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Industry Trends: Plug & Play

Technological advances over the years have driven the manufacturers of information technology products and systems to add “plug & play” features into their systems as much as possible. The industry direction has been to lower the level of technical knowledge/skills required for system installations and configurations. However, the by-product of this has been to add a tremendous amount of overhead into all aspects of networking.

Making Your Web Site Compelling

Amazon.com. Napster. Ebay. Blue Mountain Arts. Hotmail. These companies made it big on the web, most with surprisingly low marketing budgets, reaching unexpected heights in short time spans. Why? Was it branding? Sure, they are all strong brands today, but that is not what made them what they are. To be fair, a variety of factors contributed to their success. But by far the most important ones were tools and strategies that were sticky and viral in nature. Nothing markets a site better, spreading it like a wild fire, than having a viral product, tools or processes. And nothing makes it more capable of generating revenues than being sticky, for people only part with their money after they are comfortable with a product, after they have seen it a few times and interacted with it somehow.

How YOU Could Be Making Other People Wealthy Online… And You Don’t Even Know About It

You want to create wealth for yourself and your family online. So, you chose to start your own Internet business.

Being the smart individual that you are, you decided that the best course of action would be to join a program where everything was all prepared for you. You would have the products, sales letters, banners, and other materials all ready to go and produced for you by another company.

The Changing Face Of Payment Processing

Since the introduction of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) technology in the mid-1950s, businesses and consumers alike increasingly have chosen to pay bills by check. In 1999, 70 billion checks were written in the United States, accounting for 73 percent of all non-cash transactions. Of the total, 56 percent, or 39.2 billion, were written by consumers. Businesses wrote 28.7 billion, or 41 percent and government, 2.1 billion, or three percent. The United States Postal service earned 25 percent of its year’s revenues from the delivery of checks. (Hence, the phrase: “The check is in the mail.”) Banks generated $60 billion in revenues from checking accounts, according to the Check Payment Systems Association.

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