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June 13, 2008

Improve eCommerce Credibility with buySAFE

Filed under: Internet — Tags: , , , — admin @ 12:07 am

Have you ever bought something from another eCommerce site only to find that the item is never delivered? If not, you’re lucky. It’s so easy to set up a storefront these days that anyone can do it. This means that there are a lot of stores online that are really just Internet scams designed to get your money without delivering your goods. Despite the fact that this is fraudulent, it continues to happen. This has made many buyers wary of doing their shopping online.

Savvy shoppers are starting to make sure that they only work with reputable eBusiness stores so that they can avoid scams like these. Most of them do this through shopping at name brand locations that are familiar to everyone (such as Amazon.com). So what can you do to get their business if you’re just a small business that isn’t widely known yet? Boost your credibility by working with a company that bonds online businesses to give customers the guarantees that they are seeking.

An example of a place like this is buySAFE.com. This website checks the credibility of the online business and then issues its stamp of approval to customers. Buyers can check to see if the company has been approved to give themselves the assurance they need to proceed with their online shopping. Everyone benefits.

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TELECONFERENCING GOES THE DISTANCE

Filed under: Business — Tags: , , — admin @ 12:03 am

 Companies who use teleconferencing to have meetings, training sessions or other group get gatherings in distant locations use various forms of high tech equipment and conference calling to accomplish communication. Sophisticated as it is these days, telephone conferencing probably started a long time ago with the good old fashioned kitchen table speaker phones. Remember when you would call home on Sundays? The whole family, including Grandma and Grandpa would gather around the kitchen table and all talk at once. Trying to be polite, you would strain to pick out an intelligible thread from the cacophony and respond to it. The love was there, but it was a little bit bewildering to know who to respond to. It’s a whole lot smoother now. Forward looking author Jules Verne dreamed up an early form of teleconferencing when he wrote of his idea that several phones lines could be linked to a main phone, thus allowing members of a group to have a meeting without leaving their homes. This was very soon after the telephone had been put into operation! Maybe it’s just part of human nature to always look for more convenient ways to get together and communicate

Equipment for today’s get togethers in the business world is high tech and has many variations. Most of it requires at least some knowledge of how things work in the electronics field. Because of this, conference call services have come into being to help with the job These companies vie for the a chance to serve business owner who is looking for an inexpensive yet efficient way to conduct meetings over distance. The kitchen table speakers were an early version of a conference facilitation device. They didn’t work too well, since it was almost impossible to hear speech against the background noise. They picked up every sound in the room. Nowadays, sophisticated devices can connect incoming lines to the host’s line right on the desk, and the host can speak to all participants and hear feedback from everyone. Some of these devices are odd-looking triangular, black boxes resembling spy planes. Others are plain flat boxes. All of them have varying numbers of communication ports.Businesses and other groups wanting more ambitious conferencing with many participants, in sometimes several locations at the same time, are served by companies offering a number of options. They often use various models of conferencing devices, sometimes called bridges that can accommodate many call participants and can make life much easier for the company’s own personnel, who often aren’t trained for these increasingly complex applications. They can offer high quality audio and interactive features, where the conference host can receive feedback. The teleconferencing company often owns a state of the art bridge with complex capabilities that connect the host with offices in often far flung places, thus the conference host doesn’t need to acquire and learn how to use a bridge. Or sometimes the complexity is represented by a wide variety of groups who need to get together on occasion to talk over things; these could be government offices, or medical groups, even groups associated with higher education.

The bewildering task of how to make the connections for these companies or groups is handled by the conference calling service providers, who provide effortless high tech connections, dedicated operators to smooth the way, and sometimes save the day by making the arrangements with participants, so that they are all there, on time and plugged in. That is cool conferencing!

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June 12, 2008

Choosing a Good Host for Your Site When You Don’t Know What ISP Means

Filed under: Internet — Tags: , , — admin @ 11:28 pm

Even to the seasoned pro, finding a good host can be tough. Money is not the way to choose a good host in Cyberspace.

There are nearly as many hosts in Cyberspace as there are search engines. So how do you pick the right one?

At such places as windows hosting, many hosting products and services appear on the pages on the site, but they are well organized and clearly up with the times considering that they offer VPS servers, something that is by no means a common choice with most hosts.

They have plans for any budget and they are very helpful in choosing the right hosting package for you, even if leading you through the choices on a self-guided tour.

When looking for a host, one should consider the following:

How much disk space and bandwidth do they offer in each package. Bandwidth is how many megabytes of information flowed from the disk on the server through the cables to a client computer. With the various plans, if you exceed disk space or bandwidth, you get charged extra. So, if your site needs only 1GB of disk space now and has 50MB of bandwidth, but you’re going to be changing or adding to the site, it’s best to go with the next higher package.

The all-important Control Panel. Does the host you’re evaluating have one and how intuitive is it? It’s here that you can change user names and passwords, change, add or delete email addresses (most of the big hosts offer fifty to 100 email addresses for company employees if you select them as your host). If you need more, you have to buy them. But look into the Control Panel if they have examples to see if you understand it’s power and how it works.

It’s here, too that you can check your traffic. You want to find a host that will allow you to track all of your metrics. Some hosts, even good ones, will give you a look at the number of visitors you have, but you need to know much more than that. What pages were visited the most and least, how many Page Views there were, where are your visitors coming from and what sites are sending them to you. To get that, you often have to pay an additional monthly charge. If you find a host that includes them free, that is ideal.

If you are going to create an e-mailing list, make sure that the service you are evaluating has MySQL, and tutorials for them. Having access to these and tutorials is very important.

In the final analysis, cost may be a factor. Just make certain that you are getting the disk space and bandwidth you need, that you can check all of your metrics: Unique Visits, Page Views, Sites linking to yours, who is referring traffic to you and what keywords are being searched to find your site. Without metrics, your site will be like a ship in the Atlantic with no sextant of GPS.

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