As Twitter is getting still more popular, more and more people are getting registered. Since Twitter is no longer only social network but also powerful marketing tool for majority of companies. Twitter domain names are getting still more valuable.

Why?

The reason is the same as with the ordinary domain names. 10 years ago it was not that hard to find free good looking .com domain, today most of the good sounded domains are registered. Also bad ones are registered already, just because it is three letter domain without any obvious meaning but it is short and there might be someone interested to buy it for lot of money. Just try to find free three or four letter .com domain. It is almost impssible. Domain names are simply kept as online assets.

There is only one business.com or love.com domain. Therefore the price of these domains is getting ridiculously high. Just imagine that the price of business.com domain is worthy more than $15,000,000.

Since there is still more internet users, the company presence on the internet and also presence in social networks is still more important. Twitter is very popular social network so companies are branding Twitter as well. That is the reason why the price of Twitter domains is increasing.

Again we can follow the same path here as with the classic domains. There is only one www.twitter.com/business or www.twitter.com/love and since they are unique and strong companies are involved in Twitter, the price of these twitter domains is increasing enormously.
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Ability to accept payments is the vital process of any business. While in the past the only form of payment was cash, today is the situation much different. However there are still some businesses which are perfectly fine only with cash form of payments, most of the businesses would not survive without credit card payments option. Credit card payments are the second most used form of payments after the cash, and they are primer method of paying in online businesses

If you are thinking about online business seriously one of the first steps you should take is establishing merchant account. Merchant accounts are types of bank accounts which allow businesses to accept credit card payments. Nowadays most common methods of credit card processing are credit card terminals, credit card imprinting machines and online payment processors.

There are many payment solutions providers who offer you the whole range of merchant services which fits your business needs no matter if you run small ecommerce web or large company. Setting up a merchant account is simple when you choose the right merchant account provider.

What is needed to establish merchant account?

To be able to process credit cards you will need certified legitimate business which is not considered as high risky, all necessary documentations on that business, what include also bank account, physical address and personal information. You will also need money for set-up costs. If everything run well you should have your merchant account established in 7-10 business days.

Protect your business

Everyday more and more people buying online using their credit cards from the comfort of their homes. On one hand this is great news for ecommerce websites because of profit increase on the other hand the risk of credit card fraud rise as well.

Watch out for suspicious orders

There are many ways how to identify suspicious orders. Below are few tips:

•  Always check the billing address with the information from credit card company
•  Be careful with the orders from foreign countries
•  Shipping address should be in most cases the same as billing address
•  Missing information is a bad sign
•  Be careful with unusual large orders

If you notice anything suspicious you should immediately contact credit card holder and ask him to confirm the order. To verify you are talking to the real credit card owner you can ask few verification questions such as complete name, address, phone number of card holder.
If the person is not able to answer these questions, or nobody is answering the phone, you should not process the order, because of high risk of fraud.
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Electronic Catalogs are the essential parts of any online store ad they are the building elements of the web enabled market. Every company depends on a well designed catalog that could explain and express their products and services.

E-cataloging brought in the required reach in e-business spreading like wild fire. The Key to successful online business is by having the vast online presence. Catalog process service for online stores and e-commerce websites is the process of converting manufactures paper catalog into web page catalogs.

The catalog process involves a team of well organized content writers, graphic designers, web researchers and data entry personnel to work together to put in the information from the manufacturer price list, manufacturer site and also from various other sources to create a buyer friendly and web friendly catalog page.

A company cannot loose focus on their core business by concentrating on catalog process. Hence the ideal option for any online store is to outsource the catalog process to experienced and professional hands. A Catalog processing company understands the client products and work on the catalog page with the help of a well outlined description by the content writers and image artists who bring out the product images which inspire the buyer to navigate through the online store.

Catalogs need regular updating and monitoring which becomes troublesome for online business owners to manage. Outsourcing companies monitor the changes in the product and track the prices and offers that are available for similar products and suggest the suitable change on the catalog page.

Any catalog processing company offers the following service to the online stores:

Add new products

Update existing products

Track pricing and offers on competitor’s websites

The benefits that online stores enjoy by outsourcing Catalog Process are cost saving by 60%, professionalism, good turnaround time and high quality service. Bring success to your online trading services with outsourced catalog process services.

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Catalog Process
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Twitter is one of the most popular social medium on the Internet. Former idea of this project was shearing of little things that happen in your life with friends through tweets. However as more people have been joining also new possibilities opened. Now is twitter more than social network it is also promotion tool which can bring thousands of impression for online business projects.

But if you want to receive thousands of impression for your business you first need to have thousands of followers. In this article I would like to answer to the following question: How to increase number of followers fast and free without much effort?

Recently I have started to use programs which promise automatic increase of new followers for about 50-500 every day. I was first skeptic, because most of programs which promise something for free and fast usually never work. Despite this attitude in my mind I decide to give it a try. And I must say that I was really surprised when I noticed that new followers start to follow me almost immediately. For me it is usually somewhere between 50-100 new followers per day, but it depend on how many twitter users you star to follow through these programs.

How these programs works?
It is really simple, just log in to the program listed below using your existing twitter nickname and password. Then start to follow 20 users and you are qualified to start receiving your own followers immediately.

You can purchase also VIP membership, the main advantages of this membership are:
• You don’t have to start follow other members, to get followers.
• Every time someone join these programs you will be followed by them automatically.

Here are the free programs I have joined with their current stats:

Followersnow
Number of VIP members: 171
Regular members: 31343
Total members: 31514

Tweeterpro
Number of VIP members: 140
Regular members: 15070
Total members: 15210

Tweeterfollow
Number of VIP members: 142
Regular members: 5849
Total members: 5991
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Have you ever wandered why some blogs generate huge number of comments on every single article while others get just few? Reasons may vary, but I think it is not related solely to articles quality neither to website PR and traffic. Although I admit that these factors are important, they are not the main reason of receiving comments. For example: Traffic matter, but it is not that huge different in amount of comments if the website gets 1000 or 1500 visitors per day.

So what is the main reason that some blogs are commented much more?
It is the “quality of visitors” what makes the difference. Most of readers are lazy ones, they never comment because they have “their reasons”. If you ever wanted to know which 5 most common reasons of no commenting are, just read further:

• People usually don’t have time to contribute and comment. Especially if readers want to write meaningful comment it can easily take 10-20 minutes.

• Shyness of people. It is like in the school there are always the same people who raise their hands and answer the questions, although there are many others who know the right answer, but simply don’t want to tell it on public.

• You can see many similar topics written on many blogs over and over again. Readers are less interested in commenting over-saturated themes, because it seems like everything was already said.

• Readers have nothing valuable to say, so they stay quiet.

• Fifth reason is not connected to the readers, it is an issue of busy blog authors. Many blog authors miss their moderator role in comments. They usually don’t respond to comments because of no time, visitors are discouraged to comment because they see author don’t care.

Who are “quality visitors”?
In previous part I was talking about most common reasons why so many blogs get small amount of comments. Now let’s move to the 4 most valuable groups of readers who are not influenced by these reasons and usually generate up to 90% of blog comments.

1. Subscribers and regular readers. These are the people who like your website content and follow your updates regularly. These readers generate the major amount of quality comments on the blog.

To capture the attention of these visitors is usually a big challenge, because they are mostly experienced people who are looking for blogs with excellent content.

2. It is always about what you give and what you get. This applies to blog comments as well, therefore the second group of quality visitors are “backlink seekers.” These people post comments because of backlinks they receive from dofollow blogs. Comment links from dofollow blogs count into their Google PR.

So if you have listed your website in many dofollow blog directories, you can easily gain many comments although you have low traffic.

Main advantage of backlink seekers: If this kind of visitors find your website, you may be almost sure that they will leave at least one comment.

Main disadvantage of backlink seekers: The primer object of these people is to get backlinks, therefore the comments quality is usually lower.

3. Friends. We count here relatives, real life friends or online friends. These people will comment because they know you, they usually don’t carte that much what are your articles about. Therefore if you want to raise the number of comments, don’t hesitate to spread your blog link among people you know personally.

4. “Don’t agree” readers. If readers have the same opinion as author they usually don’t feel the urge to tell that to the world. But if readers believe author’s opinion is wrong or missing important part of the topic, they are more willing to share it through comments. Good tip is to write about controversial topics which can help to get attention of “don’t agree” visitors.

These are the most common groups of people who are commenting. If the website visitors consist mainly from these groups of people, the amount of comments is usually high.

If you think there are also other important groups of people who comment which I forgot to mention, or you think my opinion is completely wrong, please let me know through comment form:)
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Have you ever wanted to know what the most searched keywords on the Internet are? I am not talking about past records of most searched keywords which are out of date, but about the source of almost real time most searched results supported by graphs of previous performances. This can be valuable source of information when determining potential next niche markets, creating online competitive advantages and boosting websites traffic. On top of that the service is provided for free without any single cent paid.

Let's talk about Google Trends
Google trends is kind of “search engine” developed by Google Labs, but its primer goal is not to search for websites based on chosen keywords, but instead of that it shows how popular particular keywords are. The results are displayed in easy to follow graphs which show not just past keywords performance, but most recent performance as well. You can compare up to 5 keywords at the same time. Google Trends also shows you how often were keywords displayed in Google News.

If you have no idea what keywords could be future hot trends, don’t worry. Just rely on Google HotTrends. This Google Trends sub-domain website provides great information in the field of recent most wanted keywords. You will be able to access a list of 100 most searched key phrases (updated hourly) with lists of related searches as well.

How to use Google Trends?
It is really simple, just like in regular search engines write down your keywords, separate them by commas and click enter keyboard. Subsequently you will be taken to the result page which consists of 2 main parts. First one is graphs part. Graph part consists of Search Volume index. This index shows how many times have been your keywords searched in comparison to all Google searches which were done over time.

Under this graph is located News reference volume graph. This graph shows how often your key phrases have appeared in Google News.

The second part of result page is focused on the number of clicks line up according to geographic regions, cities and languages. So you can easily find out which regions and cities are most interested in hot keywords.

All this information can be used when you deciding which keywords will be most appropriate for your articles, or when determining what could be the next hot products to sell online. If you choose correct keywords you should be able to increase your traffic and sales.

But remember…
… Google Trends itself is not a magic sphere which can predict the future. This product has been developed by Google Labs what means it is still in developing stage, therefore the results can be inaccurate for a number of reasons. So information gathered from this source should not be used as solely source of inputs for your work, it should be more like supplementary source.
But despite this drawback, there is no doubt Google Trends is an interesting project which importance will probably rise with the rise of its accuracy.
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