Forex

Posts Tagged ‘extension’

Home renovations and home extensions were not at all everyone’s cup of tea, Australians used to think twice before getting in touch with the home renovators. Gone are the days and now its time to enjoy living with ample of spaces and larger rooms. Melbourne home extension specialists have come up with alluring offers; the offers have been tailored in such a way that they can be customized as per needs. Living in one of the most livable cities like Melbourne is indeed a major challenge.

Melbourne is a beautiful city within the garden state of Victoria. Accommodation is pretty costly and as family members increase it become a tough challenge to accommodate people. One of the most important steps is to renovate homes. There might be different causes of renovation; you might want to build a home gym or a special reading room. Whatever the reason is, it is necessary to select a proper Melbourne home builder to maintain parity between the existing construction and the extended areas.

Houses and homes in Melbourne are now more expensive than ever. It is prudent to make full use of the lands and the areas that is possessed. There are several additional advantages of extending houses. The large backyards are difficult to maintain and cutting off the hedges and the bushes can be a troublesome job. Again, if proper basements are created, it becomes better places of storing materials. When we make homes, we often do not thing of buying a four wheeler, slowly family members increase and with the increasing number, definitely number of cars increase. So it again becomes a challenge to arrange for the car parking spaces. House extensions off course involve inclusion of few garages in the front yards.

There are several resources available in the internet which helps us to know more and more regarding the best techniques of home renovators. It is also essential to check the quality of materials that is being used by the Melbourne home builders for renovation of the existing properties. It is advisable to have a clear discussion with the proper home renovators. These professionals can be contacted online or even with the help of the toll free customer care numbers.  The costing related details are provided and once it is accepted and a partial payment is made, the work starts. The proper builders even discloses the necessary time for renovations.

While traveling or driving toward the different suburbs of Melbourne, several home extensions can be witnessed. It is now a popular concept and people are happy now to stay in larger areas without changing the houses. The areas that are usually included within the process of home extensions are bathrooms, bedrooms, decking, entry-stairs, living room etc. The popular Melbourne home builders have interactive websites and while browsing through a proper site, plenty of information can be accumulated. Victorian people love to stay in style and no worries when the suitable Melbourne home builder is selected. Selection of any improper home maker can be a big hassle, so self research helps. It is best to check out the web portals of different renovators to see the quality of services they provide.

We all know that the online content industry is worth millions of dollars, but today millions of sales are lost due to inefficient or incomplete payment services that do not solve all the concerns of the customer and cater to their every need. The question is how do we fix this and turn consumers browsing the web into customers.

Well one of the things that would help would be to put up more payment options, in fact, the more the merrier! Consumers are more likely to purchase content if they can choose the payment method that suits them. According to research that was done by CyberSource, merchants can convert as many as 20% more customers by offering them more payment options to choose from.

The problem is there are so many options, it is very hard to choose which ones would work the best and convert more customers, and each payment option has it own glitches in the system, here are some examples:

Some payment options work very well for inside the US but once you live abroad, you have a problem to pay through them. Some payment options require the customer opening an online account with them and funding it from their credit card or bank account. That might be a problem for teenagers or others who do not have a credit card or bank account, which according to the Yankee Group, are 40% of internet users .

Some content providers opt to put their content on the operators’ portal and not have to deal with payment processing issues. This means that the mobile operator has put the site up on his “walled internet garden” and the customer gets charged for the download through his mobile operator monthly bill. But will that really solve all the problems? That will definitely not help users who download content to their PC’s and not to their mobile, they cannot charge the content to their mobile bill. And what about all the users that surf outside the operators portal, how will the merchant generate that audience to his site? Also the revenue share that the merchant receives from the mobile operator is pretty low. The “walled gardens”, or the operators portals are crumbling due to customer demand for “open internet” browsing. Mobile carriers are not the only way for buying content to the handset, consumers are downloading also from the open web and from their personal collections. According to Parks Associates’ “The New Frontier: Portable and Mobile Gaming” report, US mobile games sold through carrier decks are predicted to generate 72% of revenue in 2012, down from 90% in 2007.

Then there is the issue of credit cards. First of all, not everyone owns one, and second; people are less reluctant to use their credit cards for micropayments since they are worried about security issues, fraud and identity theft. Online fraud and identity theft have sadly become a daily event, as online shopping become more popular because of its convenience. Hardly a day goes by where we do not hear of an individual whose life was destroyed or nearly destroyed because someone hacked into their personal information and made purchases on their behalf, leaving them to “pick up” the bill. In 2007 in America alone identity fraud reached $45 billion in losses and affected 8.1 million American consumers! (According to a research conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research)

Of course this is a worldwide epidemic and the numbers are staggering and growing as we speak…

If people’s worries about security issues were at ease, the pool of online shoppers would become greater.

So what is the answer, how can merchants create a bigger churn and more customers?

Remember my initial answer, more online payment? Well there is a relatively new “kid on the block” for payment processing for digital downloads.

eBIZ.mobility LTD has created a revolutionary online payment processing service for digital downloads, called OneTouch Online Purchasing™. The OneTouch Online Purchasing™ service enables consumers to purchase digital content (such as music, ring tones, games, video clips, wallpapers etc.), via their computer or their mobile handset, and charge their purchase directly to a billing account with any telecom service provider, bank, or ISP of their choice. Simply put, OneTouch allows your customers to make purchases without the need of a credit card, or even a PayPal account.

Using OneTouch to make an online purchase, no personal or financial information is transmitted to the merchant, or to OneTouch. Their payment system was designed to eradicate the possibility of identity theft online. It’s simple really: since they do not store any personal or financial information anywhere in their system there is nothing for criminals to steal.

By offering OneTouch as an additional payment method alongside or as an extension to other payment options, merchants will be able to reach millions of consumers who are afraid or unable to use traditional payment methods. OneTouch solves the problem of consumers overseas who want a fast way to buy online since there are no country limitations for using this payment method.

It solves the problem for teenagers and others who have no access to credit cards or simply do not want to use them for online micropayments and it solves the problem for those who are afraid to give out any personal information online. So by adding the OneTouch payment solution to your other online payment services, your site has a better chance of casting the net on potential consumers giving them an all round solution to their limitations and fears.

Millions of dollars are floating on the internet sea waiting to be caught. By putting multiple payment options on your site you are casting the right nets in place to pull the consumers in and to change them into customers. ..

I am sure you have heard of the old saying “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” That is entirely the point of developing a plan – TO NOT FAIL. A plan takes all of the guesswork out of the equation. If you follow a detailed plan, developing your online business will be a very fun and rewarding experience.

This phase can be broken down into three steps.

1. Writing Your Plan Objective
2. Determine Your Goals
3. Do Research and Write Your Plan

The first step of developing a plan is writing a Plan Objective (or overview). A Plan Objective, in this case, simply states what it is your online business will do and accomplish. This statement is not detailed and should no more than two or three sentences. If, while developing your plan, you start to go astray of your objective you can either redefine your objective or rewrite your plan.

Example Plan Objective:

“To build an extension of our brick-and-mortar business to compete in the online marketplace.”

The second step is determining what your goals are that support your Plan Objective. Again these are not very detailed descriptions, but simply describe how it is you are going to go about satisfying your Plan Objective. You can have as many goals as you like but always remember the K.I.S.S. system – Keep It Simple, Stupid. Keep it simple enough for somebody you know that knows nothing about your business can easily understand what you are hoping to accomplish.

The third and last step in developing a plan is doing research on the tools and resources you need to reach your Plan Objective. Since your are trying to build an online business, you will need tools and resources to support it.

• What specifically will you need to get a website, be able to edit that website (CMS), keep track of your customers (CRM), inventory and orders (E-Commerce)?
• How do I get my website indexed in the search engines?
• How do I advertise on the internet?
• What do you need to be able to create a blog or forum or create an email marketing campaign?
• Will you have to hire more staff to handle the online portion of your business?
• What are the best social networking website on the internet?
• How much will all of this cost per month/year?

Be as descriptive as possible when you write step 3. Lay everything out and leave no question unanswered. Once you have step 3 completed, you will be ready to head on to the next phase of developing a successful online business, designing and developing a professionally done website.

Our next post will be about designing and developing your own website. It will include some tips on how to get it done and some traps to look out for. Please subscribe to this blog so you can get all of the details.

To read the rest of series subscribe to our blog.