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Jesus Saves
Facebook | Louise Nightingale's Notes: "Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer.
They had been going at it for days, and frankly, God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, 'THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.'
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets!
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports.
They did every job known to man.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off.
Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld.
Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers.
Satan started searching frantically, screaming: 'It's gone! It's all GONE! 'I lost everything when the power went o"
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The Trend Of Consumer Purchasing On The Internet
There is a very big trend shift in the conventional business practices. There are now businesses are coming on the internet or online to perform or sell their products. Despite the increase in use and popularity of the Internet over the last few years, the question of why consumers prefer to shop on the Internet for certain products and not for others still remains poorly understood.
Consumers' preference for shopping on the Internet has not been abundant. Until just a few years ago, the Internet had been relatively new to consumers as a shopping medium, and is still in a growth phase. Lack of familiarity with its use and the risk perceived by consumers in revealing personal information as a part of online purchasing has created uncertainty and wariness about untried e-tailers. In addition, the appeal and adoption of online shopping have been hindered by inferior Internet retail site design and functions. Finally, historical trends have not had sufficient time to accumulate to predict consumer shopping behavior.
The early years of online shopping has been replaced by more realistic and cautious projections of e-commerce sales. While use of the Internet for the purposes of shopping, information search, communication, interaction, and entertainment has continued to increase, the actual figures for e-commerce sales have not increased as rapidly as expected. As online retail sales continue to increase at a slower pace than expected, academicians and practitioners alike are searching for the product categories that consumers will shop for on the Internet. Consumers' preferences for shopping on the Internet may depend on the product type, which will in turn influence the need to obtain product information easily and cost-effectively, or to test or try products before purchasing. In addition, consumers' willingness to purchase on the Internet may vary depending on the attributes that Internet retailers offer for online-shopping (i.e., information and order services, privacy, quality of products, site quality, etc.).
In the brick-and-mortar retailing and catalog shopping literature, the published research indicates that the importance of store/mail-order attributes varies by product category. There is a discrepancy between e-tailers and customers regarding why customers visit a site. Retailers were reported to believe that factors such as convenience, reputation/trust, and customer service were most important, while customers were reported to list merchandise assortment and competitive prices as the factors that mattered most to them. The reason for the discrepancy is perhaps that the type of product purchased is influential in determining which attributes are more important in choosing a retailer to patronize.
It may also help Internet retailers understand which Internet retailer attributes are important to consumers for specific product types so that they can communicate to them with proper messages and convey the appropriate product-related information on their Web sites and in their advertising.
Consumers' preference for shopping on the Internet has not been abundant. Until just a few years ago, the Internet had been relatively new to consumers as a shopping medium, and is still in a growth phase. Lack of familiarity with its use and the risk perceived by consumers in revealing personal information as a part of online purchasing has created uncertainty and wariness about untried e-tailers. In addition, the appeal and adoption of online shopping have been hindered by inferior Internet retail site design and functions. Finally, historical trends have not had sufficient time to accumulate to predict consumer shopping behavior.
The early years of online shopping has been replaced by more realistic and cautious projections of e-commerce sales. While use of the Internet for the purposes of shopping, information search, communication, interaction, and entertainment has continued to increase, the actual figures for e-commerce sales have not increased as rapidly as expected. As online retail sales continue to increase at a slower pace than expected, academicians and practitioners alike are searching for the product categories that consumers will shop for on the Internet. Consumers' preferences for shopping on the Internet may depend on the product type, which will in turn influence the need to obtain product information easily and cost-effectively, or to test or try products before purchasing. In addition, consumers' willingness to purchase on the Internet may vary depending on the attributes that Internet retailers offer for online-shopping (i.e., information and order services, privacy, quality of products, site quality, etc.).
In the brick-and-mortar retailing and catalog shopping literature, the published research indicates that the importance of store/mail-order attributes varies by product category. There is a discrepancy between e-tailers and customers regarding why customers visit a site. Retailers were reported to believe that factors such as convenience, reputation/trust, and customer service were most important, while customers were reported to list merchandise assortment and competitive prices as the factors that mattered most to them. The reason for the discrepancy is perhaps that the type of product purchased is influential in determining which attributes are more important in choosing a retailer to patronize.
It may also help Internet retailers understand which Internet retailer attributes are important to consumers for specific product types so that they can communicate to them with proper messages and convey the appropriate product-related information on their Web sites and in their advertising.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Tips - Internet Marketing Strategies
His new company will benefit greatly from the various methods of marketing on the Internet. But you do not have to spend millions of dollars just to get some decent exposure for your company. There are ways to make your business look and feel without too much with the cost of its announcement.
Use your power line - through Internet marketing. These are simple methods that you can use to increase the visibility of your business without shelling out more than you can afford. However, these techniques require patience and a few feet to produce acceptable results.
Firstly, you need a website before you can make use of these low cost Internet marketing strategies. So go create one or hire a web developer. It will display your products and services. This will be used in employing the following Internet marketing techniques.
Affiliate Marketing: This is the process of recruiting a network of smaller sites known as affiliates to drive targeted traffic to a website. Advertising, text and links will be provided by advertisers. You have to pay a certain percentage of profits to sales of its subsidiaries.
One of its objectives should be to achieve a high ranking on search engines. One way to do this is through the construction of link. This could be done through trade links with other companies that are related to yours.
Newsletters: Sending out newsletters to your subscribers (those who signed up for your newsletters) will help greatly in establishing a good working relationship with your customers or prospective customers. It has to be short, sweet, consistent and written for a general audience.
E-mail Marketing: As one of the best cost-effective Internet marketing tools, it stays as a very important method of keeping your customers aware of your products and services. Just make sure to avoid spamming or soon enough you will have to close down you business due to complaints.
Articles: If you put quality content in the form of articles on its website along with their products and services, will search engines to index your site. Get your website indexed by popular search engines mean more traffic for you.
Forums: Expand your Internet is through joining the forums that discusses mainly about things or in connection with their products and services. Actively post answers or responses thereto and requesting information to build its reputation as a member of this forum and promote the visibility of their business through their signature files. These signature files are those that conform to your every post. Links to your site could be included in this firm.
Use your power line - through Internet marketing. These are simple methods that you can use to increase the visibility of your business without shelling out more than you can afford. However, these techniques require patience and a few feet to produce acceptable results.
Firstly, you need a website before you can make use of these low cost Internet marketing strategies. So go create one or hire a web developer. It will display your products and services. This will be used in employing the following Internet marketing techniques.
Affiliate Marketing: This is the process of recruiting a network of smaller sites known as affiliates to drive targeted traffic to a website. Advertising, text and links will be provided by advertisers. You have to pay a certain percentage of profits to sales of its subsidiaries.
One of its objectives should be to achieve a high ranking on search engines. One way to do this is through the construction of link. This could be done through trade links with other companies that are related to yours.
Newsletters: Sending out newsletters to your subscribers (those who signed up for your newsletters) will help greatly in establishing a good working relationship with your customers or prospective customers. It has to be short, sweet, consistent and written for a general audience.
E-mail Marketing: As one of the best cost-effective Internet marketing tools, it stays as a very important method of keeping your customers aware of your products and services. Just make sure to avoid spamming or soon enough you will have to close down you business due to complaints.
Articles: If you put quality content in the form of articles on its website along with their products and services, will search engines to index your site. Get your website indexed by popular search engines mean more traffic for you.
Forums: Expand your Internet is through joining the forums that discusses mainly about things or in connection with their products and services. Actively post answers or responses thereto and requesting information to build its reputation as a member of this forum and promote the visibility of their business through their signature files. These signature files are those that conform to your every post. Links to your site could be included in this firm.
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