Friday, March 6, 2009
Benefits of Herbal Health Supplements
Monday, February 16, 2009
Home shopping & shopping through Mobiles
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Knowledge is power, especially for shoppers. Savvy shoppers want to know that they are getting the best deal on anything they buy, from a new car to a new sweater.
That’s why we research products and take store circulars, newspaper ads, and coupons with us when we shop. We expect merchants to match competitors’ prices or explain how one model or brand is superior to another.
Even then, the feeling may linger in our minds that somewhere out there is a store, whether brick-and-mortar or virtual, that may offer us a better deal yet. That’s why Yahoo! is developing Mobile Shopping Search: to give you the power of instant comparison shopping on the go.
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There are two ways to get information from Mobile Shopping Search: with your cell phone and with your computer.
Use your cell phone’s Web browser to open the Yahoo! Shopping site (shopping.yahoo.com). In the search field, enter a product name, brand name, or any other specific keyword, such as a model number, and Yahoo! will display a list of related products, their prices, and the merchants selling them. It’s that simple.
Alternately, you can find similar information from the Yahoo! Shopping page on your desktop or notebook PC and then send a text message with product information to your cell phone. On the product information page, click the Send To Phone link, enter your email address (your Yahoo! account address may be there by default).
HOME SHOPPING:=>
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Home Shopping, it seems, is serious business not just on TV but across media. That is what Sundeep Malhotra, CEO, TV 18 Home Shopping Network would have us believe.
The Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) Network18-Saif Partners joint venture began operations in April 2008. It offers about 20,000-odd products across 2,000 Indian cities. These are sold through television, print, the internet and a catalogue service.
There are no estimates on the potential for shopping in India. However if online shopping, which is traditionally calculated as a part of home shopping, is any indicator then things look good.
Indians spent about Rs 9,000 crore (Rs 90 billion) on buying goods and services using the net in 2007-2008, according to the Internet and Mobile Association of India.
In a sense the Indian market is going the other way. Globally, catalogues and then TV, is what kicked off this market. In the UK for instance, in 2007 consumers spent 58.34 billion (Rs 408,400 crore) buying things sitting at home through catalogues, the Internet, TV or other media.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Healthy Online Shopping
How to have a healthy online shopping?
(i).Keep yourself very much peculiar about what you are purchasing.
(ii). With whom you are dealing with (which organization).
(iii). What is the exact price of the product to be purchased.
(iv). Check out the terms and conditions if the money can be refunded or not.
(v). Check out the privacy aspects (the details needed should not be too personal).
By keeping these points one can have a healthy online shopping.
The details of the users are stored in encrypted format. The details of the user cannot be disclosed by the organization members, the information is very confidential and if any offense done by the organizations side will be paid heavily for it.
Online Shopping
Whether we want to buying a product direct from business or from a individual, shopping online can be fun, easy, practical and economical. The Internet shopping experience can marred with dealers constantly devising new ways to deceive consumers out of their money.
This site offers information to help you shop safely and wisely online. You can learn, for example, how to use online payment services, participate in an Internet auction or resolve a complaint with an online dealer.
E-Commerce is one of the most Online Shopping provider. Though, it has its own disadvantages that, in this one has to give his Personal Details like credit card numbers, address, etc. This can be misused by any hacker. Even, the quantities of the product or withdrawn money can be changed. This will loose to a heavy loss to the individual. But, still online shopping is considered to be fruitful and doing good business also.
But, measures are taken by the companies doing online business to preserve the personal data of the user by the process of encryption. Encryption is a technique to change the data into some other form so that it will not be accessed by any unauthorized person. This is ensuring the demands of the online shopping.
Monday, October 13, 2008
About Shopping
Online shopping
It is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the Internet. An online shop, eshop, e-store, internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks and mortar retailer or in a shopping mall.
The metaphor of an online catalog is also used, by analogy with mail order catalogs. All types of stores have retail web sites, including those that do and do not also have physical storefronts and paper catalogs.
Online shopping is a type of electronic commerce used for buisness-to-buisness (B2B) and buisness to consumer (B2C) transactions
The term webshop also refers to the place of buisnees where web development, web hosting,and other type of web related activity takes place.
Information and Reviews:-
Online stores must describe products for sale with text, photos, and multimedia files, whereas in a physical retail store, the actual product and the manufacturer's packaging will be available for direct inspection (which might involve a test drive, fitting, or other experimentation).
Some online stores provide or link to supplemental product information, such as instructions, safety procedures, demonstrations, or manufacturer specifications. Some provide background information, advice, or how-to guides designed to help consumers decide which product to buy.
Some stores even allow customers to comment or rate their items. There are also dedicated review sites that host user reviews for different products.
In a conventional retail store, clerks are generally available to answer questions. Some online stores have real-time chat features, but most rely on e-mail or phone calls to handle customer questions
Price and selection:-
One advantage of shopping online is being able to quickly seek out deals for items or services with many different vendors (though some local search engines do exist to help consumers locate products for sale in nearby stores). Search engines and online price comparison services can be used to look up sellers of a particular product or service.
Shoppers find a greater selection online in certain market segments (for example, computers and consumer electronics and in some cases lower prices. This is due to a relaxation of certain constraints, such as the size of a "brick-and-mortar" store, lower stocking costs (or none, i f drop shipping is used), and lower staffing overhead.
Shipping costs (if applicable) reduce the price advantage of online merchandise, though depending on the jurisdiction, a lack of sales tax may compensate for this.
Shipping a small number of items, especially from another country, is much more expensive than making the larger shipments bricks-and-mortar retailers order. Some retailers (especially those selling small, high-value items like electronics) offer free shipping on sufficiently large orders.