Sunday, June 15, 2008

An example an E-commerce success and its causes

In my opinion, Amazon.com is my choices that I picked for the “An example an E-commerce success and its causes. Jeff Bezos has founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994, and launched it online in 1995.Nowadays, Amazon.com has 35 million customers .Moreover, it has a huge amount list of inimitable items in categories such as books music, DVD, music CDs, MP3 format, computer and video games, furniture, toys, food and many more. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada and United Kingdom, Germany, France, China and Japan.

Amazon.com has chosen SAS as the foundation of its fraud detection system as other users who sells or buying goods through Amazon.com can feel more secured as no fraud can be actually done by hacker easily. Amazon.com has been familiar by large number of internet users including me due to its success such as ability for the users to find and discover anything product the users might want to buy. It become a choice for consumers a search before make decision to buy online.

It provides the users to submit reviews web page of each product. Rating scale is provided to rate the product from one to five stars. The users is compulsory to rate the product as a basic idea of the fame and reliability of a product. The review feature is an important and highly influential function for customers and one of the main reasons for amazon.com’s success at selling books.

Additionally, customers are allowed to look for the keywords wanted in a full text of many books in catalog in Search inside the Book. There have about 250000 books in the program which has cooperated with approximately 130 publishers to enable the users to search in Search inside the Book.

Users are allowed to comment on reviews too. Users are free to express their experience on the product in the context of their own lives as these comments are more helpful, and interesting to other customers.Especially for those customers who hesitate about which product is better can make a wise decision.




References

http://www.sas.com/offices/africa/southafrica/success/amazon.html

Saturday, June 14, 2008

An example of an E-Commerce success and its causes

eBay is a good example of a successful E-Commerce. This is because eBay is an Entrepreneurs worldwide sit in wonderment of how something as intangible as a mere web site can generate the activity and revenue as does this dot com entity. From the surveys, people who used to online shopping in eBay will feel very safe as there can have communication between the buyer and seller, and can discuss about the price if the buyer feels the price is considerably high than their budget. For each of the item, the details are provided to let the users have a complete picture of the product. Besides, the buyer could also read the comments about the product that he or she may want to purchase to have clearer information on the related production. This is because if the buyer feels that the seller is a good seller will leave comment and rank for them and vice versa. Moreover, the information in the eBay will also keep up to date, and the buyer can find the items they need very easily and user friendly. For the items that are available in Ebay, they will be categorized to render the users access to them easily. In fact, they can search for the items that they have interest to purchase in fast and effective way.

On the other hand, any user details will not be disclosured to anyone as to assure the privacy is warranted. Emphatically, everything in eBay is well secured. In addition, all the sellers and buyers must be follow all the rules which are set by the eBay when do the registration and business transaction between each others. This is to ensure the process will be done smoothly and proceed efficiently. If any reports of deceit received by eBay, eBay will take action immediately to ensure the quality of the products can be controlled all the time
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Saturday, June 7, 2008

my first blog {@.@}

Oh my god! One of my subjects, E-commerce requires me to create a blog. I’ve never write a blog before, and I am feeling quite confused. What should I write? Introduce myself in a formal or in a funny way?
Hihi, my name is Yu Ling, a common girl come from a small town called ‘Bahau’. I like to exercise very much as it could help me to reduce my stress and further increase my relationship with my friends. Swimming is one of my favorites. Every week, my friends and I will meet up to go for swimming and jogging. I will share my happiness and sadness with them and ask for advice from them.
In this modern environment, most people will use internet for communicating, business or entertainment purpose. Those websites are very useful in our daily life. The top 5 websites that I prefer are
http://www.friendster.com/ where I can view my friend’s blog and photo they posted through friendster and to know their recent condition and leave some comments for them.
http://www.youtube.com/, http://www.baidu.com/ enables me to watch the latest movie, search for new songs and view some interesting video clips. http://www.google.com/ and http://www.hotmail.com/ are the most helpful ones. I can frequently check my mail through Hotmail and search for information when I do not have any idea for my assignment through Google. Besides that, I like to online chatting with friends who stays in a different location, play online games, e-banking, read the latest news and listening to new songs.

That is Me~~!!

Hi, my name is Swee Fong, I am 21 years old and staying at Seri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur.

As an undergraduate student, I am now studying in University Tunku Abdul Rahman which is taking Bachelor in Commerce Accounting course. Although I am staying locally but I have rent a room with friends in Cypress, Sungai Long. This is because I can pay more concentration on my studies and also could able to discuss with friends when facing problems in studies more easily.

In my hobbies, I like swimming, playing online game, chatting with friends through internet. Whenever I feel stress in my studies, i would like to go for swimming with my friends. This is because I feel that swimming is a very relaxing exercise. Besides that, I like to visit websites when I have the free time to do so. Regarding on that, the top 5 websites that I always visit are
http://www.yahoo.com/, http://www.google.com/, http://www.youtube.com/, http://www.friendster.com/, and http://www.hotmail.com/.

In fact, I always visit
http://www.yahoo.com/ and http://www.google.com/ because the websites have provided sufficient information to lend me a hand on my assignment and I could able to search information for other things as well. In addition, I like to surf http://www.youtube.com/ as it is a free watching video website whereby the videos are posted by other people online. Hence, I will visit that website to watch the interesting videos in the free time. Besides, another website that I like visit http://www.friendster.com/ because it is a website that can let me have a chance to communicate with others, friends, and know new friends. Last but not least, I will always check mail in http://www.hotmail.com/ to see whether there are any important mails sent to me and forward mail to get some information through the mails. Furthermore, I also use this mailing machine to send mails to my friends, no matter another country or in my own country, because it can save time and money.

When associated with the top 5 internet activities, basically there are online chatting, playing online game, downloading song, checking mail and watching free online video.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Myself

Si (hello), I am Yei Yuen, an undergraduate accounting student, staying in Kuala Lumpur and I am under the horoscope of an Aries. I won’t reveal to you guys much of my detail, later u come find me if I have offended you (Just Joking) or u don’t even bother .About my personal lifestyle, I like hanging out with my friends ,gossiping on whatever is interesting is our best ‘subject’, bullying guys and attend compulsory class attendance(sounds nerd eh? That’s the way it is). Besides that, I enjoy food a lot especially buffet and sleep as much as I can as my eye bag is getting darker. The preferable websites is Friendster.com as I am able get to know more about my friend’s condition since I do not have the chances to meet them up as I am staying in different places. Follow down is Onemanga.com as i can get to read free comic without spending a single penny on comic books. Then the Googlemaps.com because I often got lost on my own so I need guidance to reach places in a fast and efficient way. ThenYoutube.com as can watch interesting video clip such as drama, comedy, people’s life style and even latest preview on movies and music videos. Lastly is Google.com because I can find needed information at this website and it is very useful for my assignments and such.

The activities are searching information, chatting, playing games, stream videos and even download wallpapers.

Maybe i'm a pessimitic

Life is difficult! Life is complex! Why life can be full of harassment and suspicion? Why we cannot simply work out our life by happy and relax? These negative questions that are me always feel suffering when i face something unhappiness. It is me, Lai Mun. Maybe this negative views are bad but i clearly know that it should be accept.

Thus, when i suffering unhappy matter, i like to follow my family always and have activities with them such as shopping, watch movie but i would not tell them what i'm upseting. This is known as the one of my hobby, have any activities with family. It will let me more comfort n happy. Since i'm the student of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman from Sungai Long and i'm come from Seremban, thus every friday, after classes are finished, i must go back hometown and have gathering with my best friends which are already know each others for many years. I will have no stress when gather with them. They can let me forget about anything i'm feeling unhappy, told me many knowledge that cannot get it from book, and they never use me. We have no an attitude that because you have benefit for me then i should please you. This just is true friends. Therefore, go for vacation is the one of my hobby because every semester break, i will also have vacation with my best friends.

I will always online also. It may also counted as my hobby because it can let us know more and new information immediately and recognise more friends. The websites i visited the most such as friendster, because we can add each other as friend and can know how well of each others from the life picture we have posted. Google and yahoo, i'm appreciate it bacause these 2 websites help me so much when i search for information for my assignments and even increase any knowledge such as game, medicine and geography. The websites that i have visited for fun is youtube and iask. Youtube website can let us watch many video or fantastic clip. Moreover of iask website is a chinese website for us to listen song, and also can search any information you want. On top of the activities as the purposes i surf of these websites , sometime i would accessed internet for play games, read news, update my friendster's profile, and etc.

ling's personal blog

hello...I am Lim Ee Ling, a young girl from Johor, Batu Pahat. The reason I create this blog is to introduce myself to all of you which is required as a part of my assignment topic. I am now studying in University Tunku Abdul Rahman taking Bachelor in Commerce Accounting course.
Let me tell you about my hobby now...My hobby is swimming. I enjoy swimming very much because it can help me to reduce my weight. Once in a week I will go swimming with my classmate. Besides this, I prefer to online whenever I am free. My favourite website that I always visit are http://www.friendster.com/, the reason why I visit friendster website is because I like to know more friends and to upload my photo to share with my friends. Besides, when I am boring, I will play games from http://www.yahoo.com/, and also I will visit http://www.baidu.com/ as to download favourite or new song. I have two email addresses from different website which are Yahoo's email from http://www.yahoo.com/ and Hotmail's email from http://www.hotmail.com/. I frequently check my mail and forward mails which I think it is meaningful. Most of the time, I also will visit hotmail to search information for my assignment. Besides that, I will use internet to do the online banking. Through the ebanking system help me faster and easily to paid my bill and transfer money. The bank which I always use is the public bank and the website is http://www.pbebank.com/. Through the internet I can do a lot of things such as downloading new songs, chat with friend, play online games, check my mails, and paid bills via ebanking. Therefore, I like to online because it could help me to go through all my free time.