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eCommerce -Advantage and disadvantage

Saturday, April 21st, 2012



Think of eCommerce and the first few features that strike any mind are – a global marketplace – increased sales – increased profits! Not that you start claiming better margin of profit online, but because various expenses relating to marketing, promotional material, order processing, customer care, inventory management, information storage, telecommunications et al, considerably slash down.

eCommerce offers tempting but economical boost to any size or kind of business. By opting for eCommerce, you can expand your market margins to global horizons or squeeze them to highly focused market segments, as per subjective business acumen and discretion. Even a small-scale business offering quality and reliability with confidence can easily find itself brushing shoulders with its esteemed competitors in least gestation period. It facilitates wishful manifestation of your business entity – as grand and sophisticated as you wish it to be. Budget would not really restrain you here from showcasing your attitude and essence through your website and online shopping cart.

Things considerably simplify with eCommerce – be it changing prices listed on your web page or customization of products; applying innovative business models or business process re-engineering; implementing higher degree of specialization or enhancing productivity and customer care – everything hardly takes time to implement/ incorporate and exhibit.

Not to mention, quality eCommerce services collect and manage valuable customer-related information, including customer’s ordering patterns, to build a comprehensive customer database. This database vitally sharpens your marketing and promotion strategies to be remarkably on target.

As regards your business partners, eCommerce aids you in minimizing supply chain inefficiencies, bringing about reduced inventory requirement and lessened delivery delays, thereby rendering you more confident about your business collaborations with your suppliers and service companies. eCommerce inherently streamlines and automates the entire backend business process, assimilating speed and efficiency to your business activities.

As you introduce eCommerce facility to your customers, you render their shopping experience highly fluent and convenient. eCommerce seems all the more indispensable for your customers in the wake of consistently shrinking time with them to spare for shopping offline. What’s more, online shopping lets your customers reap benefits of online economies, as they often pay lesser price for identical products/ services available offline.

eCommerce-based business benefits the society as well! As your onsite manpower requirement reduces, it lessens the burden on infrastructure and lowers demand for elaborate office complexes and spacious parking lots.

As good as it may sound, eCommerce has its own share of obstacles too that hold it back from assuming it’s full potential. To begin with, Internet in itself is still to touch the lives of a large chunk of people as an integral way of life. There are tangible privacy and security issues that keep people on guard, as they face a dilemma each time they need to divulge highly personal information online, as and when they transact online.

Non-standardized protocols for certain processes, insufficient telecommunications bandwidth and ever-evolving software tools (with incrementing versions), are some of the technical issues that contain eCommerce from being a seamlessly integrated component of the contemporary organizational IT systems.

While technical limitations are completely resolvable, non-technical issues including people’s resistance to change and lack of trust for faceless and paperless transactions, is bound to take its due time before it completely erodes. In fact, eCommerce is fast catching up with the rest of the world, as USA online markets lead them by example.


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Basketball Dribbling: Pointers That You Ought to Keep in Mind

Friday, April 20th, 2012
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Drop Ship Merchandise – Where Do I Find Good Sources?

Friday, April 13th, 2012



Thousands of people are all looking to get started making money online on any given week.  Some make it, most others don’t.  The reason most people fail to make money in e-commerce is that they start out with the wrong strategies, or get scammed by unscrupulous people who take advantage of them.

One of the biggest scams online is in the area of drop ship merchandise.  Scam artists advertise that you can make big profits by signing up and selling their products.  The uneducated typically fall for this ploy, and several months later and several hundred dollars poorer, they give up.  Don’t be in this group.

In fact, you can make big profits online – if you do it the right way.  Drop ship merchandise is profitable, but only if you deal direct with real drop shippers, not middleman scam artists who only take your money.  Here is how to tell the difference:

If your supplier of drop ship merchandise does not give you the actual names and addresses of the companies who either make or distribute the products nationally, then most likely they are middlemen.  You’ll never be able to buy product from them and make a profit – they charge you way too much.

If the service you are using does it all – collects payments, ship orders, provides the web site – then they are simply middlemen who are using you to sell their wares.  By the time you subtract your expenses, you’ll be luck with any profit at all.

Only work with real drop ship suppliers – you’ll make more money and have a much better chance for success.


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Guide to domain name registration

Monday, April 9th, 2012




If you are starting up an online business, make sure that you have made a domain name registration first, to give your company the license to be known and have exclusivity. Basically, a domain name is a unique address on the web that you can buy for your web site through a domain store. It can contain the name like www.mybusiness.com, which you can employ to refer to your own website. Remember you don’t have to be an organization or a big company to register the domain name. In fact, anyone can do it.

Getting your domain name includes registering the business name that you desire with an organization called ICANN through the domain name registrar. For instance, if you have chosen mybusiness.com, you need to proceed to the registrar, pay a particular registration fee that will give you the right or ownership of that name for one year. You have to renew it annually with the same amount per year.

Domain registration involves a lot of process. There are web hosts that will register it and pay for the name without asking any amount. This is only applicable for the commercial web hosts, while there are others will do it for you but you need to pay for the ICANN fees.

However it is recommended to register your business domain name directly to a domain name registrar instead of putting it to a web host as it deprives the owner to carry its own name because it will appear that the web host owns it. If you register your domain name to a DN registrar, you can ensure that you are registered as the owner, the technical contacts and the administrative as a whole. Being the domain owner is important, work on that.

To register domain name, here are some of a few instructions that you should bear in mind before you act.

•    Choose a domain name – Think of some names that you think might be right for your business. Make sure to compile many names. Don’t think of only one as it might be already taken.

•    Create a credit card account – When registering, you will need a credit card, but a PayPal account will do. This is used to pay for the domain. Most domain registrars requires to have credit card accounts which also allow the owner to claim and at the same time get a domain name instantly on an application. And this is not an option.

•    Obtain web host names – If you have a web host, take the names from their primary and secondary name servers. Save the information somewhere. Such information is found on their FAQS or from the other site’s documentation usually under the domain name category. But if you can’t find it, you can just email the web host.

•    Park your domain name – If you don’t have a web host yet, you can allow the registrar to park your domain name in a temporary website specially made for you.

So, you have successfully registered your domain name, what next? If you are not sure what to do, you can read the beginner’s guide found on the web. Once you have decided about registering your name, do not procrastinate or else you will lose more than one of your domain name in a day.



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The Disadvantages of Internet Business!

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
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How to upload a new Cubecart skin

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012


You will probably want to make your new store have a new look and feel that makes it your own, this can be easily done with cubecart by either getting a free ‘skin’ ,buying one off the shelf or getting a complete bespoke design, prices obviously vary from free to how ever much you want to spend, the best I have found while searching are listed below,

Look at Cubecart forums for free & Paid Look at cubecartskins.net for good value skins Look at Shopdev for well featured skins (same as mine) Look at seriradesigns for totally bespoke designs

All the skin companies will offer an installation service for you or if you are feeling adventurous you can do it yourself

First you will need to get a ftp client to get access to your files, you will also need your ftp log on details which should look like ftp.domain-name.co.uk, user-name,password and port number,these will of been supplied by your host . The ftp client I use is filezilla and have found it easy to use and its free, next

launch filezilla or similar and you will see a screen with top left-your computer files, bottom left- open files on your computer, top right- your site files and bottom right-open files on your site .

Download your chosen skin and save to an easily accessible location i.e My Documents/new skin unzip the file to the same location,

go to the filezilla page and you will see top right



files for your site

click on ‘skins’ then on the + to expand and you will see



expand skin

below this window you will see these files expanded,



upload screen for skins

now on the left pane click on My Documents and in the bottom left pane you will find ‘your skin’, find the un-zipped folder? (VERY IMPORTANT: do not upload the zipped file), drag this into the location above, this will be copied and you will see the progress in the bottom bar.

once copying is complete log in to your cubecart admin (www.mysite.co.uk/admin) go to General settingsstyles & misc-expand the store skin: and choose ‘your skin’ then click on update settings, congratulations thats it your skin is done, if you view your store and the skin has not changed go to Rebuild & Recount and ‘clear cache’.

The instructions above are general,? be sure to check your documentation that comes with your skin and adjust accordingly



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I decided to get on the e-commerce ladder but was not 100% confident with html,css etc so looked for an easier solution and chose a ready to go shopping cart.My first was Amazzed Electrical our electrical store which helped get my head round populating the store and setting up payments and shortly after added Amazzed furniture and Amazzed Gifts , from being a complete novice I am starting to get the hang of it.

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Basketball Basics: Footwork

Sunday, March 25th, 2012



It is certainly fun watching basketball. But for players, the game isn’t just fun. It is challenging.

There are lots of pressure that players undergo whenever they hit it to the court every game. They are of course committed to make the team win by accumulating more scores than the opponent. Aside from that, almost all players want to stand up to impress the viewing public.

In the tradition of Michael Jordan, Shacquille O’Neal, Dennis Rodman and the likes, every basketball player dreams of being an icon in sports. That is why almost all basketball secrets have been revealed.

There are also more coaches, trainers and centers that offer to help players develop proper attitude and skills in playing basketball. Almost all mental and physical aspects of basketball playing have also been discussed and openly assimilated by players.

The footwork

A strong footwork is considered one of the basic skills and characteristics a basketball player must possess to be able to become a good player. That is because everything else depends on the strength of the feet when playing.

Solid footwork is very necessary in executing basic basketball tasks and techniques like defense, rebounding, ball-handling, and many more. Basketball is a very physical game so without the solid foundation of the foot strength, you would easily end up being tripped at or knocked at the floor.

Because you basically run, jump, bend and walk during the basketball game, your footwork must be well built and planned. Further, during, before and after games, you are advised to take some flexing, relaxing and warming activities to condition your feet to become stronger for each game.

Footwork tips in basketball

Because footwork is such an important aspect of playing basketball, here are some tips that will truly help you attain good footing while playing the arduous game of basketball.

Attain good body balance during the game. It is recommended that you keep the base support of your feet wide. How do you do this? Simply keep each of your feet at least a shoulder apart from each other. Bend your knees a little and keep your head just above the midpoint between the area covered by the feet. This position is said to provide your body with good overall balance. While standing inside the basketball court, practice having this physical balanced position.     Take a good pivoting point. A solid pivot is attained when the ball of the foot is planted firmly and solidly on the floor of the court. If you have a good pivoting position, you can easily turn and run to the left to right, or forward or backward. Good pivoting is essential for the best defensive strategies in the game.     Take quick pivots by planting the balls of your feet on the ground. Then, attain proper body balance. This way, you are sure to be ready for quick and abrupt pivot turns.

Footwork exercises

Aside from the usual footwork drills, there are also several exercises that are simple enough and will surely help improve your footwork for both defensive and offensive tasks in playing basketball.

Here are some of them.

As a form of exercise, bend the knees, take proper balance standing position by spreading the feet at shoulder width. Then, step sideways. Eventually, make the little steps either to the left or to the right turn into short runs. The sideway movements will help you attain good and firm footwork sideways.     Hop with just one leg forward from tone side of the basketball court until you reach half of the court. Bring down the foot and use the other one as you hop forward to the other end of the court. This exercise targets the muscles of the thighs and knees, making up for firmer and stronger footwork.     Regular jogging and running exercises are proven to be effective in improving the footwork of basketball players. In the morning, or whenever there is time, jog around or run. It would also be advisable if you use a thread mill.

It would be impossible to play basketball if the strength of the feet isn’t established. Because basketball is a very physical game, you should make sure your footwork is well practiced before the games.


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How To Choose A Great Website Domain Name

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

It’s true that your website is characterized by your website domain name. If you’re using your website to promote sales, or your business, it’s important that you spend a little time thinking of a great domain name. It really helps that the domain name you choose is unique, but it is possible to include the names or references to a product or service. Also common is to use a site that is similar to what you’d like to do for yourself – this is fine, as long as you don’t directly copy or plagiarize the example site.

Here are some useful tips that I’ve used over the years that can help you find a great domain name.

Easily Remembered

A good domain name is one that is easily remembered. If your name is one that stands out from others in your particular business, then people will be more likely to remember you and your site. Some examples are catchy phrases, “odd” – meaning “interesting” spelling, and popular phrases. Most website domain name with “how to” in front is extremely popular these days.

Short & Sweet

A good domain is a short one. Once again, any name that’s easy to remember is a plus – and, usually, a shorter name is more easily remembered. Spelling your domain is a huge issue – generally, a shorter domain is more likely to be spelled correctly , as it requires fewer characters. Less chances for mistakes. It’s a fact – longer names are more likely to be spelled

incorrectly. Here’s a hint: your competitors may be looking to take advantage of mis-spelled domains by owning some common mis-spellings of your name!

Appropriate to Your Business

How appropriate is your website domain name to your business – either in name or by the type of business you are involved in? It’s good that your name be descriptive of your business, or services you offer. It can be considered a sign of professionalism when your domain is well-matched with your business. Also, like in advertising, consistency counts.

Descriptive

Even though this aspect is somewhat difficult to accomplish, those whose domains offer a good description of the business (or service) often are more successful. Successful means better search engine rankings, and better targeting of your particular niche or area of expertise.

Choosing a great website domain name doesn’t have to be difficult, and it certainly isn’t rocket science. Like most things in life, thoughtfulness and careful action can contribute to business success!

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