Nov 24, 2009
The most up-to-date Online Shopping Directory
We finally completed our shopping directory–Malaysia’s Blogshops Online Shopping Directory. Your first reaction is probably “NOT ANOTHER ONLINE SHOPPING DIRECTORY?” Yes, this is one of the shopping directory available BUT it’s different. Remember how we ranted about the 6 problems with online shopping directories? Realising all that, embarked to create a completely different shopping directory to solve those problems.
What is it?
The Malaysia’s Blogshops Online Shopping Directory is a directory listing all blogshops which ships to Malaysia. Most are operated in Malaysia. There’s no voting system in our directory (We think it’s so easily manipulated so how true can it be when a shop is the ‘most popular’?). So we simply collect all the active shops and put them in their respective category.
How is this shopping directory different?
1. Up-to-date
We have visit over hundreds of blogshops from the other shopping directories and realise 1/4 of them are no longer in business. One by one, we emailed hundreds of blogshops which are active. So far, near 250 of them replied. So we can say that these blogshops in our directory are active and replies quickly to emails (That’s one sure sign to tell whether they are serious in their business).
To ensure that our directory is always up-to-date, blogshops which have not update in 6 months time would be removed. So you can be sure that the blogshops found in Malaysia’s Blogshop Online Directory are the most active ones around!
2. Complete
We would include ANY active blogshops around. Yes, even those which don’t link us back (though its always nice to do so). We don’t believe in requiring other blogshops to link us first before including them in the directory. Since there’s no such requirement, in this sense, this directory is complete as compare to the rest.
3. More precise
We’ve included other categories such as ’swimwear’ and ‘eyewear’. We hope that more categories would enable online shoppers to look for things easily (But since many blogshops sell variety of items, we know there would be overlaps and there can never be ‘precise’ per se)
What do you think?
We realise that many blogshop owners are students and may leave their site for more than 6 months before getting back into business. Hence, this directory might leave out plenty of inactive e-shops but which are still in business. However, we feel that shoppers prefer to shop at e-boutiques which are more consistent and serious about their business. We think its a great idea. How about you?
Go check out the Malaysia’s Blogshops Online Shopping Directory! If you know any e-shops which are active but not included in it, please drop us a message. If you wish to be listed, fill in fill in the form here. Thank you and happy shopping!
p.s: and this is just our elementary shopping directory, we’re still working to improve it!
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