Reality 1: Mail art :or enterprise is the most preferrred enterprise to
operate from home. Thousands make lucrative incomes and
get pleasure from operating from the consolation of houses, setting their own
enterprise utterly out of the "rat race" . These folks will
by no means work for a boss again. The postman brings them fats income 
daily - usually greater than they earned in a month working
for others.

A US. Authorities report states that many one--particular person mail order
companies are making earnings up to $50,000 per year. The extra
successful mail order dealers have turn into Millionaires!

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The Benefits of Co-Publishing

There are a variety of publishers, printers, and mail order
sellers who publish their very own mailorder magazine.  They make
their revenue by promoting promoting house to others as well as
to promoting their own offers.  They offer others (Co-Publishers)
a sizable discount for ad space in return for mailing a small
number of each issue.

Many mailorder sellers, for one purpose or one other, desire to act
as a co-writer somewhat than sending out their very own adsheet,
circular or magazine.  They don't have all of the expense and
hastle of laying out the copy, printing, etc., and an excellent
co-publishing program provides them nearly the same exposure.

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This prompt and clever print ad has hit three national papers in Australia from national budget airline Jetstar in response to comments made by Westpac.

The ads come on the back of Westpac's decision to lift interest rates by almost double the Reserve Bank of Australia's rate increase.

via B&T

HootSuite iPhone app released = Twitter stats on the go

 

HootSuite’s iPhone application is now available in the iPhone app store (link here). The app, a long awaited and oft requested addition from devoted HootSuite users, allows multi-Twitter account management with tweet scheduling and statistics on the go coupled with automatic syncing to your HootSuite account.

 

The app quickly set up each of my ‘tabs’ as with the web interface and a handy feature is the ability to swipe columns, which is great if you manage multiple accounts or just want a simple and quick way to flick between between multiple Twitter Lists. Setting up scheduled tweets is as simple as with the web version, represented by a calendar icon on the New Tweet page allowing you to select both the date and time for the tweet to go out.

Of course the main feature loved by HootsSuite users are it’s integrated statistics and these are justly represented with their own tab in the iPhone application. Stats can be viewed by account and by tweet with clicks being broken down by day and it also includes line charts for the more visual among us. You can also access in the analytic feature the HootSuite user ratings, a Digg-like voting system where users who click on a link can vote it up or down in the ow.ly bar.

On the whole, whilst Tweetie may have an edge on the sheer polish of it’s iPhone app, HootSuite have put together a great application loaded with features that I believe will stand out among the abundance of Twitter applications in the App Store.

 

Robert Mattar
Robert Mattar is an Australian digital sales and marketer based in London. Recent positions and projects have included web and mobile advertising development and consultation. He can normally be found scouring the web for the next big website. Connect with Robert on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Ecwid – Is this the future of shopping carts?

 

Ecwid boasts that it is a “new breed of shopping cart” and is a new player in both the e-commerce and saas offerings available in today’s market. Whilst it may be new it’s developers certainly have a profile in the shopping cart industry. Ecwid’s developers are Creative Development DBA Qualiteam, the Russian company behind a range of popular PHP shopping carts including X-Cart.

The service looks to target website owners wanting to add an e-commerce element to their website without the hassle of setting up a full shopping cart directly.  

After signing up for the service, users can quickly create their categories and products directly in Ecwid as the application offers catalog management. Once these are set up integration into your website is as simple as pasting in the supplied code and, before you know it, you will be sporting an AJAX enabled store front.

Ecwid definitely adds another option to the large array of shopping cart/e-commerce applications available to website owners. It isn’t as simple a widget as say those offered by Shopit nor is it as complicated to set up as a full blown e-commerce platform such as Magento. I certainly can see it being adopted by those looking for a middle ground when setting up a store. Ecwid is also not currently charging users anything so the barriers to entry are low.

Whilst Ecwid certainly wins when it comes to it’s simplicity it is in this area that I also think the service is at its weakest. After signing up and testing an account, I do not believe that a serious store owner would opt for Ecwid over other shopping cart services. The flaw being in your ability to optimize your store for search engines. I will give the team credit in that they have attempted to work around how the search engines will treat Ecwid stores by developing a HTML only mobile catalog to overcome some of the shortcomings of its AJAX interface. This mobile catalog does mean, though, that users finding you through it in search engines will be sent to a page designed for a mobile interface rather than a full browser experience. In an increasingly competitive online shopping industry I do not believe that store owners can afford such a limitation.

Have you set up a store with Ecwid? If so what were your experiences?

  

 

Robert Mattar
Robert Mattar is an Australian digital sales and marketer based in London. Recent positions and projects have included web and mobile advertising development and consultation. He can normally be found scouring the web for the next big website. Connect with Robert on Twitter and LinkedIn.