Guidelines to Establish an Online Business

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Nowadays, users are able to selling products online and make money. Starting an online business and selling products are easy, but promoting your web site and achieve sales are a bit harder. Hence, here are some guidelines for those who interested in earning money from Internet to run a profitable online business. 

Step 1: Computer and Internet Connection

A computer provided with internet connection is an essential. You need a desktop or laptop and Internet connection as the main devices before begin the business. 

Step 2: Credit Card or Debit Card

You need whether credit card or debit card to buy or to pay any products or service that related to your business on the internet.

Step 3: Email Account

Email accounts are important as your opt-in email marketing tools. Email allows sellers and visitors communicate with each other to obtain desired information in faster and convenient way. You can get free email accounts from Yahoo.com, Rediffmail.com, Google.com or Hotmail.com.

Step 4: Domain Name

Domain name is the virtual name for the specific internet web site address or sales page. You can pick any unregistered domain name or buy any domain name that related with your business or products and easy for your visitors to remember. 

Step 5: Web Hosting

You need a good and cheap web hosting service provider to host your web site. Web hosting service provider helps to ensure your web site is running 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. You might need to pay them on a monthly basis or yearly basis. If you are running online store or sell huge products your need E-Commerce Hosting Service. If you sell less products you will need normal Web Hosting Service. 

Step 6: Web Site or Sales Page

You need to focus about the type of web site you want to build because it has a great impact on the type of web hosting you need. The design and layout of your web site is the next most important part of building a web site. No matter how great your content is or how much money you have spent on the internet for advertising. If your web site looks bad no one will visit and definitely you won't sell any products on the internet and you can't make money on the internet.

Step 7: Autoresponder
Autoresponder gives you the most cost effective strategy to market your products. Autoresponder automatically sends emails to everyone who requests further information about your products. The autoresponder is working 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Each autoresponder can contain an ordering information or your products information along with complete ordering instructions. You can deliver your information very quickly.                                                                                                               
Step 8: Merchant Accounts & Credit Cards Processor
Sellers are allowed to conduct business and accept payments on the internet from local and international buyers. Most Credit Cards Processors are free, to get the Merchant accounts service you need to pay them monthly or yearly. For those just starting their online business, you are recommended to choose Credit Cards Processor to accept credit cards payment on the Internet such as PayPal and PayDotCom for the Merchant account. You can place a simple Merchant Account link or Credit Card Processor link on your web site after registeration.
                                                                                                     
Step 9: Promote Your Web site
You need to promote your web site or products by submitting your web site to Search Engines, web site directories, Pay-Per-Click Search Engines, create your own blog and submit it to blog directory, write or publish your own newsletters and submit them to related newsletters directory, subscribe to any related ezines and articles, and participate in Forum and discussion groups. This step is important to affect your sales result. 
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Cool Stuffs to Buy

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There are always many unexpected things in the World Wide Web. You can now not only purchase fashion products, flowers, books, and other things that you will know. But now, there is a website offers things that you will not know.

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Somethingstore.com is a website that offers you to buy a mystery product. It means that, you will pay $10 to $20 (including shipping fee) of buying an item that you will not know until you open the box. It was a quite interesting ideas. At first, it only offers at USA, now, you can order it from Malaysia as well. Moreover, do not worry because they will not send you something illegal. Until now, they have sent out many things such as remote car, watch, clock, roll up piano, Indian drum, bag, iPod shuffle, perfume, USB mug warmer, and many more. Besides that, they guarantee you that the item's price will definitely more than $10. You can view what they have sent out from here. Is it cool?

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Another interesting website we will introduce you is etsy.com, a marketplace which dedicated to everything handmade. This is a place where sellers and buyers are both love handmade things. Every items stayed here for sell are handmade. It gathers many cool handmade products with an affordable price. There are buyers and sellers coming from over 150 countries.

Week 8 Poll Analysis- In General, How Will You Rate The Preference Towards Online Shopping?

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From the previous post, there are equals of respondents answer for the question " In general, how will you rate the preference towards online shopping?" There are 33.3% of three of the answer which is for "I love online shopping", "I never try online shopping" and " No comment". There is no one choose "I hate online shopping".

The results was a huge comparison which is like, dislike and no comment had the same number of respondents. People that like online shopping is those who are more connected to the Internet. These people are mostly have more time in front of computer and busy with their current work. They like online shopping just simply because the fastest and the latest fashion trend can easily get.

Another 33.3% of the respondents who choose "I never try online shopping" are mostly in the group of less connected to the Internet. These people are mostly not trust the existing of online boutique. Another reason was they not trusted in the online payment. This is mostly because the product will get after the payment and it will also take time for 1 week.

For the respondents choose "No comment" are mostly people who will do online shopping and does not. They just no giving any comment for the online shopping. There will be some of them will do online shopping often or in the opposite way. There might also have the group of never try online shopping. Thus, they just have no idea or comment for the like or dislike for online shopping.

In conclusion, although online shopping are getting popular in the world, but there are still a group of people will not do online shopping. Even though it is a trend, the group of people will like the way of shop traditional which is purchase a product or service in a shop. Do stay tuned with our coming up post.

Buying Flowers Online

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Many people may think that buying flowers as a gift is "old fashion" and embarrassing. Due to these reasons, people are less likely to buy flowers at the outlets. Today, online florists are increasing. There are many online florist sites in Malaysia or at international level. People can just purchase flowers for mother girlfriend, teacher, and others through online. Here are two websites for you as reference to ensure you can easily buy a bouquet of nice flowers to your beloved.

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The first website is Blomming Florist. It begins operations in 1981 and has been Malaysia's reliable florist for many years. Their mission statement is to provide customers quality flowers and services. The information in the website is clear and easy to understand. There are many methods of payments which include online credit card payment, online banking, payment using kawanku ATM, online bill payment, and cash payment (pay at Blomming outlets). Blomming Florist have been verified by MSC Trustgate.com Sdn.Bhd Secure Site Program (However, the validity has been expired on 25th September 2009).

URL: http://www.blooming.com.my/blooming/

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The next online florist site is Bloom House. Another website to be introduced is Bloom House. They provide free delivery services within Klang Valley as well, such as Subang Jaya, Shah Alam, and Kuala Lumpur. Thawte has checked and verified this Bloom House site. Thus, shoppers can trust this website because all data are encrypted to and from the site. 

URL: http://www.bloomhouse.com.my/default.asp

Shoppers Get Latest Fashion Trend

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We know that browsing information from Internet will get a lot of results from world wide. Fashion trend will do the same too. Shoppers from Malaysia are getting more fashion trend from the online E-boutique. They are not only selling cloths but also other things like shoes, accessories and also make up products. Thus, online boutique do help a lot of busy shoppers to shop and getting the latest fashion trend. The following are some online boutique that are selling various type of trendy cloths and accessories.

1. http://www.milkyboutique.com

This is a boutique started in Malaysia and it was providing all the fashion trend from Asia. Besides that, they also providing other things such as women handbag, accessories, cosmetics and shoes. They are selling products in a price range in RM 1.90-RM 99.00. They provide shoppers affordable products and the latest fashion from Asia.

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2. http://www.dailyboutique.com

DailyBoutique is an online boutique from Malaysia. They offering shoppers an exclusive fashion apparels that from around the world. Shoppers can get the latest fashion trend from here and purchase it immediately with affordable price. They do provide the "mix and match" for the shoppers who need help for their dinner, party and others occasion.

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Week 7 Poll Analysis - What Device Online Shoppers Used?

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From the previous poll, all respondents answered the same answer, saying that they used desktop or laptop to do online shopping, whereas netbook, mobile web and other devices are not chosen by respondents. This is what has expected therefore it is not surprising at all to acquire such result.  

No doubt that every individual or household owned a desktop or laptop for industrial or cosumer use for this day and age. The main reasons are due to the fast pace of Internet and Web 2.0 have been introduced to the generation Y and sooner follow by Z. Most of the activities that people usually do during offline are revoluted to be done online. People do online banking due to the available of brick-and-click banks. People communicate online due to the available of social networking sites. Please imagine that how to avoid the continuous demands toward desktop or laptop which are the most common and traditional devices for online users to access interconnected network? College students, workaholics all owned at least a desktop or laptop for occupation, academic, and consumer purposes. 

The method of using mobile web to check the merchandise is kind of inconvenient and insufficient for the online users due to the smaller screen size of mobile device. Thus, mobile web is not using by most of the online users to do online shopping but mostly used by the users who prefer the small and easy-to-carry device. For example, business people who have lack of time and opportunity to stay at office or the people who go vacation. Other than that, mobile web required extra charges from users. Users might face the problem of slow network connection too due to the limited network coverage at the place they located or limited storage space of mobile device.

Besides that, users have neglected the option of netbook mostly due to the reason of netbook is not well-known enough and consisted of specific and limited functionality. More importantly, it is so obvious that desktop and laptop are more accessible than others due to their standard size of screen and faster connection speed which appropriate for users to look through the merchandises and information efficiently. Users do not need to pay extra expenditures for the Internet connection fee due to it was already fixed or free.

To put long story into short, desktop or laptop is the most common, popular, and accessible device for online users to do online shopping. Do you agree? 

Online Shopping Started The Online Business

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Nowadays, online business are getting popular in Malaysia. This is a trend that affected from the foreign country. There are thousand or million of people who earning money from the Internet. They are either work from home, full-time or part-time. Online business have a flexible time and place to let the seller do their business at anywhere and anytime.

In Malaysia, online business started just because of the trend of online shopping getting popular among the shoppers. Most of the online boutique started by them when they have experiences on online shopping in the E-boutique. Thus, they will think that why don't I do an online business from Internet since an online business does not need a lot of start up money. Just start up with a business account, money transaction account and the most important is your idea and product to sell.

Most of the online business is hosted by a female in Malaysia. online boutique is getting popular in Malaysia and the number of E-boutique is increasing in this few years. Why female would like to do an online business? Simply because of the time freedom. We all know that female have a lot of house choirs and they have to take care of children at home. Thus, an online business that will not need them to work in a 9 to 5 working model in an office will become their first choice of earning extra income. They can do their business when they are free and even if there are late nights. It can make them to plan their time accordingly and they can start work at anytime since they are boss!

Therefore, Malaysia's online business is most covered by the online boutique. Thus, it could probably get involve with others type of online business in the future. This is because online business have a wide market, which is the world.

Hunt for Your Lovely Bags!

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Which lady or woman can live without handbags? "None" Handbags have become the intimate accompany of female all the time for a reason or without a reason. It is a fact of phenomena nowadays! Even though the crimes were scary enough or the economy has broke down, these didn't stop females to bring them along everyday.

1. http://suzy.my

This website is mainly selling bags, a shopping site which belongs to the ladies' favor choice! The colourful and the capability of changing bag styling have built the brand name of young and trendy! The category and style of the products are collected from the trendy Asian countries. Besides that, the owner will bring in the appropriate and fashionable products according to different seasons. The high quality of materials ensure the long life span of products. More importantly, no matter what styles of shoppers are, sweet, cool, sporty, or elegant, shoppers can always seek for the accessories that suit them best!

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2. http://www.arieshut.com/

This is another website that selling various kind of fabulous bags! Shoppers can obtain promotions during particular seasons too. New products are updated weekly in order to provide the latest trendy handbags for shoppers and and avaialble on sold all the time. Shoppers are surprised for everytime visiting the website because of various attractive new products. Young ladies who are teenagers or workaholics are keen of this website.

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Week 6 Poll Analysis- In your opinion, what is the most important reason people choose a business of online shopping?

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Poll question for week 6 was “In your opinion, what is the most important reason people choose a business of online shopping?” and we get some answers for that. The options are time freedom, low cost, earning income, reach global audience, and reducing unwanted products. However, no respondents have chosen the answer of “reach global audience” and “reducing unwanted products”.

According to the poll, there are 50% of the respondents chose the answer of “time freedom”. There are many possibilities for this answer. First, people can access to internet anytime they want. Thus, sellers can choose to sell the products early in the morning, late night or anytime they like. Second, sellers can choose to sell the product for a certain period of time such as three days, one week, or one month.

Then, low cost has the second high percentage which is 33%. Low cost may due to many reasons but the most important factor is sellers no need to rent a shop or store. Therefore, they can save the renting cost, sales person salary, electric bill, and other costs.

There are 17% of respondents chose the answer of “earning income”. That was true that sellers can sell anything and earn income from it. The prices of some products are higher than the original price. For example, a limited watch, a limited branded bag, or a stamp which has high historical value.

In short, most of the respondents think that time freedom is the most important reason that people choose a business of online shopping. Follow by the reasons of low cost and earning income.

Best Sites to Shop for Beauty and Skin Care

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There has not much people brave enough to purchase skin care products through e-shops for most of the time, that's true! This is mainly due to buyers have to take high risk on thier skin if the quality of products is terrible. Somehow, things might have exceptions. I'm going to introduce two sites that selling make-up and skin care products as a little guide for you guys.

1. http://jbtalks.com/

It is founded by local people, from the costumes to the make-up products can be found here. In particular, skin care products that they sold are well-known, almost every buyer for their skin care products are highly evaluated. Besides of quality assurance, the use of the available results really prove it. There are many people in the blog left messages to support the site to remain in business continuously, due to the affordable and good quality of products are getting rare nowadays!

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2. http://www.easyshop.com.my/

Skin care products from Taiwan is the most striking element for this site. The products are mostly introduced and endorsed by the Taiwan famous make-up consultants, Neil and Kevin. The site consisted of various kind of products whether from the hair-care to skin care products, there are always available. In addition, the website also concerned to keep abreast the latest Taiwan costumes trend with buyers, hence buyers can always keep in touch with the foreign fashion. People feel more confident when know that the owner of site is a genuine Taiwanese wife. No wonder their products always have a strong commodity in Taiwan fashion taste!

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3 Special Things to Buy If You Can Afford

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Nowadays, more and more people buy things from the internet. Thus, more and more products are available out there especially in eBay.com and Amazon.com. Usually, people will purchase clothes, books, and accessories from the internet but now, there are some special, weird, or unique things for online shoppers to purchase.

First, I would like to tell you that you can buy the world largest book from amazon.com with $30,000. The name of the book is Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey across the Last Himalayan Kingdom. According to Guinness World Records, at over 5x7 feet and 133 pounds, this beautiful photographic book is the largest published book in the world. The teams from MIT and Friendly Planet took over 60,000 photographs on four extensive expeditions! And, there are only limited edition of 500 copies will be produced. Most importantly, the materials and lightfast media can be keeping for over 100 years! To know more about this book, please link to here.

Second, you can buy a UFO detector from amazon.com. According to the product description, this product can detect the presence of UFO. This UFO detector is designed to sense the disturbances that created by the UFO and will signal their presence by flashing the LED and beeping. But, 9V lithium battery needs to be inserted for it to function. It is elegant with transparent plastic so that it allows people to see the electronics inside the case. For more information, please click here.

Third, there is a paper that claims to be the world’s most expensive paper from ebay.com. It costs US $ 50,000. From the description, it stated that "by the purchaser making a purchase on this piece of paper, may it be duly noted that you would be the first person in the history of the world to purchase a single sheet of paper at the given cost." Is it interesting? However, there have no bids for it and it still has 5 days for the bidding. To bid it, please visit here.

Here, these three things are quite expensive. So, please do buy only if you can afford them. Good luck!

Week 5 Poll Analysis- What Helps You Decide Which Site to Use for Online Shopping?

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According to the poll analysis last week, "What Helps You Decide Which Site to Use for Online Shopping?", there are 5 answers given to the respondents which is "same site I buy regularly", "search engine", "personal recommendation", "online advertising" and "same store buy from offline". There are 40% of respondents choose "Same Site I Buy Regularly" while 60% of respondents choose "Personal Recommendation". The rest of the answers are not chosen by the respondents.

2 respondents choose "Same Site I Buy Regularly" because they have confidence. They will be come more confident on the websites they usually visit and make purchase. They feel secure on the terms and conditions of the sites they usually shop. They are familiar with the ordering and payment method of the sites they shop.

There are 3 respondents choose "Personal Recommendation" mainly because they recommended by friends and others. They will be more confident and think positively on the websites that recommended by their friends and family. Recommendations from the people who close with are more secure.

The "search engine", "online advertising" and "same store buy from offline" are not chosen by the respondents. Consumer will think that they are unsafe and they are not familiar with these websites will make them in trouble. They will not try something that they are not familiar with.

Thus, consumers should try out something new and maybe there are surprises to you. Stay tuned for the coming post and do remember to vote for the new poll. Thank you.

Intro of Online Shopping - Chinese Version (网上购物的简介)

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In this day and age, guess everyone knows "online shopping", don't you? Probably it might only taken your 10 seconds time to define it and many thoughts come to mind, just like a "piece of cake". A bit exaggerated? Nope, it doesn't. It is as simple as what you have thought of.

Let say, when you are checking out the merchandise through Internet, or searching for your favourite and private items to buy online during the late night while others are asleep, so that nobody knows, or making order for the limited special product in online stores, these are all online shopping.

No doubt, online shopping has become very popular and favourite option of online users nowadays. Thanks to the fast pace of Internet! It becomes a global phenomena. Uncountable online shoppers can be found scattered across the globe while the hot items like clothes are selling like hot cakes in online stores. Do you once know that 99% of online users in South Korea have shopped online? Yes, it happened, according to Global Nielson Consumer Report. I'm pretty sure that some of you guys who reading this post are regular online shoppers. Aren't you?

Through the peak grow of online shopping, it allows online users purchase their favourite items easily by only one-click convenience while sitting on the chair or bed at home, as simple as 1 2 3! Besides that, you're unnecessary to done your shopping before 10pm, or squeezing with the crowd during weekends which happened in shopping malls. It is unlimited as you can shop whenever you want and wherever you are! How wonderful is that?

In short, online shopping represents another fun of shopping experience for the online users. It is a trend, a habit, and a hobby of consumers. Believe me, it will getting more unpredictable and incredible.

Glossary:

网上购物 - online shopping
轻而易举 - piece of cake
货品 - merchandise
网上商店 - online stores
全球性现象 - global phenomena
热销 - hot cakes
高峰增长 - peak grow
一键方便 - one-click convenience
趋势 - trend

Short Stories of Online Shopping - Chinese Version (网上购物的小故事)

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Hello, everyone! Today, we are going to talk about the background of online shopping. First of all, there are a lot of people may not know, the Internet began as a military, that is, only the military personnel can used it. Until year 1989, the Internet was officially released to all people to use. Since then, only people gradually aware of internet, and become more common. In year 1990, the first Internet server and browser were set up.

After this, the first online bookstore was appeared in the earth! If you think it is the famous Amazon bookstore, then it would be a serious mistake! It was a now little-known name, because it has unfortunately failed. However, where a walk will leave marks, it is the true ancestor of online bookstores! For your information, the name of this bookstore called the Book Stacks Unlimited. It started with the original idea to offer every book ever published to everyone in an easily accessible way begins in year 1992. But, eventually it failed. This provides a good opportunity for other companies to share this wonderful concept.

The release of the first online bookstore did not sweep the globe. Instead, there was a leader quietly led to this trend. Have a guess, who is the leader? It is not eBay; it is not Amazon bookstore; it is, Pizza Hut! Get it correct? Whether right or wrong, give a big applause for yourself! Here, for your information, Pizza Hut is the first national chain to offer online ordering with the option of home delivery. In 1994, Santa Cruz, California Pizza Hut restaurant becomes their restaurant of white rat to test whether the concept will be successful.

Then, the widely known Amazon bookstore was launched in year 1995. Originally, it was created to have the same concept with Book Stacks Unlimited. But due to consumers are more towards to products which are other than books, smart Amazon.com provides many other products in order to fulfill their huge demand.

Finally, the finale on stage is the most famous online shopping website, the world's largest Internet marketplace --- eBay! Heroes do not ask origin based on the truth, thus, it should be very few people who know the father of eBay? Actually, in September 1995, Pierre Omidyar San Jose coded this online auction house website. At that time, there was only a computer which was in his living room and whole stacks of programming code in his mind to be with him. Three years later, eBay was launched in the market. And this founder, Pierre Omidyar San Jose then, as we think, has become a billionaire!

Until now, there are countless online shopping websites and the items to be sold are more than what we can imagine. To classify them, there would be including beauty, perfume, books, clothes, shoes, jewelry, toys, music, electronics, and so on.
Well, that’s all for today. Hope you all get some useful knowledge now. I also hope that I have provided you some topics to be discussed, such as, who is the leader who leads the trend of online shopping?

Glossary:
互联网- internet
伺服器- server
浏览器-browser
程式码-programming code

Cons of Online Shopping - Chinese Version (上网购物的坏处 )

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As we know, online shopping will bring disadvantages to us.

The first cons is the item spoilt and changed in what we have order through the e-boutique. This is a main problem that everyone know about it. Due to the reason they cannot check through the merchandise on the spot during the purchasing. Thus when they receive the product in a bad condition, the seller will point a finger to the delivery person and do not make any compensation to the buyer.

The second cons of online shopping is problem of security on the transaction of money. We just don't trusted on those e-boutique and not to mention transferring of money to them. Furthermore, we can get the product in 1 week time or more than that after the transaction of money.

The third cons of online shopping is the slow down of Internet connection. User need time for loading into a website. Buyer want to purchase things online just because they are busy with their current things and may want purchase online. Online shopping may also cover just part of consumer because it need at least a computer and Internet. Thus, it may not cover the older age market.

Glosarry:

上网购物 - online shopping

坏处 - disadvantages

赔偿 - compensation

指向 - point a finger

转帐 - transaction

怠慢 - slow down

Secure Online Shopping (cont.)

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Today, we are going to continue on secure online shopping topic. Besides log into secure online sites, credit card usage, and password issues, there are more secure or safety methods when purchse online.

Human always make mistakes. Thus, we need to double check the online form after typing in the amount of order. People may type in “11” instead of “1”. There are many online forms that will tell buyers the total price and amount of order. So, buyers are strongly recommended to check the items, quantities, and prices before confirming the order. Then, please check any confirmation e-mail that sent by seller. If there is any problem, notify the seller immediately.

Besides that, people may regret on what they have ordered. Some online shopping websites allow buyers to cancel orders but some not. For some websites, buyers can cancel the orders in a short period of time. However, if buyers did not act within that period of time, the order cannot be cancel. In this case, buyers are suggested to read the policy on “return” and react to it.

Then, buyers should keep a record on the orders made. Print and file a copy of the order form or confirmation letter in case you have a problem with it. The order form or confirmation form must indicate the items, quantities, prices, shipping costs, or even dates of delivery. By law, online businesses must deliver merchandise within 30 days of purchase or should notify you if there will be a delay.

Lastly, please remember that precautions are very important when you made online purchase. Just to tell you that “The Federal Trade Commission received 221,226 Internet fraud complaints in 2007” and we believe that there are more cases. Value your hard earned money, be careful when online shopping.

Secure Online Shopping

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We do know that why online shopping still not popular in Malaysia. The reason is due to shoppers may not believe in the online shopping protection. How do we do so we will be shop online safely? Thus I am here to tell you how to do secure online shopping.

We must always log into the secure online sites. This mean that you have to log in https:// with the URL and not http:// with URL when log in. The URL with secure will be more safety to use compare to the URL which do not have secure. Shoppers have to be more caution of any "security" warnings that may come up when making an online purchase. Please make sure read them twice and don't just simply click "OK".

Besides that, there is a safety credit card usage instead of debit cards. This is simply because credit cards come with additional protection. Shoppers may use the low-limit credit card to limit the amount of damage someone can do if that card is compromised. Shopper smay just consider getting a credit card to use just for online purpose. They have to be alert and report any fraudulent purchases or suspicious activities on credit card to bank immediately.

When entering any website, shoppers have to use different password or PIN code. They have to memorize them and make sure change them regularly. Create unique password that are difficult to guess. For an example, password that with the combination of letters and numbers. Shoppers have to read the policy carefully and ensure that the personal information will not be disclosed to anybody.

Here is some of the secure online shopping methods. Do stay tuned with us for the following secure online shopping methods. Thank you.

Week 4 Poll Analysis - Action Towards Insecure Online Shopping

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According to the poll question last week, "What action would you take when found the sites you visit are insecure?", there are 5 answers given to the respondents, however only 3 answers are chosen by them. 50% of them said that "Never try online shopping anymore." 25% of respondents answered that "Don't know what action to take" and "It's OK, not a big deal" respectively.

Insecure online shopping resulted in online shoppers consider to quit this trend as their confidence lost. They feel unsure which sites are secure to shop and how to protect their privacy issues online especially for those who are new and not familiar towards online shopping and computer. They rather to remain the traditional shopping trend in real stores and shopping malls as they can observe and judge themselves. More importantly, shoppers able to communicate with the owner or seller face-to-face. If they have any enquiries, they can immediately ask the person in charged.

Some online shoppers do not care about the sites they are visit are insecure. This might due to the reason of they have predicted such thing will happened through Internet network. They usually take them as unfortunate experiences, but they will continue to shop online due to they believe there are a lot more secure e-shops out there. They are willing to give themselves chances to try out other sites. Besides that, they do not concern much about insecure issues due to they feel troublesome and do not have leisure to solve them.

However, some online shoppers who visited the insecure e-shops, feel unsatisfied and want to do make complaints, but they are helpless on what action should be taken, hence they leave it with disappointment. Online shoppers who are lack of knowledge and information on online security issues might because of they seldom approach to the news and Internet network that they are not familiar with.

In short, don't feel disappoint and upset with what you have faced, we are going to share with you the methods of secure online shopping. Stay tune and remember to vote for our new poll. Have a nice day!

Cons of Online Shopping - Part 2

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As continue of the previous post, online shopping consists of few more disadvantages. We all do know that online shopping may cause purchaser a main problem is the items spoilt and changed in what they have order through the e-boutique. This is the common problem face by most of the buyers all the time. Due to the reason buyer cannot check through the merchandise on the spot during the purchasing, therefore when they receive the product if in a bad condition they just cannot do anything because the seller will argue that it was in good condition when they packed in. They will point a finger to the delivery person and do not make any compensation to the buyer.

Besides that, the main problem that most of the people do not purchase online is the problem of security on the transaction of money. We just don't trusted on those e-boutique and not to mention transferring of money to them. Moreover, we will get the product after the transferring of money in at least three days or a week. Thus, we just don't trust on the online transferring process and yet the transferring may not receive by the seller.

Another disadvantages may be the slow down of Internet connection. Why do I say so? Simply because user will spent a lot of time wait for the loading of online website. This slow down of connection will cause user to spent a lot of time and we know that buyer want to shop online just because they do not have much time and busy with their current things. As our previous post was stated out why people nowadays like to do online shopping simply because they are busy and online shopping will not take many of their time as they do shopping at the traditional retail outlet. As we know online shopping will need user to have a computer and the availability to access the Internet. Thus, it still do not reach the older age of consumer and reach a limited of affordable range of consumer.

There are both advantages and disadvantages on online shopping. However, it doesn't bad that if you giving one more chance to yourself and other security sites for buying online after the bad experiences. Perhaps they might change your perception. Do vote for our post, thanks.

Cons of Online Shopping

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Everything has two sides, positive and negative. Pros of online shopping are considerable, but still there are some cons that frustrating you and might be the main reason for some shoppers remain the traditional shopping in real stores and malls. Here I'm going to discuss some disadvantages of online shopping with you.

From the response of the participants in last week poll, most of them faced the barrier of items used and low quality. How come it happened? It might probably due to the owner of e-shop is unprofessional. Perhaps you are not believe, but can you imagine those owner who are really unprofessional sold the clothes they worn? More importantly the shoppers who make order would not know at all due to owner mislead shoppers by using the attractive pictures and stated how good quality was the product such as "stainless" or "leather", but then ended up with different thing when receive it. It doesn't matter if the owner wants to earn side profit and avoid wasting their items, as long as the items are still in good and acceptable condition, and listed in the product's information to inform shoppers. Somehow the unprofessional owner will just ignore these and while shoppers received their product, disappointment occurred as the color has faded away and low quality material of the product.

Besides that, oversize problem always there! Why? Simple! You do not see the item being sold personally. You are restricted to try on the products and see the true size of them. Plus, model pictures could be the issue, the picture might be edited in the standard size in order to look nice and amazing to attract shoppers' attention although it's not true, in addition the measurement that owner showed to the shoppers might not accurate. One more issue is the owner listed few sizes for shoppers, but ended up with only one size. Shoppers are upset as they think they will look nice with that product but the other way round when try on the received product. Try on yourself always better than making unsure judgement!

Moreover, you do not get the instant gratification while shop online. This is because of you couldn't use or wear the item right away and have to wait! 3 days, 1 week, or possibly several weeks due to failure of arrive at your home on time. This wait can be accompanied by shipping costs, which equates to basically paying to wait for your purchase. Other than that, you can't guarantee whether the owner really deliver the items to you later on and you have to bear a risk to lost in money and get nothing! How terrible is that? Now, are you rather to shop at real stores to achieve your higher satisfaction?

There are some other cons of online shopping in next post! Stay tune and don't hesitate to drop comments if you wish to share something with us.

3rd Week Poll Analysis - What is Your Bad Experience of Online Shopping?

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This diagram shows the result of the past experience of online shopping. From the results, we can see that half of the respondents received used and low quality products. Can you imagine when you purchased a brand new product but you received the used one. However, this is out of the topic.

Besides used and low quality products, 16% of the respondents experienced over size problem. For example, a shirt or a pair of shoes. I know, this situation is very annoying where you bought something but not fulfilling your needs.

Then, 17% of the respondents do received a damage or spoilt product. This may due to the delivering process or the the manufacture side. What will you do if you purchased an expensive product but it was damaged when you received it? Will you report to the seller or just keep quiet?

Aanother 17% falls to "items do not arrive on time". Sometimes, the seller will mention that products will be on your door step within one week or one month. However, after a period of time, the product still has not reach your place. For beginners, do not be too worry because nowadays the system and quality control are quite good. Lastly, no one selects the answer of "Bad Customer Service" and "Others".

In conclusion, purchase items from the sites that can be trusted, such as a site that your friends introduced. Moreover, do response the problem that you met to the seller. Even though the seller may not reply but still, voice out is better than keeping it.

Hope you enjoy and have a nice day!

Pros of Online Shopping - Part 2

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As continue of the previous post, online shopping consists of few more advantages. Online shopping provides research capabilities. Online shoppers able to obtain unlimited shopping websites and information at their fingertips through browsing the Internet and search engine. You able to obtain requested information and do comparison between your choices of e-shop in fast and effective way. For example, if you are interested in two e-shops that you have searched, you can compare their products as in their prices and features to make the best purchase decision with low effort. Imagine that you don't need to walk through all the shops in shopping mall to compare the products, but only sit at home with few clicks of mouse, isn't it sounds good? In addition, online shoppers able to search for their favourite categories of products easily due to the online merchants have categorized specifically in website for visitors, instead of lost in the shopping mall and confuse about which shops provide you exactly items you want.

Consumers' reviews plays an important role as references for online shoppers. Online shoppers able to read other consumer's reviews and experiences regarding product or retailer, and make judgement before making purchase decision. It assists online shoppers to think twice and make wise decision. Talking about the shopping mall, there has limited sources for you to refer on before purchasing except the sales person and your shopping partner. But how much you can guarantee that their comments and suggestions are reliable enough? Probably the sales person use to persuade you to purchase their products simply due to they want to hit sales! Your shopping partner probably don't have the experience towards the product, hence their comments are not accurate! In short, their comments are not that reliable and sufficient. There are uncountable consumers from the global to share experiences on millions of products and services online everyday through forum, website, blog, or consumer reviews application, hence I believe that online shoppers more or less would able to obtain credible sources and make wise decision!

Regarding the answer of more diverse choices didn't vote by any respondents, I think most of them haven fully explore how amazing was the trend of online shopping. Online shopping provides you various choices of product to achieve your maximum satisfaction. This may due to the reason of online merchants choose their products from many different inventory, shopkeeper, distributor and manufacturer. Besides that, most of the e-shops are not only confined to local shoppers, but global. Hence, wide variety of products are provided to satisfy different kind of online shoppers. Online shoppers obtain the enjoyment of wide variety of their favourite products through this beneficial advantage.

Hope you guys satisfy and enjoy your online shopping experience too! See you in next post.

Pros of Online Shopping - Part 1

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People may ask, why so many people like to shop online? There are many advantages that you may like to know. Here, I will introduce some advantages of online shopping.

Among all the good characteristics, the main advantage is you can be more comfortable when you shop online. You can lie down on your sofa and search for a product. No need to think for the dress code and walk in the shopping mall for the whole day.

Secondly, the products are usually cheaper than the seller. This is because they can save on the costs of renting a store, salespersons, insurances, and other costs that are needed to run a business in the real world. They may just trade in the products and store them at home.

Thirdly, online shopping is very convenient. You can easily compare the prices as many sites as you want. You can also buy as many things as you want without worrying how to carry those products because what you purchased will send to your doorstep in a short period of time. Furthermore, you are able to purchase products that are not available locally without stepping out from your house. Cool, right?

You do not have to deal with the weather and time too! You can buy anything from the website whenever you want. No matter it was early morning or late night. No matter it was raining or hot sunny day. Internet is open 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year, just like 7-11, always there for you.

Of course, there are more advantages of online shopping. No worries, they are coming soon.