KEY IN RELATIONSHIP

If you ask about what is the key to hold and remain a relationship, you will find lots of answers and reasons. But, if you were ever involved in such situation - where you had to keep your relationship on the true line - you might believe that "trust " was the most important key.

In business, we can make an example that is quite simple. If want to buy manggoes from a dept. store, you have to know the quality of those fruits you are staring. The problem is that you cannot and may not see or check it through the fruits. It's impossible whether you want to husk them except you buy them.

So, you have to trust that the manggoes are good, relied on your eyes only - and maybe experiences you've got about manggoes. The condition should be two only. If you trust, you'll buy the manggoes. Vice verse, if you don't trust, you won't buy them.

It's that simple in a relationship - whatever it's formed: within your closest friend, spouse, even your customers or partners. By knowing and being conscious about it, you've got only one thing to do.

It's to keep your trust and your accompanies' trust.

The next question is how. You might have found these made:

1. Never lie though you're scare that you will loose advantages or opportunities! Always remember that your biggest advantage or opportunity is other's trust!
2. Never underestimate your accompany's trust it's given to you! Somebody often does such thing without realizing that without giving the equal treatment we'll never get a harmony in a good relationship or teamwork.
3. Never loose your quality! If you've already had a quality - it's loved by your accompanies - please never let it down! Even, you need to make it standarized.

The three things are simple to remember, but you need a little bit hard effort and confidence to do so. Happy trying, and good luck!

CONTROL, THE SOUL OF CONSISTENCY

It's pretty hard to be consistent. Everybody agrees with it. Everybody does, because each person would feel or experience a persist situation. Meanwhile, to be consistent is a key to reach your success.

We can see how many people have failed because of inconsistency. In other side, we also see that it's just a few people who have been able to keep their consistency in order to gain their success. Deep in our mind, we're gonna think, "Yeah! Just a few people got their luck."

Such permissive mind - involuntary - kills our way to be consistent. Actually, we can keep our consistency anytime - in any situation.

So, never give up!

The key to keep consistency on track, is "control." Many people have forgotten it. For the example: you want to stop your alcohol addiction. You agree with your doctor statement that it can kill you. So, you tried to do every suggestion of him/her. But, someday you lose your control to stop your alcoholism, when your friends in a party offered martini - a drink you loved very much. In result, you again became an alcoholic. You're often trapped in the identic situation, until you lose your trust to your capability. Then, you've given up. It's left your will only.

Whereas, if you didn't take the offer of your friends that day; or even if you didn't come to the party, you've perhaps been a free alcohol man today. (You think about it too maybe.) That's what I mean as "control." It means:

When you have to reject or deny something, you must do it.

and

When you have to execute something, you must do it.

All of those are for your own good, for the result you've dreamt. When you can take the action for both terms, you'll succeed to control yourself. Control itself will be useful for everyside of your life, including business. At last, you will tell that you are consistent. And..., It's not about the result only.

NEVER LIE TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!

Lie is a very very bad effort to reach something we want. But, we often did it because of several reasons.

But..., in business world it's not allowed. It's completely forbidden. Why?

Try to imagine whether you lie to somebody you owe! You don't pay the money you should give. Then, someday you will borrow his/her money again. Do you think that he/she will lend you the money again? I don't think so, Mate.

Nah! The same thing can also be happened if we trick our customers. As a good seller, we may not do that, if we don't want to lose our store's visitors.

In  many cases, businessmen or entrepreneurs did a lie to their customers without being realized. They gave an advertisement which trapped the customers in a wrong perception. It's a big mistake.

For the example, Mr. X promotes the new beverage of his restaurant. He wrote in a giant billboard, "FOR 50 CENTS, YOU CAN FEEL THE FRESH"

Then, an old man comes to his restaurant. He is a beggar, thirsty, and he has only 50 cents on his hand. But actually, a glass of the beverage is priced for 55 cents, because of 10 % tax. The old man becomes disappointed then. He just walks out the restaurant within his eyes staring on the floor, because he's failed to feel the fresh like displayed on the billboard.

Perhaps, we will be sad in seeing such situation - other side, we don't blame Mr. X.

But actually, Mr. X's advertisement should explain whole price "clearly" that a customer should pay. Even though it's a simple matter; if we stand as the old man, we'll feel cheated of course - because we could not get what we had planned. We made a plan as far as we knew.

So, do we think that the old man will come again to the same restaurant someday???

Mr. X is hopping the big income from his advertisement, but in other side he potentially cheats the customers. It will be meant: he can damage his business.

PS: A good information is something clear to see.

BUSINESS AS A GOOD FACTOR TO GAIN LIFE'S QUALITY

Most people may think that business and all terms related to it, are the things which can degrade life's quality, such as health; happiness; even time to share with family. It can be both: true or false.

It's all depended on two basic things:

• the way we look at the business, and
  
• the way we practice the business

If you look at business as a terrible thing that can rob your happiness and time, it's gonna be like it forever - 'till you change your mindset. This is the main reason why most people in whole world don't choose business as their job. You may find many business men who've done this kind of job, because they were pushed or their ancestors were business men too. It's rare while university or hi-school graders have the first choice in career as business men.

If we act as business men like condemned people, it will be a disaster. It'll distinctly ruin your life. Most persons are unable to enjoy every single challenge in business. Meanwhile, the most interesting things of business are challenges. It won't become so incredible without them. So, why don't you have any reason to enjoy your business?

According to subject of this post, business is a real good factor to gain our life's quality, everybody's life's quality - as long as we look at the business in the positive ways.

First: please see business as a fun game, and biggest opportunity to have unlimited and large abundant income! Prophet Muhammad - if I'm not wrong - ever told us that 9 of 10 livelihood's gates are come from trading, or... business in other word. So, you must change your mindset/point of view to a positive way in facing business.

Second: if you're already becoming a business man, never tread your business as a disaster! Enjoy it as a part that enlightens your life, as your fuel! What about your spare time with family? Won't my business will destroy it? No, no, no! It's all just about your commitment.

I mean, if you promised your wife and children that weekend is for family only, you should do it. You can tell your business partner that you have private schedule which is unable to break. I think they'll understand. And..., I think you need a representative person for an unpredictable situation - if your business is a conventional kind. If your business is majority controlled by computers, I think there's no need to worry.

As long as you can realize those things, your life will be gained. You'll find your joy, and you can make your family members smiling.


PS: Simple things to talk is not always easy things to do.

CONSISTENCY FACTOR IN BUSINESS

Success needs you to be consistent. It's another main factor which will determine your success in business, and this is also one very difficult factor to do. Not everyone can accomplish it. Why is it so important?

Many ideas were executed while a businessman in action. Many times, they had a lot of power to do it in the beginning. The image and/or shadow of big profits was one step ahead to be reached - but it's not reached yet.

Then, the reef was coming. Some problems and barriers had just come. They blocked your way to succeed, and they made your fine image disillusioned. Your spirit would be decreased. And..., you might be lost in hopeless condition, because you felt it's too hard to face. Finally, every single point you planned and executed was stopped before it's finished. Or, often you will turn into the other direction. The next result can be guessed: your success image will be completely gone, and you'll be a loser.

In many case, little bad habits can also distort the consistency, such as weak intention; low resistance of hood's influence or temptation; and lack of confidence. However, no barrier may block you to be consistent to carry on. Every single plan you had executed must be finished.

Here the ways you can do to be a consistent person.

• Focus on your main objective by remembering it every time a problem comes!
• Strengthen your mentality by learning to be uneasy tempted by your hood - esp. if your hood is not conducive or supporting you to do the right thing!
• Give a punishment to yourself every time you try to cross out of the line! For the example: you may fine yourself for a foul.
• Remember the advantage of becoming consistent and the disadvantage of becoming inconsistent, and also the effect/impact to your business!
• Learn as many as possible, because usually well-educated or hi-educated people are more consistent than others, because they will always have strong reasons to do something - though it's challenging the stream!
• Never indulge yourself if it will distort your consistency only!
• Learn to be on-time, then you'll be a more consistent person!
  

PS: Consistency is also main factor to be discipline. And..., never mind if you just make a small thing or action - as long as you can keep your consistency! It's better than nothing at all.

MANDIRI DEBIT & PAYPAL ACCOUNT VERIFICATION

Today I sent an e-mail to Bank Mandiri customer service. I ask them if my debit card can be used to verify PayPal account or not. And..., a few hours later they sent a reply to me. They wrote that Mandiri Debit Card is not able to be used for verifying a PayPal account. It's the condition where they don't have any connection with PayPal that it makes possible to use a Mandiri Debit Card as verification tool.

It's their credit card only which can be used as verification tool.

Here is the citation of the message I received from Bank Mandiri on July 16th 2009:

Bapak Ammar Lelo Andiko A. A. yang terhormat,

Terima kasih atas email Bapak kepada Bank Mandiri

Perkenankan kami memberikan informasi bahwa kartu Mandiri Debit adalah alat penarikan tunai melalui ATM dan alat pembayaran untuk pembelanjaan di merchant-merchant berjaringan VISA/VISA Electron namun tidak dapat dipergunakan sebagai alat pembayaran transaksi on line melalui internet (Paypal) karena sifatnya menggunakan secara electronik (electronic use only). Bank Mandiri tidak menyediakan jasa atau kerjasama dalam hal bertransaksi melalui internet (Paypal) untuk kartu Mandiri Debit atau transfer melalui rekening. Namun apabila Bapak memiliki kartu kredit Mandiri VISA atau Master maka dapat dipergunakan untuk transaksi tersebut. Kami persilakan Bapak menghubungi langsung situs yang bersangkutan, dalam hal ini www.paypal.com mengenai jenis kartu yang dapat digunakan untuk bertransaksi.

Demikian kami sampaikan, jika masih terdapat pertanyaan atau saran, Bapak dapat menghubungi kami kembali di alamat email ini atau Mandiri Call (layanan 24 jam) di nomor telepon (021) 5299 7777 atau 14000.

Atas perhatian dan kerjasama Bapak, kami ucapkan terima kasih.

Salam hormat,

PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk.
Customer Care
Banking Contact Center

PS: The message came in Indonesian language. You may use Google Translate to translate it into English or your native language.

CONFIDENCE FACTOR IN BUSINESS

Many factors will determine business success. One of them is the confidence of business owners. Frequently, a businessman will give up to carry his business on because of loosing a faith; loosing his self-confidence.

It will be probably acceptable as a human being, but it's completely forbidden in business - whatever the kind of business you are creating. The impact is unacceptable. Why? Because you've lost a lot of money to build your business? It's right maybe. But, the worst impact you will take by stopping your business, is to loose the biggest chance(s) you might have. Many people say, "A chance will not come twice." It may be right.

So, never let your biggest idea(s) hung away in dreams without any realization! But, how to establish your confidence to carry your business on? That's the matter.

Here, we're going to find the solution out.

Each business has its own characteristics, of course - depending on what kind of business it is. Take an example that you have a culinary business! And..., you've already had a restaurant. But, in early days you open the restaurant, you've got a few customers only. Your capital is not paid back. It's loss. Then, you will be stressed.

Stress is a big factor to loose the faith or confidence. But, you may not loose your confidence. One important thing you should plant in your head is

to accept your loss

"Why should I do it?" you'll ask about it maybe. You have to do so, because it will make you feel better. Believe me! And, the reason you can use to reach the logic is

to take it as a good lesson/experience which will lead you into your success someday

It sounds easy, isn't it? But, it's quite hard to do. You have to learn it, and train yourself for it.

STOP DREAMING START ACTION

What is the way to be success? Many people ask about it. Actually, there are so many ways to reach the success as a proverb says, "There are many ways to go to Roma."

But, most people don't realize that there is one important factor that will bring us into success. It is just ACTION. We can't see it as a simple factor only. Among many terms and conditions to reach the success, action is a very determinative thing.

Can you imagine that you have a lot of good idea, but you never act on it so that it becomes a reality? It will obviously never be a reality. It's just gonna be a dream. Many people were stuck in their dreams.

In business world, every entrepreneur should act and apply their ideas immediately. Many factors push them to do that so. But, the most worry thing is whether the ideas are taken and/or applied by others. The impact then, we will loose many chances to earn more incomes.

Such a candidate of president of Indonesia - Jusuf Kalla - says, "Faster is better." So, act faster!

HOW TO MAKE MONEY

There are many ways in earning money. But, often people are disguised by so many choices. Nowadays, business (in term = earning the money) is divided into two general kinds - if we take a spot on its practically activity. They are:

1. conventional business - the business usually done in the markets, stores, or several places where traders (buyer and seller) are met face to face
2. cyber trade - the business done in the internet.

Conventional business terms us to have large amount of capitals, such as: cash, building, seller, distributor, transportation, etc. The cyber trade actually - perhaps - needs those capitals too, but it would be just in very small amount.

It's the reason why - since internet spread worldwide - many people bring themselves into internet marketing as a serious business. So, for all of you - esp. in Indonesia - please visit the link below to find how earning money in the internet! Details you need will be appeared on link's pages.

www.formulabisnis.com

PS: The link's pages are going to come in Indonesian language. You can use Google Translate to translate the page. The product will come in the same way too.

Stop DREAMING Start ACTION

Rata-rata manusia tentu mempunyai mimpi/dream. Banyak keinginan yang ingin mereka raih dalam hidup, yang biasanya terkait dengan materi. Ingin punya duit banyak, mobil mewah, rumah gedung, istri cantik, bisnis sukses, dan lain sebagainya. Anda atau saya mungkin termasuk di dalamnya. Apapun status sosial kita; di manapun kita berada; dan apapun pekerjaan kita, tidak menutup kemungkinan untuk berpotensi seperti itu. Apalagi jika kita cermati salah satu sifat manusia: yang biasanya tidak pernah puas terhadap suatu pencapaian; terhadap dirinya sendiri.

Namun sayangnya, kebanyakan atau rata-rata orang hanya terhenti sampai mimpi-mimpinya itu. They are just dreaming. Banyak waktu yang dihabiskan hanya untuk menghayal. Mereka seolah-olah gamang alias ragu untuk memulai sesuatu. Sesuatu yang dapat mewujudkan mimpi-mimpi tersebut.

Banyak penyebab yang dikemukakan, yang dijadikan alasan mengapa orang terhambat untuk menggapai mimpi-mimpi tersebut. Di antaranya adalah:

• takut gagal
• kurang percaya diri
• tidak punya modal
• takut bersaing
• dan lain sebagainya

Semua manusia memiliki rasa takut. Takut gagal juga termasuk di dalamnya. Itu normal dan sangat manusiawi. Namun, apakah kita akan terjebak oleh rasa takut kita untuk selamanya? Jawabannya: tidak!!! Rasa takut harus diatasi, jika kita ingin berhasil; ingin menang.

Kurang PD juga hal yang manusiawi. Tetapi sayangnya, salah satu syarat untuk sukses adalah percaya diri. Banyak orang yang sukses hanya dengan modal PD gede, seperti artis misalnya. (Atau orang-orang yang sudah mengikuti program SMUO. He, he, he!)

Tidak punya modal merupakan alasan yang cenderung dibuat-buat, menurut saya. Coba perhatikan saudara-saudara kita orang Tiong Hoa! Hampir semua dari mereka sukses tanpa modal dana cukup - jika itu yang Anda maksud. Nenek moyang mereka datang ke Nusantara secara bergelombang sejak beratus-ratus tahun yang lalu. Dan..., menurut sejarah, yang mereka punyai hanyalah harapan untuk menjadi lebih baik; menjadi sukses.

Tiada harta atau benda yang cukup berarti untuk dijadikan modal usaha. Hal itu merupakan perjudian hidup yang cukup besar. Namun, mereka justru punya modal yang jauh lebih besar daripada sekedar dana, yaitu keyakinan - di samping skill berdagang. Dengan bekal tersebutlah orang-orang Tiong Hoa kemudian beraksi: mencari kesuksesan di bumi Nusantara. Mereka lakukan secara bertahap dan penuh kesabaran, tanpa ada rasa minder atau gengsi terhadap pribumi yang mayoritas. Dan..., hasilnya bisa kita lihat sekarang.

Takut bersaing identik dengan takut gagal. Saya pikir dua-duanya adalah sejoli. Namun, hidup ini tak akan indah tanpa persaingan. Yang penting kita tidak lupa bahwa bersaing itu harus dengan jujur dan sportif. Ingat semua ada balasannya. Kita berbuat baik, hasilnya akan baik. Berbuat buruk, buruklah pula hasilnya.

Banyak lagi asalan yang sering menjadi penghambat bagi seorang untuk maju, untuk meraih mimpi-mimpinya. Akan tetapi, ada satu hal yang jelas:

Hal-hal negatif itu tak boleh menghalangi kita untuk menggapai mimpi, untuk sukses.

Jadi:

Berhentilah bermimpi, dan mulailah beraksi! Jadikanlah mimpi sebagai
bahan bakar atau motivasi!

Mas Joko Susilo banyak memberikan motivasi bagi kita semua lewat e-book SMUO-nya. Anda tidak hanya akan menemukan penjelasan-penjelasan teknis di dalamnya, tapi juga info-info hangat yang dapat membangkitkan gairah Anda berbisnis.

Banyak hal yang bisa kita contoh dari orang-orang yang lebih dahulu sukses. Yang terpenting adalah aksi. Einstein - kalau tidak salah - pernah bilang: penemuan itu 1% ide, 99% aksi.

Ciao!!!




Salam hangat,



'Ammar

KONTES SEO DI JOKOSUSILO.COM

Hai, Teman-teman Semua! Ada pengumuman menarik, nih:

Mas Joko Susilo membuka kontes SEO di situs blog-nya: JokoSusilo.com

Total hadiahnya Rp. 25.000.000,- lho!!!

Ayo segera ikut!!!

PS: Awas! Saingan lho sama aku, karena ku juga mau hadiahnya. He, he, he!

UANG DI INTERNET

MAU UANG DI INTERNET?
Klik di sini!

Saya senang sekali browsing, atau melakukan hal-hal lain yang berkaitan dengan internet. Anda juga begitu bukan?

Jika "ya", mengapa hobi seperti itu tidak bisa menghasilkan uang? Pertanyaan seperti itu sering muncul dalam pikiran saya. Terus, saya muter-muter untuk menemukan cara menghasilkan uang lewat internet - hobi asyik, yang saya pikir hampir semua orang menggandrunginya.

Namun, tentu saja itu dengan syarat:
- praktis/mudah dilakukan
- tidak menyita waktu saya (Saat ini saya beraktifitas sebagai mahasiswa teknik elektro.)
- menjanjikan
- tidak membingungkan, justru menambah ilmu saya secara tidak langsung.

Cukup lama juga saya muter-muter di internet untuk mendapatkan ilmu itu. Berbagai artikel sudah saya coba untuk pelajari. Tetapi, justru membuat saya mumet dan bingung untuk melangkah.

"Waduh! Harus mulai dari mana ini, ya?" pikir saya. Cukup lama saya terjebak dalam pertanyaan harus mulai dari mana. Lalu, saya berpikir, "Wah, gawat, nih! Kalau kelamaan mikir seperti itu."

Kemudian, pada suatu hari saya browsing. Saat bingung mau browsing apa lagi (biasanya, saya suka main di FS dan FB), saya iseng mencari formula untuk bisnis di internet. Dan..., saya menemukan situsnya Pak Joko Susilo: FormulaBisnis.com.

LUAR BIASA! Penjelasan dan testimoni (kesaksian-kesaksian), serta fakta-fakta yang ditunjukkan pada web tersebut mampu menyihir saya. Akhirnya, tidak sampai sehari setelah membaca web tersebut, saya memutuskan untuk mengikuti program yang ditawarkan oleh Pak Joko: SMUO.

Sempat heran saya pada diri sendiri, karena biasanya tidak semudah itu saya mempercayai seseorang. Saya biasanya cenderung curigaan dan sulit mempercayai seseorang. Bagi saya, hampir semua hal harus ada penjelasan teknisnya. Namun, begitulah kehebatan FormulaBisnis.com milik Pak Joko. Ia mampu mempengaruhi saya, dan menghapus prasangka-prasangka buruk saya.

Setelah saya ikuti program SMUO, ternyata memang benar: bisnis ini sangat menguntungkan. Secara logis dan teknis saya yakin itu. Langkah-langkah yang dijelaskan dalam produk e-book tersebut benar-benar rinci dan mudah dipahami.

Bahkan memberikan nilai lebih:
- mampu memotivasi saya, dan
- mengurangi cara berpikir saya yang cenderung skeptis dan banyak buruk sangka
(akibat saya terlalu sering dikecewakan orang)
- membuka pikiran saya tentang menjadi seorang pengusaha atau enterpreneur yang baik
- membuat saya lebih sabar dalam menghadapi orang
- membuat saya jadi lebih ramah
- dll.

Semua poin non-teknis tadi benar-benar tidak saya duga akan saya dapatkan dari SMUO. Tidak rugi saya berkorban dana untuk ini semua, pikir saya. Saya dapat nilai tambah yang lebih berharga - mungkin untuk jangka panjang.

Itu semua adalah cerita mengenai apa yang saya rasakan. Meski baru mulai, saya sudah banyak mendapatkan kesan.

Jadi, untuk menularkan kebaikan ini, saya sarankan pula kepada Teman-teman, Saudara-saudara, Mbak-mbak, Mas-mas untuk mengikuti program ini. Cukup klik di sini.

Trims sebelumnya!

Salam hangat,



'Ammar