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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 boosting productivity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

12 Easy and Effective Ways To Create Reports


1. Combine a few of your articles into a free report.

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.

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.


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