Websites at a minimal cost via Matrade's GMBO
KUALA LUMPUR: Small businesses can now have their
own websites with dot.com.my domain almost instantly and at a minimal
cost.
This is made possible through Malaysian External Trade Development
Corp (Matrade)'s Get Malaysian Business Online (GMBO) programme.
"All
they need to upkeep the website is a payment of RM23 a year, which will give
them a dot.com.my domain," Matrade exporters development division senior
director Datuk Dzulkifli Mahmud said after a seminar on GMBO here
yesterday.
Currently, the minimum cost of a professionally
designed website is about RM3,000.
He said
companies should refrain from conducting businesses on social media like
Facebook and Blogspot.
"It is illegal for people to conduct businesses on
blogs and Facebook. If someone complains, then both Facebook and Blogspot can
shut the pages without even consulting you," he said.
He went on to say
that even the images put on Facebook, for instance, can be used by the Facebook
owner in other sites as and when they wish.
"Because the terms and
conditions are so long, no one bothers to read them and they do not realise that
their information and pictures loaded on Facebook can be used by Facebook
whenever they feel like it and in other mediums," he said.
Google
Malaysia head of communications and public affairs Malaysia Zeffri Yusof said
companies interested to have a website under GMBO need to have at least a RM2
company, otherwise they cannot obtain a website.
He
said the first 10,000 registrants will be able to get the domain for free for
the first year.
"After that they have to pay RM23 a year to maintain the
domain name only," he said.
He said 6,000 Malaysians have registered so
far under the GMBO and there is still room for many companies to enjoy the
waiver on the domain name for the first year.
"We will give 10 email
addresses, a guide book and a two-hour course to teach entrepreneurs how to set
up their websites," he said.
Source : New Straits Times
Date
: 18 April 2012
afternoon
highlight (19/04/12/072/546)
KUALA LUMPUR: Small businesses can now have their
own websites with dot.com.my domain almost instantly and at a minimal
cost.
This is made possible through Malaysian External Trade Development
Corp (Matrade)'s Get Malaysian Business Online (GMBO) programme.
"All
they need to upkeep the website is a payment of RM23 a year, which will give
them a dot.com.my domain," Matrade exporters development division senior
director Datuk Dzulkifli Mahmud said after a seminar on GMBO here
yesterday.
Currently, the minimum cost of a professionally
designed website is about RM3,000.
"It is illegal for people to conduct businesses on blogs and Facebook. If someone complains, then both Facebook and Blogspot can shut the pages without even consulting you," he said.
He went on to say that even the images put on Facebook, for instance, can be used by the Facebook owner in other sites as and when they wish.
"Because the terms and conditions are so long, no one bothers to read them and they do not realise that their information and pictures loaded on Facebook can be used by Facebook whenever they feel like it and in other mediums," he said.
Google Malaysia head of communications and public affairs Malaysia Zeffri Yusof said companies interested to have a website under GMBO need to have at least a RM2 company, otherwise they cannot obtain a website.
He said the first 10,000 registrants will be able to get the domain for free for the first year.
"After that they have to pay RM23 a year to maintain the domain name only," he said.
He said 6,000 Malaysians have registered so far under the GMBO and there is still room for many companies to enjoy the waiver on the domain name for the first year.
"We will give 10 email addresses, a guide book and a two-hour course to teach entrepreneurs how to set up their websites," he said.
Source : New Straits Times
Date : 18 April 2012
afternoon
highlight (19/04/12/072/546)
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