Over the past few years, research has continued to prove the benefits of e-mail marketing for business: low costs, high conversion rates and detailed tracking are all notable features. But e-mail marketing is becoming much more than just a tool for spammers and e-businesses. Consumers are...
5 Mistakes You Might Be Making When Choosing A Password
Are you making yourself a target for fraud? More and more often I am hearing stories of people who have had their accounts hacked. They have had money stolen, lost sleep, spent hours setting up new accounts, or had their credit...
Shop at a flea market in Oaxaca, Mexico. Trade with a vendor in London, England. Or sport your wares to collectors in Geneva, Switzerland. You can virtually do just that when you shop or sell goods at an online auction site. You know those global auction Web sites, the ones that allow you to bid...
Search engine optimization and search engine marketing both are intrinsic part of Internet marketing efforts. But there is some confusion as to which one is better strategy in return on investment (ROI) terms. This article helps clear some of the doubts.
SEO vs. SEM The ROI Myth...
Your Next PR Nightmare Could Be Only a Click Away
In the age of Enron and failed intelligence, scandals remain the rage of the front page. Companies want to see positive spin and not scandal related material published. Imagine for a moment the educational software site where employees are...
I can’t begin to relate how rewarding it is to have a solution driven mindset. This is the manner of thinking that looks at a difficulty and tries to find a solution, as opposed to excuses or avoidance. Online business is a business like any other, and problems occasionally arise. You...
If your site is in Google Purgatory, prepare to spend some time suffering.
Google maintains two separate databases of indexed web pages. The main index holds billions of pages, and this where most search results come from. The second is called the “Supplemental index,” and...
In 2005 the largest ecommerce sites were for the following top five products or services:
Travel
Computer /peripherals/PDA
Apparel & accessories
Office supplies
Consumer packaged goods
The strongest advertiser in 2005 was Vonage Holdings Corp. who...
I don’t think it matters where you are these days, if you mention the name ‘ eBay ‘, there is someone there who has either bought an item on it, or who has sold something on it, eBay has become a household name around the world. I started buying and selling on ebay around 7...
An email autoresponder should come as natural to every business. Web surfers stopped looking at ordinary websites years ago. Now every internet visitor wants a website that is caring and will build a positive relationship with its visitors. It is for this reason that online companies are...
The last time you installed a large software, let us say a photo program, you just executed one command, for instance INSTALL or SETUP. After that the installation program took control, creating and deleting files. A few minutes later you have a lot of new code and data installed.
You...
The Case For.
Whatever you want to buy, whether its large or small, cheap or expensive, everyday or just plain weird, the chances are you can find it on eBay. Its the largest auction site in the world, and when it comes to the variety of whats on sale, size is vital. When was the last...