Have you ever met any unfair e-commerce practices? For example, you’ve ordered a product in an e-shop and after the checkout and confirming the purchase, you saw a higher price than the one on the product’s page? Or maybe you were waiting too long for the delivery without any information from the online vendor? Or maybe you’ve seen web stores, where no privacy policy or contact information was published, and you didn’t feel you could trust them enough to buy something?
If a company is old, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s antiquated or out of date in any way. But it also doesn’t have to indicate its credibility. Actually, the age itself doesn’t present any value at all. However, we can suspect one thing – if a certain company managed to survive for a long time, it may mean that they’ve actually been doing something the right way.
Of course I’m not going to tell you how you can make your business last for centuries – I’d have to be a prophet or a charlatan to do this. Besides, who’s really interested in all those centuries? All we may expect is to make our business work well for us and to leave it in good condition for our children. We don’t care what will happen 5 or 10 generations later. We’ll be already gone, buried and forgotten (sorry for saying it so directly, but that’s just the truth).
Anyway, instead of advising, I’d like to do some analyzing. Let’s get a closer look on some examples of those businesses that are really, really old.
The NFC, is the hottest technology… since the previous hot technology. It was developed to help people to communicate and share information on very (very!) small range. But is it just yet another information sharing technology? Well, yeah, but it’s not the technology itself that counts in this case, but all the companies standing behind it.
Unless you write book reviews for a living, it may be not easy to imagine how to use your e-reader in everyday work. An iPad (or any other tablet) would do better, right? But assuming that you write or read anything at work, Kindle is the perfect solution to make it easier and healthier for your eyes. And it’s distraction-free.
Here are some of my ideas how to make amazon’s e-reader really useful.
Here you are: stretching your legs, coming out of the office, making for the world to see you. But hey! You’re not a superhero! Keep your eyes wide open, listen to what people say and what they gossip about. You never know who’s gonna sit right next to you in the lounge or who’ll want to buy you a beer.
Fairs are organized for salesmen, but if you’re just a visitor, you can never tell how things will go. But there are some things worth keeping in mind.
When talking about online payments, almost everybody mention PayPal sooner or later. It just happens to be a common association. And no wonder, PayPal recently scored 100 million active accounts. With such numbers it’s surely not to be ignored and that’s why we now offer all PayPal services at PayLane.
But being a merchant you’ll probably ask how’s using PayPal with PayLane better than using it directly? It’s actually a very important question. So here are the benefits.
Are you still checking out new tools in order to find the perfect one, which will organize your work and improve productivity? If so, then I might have just the thing for you. It’s simple, looks nice, you can use it both on your computer and mobile device, it doesn’t consume your time and is very flexible. Sounds almost like too good to be true, doesn’t it?
I’ve been trying to find a decent app for a pretty long time and none would completely fit my needs. Project management tools were just too big and simple todo lists were… to simple. And it was usually faster to write down a todo list on a piece of paper than to use any of those apps. But when I learned about priority matrix, I felt that it could be pretty close to what I was looking for. And that’s how I found Sandglaz.
It’s very important to choose a proper business model at the very beginning of your online payment fun. Your success depends on the method you select. Fortunately there are a few possibilities you get to choose from. Each one is assigned to a different online business type.
Bump – a small application for iOS and Android devices which allows quick and simple information exchange. But how does it really work and what’s so special about it?
The idea is simple: we just need 2 phones (or iPods, tablets etc.) and some information to exchange. A well known scheme, but wait for it… cause here comes magic! You get some cool technology, which comes with a special application on your mobile device.
Payment industry – especially recently – evolves really fast. Just read some headlines on any of the news sites: “Squareup.com is going to…”, “NFC in new model of smartphone…”, “PayPal is buying…”, etc. That’s why I think right now is the best moment to talk about the future of this industry. So, where is the payment industry going?
Right now we can consider and talk about three possible (or maybe better – obvious) directions.