Saturday, February 27, 2010

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.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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