• Intranet Portals - Collaboration through Team Rooms

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    Knowledge Management for beginnersKnowledge Management (KM) can be defined simply as the process through which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-based assets. Knowledge assets are often grouped into two categories:(1) Explicit Knowledge Generally, everything and anything that can be documented, archived and codified. Examples include patents, trademarks, business plans, marketing research and customer lists.Read more…
  • Selling Globally Through a B2B Exchange

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    Participation in B2B Exchanges is increasingly becoming one of the fastest growing marketing methods for businesses looking for augmenting 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 from their side.Read more…
  • E-Gold

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    E-gold is a digital currency, used extensively on the Internet for making payments in exchange for goods and services.It is one of the first digital e-currency providers, having started in 1996. E-gold accounts are backed by actual physical gold, dollar for dollar.Read more…
  • Intranet Portals - Personalisation and Customisation

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    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. This brings us to the key difference; an intranet portal knows who you are, whilst with an old-fashioned intranet, the user is anonymous.Read more…
  • Leveraging Open Source Technology

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    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.Most small and medium businesses cannot afford the typical IT infrastructure model - nor does it make sense even if it is within their budget.Read more…
  • Why Ecommerce is Not Ready for My Daughter or Me

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    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.For example, when we enter her favorite stores the first thing that hits me is the music.Read more…
  • Expand Your Local Business Through the Internet

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    To obtain more local customers for your business, consider expanding your local business through the Internet. Here are some ways of doing so.1. Online DirectoriesEven without a website, you can get listed in online directories.Read more…
  • Projecting Your Image

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    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. How far you go up the ladder depends largely on the image you project to others.Read more…
  • Old Habits Die Hard in the Third Age Years

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    I spent a lifetime in retailing and I’m still at it in retirement; albeit virtually.You know how it goes.You put up a web page and throw in some stock.Read more…
  • What is SSL (the "little padlock")?

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    SSL (“Secured Socket Layer”) is a protocol used to encrypt the communication between the user's browser and the web server. When SSL is active, a “little padlock” appears on the user's browser, usually in the status line at the bottom (at the top for Mac/Safari users.) This assures the user that sensitive data (such as credit card numbers) can't be viewed by anyone “sniffing” the network connection (which is an increasing risk as more people use wireless networking).Read more…
  • Say Something Worth Talking About

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    I recently published a short e-book called 'One Thing I Know About Doing Business Online'. Seventeen people contributed - including Seth Godin, Jeffrey Zelman, Danny Sullivan, Jared Spool, Gerry McGovern and Ann Handley.But I didn't make a contribution of my own.Read more…
  • Accept Credit Cards Online Without a Merchant Account

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    There are two major ways to accept credit cards on your website. The first and most expensive is to have your own merchant account. Not only is this option expensive, it also requires extensive credit checks, lots of paperwork, and usually takes days or weeks before you get approved.Read more…
  • How To Sell Your Products Online?

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    E-commerce is gaining pace! Research firm eMarketer predicts that 2003 will see online sales reaching US $58.2 billion excluding travel.Read more…
  • Doing Business Online - Private B2B Exchanges

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    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?Read more…
  • 6 Steps to Attracting Black Customers Online

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    by Jamila White, "The E-Commerce Diva"In the rush to keep up with technology, many African-American business owners are so busy trying to add the latest bells and whistles to their Web sites, get to the top of the search engines, and learn the latest database technology that they often forget this simple fact: people do business with other *people*, not computers. Understanding the importance of relationships is key to attracting African-American buyers online. Here are a few practical tips to getting Black customers to buy more from your Website.Read more…
  • Online Lead Generation: Can it Work for My Business?

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    Business-to-business service providers have a wide range of tactics they can deploy to gain new clients or customers. Direct mail; cold calling; TV, radio or print advertising are all ways in which B2B services gain new customers. In the last 10 years, the Internet has become another strategy to boost business, through advertising, web site optimization and online lead generation.Read more…
  • Grow Your Business Using B2B Emarketplace - Part I

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    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. In the United States alone revenues will total US$ 721 billion.Read more…
  • Grow Your Business Using B2B Emarketplace - Part II

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    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.Most experts agree that average business, which is slow in adopting e-business applications, risks loosing its competitive edge to their more progressive rivals.Read more…
  • Grow your Business with Emarketplace - Part III

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    Increase 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.Read more…
  • Retirement Signature Frames - The Perfect Retirement Gift!

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    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. It’s a great gift on behalf of the company but if you’re the lucky individual enlisted with planning the retirement party, you’re probably in need of a personalized gift on behalf of everyone at the office.Read more…

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