Computers : Electronic Commerce

The power of online auctions is attracting hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of users who want to turn their eBay hobbies into profitable businesses. While turning an eBay hobby into an eBay business might look easy, making that business profitable is much more difficult. Not enough sellers treat their eBay sales as a business, and subsequently are disappointed in the results. To launch a successful and profitable eBay business, the detailed instructions in this book will show you how to get started. It will help you determine what kind of business you want to run, write an action-oriented business plan, establish an effective accounting system, set up a home office, obtain starting inventory, arrange initial funding, establish an eBay presence, and arrange for automated post-auction management. This book is a step-by-step guide for anyone serious about making money from their eBay sales. Unlike other computer-oriented titles, this is a straight-ahead business book that shows how to set up and run different types of eBay businesses, and how to maximize sales and profits while doing so. This book includes a section titled "Choosing Your eBay Business" that details six different types of eBay businesses you can start. Included in this section is a chapter on eBay Trading Assistants (AKA drop-off stores or consignment stores), which is the newest form of an eBay business. more...

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With the phenomenal success of Linux, companies are taking open source business solutions much more seriously than ever before. This book helps to satisfy the growing demand for guidance on how to manage open source enterprise development projects. Expert Jan Sandred explores the open source philosophy, describes current software tools for managing open source projects, and provides expert guidance on how to organize and manage open source projects using the Internet as a collaboration tool. more...

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Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, companies can empower employees to increase sales, improve service, enhance customer satisfaction and retention, and drive greater value from every customer relationship. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Unleashed presents start-to-finish guidance for planning, customizing, deploying, integrating, and managing Dynamics CRM in your unique business and technical environment. Authored by two leading Microsoft Dynamics implementers, this book systematically explains how the system works, why it works that way, and how you can leverage it to fullest advantage.  . Drawing on their unsurpassed experience with Microsoft Dynamics, the authors present clear examples, proven best practices, and pitfalls to avoid in using every significant Dynamics CRM capability. This book’s far-reaching coverage ranges from Dynamics CRM’s sales, marketing, and customer service features to its automated workflows; from Outlook and Office integration to reporting and security. Along the way, the authors offer independent insight into Dynamics CRM’s most powerful new features, from its improved interface to its new mail merge and data migration tools.  . Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Unleashed is for every IT professional who intends to work with Dynamics CRM, regardless of their experience with Dynamics or other CRM solutions. The authors thoroughly introduce all the basic concepts and techniques you’ll need, while also providing example-rich, realistic coverage of advanced Dynamics customization, extensibility, and integration: information that is available nowhere else.   DETAILED INFORMATION ON HOW TO….  . ·        Set up, configure, and maintain all facets of Microsoft Dynamics CRM in any organization or industry. ·        Thoroughly understand both the on-premise and hosted versions of Dynamics CRM. ·      more...

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Do your customers have the confidence to do business over the Internet? By implementing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technologies, you’ll be able to quickly gain their trust through secure transactions. This book provides you with a clear picture on using this technology in healthcare, financial, government, consumer, and other areas. Furthermore, the book highlights how you can meet domestic and international compliance regulations for corporate- and government-level standards on security and privacy. It focuses on examples and discusses practical implementation models for each vertical discussed. more...

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This book is for executives and managers in countless brick-and-mortar companies looking to add or strengthen an Internet component to their organizations. It couldn't be more timely - as the wheat is separated from the chaff among companies now. An effective Internet strategy, which holds vast and dramatic implications, becomes the winning factor. more...

Price: $27.95