04.28.08

E-commerce Website Template – New Release!

Posted in E-commerce, webShaper at 11:12 pm by ethan

New e-commerce store template in addition to existing templates in webShaper e-commerce!

Love it? Hate it? Let us know!

If you are curious, the nice toys picture we actually “borrowed” from one of our client – www.mylofttoys.com – check out their nice store done by one of our web design partner optima solution, they rocks!

We realize how important template selection is to clients, More new & nicely design templates to come together with webShaper e-commerce soon, stay tuned!

PS: In case you did not realize, there are already 6 ready templates comes together with webSHaper e-commerce. to access it, just go to webShaper > Design > Manage Design > Select New.

Master Template – The look & Feel, the layout and the colors

e-commerce website template - main layout aka look and feel

Category Display – How products in each category are being displayed

e-commerce website template - category page

Product Display – Products Details, Pricing, Add-to-cart button etc

e-commerce website template - product page


04.26.08

Windows Vista Sucks

Posted in General, web2.0 productivity at 12:07 pm by admin

Microsoft needs this video to “pyscho” their sales that Windows Vista rocks? and steve ballmer said we don’t want Windows XP ?

We just bought a new dell laptop recently, we make a request for Windows XP PRO installation and Dell insider sales rep told us the machine “must ship” with windows vista (W T F ? hello, are you listening to the customers? ). If we want Windows XP bundled, the only choice is Dell Latitude Machines, hell… i might as well get an IBM X-61 then.

None of my friends (to be fair, mostly techies) has good things to say about Vista, coz it a hog on machine resources, it’s slow… very slow… i know they have nice interface, but again, aero interface is useless if it gets in the way of completing the tasks faster. My sister got a dell desktop at home and i’m suffering big time using vista (even with 2GB of ram) until i completely turn off they eye goodies then the thing starting to get “usable” again.

Heck, we are going to install ubuntu if necessary.

oh ya btw, if your co-worker is slacking, you can use effective “threat” below to keep things moving. :P

04.25.08

Malaysia Master Entrepreneurs

Posted in Entrepreneurship at 12:53 pm by adrianoh

These 2 guys, Mark Chang from Jobstreet.com (on the left) and Tony Fernandes from AirAsia.com, which needs no further introduction. They are among the most successful of new breed of Internet Savvy, Young and Aggressive entrepreneurs in Malaysia.

One of them is the founder of Jobstreet.com – the most successful Internet Company (actually they are no longer “just an internet company”, they are a full swing service oriented company that use the Internet Extensively to compete in the “people industry” ) in Malaysia. We know that they have done something terribly right when we also become their customer. There’s tons of jobstreet-wannabe but none of them come close.

Another is the maverick which had made it possible for most Malaysian to fly, fly often, and now even can fly to Australia for just RM9.95 only. Thanks to him, even small company like us can now thinking of having our company trip at Gold Coast too.

Recently they are touted as one of the most Innovative firm by FastCompany, alongside with well-known Giant like GE. It’s really quite an achievement.

Let’s Squeeze what’s inside their brain

Mark Chang – Jobstreet.com
Read more about Mark at this featured story of Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/global/2008/0128/014.html

Tony Fernandes – AirAsia.com – Learn
http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Fernandes2.cfm

And interestingly, it seems like these 2 companies have a knack for fast cars (think speed, think high risk aka high return), Jobstreet is sponsoring the Malaysia A1 team while AirAsia is sponsoring the William F1 Team – so they do share something in common ya.. :)

Jobstreet sponsoring A1 Malaysia Team

AirAsia Sponsoring F1 William Team

04.15.08

Exabytes Accredited Partner

Posted in E-commerce, Payment Gateway at 9:35 am by adrianoh

Exabytes.com E-commerce Partner

We are proud to be associated with Malaysia biggest hosting company – Exabytes as their E-solutions Accredited Partner.

It’s a strong testimonial & recognition for our product and service quality and kudos to all the team members for the good job done!

In case you don’t realize, our flagship product – webShaper e-commerce supports both Malaysia Payment Gateways listed as Exabytes Accredited Partners too.

And of course, both webShaper e-commerce & webShaper e-catalog are 100% compatible with Exabytes Ebiz Windows Hosting. Just buy and we will provide you the installation for free!

04.11.08

PC Fair 2008 – Start your e-commerce website now!

Posted in E-commerce, Payment Gateway, Web Technologies at 12:01 pm by finn

Check out our latest newspaper print ad below appearing on Star Intech. PC Fair is one of the most happening consumer event in Malaysia (only Matta Fair come close…), drawing tens of thousands of crowd and also multi-millions worth of business to the exhibitors in just over a 3 days period.

But heck, what happened after PC Fair? Don’t merchants want more sales and more importantly, repeat purchase? So do you offer them a way to order and buy from you again? After all, PC Fair is held only 3 times a year and each time it lasts for only 3 days. While on the Internet, consumers are hunting for deals (especially for technology products like Mobile Phones, Notebooks, Digital Cameras, PDAs, GPS devices etc ) 24 x 7 x 365 a year. Don’t you want to grab a piece of the market?

So if you are retailers, why don’t you set up your own branded online store and throw your own “PC Fair” anytime you like? The whole solution easily cost less than a 3-day booth pricing and it will help you generate more sales and becoming your ultimate marketing tool.

Below are just some eg of what our clients did – throwing their own pcfair. :)

www.orderzones.com

www.orderzones.com

www.renoraine.com.my

PDA, GPS, Mobile Phone Stores

www.notebookshop.com.my

www.notebookshop.com.my

www.freshgear.com.my

www.freshgear.com.my

www.ewarehouse.com.my

www.ewarehouse.com.my

Last but not least, our ad! Did i mention we will help you to Get Free Traffic if you are a technology product retailers purchasing our e-commerce solution during this promotion period?

pc fair only last for 3 days, why don\'t setup your own online store?

04.01.08

E-commerce Success Series #1

Posted in E-commerce, Entrepreneurship at 10:13 am by admin

#1 – Amazon.com – The Mighty King of E-commerce

To be the best, you need to benchmark against the very best. Starting from this month, we will publish (on a monthly basis ) a new e-commerce success series – PDF files with quotes by those successful e-commerce or Internet entrepreneurs who’s been there, done that.

E-commerce is a hyper competitive and challenging business, who doesn’t needs motivation? I’m sure you will be inspired by some of the tips given here.

Feel free to share around with your friends on this! Coming on Series #2 are Zappos.com (world largest online shoes retailer) founder – Tony Shieh, subscribe to our blog feed now and stay tuned!

Latest update: Jeff Bezos on Innovation by Business Week

Quick excerpt – the key drivers behind Amazon’s Innovation:

  • Be long term oriented: Innovate in good or tough times and get ready to handle criticism in the meantime.
  • Manage the Innovation spectrum: Leverage the kind of fine-grained Innovation that happens on a daily basis and embark in selected large scale innovation projects.
  • Develop adjacent markets and new competencies: Deliver things your customers care about and improve the customers’ experience.
  • Frugality and constraints drive Innovation: Be creative.

Amazon Jeff Bezos Success Story

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Amazon Jeff Bezos Quotes