Selling your stuff online

12 Jun

This is for people who have a small or a medium sized business and would now like to expand their capabilities online.

With business getting competitive and market margins getting diluted, it becomes very important to find newer markets for one’s products and services.

I would seriously recommend displaying your portfolio to the online market which is practically a goldmine waiting to be explored.

The online market is every increasing and will soon become the conventional market, wherein, people will shop for most of their needs with a mouse click.

Now if you are doubtful on your online expertise to actually build a shopping site, you need not fear as these days you can practically get the most advances options that even a newbie can use.

If you are serious about trying your hand with online selling, you can look into an automated shopping cart software which will help you setup and manage your online store with just the basic knowledge.

One of the better options for the same would be AShop. They have one of the best ecommerce software and are the best option for experts and newbies alike.

They provide end to end business solution and will help you setup your store with the minimum of hassle. That is one of the factors why they are my preferred choice as you need not be bothered about dealing with various vendors for different needs. So from buying a domain name to designing your site, they will help you with everything.

However, I would recommend that over a period of time it’s best if one would aquire the basic html coding and other site management skills.

They have reasonable pricing starting for $50 per month, and varies according to the size of your store.

So if you have a business, then I suggest that you create an online presence and cash in the trend before your competitors do. It might be a little more effort, but when the money starts to flow in, you will not regret.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment.

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Bloggers need advice, Upstart

Filed under: Site Development — Tags: — kiviniar
28 Feb

You would be kidding me if you said that you were visiting my blog and were not in for the money. OK, maybe not. But being a blogger you would have your own definition of a successful blogger that you are pursuing for yourself.

So I guess you would like to understand the elements that would make you achieve your goal.

The one thing that you would encounter as a blogger is CHOICE, which can be an advantage as well as a disadvantage if you don’t choose right.

This is the review of the one of the better resources that would bend your mind towards creative blogging and understanding the elements around you to help you make that CHOICE.

Upstart Blogger

They quote “Successful Blogging Made Simple”, but do they really deliver?

My first impression of the website was that they like minimalistic, and thats not a bad think.

But are they minimalistic with the information that they provide at the blog?

This blog is managed by Ashley Morgan who is a freelance musician, and like myself understood the power of blogging in creating wealth.

At Upstart Blogger Ashley educate the blogger with blogging basics and from there on to becoming a pro. One of the articles that caught my eye was 25 Steps to Launching Your Blog and Making $100+ A Month in 30 Days

You might consider the tips within this article as basics information, but remember that a well written guide that you can bookmark is always helpful. I have been blogging for a while now and I myself learnt something out of it. (I never knew that I could save my server from meltdown with the Digg Defender WP plugin)

I too cater to a webmaster audience that is looking to start out and I am often asked on how one can make money via blogging. Personally I make more out of my other projects but plan to change that eventually as I improve my blogging skills and also innovate on my content creation.

Thats point number two to becoming a successful blogger:

So does Upstart blogger manage to help you with that?

Looking at some of the recent posts, you might be interested to read What I learned about blogging from 1970’s science fiction

Now that would be a great way to put forth an idea as simple as to regularly update ones blogs for sustaining and generating reader interest. The simple fact to note here would be that by delivering content creatively to the audience, Upstart Blogger manages to induce creative thinking in the minds of the readers. And trust me, that is what helps you innovate on your content creation.

I would recommend this site for the content as you will definitely find something that you would enjoy and learn with, no matter in what stage of blogging you are.

Some of my interesting read at Up Start blogger are:

Lies damned lies and earning statistics

Size matters

Social networking for bloggers

So I will close this review with a few recommendations and highlights.

* Design (7/10) : One the design side, there is surely more scope of improvement as I was pretty confused with the navigation and was not even able to find the link to view the previous post in posting chronology. On the bright side, the minimalistic design ensures that the content is easy to ready and there are no distracting elements on the template.

* Content (8/10) t: No complaints on this front but the blog will go better with some kind of intensive list that bloggers could use. I guess I have a “list fetish”.

* Extras (9/10): Ashley has been holding some great contests with greater prizes and it sure helps build the community feeling where an incentive helps to motivate an “Upstart Blogger”. They also have some good looking WP themes and Pligg templates that you can use for free.

Conclusion: If you are an upstart blogger, this is the site I would recommend. I will be following the site myself for helping me improve as a blogger.

Closing with the Upstart Blogger Promise:

Upstart Blogger is your quickstart guide to creating, launching, maintaining, promoting, and profiting from a successful blog.

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Sites that bite: The Entertainment Niche

12 Feb

If you are looking for an idea for building your own website then you should read this.

Before I started building websites I was always confused on the niche that I should join. I had no particular topic expertise and it was a little mind draining, where I spent hours trying to figure out the best niche for me.

Almost a year in web development and a handful sites in my portfolio, I can conclude with confidence when I say that the entertainment niche is the one for you if you too are facing the same dilemma.

I would not say that you don’t need brains to manage an entertainment site, but you will definitely be at ease in terms of content creation and traffic generations.

The basic things that I have observed and you would agree too is that the audience of an entertainment sites is comparatively easy to please and also the content that would hold their interest is easy to create.

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Free PageRank Checking Script

30 Jan

So did you every want to start your own Google PageRank checking site?

Well I always wanted to add such a tool on my many webmaster related sites. And all that I needed was a PHP script to build such a tool.

If you would like to add such a tool to your site or would like to start a PR checking site itself then these scripts will help you for doing just that.

There are four different PR checking scripts that you can use.

Demo 1 <<< This one is the most advanced

See the demo I made for myself Check PageRank

Demo 2

Demo 3

Demo 4 <<< This one is a bulk PR checker

If you plan to use them on your website then I suggest that you use a combination of the Demo 1 and the Demo 4, so that people can check individual sites and well as multiple sites at once.

And remember to place ads on your tool page, I will put them up once my tool page gets a little popular.

Download Google PageRank Checking Script For Free

P.s. Please do not ask me for support
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Do the 301 Redirect

Filed under: SEO, Site Development — Tags: , , , , — kiviniar
26 Jan

Lets keep it simple

Every once in a while you must have come across the term “301 redirects” at webmaster boards, SEO discussions and while talking about website development. Like most of you all I too was totally confused and gave up on understanding it, thinking that it was nothing more than a technical jargon.

301 redirects or permanent redirects are a topic that we all need to understand as it does have an implication in relation to SEO and the SERPs and can also be of use when we move the pages or the website around.

So now that I know what these things are, I though best to share.

In this post I hope to explain the concept of these redirects and the implication they have on site development.

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