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Great and powerful tools for your e-Commerce
Secure your passwords and make your login life easier with Clipperz
Jun 25th
E-commerce means on-line money, and on-line money means hackers trying to get it. So you need to be very careful when managing passwords and logins, and also when providing admin access to people working remotely.
Some time ago I found this great tool and I want to share it with you, Clipperz
- Store and manage your passwords and online credentials
- Protect all your sensitive and confidential data
- Share secrets with family members and associates
- Login to your web services with just one click!
The site offer you also to download an offline version of this web app, then you can open it directly from your computer, and also, to create special login for public computers with key phrases that expires automatically once you use one! (very useful when you’re in a hurry and you need to login to your admin panel from a friend’s or public computer). The best thing, they don’t ask you any personal information, so you cannot be identified in any way, and all the information is encrypted by the javascript app that is preloaded in your browser before connecting with the site, so all the information travels the net encrypted since the very first moment and all the time! The service is so secure that if you lost your password there’s nothing to do, they can’t get into your account!
Oh!, this is not good enough for you? do you want the app installed in your server so you have your very own Clipperz? absolutely possible with the Community Edition!
Web site mockups and design collaboration made easy
May 8th
When developing an E-commerce site you will work a lot designing the interface and all the elements you want, and in that process you will have to interact with the team of programmers, designers and marketers, among others, so this tool will help you a lot. Balsamiq Mockups is a good tool to create mockups in a matter of minutes and where the whole team can interact at the same time, and just for 79 dollars, cheap and good enough.
Google Map Custom Marker Maker
May 8th
Google Map Custom Marker Maker is a great tool to help you create the images needed to put your own logo in your google maps mashup, or any other image you like. After all we all need good maps in our sites, so add some spice to them!
Twitter + Discount cupons + E-commerce = A Winner team!
May 8th
Twitter is becoming a top communications tool, and of course E-commerce can be highly benefited, but some web sites make this even easier. This is a great example of what you can do to attract more customers if you are staring a Twitter stategy using the great service of twtQpon:
Powerful catalog, easy administration development plus E-commerce with Caspio
Mar 26th
Several month ago an e-Commerce site development came to my hands. A good friend of mine and his Canadian partner were thinking about to create an online vacation saver club. So it needed to have a good content management system, a flexible catalog, and a back-office to manage it. And finally an e-commerce solution for purchasing the discounted weeks. Oh, I almost forgot, a subscription plan was needed to have access to the database… but then the business changed and now it has a public search and a private one for members that can save 200 USD in each purchase. But, how to do this with a low budget and in a short period of time, without custom programming? (I lately hate custom programing due to the lack of speed+flexibility and the tie to programmers that use to switch projects very often)…. well… after some hours of research I found Caspio!, in a matter of minutes
my free account was up and running, and in a matter of hours I knew it would be the solution. But some days after I realized that one of Caspio weaknesses is the lack of real e-commerce features… so then a mixed solution came to life. We kept Caspio as the offers catalog and connected it to an e-commerce open source solution with a small custom programmed gateway. The final product: the best of both worlds, flexibility, easy database administration development, and a good checkout process.
So, then visit the site and see how it works: www.vacationsaverclub.com and if you like it leave a comment here!
After that I started two more Caspio implementations that I will blog about soon, but those are not pure e-Commerce
Information is power: The Global Information Technology Report 2009–2010
Mar 26th
If information is power, then this report will give you much. If you want to identify targets this report will give you very useful information.
The Country Profile is great to take decisions based on market size, broadband connectivity, networking and so on.
If you want to sell cell phone apps, then you have to take a look at the Mobile Thelephone Subscription chart!.
Well, there’s no doubt that you will be entertained for several hours, and this information could be the key to better and more wise decisions.
But take care, don’t believe everything. China is ranked 20 in the Freedom of the Press chart! what a joke!
Speed is a must: here are some of the best web performance tools
Mar 15th
People doesn’t like to wait to browse your online catalog, so performance is the very first element that will make a difference. You have a nice site but it takes too long? forget it, the worse but faster will finally get the trasnaction
So let’s visit gomez.com and try the free performance test (it will be sent to you in 24 hs.)
Don’t forget to visit their retail benchmarks (are interesting)
But performance is not all, what happen if your site is hitted by 5000 unique visitors? try it with loadimpact.com. The free test is very good! look at the zappos.com test I made today.
When there try also the Page Analyzer it’s also great (look at zappos.com page analysis I made)
Have others? share them here.
