Apple Watch

Apple Watch is a smartwatch developed by Apple Incorporation. By having this watch peoples will get many advantages because its more convenience to users. Apple watch can receive and respond to notification quite fast. It make easier to users because this watch have various useful application likes can access the messages, mail, calendar, maps, weather, and music. Apple Watch also can track daily user activity.

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MyTeksi

MyTeksi is application for booking taxi cabs in Malaysia via an iPhone application, an android application or any smart phones application. The MyTeksi application can be downloaded for free from Appe App Store or Google Play. In Malaysia, MyTeksi is launched in 5 June 201.

Pros using MyTeksi

·         Easy to use app

·         Easily and quite fast to get the taxi

·         Charged according to meter

Cons using MyTeksi

·         Sometimes expensive especially when there is traffic

·         Need to pay in cash

·         Sometimes badly in maintained, smelly, and old

·         Hard to find the taxi especially during rush hour

·         Need to pay extra for the driver taxi calling income

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eBay

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In Malaysia mostly peoples like buy or sell anything in online. eBay become one of the services that peoples like to uses. eBay is the world’s online marketplace where individuals and businesses can buy and sell product and services. It also became a platform to buy and sell goods and services on the internet. The examples items that sell in eBay are clothing, electronic devices, home décor and gifts.

Advantages of using eBay

·         Customer can make choice before purchase the items

·         Can get a feedback from previous customer about the seller or items that selling

·         eBay has brand recognition and can get trust from customers

·         there is buyer and seller protection

Disadvantages of using eBay

·         Fees are sometimes are expensive and can cut the profits

·         Less flexibility

·         Have a restrictions on what seller can sell

·         Take time wait for delivery

·         Fraud

How to buy and sell on eBay

Firstly, peoples must register on eBay.

Especially for people not already register on eBay. Peoples must register at the eBay website. After finished and completed register, peoples must check inbox for confirmation email. Then, can start to shop at eBay.

Selling on eBay in Malaysia

Once people registered as an eBay user, people can begin sell their product by listing the products on eBay Malaysia website or in any international eBay websites using same ID. If peoples register in international eBay website the extra charge for fees will be incurred. There have two different ways of selling products in eBay Malaysia which are selling via listing and selling via eBay store.

i. Selling via listing

Seller should list their products in eBay website and the products will viewable to shoppers in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Listing the products is free of charge. This way can test the target market response towards the seller products. Sellers can view the items that sold and feedback from customers. 

ii. Selling via eBay store

eBay store requires a monthly subscription fee. There have several benefits on eBay store:

·         Sellers can get own unique URL (easier for marketing and promotional purpose)

·         Easily to customize the store

·         Easily inventory management

·         Can sell in large quantities of the items to sell

 

 

 

 

 

Google Maps Vs Waze

Nowadays, people like to use the Google Maps or Waze application in their phone in order to reach at one place easily. Peoples will using this application if they are not sure or don’t know the location. So, this application is important nowadays to peoples especially for those that new in certain area.

What is google maps?

Google Maps is mapping application provided by google as navigation tool for people to find the location. 

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What is waze?

Waze is navigation application in order to find location and share real time-traffic and road to people.

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There have certain peoples like using Google Maps compared to Waze and also have the peoples that like using Waze compared to Google Maps. It actually depends on individual itself either like using Google Maps or Waze.

Google Maps

            ·      Navigation focusing to driving, biking, walking and using public transport.

            ·      Voice navigation for driving, biking and walking.

• Shows map information when looking at different routing options
• Design of Google Maps more intuitive
• More easier to read

Waze

           ·         Waze is also better at rerouting drivers to avoid congestion

           ·         Focusing on people who driving

           ·         Easier to use and easier to understand

           ·         Voice navigation for driving

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Online promotion

Nowadays, most business used online promotion in order to promote their product or business to customers.  Mostly customer or client also looking for product or service through online regardless their size or nature of business. It is because internet becomes part of life for most people when it comes to searching something about product or services and to online shopping. So, we cannot simply ignore the impact of online promotion. There have the research stated that online advertising or online promotion have higher return on investment (ROI) compared to conventional method of marketing. Online promotion can be promotion in social media or social networking likes Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Blog, You Tube and Whatsapp. 

                                                      Examples of Social Media 

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There have several advantages of online promotion to promote the business. 

·        Less cost because sometime free used the social media to promote the business.

·     Can get more customers because nowadays many people like used the internet as a medto purchase or to search information about product or services.

·    More convenience because there have no limit time to operating the business and easier to customer purchases the product at anytime.

·       Time saving because the service in online without involve the other worker.

There have several disadvantages of online promotion to promote the business.

·         One way communication.

·         Easily to copy by other parties (Logos, Images and Trademarks).

·         Not easily to trust the customer especially about the paying the product or services.

·         Lack of marketing skill to promote using the internet.

·         Too many choices. 

Examples of online promotion in Malaysia 

 

Lazada online promotion 

                                                                                                                             

                                 

Watsons online promotion

AirAsia online promotion  

How to Track & Trace the item via Pos Laju

In Malaysia, usually we use national courier Pos Laju to send our parcel for all domestic shipment. The service that given by Pos Laju is so good in term of speedy and reliable delivery.

Pos Laju also provides tracking services or traces the shipment. This service allows checking the status of any shipment using Pos Laju which is when it was sent, from where it is sent, what the process through, and where it is right now. This service make easier for customer to traces their shipment. In order to trace the shipment the customer need the consignment number that provided in consignment note or Pos Laju receipt. The consignment number will be use as the tracking number.

                                            Example of Tracking Number 

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There have three methods that can be used to check the status of shipment by using tracking number which are from online, facebook and short message service (SMS).

1. Checking the status of shipment through online

·       To check through online customer can enter the official website Pos Laju and click “Track & Trace” part to check the status of shipment. Customer need to write the tracking number inside the box that provided and number that written cannot be spacing.

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• ·         Click the button “track”

      The result of the checking will display the current status of each item (tracking number) that the customer put it. The customer may know the delivery process of the items in the form of list of dates, times, process taken and its location at the post office where it was made.

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2. Checking the status of shipment through Facebook

The customer should private message the tracking number to the Facebook page customer service Pos Malaysia Berhad. Pos Laju customer service officer will help to make the checking through the turn on Monday to Friday between 8.30 am to 5.30 pm.

3. Checking the status of shipment through short message service (SMS)

The customer also can used SMS service to check Pos Laju tracking number of shipment. Customer need follow this step:

Type: PL <space> [Tracking Number]

Example: PL EF667590069MY

Send an SMS to 33333 (Only to Celcom, Maxis and DiGi. RM 0.50 will be charged for each SMS).