• E-marketplaces from Seller's Perspective
E-marketplaces from Seller's Perspective by Nowshade KabirWhat is an E-marketplace anyway?E-marketplace is a business to business web based venue, where buyers and sellers meet online, generate business leads and conduct business transactions. The e-marketplace features are tailored in a manner so that a large numbers of buyers and suppliers can be serviced as a community. A participant of an E-marketplace can be a buyer, a seller or both. Unlike an E-distribution portal which is oriented...
• Promote Your Website - Search Tools
Promote Your Website - Search Tools
by: Nowshade Kabir
Many companies after spending a substantial amount of money on the development of their websites assume that once the website is published on the Internet, people will flock onto it and, therefore, do not take website promotion as seriously as the development part of it. Today, with millions of websites around, no matter how great your website is, if you don’t promote it effectively, you will not get the visibility that your site...
• Start doing online business using B2B Portals in Six Steps
Start doing online business using B2B Portals in Six Steps
by: Nowshade Kabir
I registered with a B2B site but what’s next?
This is a question many first time users of B2B marketplaces ask themselves. A few expect that the registration itself will bring them a number of new customers. In some cases this might by true! Especially, if you are a seller of some much coveted items. But for rest of us, things are a little trickier! A large B2B marketplace has a lot of suppliers of similar...
• Web Store - Why Do You Need One?
Web Store - Why Do You Need One?
by: Nowshade Kabir
Internet has opened a new era of business opportunities. Each day, thousands of new consumers are joining the Internet. More and more companies are adopting Internet as their primary sales and distribution channel. According to Forrester Research -The survey of 130 U.S. companies indicates consumers spent $76 billion shopping on-line in 2002. This represents a 48 percent increase over 2001, and projections for 2003 come close to $100...
•10 Reasons Why Companies Should Start Doing Business Online
10 Reasons Why Companies Should Start Doing Business Online
by: Nowshade Kabir
With the rapid down fall of world economy and dot-com companies in recent years many brick-and-mortar companies and new start-ups ask themselves: To Be Online or Not to Be Online?
Not long time ago, I read a comment of a well-known industry observer, where he stated that companies that are not selling through Internet by 2007 will probably become extinct. As dramatic as it might feel, although exaggerated, but...
•5 Hot Internet Businesses For 2005
5 Hot Internet Businesses For 2005
by: Nowshade Kabir
If you are planning to start a new business in 2005, you should seriously consider one of the many Internet based businesses available today. The online businesses have numerous inherent advantages in comparison to their brick and mortar counterparts.
Investment is relatively small
The basic elements to start an online business are the followings: a good product or service, an online presence, and a good marketing plan. All these...
•Attracting traffic with banner ads
Attracting traffic with banner ads
by: Nowshade Kabir
Internet is an ever evolving business platform. Doing business on the Internet differs in a number of ways from every day brick and mortar business. Change here is more frequent, more dramatic and may have greater impact than in a conventional business. Success in this climate can only come from quick response to the changes. Look at web advertisement! Just in a few short years, we have seen rise and fall of banner advertisement, email...
•Be Aware of Phishing Scams!
Be Aware of Phishing Scams!
by: Nowshade Kabir
If you use emails actively in your communication, you must have received various messages claiming to be from Ebay, Paypal and a number of banks. A recent email as if from U.S. Bank Corporation that I received contains the subject "U.S. Bank Fraud Verification Process" and in the body of the mail it says "We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your U.S. Bank Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third...
•Conducting Business through B2B E-marketplaces
Conducting Business through B2B E-marketplaces
by: Nowshade Kabir
Businesses, which are still sitting on sidelines and not doing business on the Internet, should think seriously about their position! If you are one of them, chances are there, that you have to pay dearly for your indecision as you might lose significant market share to your more proactive competitors in a very short period of time.
Apart from the fact that e-commerce is growing at the rate of more than 25 percent a year,...
•Developing your export import business using Internet - Part I
Developing your export import business using Internet - Part I by Nowshade KabirSince most of the businesses throughout the world have access to the Internet, many astute entrepreneurs and trading companies are using the Internet as one of the primary means for developing their import and export businesses.Already a big slice of global trades are taking place through the Internet. According to Forrester Research, a majormarketing research company, worldwide online exports will escalate to US...
•Doing Business Online — Private B2B Exchanges
Doing Business Online — Private B2B Exchanges
by: Nowshade Kabir
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 incredible value to existing...
•Drop-Shipping – A Great Way Of Making Money Online
Drop-Shipping – A Great Way Of Making Money Online
by: Nowshade Kabir
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 season in United States are...
•Effective importing-exporting with trade leads
Effective importing-exporting with trade leads
Ever wonder, how some importers and exporters get suppliers and buyers from other countries so easily? After trying their hand on eBay an increasing number of people are looking for either a foreign supplier for the items they are trading locally or global buyers for the unique product that they sell. If you are one of them, or you have recently decided to explore import-export business opportunities, using this simple method you can also find...
•Effective methods of doing business online!
Effective methods of doing business online!
by: Nowshade Kabir
With all these dot com failures so rampant, you may question, is it still viable to consider an online venture? The truth is: while spectacular rise and fall of many dot com companies have been overly publicized, sales through Internet are still increasing by 20 – 25% each year. Even economic down turn of the recent years has not hampered this growth.
Consider this:
According to an annual study of Internet trends by marketing...
•Grow your business using B2B Emarketplace - Part I.
Grow your business using B2B Emarketplace - Part I. by Nowshade KabirIf 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 B2B ecommerce revenues are...
•Grow your business using B2B emarketplace – Part II
Grow your business using B2B emarketplace – Part II by Nowshade KabirSelecting 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.Most experts agree...
•Grow your Business with Emarketplace Part III
Grow your Business with Emarketplace Part III by Nowshade KabirIncrease 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! You feel that you are in a limbo! How...
•How To Implement E-Business Solutions Successfully
How To Implement E-Business Solutions Successfully
by: Nowshade Kabir
Getting your business processes online is not an easy job! According to Gartner Group, a renowned research firm, a full 75 percent of all e-business projects fail due to poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology. The productivity gains and cost savings promised by e-business solutions are often lost not because of the technology itself but because of improper management of their implementation. In most...
•How to Receive Payments for Your Online Sales
How to Receive Payments for Your Online Sales
By Nowshade Kabir, Rusbiz.com
Once you decide which products you are planning to sell on the Internet, and what type of web store you are going to use in order to display your products, next vital decision that you have to take is to figure out how your customers are going to pay you. Whatever you plan to sell online, accepting credit card transaction is a must! A full 90 percent of all online sales occur through credit card payments.
There...
•How to search your PC with Google Desktop
How to search your PC with Google Desktop by Nowshade KabirIn this era of Internet, most people are frequent users of computers. Many of us use computers through out the day, accumulating morasses of information in various formats, which include email, digital photo, word document, spreadsheet, presentation file, ebook, article, other downloaded files, music, visited web pages, and many others. We stuff them in multiple folders in our PC. Before we know it, our hard drives become a storeroom...
•How to start a successful import business using the Internet
How to start a successful import business using the Internet by Nowshade KabirThe Internet has opened up a whole new era of business opportunities. Falling trade barriers combining with easy access to trade information thanks to the Internet have created dramatic possibilities and sparked the growth of global online trade in virtually every area.Many companies are taking advantage of electronic media quite aggressively by making new contacts, tapping into new markets and reducing costs with...
•Lottery Scam, what it is and how to avoid it?
Lottery Scam, what it is and how to avoid it? by Nowshade kabirInternet scams and frauds are on the rise! The quantity of scam emails with various fraud schemes any email account receives today is simply overwhelming! There is this infamous Nigerian 419 scam, which is by far the most widely circulated one. I wrote about it in one of our ezine articles not long ago. You can read about it here! And there are many other scams like Lottery, Letter of Credit, money transfer, black money...
•Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part III
Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part III by Nowshade KabirWhether you are a newbie to Internet or a proud owner of a website, affiliate programs are great opportunities for you to make money online. It is an interesting concept that allows affiliates to develop a source of income and the program owners to sell their products more effectively.As an affiliate your job is to drive traffics to the program owner’s site. You get a commission from each sale made to a customer that originated...
•Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part II
Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part II by Nowshade KabirIn this holiday season online shopping is hotter than ever! According to US Commerce Department online sales continue to grow with a robust 25-27 percent this year over 1992. Online holiday shopping at a rate of 10 percent is also considerably outpacing the 5.7 percent growth of overall retail sales. Goldman Sachs predicts 23 percent of all gift-buying this holiday season will take place online!So, if you don’t have a product of...
•Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part I
Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part I by Nowshade KabirIf you have a website and you are not involved in any of the thousands of affiliate programs available on the Internet, you are loosing great opportunities to make some extra income. As in the case of some top affiliate marketers this extra income might even transform into thousands of dollars. Affiliate program is one of the most effective methods of producing sales second only to direct mail. According to Forrester Research, a...
•New MSN search engine: How good is it?
New MSN search engine: How good is it? by Nowshade KabirIf you have an online business or you just use Internet as one of your marketing tools, you know that how important are the search engines in your quest to get more targeted visitors to your website. The changes in search engine field can have unexpected outcome for your online endeavors. That’s why it is important to be well-informed on impending progress in this sphere.Microsoft has recently come out with the latest beta version of...
•Nigerian Scam
Nigerian Scam
by: Nowshade Kabir
Although this scam has its root from Nigeria dated a decade back, nowadays, you receive similar scam letters from many African countries, notably, Nigeria, Benin, Togo and even South Africa.
The subject lines of these emails are pretty similar. Something like: Business relationship, Urgent Assistance needed, Soliciting for your assistance, A cry for help etc. Most of the emails from this scam begin in the same way. Here are two excerpts from most recent...
•Promote your Web Store
Promote your Web Store
by: Nowshade Kabir
After spending substantial time and efforts the big day came when you finally published your website on the Internet. You are now ready to show your website to the world. But, with over a billion pages vying for traffic how do you make people visiting your site?
Web promotion is an on going process. There are many methods of promoting websites, but, the first and foremost step that you have to take to generate traffic for your website is to submit...
•Promote Your Website - Link Popularity
Promote Your Website - Link Popularity
by: Nowshade Kabir
What is link popularity?
The quantity of links in different websites pointing to your sites is called link popularity of your website. The more popular is your site the more links you get from other websites and vice versa.
Why is it so important?
Links from high traffic websites furnish you with constant stream of visitors. Other website marketing efforts i.e. email marketing, might give good influx of visitors while the campaign...
•Promote your website using articles
Promote your website using articles by Nowshade KabirInternet is all about information! At any given time, majorityof web users surf the Internet in search of some kind of information.That’s why it is only natural that marketing with the help of providingsought after information to web surfers should be a key method in your online marketing strategy. There are various ways of exploiting this effective and low-cost method of web marketing. One of them is to write articles related to your...
•Promote your website using Newsgroups
Promote your website using Newsgroups by Nowshade KabirAt present there are over 3.3 billion pages indexed by Google, and that definitely does not cover the entire Internet. With so many competitors around, you sure have to use every conceivablemethod available to promote your website. Newsgroups can be very powerful tools in your web promotion endeavor if you use them actively. What is a Newsgroup?A newsgroup is a message board on the Internet where users come to discuss topics of mutual...
•Rules for Achieving Online Success
Rules for Achieving Online Success by By Nowshade Kabir, Rusbiz.comThe Internet brought a great deal of benefits to our life. Access to a lot of free and useful information is, probably, one of the most important out of them. However, this abandon of free information has also become a problem to some extent. You started to spend a little too much time on the Internet. For you emails, chat rooms, messenger services along with aimless web browsing dominate substantial portion of your workdays....
•Selling Globally through a B2B Exchange
Selling Globally through a B2B Exchange by Nowshade KabirParticipation in B2B Exchanges is increasingly becoming one of the fastest growing marketing methods for businesses looking foraugmenting their client base beyond their local markets. Any good B2B Exchange offers direct contact with thousands of prospective buyers in a single location. For some new participants of a B2B Exchange, it appears to be a goldmine as they discover unexpected quantity of readymade clients without much effort...
•Seven Key Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs
Seven Key Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs by Nowshade KabirA recent poll conducted by Forbes magazine shows that majority of its readers would prefer to become a billionaire rather than a Nobel peace prize winner, a great scientist or a famous athlete. There is no secret that most of the average people dream about getting rich albeit very few makes any real effort to become one. According to statistics, more than 100 thousand people becomemillionaires each year in the United States...
•Using Google
Using Google by Nowshade KabirThanks to a unique algorithm that produces most relevant results to any given query, Google has become, indisputably, the best search engine on the Internet. On the last count, Google has indexed over 4 billion pages and tackles around 200 million searches a day! A cluster of 100 thousand servers are used to store, crunch and spew out the query results with lightning speed that you are so accustomed to see.This phenomenal growth has made Google from a garage...
•What to sell on the Internet?
What to sell on the Internet? by Nowshade Kabir The phenomenal growth of ecommerce lures more and more people to dream about starting an online business. The question that bothers many and restrains them from realizing their dream is what to sell on the Internet. If you have spent sometime on the Internet trying to figure out what product or service you should choose to sell online, you must have noticed that people are selling every conceivableproduct and service over the Internet. Contrary...
•Why Suppliers should use B2B exchanges
Why Suppliers should use B2B exchanges
by: Nowshade Kabir
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! Contrary to popular believe,...
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