We all must be having our personal account on Facebook where we update our status, share information, videos, links, and pictures with friends but when it comes to promote a product or service on Facebook, how are you going to do that????
That’s where Facebook has given us a facility where we can create an identity [...]
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How to Link Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Fan Page Wall
Posted by shashank on July 15th, 2010
Websites for startups – quality versus bootstrapping
Posted by Ron on June 24th, 2010
To spend or not to spend…that is the question.
A startup is on a tight budget with very limited resources. The future is uncertain and scary. So when the question comes to spending on a website most startup owners face a dilemma.
It goes something like this… “If I spend on a professional cool website it’ll eat [...]
Evaluating your dotcom idea – avoiding the dot bombs
Posted by Ron on May 21st, 2010
Every week i am approached by youngsters (and sometimes not so young-sters) asking to evaluate their dotcom idea for development and promotion costs. Being in the business I dutifully provide the cost estimates and whatever advice I can throw in. Without exception all of them have one thing in common – they all think their [...]
How to brief your website designer / developer
Posted by Ron on March 3rd, 2010
You like the portfolio and you love the work. You have decided to go ahead with the web design firm and have even agreed to the cost. Now comes the brief. You need to share your vision for the site with them. Help the web designer get into your head and look at the business from your [...]
Selling encylopedias in the time of Google and Wikipedia
Posted by Ron on February 2nd, 2010
I was disturbed on a lazy Sunday afternoon by a young man trying to sell Encylopedia Brittanicas. That got me wondering..does it make sense to sell these costly, bulky books when resources such as google and wikipedia are just a mouse click away. It almost seems like a cliche…sales person selling encylopedias.
I do not know [...]
Librarywala.com, now thats a great dotcom idea excuted well.
Posted by Ron on January 21st, 2010
I must confess…I am a book worm. I love to read, mostly business and self help books. I always had problems getting my hands on the latest business and self help books and was looking for a library which stocked such books. I could not find any such library in Mumbai, most stocked only fiction.
I [...]
Credit Card Payment Gateway Pricing Comparisons
Posted by Ron on January 9th, 2010
The success of any ecommerce or subscription based website depends on the efficiency and reliability of the credit card gateway provider with which you have linked your site.
Of all the factors Price/Cost is the most important to consider.
Higher Upfront fees and lower per transaction percentage or vice versa?
Most providers have an upfront component on signup [...]
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Tags: online payment gateways, payment gateway costs, payment gateways 
No Comments »Adding credit card payment options to your website in India
Posted by Ron on January 5th, 2010
Many years ago we did not have many options for adding credit card payment gateway to our ecommerce sites and we had to rely on COD, Cheque/DD to accept payments. All that changed with the game changing CCAvenues. They made adding a payment gateway easy and smooth to add to any ecommerce of subscription site. [...]
A round of thanks for a great year
Posted by Ron on December 24th, 2009
I would like to wrap what most probably be the last post of 2009 (We’re going on a small break) with a round of thanks.
A big Thank You to my brilliant team – Sonali, Sachin, Smit, Leena & Aakanksha for thier fantastic efforts and hard work. You can never know how much I appreciate you guys.
Thank you to our [...]
Saying Goodbye to 2009, Hello to 2010
Posted by Ron on December 24th, 2009
“May you live in interesting times” goes a Chinese curse/blessing. The year 2009 was certainly interesting in many ways.
Personally I will always remember 2009 as the year we took on holistic web design concept and really applied it. This change has made all the difference to our clients and to our revenues as well. Now [...]
