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The goal of any online shop site is to sell. The goal for any online shop store owner is to sell more and the goal of the marketing department is get to get more people to the site. So that is all pretty straight forward so far, everybody knows what they have to do and everybody knows what the end goal is–sell more.

This is where things prove to get a little more difficult, a very small percentage of your traffic will buy from you on their first visit to your site, and some reports claim that online shop sites need to interact with potential clients anything up to seven times before they can secure a sale. This can prove very difficult for an online shop that is selling merchandise that is available on countless other sites and has nothing new and interesting to offer. How can we make people interested enough to keep them coming back to our sites?

The Stickiness of your online shop can prove vital if you want to continue to drive sales both from new and old customers. How can you make your online shop compelling and attractive enough so that customers will continue to return time and time again?
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PayPal announced the second customer support center in the Asia Pacific region in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As our second customer support center in the Asia Pacific region (the first is in Shanghai, China), the new facility in Malaysia will offer service and support for customers across Southeast Asia as well as provide operational support for PayPal’s global payment service.

With the new PayPal office, PayPal is also hiring in Malaysia. There are now 14 open positions available (mostly responsible for frauds related tasks).

Update: A reader tip me that the PayPal Malaysia is located in First Avenue, Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya.

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Ever since Malaysians are able to withdraw PayPal money to local bank account, many people are wondering how to top-up PayPal account?

It was not possible until RHB Banking Group announced their new Internet banking service called “RHB-PayPal“, which allows Malaysians to top-up their PayPal account instantly via saving/current account.

RHB-PayPal is a FREE service for all RHB customers. No additional charge. It is also announced on PayPal Blog.

RHB also revealed the WorldMart where you can find the online shops that accept PayPal payments. WorldMart is a sub-site of PayPal Plaza.

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MALAYSIA: Do you know that you need to register your online business with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM)? There are 400 online businessmen who have been charged in court for not registering their business.

…they were charged under Section 12 (1) (a) of the Registration of Businesses Act 1956 (Amendment 2001) which carries a fine of up to RM50,000 or imprisonment not exceeding two years.

[via TheStar]

While I understand that every business has to be registered, I still felt surprised to read the news. There are so many online-seller-wannabes around us. They made a simple site on free hosting (blogger.com, for example), post a few product photos and, that’s it! They have a so-called “e-commerce” site!

In this case, all of those part-time-online-sellers are required to register to SSM (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia) to avoid getting charged.

What do you think about the news? Do you have friend(s) who sell stuff online but yet to register their “business”? Would you warn them after reading this news?

P.S. The SSM website is so Web 0.5.