Another nail in the coffin for small email sending providers… Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. With Amazon SES there is no long-term commitment, minimum spend or negotiation required – businesses can utilize a free usage tier and after that enjoy low fees for the number of emails sent plus data transfer fees. Read More By Amazon Web Services
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Buy into it: the technology of online shopping
Looking for a birthday present or Christmas gift? These days the chances are you’ll turn to the internet rather than hit the shops. Shopping online is now easier — and more popular — than ever, whether for physical goods like books or groceries, or music and movie downloads. The web made its name as a home for bargains, since internet retailers could undercut shop prices by avoiding overheads such as rent. Read More By Bobbie Johnson for BBC News; Business, 21 Jan 2011.
Eco Reminders
Energies are usually produced at the cost of animal environment. This sticker has been created to remind people that if they leave the light switch on and waste energy, animals will suffer from it. Visit Site
Patent of the day: Amazon's bad gift defense system
Amazon has won a patent for a system that intercepts bad gifts and sends you a gift certificate instead. The patent, which is comical yet pretty innovative, is described like this: A computer-implemented data processing system comprises a user interface and gift conversion logic. The user interface is configured to permit users to order products using a network service, such as a website. The gift conversion logic is in communication with the user interface and permits the users to specify gift conversion rules. For each user that specifies gift conversion rules, the gift conversion rules define a manner in which gifts purchased for the user by other users may be converted. Read More By Larry Dignan for ZDNet, 09 Nov 2010.
Thinking Digital: How has the Internet Revolutionised Business?
Thinking Digital: How has the Internet Revolutionised Business? Last week, Econsultancy published a new report in association with digital consultancy Blue Latitude, The Impact of Digital Beyond Sales and Marketing: how Digital is Transforming Organisations. The report examines the impact of digital across the business and, consequently, how companies are managing organisational change as aresult of changing trends in technology and customer behaviour. It is absolutely crucial for all business functions to understand this rapidly evolving environment, and with that in mind, this post summarises and explores the impact of digital channels across a range of business functions. Read More By Aliya Zaidi for econsultancy.com, 11 October 2010
5 Important E-commerce Themes for 2010
Purchasing online and e-commerce has been growing at a rapid rate for many years and during that time things have changed massively. From online merchandising to order management to delivery, things are constantly evolving. This article is aimed at giving what I believe are 5 important themes in this area over the next year, and what you can do to help yourself or your clients prosper. 1: Focus on Growth and Existing Customers, Not New Ones The number of online customers has been growing at a fantastic rate over the past decade fueled by the widespread adoption of broadband. This has resulted in an ever growing number of new potential online customers. Due in part to the recession, and in part due to the slow down of broadband … Continue reading
Twelpforce – nice way to use Twitter for customer service
The Twelpforce is US tech / gadget retailer Best Buy’s Twitter based customer service team… People post a question, and the Twelpforce respond – nice real time service, with lots of good banter between Twelpers and customers Check it out
Dell uses 'crowdsourcing' to improve products
Crowdsourcing is turning into a powerful social tool for Dell that it appears to be engaging in very actively. Suggestions for changes to keyboard layouts to Dell Mini netbooks and launching products for world aids project product #Red have all come via this social avenue. 60,000 participants in the IdeaStorm community They have contributed 12,743 ideas And posted 87,159 comments Ideas posted have been promoted 693,670 times in total And of those ideas 385 have been implemented http://www.ideastorm.com By Gordon Young, Brand Republic 10 December 2009
Dell reveals it has made $6.5m out of Twitter
Earlier this year Dell revealed that it had made $3m out of its Twitter activity, yesterday it gave some briefings and said this figure had risen to $6.5m. Yes that is real money from Twitter. The $3m figure it revealed in June was $2m made directly and $1m that had come to Dell.com via Twitter. The numbers are picking up now and Dell is seeing strong sales growth both via its original Delloutlet Twitter accounts and by new accounts that have been more recently established in places like Brazil and Canada that has pushed that figure to $6.5m. Read more by Gordon Young, Brand Republic 10 Dec 2009