E-Commerce

Review on a post on Legal from My Ecommerce Blog

2009-07-12T01:32:00.001+08:00

From this blog post, i found that it is interesting. By using iPhone to check the student attendance whether the student is present a school or not. This can prevent student making fake attendance such like helping friends to sign on the attendance. Besides that, its also have downloading learning material function such like lecture notes, tutorial questions and so on. Although the school high already use such high technology device to take attendance but the student still can cheat on the attendance by bringing friend's iphone to school. In my opinion, the iPhone can add in biometric application- fingerprint. Fingerprint can't be borrow or bring by other people to school for taking the attendance.

I think this application can be apply to Malaysian's school. Besides can prevent absentees cheat on the attendance, it also can help school to track where is the student is. This can reduce those secondary school students from going to cybercafe or shopping at the school time.

E-Government in Malaysia: Its implementation so far and citizen's adoption strategies.

2009-07-11T22:56:00.007+08:00

E-Government also known as e-gov, digital government, online government or transformational government, which is used to refer to the use of information and communication technology to provide and improve government services, transactions and interactions with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government.

Most of the e-government implementations of the project are currently in progress. The detailed objectives and status of each of the e-government implementation are:

Generic Office Environment (GOE)
It introduces a fully integrated, distributed and scalable office environment that leverages use of multimedia information technology. This will enable efficient communication, allowing collaboration across all workers, and ensuring right information reaching the right people in a timely manner.

Electronic Procurement (eP) Project
Its aim is to re-engineer, automate, and transform current procurement system. The project would cover central contract, tender, and direct purchase. The electronic procurement project has taken off the introduction of ePerolehan and can be accessed at http://www.eperolehan.com.my/.

Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS)
This e-government project will provide a single interface for government employees to perform human resource function effectively and efficiently.

Project Monitoring System (PMS)
This system is one of the e-government projects that will create a mechanism to monitor project implementation throughout various government agencies and statutory bodies.

Electronic Services Directory (e Services)
This project is a pilot project that allows citizens of Malaysia to engage in transactions with government and utilities payments such as telephone and electricity bills, police summons, Road and Transport Department (RTD) services and others.

Electronic Labor Exchange (ELX)
It improves the mobilization of human resources and optimize work force utilization through systematic matching of job seekers to job vacancies.

E-Syariah
This project main objective is to improve the quality of service in Syariah courts.

Citizen’s adoption strategies
Government can make the advertisement through different ways in order to get the attention of the public and increase the people’s knowledge of e-government project and the availability of electronic services online. Besides that, the government also need to make sure the information provided to the users is always accurate, relevant and timeliness. The government also needs get the public confidence by securing the confidential information of the public. By increasing the customer satisfaction, the rate of e-government adoption will also increase.

A Discussion on E-learning offered in Malaysian Universities: Prons and Cons from the student perspective

2009-07-11T09:30:00.015+08:00

Electronic learning (E-learning) is a term for all types of technology-enhanced learning (TEL), where technology is used to support the learning process. In some instances, no face- to- face interaction takes place. E-learning is used interchangeably in a wide variety of contexts.

There are more advantages than disadvantages of having E-learning for a student. Lets discuss this matter.

Advantages:

1. Save travelling time and cost
They can save time from travelling to an university to study. Travelling costs might be very costly.

2. Time flexibility
Student can get online resources, communicate with his tutor or class mates, send his query and write term paper at any time he can get access to the Internet.

3. Suite different level of students
Some students can adapt faster while some adapt slower. Students have the option to select learning materials that meets their level of knowledge and interest by using E-learning.

4. More Response
Students in a large classroom seldom response to the lecturer. Therefore, E-learning helps student to interact more with the lecturer.

5. Fewer penalties from non-compliance
For example, students have to sign their attendances and without doing that, they will be bar for taking final exams in UTAR. E-learning helps students that often skip classes from such penalties.

6. Disease
E-learning keeps students away from diseases such as SARS and H1N1. These disease is easily infect from human to human such as by flu or cough. om response to the lecturer. Therefore, E-learning helps student to interact more with the lecturer.

Disadvantages:

1. Low motivation
Students with low motivation often work slow and fall behind others. Besides that, the students also will late for the submitment of the assignment or other work.

2. Easy to get confused
Some students will get lost about course activities and deadlines.

3. Internet connections
Slow Internet connections or older computers may make accessing course materials frustrating
Managing computer files and online learning software can sometimes seem complex for students with beginner-level computer skills

4. May create sense of isolated
During the learning process, the students may feel they are alone with only their computer. This makes some of the students quite uncomfortable.

5. Unfamiliar for the lack of IT skill students
Sometimes, the managing computer files and online learning software can sometimes seem complex for students with beginner-level computer skills.

6. Required more time
The online environment is text-based. To communicate with the instructor and other students, the students must type messages, post responses, and otherwise communicate through typing. However, typing is slower than speaking. It seems learn more in an online environment, but it need to make a greater effort to accomplish that learning.

Corporate Blogging: A new marketing communication tool for companies

2009-07-10T01:08:00.001+08:00

A corporate blog is a weblog published and used by anorganization to reach its organizational goals . Corporate blogs have some unique features which is used for communication purpose for the company nowadays.

The key prerequisites for successful corporate blogs are:

- symmetric communication (incl. using comments),

- informal language,

- dialogue with readers which results in creating virtual community,

- regular postings,

- integration with other media and other content,

- clear rules and purpose of publishing (regulations).

There are several types of corporate blogs:
1) Leadership corporate blogs―in which particular person from company is thoroughly chosen for presenting company’s views on various aspects.

2) Group corporate blogs―in which all employees have right to participate in the development of company’s blog.

3) Corporate blogs platform - consist of many blogs written by employees or company’s business partners.

4) Promotional blogs – such as sponsored blogs, advertising and contest blogs

Benefits of corporate blog establishment:

~Enable the customers or potential customers to find the latest and most accurate information about its new products and services.

~For interacting with existing and potential clients.

~Goals or Missions are to increase company credibility, enhance customer service and interaction, showcase new products or services and more.

~Allowed company to closely track where and under what condition its products or services are being discussed online.

References:

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/186126/blogging/corporate_blogging_dos_and_donts.html

Causes and Prevention: Credit Card Debt

2009-07-04T17:43:00.011+08:00

What is credit card debt?
It’s happened when a credit card user bought items or services by using card system. Debt accumulated by adding some interest rate and penalties when the credit card user did not pay the credit card company for the money that he or she spent.

Causes of credit cards debt
Promotion: Every month, the credit card company will make promotion event to attract more people to subscript a new card. The most popular incentive is zero interest rate. Most of this incentive is only for the first month subscription. Once the special rate end, the interest rates shoot up. So, this made a small debt grow rapidly and becomes a huge debt.
Spending: BIG SALES, MEGA SALES, STOCK CLEARING and DISCOUNT are common phrases that attract people to spend more. Although the consumer is not affordable to buy the product, the consumer will just can’t miss the promotion. At the end, they will just swap the card and buy that product.
Missing payment: Most of the consumer did not plan their money usage. Firstly, they will use their cash to buy items. When they run out of cash, they will use their card without thinking are they able to pay? At the end of the month, the bills arrived at their home. They will have no more cash to pay it. They will just let debt accumulated and pay it next month PLUS some interest and penalties.

Prevention of credit card debt

Only use cash to buy items or services. Stop spending when you are run out of cash.
Budget your expenditure. List down all the necessary that you want to buy.
Think before you buy. Buy it if you are able to pay the bill.
Only use credit card for emergency.
Clear all the outstanding debt and cancel the card that you are no longer use.
Hold only one card. This can reduce risk card being stole.

Mobile payments systems in Malaysia: Its potentials and consumers' adoption strategies

2009-07-03T15:55:00.004+08:00

There is a new and rapidly-adopting alternative payment method, which called mobile payment. With this method, a consumer can use a mobile phone to pay their payment without paying with cash, check or credit cards. Furthermore mobile payment also called as M-payment. Mobile Payment is paying for goods, services or makes transaction with a mobile device such as mobile phone, Smartphone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.

Potentials
In Malaysia, the mobile payment system has been launched since November 2001. Thus, by using the M-payment, it can eliminate the hassle to queue up for the bills payments, pay the payments when urgently or lack of other payment instruments, support refund and reversal functions, and no minimum monthly transaction like credit cards and no merchant account required. Because of nowadays there are many mobile users in Malaysia; it will be an advantage for the system to be used.

Consumers’ adoption strategies
To promote the mobile payment system to the public, the system itself should be easy to be used. Make sure there is no too complicated function which can make the users confused. In order to maintain customer loyalty, the systems also need to have powerful security to secure the customer transaction information and give confidence to them.

The mobile payment system has provided convenient to public. Therefore, with the mobile payments system, the mobile users can save their time and costs when they want to pay their payments.

The Application of pre-paid cash for consumers

2009-07-02T22:28:00.006+08:00

An example of successful and well known application of pre-paid card in the world is the Octopus card- 八达通. The octopus card is applicable in Hong Kong. It is a card to be used in all of the public transport in Hong Kong. Besides that, It also can be used at the convenience stores, supermarkets, car parks and other places. The card made their life easier and more convenient.

Touch 'n Go in Malaysia is improving ! As we know, the card can be used to pass tolls and to be used in railway transports. Besides that, selected parking sites such as Sunway Pyramid and The Mines enable us to use Touch'n Go too. So, what is Touch'n Go?

Touch'n Go is a card that uses contactless smartcard technology. Users able to use it as long as it is pre-loaded with electronic cash. There are few places to reload the card which includes toll plazas, train stations, ATMs, Cash Deposit Machines with zero charges and Petrol kiosks , authorised third party outlets with RM0.50 charging fees.

Touch'n Go could be used in RapidKL too. It is a good news to people who takes public bus because it can be used as Monthly Travel Card. Besides that, under a pilot scheme of the Touch'n Go card, Outlets such as A&W, Burger King, Dunkin’ Donut, 7-Eleven, Carrefour hypermarkets, Caltex convenience stores and Cineleisure in Klang Valley areas are accepting the card too.

Pre-paid Cash Card is a card that will not have to bare a "rolling debts" such as misuse of credit cards. Besides, you can use what you have NOW without using your FUTURE money.

Money is more valuable now than future.

Electronic Currency

2009-06-30T22:41:00.014+08:00

E-currency, which allows Internet-based purchase and sales transactions involving almost anything to be safely conducted at lightning speed.

Electronic Currency is also known as electronic money, electronic cash, digital money, digital cash or digital currency. The examples of electronic currency are Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and direct deposit.

Electronic currency means the money you use over the internet. Electronic currency trading means buying and selling of this internet money, allows its holder to buy the goods and the services that offered over the internet.

There are some of the electronic currency trading experts has stronglly suggested that beginners should start with only a few dollars so that they can first learn about electronic currency.

With electronic currency trading you are given many opportunities to make profit without spending too much on investment.

Besides that, electronic currency trading has a low transaction cost as compare with other businesses. So that, electronic currency trading allows you to do business with minimal fees but giving you more profit for you.

Electronic currency trading is versatility and convenience to the persons involved. Electronic currency trading market that best suit for your needs for anytime of day. The electronic currency trading business does not sleep at the night or day, the world is merely at your fingertips.

Aside from the schedule flexibility, whether you are at home, at the coffee shop or virtually anywhere, electronic currency trading can be used as long as there is an internet connection.

Electronic currency trading is not only very profitable it is also very convenient for you.

The review on post on Internet Security from My E-Commerce blog

2009-06-25T00:12:00.006+08:00

From My E-Commerce blog post, I actually know what the common password those account users are using. Internet security is very important to safeguard our private information which located in some place like online banking website, email, company intranet and so on.

I experienced before that my email have been hacked.
Many of my friends actually experienced before. When we are offline, the hacker will use our account to spread viruses to other user stated that this website is exciting and good. Once the other user press on the website, the same thing will happen to them too.

How to choose a safe password?

There are few steps to choose a safe password.

1. Think some thing that other people don’t know such as when you bought your car.

2. When creating your password, put one or two letter in the middle of your password.Spacing and capitalization can make the password more secure.
For example: 123 kFc 659

3. Once you satisfied with the password, you will not easily forget it. To ensure you remember the password, make few of your other account like Facebook, Friendster and MSN Hotmail to have a same password.

4. Do not write down your password anywhere that is visibly by anyone.

Warning: Numerical like mobile phone number and birthday taken as password can be easily can be guess by third party. Password that is too long are easily being forgotton. So, choose your password carefully and wisely.

Phishing: Examples and its prevention methods

2009-06-25T00:07:00.011+08:00

What is Phishing??? Whether the word come from "Fishing"???

"Phishing = fishing + phreaking"

Phishing is a new type of network attack where the attacker creates a replica of an existing Web page to fool users (e.g., by using specially designed e-mails or instant messages) in order to attract user's attention to update and submit their personal secret information such as financial status, password data and so on to their service provides’ Web site.

The word ‘Phishing’ is initially emerged in 1990s. The earlyhackers have used ‘ph’ to replace ‘f’ to produce a new words in the hacker’s community. Phishing is a new word produced from ‘fishing’, it refers to the act that the attacker attract users to visit a faked website by sending them faked e-mails or instant messages, and steal the victim’s personal information such as user name,password, and national security ID, and etc.

They usually will attract users to visit their website to conform or modify your account number and password through the hyperlink provided in the e-mail.

Then, you will be linked to a faked website after clicking those links. The style, the functions performed, sometimes even the URL of these faked websites are similar to the real website. It is very difficult for you to know that you are actually visiting a faked website. If you insert the account number and password, the attackers then will successfully collect the information at the server side. This will enable them to access into user account and perform the next ation with those information.

Methods To Prevent Phishing Attack (such as Maybank and Public Bank cases mentioned above)

1) Never disclose any private information via internet even if you have received those emails from the bank.

2) Never respond to any phone call/ sms requesting your bank account details.

3) Never disclose your bank account details or Internet banking username and password to anyone

4) NEVER follow instructions from unknown parties to do banking transactions or make changes to your bank account details

In conclusion, users should take those methods to prevent phishing attack. It is because "PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURING"

Police alert!
Don't be a victim of phishing scams! Protect yourself from identity theft today..........

The threat of online security: How safe is our data?

2009-06-24T11:20:00.014+08:00

Nowadays, new generations are depending on the technology. Private photos and information are all save in their own computers. It makes life easy but also make them more risky. Their data could be stolen easily!

Cases such as Phishing e-mail targets local Internet banking users, Edison Chen Photo Scandal, Company Laptop been Stolen and School Employees' Personal Data Stolen. These cases reflects that data could be stolen by different ways such as data theft, phishing and laptop stolen.

There are types of threats and attacks that are harmful to our data.

1. Nontechnical attack -- phishing.

Details are available in http://t8g3.blogspot.com/2009/06/phishing-examples-and-its-prevention.html which posted by Kok Yong.

2. Technical attacks-- DoS attack, DDoS attack, Virus, Worm, Macro virus or macro worm and Trojan horse.

Denial-of-service attack

An attacker uses specialized software to send a flood of data packets to the target computer with the aim of overloading its resources. It may cuase a network to shut down, making it impossibke for users to access the site.

Virus

A piece of software code that insert itself into a host, including the operating systems, to propagate, it requires that its host program to be run to activate it.

Trojan Horse

A program that appears to have a useful function but taht contains a hidden function that presents a secuirty risk.

Beware of these threats and attacks as they are harmful to your data!

How to safeguard our personal and financial data

2009-06-24T10:25:00.009+08:00

Nowadays, the Internet users are facing the problems that their personal and financial data has been stolen. There are many hackers would gain control of our data. Besides that, when surfing the Internet, there are some website which has virus. However, there may have some safeguards which can prevent their important data from being stolen.

By using the user name and password, which is the most common ways that people use to protect their data. Nevertheless, the password used must be longer because it provides greater security than the shorter one. Not only that, we also should change our password frequently in order to avoid others stolen our password.

To protect against some virus that are very harmful to our computer, we have to install the powerful antivirus software which can be bought from the shop. We also can download the antivirus software from the Internet which is free of charge. Usually the antivirus software has the automatic update feature which provides the better protection from the new virus that popping up from the Internet.

The antispyware and firewall are both safeguard which are very important for us to protect our data. The antispyware can prevent the unauthorised users access into our personal date in our computer. Besides that, the firewall can prevent the hackers from hacking our data.

So, these are some of the safeguard that can protect our data from being misusing.

The history and evolution of e-commerce

2009-06-18T15:09:00.015+08:00

One of the most popular activities on the net is shopping. You can shop through web anytime and anywhere no matter you are wearing pajamas. E-commerce is a selling and buying process that done electronically through technology. Generally, e-commerce can be done with electricity, cable, computer, modem and the internet. E-commerce was started to be use in 1991 when the web are open for commercial use. From that time, thousand of businesses are started in the web and many of the people gain profit through this e-commerce.

At first, e-commerce was developed with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) which were introduced in late 1970s. These two applications enable user to send or receive business document like purchasing order, sale invoice and so on. With the rapid growth of e-commerce, credit card, automated teller machine (ATM), telephone banking, airline reservation system were introduced in 1980-1990. Online shopping was introduced by Micheal Aldrich in 1979. However, this was widely used transport manufacturers such as Ford, Peugeot-Talbot, General Motors and Nissan.

1990: Tim Berners-Lee writes the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, using a NeXT computer.

1991: commercial enterprise on the Internet was strictly prohibited. Although the Internet became popular worldwide around 1994, it took about five years to introduce security protocols and DSL allowing continual connection to the Internet.
1992: J.H. Snider and Terra Ziporyn publish Future Shop: How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312063598.

1994: Netscape releases the Navigator browser in October under the code name Mozilla. Pizza Hut offers pizza ordering on its Web page. The first online bank opens. Attempts to offer flower delivery and magazine subscriptions online. Adult materials also becomes commercially available, as well as cars and bikes. Netscape 1.0 is introduced in late 1994 SSL encryption that made transactions secure.

1995: Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com and the first commercial-free 24 hour, internet-only radio stations, Radio HK and NetRadio start broadcasting. Dell and Cisco begin to aggressively use Internet for commercial transactions. eBay is founded by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb.

1998: Electronic postal stamps can be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web.
1999: Business.com sold for US $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was purchased in 1997 for US $149,000. The peer-to-peer filesharing software Napster launches. ATG Stores launches to sell decorative items for the home online.
2000: The dot-com bust. A lot of European and American business companies offered their services through the World Wide Web. Since then people began to associate a word "ecommerce" with the ability of purchasing various goods through the Internet using secure protocols and electronic payment services.

2002: eBay acquires PayPal for $1.5 billion. Niche retail companies CSN Stores and NetShops are founded with the concept of selling products through several targeted domains, rather than a central portal.

2003: Amazon.com posts first yearly profit.

2007: Business.com acquired by R.H. Donnelley for $345 million.

2008: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $204 billion, an increase of 17 percent over 2007.

Identify and compare the revenue model for Google, Amazon.com and eBay

2009-06-17T22:59:00.032+08:00

Revenue models indicated how an organization or E-commerce company generated sales. They are generating sales by using revenue models such as sales, transaction fees, subscription fees, advertising fees, affiliate fees and other revenue source.

Google

Google's revenue model has generated revenue from variety of revenue models. It earns profit from advertising fees such as Google AdWords. Advertising fees refer to a publisher allocate some advertisements in their website for banner in return for a fee. Google AdWords is a pay per click advertising program of Google which allows the advertisers to present advertisements to people at the instant the people who are looking for those related information.

Google has generated revenue from the revenue model by collecting affiliate fees which is Google AdSense. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, video advertisements on their sites. Revenue is generated on a per-click or per-thousand-ads-displayed basis and the ad are administered by Google. Pay per click basis means the advertisers have to pay to Google for how many times the users have clicked in their advertisement.

Amazon

Amazon's worldwide revenue comes from media categories such as books, music, video, Amazon's product footprint in the US has expanded into over 40 categories. Amazon is not just in the business of selling products via the Internet. Besides that, Amazon sells a variety of new and used products for which Amazon receives a commission on products sold via its Marketplace, and although commisions for these products are affiliate fees. Other than that, there are few advertisement displays in their main webpage where users browsing through some items. So that, the Amazon are generated revenue from sales and affiliate fees.

Ebay

Most of the common eBay's revenues come from online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods or services worldwide. eBay generates revenue from a number of fees. The eBay’s fees may consist of insertion fees, promotional fees and final value fees. Insertion fees are charged for any item that is listed on eBay, but the fees paid is nonrefundable. Promotional fees are charged for extra listed options that attract attention for an item, while for final value fees are a commission at the end of the auction that is charged to seller.

Google, Amazon and eBay are the most successful e-commerce companies in the world. Nowadays, they are selling variety types of products and services to generate different variety revenue model. For Google's revenue models may mainly generated from the advertising fees, Amazon's revenue models are widely generated from sales, transaction fees, affiliate fees and etc whereas eBay's revenue models are generated from transaction fees.

In order to complete the transactions in these e-commerce website, customers are highy encouraged by using Paypal service instead of credit cards. This is because customer need not expose their credit card or bank account number by using Paypal service. Paypal website is shown as below:

An example of an E-Commerce failure and its causes

2009-06-17T15:17:00.009+08:00

EBay, Amazon, and Dell are the example of successfully operating business through e-commerce. However, there still have many companies that are not able to perform well through e-commerce and lead to winding up. For example the Boo.com.

Boo.com was a European company founded in 1998 and operating out of a London head office, which was founded by three Swedish entrepreneurs, Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin. This British company dealing business through Internet by selling the clothes and comes tic. However, the vision of Boo.com was became the worlds first online global sports retail site. Unfortunately, Boo.com has been liquidated on May 18th 2000, the investors funds could not be raised to meet the spiraling marketing, technology and wage bills.The failure of Boo.com as an e-retailer:

Bad planning
The founder of the Boo.com was too ambitious in their business plan. Instead of starting small and then expanding slowly, they wanted to dominate the market immediately.

Lack of sound financial management
The grandiose and sizable vision of Boo.com’s founders and investors came with huge costs which spiraled out of control due to lack of sound financial management. In addition to the initial outlay website, there were high maintenance expenses.

Cash burn

Over the course of two years, the company managed to burn through $130m of investors' money, as well a substantial amount of the founders' savings. It indicates that the endless rounds of raising finance, glamorous parties, staff clashes and bitter sparring with the press.

Poor design, browsing and navigation
The website was heavily relied on Java Script an Flash technology to display 3D views of wares. Besides that the Boo.com website has the poor design for its targeted audience, going against many usability conventions. Not only that, the website also very time consuming to load and this make the vast majority of users have to spend their time when using the website. This is due to the poor broadband technology at that time. The complicated design also required the site to be displayed in a fixed size window. It makes the users hard to see all the products one time because the space available has been limited.

Poor marketing

Nevertheless, Boo.com marketed itself as a premium sports, urban street wear and fashion retailer, stocking quality products for the fashion conscious young individual. However, with premium products came expensive charges but the customer wish to buy cheaper products through Internet. Besides that, the clothing concern by customers is to see, feel and try before buying.

An example of an E-Commerce success and its cause

2009-06-16T23:10:00.016+08:00

There are several E-Commerce Companies that attract people about E-Commerce such as Amazon.com , eBay, and Yahoo. Lets talk about one of the famous success E-commerce in the world which is Amazon.com.

Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos in year 1994. According to the study in ecommerce-guide.com , Amazon.com is the premier e-commerce company, having translated its Brand Performance into value on the Bricks Interaction. The research shows Amazon's value here is essentially the equivalent of a retail storefront, something that customers don't see in the other e-commerce companies.

There are many causes that develop the success in Amazon.com. They are also the key of building a success E-commerce company.

Design of the web page

The website famous in selling books. But, there are also different products provided. As a user of the website, I found that Amazon is a user-friendly website. The design of the website can clearly make me how to find and purchase products that I want.

Amazon.com has a very good electronic storefronts which provided with electronic catalog, search engine, electronic cart, payment gateway, shipment court and customer services.

Special Events provided

Besides that, Amazon also added some special festival offers such as Fathers' Day. They provide us a special deals for fathers' day. http://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Day-Gifts-Sale/ .This link will bring you to the gifts that suitable for your dad. They also category them into different departments that help users to find what they want in the shorter time.

Strategic of the company

Amazon.com hires local employees in foreign countries to help them gather information about the local market and demand of the local potential customer. With this, they are on top of other e-commerce companies.

Satisfaction of Customer

The continuous study of the buying pattern of consumer that results in continuing making their customers happy. Amazon.com attracts and retains their customers by offering various rewards to their customers. Besides, Amazon.com also provides the free of charge additional services such as gift-wrapping to their customers. Amazon.com has also managed to improve their shipping system throughout the year.

Effective marketing process

Amazon.com frequently communicates with their customer effectively. The punctuality of the product shipping also contributes to the effective marketing process. They has increased their capabilities to quote the available product on the real time basis. Amazon.com also acts as a middleman between the consumer and other retailer.

Thank you for reading. Post a comment ya..

Self-introduction

2009-06-09T12:57:00.002+08:00

Yo! I am Lee Poh Woon. I come from Batu Pahat, Johore. Currently, I staying in Sungai Long to further my studies in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. I am taking Bachelor of Commerce (hons) Accounting. I used to be in a science class and accounting is very new to me especially in Year one of my university life. Staying out of my home, make me miss my mum's cooking a lot. I usually back to Batu Pahat when the week is free of assignments and test.

My hobbies are playing computer games, listen to music and watch shows. When there is free time, some of my classmates and I will go to Balakong to play badminton. Doing some exercise can make me relax and feel not so stress.

The websites that I usually visit are:

1. http://www.33md.com/ : It is a Chinese website that enables us to download dramas and movies.

2. http://www.haoting.com/ : In this website, I can update myself with new songs and find the songs that I want.

3. http://www.facebook.com/ : I communicate with my friends through facebook as they are studying in overseas or other states.

4. http://wble.utar.edu.my/ : As a student in UTAR, wble is very important to us. It provides information about the subjects we taking in the current semester.

5. http://www.google.com/ : It is a search engine that helps me to gain more knowledge of a certain things.

However, during this semester, I have to take one special subject called e-commerce. In the previous semester, I used to use the e-commerce as my assignment topic but due to many factors I still cant manage it. I hope to learn more about it and use it in my life. Thanks for reading and leave a comment.

My Introduction

2009-06-08T22:37:00.004+08:00

Hi! My name is Tee Mei Sim, Amy. My friends usually call me Amy or Amy Tee. I am going to be 21 years old this year. I am from Cheras and currently study Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting in University Tunku Abdul Rahman . I got my Diploma in Accounting in Tunku Abdul Rahman before transferred to current institute.

I am surprise when I noticed that the assignment of this subject is to write a blog with group members. However, it looked interesting for me. I am a very curious person. That's why most of my free time I like to update myself with new information. It makes my life more meaningful.

My hobbies are watching television programs, playing badminton and gathering with friends and family. I appreciate my university life because I know that I have to work hard after I graduate.

The websites that I usually visit are:

1. http://www.facebook.com/ and http://www.friendster.com/: I can play a lot of quiz and games here. Not only that, I also can share my photos with friends.

2.http://www.utar.edu.my/: I can check the latest news about my university.

3.http://www.google.com/: I can find the information I need for my studies.

4.http://www2.pbebank.com/: From this website, I usually check my account balance and the promotion of the bank.

5.http://www.hotmail.com/: This website allows me to check mails and send some documents to my assignment team members.

First Blog Post in E-Commerce~

2009-06-07T20:53:00.010+08:00

Hello! I’m Chin Mei Kee. Most of my friends call me Miki. This is the first time I write blog. I think there might be a lot of grammar mistakes and quite boring. But I will try to improve to make this blog interesting. I will complete this assignment with my 3 group member Amy, Poh Woon and Kok Yong. In my opinion, E-commerce is a trading activity that performed via internet. This E-Commerce assignment is quite interesting because it’s required us to write blog. This is the first time I heard assignment can be so flexible. I think this assignment could be fun.

What are my hobbies? Those friends who know me well will know. This hobby can consider not a good hobby because my hobby is to play online game. I prefer play online game rather than watch television. Online game that I play is maple story. I only play maple story during my holiday. Although all my friend ask me to play other online game like Dota or Cabal of Chronical, I still play maple story because it is more simple and cute compare to the other 2 online game. Besides that, I enjoy listening to songs. There are few thing that I will do when I online. I surf net to find articles for assignment, play online games, download movies and songs, check mails, play msn to chat with friend and so on.

There are few websites that often visit. The first 2 website are related to my online game which is T-OneMS (http://www.t-onems.com) and T One Forum (http://www.t1ms.smfnew.com). I visit this 2 website to check the latest game solution and news. The third website is UTAR wble website (https://wble.utar.edu.my). I visit this website to download lecture and additional notes, check the latest news form lecturer and so on. The fourth website is MSN website (http://www.msn.com). This is website is mainly visit to check mail from friends and other website. The fifth website that I visit most is Facebook website (http://www.facebook.com). This website got a lot of entertainment application. This includes self test question, games, music, movie’s trailer and so on.

That’s all my first blog. Although is not interesting but I hope u all enjoy blogging and reading.:-)

Introduction and 1st Time Blogging By Using English

2009-06-03T20:17:00.017+08:00

Lets start blogging for our E-commerce subject... ...

Firstly, i would like to introduce myself and my group members. My name is kok yong and my group members are miki, amy and poh woon. I am come from Teluk Intan, Perak and currently stay in Sg.long for my further study in Utar. I am interesting in accounting. Because of that has encouraged me to take for Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting ( BAC) course. My hobbies are watching Hong Kong drama, playing games and listening songs..

Actually i'm a quiet and shy person in the class when i'm secondary school, after i knew some of my hyperactive friends at that time have caused me to change become a active person. But i don'm know that is a goods for me or not?? But now i felt happy because I know that is useful for me to know for more friends. At least, can simply to chat with my friends in any topics. That is one of the thing to lets me more enjoy during this uni life. Sometimes we also went to watch movie or sing k (sing karaoke) with my friends during free time.

For me, writing english blog is quite hard for me. Because i'm worry all my english sentence will contain at least one grammar mistake. This is because my english level is so poor, maybe mainly because I studied in SMK (Sekolah Menengah kebangsaan) for secondary school. During the school time, i just will communicate with my friends by using mandarin or bahasa melayu. Most of my friends at that time are not english educated, so that i think it is hard for me to improve my english at that time. But once I study in UTAR, i have know so many friends here and my friends are willing to teach me during the class. So, i do not write write any english blog for myself until now. Nowadays, writing a blog is very common for everyone. Therefore, now is the time i should create a blog...

I should thanks to everyone who have tolerate with me because of my bad attitude. Actually i'm a hot temper person who will easily scold people who has did any wrong or did not participate in my assignment group. I would like to say thanks to all my previous and current group members beacuse they have done for good assignment for our group. Please forgive me when i have did any wrong and should correct me once i have did wrong also. Thanks and wish you all the best... Lets we start to fight in order to finish our graduation....

E-commerce is a compulsory subejct in order to complete my graduation. But this subject is require us to create a blog to share opinions with other friends. I think this is a method thats using for most of the people to communicate with others. In my opinion, i think e-commerce is a subject that require us to learn about the relationship between consumers and sellers. For example, consumer is convenience for consumer to buy the products or services through online services. But now still is week 1 and i'm haven't attend the lecture class yet. So that, i am still don't know the syllabus for this subject. I hope this subject will bring advantage for everyone and hope can pass for this subject.

There are several websites that i have regulary visited as below:

1) Chinapresswebsite ( http://www.chinapress.com.my/) has shown the latest news that happenned around the world.

2) Utar wble website ( https://wble.utar.edu.my/login/index.php) has enabled me to download the lecture notes, tutorial questions, additional notes and check the latest news from lecturer.

3) Facebook website (http://www.facebook.com/) has allowed me to know for more friends and enjoyed the appliation games. Besides that, i could find back my primary or secondary's friends through facebook website. That can help me to meet back the friends that are actually i have lost their contacts.

4) Tournamentsoftware website(http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/) has provided me to find for the latest badminton tournament result and the date and venue for each tournament.

5) Google website (http://www.google.com/) has enabled me to search for more information for my assignment purpose.

That is my introduction for my first blog, please leave any comment if convenience after you have accessed to my blog. I am highly appreciated for any recommendation. Thank you....

Haha... Good luck for your blogging...