E Commerce is the process of buying and selling goods across the internet. Since the internet has universal reach, going beyond physical boundaries and making customers and retailers interact virtually, it has become one of the most sought after sectors by companies, big and small alike.
The most important reason for the success of E Commerce is the fact that it provides an electronic storefront to send and receive payments.

Does E Commerce really work? Yes, it does. It’s beneficial to the consumers as well as the store owners. From the store owner’s point of view, the reach of the product is universal and serves the customer according to their individual needs. From the customer’s point, they save on traveling, fuel, time and get door delivery of everyday goods also.

The money made through e commerce has exceeded more than $1.8 trillion as of 2004. And so, yes, a lot of money is involved in this business. But there are certain tips you must keep in mind while trading through e commerce:

1.    Be original and be creative. Give your customers a reason to visit your site and buy your product. Kindle their curiosity.
2.    Make the customer feel they are important and make sure there are products to suit everyone’s needs.
3.    Include the product in your signature in order to increase traffic to your site when you send them weekly sales letters.
4.    Not to forget, the sales letter must be written by you. This will make you seem more approachable for queries and transactions.
5.    Optimize the search engine. Search engines are the reason for most of the site trafficking.
6.    The most effective way of optimizing is to get accurate keywords so that people are not misled.

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My friend Nick Byng invited me to join him in running Birmingham half marathon on the 26th of October, I accepted his invitation and registered, that was the easy part. The challenging bit is to be fit enough to run 13 miles, I am doing quite well so far, I am sure I will manage it, I will try avoiding breaking the world record for the person who run 13 miles at the slowest possible time.

I am hoping to use the marathon to raise money for Amnesty international, you can sponsor me by donating to Amnesty International via this page.

While you are here, why not visit the page Nick put up for his own run and sponsor him as well if possible.

Link Bid Script popularly know as LBS, a bid for position directory script which recently evolved into a full fledged web directory script released the latest version, V1.5 today and announce the release date for V1.6.
The only significant difference between version 1.5 and 1.6 is that there is a network feature in V1.6 which allow sites submitted to one directory in network to automatically add the submitted site to all the other directories in that network.

To promote the release of LBS 1.6 a competition to win 5 domain name, 5 web hosting account and five installation of LBS 1.6 details of the competition can be found below.

Why star small when you can start big? Why pay for a bidding directory script when you can have LBS free of charge?

Imagine having 5 web directories with the hosting, the script, domain name and script installation done for you, imagine that the 5 five web directories are networked so that when site is submitted to one directory, it will be automatically added to the remaining 4 directories in the networks!

That is what you can win in this competition brought to you in collaboration with Link Bid Script. More information about this competition follows:

You can be the proud owner of a network of 5 directories powered by Link Bid Script.
* This competition will be run for 4 ( four ) weeks. At the end of the competition the winner will get his prize.
* Participant should be members of UKWebmasterWorld Forums
* To win, you need to submit UNIQUE article about web directories, your article can be on any aspect of web directory.
* Minimum words in your article should be 400.
* Mihai Jepan is the judge of this competition, the article he considers to be the best wins the competition.

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The winner will get:
* 5 Domain names
* 5 Web Hosting account on 5 C-class IP address
* Installation of LBS Directory software
* Free blog post to help you start your network promo going.

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How to enter
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* Register your interest at this thread on Link Bid Script forum.

Yahoo management and Carl Icahn, the share holder who seeks to replace the entire Yahoo board because of the way Yahoo handled Microsoft bid for Yahoo has reached and agreement. The agreement expands Yahoo board from eight members to eleven members. The new board comprise of the existing eight Yahoo board members,  Mr Icahn and two of his nominees.
The agreement meant Mr Icahn will not seek to replace the entire Yahoo board as he threatens to do at next board meeting.

Rising food bill, fuel cost and the credit crunch have forced shoppers to seek out bargains away from the high street, this direct beneficiary of this has been online retailers according to a survey by e-commerce group IMRG and consultancy Capgemini.
The report said that the total Internet spend was £26.5bn, up 38% on the same period last year, which also translate to the fact that online sales have reached nearly 20% of total retail spending.

Cloths and footwear sales on the high street see a sharp drop in sale despite tempting offers from high street retailers. Internet sales of cloths and footwear on the other hand saw a rise, with over all Internet clothing sales rising by 32%, lingerie sales rose 37% and footwear was up 38%.

Year on year, online shopping has been rising faster than traditional high street shopping, Christmas 2007 saw online shopping spend rise to 15.2 billion, with was an increase of 50% over online sales of December 2006.