Archive for January, 2011
Ecommerce sites have become increasingly common online
ECommerce sites have become increasingly common online. Greater numbers of people all over the world have started exploring the Internet for business transactions. Professional eCommerce website design firms use the latest technologies to develop eCommerce solutions for their clients. You can get customized services from your eCommerce solution provider that best suit your business requirements. Online eCommerce store development breaks you free from the traditional business model and offers modern e-ways for conducting online business.
In order to get the maximum benefit out from your e-business, the website needs to consider a few critical concepts: 1) effective product showcase, 2) secured payment methods, and 3) outstanding customer communication and support. Products as well as services can be presented and sold on an eCommerce site.
ECommerce website development works well for both B2B and B2C websites, and can greatly increase profit margins. These online mediums enable rapid business construction, and allows for feedback about the number of visitors coming to an online store. It facilitates in keeping and maintaining proper records in a database.
The use of graphics, animation, flash and multimedia gives a real shopping experience to the customers. Make sure whichever elements you use for your eCommerce website design do not take too much time to download, or else the customer may loose interest and switch on to another website. Such websites are an efficient and paperless medium for business transactions.
By utilizing eCommerce solutions, managing your online business will be much easier. You can manage your global business transacts from anywhere, not confining you to your office. ECommerce website development provides endless opportunities to different businesses for selling and buying online. One can buy consumer items and professional services, complete real estate dealings, make banking transactions, do wireless payment to anywhere in the world, pay bills, and much more, just by a click of the mouse.
Right from small business ventures to large multinational corporations, online eCommerce store development goes a long way in giving international identity to businesses. It is important to make sure that the solution provider you choose offers secure and proper data integrity solutions right from making payments to the delivery of goods/services.
There are endless modules of eCommerce solutions available online. The key is to choose the one most suitable for your business. Various aspects that are covered in eCommerce solutions services include webpage themes, content management, shipping, inventory management, marketing, online store designing, security of entire network, and more.
Implementing your business in an eCommerce format can truly take it a long way. Always keep in mind that the eCommerce solutions selected should be easy to use, have good customer friendly features, and enhanced customer care support systems.
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Write a book a month
Write a book a month? Right Sounds daunting enough to do it at all, let alone to do one every month. How is that possible?
It’s not as difficult as you might think and the benefits of using ebooks as a form of marketing, or even to sell, far outweigh the few difficulties that might exist.
The first ebook product creation secret is the recognition that ebooks aren’t that big – generally they will run between as few as 10 to as many as 100 pages for the help www.instant-cd-products.com. Somewhere in the middle of that range seems to be the typical target for a quality ebook. Ebooks are tightly targeted treatises focused on very specific problems or topics and do not have the scope of, say, a textbook.
The second ebook product creation secret is that the content of your ebook doesn’t have to be written by you. It can be, if you have the yen to write, but it can also be simply compiled and edited by you from freely available materials. Where do the materials come from? You can find loads of rights-free material from company websites (e.g. whitepapers), from universities, and often from affiliate programs you participate in. If your ebook is about information that isn’t time-dependent, e.g. ancient history, marketing basics, cookbooks, and that sort of thing it’s even easier. Make sure the information you collect and edit is not marked as copyrighted. Make sure you don’t copy HTML code but just text if you gather the material from the web (the HTML code is proprietary to the site owner) for more details go to www.profiting-info-products.com. If you copy cookbook recipes, for example, recognize that the recipe cannot be copyrighted but the format of the recipes or any illustrations can.
The last ebook product creation secret is to use a tool to help make the assembly of the book easy. The full version of Adobe Acrobat (not just the reader) is one example, but there are also numerous ebook compilers designed just for this purpose.
It’s not hard, begin collecting information right away, package and publish it in separate books and watch your web traffic or direct sales climb!
This month’s puzzler we use a carbon-steel spiral-tube heat exchanger as a condenser in our spray tower
THIS MONTH’S PUZZLER
We use a carbon-steel spiral-tube heat exchanger as a condenser in our spray tower. Operating conditions normally are 100 psig at about 150°F. Treated chilled water at 45°F runs in the tube side. The shell side handles metal chlorides, e.g., FeCl2, VCl4 and TiCl4. These chlorides condense to form liquids and evaporate to form gases. Severe corrosion from chlorine and erosion was the reason why the spiral heat exchanger was chosen over a shell- and-tube one. The chlorine is usually dry but, occasionally, spikes of water upstream of the exchangers cause corrosion. One of our engineers is pushing the idea of cladding Type 304L stainless steel with a high nickel alloy. Coupon tests suggest this will improve service life. One concern is how bending the tube will affect cladding. How can we assure our nervous operations manager that this cladding will work? Do you have any other ideas? Keep in mind replacing the heat exchangers with another style will require a major change in piping around the units.
REPLACE THE EXCHANGER
Try looking at a hybrid heat exchanger that incorporates the strengths of both plate-and-frame and shell-and-tube exchangers without their weaknesses. It is a good compromise between cost and performance. My experience is only as a happy customer of an exchanger manufactured in France. Its design tends to provide the best lifecycle cost choice for our circumstances.
LOOK AT TANTALUM LINING
I think that you have not considered all of the options available. Cladding is a risky option. Maybe replacing the tubing with duplex steel would be a better option. Another idea would be to seek a consultant. There is a manufacturer in Germany that makes “tantalined” equipment for the fabrication of spiral exchangers with lined carbon steel pipe. This last item might be your best choice.
WATCH THERMAL EXPANSION
We have used nickel-plated copper tubing for similar heat-transfer applications. The plating can be applied after the tubing is bent, but you’ll need to be careful about the amount of expansion you get from temperature variation.
CONDUCT THOROUGH TESTING
Some years ago an engineer at our plant in Grimsby, U.K., looked at tantalum cladding for our chlorinators. These are large brick-lined reactors. Inside, chlorine comes in contact with carbon monoxide from burning coke; the chlorine reacts with ore to chlorinate it, producing titanium tetrachloride, TiCl4. Trace water and hydrogen chloride (HCl) in recycled chlorine is a continual problem. Unfortunately, the brick and carbon steel shell of the chlorinators is quickly attacked at the moisture penetration zone — where the water and HCl condense. These chlorinators are water-cooled by falling-film heat transfer, making it difficult to detect a breakthrough of the shell. Such a breakthrough posed a significant environmental risk.
The engineer thought tantalum, the only material not susceptible to attack by wet chlorides, would work. He was looking into coupons to test in the next chlorinator turnaround. These coupons included welds and other features.
With the heat exchangers, the combination of welds and bends offer a challenge for coupons. I suggest installing a coupon that includes welds and a distressed plate, not unlike the forming process for an elbow. Test in a large vessel, if possible, to avoid affecting the chlorination process. If the coupon survives, your cladding idea may succeed. The next test involves checking the manufacturing process. A very good test for identifying cracks in metal tubes is an acid dye-penetration test. It’s a destructive test that will reveal voids in the interstitial areas between crystals in nickel alloys and similar metals that ultrasonic means won’t identify. Use this method to validate the manufacturing process.
It would be really easy to grow shy about this application. When we considered cladding of our heating coils, which operated at about 1,000°C, we opted out. We felt that it was too risky and chose to go with high nickel alloy coils instead.
MARCH’S PUZZLER
Management wants to boost production from our batch polymer process by changing the operating procedure. Now, a portion of the acrylic monomer goes in with the bulk of the solvent and other ingredients. Then, monomer is slowly added until the reactor level rises to about 55%. Instead, management wants to increase the maximum level to about 65% and raise the final concentration of the polymer about 2%. The reaction is very exothermic; a chilled-water baffled jacket provides cooling. At the top of the reactor a horizontal shell-and-tube condenser that uses cooling tower water captures evaporated solvent. Agitation consists of a single axial impeller and the tank has reduced baffles to account for viscosity above 5,000 cP. To meet the production goal, it’s been proposed that we add all of the monomer at once; bench-scale tests have shown that this could work but our current approach seems safer. Management likes the plan and wants to put into practice immediately. Our production engineer is a little nervous — should he be concerned? How should we approach this problem? Are any process changes necessary? What do you think?
And, of course, if you have a process problem you’d like to pose to our readers, send it along and we’ll be pleased to consider it for publication.
Rather than focusing on making tons of money online with huge marketing competition, start to invest in making small amounts of money into your online processor account – where you won’t need to do marketing
Rather than focusing on making tons of money online with huge marketing competition, start to invest in making small amounts of money into your online processor account – where you won’t need to do marketing. This is to make money using Paypal. There are currently various ways on how to make money and getting it in your Paypal account.
Most people coming to the internet, and that are completely new to its interface and on what it may offer, often find them in the predicament of bumping theirselves into either a scam-related program that promises a lot, and don’t give that much in return, or the program is so poor, in terms of support and providing some sort of training – that internet beginners are forced to fail.
Yet, there are now litterally thousands of ways that you can make money online. And it comes in a very much more simpler package, than what the far most opportunities would likely bother you with. And although not much at first, one can make lots of money as money can start to stack up.
Most of these “small ways” to make extra money, in my own opinion, should weigh up more than that which everyone strives to. The benefits? There are ways that you can earn daily money into either your Paypal/ Alertpay accounts. Daily. This is a strong point versus the money you need to wait for if you earn affiliate commissions which could take up to 8 months in wait, for your money, in some countries. And even though Clickbank now have schedules within the USA and Canada for weekly direct deposits of affiliate commissions, earning money with Paypal/ Alertpay would totally still outdone affiliate marketing, once more.
Why would I say that?
You will need to make money by marketing the affiliate program. There are millions of competitors, while 97% of all online marketers really fail. In contrast with that, with Paypal and Alertpay, there are especially various ways you can make money if you are a good writer. From witing articles and get paid $1, $2 or more when people view it, to writing reviews about different topics about your life or a review about a product you used, online or offline and getting paid $2 or more per review. . . If you put all of these little streams of money together, it could mean daily income of $20, $30 or even more as time will pass. Without ever marketing. In fact. You can indicate with exact mesure how much you will earn per day, every day.
Find more information by visiting my lens (you will find the link further down).
So what’s a powerseller
So what’s a PowerSeller? PowerSellers are the people on eBay who’ve made it, recognisable by the little ‘PowerSeller’ badge next to their name. You’ve probably seen these people around – and to succeed on eBay, you want to think the way they do.
How to People Get the Right to Call Themselves PowerSellers?
eBay gets to decide who can be a PowerSeller and who can’t, and they have strict requirements. To get in at the minimum PowerSeller level, you must have a feedback rating of at least 100 (minimum 98% positive) and sell at least $1,000 worth of items every month for three months in a row. There are different levels of PowerSeller membership as you sell items of greater value: $1,000 total is bronze, $3,000 is silver, $10,000 is gold, $25,000 is platinum and $125,000 is titanium.
If PowerSellers ever fail to meet the required amount of sales, or their feedback falls below 98% positive, then they lose their PowerSeller status. In short, the only people who get to be PowerSellers on eBay are the people who have been successful for a good while, and are on track to stay that way.
The Shop and the Marketplace.
This is the most important part of understanding how PowerSellers think. They don’t see what they’re doing as being some random bazaar, or a hobby – instead, they see themselves as a business.
Put it like this. If you run a stall in a marketplace, the chances are that you have a general area of business, but you mostly just sell whatever you can get your hands on that week. If your dodgy buddy got his hands of a job lot of something at a discount, then that’s what you’ll be selling. This might be fun – and when you have a good week, you’ll have a really good week – but it’s no way to run a real business in the long-term.
PowerSellers think far more like shops. They sell the same things again and again, every week – regular stock for regular customers. They do ‘boring’ business things like keep inventories and budgets. They know what they’re going to be selling, how much they buy it for and how much they expect to sell for. Just like a real shop, there can be hard times sometimes, but their income is stable and their business can grow slowly.
The best advice I can give you on thinking like a PowerSeller is this: don’t take long-term risks for short-term gain. Look after your reputation, manage your selling properly, provide good customer service and the rewards will come to you in due course. And you’ll get a little badge next to your name that makes people trust you more!
One possibility that you might have realised so far is what eBay can do for any other businesses you might have. Remember, millions of people visit eBay every day – why keep everything separate when you’re starting to tap into that kind of power? The next email will show you a few ways you can use eBay to grow your other businesses.