Looking at this attractive market size & the future where the e-retailing is to take off in India, Future Group, India’s largest retailer, is going digital in a big way. Future group aims to sell wide range of products from bedspreads to trendmills through internet, mobile phones, TV & dedicated kiosk.

In addition to the group’s online retail arm, Future E-commerce, who already operates an e-commerce portal, it will launch new initiatives such as marketing through mobile phones & virtual shopping through manned kiosks.

Kishore Biyani, Group CEO, with the view that most of people in urban areas spend 8 to 10 hours in a day on one of the four screens, says that this translates into huge sales potential.

The company owned futurebazaar.com will increase the number of products available online significantly. At present, there are 4000 SKU’s at futurebazaar.com compared with 1.6 lakh SKU’s that an average Big Bazaar store stocks. The company is targeting sales of Rs. 300 crore from digital commerce in first year.

In order to grow in virtual world the company is in talks to acquire a small IT company with about 150 personnel to develop and maintain contents & websites.

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Though, in other cases, the target audience is not restricted to the fairer sex alone. The catch is to tap the potential niche customers on the Net by getting out there and using a range of of specialised tools such as dedicated advertising channels.

These fast-moving consumer brands have learnt that turning to the Internet would be of immense help keeping in mind the popular usage. The list includes big names like Himalaya Drug and Hamdard Laboratories, jewellery maker Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ) and global consumer products major 3M Corp which use dedicated channels advertising networks like women’s advertisement channel to bring in the added traffic.

For instance, jewellery retail giant, Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri puts aside more than a tenth of the total advertising budget for promotion through the internet and is expecting it to inflate by 20% by the next year. Kiran Dixit, Head-Advertising & Marketing at Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ) further explains the importance of this new trend on the block. As put by him, “The rupee investment gets stretched to the maximum with a women-centric channel.”

The task of ad networks like Ozone Media Solutions is to provide service to advertisers by putting together a bunch of focused and niche sites that revolve around subjects such as health, fashion and home products. For an example, Ozone places ads for women-centric consumer brands on sites such as Indus-Ladies, IndiaParenting, SanjeevKapoor.com, Evesindia.com and About.com. The company’s devoted women’s ad channel, Eva, has a following of 25 lakh women per month. Himalaya, on the other hand, advertises its e-commerce site and personal care products.

It generally works with ad networks playing the mediator between the brands and the publisher sites. But, brands do negotiate terms with the sites with a better viewership record on their own, whereas, they find it reasonable to contact ad networks to meet the remaining demands of the advertising strategy.

Sites operating on a small scale play an equally important role in influencing women’s views. It may not be possible for them to have sales representatives to reach agencies which makes it rather sensible to opt for ad networks which are associated with specialised channels which consolidate unsold ad space even across the long tail.

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We are happy to announce Winners for Tabbles Business Edition Licenses. Winners are:
1.) Javier Aprea
2.) Nico : Nico Wiedemann
3.) ha14 : Hovsep Avedissian

Congratulation all the winners.

Here is how you can download and use your license:
Download it here. After downloading Tabbles use the license key mailed to you.

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What is a blog?

A blog (comes from weblog) is a website consisting of entries (also called posts) that appear in reverse chronological order by day month and year with the most recent entry appearing first (similar in format to a diary or journal). Blogs typically include features such as comments and links to increase user interactivity. Blogs are created using specific publishing software. Blog writing style is usually informal. Blogs topics and be on anything you choose but most bloggers stick to a certain niche.

Top 7 Reasons why blogging & business go hand in hand:

1. You will able to add content in minutes
The best part about a blog is that it offers convenience as in the case of updating new content. What you need to do is simply log in to your administration panel & post and it will all be there for the world to see. Plus, it gives you the much-needed freedom from uploading FTP files to your static sites. It is of great help especially when you have just got the next big ‘thing’ on your mind!

2. It’s Free (or Low Cost)
Blogging is a boon for those on a shoe-string budget. It provides solution to the critical problem of influx of funds for the purpose of promotion. This can be easily done through a range of ways. You could either start your blog absolutely free at popular blogging sites such as blogger.com or wordpress.com or if your business name is available, you can use it as the blog’s URL (web address). As another option if you would like to purchase your business name’s domain, you can do so inexpensively from sites such as godaddy.com or register.com or if you want a self host your blog then you can go Host Gator for hosting services. Simply put, it’s as easy as 1-2-3!

3. It Makes You the Expert
A blog helps you post and let the world know about your expertise in your forte. This not only serves as an ice-breaker between you and your audience but also ensures that you most probably become a trusted name which makes them take your advice or suggestion with regard to a particular product or service seriously. An added advantage is the appreciation you receive for the instructions, to- do lists, tips & other articles.

4. Create a relationship with visitors to your website
First things first, in comparison to a static website, a blog is updated on a regular basis; it may so happen that you get repeat visitors provided you have good content. So, the chances of repeat customers multiply on blogs as against static websites. This gives a sense of belonging & attachment to the visitors & this furthers interaction with them through responding to the comments posted by them on your articles.

5. Improve your search engine rankings
Search engines like Yahoo! & Google are partial to blogs, the primary reason being their need for providing spanking new content to their varied customers. These search engines generally place blogs on a large scale due to their dynamic nature.

6. Make New Connections
Blogging makes networking easy. With easy and constant access to the internet, chances are huge that you get noticed on the circuit. This exposure might result in many people trying to make links with you. And, if you blog on a regular basis, the good news is you will get attention of other bloggers of your turf! These bloggers may end up being probable customers. Very precisely put, the exposure to new contacts is an opportunity in disguise!

7. Blogs will help you get links
Like it or not, social networking sites are selling like hot cakes! Create links on such sites and enjoy the added traffic to your blog. The more links you create, the better!
With all these benefits on offer, blogging is a sure-shot way to get gigantic exposure for your business; a very cost- effective one at that. Do we really need to stress more on why you should start blogging right away?

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3. Simply leave a comment below with valid email address.

When will the contest End?
Contest will be End on Friday, 7th May, 2010 and winners will be decided on the same day. We will email you the download link and license.

About Tabbles
Tabbles is a excellent tool for file management. Its great tool for entrepreneurs in particular and everyone in general to manage files effectively and save lot of time on searching the files stored in hard drive.

Managing files in a system is difficult specially when you want that one file to be associated with many different folders. Just imagine a file named “smith”. Smith is your customer. You may create different files for him like Smith_Invoice, Smith_Quotations, other correspondence to smith. And you want all these files to be under different folders. For example you want a Folder named Smith where you will have copies of all these files, again you have one more folder for quotations where you want smith_quotations files and also one folder for invoice where you want smith_invoice file.

Now just imagine you edit file smith_quotations. You need to update in all the folders like smith & quotations. If you don’t do it you end up creating many versions of files and also it leads to duplication of files, complete confusion between various versions of same file.

To sort out this problem Tabbles is a simple answer. It not only makes file management simple but also saves disk space. This is amazing software I have ever used. What is Tabbles?

A tabble is a tag-bubble
The word tabble stands for “tag-bubble”, sometimes they behave like a tag, some other times like a container. With Tabbles you can categorize your files, folders or internet addresses by cross-linking them to one or more tabbles.Since Tabbles is a deskop application, it’s well integrated into the Microsoft Windows environment: categorization can be done using the usual explorer functions, such as copy-and-paste, drag-and-drop (keyboard shortcuts and right-button menu included) or using the buttons on the tabble’s. The categories are groups of tabbles sharing color and shape.

Tabbles is a free application and can be used to better manage your files even if you have a habit of dumping all your files in one place.

Let us understand what the tabbles is in a brief video below

This application allows you to tag your files and keep them in virtual folders without duplicating it. For example if you have an invoice for Mr Smith you can tag it with Customer and Invoice both. So when you go to your invoice folder you see it there and when you go to Customer Smith folder you can see all the document related to him including the invoice.

Features of Tabbles:
Uses tagging system for managing files
Avoids duplication
Cross linking of files
Makes organizing files easy
Saves disk space
Grouping makes file management simple

Versions Available:
Tabbles comes in a different Version. The application is available in Student, Home, Business & Portable Version. The software is available for free for managing upto 1000 files this one is the basic version. However for managing files more than 1000 in numbers for corporate and business use you will need business edition.

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The MP3 Player I purchased was 2 GB Branded (reputed one) Player. The site was very user friendly. I searched for my choice of MP3 Player in no time. There were various options available for MP3 Player of same as well as different brands from various sellers. I found one seller very reasonable and placed order with them. They offered 3 Months Warranty on it. It took about 3 mins for me to make payment and process my order.

I received my MP3 Player on 8th Day as promised by them (Delivery within 15 days). I was really happy to open the parcel I received. When I opened the parcel I found the case cracked may be its problem with delivery guys. On attaching the player to my PC I noticed that it shows 2 GB space in properties, then I started copying songs on the player memory and discovered that the memory shown was fake. I was not able to copy songs, the error message popped up “Insufficient memory”

I tried formatting the memory but invain. There was no out come of this act. Finally I decided to call up the seller who sold me the player. I tried contacting on the numbers provided on the invoice (I received with parcel). I tried all their contact numbers to my surprise all the numbers provided by them were out of order. I soon realized that I am cheated by them. Then finally I called up Indiatimes Shopping Customer Care and reported my problem to them.

They gave me assurance to replace the piece within 15 days. They gave me some Order Replacement Number (its basically reference number for my complaint). I waited for 15 days and no actions was taken by them. I called up again and this time I did not complain about my product as there was no option, even they could not do anything, I advised them to check genuineness of the sellers before allowing them to display products on Indiatimes Shopping Portal.

Buyers beware before placing order on Indiatimes Shopping.

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