Ecommerce Blog: Sell More Online
I bet everyone knows Microsoft Windows Operating System nowadays, but have you heard of Windows Version 1.0? I guess 99.9% of people never heard of it, neither do we.
However, Windows Version 1.0 did appear in the market, and guess who’s the super salesman appeared on the TV ad? It’s no other than the enthusiastic CEO of Microsoft – Steve Ballmer. After watching the clip, we cannot help but falling in love with Steve Ballmer. Read the rest of this entry »
When it comes to e-commerce, a nice and sharp picture of your product speaks more than a thousand words. Online shoppers want Image Clarity, Color Accuracy, Detail, and preferably Multiple Views. The quality of your product photos convey to the buyer informational and emotional values that impact their buying decision. A good product picture easily increases browse-to-sales conversions by 10% to 15%. But how many of us actually know how to shoot a sexy product picture that makes people falls in love in first sight?
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Want to buy online but don’t have a Credit Card? Doesn’t feel safe buying online using your existing no-limit-free-loading credit card (Batman actually has one)? Or just simply overshoot your credit card limit?
Whatever reasons you may have, here’s a solution to your online buying woe. Check out Ambank NextG Prepaid Card, where you can purchase a Starter Pack for a mere RM25 (~USD6.80) from Malaysia 7-Eleven Stores and start using it for your spending spree. Read the rest of this entry »
GBuy Google Checkout is finally here, LIVE.
Luckily it’s not called GBuy, else it would spell a marketing disaster among the chinese community. 
For those who can speak chinese dialect – “Hokkien”, you will get I mean.
To summarize:
Basically, Google Checkout is a checkout process that advertisers integrate with their websites. Customers who visit their sites can use this checkout option to buy from them using a single username and password. And once they do, advertisers can use Google Checkout to charge their credit cards, process their orders, and deposit funds in their bank accounts.
Apparently, Google Checkout ties in closely with Google Adwords(smart move, google). Read the rest of this entry »
Mash-ups – in software terms, describing software developers mixing web services available from third party websites into their own website or web application to create whole new level of services.
So, Why mash-ups? Simple, the Web was originally designed to be mashed up. And now it is only the beginning that it starts to show its enormous potential. Moreover at time where more and more software are being delivered as services over the net. It means a big shift, a definite change agent in how the software companies (like us) do business, and almost virtually everyone, every website online.
“They’re taking little bits and pieces from a number of companies and stitching them together in some clever way,” Amazon Chief Executive Jeffrey P. Bezos noted recently. “You’ll start to see the real power of Web services.”
For one thing, Google and other Web giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo are now embracing the mash-up movement by offering developers easier access to their data and services. That’s where the Microsoft LIVE initiative kick-in after they realize they are left behind Google in this pursue.
For instance, Map-based mash-up with ordering management in webShaper e-commerce, might assist the merchants in lowering down the risk of fraud and eventually chargeback. These are some of the Mash-ups which will be proved invaluable to merchants selling online. And Mashup will be one of our core development strategy for foreseeable future. Stay tuned, you will see more and more valuable services being mashed-up with our solution to empower the merchants.
Read more on what Bill Gates has to say about the web mashed-up (web 2.0).
EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, reported on Thursday, July 13, that the number of .eu domain names has passed 2 million.
There are currently 2,029,322 .eu domain names, and .eu has now climbed past the .nl TLD to become the seventh largest TLD in the world. (A list of the top 10 TLDs in the world at the beginning of June can be found here.)
The distribution of .eu domain names is dominated by Germany, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. These three countries hold 62% of the .eu domain names.
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I believe most of you are receiving TONS of spams every single day, some of the spam are harmless, but some are “lethal” and have an ulterior motif to con away your account details for their financial gains.
One of the most popular target is PayPal, you shouldn’t wonder as of today, PayPal has more than 100 Million accounts holder. When it comes to organized crime, SIZE DOES MATTER. So, you better learn how to spot those cunning fake PayPal emails straight from the syndicate before you fell victims to it.
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If you haven’t know yet, BOB Parsons is the man behind GoDaddy – One of the most successful web hosting company in the United States, and most probably the world. Web hosting, as we all know it, is an ULTRA COMPETITIVE industry, being one of the best says something about this company and it’s founder (and of course, the very smart people behind the team). And we think that the rules he lives by might benefits any of our readers who adapt it!
Here’s BOB principle of life>>
1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone. I believe that not much happens of any significance when we’re in our comfort zone. I hear people say, “But I’m concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.”
2. Never give up. Almost nothing works the first time it’s attempted. Just because what you’re doing does not seem to be working, doesn’t mean it won’t work. It just means that it might not work the way you’re doing it. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn’t have an opportunity. Read the rest of this entry »
Probably you yet to know. You can actually send FREE SMS to Maxis subscribers (012 / 017) via the web!
What’s cool about it?
1) It’s FREE. You can’t beat FREE stuff, can you?
2) Your receivers can also reply to your messages using their mobile phone. Just like chatting.
What so “lame” about it?
1) Initially 10 FREE SMS, NOW degrade to only FREE 3 SMS / day. 3 SMS expect people to use it to chat? Come on Maxis, show some sincerity, else better don’t unveil the services. After all, they just posted an earning of 490 Million profit for the Q1 2006. Don’t be so stingy!
