Fahad’s Al Hadhrami Blog

Technol ogy creates opportunities in logistic market   world wide . Oman i  market  can benefit from technologies .  Utilizing internet and mobile application can solve customer problems and creates  opportunities  to  start-ups . While I am  driving in Muscat I see many trucks which are empty. Some of them less  then  half utilized.  Not only that: Some of them are moving and trucks are empty.   Sometimes truck drivers their truck is not  fully utilized and they may get opportunity by finding new customers  to  fulfill  the empty space in the container  before  departure .   We  have in one side truck drivers and in  the  other  side   customers who are willing to transfer their goods. A company can develop an application  to let truck drivers know  customers  who   need to transfer their goods.  With this application  c u...

Many friends in my country Oman says to me, “Are you still using Facebook.com?” We have now other social medias which are more popular. Facebook.com is still popular We have approxmatly 600, 000 uses according to Internet World Stats. Oman Companies can open a page where they can put information about their business, updates, picture, offers and many things. How can a small business benefit from Facebook.com? Benefits of having an account in facebook.com is that it can be used as a new channel to reach customers, free method of marketing, inform customers about your new promotional offers. You can even use it with your suppliers by publishing tenders. Some small companies in Oman publish job opportunities in their facebook.com. You can use it to improve your relationship with your employees. For example, Tibiaan Properties is publishing job opportunities in their page. Muriya Tourism Development is showing their updates and offers in the web site. Mazoon Environmental & Techno...

Online marketing is a very useful tool today for reaching many customers. People do use different search engines such as Google, Yahoo! & Bing. Social Media is becoming more popular in the Gulf Region. There are many free marketing tools that many small business do not know or not utilizing it. Google do provide a free tool which you can add your web site for free and it does not require a lot of your time. You just need to open an account with Google. You just need to add the new URL (link) to the following link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url For example, if you have a new link which is http://www.fahadalhadhrami.com/products.aspx Step 1: Visit the following site to register your web site. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url Step 2: Type the http://www.fahadalhadhrami.com/products.aspx And it will be registered in Google. This will benefit your business by increasing your visibility. Enjoy online marketing with...

In Oman we do have three petrol stations Al Maha, Shell or Oman Oil. I made a research asking people which petrol station do you prefer of the three in Sultanate of Oman which are 1) Al Maha, 2) Shell & Oman Oil? The idea started during the period I need to write about something in my blog and could not find one. Once I reached one of the petrol stations to fill patrol why don’t I write about which petrol station do people prefer. During my research I meet people face to face from different ages, nationalities and genders. Furthermore, I had used the online social media which are www.facebook.com and www.linkedin.com. The online tools were useful for collecting information. So, what do you think? Is it Al Maha, Shell or Oman Oil? I had asked 112 people during my research. Shell was the number one in my survey. It had reached 43%. Second was Oman Oil which is 26%. Third was Al Maha which is 11%. The remaining percentage was as following: some participates had re...