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10 Ways for E-commerce businesses to Improve their Landing Pages

November 26, 2012 by Reporter Leave a Comment

It is highly important to create a perfect landing page as it has the potential of making the biggest pleasant difference. After all, a highly sophisticated landing page has the potential of bagging immense business like never before.

10 Traits of effective landing pages

Following are the 10 Traits of effective landing pages

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  1. Simplicity

In order to attract customers, people “over do” their landing pages as they forget that the best way is to make the pages as simple and clean as it is possible. Links should only be kept wherever necessary and pop ups should be avoided to the core. Content equally need to be easy so that it is understood by every one. In this way, a visitor can realize the things which are being offered along with the ways to get them as well

  1. Provide fast search feature

Many businesses fail owing to the fact that in spite of giving all the details about the product they are not able to provide strong, reliable and fast search feature. It is necessary since customers want to search and check other products as well.

  1. Trustworthiness

Scams are every where, hence you need to go overboard in order to make every body realize that your company is trust worthy. Testimonials are one such way to build trust followed by getting security certificates along with badges from companies like Better Business Bureau and Verisign work wonders too.

  1. Clear and concise Goal

A person should have a vision for his landing page as each and every single page should motivate readers towards accomplishing their goals. A visitor should not be in any sort of doubt or else they will move on some where else leaving you remorseful.

  1. Be creative

Language such as “Place your order” and “Buy now” are extremely effective. Hence, it is important to be creative and innovative to bag business manifolds.

  1. Necessary Content above the Fold

As visitors arrive on landing page, they need to get complete information quickly. They should not have to scroll down or search here and there. They expect immediate information without any delay.

  1. Ongoing Testing

The landing page should be sophisticatedly tested. Every thing from color, size or font should be done in the best way.

  1. Attractive action buttons

No matter whatever colors you select for headlines and text, action buttons need to look different. For example, if your text is in black, let them be in green, maroon or bright orange.

  1. Social proofs

This is an age of social media hence placing a running tweet window will certainly do wonders. It is also advisable to use widget as well in order to invite continuous Facebook likes too.

  1. Enhance user experience

It is important to examine your transactional processes in order to give enriching and everlasting time for customers who happen to visit. If you come across any sort of issues about problems in processing payment or slowdown in information, then try to fix it without any delay.

Finally, aforesaid are the 10 Traits of effective landing pages. These traits will surely make a pleasant difference in your life.

Filed Under: 2012, Website Tagged With: Online Business, Technology

Pacmeakers at risk–Breakpoint 2012

November 6, 2012 by Reporter Leave a Comment

It could seem like a scene from a movie , a shady looking guy is working hard on his laptop in a busy city area , suddenly people start falling dead to the ground, clutching their chests.

Such a incident can now actually be a reality,  a person with some computer knowledge can easily cause harm to a person and security security researchers are raising the alarm about the security of implanted medical devices.

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Speakers at the security conference – Pic ref http://www.ruxconbreakpoint.com/

At  a security conference in Australia (Breakpoint security conference) in Melbourne last month, Mr Jack demonstrated how he was able to deliver a deadly 830-volt jolt to a pacemaker by logging into it remotely after hacking it, but did not reveal which models were vulnerable, a standard practice for ethical hackers, known as "white hats".

M.Jack who also did a demo of how a ATM machine  can be hacked to give out money  at alas vegas conference  demonstrated how he was able to deliver a deadly 830-volt jolt to a pacemaker by logging into it remotely after hacking it, but did not reveal which models were vulnerable.

You can access their online security research papers here.

The internet security conference Breakpoint was held on the 17th and 18th of October 2012 at the Intercontinental Rialto in Melbourne, Australia.

Filed Under: 2012, Australia, Technology, Website Tagged With: Internet Security, Medical Tech, Pacemakers

Technology– New website Review “This is now”

August 11, 2012 by Reporter 1 Comment

The start up scene in Australia is hot and  trending  at the moment  with many start ups  getting million dollar funding’s. We came across a new  breakthrough website called “ this is now” which uses the popular instagram  website to showcase what is happening in Australian cities and places around the world at any particular moment.

Instagram inspired Australian website  launch “ This is now”

This is Now project is a visual composition which uses real-time updates from the ever popular Instagram application based on users geo-tag locations.

This is now which has just launched recently in Australia is innovative , fresh and very interesting concept.

instagram insspired this is now by marcio puga mauricio massaia and Per Thoresson

The tool streams photos instantly as soon as they are uploaded on Instagram and captures a city’s movement, in a fluid story. – ( http://now.jit.su/ )

Aussie website shows Current live picture stream of  cities

This new Australian website uses Instagram photos to create a real-time fly-on-the-wall look at nine major cities across the globe , with more cities to come soon.

this is now website from instagram

The website when loaded in your browser keeps updating new photos to the page  to give you a live  and current view on what’s going on in any particular city  at that part of time. So how it works is , for example  as users upload a pic say to Instagram or facebook  this website will pick it up and stream  it to the  website as a live upload.

More than 450,000 users have already logged on to This is Now, launched two weeks ago, to view more than 1 million photos posted by tech savvy happy snappers around the world.

Go check it out yourself here http://now.jit.su/ . Sydney is also on the  this is now list for now with more Australia cities to possibly  feature later

Article by jj– JJ is a blogger and likes to blog about Technology, SEO, E –marketing, catch jj on  Google + .

Filed Under: 2012, Entertainment, Technology, Website, Website Builder Tagged With: Instagram, Review, This now, Websites

Has the “Age of cyber war arrived”

June 4, 2012 by Reporter Leave a Comment

Israel has admitted that it uses cyberspace to attack its enemies and reports in the  NYTIMES  have confirmed that  US was also a part of the STUXNET infiltration (a worm that infiltrated industrial systems of the German company Siemens, apparently to disrupt uranium enrichment in Iran.)of  Iran’s sensitive Nuclear programme.

US , Israel in cyber wars against countries

More about the Stuxnet Worm ( virus)

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Other worms in the “spotlight”

Duqu virus

Shamoon

Conficker

Flame virus

 

A Israeli website said it was “for the first time” revealing a document recently written by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Operations Department, detailing the goals and methods of its cyber warfare.

The website said it had been using cyberspace for intelligence gathering and “will” also use it “to execute attacks” and “clandestine” operations.

Australia Vulnerable to Cyber attacks

The chief executive of security firm Kaspersky Lab has warned that Australia cannot defend itself from the rising tide of cyber attacks from ­foreign powers, the best of which come from Russia and China. Mr Kaspersky said Russian malware continued to be the world’s best at attacking systems and it was largely created by criminal gangs

2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline Master Index

List of cyber attack trends

History of major cyber attacks

A report in The New York Times by David E. Sanger, based on the book Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, published, said American President Barack Obama ordered the computer virus program, begun during the Bush administration, be ramped up.

Eugene Kaspersky chief executive of security firm Kaspersky Lab  said “Most attacks come from China and most criminal malware is written in Chinese. “The second most used language is Portuguese . . . and that’s most probably Brazil. “The third most popular language is Russian, which means it comes from Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Baltic countries.”

The statement comes immediately  after one of  the world’s top virus-hunting agencies  Kapersky said it discovered a virus codenamed Flame on computers in Iran and several Middle East countries.

Kaspersky Lab compared Flame to Duqu and Stuxnet, two other virus programs that targeted Iran.

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This Advanced Malicious Virus was designed to carry out cyber espionage by stealing images, audio conversations and other data, and had been in use for more than two years( since 2010) in the open without being noticed.

Flame targets computers running the Windows operating system and apparently spreads through infected thumb drives, websites and manipulated emails.

The Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said most infections (189) were found in Iran, and, although other infections (98) were also found in Israel.

Media reports from kapersky  have reported that China  and Russia are the originators of the most cyber attacks (including state sponsored) and viurs attacks on computers.

Filed Under: 2012, Technology, Website, World Tagged With: China, Cyber Attacks, Internet worms, Russia, Software, Virus

Australian “Men’s magazine FHM” Closes down

March 16, 2012 by Reporter Leave a Comment

Australia’s Favourite men’s magazine “FHM AUSTRALIA” has decided  to close down its doors.  FHM Australia HM, which stands for “For Him Magazine” was launched in Australia in May 1998.  The closure of FHM is one of the first acts of ACP’s new chief executive, Mr. Matt Stanton, who took the top job  at ACP Publishing late last year.

ACP publishers recently also started publishing another budget MENS magazine “Zoo Magazine” which also has a online presence. They launched   the magazine  with a very attractive $2 price range  for a short introductory period.

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FHM Australia is also  on Facebook and has 41,467 fans on facebook.

ACP is owned by the Nine Entertainment Co, which has attempted to sell its magazine division but with little success so far.

Another men’s magazine Ralph, also closed in 2010 because of the global downturn

FHM – now owned by German company, Bauer Media Group – is published in 21 territories, including China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Romania and the United Kingdom.

FHM Australia magazine features a mix of  general trivia , sex, gags, grog , gadgets,men tips and raunchy and sexy looking International and local models. Publisher ACP , who publishes this men’s magazine  and many other Australian magazines like the The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day yesterday announced the May issue of FHM would be the last and the magazine’s website would close at the same time

Filed Under: 2012, Australia, Entertainment, Website Tagged With: Australia Adult magazines, Mens Magazine, Ralph, Zoo magazine

Australian Business Newspapers and News reporting to focus on building online presence

January 7, 2012 by Reporter 1 Comment

As The NBN gets launched nationally Australians are getting better broadband speeds and more people now  are changing the habits rapidly  to check the Australian news online rather than  picking up a print newspaper or magazine. The advance in technology  with the help of new gadgets like Ipads, Netbooks and Smartphones  have  made news easily available on the go and  Australians  no more need  to reach out to the nearest deli or newsagent  or then the telly  to get the latest news.

Business Newspapers Australia

In fact according to IBIS revenue  to Australian on-line retailers is expected to increase to a staggering 8.6 %per year over five years to be  worth a whopping 10 Billion. Internet acess and speed have increased  and will increase further with the  teh NBN making it possible fopr the larger part of the population to go online and read newspapers  or shop online.

The older methods of getting the latest breaking news like the TV and the Newspaper  will soon become a thing of the past.

Below  is a list of some of the “major Australian Newspapers”  that have managed to get a sizeable online presence in this changing market.

Sydney Morning herald (SMH) – Sydney and Australian News @  www.smh.com.au

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The Australian –  www.australian.com.au

The australian newspaper business section news

The Age – Melbourne & Australian News @ www.theage.com.au

 

Heraldsun – -Victoria and Australia News @ www.heraldsun.com.au

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News Portal  – www.news.com.au

 

Many of these newspapers have also released apps for smartphones in the apple and Android marketplace to make their news more accessible to people with smartphones on the go

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The Australian financial review

 

Other than newspapers having online presence there  are other dedicated online Business journals that  have a had a major online presence since a some time back like  the www.brw.com.au/  ( Business review weekly )and local players  like www.wabusinessnews.com.au ( for WA business ) and the Business spectator at www.businessspectator.com.au/

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The Business Review Weekly

 

If you are looking  for a old article from  a newspaper , it is likely that you can  find it  at www.trove.nla.gov.au which have  a digitised version of the newspapers online or Archives

 

Technorati Tags: Australian newspapers,wall street,financial news,Business news,Business website australia

Filed Under: 2012, Australia, Business, Finance, Small Business, Website Tagged With: Australian, Business newspapers, Newspapers, Online

Big retailers gear up to take the online sales war head on

April 13, 2011 by Reporter Leave a Comment

Harvey Norman has just  released its online  website  focusing on selling online  with a  group buying strategy called “big buys”. Dicksmith , JB HI-Fi, and Coles have also spruced up their  act  and Online websites.

Research demonstrates that one of the main reasons Australians buy online from overseas-based sellers is due to many popular products not being offered online locally.Turnover for the top 2,000 Australian businesses on eBay.com.au grew by 38 per cent in 2010, clearly demonstrating that consumers have a robust appetite for domestic goods and for purchasing online.

Coles recently has also started  a service  making groceries available at a click of a button.  You can buy Groceries online and you can just drive in to the Coles  stores and staff will drop your online grocery shopping  goods into your car  ready for you to just drive home. You can register to do Online shopping with coles  over here – https://www.colesonline.com.au/r

Harvey Norman BiG BUYSTM offers you a fantastic new deal online every day. Harvey Norman BiG BUYS offers are available for a limited time only. It works on a countdown timer and stock is usually limited; a low stock message will appear when stock is almost gone. Once stock is gone, or the countdown has finished, you cannot purchase that day’s special anymore.

 

Visit the website here – http://www.harveynormanbigbuys.com.au/

Dicksmith  electronics which can be browsed at  www.dse.com.au has got a convenient click and collect new buying method for customers , the customers can reserve a product online without payment and then pay and collect the product in store.

More details on how this buying method for Dicksmith online works  is here on their website

David Jones launched its online retailing website in November 2010 as a record high Australian dollar was enticing local consumers onto overseas websites.

The four-year-old study has found that while 82% of global retailers have some form of online catalogue , Australia has only 75% of  its retailers having a online catalogue. The countries with the highest proportion of retailers that can deliver goods bought online were the UK (at 44%), the US (39%) and France (38%).

Filed Under: Australian, News Australia, Online retailing, Website Tagged With: Online website, Retail Online

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