Ciao, Bing's alternative to Google Base/Products

If you are retailing your products on your website, hopefully you know all about Google's free product search engine, Google Base. But did you know that the Bing search engine has a similar feature called "Ciao"?

Free Seminar: Selling on the Internet

The next seminar in the OpenGlobal series of FREE seminars will be on Thursday 8th of September at the Gloucester Guildhall covering the topic of Selling on the Internet.

The seminar is aimed both at companies who do not currently sell on the internet, and those who are already selling on the internet but want to see better results.

Don't pay to advertise on the internet

The title of this article may sound like a broad sweeping generalisation (and to some extent it is), but to explain it fully, and to justify it, I need to explain in more detail exactly what I mean by "paying to advertise".

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, technology has enabled business to work more effectively and more efficiently. And with the internet, the technology has created a huge change in the way businesses can advertise and market themselves to bring more cost effective results.

However, the vast majority of companies are still using 20th century advertising philosophies when they really don't need to.

Read on to see what I mean.

How to get your site listed on voucher code websites

Voucher code websites are very popular these days with lots of new ones springing up all the time. However, there are a handful of really successful ones that are sending hundreds of millions of pounds worth of sales to their advertisers. These types of websites simply list discount codes that people can use when buying products online to get discounts on their orders.

So how do you get listed on these websites so that you can start receiving visitors (and hopefully sales) from them?