Home Sweet Home Page

"Your home page is the world's introduction to you and your company. Make it COUNT!" ? Heidi RichardsThink of your home page as the cover of your brochure. It features exciting information about your company, but like a brochure it must be opened to reveal the rest of the message.... Read More

Ten Reasons Why Online Surveys Are The Future of Marketing

Customers are tough cookies. They're extremely media aware and increasingly cynical ? it's a clever marketeer who can get under their skin. Online surveys reinvent the traditional format and offer a unique way of interaction ? all the benefits of the internet without the programming.Here are ten reasons why they... Read More

Keep Your Customers Happy by Organizing Your Payment Options

Anyone using a slow, or an awkward payment processor had better wake up!There are some very slick ways to transfer money around the globe, in todays, lightning fast world, both your customers and your suppliers demand payment in the click of a mouse.The processing companies have been fiercely competing with... Read More

Complementary-Relational Linking and How It Could Save Your Internet Business

The concept of linking is that sites with common interests should link to drive more traffic to each other's businesses and to increase their "popularity." Search engines, such as Google, give much higher ranking to sites with high popularity. They feel that when many sites are linking to yours, it's... Read More

Why Our Site Was Removed From The ODP

Our website, Best Of The Home, has been listed in the Open Directory Project for over a year. Recently, I conducted a search of the ODP for my site, to update it, and found that it was no longer listed in any category.I went to the ODP forums, http://www.resource-zone.com, to... Read More

Writing Web Pages: Get To The Meat Faster

Much of my consulting work comprises writing 'Outside Opinion' reports on the sites of large companies and organizations. Sometimes I review just a few pages, sometimes fifty or more. I'm just finishing one up now and have recognized a thread that is common to many of reports. Here is what... Read More

Grow Your Business Using B2B Emarketplace - Part I

If you are a small to medium size company and selling or planning to sell products and services over the Net and still did not try out emarketplaces, you are simply loosing a great opportunity!Research firm eMarketer predicts that worldwide B2B ecommerce revenues will surpass US$ 1.4 trillion by the... Read More

When Do You Ask For A Refund?

Have you ever asked to have your money refunded after buying something online? Do you do this often? What are the reasons you've asked for refunds? Savvy marketers will try to find out why without making you feel you should not have asked. This would be valuable information to them.... Read More

Simple Steps to Start a Profitable Member Only, Subscription Web Site

Having a successful member only, paid membership site is one of the best ways to make money online. A successful membership site can give you the steady income of a CEO ?.but without the job!For example if you had just 200 people paying you just $20 a month, you would... Read More

10 Reasons To Survey Your Visitors, Subscribers And Customers

1. To find out what type of content visitors want to see on your web site. This should increase repeat visits to your site.2. To find out how to improve existing products or services. This will attract new customers.3. To find out which products or services your customers would like... Read More

Start doing online business using B2B Portals in Six Steps

I registered with a B2B site but what's next?This is a question many first time users of B2B marketplaces ask themselves. A few expect that the registration itself will bring them a number of new customers. In some cases this might by true! Especially, if you are a seller of... Read More

Maximize Your Froogling for Increased Website Profits

Are you familiar with Froogle? If you are an online merchant, you certainly should be.Froogle is Google's product search engine and was launched as a "beta product" in December 2002. Froogle's significance is in its ability to generate free "qualified" visitor traffic for online merchant products?assuming they gain "maximum exposure".What... Read More

Eleven Things You Must Know About A Drop Shipping Directory And Its Company

1. Balance - You want to find a directory rich in many different categories of products rather than the quantity of products available. Many of the directories try to advertise how many products are available in their directory (i.e. 500,000 products). Why is the number of categories important? A directory... Read More

How to Generate Cash from Your Web Site

The Internet has changed the way people do business today. Most business owners don't have to rent an office in order to run their business. For example, if you're good in making art works and crafts, you can sell your works through your own online store! It will cost you... Read More

Intranet Portals ? Personalisation and Customisation

The key difference between an (old-fashioned) Intranet and a PortalWhat typifies a modern intranet portal is that there is a standardised user interface ("UI") with a built in system for user authentication. In other words, the user signs in to the portal rather than simply accessing it. This brings us... Read More

Intranet Portals ? Search and Taxonomies

Knowledge Management for beginnersKnowledge Management (KM) can be defined simply as the process through which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-based assets. Knowledge assets are often grouped into two categories:(1) Explicit Knowledge Generally, everything and anything that can be documented, archived and codified. Examples include patents, trademarks, business... Read More

How To Sell Your Products Online?

E-commerce is gaining pace! Research firm eMarketer predicts that 2003 will see online sales reaching US $58.2 billion excluding travel. According to Forrester Research, another reputable research company, business to consumer e-commerce will hit US $230 billion by the year 2008. While offline retail sales are staggering and will continue... Read More

Cyber Banking

The use of electronic cash as a means of transacting internet business may prove to be an acceptable alternative to credit card payments. It is reported that the withdrawal of major players from the attempt to develop e-cash is a significant setback. "?The use of digital or electronic cash in... Read More

10 Second Internet Person, sound familiar?

Some people do not understand the Internet idea of online commerce, but then again some people do not understand themselves either. To fully understand Internet Commerce you really only need to monitor your "clicking habits" for a few days to see where you are going and what if anything you... Read More

Online Credit Card Processing - How to Accept Credit Cards - Ecommerce 101

Back in 1998 (through 2000 or so), I worked for a small company (called PaymentNet / then Signio) that handled online transactions. Verisign later purchased this company, and the product team I led integrated the "client" - the portion that took the credit card information and sent it to our... Read More

Merchant Account Insider Secrets - Accept Credit Cards Online

The process of learning how to accept payments on the Internet is similar to the course of figuring out how to launch a business. What at first seems puzzling and intimidating may be viewed as straightforward and easy to understand if one has the right guide or manual. The following... Read More

Online Shoppers Say They?ll Buy from Small and Large E-Businesses Alike

As the holiday shopping season begins in earnest, consumers say they're just as willing to buy from small online retailers as they are from large, national e-commerce providers.In addition to this key finding, a new national survey of 2,500 consumers discovered extremely high levels of consumer participation in ? and... Read More

Accepting Credit Cards For Your Online Business

Did you know that one of the best ways to increase sales for any online or offline business is to offer your customers the convenience of paying by credit card? As a merchant, you have several options available when it comes to becoming part of the credit card acceptance and... Read More

Dont Get Ripped Off Getting A Merchant Account

Far too many people get ripped off when setting up a merchant account for their online business. The biggest reason is that they don't understand their options and are intimidated by the whole process. Now, armed with the proper knowledge, you don't need to become a victim of this process.You... Read More

Online Florists - Send Flowers Online When Youre In a Hurry

You did it again, didn't you? Forgot until the last minute that birthday, anniversary, graduation, promotion, or fill-in-the-blank-here. No fear, online florists are here. No longer do you have to work in that lunch time stop at the florist shop. Now customized flowers are just a hop, skip, and click... Read More

PAID's AuctionInc Enhances Dimension Management to Further Reduce Ecommerce ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"PAID, Inc.'s AuctionInc(TM) ecommerce Shopping Cart with the new enhancements was featured as a shopping cart solution on PayPal's business landing page ...

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Magento Appoints Software Veterans Michel Goossens and Jary Carter to ...
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Magento is the fastest growing eCommerce platform in the world with over 180 solution providers and 60000 merchants, including leading brands, ...

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Top 5 Principles of Effective E-Commerce Website Designing
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Websites play an important role in E-Commerce business. As it is the only medium of interaction between the sellers and online shoppers, so it has to be ...

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Baidu to focus mobile Internet investment on search
Reuters (press release)
Baidu CFO Jennifer Li, speaking at a company event, said broader future investment priorities for the company would include mobile Internet and ecommerce ...
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Shopko Names P. Michael Sidders as Vice President Ecommerce
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1 — /PRNewswire/ -- Shopko announces P. Michael Sidders has been appointed Vice President Ecommerce. Sidders joins Shopko from The Occasions Group, ...

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E-Commerce Consultants launch New Website
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(I-Newswire) September 3, 2010 - London based E-Commerce Consultants www.lovingthe.net are proud and pleased to announce the launch of their new website. ...

10 Things To Consider When Choosing An Ecommerce Product Video Solution
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So, you're thinking about adding product videos to your ecommerce site. Once you've made your decision you'll quickly realize there are a fair deal of ...

Shopko Names P. Michael Sidders as Vice President Ecommerce
PR Newswire (press release)
1 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopko announces P. Michael Sidders has been appointed Vice President Ecommerce. Sidders joins Shopko from The Occasions Group, ...

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topseos.com Ranks the Best Top 10 eCommerce SEO Companies in the US for ...
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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, September 2, 2010 — topseos.com, an independent authority on search vendors has named the Best Top 10 eCommerce SEO Firms for the month ...

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Microsoft Slaps e-Commerce Site With Piracy Suit
InternetNews.com
Microsoft hits online software reseller Jigantic.com with a lawsuit alleging the outfit traded in pirated copies of SQL Server 2008 and passing off Software ...

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