Thursday, July 3, 2008

Review of a Local E-commerce Site

Aurora boutique is a local e-commerce site. It was launched in year 2007. Aurora is a unique lifestyle boutique concept that offers a scintillating mix of trendy, fashionable casual and professional apparel. It combines easy-to-wear mix-and-match styles with versatility, comfort and affordability. Aurora fashions are also imbued with hint of audacity and playfulness that reflect the empowered individuality of the modern woman.

Availability both online and on-site, Aurora strives to create a conductive, accessible and convenient fashion experience, you can walk in to their welcoming retail outlet, or, if you prefer,
shop from comfort of your own home. Their website < http://www.aurora-fashion.com/aboutus.php > is constantly updated with new arrivals, so you can browse through the latest styles at your leisure.

At Aurora, they understand that your personal style is constantly evolving, that is why they have new fashions every week, both from their in-house designers and their stable of quality apparel merchants. And to maintain your individuality, they assure you that each of their products is available in limited quantities only.

They provide the best service for their. You can made your payments by transfer or bank in to Maybank or Hong Leong Bank. After making your payment, you must fill in the payment notification form to inform their customer service personnel and expedite delivery of purchased stock. Their customer service centre will email you a notification. You will receive your product within three days or receiving notification

Blog as Communication Tool For Companies

Nowadays anyone connected to the internet these days has certainly heard of blogs –an internet medium that has become increasingly popular among internet users from a wide variety of backgrounds, including business. Unlike a traditional website, a blog does not require complex programming skills to develop and frequently costs little to set up. All facilities related to programming are provided by the internet service provider at no cost for basic services. The popularity of blogs, or the act of “blogging”, which is creating and maintaining your blog as well as continually visiting other blogs, has grown in leaps and bounds in recent years. Once the purview of individuals, blogging has recently spread to other areas including the business sector with the emergence of corporate blogs.

Corporate Blog

A corporate blog is a blog developed by or with the support of a company in its effort to achieve its goals. A corporate blog mainly serves a medium for corporate communication.The choice of blogging as a communication tool is closely linked to the increasingly cheap and easy access to the Internet. A company can set up a blog at no cost by utilizing blogging websites such as www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com. With a blog, the need for companies to communicate internally and externally can be met without additional costs.

Corporate Blog, A Communication Tool for Companies

As a communication tool, a corporate blog helps a company in such areas as:

Customer Relationship-- Getting to know the market is something a company must do. Deep knowledge of situations and conditions of a market will allow companies to get a clear picture of what products its potential customers need. Knowing the market means forging a closer relationship with customers. This relationship is aimed at capturing the needs of customers, both expressed implicitly and explicitly. By using a corporate blog such a goal can be achieved. Through a corporate blog, a company can provide information such as tips on how to use a product, after sales service information, etc. Likewise, customers can lodge complaints and make suggestions to the company through the blog.
Media Relations-- A corporate blog can serve as a tool to convey important information related to a company in an interactive manner, both internally (among staff members) and externally (to suppliers, partners, creditors).
Product/Idea Testing-- A good product is one that meets the needs of customers. To measure the market acceptability of a product, market research is needed. A corporate blog is one medium that can solicit feedback for market research. Furthermore, a corporate blog can serve as a medium to test the prototype or idea of a product before it is launched to the market.

Blogging will continue to develop as one of the tools that support a company’s competitiveness. Due to the ease with which it is adopted, the emphasis should be on creativity and innovation in the content of a blog.

Legal Downloading

To the downloader, they may think that illegal download music or video from internet are save money, save space to store in the computer rather buy the original CD or DVD. They think that music or video store in the computer, when they feel they do not need it just throw it into recycle bin or delete it such a easy way no need waste so much time to destroy it. But for the music or film companies they will face a big trouble, they might lose thousand million even few billion incomes because of illegal downloading from internet.
Illegal downloading is an unethical behavior. Recently, many countries such as United Kingdom, Singapore were strictly arrest online downloading. If the downloader has been caught action will be taken against the users who use their account to access pirated material by the internet services provider under new proposed new law by government.
Actually have the way to be an ethical user to downloading files, music or video is downloading legally from the internet. I find some illegal website that can use to downloading for free but some have to subscribe it to buy the music. Example Qtrax Beta is a legal Peer-to-Peer music distribution that allows listener to download legally DRM’ed songs. While legalsound.com is a legal but have to make payment for music.
If you really like to downloading but want to avoid from the law enforcement, then you better be an ethical user choosing the right and save way to downloading. You can visit
http://qtrax.com/US/index.html
http://www.legalsounds.com/
http://www.bestmp3links.com/
http://music.download.com/
For legal downloading software you can visit http://www.download.com/

Things to take note to prevent E-auction fraud when a consumer is participating in an E-auction

As more and more people using the Internet to do their regular shopping and online banking, therefore the incident of Internet fraud increases.

In order for consumer in preventing E-auction fraud there are few thing that they may want to take note on (these note provided is base on the effort done by eBay in order to reduce fraud) such as,

· User identity verification is a voluntary program encourages users to supply eBay with information for online verification to qualifies them for highest level of verification
· Authentication service is to determines whether an item is genuine and described appropriately
· Grading services is to determines physical condition of an item or the goods
· Feedback forum is provides for the users with ability to comment on their experiences with other individuals
· Insurance policy is offers by eBay underwritten by Lloyd’s of London at no cost to eBay users
· Escrow services is items valued at more than $200, eBay recommends escrow services (for a fee)
· Non-payment punishment is for the 1st-time nonpayment warning, 4th offense is cause for suspension from auction
· Appraisal services is use a variety of methods to appraise items
~Assessment of authenticity and condition
~Review of what comparable items have sold for in recent months
· Verifications is a way of confirming the identity and evaluating the condition of an item


From more information on step or ways in preventing E-auction fraud you can visit,

http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/260/267260/online_appendices/Turban-Appendix2A.pdf

http://www.spamlaws.com/internet-auction-fraud.html