Its me , Ready for 2010

Just one day to Count for 2010. Here i go again...

I just wanna highlight about my life in 2009 and overview of Plans for 2010.




In 2009
- Started the promotion of Badhige service ( Early January )
- Managed to Start Badhige Service with Support from many. ( 20th February )
- Got Reinvent Maldives established on ( February )
- Got Staffs for Delivery.
- Got Staffs for Sales.
Made New friends all over the year.
- Gained Trust and Reputation with Loyal Service to Vendors and Business partners.
- Re branded Reinvent to Ecommerce Maldives
- Came up with the Idea of MaaMall which will be the First Online Shopping Mall
- Started Viral Marketing for MaaMall Slowly ( scheduling tobe lauched in Early 2010 )
- Learned a lot about Ecommerce & Emarketing attending Different Seminars, Conferences and over the Internet.
- Met a Great Local Emarketer and Trainer over the Internet. ( with his great Plans )
- Attended Apache Asia Conference and learned about the Free Software Community and more.

Plans for 2010
I do have 100s of things always in my Mind, which i want to do...I'll just list few things here
i will not mention anything about my personal life here.

- Study all About Drupal ( CMS )
- Complete Diploma in Web design and E commerce.
- Get New Modern Systems for Badhige Delivery Service.
- Lauch MaaMall ( IA )
- Organize and Run the First E marketing Conference in MV
- Offer Professional Packaging Solutions to Restaurants.
- Implement Payment Gateway on Badhige and MaaMall
- Make Contracts with Logistic Partners for MaaMall delivery.
And it goes on like that...

I have to agree that i am always stressed and disturbed by something Unknown always, going on my mind, with kind of Fear.
But IA, I have slowly recovered from those things, and i hope for a better life and achivements in 2010.
Things change, People also Change, World also Changes.

With you all a Happy New Year 2010 in Advance.

All New Image

Its already been one year after we came up with the Idea of Badhige.

Well planned, and organized we OPEN our service to the public on February 2009 with only Few Restaurants as our Partners.

At the Beginning, it was not easy at all, Specially hard to get Well committed staffs.

Since then, we have been slowly been expanding, and experiencing new ways to Handle the whole operation fit to this Small Community.

From several so called Investors We have got Huge Offers, To move our A off from the small office space we use and Expand .
( but after all what we want is not just Expansion, and Bend to the Expectation of the Investor , finally ruining our Concept and Idea mixed with there Dictatorship )

After the bitter Experience with few investors, I prefer to grow slow, and run the business for long term.

This is about service, Customer Relations and public relations...
And we don't want to take huge Charges from our customers for Food ( basic Human Need )

Believe us or not, With the present Revenue. We are just able to cover our Expenses and Cost of operation. But IA we are still here to Serve you. ( working almost 15 hrs a Day )

We need to improve our service, We need to have special delivery equipments, we have so many plans ahead.

We have built a Online Database already with a Favorable Number of Fans and Registered customers.

We can do this with support from sponsorships

We plan to Outsource this rights to a any advertising agency interested.
To give us a New image.

So many Cars : No Car Wash

Maldives is developing,
We got so many Cars... And We need Something like Mr.Clean Car Wash in the Male' City.

Can someone Reinvent this Idea and initiate to do this?
I know we don't have a lot of Space, But still there are ways you can do this in a Small space.
I wonder why Those petrol sheds of STO( FSM )  and Hakatha don't Think about Having a Car Wash here in Maldives.

And even we can still do this using GREEN Technology when we are Going Carbon Neutral.
Give us your ideas , thoughts and Comments about this...

When Small is Beautiful

When small is beautiful, like Mr Jack Ma from Alibaba.com says.
While we are heading for a Small and Bigger Project Compare to Badhige.
We need to think of the ways we can lower the costs, and Gain More reputation to Build a Community who support our Products.

At the moment, its going little bit slow, thinking about many things we need to Improve on it. Unlike Badhige we need to have a Website with

- More User Friendly Shopping Cart.
- Complete Images on the Site
- Complete Product description.
- More alternative Offers
- A Working, and Secure Payment Gateway
- More Security for Visitors and Our Database
- Get Listed on WorldWide Famous Shopping Directories
- Affiliate Offers

And more...

At present we are also doing few referral marketing via the Web using Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Youtube and other Social Networks. And the response and support to this project is not bad.

We are a Small Company, in a Small Country / Maldives. We don't have Venture Capital firms to invest and support our reinvented ideas. But we believe we can be Small and Beautiful.

I am not a Contributor but its Useful

Last week i was busy, accompanying one of my coolest friend Inn( President of MOSS ) over here in CMB who came to attend the Apache Con

I am not a Programmer or any kind of developer, but due to my present work at Ecommerce Maldives and future plans in development of more Ecommerce related products for the company, i Manage to attend the Apache Asia Roadshow 2009 which was a 3 Day Event with a unconference event on the beach.

Few things i have learned:
I learned what really is Apache , few projects , how beneficial its for a community to have Free and Open Source Software Developers, and about the mentality of contributors to the Community.

I guess Inash will update more about this even on his Blog
Please check http://inashzubair.com/