Taobao.com is the 11th most successful website in the world. It makes more money than most all US ecommerce sites, except Amazon, and this may be about to change. The way ecommerce works in China is different than in Europe and the US. Partly this is to do with low credit card penetration, complex delivery logistics and customer support.
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What Amazon Can Learn from Taobao, the Largest Chinese Ecommerce Portal
February 16th, 2010 · View Comments · China
Tags:Amazon·Asia·Chinese·credit cards·Cross-selling·ecommerce·Logistics·Marketing·Strategy·Taobao·Training
Outsourcing Isn’t a Problem for Silicon Valley But Is for Detroit
October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Google, How To, India
For those involved in out-sourcing or off-shoring, Andy Rappaport discusses why outsourcing works for the IT industry but fails in the automobile industry. He writes that “the U.S. IT industry has been able to innovate over the past 20 years even while ceding leadership of component technologies and basic processes.”
Tags:Amazon·AT&T·Auto industry·Global business·google·Hewlett-Packard·ibm·Outsourcing·Qualcomm·Silicon Valley·Tech industry
Amazon Gets Flash Driven Search Engine
October 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
This search engine visualize a relation network of products in Amazon, from the statistics data “customers who bought this item also bought”, by digging related products again and again. Amaznode is not only for searching but also good for researching and making an associate link.
Should you use PayPal from inside Yahoo Mail?
October 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
You can now use Paypal directly from inside Yahoo. Why bother you might ask? Well, before we get into that, let’s see how it works. Or does it work?
Tags:Amazon·Australian Dollars·Bank account·British Pounds·Canadian Dollars·credit·credit card·currency·Debit card·digital goods·Euros·Exchange rate·fees·Francs·Hong Kong Dollars·Israeli Shekels·Kroner·Payments·Paypal·PayPal balance·Pesos·Yahoo·Yahoo Mail·Yen·Zloty
Amazon TextPayMe – Most Popular Text Commands
July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Amazon TextPayMe – Most Popular Text Commands
PayPal Report – Download free Podcast on What Gives Online Shoppers Cold Feet?
July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
PayPal Report – Download free Podcast on What Gives Online Shoppers Cold Feet?
Tags:Adsense·Amazon·blogger·Clickbank·Ebay·eJunkie·ePayments·firefox·Password·Paypal·security
Amazon.com Acquires Lexcycle iPhone reader, Stanza.
June 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
Amazon.com Acquires Lexcycle
Amazon.com, Inc. has acquired Lexcycle, the company that created the iPhone reader, Stanza. Customers will still be able to browse, buy, and read ebooks from Lexcycle content partners. Earlier this year, Amazon announced a new, free iPhone application that allows customers to read Kindle books on mobile devices.
Use Amazon Slideshow Widget to Increase Click-Throughs
May 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
If you use Amazon to sell digital products, such as ebooks or MP3s, you should take advantage of this new slideshow widget. We performed split testing with this widget versus the standard text links and found the pages with the slideshow widget generated more click-throughs than the plain text links.
Tags:Adobe Captivate·Adobe Framemaker·Adobe Technical Communication Suite·Amazon·blogger·DITA Open Toolkit·Long Documents·Robohelp·seo·technical communicators·Technical documentation
Top selling technical books on Amazon – April 2009
April 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Top selling technical books on Amazon this month
Amazon’s Top 10 Bestselling Technical Writing Books – April 2009
April 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
The top selling tech writing books on Amazon this month are worth a look. I’m not familiar with all of these but would recommend the IBM book very highly. It’s not cheap but is of real value, especially if you are developing complex docs or working with complicated projects with team of writers.
Amazon's Top 10 Bestselling Technical Writing Books – April 2009
April 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
The top selling tech writing books on Amazon this month are worth a look. I’m not familiar with all of these but would recommend the IBM book very highly. It’s not cheap but is of real value, especially if you are developing complex docs or working with complicated projects with team of writers.
Make Money with Amazon’s Digital Text Platform
April 12th, 2009 · View Comments · How To
Amazon’s Digital Text Platform is a new self-publishing tool that lets you upload your books for sale in its Kindle Store.
This allows writers to sell any kind of document, whether it is a scientific report, technical document, case study, or other type of material that you feel people would pay money to read. The difference [...]
Tags:Amazon·Make Money
