06.27.06
Posted in Payment Gateway at 11:05 am by admin
Rule No 1: No such things as Free lunch in this world – There are fees for EVERYTHING.
Rule No 2: If there’s such thing as FREE, then please refer to Rule No 1.
Same goes for Paypal, Free Account sign up? Yup, you bet. But don’t be shocked if a chunk of your money being taken away by Paypal when you are on the receiving end.
So, how do you know in prior how much are actually being paid to Paypal? Check out Paypal Fee Calculator. This is a very neat web tools (non-affiliated with Paypal) that do the calculation for you on the fly. Try it out!
One very nice feature we like is that it can calculate the PayPal fees in reverse – a way in which you can calculate in advance what Y Amount your customer should pay you so that you get back X Amount after the commission charged by Paypal.
Try it out!
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Posted in E-commerce at 10:01 am by admin
Have you ever wondered any other courier services in town other than the BIG 4?
1) POS Malaysia
2) UPS
3) FEDEX
4) DHL
There are a lot more! To be exact, there are around 112 companies doing courier services in Malaysia. (We are talking about legally licensed one) and courier services provider actually need to apply for a license-to-do-business from Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission. Ok, don’t ask us why MCMC, but why not from Ministry of Transport Malaysia. We don’t have a clue!
You can download the list of licensed courier services providers here.
Do check them out. But be warned, Please do your homework to double check on their reliability and creditiblity. Coz same for every business, there will always be good and poor performing company. Good luck!
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Posted in E-commerce, Online Marketing at 9:24 am by admin
Online Storefront software like webShaper e-commerce, is unique by its own. In a sense that it consists mainly of 2 major parts; a front end (what your customer see) and a backend (your admin panel) which controlling your storefront. Other business application like accounting software, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Office Suites only consists of one User Interface – which is the same for all the users.
Thus, it’s not enough just having a good system powering up your online store, you need a convincing look that can communicate the “highest level of trust” to your customers or would be buyers, not to mention the importance when it comes to Branding. Just like a car, a powerful engine alone won’t close the sales, it has to couple with a sexy look to die for to ink the deal.
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06.25.06
Posted in E-commerce, Online Marketing at 8:26 pm by yipwt
A lot of web businesses think they could just set up an online shop, sprinkle some products, and people would come and buy.
It’s not that simple.
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Posted in E-commerce, Mobile Commerce at 5:38 pm by malcolm
We have now joined the mobile developers club. Allow us to present you webShaper mobile!
If you frequent an online store often, you are likely to look for new products, discounts and best sellers from an online store. We at Neowave strongly believe consumers should be able to browse and buy from an online store from mobile phones! At the time of writing, there is no buy function within webShaper Mobile. However, buying online with your mobile phone remains our dream.
With that dream in mind, we developed this add-on for webShaper ecommerce standard. With webShaper Mobile, anyone can check for best sellers, new products and specials right from their GPRS/EDGE/3G mobile phones. In addition, there is a search function at the visitors’ disposal. Imagine you if have to browse from category to category to search a particular product. It is time-wasting without a search function!
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06.23.06
Posted in Web Technologies at 5:26 pm by admin
“IE7 is a solid product. It vastly improves upon IE6 with useful features like anti-phishing that Firefox 2 will replicate.” said Blake Ross, Lead developer and evangelist of Firefox.
Click to read more.
I think that says it all.
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Posted in General, Web Technologies at 5:18 pm by admin
Came across this nice LAMP logo when surfing a Japanese website. For those who are not too sure what LAMP is, it’s an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. These are the 4 stacks of software block that serve as the foundation of a lot of web application.
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06.20.06
Posted in Entrepreneurship at 3:08 pm by admin
Check out the special interview with www.Malaysian-Entrepreneur.com – An Online Ezine about entrepreneurship. In this interview, co-founder of Neowave, Adrian Oh talks about growing the company and the challenges for local e-commerce scene.
Click here to read more.
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06.19.06
Posted in General at 7:59 pm by admin
We are pleased to welcome you to the official Neowave’s blog – SELL MORE.
So why is the name SELL MORE? You might have known (or noticed) that “SELL MORE” is the Official Tagline for our Online Storefront Software – webShaper e-commerce. But the simple yet catchy tagline is actually the answer born out of our quest of our business model. We were asking ourselves, what business we are in? Is it Software? YES. Is it Solutions? YES… but does it clearly define our goal and business and give us a sense of direction? Clearly NOT! it’s just simply too broad a term!
Soon enough, we started to realize we are in the business of helping other businesses to SELL MORE (it’s a no-brainer, isn’t it?). While the software we develop is the ultimate tool cum enabler! Every little things we do or develop, we cannot go wrong if it is going to help our customer to SELL MORE. Hey, if they SELL MORE, we will SELL MORE too. It’s a tagline that applies both way. PERFECT! 
And then the 2nd question, Why BLOG? There’re basically 3 reasons WHY:
1) It’s a non-formal way for us to share our random and spontaneous thoughts.
2) A great place to share tips and other great resources around the web at almost REAL TIME.
3) Improve our writing skills, with the dream that we can cook up a multi-million selling book like “The Da Vinci Code”, too. **Books doesn’t require support and maintenance, one writer told me that’s exactly why we should write book instead of developing software**
Briefly, “SELL MORE” will be about anything e-commerce (what else?), software development, Internet marketing, and of course, entrepreneurship.
Apart from that, you’ll learn about product improvement(we are firm believer in KAIZEN) as we make them. Hesitate no more, subscribe to our feeds NOW and please do provide us with regular feedback so we can serve you better.
Enjoy reading!
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