Dar al shifa hospital is doing it somewhat wrong online or Online Marketing 101

Sometimes you got the choose the right words.

Sometimes you got the choose the right words.

I understand that you hear about these things called interwebs and like you have to advertise on it, ambulance but posting on just posting pictures on Flickr is wrong.

I see it as a good step for someone to search for a hospital in Kuwait and see your pictures. but not like this. Thou I do like the approach. What you need to do is give more detail on the hospital actually write a small brief on the pictures on what people are seeing.

Also take pictures of the rooms and facilities and link it all to your main website.

Creating a online presence of your company is not that hard or requires to pay someone an absurd amount of money for some flash and html 1.0.

Simply think about what you want to achieve and their solutions and ask yourselves “will it create a customer backlash”.

Personally I find the best thing is a human touch. People hate dealing with machines and automated responses. They want to have a feel that you are actually trying to reach out to them and not just attract them.

Actually thinking about it now the whole AIDA marketing system is broken online. The customer is already A Interested and has a Desire ware and doesn’t need your needless advertising to remind him and reading to make an Action. They simply want someone to reach out to them give them after market support even before they purchase anything. They want to be Satisfied even before they buy. They know the market and the competitors and the varying prices and willing to look past that as long as they feel they get a better interaction with the company that sold them the product.

One recent example that comes to mind is the Apple Stores and Zappos. They give you all the help you need even before you buy one of their products.

Making Money via Twitter in Kuwait

When you ban something you just make that much sweeter. Bahrain Ministry of Information has done just that by banning their own BahrainBlogs.org. Their version of Safat

I am sure this will be a big boost for blogging and freedom of speech in the island Kingdom.
When you ban something you just make that much sweeter. Bahrain Ministry of Information has done just that by banning their own BahrainBlogs.org. Their version of Safat

I am sure this will be a big boost for blogging and freedom of speech in the island Kingdom.
I been on Twitter for a while and seeing many Kuwaiti companies making a account and not knowing how to use it for their benefit. Thinking just opening an account will simply generate sales. Well here are some pointers you can use for your advantage.

Dont Spam
I can’t stress this enough. Just repeating the same statement over and over again will annoy us and will simply block you. You aren’t doing anything to make you different.

Engage
You have to engage your followers. Dont just offer the latest sales promotion. Give them updates on what you are planning to do, psychotherapist and working on. Reply to their tweets. Their feedback is important. Twitter is giving you a direct access to them and vice-versa. If you ignore them they will ignore you in return.

Educate
Link to other sites with tips and trick as well as reviews of new products as well as features and options you dont and see if they are interested in them.

Encourage
Have other members of the company also participate with their on Twitter accounts. Have each department have their own offer their own take on whats happening. Also if you are a big company have a dedicated customer support team for dealing with problems and solving them on spot.

These are just some basic guidelines. Each company, restaurant, shop etc is different. Once you start dont stop because you dont have immediate results. It take time to build a following and figure out what works best.

Oh this just came to me. Restaurants can post if they are full or not and how long the wait will be. I am sure many people would enjoy that during busy weekends. Bakeries can tweet how many cakes or muffins they have left if anyone wants to make a quick order before they get sold out.

Kuwait Purchases Anti-Radiation Pills

Picked some new music today for the new year.

Mr. Scruff – Ninja Tuna
Big Blue Ball – Big Blue Ball
Mathew Herbert Big Band – There’s Me and There’s You
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
Santogold – Santogold
Nneka – No Longer at East

Will leave with you dan le sac VS scroobius pip – Thou Shalt always Kill


Picked some new music today for the new year.

Mr. Scruff – Ninja Tuna
Big Blue Ball – Big Blue Ball
Mathew Herbert Big Band – There’s Me and There’s You
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
Santogold – Santogold
Nneka – No Longer at East

Will leave with you dan le sac VS scroobius pip – Thou Shalt always Kill


Kuwait’s Ministry of Health has just purchases 5.4 million doses of thyroid-blocking potassium iodide for nuclear radiation emergencies from the company Nukepills.

What worries me about this is that the US Army shipped 6, prescription 700 tons of contaminated sand to Idaho from Kuwait in April of 2008. That was from camp Doha where they stored their depleted uranium that was absorbed in the sand via a fire.

If the US Army is worried about that in their own base what about our tank grave yard up in Jahra from Desert Storm. A million depleted uranium shells were fired at Iraqi forces. Thats a lot of radiation that hanging around in the desert that is being absorbed to the sand.

Hopefully this is some wasta thing for some one to get some quick cash. My main worry is from all those sand storms we had last year could have a major effect on us.

Hawali Monsters Kuwait Fantasy Football Champions!

It was a hard fought competition but I made it to the playoffs and the finals and held to the first place record all the way through the league. I would like to give credit to my other opponents they gave a great challenge especially by picking up star players and leaving with with a team duds, visit web oldies and second stringers. One of my guys even shot himself in the leg!

Thou I would like to give credit to my opponent in the finals. I called it a “final of equals” I had respect for his team. They were good solid picks especially since he had the least amount of trades during the whole year. You have to respect a team like that. At the end it went down to our kickers. His from Green Bay and mine from Chicago. I was getting the scores via my phone at 5am in the morning so it was tense for me. I didnt know Chicago blocked the Fg attempt and moved it to overtime where my kicker sealed it.

Here is final line up that won me the championship:
Tyler Thigpen (KC – QB)
Davone Bess (Mia – WR)
Dwayne Bowe (KC – WR)
Isaac Bruce (SF – WR)
Pierre Thomas (NO – RB)
Ricky Williams (Mia – RB)
Tony Gonzalez (KC – TE)
Bernard Berrian (Min – WR)
Robbie Gould (Chi – K)
Philadelphia (Phi – DEF)

Fantasy Tree

So Long NBK





Here is a site that has a bunch of the world’s bank logos. They got a very nice collection sadly all are in black and white.

Kuwait is duly repesented with the classic logos of Burgan Bank, online Ahli Bank and Commerical Bank.


Here is a site that has a bunch of the world’s bank logos. They got a very nice collection sadly all are in black and white.

Kuwait is duly repesented with the classic logos of Burgan Bank, online Ahli Bank and Commerical Bank.
I am done with NBK. They may have been the best bank in Kuwait when it comes to online banking, abortion but those days are long gone. I made the switch to CBK a couple months ago after my last issues with NBK. Yet still been keeping NBK as my primary bank, well no more. They can go screw themselves.

So far it has taken me 20 minutes to login to my NBK due to them disabling my password, and now that I am in I can’t do any transfers or anything unless I request and e-pin and that will take another couple days. So they have just wasted my time.

I should have switched back in 2006 when they told all Mac users to simply go buy a PC since Internet Explorer is more secure than Firefox

Well I am sick of it, and thats it.


Here is a site that has a bunch of the world’s bank logos. They got a very nice collection sadly all are in black and white.

Kuwait is duly repesented with the classic logos of Burgan Bank, online Ahli Bank and Commerical Bank.
I am done with NBK. They may have been the best bank in Kuwait when it comes to online banking, abortion but those days are long gone. I made the switch to CBK a couple months ago after my last issues with NBK. Yet still been keeping NBK as my primary bank, well no more. They can go screw themselves.

So far it has taken me 20 minutes to login to my NBK due to them disabling my password, and now that I am in I can’t do any transfers or anything unless I request and e-pin and that will take another couple days. So they have just wasted my time.

I should have switched back in 2006 when they told all Mac users to simply go buy a PC since Internet Explorer is more secure than Firefox

Well I am sick of it, and thats it.
I am done with NBK. They may have been the best bank in Kuwait when it comes to online banking, pregnancy but those days are long gone. I made the switch to CBK a couple months ago after my last issues with NBK. Yet still been keeping NBK as my primary bank, pilule well no more. They can go screw themselves.

So far it has taken me 20 minutes to login to my NBK due to them disabling my password, and now that I am in I can’t do any transfers or anything unless I request and e-pin and that will take another couple days. So they have just wasted my time.

I should have switched back in 2006 when they told all Mac users to simply go buy a PC since Internet Explorer is more secure than Firefox.

Well I am sick of it and finally doing something about it and so should you.

What Happened to Safat?


Maletti Pizza in London – Soho really dont like you using your cellphone while waiting in line. I wonder how long this would last in Kuwait before someone would get stabbed in the face.


Maletti Pizza in London – Soho really dont like you using your cellphone while waiting in line. I wonder how long this would last in Kuwait before someone would get stabbed in the face.


Maletti Pizza in London – Soho really dont like you using your cellphone while waiting in line. I wonder how long this would last in Kuwait before someone would get stabbed in the face.

– Taken at 7:45 PM on November 18, seek
2007 – cameraphone upload by ShoZu


Maletti Pizza in London – Soho really dont like you using your cellphone while waiting in line. I wonder how long this would last in Kuwait before someone would get stabbed in the face.


Maletti Pizza in London – Soho really dont like you using your cellphone while waiting in line. I wonder how long this would last in Kuwait before someone would get stabbed in the face.

– Taken at 7:45 PM on November 18, seek
2007 – cameraphone upload by ShoZu

I am sorry for the 24 hour downtime with Safat basically the code that runs it was taking too much CPU and database time at my host Dreamhost; who sent me this nice email:

Hello, ask
Queries against your kwblogswp were once again causing incredibly high loads on your database server ‘scar’. Because of this I have been forced to disable access to your database. Please optimize your queries for performance and optimize your code to perform as few queries as possible. Once you’ve done that, abortion we can re-enable access to your database. However, please keep in mind that if we have to disable access to your database again, it will be permanent. We simply cannot continue to allow one person to cause problems for a large number of people.

Thanks!
Jeremy

So they took it down and took a long while for them to bring it back up again. Luckily I had other options and get greg up.

What to expect in the future? Well it means I need to tweak some settings, but doubt it will do any major change or move to a dedicated server or a better shared hosting plan. Still checking out options and waiting for Dreamhost to reply back to another email to help reduce the load.

Back from the Run

Just got back from GulfRun. For my random updates and info on what happened and what I did you can check it out on my www.twitter.com/nibaq.

I am sure Zdistrict and Mark will be writing up more posts with pictures soon. I know that Z has 8 posts he plans to write.

Oh and Mark doesn’t like to share his toothpaste or toothbrush. He kept hiding them in a different spot every night so that I wouldn’t use them. That rat bastard!