The Blog Song

Maybe the best way to get my blog noticed and be more successful at generating traffic would be to create a song about my blog!  Maybe in the future I will have the guts to post something like this....

No Business like E-Business!

Since e-Business has proven to be a very complex avenue for businesses, with the boom and the bust, there are many seminars, training sessions, books, online modules, and websites that are geared toward ensuring e-Business is a success.  One new book that has been released is “No Business like E-Business.”

This book helps to save the reader time and money because it covers both the basics and pitfalls that every online entrepreneur should know.  This book is a great tool to utilize to ensure an e-Business is successful. 

No Business like E-Business

These tools are important to newbies to the online avenue to sell their products, because without a clear understanding and extensive research the online launch will likely fail because there are more forces against the online business than a physical one.

Some of the pitfalls:

1)      Only certain products are suitable for online (cars not bought online)

2)      Some products need to be touched and held before they are bought

3)      Not all consumers have access to the technology needed to support online business or they may not have the desire to purchase products online, because they like the experience of shopping in a store.

If your product is not able to satisfy these needs or overcome them by establishing a niche in the market then your online business will likely fail.  Compensating for these pitfalls is essential to online success……..Amazon is an e-tailer that has done an excellent job of understanding and accommodating these problems, establishing themselves as an online heavyweight.  Keep in mind that not all companies have been as successful as Amazon!

StripeyLines yet another iPhone application

On December 3, 2009 Portaltech, one of the UK’s leading eCommerce consulting and development specialists launched a new iPhone application called StripeyLines. This application allows the shoppers to swipe barcodes on goods that they are considering buying. These barcodes are saved and profiles developed on the StripeyLines website.


This application allows shoppers to make informed decisions and perform further research before purchasing the items from their iPhone or desktop PC.


This inventive application helps the e-tailers because the shopper can then use the Internet to purchase the items that they found and swiped in the stores.


Also, for food products that are swiped the application will update how much the nutritional value of that product contributes to their daily allowance and calculated the number of calories they have remaining.


Since the launch of the iPhone there have been numerous applications that have been developed. Many have helped to change or improve eBusiness functions. Month after month iPhone users have access to new and improved technology that works in conjunction with their phone and it seems that there is no letting up!


Check out the entire article at http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=52276

Amazon....from clicks to bricks?

Rumours are soaring that Amazon is gearing up to buy launch bricks and mortars stores in Britain to support its rapidly growing website. If this secret is true, they did not do a very good job of keeping the secret quiet.



If Amazon is indeed going to launch a store, it represents a reversal of the thinking of the dot.com boom. With the adoption of e-Business people feared that internet shopping would kill physical stores, with most retailers only conducting business online. For Amazon to be able to go from being an “Internet pureplay” to a physical store, it is a reversal of the logic that retailers make more money online.  They must see the value of having a physical store... they can capture those consumers who don't like to shop online.


There are some e-tailers that have opened shops, like Lastminute.com however for the most successful e-tailer to capture the bricks and mortar segment of the industry will have a huge impact on the retailing industry. This might be the move to make the retailer even more of a threat on the global stage.....Walmart look out!

Internet Increases Interconnectiveness- Leading to Increased Travel!

As mentioned many times throughout many blogs, the Internet has allowed many businesses to exist online.  One sector that has adopted e-Business on a large scale is the tourism industry.  Any companies that sell plane tickets, tickets to events, provide information for certain places etc. have been able to find a niche on the Internet.  E-Businesses within this sector are able to reach more people, possibly increasing overall sales and improving profit margins.

The Internet has allowed dissemination of information to reach millions of people, helping to improve inter-connectiveness.  Connecting people all around the world, by allowing people to access information and products from all around the world is driving globalization.

Finding new information about far off places, sends the imagination into overdrive.  I know for me, when I find out about a new far off place on the Internet where I can see something fascinating, I can’t stop thinking about that place. For example when I found out that I could see a MOLA MOLA in waters off the coast of Bali, I decided that I must travel there.  The picture below is a Mola Mola aka Oceanic Sunfish.

 

Without the Internet I would not have known about this awesome fish, I wouldn’t have travelled to the Bali with the hopes to see this majestic fish.  For your own information I didn’t actually see this fish, the people ahead of me did, not me this time, but I will be back to find that fish in the magical blue.