Blog For MM2H

May 08 2008

Published by Ricky at 12:08 am under Ideas, Malaysia

Recently I missed a partnership offer to promote Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) by using a web site. The MM2H program was initiated by Malaysian government to attract foreigners who want to come and live here for extended period. As I understand, there are nearly 200 licensed agents, through whom only the customers can submit their application.

The competition among travel agencies and tour operators is already very intense. Do a search on Google and you can see the online marketplace is crowded too. It may not help much to do another conventional web site or portal to compete with many other sites. It will be just another me-too web site.

But blogging is different. If someone in the field can dedicate some of his or her time to blog about the country, MM2H, travelling and investment opportunities and other related topics in Malaysia, I’m sure it can generate a lot of traffic, especially when blog is very much under utilized by MM2H companies at the moment.

Blogging builds up personal or company credential. It can bring in genuine visitors who are interested in Malaysia and MM2H. It is not only a new way of promoting MM2H, but also an instant one, especially when any new blog post is updated by Google search engine almost instantly!

But blogging is a new phenomena not readily accepted especially by companies. Some may ask why rock the boat while their conventional channels are working fine? Furthermore, blogging takes time and committment from the blogger. The blogger needs to blog regularly and consistently to be effective.

If you are involved in MM2H business and would like to explore blogging for MM2H, please drop me an email at ricky@rickysoo.com.