Concierge E-Commerce the way to go?

Is it true that concierge e-commerce is the way to go now? 

This is just my 2 cents.

From consumer point of view, buying things online speed things up. I can view the item that I want through e-commerce website by a simple search function. If I cannot find the item that I want, that means the search function is not good enough. People who can buy online usually are good enough to key in few keywords of item that they want to buy. So finding results of item through search engine is definitely not a problem for them. However, for consumers that who are not able to use e-commerce properly, usually they will just stop by some place and buy the item they want in a shop. Unless the item is not available anywhere nearby them. But yeah, most of the time that happens. 

As for Business owner point of view, having concierge for e-commerce platform is almost like opening a shop to sell things. The operating cost might be doubled or tripled because you need a team of good IT people to set up your website. You also need a team of good people to key in those product information. All of them are more expensive than hiring few shopkeepers or sales assistant to help you to do stock receiving, stock take, selling and merchandising. But, e-commerce still has it's advantages. It is accessible worldwide. Meaning anyone can buy as long as they have internet.

So let's take a look back to today's market. When people mention about e-commerce, we will think of Lazada, Amazon, Ebay, Taobao or Rakuten. It is hard to beat them in doing promotion and marketing because they are the big player in this industry. 

Comparing e-commerce and concierge e-commerce, of course concierge e-commerce will require higher operating cost because they need to have a group of good people who can have a friendly chat with the customers. Still, concierge e-commerce will be able to net all the remaining people who are not good enough to purchase properly through e-commerce website. So both pros and cons are there.

But if I am given a chance, I think I wont start a concierge e-commerce business due to all the reasons above. :) For me, internet business that is self sustainable are like stock photo, video hosting, digital advertising, famous information site and some other field that I don't have chance to get in to yet. So do lighten me up if you are in a business that is sustainable but not in the list I just mentioned. 

My own website, www.foodshare.my

Finally come out with my own website.

Actually, not alone. I did it with my best friend, the greatest front end developer I ever met. His name is Sean Ngu. Good guy who is still single. I still wonder why many good guys got friend zoned or cannot find a good girl friend.

Anyway, back to the main topic. The website is up. Still learning more about SEO so it appears in google. Not as simple as using the webmaster tools in google. Also need to do some meta tagging, each page header and maybe generate a dynamic meta description for each page too.... 

This website totally didn't get any sponsor or donation from anyone. Originally we do it to earn money but now I think we just want to get it up and see how it goes. If it earns money, then it earns. Else, we just make it as our portfolio for a better job in future. 

However, this website can only be made possible by few people.

First is my best friend la, Sean Ngu. The front end developer who has the best front end skill in my opinion. His speed of doing things matched mine, so we can collaborate easily. 
Second is Chris Wong, Ting Jing Ling and Ng Dick Tern from church. They sparked this idea because we always wonder where to go for our meal. So I end up thinking this might work, and planned the whole thing.

Well, we did try to find few more people to help out in this project last year but things didn't work as well as I hope for. I approached one of my friend from my previous church who is really good in Sales and Marketing. He also can do a bit of design. But I hope he can work on Marketing once the website is done. Then he bring in another friend who previously work in fine dining. We had our weekly meeting through Skype. So I distributed the task and we hope to finish everything and set to live the website in few weeks time. 

However, we don't have enough data and the website couldn't go live. We are stucked doing development and data entry. Things got pretty bad and we end up disbanding the whole group.

However, the original owner of the domain and project is still me and Sean Ngu. After leaving it idle for about 8 months, I thought it's time to bring it back to live. So I clean up all the features we planned to have but cannot finish in time, leaving few main features that had been completed before, adding few more "must have features" in the website and then add in the info 1 by 1 and live it. 

No marketing or sharing has been done on facebook or anywhere yet. So we have no high traffic to the website. Once it has more data, like maybe few hundreds, then maybe we will start to use facebook to advertise the website. 

I am just feeling excited now. :)

Samsung Galaxy S2 stucked at Samsung Logo page after software update to Jelly Bean

Here is what happened. 

I was sleeping. And when i was half awake, i saw my Galaxy S2 has a software update. Being half awake and half asleep me,  I thought "Finally Jelly Bean" is out for Samsung Galaxy S2. So i clicked update and continued my sleep. Since i have unifi installed, i am not worry of the data download usage. And since i plugged the charger with my smartphone whole night, i am not worried about the battery as well.

When i woke up, i saw the phone showed Samsung logo. The logo is what we saw when we first turn on our Samsung phone. I thought it was still updating the phone, so i waited for the whole day.

The next day, the logo is still there. I had thought that something was wrong so I tried several things.

1. Restart my phone. I clicked on turn off button for abt 5 seconds then the screen is gone. When i release the button, the screen appear again.

2. Take out the battery. I take out the battery and put it back in. Then tried to turn it on again. It still stucked at Samsung logo.

3. I try to reset it. I push volume up button, turn on/off button and home button for 10 seconds, still nothing happen.

4. I tried what is written on FAQ page of Samsung smarphone web page. Take out the battery, put it back in, do step 3 again but still nothing happen.

In the end, i decided to bring to Samsung service center to fix it. 

When i reach there, the person who serve me said they can do it for me. Which mean update to Jelly Bean, but all the data will be gone. I was dumbstrucked for a while. All my picture, songs, message history and phone number will be gone.

Yesterday i got my phone back. All number is gone. The number from when i was in secondary school, college, work and strangers. I need to find all of them back and this is gonna take some time.

Please follow proper step when you are doing software update for your phone.