Monthly Archives: June 2009

Editing photos,for dummies like me (Part 1)

It’s important to re-size your photos because, the size of your photos fresh out from your cameras usually around 1.5MB ~ 5MB, if you try to upload these pictures one by one to your website it will be horrendously long , and frankly quite time consuming.

Besides saving you loads of time from uploading your pictures, resizing your photos also helps you save storage space.

Not to mention you’ll be doing your website visitors a big favor by shortening the load time of your website. Most visitors won’t be bother to wait for your 1.5 MB product pictures to load, so my advice is to keep your pictures sizes to a maximum of 150KB each, so it will only take seconds to load your pictures not minutes!

Shopping Online Is Better!

Every woman used to go to various branded shops to buy all the new and fashionable designer clothes. If you want to know how crazy we girls can be on designer stuff, wait until there is a warehouse sale. They don’t mind tearing other people’s clothes just to be the first to enter the shop, and recently, on Zara warehouse sale, they even crash the front glass door! Gosh, guys must be scared of us when it comes to shopping!

Online Shop vs Retail Outlet (Part 1)

Setting up an e-commerce online shop, is actually not that different from setting up a real life physical retail outlet.

Step 1 : Constructing your online e-commerce shop
The cost of constructing a brick and mortar shop can be quite substantial.

To purchase an average retail lot in a location that is mildly populated and accessible would easily cost you a few hundred thousand RM, and if you can’t afford to purchase out right the rent can be up to a few thousand RM every month for a fairly popular location in the cities.

And then there is renovation, I mean you would need at least some form of renovation for your shop before it can look attractive and presentable for all the potential customers. In this age, packaging is very important towards making a successful sale. The way you present your product and your shop is crucial, that is why when you are in big shopping complexes such as in the 1utama shopping center in PJ, you will find that all the shops are fairly well renovated to look good and appealing. The way we stack and present our merchandises are also very important, the lighting, the color and the furniture all plays a part, and that is why we need interior designers to help us renovate!