Websites for Malaysian Property Developers
This year, Yahoo! celebrates 10 years of cyberspace. Google is celebrating 7 years this week. In Malaysia, the webspace boom took off a little later, but once it started, everyone caught on to the Internet being the most powerful medium of communication, PR, advertising and information.
Which brings us to our point. A surprising number of property developers in Malaysia still don’t have their own website. In today’s fast world of e-knowledge and cyber-marketing (somebody stop us before we use another internet clichéd buzzword!)
To set-up a simple website won’t cost them much. Just get a designer, give them the important info to put up, and in a few days, it will be done. Then you’ll get one of those address you can put in all your ads and name card. For only a few hundred ringgit.
With that small step, the company has just opened their doors to millions and millions of Malaysians and people all over the world. You don’t have to put up much on the page, just your contact, some info on your company and projects, the same thing you put up in a static billboard or newspaper ad.
Out of the 30 top developers in Malaysia, all of them have their own websites, except one. These corporations have realized the potential of web presence, some of them have very impressive flash-driven sites (like this one). Others are quite basic, but still adequate.
But for them, they are already well-known developers. For the small emerging developers, many of them are still non-existent on the Internet, thereby missing opportunities in terms of potential customers, public interest, branding, publicity and information at people’s fingertips.
In the course of looking for homes (for the last 10 years) and researching for this website, we here at Property Malaysia have encountered dozens of small developers who have no websites. In our opinion, this is a great loss of opportunity for them.
For more excellent developer websites, check these out:
BRDB
E&O Property
These look a bit old-fashion, but still packed with useful info:
IGB Corp
MK Land
Naim Cendera
The few didn’t really catch our fancy:
Sin Heap Lee Consolidated Bhd
Uda Holdings
Talam Corp
Tomorrow: Some simple tips on good website design for property developers in Malaysia.
The E&O site took so long to load, I clicked away.
Comment by nihlin — September 27, 2005 @ 12:46 pm
must have been a server problem. it’s ok now.
Comment by Administrator — September 28, 2005 @ 12:35 am
To set-up a simple website won’t cost them much. Just get a designer, give them the important info to put up, and in a few days, it will be done. Then you’ll get one of those address you can put in all your ads and name card. For only a few hundred ringgit.
wait, a whole functioning, well-designed website in just a few days and for only a few hundred ringgit? whoa.
Comment by q — September 29, 2005 @ 12:59 am
simple website, q. One that has all the important details, without fancy stuff. And we definitely know a lot of ppl that can do it in less than 1k. Freelancers, of course…
Comment by Administrator — September 29, 2005 @ 1:57 am
Congratulations! Your site has been reviewed by Malaysia Business and Consumer website http://www.isnin.com for your site to be included at the web directory.
Comment by webmaster — September 30, 2005 @ 2:34 am