Nowadays, blogging becomes very popular around me. Starting from when, people like to write or type their daily life in their own blogging website. It just like an e-dairy that can let other people know more about you and your situation now. Now, not only individual, some companies will use blogging to promote their companies and transmit corporate information to public. A corporate blog is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. It is giving established companies and obscure brands alike the ability to connect with their audiences on a more personal level, build trust, collect valuable feedback and foster strengthened business relationships. More importantly, these companies are enjoying tangible returns in their blogging investment in the form of increased sales, partnerships, business opportunities, press coverage and lead generation.

Nowadays, auctions can be conducted through internet (i.e.: E-auction). Even though E-auction allows buyers and sellers to conduct auctions at their convenience, however it has indirectly provides loopholes to conduct frauds upon the transaction. Therefore, some prevention method should take into account whenever there is an E-auction transaction performed.

When an auction involved a certain value, it is recommended to apply for Escrow services. The Escrow (account) is a blocked bank account held with a neutral and financially trusted third party. This trusted third party, the Escrow Agent, will releases the money and documents from the escrow account after certain release conditions that described in the escrow agreement had been met. With an easy-to-access link to a third party Escrow service, both parties in a deal are protected.

Besides that, User Identity Verification and Item Verification is a must for a non face-to-face transaction. This is to ensure that the buyer and seller, as well as the traded item are genuine. Equifax is an empowered body that provides User Identity Verification Services. Equifax is a global leader in information solutions which had already gained customers trust for over 100years in delivering innovative information solutions with the highest integrity and reliability. As for Item Verification, a neutral third party will evaluate and identify an item through a variety of means (e.g.: item DNA tagged).

The local e-commerce site that I am going to review is MPH Bookstore. It's a site that sells all kind of books such as fiction, non-fiction, teen reader, children books and magazine. They are currently offering promotion for some of the books. To be able to buy a book from this site, we need to sign up.

This website is well designed. It uses a white color background with darker words (blue, grey). It provides their contact number and e-mail addresses. The prices of the books have properly stated. They also provide free delivery, but only for orders more than RM100. The delivery will make in two weeks time.

This site classified the books by best sellers, new releases, and hot title. The books classified by categories such as accounting & statistics, travel, science. It is also user friendly by classified different books with different sub title (fiction, non-fiction, teen reader, children books), so that consumers can view the product easily with only one click.

This site contain of search engine. The search engine can search by title, author, ISBN, publisher, or keywords. It has a shopping cart too. With this, we can add the item we want by clicking "add to Cart". Before adding the item to cart, we can click on the book we want to look at the details provided. We can also read the book description before we decide whether to buy it or not.

After adding the item into the cart, we can view our order status and wait for the arrival of the product.