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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is ssl (the little padlock)?
- SSL ("Secured Socket Layer") is a protocol used to encrypt the communication between the user's browser and the web server. When SSL is active, a "little padlock" appears on the user's browser, usually in the status line at the bottom (at the top for Mac/Safari users.) This assures the user that sensitive data (such as credit card numbers) can't be viewed by anyone ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Online lead generation: can it work for my business?
- Business-to-business service providers have a wide range of tactics they can deploy to gain new clients or customers. Direct mail; cold calling; TV, radio or print advertising are all ways in which B2B services gain new customers. In the last 10 years, the Internet has become another strategy to boost business, through advertising, web site optimization and online lead generation.What is On...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 6 steps to attracting black customers online
- by Jamila White, "The E-Commerce Diva"In the rush to keep up with technology, many African-American business owners are so busy trying to add the latest bells and whistles to their Web sites, get to the top of the search engines, and learn the latest database technology that they often forget this simple fact: people do business with other *people*, not computers. Understanding the importan...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 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 to do so in near term, online retail sales will show a heft...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Doing business online ? private b2b exchanges
- Business processes are the building blocks of an enterprise. If one of these processes fails to live up to its expectation, business starts to flounder. How to minimize the risks, get a better monitoring of the processes and, at the same time, reduce costs involved? The answer is ? business process automation.Although, automated business processes based on online technologies can create inc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Grow your business with emarketplace - part iii
- Increase Company ProductivityAfter years of hard work, finally your business started to pick up. You are selling more products then ever! You have lined up a good number of suppliers and buyers. Things have never been better than now. Except one thing! With rising sales your overhead and supply chain expenses are also sky-rocketing. Your profit margin is no longer the same as it used to be!...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Grow your business using b2b emarketplace ? part ii
- Selecting the right emarketplaceAlthough, IT spending has been staying flat for the last several years, corporate spending in e-business is gaining significant ground and at present surpasses 20 percent of overall IT budget.This means, more and more businesses are undertaking ecommerce initiatives, and as a result increasing sales, streamlining business processes and dramatically boo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 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 end of 2003. In the United States alone revenues will total US$ 721 billion. By 2004, the US...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Retirement signature frames ? the perfect retirement gift!
- When most people think of a retirement gift, they think of a watch. It's the tried and true gift that companies give employees to say thanks for all the years of hard work. It's a great gift on behalf of the company but if you're the lucky individual enlisted with planning the retirement party, you're probably in need of a personalized gift on behalf of everyone at the office.The perfect gi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The plain man?s guide to making money online
- I'm a plain man who uses plain thinking in devising strategies for making money online.I do not spend obscene mounts of money attending high ticket web conferences nor do I rush to purchase the latest collection of web casts at outrageous prices.What I do instead is dissect what the high fliers do; pick the best; discard the rest; and add my own innovations.In the process I cr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leveraging open source technology
- Open Source applications can bring unique value to business owners. Since the base application development costs of open source applications is free, small and medium business owners are able to leverage previously unobtainable technolgies against their sales objectives, operational costs and customer satisfaction levels.Most small and medium businesses cannot afford the typical IT infrastr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Outsourcing your ecommerce order fulfillment
- When your eCommerce business grows to the point where you can no longer package and ship the orders yourself, it's time to begin outsourcing your order fulfillment. Although all order fulfillment centers offer the same basic services, their individual methods and costs will help you choose one over the other. When selecting an order fulfillment service, keep the following in mind:Location...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 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 to the key difference; an intranet portal knows who you are, whilst with...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why ecommerce is not ready for my daughter or me
- As the mother of a teenage clothing fanatic I'm often at my local mall. It occurred to me that the shopping experience for my daughter is attractive to her not because she wants to spend my money, but because the experience of buying itself is so rich to the senses.For example, when we enter her favorite stores the first thing that hits me is the music. If it's her kind of music, we're in t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Expand your local business through the internet
- To obtain more local customers for your business, consider expanding your local business through the Internet. Here are some ways of doing so.1. Online DirectoriesEven without a website, you can get listed in online directories. Many times these listings are free.For example, if you operated a restaurant, your being listed in local Internet directories could result in local re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Projecting your image
- Whether you sell a product or merely sell time to your employer in your labor, your main product is you. You sell yourself with every move you make, every word you speak or write, every attitude you display. How far you go up the ladder depends largely on the image you project to others.If you are sincere, dependable, knowledgeable, and confident, you will be accepted. You will not be trust...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Old habits die hard in the third age years
- I spent a lifetime in retailing and I'm still at it in retirement; albeit virtually.You know how it goes.You put up a web page and throw in some stock.Your page begets another and another and another until one day you're looking at a site that's got more stock than Bloomingdales.But you can't stop?The old sourcing skills are making a comeback, sharpening their ta...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 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 to see you sell in the future. This will increase your back end product sales.4. To find out ho...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 12 easy and effective ways to create reports
- 1. Combine a few of your articles into a free report. Make sure that each of the articles fits the theme of your report.2. Take a survey and then compile the results into a report. Most of the people that you surveyed will be interested in the results.3. Create a report from excerpts of an ebook that you have written. Pick a chapter or two from your ebook for the report. This will in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is it easy to build an e-commerce web site?
- --Online Commerce--E-Commerce website is all about selling products and services over the Internet. Amateurs may think that it is easy to build your own e-commerce system and our advice to you is to stay away from these amateurs. Building an e-commerce system is a complicated process and it requires web professionals who know the intricacies of building secure systems. Building an e-commerc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Shopping cart abandonment ? discover 5 things you can do to lower cart abandonment
- A common frustration among merchants who sell online via a shopping cart is the percentage of people who abandon their cart and leave the site never to return. This is known as the shopping cart abandonment rate. It is not unheard of for companies to experience as high as a 99% abandonment rate. Getting the abandonment rate under control can go a long way towards increasing the income your company...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 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 satisfaction with ? shopping on the Internet, despite continuing concerns ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Managing project risks and issues
- Inherent (or Business) RiskInherent Risk is the risk that exists in the environment around your portal project. It will tend to be unique to your organisation; it's culture and politics. For example, if you have a fragmented business (either geographical or functional), then this will create a higher inherent risk of poor communication.Project (Specific) RiskProj...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management
- What is a Stakeholder?Try "define: Stakeholder" in Google and you will be surprised by the huge differences in the way this simple word is defined. It perhaps proves - in a way - just how confused people get about Stakeholder Management and how inconsistent the different approaches to it can be!My simple definition is "anyone affected by a decision and intereste...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Intranet - the benefits realisation plan
- The Millennium ExperienceA successful project is one that delivers on-spec ('quality'), time and cost. Right? Well consider these two projects?The Millennium Dome was delivered on time for the 31 December 1999 and safely within a budget (fixed in 1998) of £289 million. The Project was also delivered to quality, albeit against a Specification that had been ad...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Chinas it industry to maintain fast growth
- China's IT industry is expected to see a sales revenue of 2.68 trillion yuan (US$322.3 billion) in 2004, up 42.3 per cent year-on-year, becoming the country's leading driver for economic growth, MII(Ministry of Information Industry) sources indicate.The industry's added value is expected to hit 578 billion yuan (US$69.6 billion) for the entire 2003, up 44.5 per cent. Tax revenue is expected...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Beginner ecommerce mistakes
- This is a short article because in the constraints of time and space preclude me from writing a 10 page article. Recently i built a ecommerce web site titled Cynscorion Products that sells knifes. I originally set out in July of 2004 to build an ecommerce site to bothe earn extra income and as a challenge to myself.Along the way I learned several things about both myseldf and web site desig...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Starting an e-commerce business
- The development and expansion of the Internet has made business opportunities, once only available to the wealthy, available to nearly everyone. In the past, opening a business was a huge commitment in terms of finances and risk. Traditional business owners had to quit the their current jobs, obtain bank financing, and sign leases before they even made a penny. It's easy to see why 95% of them fai...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why suppliers should use b2b exchanges
- Business to business e-commerce is on the rise! Worldwide B2B e-commerce revenues are estimated to reach around US$ 2 trillion in 2004. This is a significant leap from last year's US$ 1.4 trillion. However, according to a recent survey, although, more than 70% of companies have already used Internet as a purchasing channel, a mere ten percent of their overall spending is directed via the Internet!...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Drop-shipping ? a great way of making money online
- Using the Internet to sell products and services to ever increasing number of net users is a good way to start your own business. If you are not taking advantage of this great opportunity you are just missing the boat! Consider this: e-commerce, contrary to popular believe, is thriving and increasing at a double digit growth rate. According to Jupiter Research, Online sales during this holiday sea...