Blogspot for Business

Believe me, i was involve in a project under Business Stimulus plan for SME's in Malaysia which been driven by Google Malaysia and collaboration between UTAR and MMU. My company which i working for now was awarded the project to conduct training on how to use blogspot as a tools to boost the marketing value for a small SME's.

Blogger for Business

For me, as i been using blogspot for my blog, i discover few new things on blogspot which i yet to discover before. Now can be said, if you ask me things about Blogspot, i know some tricks such as posting your post via MS Words, Email, Google Docs, Presentation and Embed Google Maps. And the most things that new to me was Google Analytics.

As most of the presentation training slide was building from scratch, i spent most of my working days to work doing it. But as you know, most boss want it fast and complete as they think it can be done in 30 minutes for one topic. But it took me 8 days to complete all the training slides which from the Design 101, Blogger 101, Customizing your Blog Template, Advanced Blogging, Integration with Google Application, Integration with Google Analytics, Photo Editing and how to use AdWords.

The best thing, this is the weird project i ever had whereby no comfirmation from Google Malaysia and Google Singapore either the project is on. The schedule for the launching for SME's in Malaysia was delayed and postponed for few time. Previously it was suppose to launch last month, but postponed to 17th this month. But when we ask, it been postponed again to 24th and today when we ask it was postponed to first week of December. And another best thing, we just received the PO from Google Singapore today for agreed payment for the training and mentor ship to the student for 3 months but we had conduct training at MMU Cyberjaya yesterday which attended by 42+ students. Tomorrow is yet another training at UTAR PJ which i believe more than 40+ student will attend as few student from Kampar new campus will be attending as well.

The students will developed the SME's website where the SME's will pay RM200 for them to developed a simple website using Blogger. The catch is, the first 100 SME's which sign up during lauching will be given free. So just imagine, the student on the first hand thought u do the first 100 u get RM200 per website but the person from Google did not dare to mention to the student regarding this during the training. Just imagine, u developed people website but yet you don't get pay. For sure the student is de-motivated to do.

But it not our problem as this deal is between Google and the school authority to decide. All i want from google is some accreditation from them like giving cert to me for conducting training blogging for them as they request for Trainer Resume to be sent to Google in US before approving me as a certified trainer for blogger. Just keep my finger cross that Google will sent me a cert as a certified trainer for Blogspot. Although it just a paper but it really meant a lot.