Buzz Inc’s 12buzz.com and One-2-Property have been offering highly advanced Property marketing services in Thailand since the launch of their search engine in mid 2008.

In response to the government’s new incentives, property firms should introduce more activities and launch attractive promotional campaigns to spur homebuyers to make a decision, said Housing Business Association (HBA) secretary Wasan Kiangsiri.

“The private sector should also help stimulate homebuyers’ decisions after the government announced the new incentives related to the property sector,” he said.

“Market sentiment has recovered and developers see positive signs, apparent in fully booked booths at the fair and even higher rental rates,” he said.

Advertising Property Property advertising on the internet is extremely competitive and a serious strategy needs to be properly in place for the best positions to be reached on the Google and other search engines. The property market is tough and recently more people have developed websites in the anticipation of reaching the top placements to get all the traffic that are looking for property from all over the globe.

Advertising Property with Pay per Click Advertising in the property market using traditional pay per click advertising is a very risky and expensive venture. Due to the high level of competition for the business the cost per click is substantial and the sites are consuming a large advertising spend a month with no problem. The advantages are that with one sale in the property market an advertiser could pay for an entire year advertising using ppc on an ad network as the profit margins are high per property sale. The main advantage with ppc is that you are able to take premium listings under your chosen key search terms and gather qualified leads that are searching for your services the instant you place your bid. However people seem to be increasingly aware these are in fact ads and not search results and tend to disregard them.

Property Advertising with Banners Banners are a popular way to get branding out there and with the right graphics can influence an end user to remember your company and use your services as opposed to the competitors to purchase their property. Banners provide the added branding benefits.

Advertising Property with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) The best way to advertise property on the web is to get your property site on to the 1st page of the search engines in the natural listings with Buzz’s search engine optimization. The reason is obvious. The best locations on a page of natural listings are used 90% by the end user looking for the property sales as opposed to any paid sponsor listings and there are no costs attached with visitors clicking through to your website. The Phuket property market is extremely aggressive and competing against the long standing websites is difficult - but we make it possible!

It is essential that you have a clear strategy in place when taking on advertising property on the internet. The first thing to do is decide which key phrases you want to target in the property market and then make sure you know which pages are going to target which phrases. You must avoid repetition in all your web pages and ensure your metas are unique page to page. Your Phuket property website must be ’squeaky clean’ to stand any chance of reaching 1st page on Google. You must ensure page layout is correct so the search engine spiders understand what you are wanting to advertise and do not participate in any link farms on the internet. Call 0807007900 for more information or advice on advertising your property website with search engine optimization (SEO).

Buzz Marketing for Properties offers attractive options for getting quick cash for property you are looking to sell.

One-2-Property www.12property.com has added 2 new Hotels for sale to an already extensive list of investment properties in Asia.

The new additions are both located in early Soi’s of Sukhumvit in the centre of the city’s tourist and business district. Sukhumvit property has continued to improve despite global financial problems. The central locations ensure a constant stream of guests.

Thailand remains an attractive investment destination for Japanese, European and Asean investors despite its political uncertainty, with 635 investment projects worth Bt221 billion received during the first nine months of 2008, compared to 604 in the same period last year.

According to the BOI, the net European investment applications during the first nine months of 2008 surged by 18.5 percent to Bt42 billion compared to Bt34.2 billion in the same period last year.

A number of Dutch investors are currently considering to invest in the shipbuilding industry in the kingdom while French investors are focusing on alternative energy and research and development, and Italian investors on machinery industry.

The Dutch also remained the number one European investors in Thailand, with the total value of net applications increasing by 89.8 percent from Bt2.5 billion between January and September 2007 to Bt24.6 billion during the same period this year.

British and French investments also increased significantly. The total value of net applications from French investors increased by 73.7 percent from Bt442 million during January to September 2007 to Bt1.7 billion this year while British investment surged by 64.36 percent from Bt1.5 billion (January-September 2007) to Bt4.33 billion in 2008.

As part of its strategy to attract more investments, Atchaka said the BOI was speeding up the opening of six new overseas offices within 2009, with the first new office opening this month in Taipei, followed by Sydney, Beijing, Seoul, Guangzhou and Stockholm.

According to the draft plan for 2009, the BOI will draw investment from Japans automotive, electronics and electrical, Europes alternative energy and biotech industries, Taiwans electronics, agro-industries and biotechnology, and Chinas automotive, electronics and electrical, food and agricultural and alternative energy industries.

Thailand is also seeking Australia’s information and communications technology (ICT) and software, automotive and green industries, and India’s food and agricultural, electrical and electronics, automotive and textile industries, Atchaka said.

“We are also looking into other investors’ demands as shown in our latest survey, including investors recommendation on additional incentives for industrial gas, hotel renovation businesses, for instance,” she said.

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sales@12property.com

Street Address
123/29 M.5 T.Cherngtalay
A.Talang, Phuket, Thailand, 83110

Phone Number
(66) 76 326 318
24 Hour Hotline
(66) 80 700 7900

Fax Number
(66) 76 326 319

Office Hours
9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. + 7 hours ICT
Monday through to Saturday including public holidays

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123/29 M.5 T.Cherngtalay
A.Talang, Phuket, Thailand, 83110

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With a proper financial plan and firm goals, one can weather any kind of crisis.

Darana Chudasri www.bangkokpost.com

With valuations dropping to 6-7 times earnings and the main index down 35% for the year, the Stock Exchange of Thailand is clearly having a disastrous year.

The Wall Street meltdown has spread worldwide, with equities and commodities markets nosediving over the past several weeks over concerns that the global economy is headed into a prolonged recession.

But as the Chinese adage goes, crisis brings opportunity - while analysts caution that the current downturn has not yet seen the bottom, based on most measures, share prices are beginning to look extremely attractive, particularly for longer-term investors able to wait for an upturn in the cycle.

Sethaput Suthiwart-narueput, the president of SCB Asset Management, said equities remained the preferred asset class for most portfolios.

“The problem is that while yes, crisis brings opportunity, the current problems aren’t expected to end soon,” he said.

“Risky asset classes such as equities can rebound. But the downside risk is very high.”

For experts such as Dr Sethaput and others with experience going back to Thailand’s own crisis over a decade ago, the current turmoil in the global markets is akin to a storm of the century.

“I have never seen volatility like we have today. [The US insurance giant] AIG was rated investment grade one day, and then the next week was teetering on bankruptcy and needed a $85 billion bailout,” Dr Sethaput said.

“If you have funds today, look for government bonds or money market funds. The only exception is if your investment horizon is very long and you can absorb the risk over the period.”

Short-term risks continue to point downward, considering that corporate earnings and Thailand’s economic growth should fall going into 2009 as global trade and investment slows.

While the US “Big Mac” crisis has left Thailand’s financial sector relatively unscathed, economists agree that the financial markets will continue to be volatile over the next several months as US and European investors continue to pull out of emerging markets to shore up their balance sheets.

Foreign investors have already been net sellers of nearly 140 billion baht worth of stock this year, and capital outflows are expected to continue as ailing US and European banks and funds dump assets to meet redemptions and cover losses in their home countries.

Besides the financial markets, exporters are already seeing the impact of the global credit crunch in the form of declining orders entering the year-end holiday season. Tourism is also likely to be hit, as foreign tourists tighten their spending and travel locally rather than to the beaches of Samui or Phuket.

Foreign direct investment will be another clear casualty, as multinational companies rethink their expansion plans in the face of declining demand. Industry Minister Pracha Promnok cut the Board of Investment’s forecast last week for project applications this year to between 400 and 500 billion baht from an earlier target of 600 billion. Applications for investment promotion privileges in the first eight months of the year were just under 300 billion baht.

While the macroeconomic environment has certainly changed for the worse, long-term investors should stay focused on basic principles, suggests Reungvit Nandhabiwat, secretary of the Thai Financial Planners Association.

Investors should split their holdings into different baskets, each based on the timing of one’s financial needs.

“If you need money within the year, then 80-90% of your funds should go to money market funds or debt instruments. Don’t even look at stock,” Mr Reungvit said.

“But if you are saving for retirement, then overweight stock. Are you retiring in 10 or 20 years? If you are leaving in five years, then 20% to 40% should be in equities. But if it’s 20 years, it can be all equities.”

The former fund manager shrugged, “If you are retiring in 20 years, it’s pointless to ask whether you should buy now, or whether we have reached the bottom of the market. With such a long time horizon, go ahead and buy shares now.”

Mr Reungvit added that gold and property were other asset classes that offered potential, but not for short-term investors. “For property, consider any investment a five-year deal,” he said.

Boonchai Kiattanavith, managing director at Thanachart Fund, said the current crisis was largely one rooted in a lack of confidence.

“Investors aren’t lacking funds. They are just parking their money in safe assets, and taking a wait-and-see approach,” he said.

“What is needed is something that gives investors confidence that entering at the current market price will lead to worthwhile returns.”

Nawaaporn Ryanskul, chairman of Kiatnakin Bank and the author of several books on personal finance and economics, said regardless of what happens in the markets, the principles of asset diversification continue to ring true.

“Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. Even life insurance policies should be diversified across several companies,” she said.

Ms Nawaaporn said investors needed to be disciplined, not only in maintaining regular investment throughout their lives, but also in sticking to their basic portfolio strategy.

“Let’s say you want to keep 50% of your portfolio in stock, the rest in cash. If the stock market declines, the value of your shares fall as a percentage of your total wealth. You should shift more money to shares to maintain that 50-50 breakdown,” she said.

“It works the other way as well. If share prices rise, then sell some stock and shift the funds to other assets to maintain balance.”

One-2-Property www.12property.com has added 2 new Hotels for sale to an already extensive list of investment properties in Asia.

The new additions are both located in early Soi’s of Sukhumvit in the centre of the city’s tourist and business district. Sukhumvit property has continued to improve despite global financial problems. The central locations ensure a constant stream of guests.

Thailand remains an attractive investment destination for Japanese, European and Asean investors despite its political uncertainty, with 635 investment projects worth Bt221 billion received during the first nine months of 2008, compared to 604 in the same period last year.

According to the BOI, the net European investment applications during the first nine months of 2008 surged by 18.5 percent to Bt42 billion compared to Bt34.2 billion in the same period last year.

A number of Dutch investors are currently considering to invest in the shipbuilding industry in the kingdom while French investors are focusing on alternative energy and research and development, and Italian investors on machinery industry.

The Dutch also remained the number one European investors in Thailand, with the total value of net applications increasing by 89.8 percent from Bt2.5 billion between January and September 2007 to Bt24.6 billion during the same period this year.

British and French investments also increased significantly. The total value of net applications from French investors increased by 73.7 percent from Bt442 million during January to September 2007 to Bt1.7 billion this year while British investment surged by 64.36 percent from Bt1.5 billion (January-September 2007) to Bt4.33 billion in 2008.

As part of its strategy to attract more investments, Atchaka said the BOI was speeding up the opening of six new overseas offices within 2009, with the first new office opening this month in Taipei, followed by Sydney, Beijing, Seoul, Guangzhou and Stockholm.

According to the draft plan for 2009, the BOI will draw investment from Japans automotive, electronics and electrical, Europes alternative energy and biotech industries, Taiwans electronics, agro-industries and biotechnology, and Chinas automotive, electronics and electrical, food and agricultural and alternative energy industries.

Thailand is also seeking Australia’s information and communications technology (ICT) and software, automotive and green industries, and India’s food and agricultural, electrical and electronics, automotive and textile industries, Atchaka said.

“We are also looking into other investors’ demands as shown in our latest survey, including investors recommendation on additional incentives for industrial gas, hotel renovation businesses, for instance,” she said.

Email

sales@12property.com

Street Address
123/29 M.5 T.Cherngtalay
A.Talang, Phuket, Thailand, 83110

Phone Number
(66) 76 326 318
24 Hour Hotline
(66) 80 700 7900

Fax Number
(66) 76 326 319

Office Hours
9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. + 7 hours ICT
Monday through to Saturday including public holidays