Server Management – Part 2 (sort of)
if you allow the customer to select from a range of packages, unless they know preciously what they need and what each service entails etc. they will most likely expect more than you offer or get more than they need. In either case neither is good business. In my opinion managing someone’s server is not as easy to define (or sell) as a t-shirt where all that matters is colour & size.
Server Management and outsourcing IT Support in General
One doesn’t go to accountant and them tell them how to do their job. This is because we lack their specialist knowledge and are expecting them, in fact have the responsible expectation, that they know what they are doing and more importantly know what we can not anticipate as being required to know. In short we aren’t accountants.
How do you start a web-based business? Part 3
To get the full advantage of a eCommerce website you need to be able to process payments in real-time. This means using PayPal (or similar) or accepting credit cards directly through your website; using a payment gateway.
How do you start a web-based business? Part 2
A business plan is more than a mission statement or a description of your business. Even if you put this down on one piece of paper a business plan outlines all the potential issues and concerns of your new venture and helps determine its feasibility.
eCommerce 101
eCommerce, or Electronic Commerce, is the exchange of goods and services over the Internet. It is one of the most important business process improvements since the invention of the telephone. eCommerce allows people to buy and sell to one another anywhere on the planet at any time of the day or night.
Install phpCOIN
This guide will help you get phpCOIN installed and configured for simple operation of your business. You’ll find this guide is structured in a simple step-by-step fashion with emphasis placed upon necessary changes and how to make them.
The Y2K Problem – revisited
The truth is the year 2000 is a fixed date in time and some of our computer related technologies will not be able to handle the date change. Some argue that your pen won’t be able to handle the date change either. The reason for both these failures is a simple one: When we write the year, either in a program or on a cheque, we use the last two digits: 98 instead of 1998.