What does your vehicle say about your business? You drive to
work, commute through traffic, stop at the shop for
refreshments, park up outside your business, take care of
deliveries and run some errands during the day, finally, you
drive home in the evening. How many people did you pass or meet
today? All potential customers, but did they notice you? Grab a
significant advertising advantage over your competitors by
covering your vehicle with your business image or message in the
form of an ...
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September 8th, 2010 in
Advertising
If you're going to pursue an e-commerce site, hosting is going
to be an issue. Here's a primer on web hosting for your site.
E-commerce web hosting is the technology of storing, servicing
and maintaining files for one or more web sites selling products
or services online. Web site owners who pay for a web host
(generally on a monthly basis) upload their web pages to a
shared or dedicated web server through an ISP (internet service
provider). The web host should ensure a fast and ...
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September 7th, 2010 in
Shopping
"If you build it they will come" is one of the memorable lines
from the movie "Field of Dreams", one of my favorite movies,
by-the-way. An ordinary guy had a dream about building a
baseball field in the middle of a cornfield. He carried through
with his dream, and the players came, and the fans followed.
Many people today have the dream of building their own ecommerce
internet business, their own "Cyberspace Field of Dreams." The
problem is, in most cases, there is nothing to distinguish ...
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September 6th, 2010 in
Shopping
Stop Slacking and TAKE ACTION!!
By: Anthony L. Davenport
-------------------------------------------------------- Do you
want On-line Success?
If you want to succeed online, you have to do something.
(Advertise, Market, Joint Venture, product development) Doing
something and failing is a lot better than not doing anything at
all.
You see if you make a mistake you will still be able to learn
and improve on your efforts--If you do SOMETHING. If you do
Nothing you will never have the benefit of ...
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September 5th, 2010 in
Marketing
How to Market Your Web Site Like Nobody's Business Fresh Web
Content Yields Better Search Engine Results
All too often, companies, organizations, and self-employed
individuals spend a great deal of time and resources launching
their web sites. Once the site goes live, people seem to believe
internet search engines will bring them the business they need.
The truth is, the web site is only one key marketing tool used
to represent a company, often from a distance. The marketing
genius who creates ...
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September 4th, 2010 in
Business
Normally in this column I dispense highly-intelligent small
business advice in response to thought-provoking questions
submitted by future and fellow entrepreneurs. This week,
however, I have a couple of questions for myself, one of which
makes me wonder how truly intelligent I really am.
Q: Dear Me, I recently took my teenage daughter shopping at the
mall. The experience raised two questions. (1) What business
lessons might be learned from such a foray into teen commerce;
and (2) What the heck ...
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September 3rd, 2010 in
Business
What a wonderful invention it is, this thing we call the
Internet!
If you would just take your time to know your way around, you
could discover a lot of premium products and services being
offered for free. What's best is that there is a seemingly
endless number of these wonderful finds, what with the Internet
being a vast network of constantly evolving ideas and all!
Among these magnificent benefits is the chance to be able to
promote your business, any business, online, free of charge! ...
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September 2nd, 2010 in
Advertising
Though there are a number of e-commerce web solutions in the
market, what makes your e-commerce venture stand out from the
thousands of other such ventures on the Internet and fetch you a
high Return on Investment is your e-business strategy. If you
have your e-business strategy neatly defined, it would be easier
for you to choose your customized e-commerce solution.
Depending upon your ebusiness strategy, website developers
develop for you
e-commerce web solutions that suit
your business ...
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September 1st, 2010 in
Shopping
Most people think that e-commerce is about people buying and
selling stuff online with their credits card. This is wrong.
There is another method of buying and selling online which is
surprisingly common, and this second method is likely to become
increasingly common in the times to come. In this second method
you execute a purchase an order through a 'digital' currency
rather than a credit card.
The E-Currency Payment Process
Let's suppose some guy in Taiwan is selling table sets over ...
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August 31st, 2010 in
Shopping
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In recent years, Internet virtually has become major driving
force of economic and technological growth in many industries.
It is fundamentally changing the way companies operate, do their
trade and interact with each other and it is giving birth to new
processes and business models that were previously
unimaginable.
First type of the Internet business models that created a
different business method was Business to Consumer (B2C)
eCommerce. Business to Business eProcurement systems ...
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August 30th, 2010 in
Shopping