Entries categorized as ‘Merchant Tools’
I profess that I am no expert when it comes to dispensing tips and sets of advice on how to build and establish one’s website traffic and generate a healthy and defensible “repeat business” via page views, clicks, and purchases, as well as how to craft strategies and programs on affiliate marketing, website monetization, etc. All my knowledge come from my relatively scant and fresh learnings based on actual experience as well as common sense.
Maki of Dosh Dosh has built a veritable treasure trove of information about how to do the above and more. Maki has painstakingly put together valuable materials for the consumption of every budding blogger or online entrepreneur who wish to tap the money-making opportunities available on the net. Heck, he can come out with a book on this!
I had the privilege of getting him to drop an appreciative comment when I linked him in a previous post about how to build and keep traffic for and within your website.
Maki, if you see this post, I am sure it’s okay with you to send you my occasional link to your site every now and then. 
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Categories: Dosh Dosh · Entrepreneurship · Google Ad Revenues · Merchant Tools · Online Retailing · Social Networking · eCommerce · mCommerce
Hmmm… Interesting idea from Greenwich and Netopia.
While walking along a commercial center in San Juan, I saw a poster displayed at a Greenwich store that was promoting this this new “delivery channel”:
ORDER GREENWICH PIZZA AT NETOPIA
Too bad I was in a hurry and I didn’t have a camera with me.
Not a bad idea though.
The people in Greenwich found a creative way of tapping this market segment for online ordering and food deliveries —-> people who spend a considerable amount of their time at internet cafes to go online (obviously, these are the same people who don’t have any PC and/or internet connectivity at home). Netopia, considered the largest chain of internet cafes in the Philippines, with 150 branches nationwide (and targeting a total of 500 branches by 2008), is the best choice among existing internet cafe operators in the country. (more…)
Categories: Delivery · Fastfood · Internet Cafe · Merchant Tools · Netopia · Payment · Retailers · Small Business · Strategy · eCommerce · mCommerce · myDSL
Just heard from someone that there is a new local online payment gateway called PayPinoy.
When I went to the site, I had to do a double take. Looks quite exactly as an existing online payment gateway I know…. I immediately thought of two things: (1) PayPinoy is an affiliate or subsidiary of PayPal and (2) PayPinoy just wanted to leverage on the familiar interface of an existing giant in the world of online payment.
The first thought is quite unlikely. PayPal already has presence here in the Philippines (albeit registered Philippine PayPal users can just send money out). They’ve announced in last year’s eBay Explained event at Makati Shangri-la that they have plans of offering the “receive money” feature sometime this year (don’t know if they’d keep to this announcement as PayPal’s especially mum about future plans for the Philippines). Allowing another site with a similar “branding” is tantamount to creating confusion.
The second thought begs the question…. (more…)
Categories: Merchant Tools · PayPal · Payment
