pricing and discount strategies
Customers loves low prices, but that doesn’t mean you must sell at the lowest price in your niche market.
As buying sentiment is high during festive season, consider bundling your products or services into new packages and stay away from the price war.
Depending on different industry, you could carefully apply voucher, discount code, contest or other discount methods to close more sales.
Besides, don’t forget to give away pre-sales promotion before the actual day of flash sale like Cyber Monday.
6. Don’t let your customers think you might be having your year end sales in the last couple of weeks of the year.
In today’s digital age, customers are extremely smart; they know where and when to get the best bargains.
Once they smell a fantastic deal is coming, all will wait and hold on their purchases.
While there are various strategies to target different segments of customers, it is always important to keep the momentum going.
Remember, year-end sale could attract the highest revenue for your business in the entire year.
Everyone is playing the game at year end, you must adopt the best tactics to win the game.
Summary
Chances are you already have a holiday sales strategy.
Keep fine tuning it and stay aware all times.
There’s still time to launch your best strategy and give your business an IMPORTANT FINAL BOOST in 2023.
Until then, let’s keep fighting and welcome 2024 with open arms!
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Is backup & restore wordpress important? Apparently many of us don’t see it as important until we need to run a restore. 
Ms Ooi – Senior Business Development Manager of Exabytes also shared about the journey of Exabytes.
