Yourshop@blackenterprise.com.Small businesses can join the e-commerce revolution If you are considering a Web presence to sell your company's products online, you'll need to weigh a number of factors related to e-business planning, such as productivity and functionality, advertising, sales, and service. You can spend thousands of dollars working with consultants to determine how comprehensive your site should be, and how much money and resources you'll need to commit to running a successful e-commerce site. A less complicated alternative is to enroll with a Web hosting service A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing like the BEShopNet at blackenterprise.com. The center allows a business owner to create a virtual storefront--an e-commerce-enabled Website, fully supported with software, hardware, Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. , and merchant services Merchant services is the name given in the United States to a broad category of financial services intended for use by businesses. In its most specific use, it usually refers to the service that enables a business to accept a transaction payment by use of the customer's credit or , including a content and product catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. as well as customer service capability. "A key benefit to small businesses, other than the center's infrastructure, is that customers will be able to make online purchases immediately--saving these companies time and money in additional resources," says Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution Godfrey, director of interactive media at www.blackenterprise.com. The BEShopNet will make it possible for small companies to take advantage of the $176.8 billion in business-to-business transactions and the $143.8 billion in business-to-consumer sales conducted on the Web last year. "Your company will be visible to the thousands of affluent African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. consumers who visit blackenterprise.com. And on the Web, your company's products and services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to local, regional, national, and global businesses and consumers," says Godfrey. For more information about the BEShopNet, visit www.blackenterprise.com. |
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