The times are tough at the moment. Businesses are working hard? By: Israth Ismail

The times are tough at the moment. Businesses are working hard to meet at least the break-even point. Severance Packages are no longer a thing of past but a bitter truth of life and generally, the outlook of the business environment looks gloom.

How can we get past this spot of bother successfully? That is the more important question. If you have used the services of an economic advisor, he or she would have told you among other things that you need to expand your business wider and seek niche markets farther away from home.

Can this be done? Can we seek niche markets beyond our home base? Can we achieve our broad business objectives? We think as a team we can. You see, online markets have traditionally been delimited to the North American continent and some countries of Western Europe. However, these same countries are the hardest hit due to the prevailing economic crisis.

Therefore, businesses– online and otherwise – are not doing well. But how about emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and South America? Are they tapped enough? To be frank, as someone originally from one of these regions, I strongly doubt it.With the heavy dependency of the western countries on countries in Asia, the Middle East and South America for services, petroleum products and light industrial goods, we see a rapidly emerging newly rich class who seek and possess the best in the world. Just visit bornrich. This is a popular blog on high-class living run entirely by Indians and did you know that the Wine consumption of India has gone up by almost 10% during the past two years. What is indicated by all this might not be clear to you at first glance. However, what we see is that there is money to be spent and not much choice to choose from. Expensive tastes of the oil rich countries are well known and these people are known to fly over the pond just buy a Cartier ring. So Cartier took their business to the Middle East. So maybe it’s time for you to consider something like that. But not at Cartier’s level of course!

This is where Bountylab comes in. We specialise in aligning corporate objectives with target niche markets. We understand your business concerns perfectly and we believe that it’s time for you to seek niche markets such as we described away from home. Did you know that bookstores in most capitals in the regions we described above face competition not from other bookstores. But from Amazon? So we think it’s about time to replicate such a situation where you can further your customer base and successfully face the current economic crisis.

We do not believe in another dotcom revolution: But a strategized effort to achieve a win-win situation. Our team comprises of the best thought leaders in the industry. They are young, vibrant, creative and professional. The combined experience we count in the industry is as much as 35 years.So, if you think that you need some information about what we are talking about or you think that I can assist you to achieve competitive advantage and business excellence, I am more than obliged to discuss it.

Please contact me through +44(0)7877442663 or through israth@bountylab.co.uk. Thank you very much for taking the time to read through my message despite your busy schedule.

Wish you all the best!

The times are tough at the moment. Businesses are working hard?

By: Israth Ismail
Consultant / Senior Technology Architect
Bountylab Ltd, UK

Can You Make Money in These Tough Economic Times?

Of course YOU can.

Whatever the product or service being provided, people are still buying.

Business's need web sites, all businesses, whether they sell products or provide services. Their customers or clients traditionally found these businesses on the high street or in the Yellow pages etc, they now look for dentists, accountants, solicitors, builders, dog walkers and flower pot makers on the internet.Bountylab provide bespoke corporate, business, community and personal website design and development, our reputation is built on inspired and innovative solutions developed with an understanding of our clients and their end users.We would like to offer you the opportunity to help your clients, customers and friends in these tough times and earn yourself great commission. Bountylab have professionals and flexible designers and developers enabling website design and commissioning of sub £1000 sites being completed within days and £50000 plus websites delivered on time and on budget.For website projects brokered with a value between £1K and £10K the commission is 15%. Commission is negotiable on larger projects.We look forward to forging an exciting, successful and profitable partnership.

Yours Sincere,

Israth Ismail.

For small businesses, expanding your reach is one of the more difficult tasks to undertake! By: Israth Ismail

For small businesses, expanding your reach is one of the more difficult tasks to undertake.
E-commerce is one of the primary ways in which your business can be more recognized, and in turn garner greater profits.With Bountylab, you can expand your online presence by allowing users an e-commerce option for ordering your products & more..Talk to me..I can certainly help you with it..

Stay Tuned for details.

By: Israth Ismail

E-Commerce & Marketing Technology for your Business, By: Israth Ismail - Consultant / Senior Technology Architect at Bountylab International

During the recent times, we have seen mammoth developments in information & communication technology and unprecedented growth in ecommerce & ‘web 2.0’. For example, Facebook.com was an obscure little website at its inception in February 2004. It has now become a world-wide social phenomenon available in over 22 languages with annual revenue of over 150 million USD. Its founder Mark Zuckerberg aged 24, is a Harvard dropout, the youngest self-made billionaire in the world with a wealth of 1.5 billion USD and a key person behind the successful online campaign for Mr. Barack Obama.

This is a good example what the World Wide Web can do to a business. In fact, the success of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg gives an indication about the direction the wind is blowing in the global economy. As indicated by this example, the World Wide Web has become a major area of business development during the past few years. E-commerce is fast becoming the new mode of business and the best of corporate giants have already gone ‘web 2.0’ to utilize the unparallel opportunities offered by these new developments.

In this regard, technology plays a major role. For example, customer interaction is a key element in today’s online business. Customers no longer rely on vendor websites for information relevant to their buying decisions. Instead they use reviews, blogs and other methods commonly available in the internet. Thus, vendors need to make sure that they somehow attract customers and lead them to buy a product. Hence, interactive technologies such as Flash, Flex and Silverlight play a major role in disclosing information at this level. These technologies give the added flexibility of making the customer a part of a unique product experience. For example, most mobile phone manufacturers give their potential clients opportunities to use their preferred mobile phones in a virtual environment. Even most vehicle manufacturers provide such facilities. Also, the advanced web applications available today are capable of providing highly customized services to users based on their region, language and other demographic criteria.

Another aspect of this new phenomenon is the use of rich media. Rich media is considered to be a very important aspect in today’s online marketing methods. Many vendors provide video reviews for various products ranging from mobile phones to armoured tanks. In fact, such methods have proven to be very successful with the heavy information saturation in the World Wide Web. Viewers prefer to watch a video or a Flash presentation instead of reading through a long product catalogue or a product review. As a result, we can see some creative rich media content geared at attracting users and encouraging them to make a purchase. Cellular service vendors usually lead the pack in this regard.

Combined with social networking utilities such as link sharing, bookmarking & widgets in general, rich media and interactive technologies can give a business definite advantage over the competitors. The success of such a campaign lies in its creativity and aggressiveness. There have been many instances in the recent past where even the large conglomerates used ‘out of the box’ concepts to popularize their products.

Taking a leaf out their experiences, businesses can align their corporate objectives with the cutting-edge technology to increase revenue earned through e-commerce. With the current market trends which predict a heavy leaning towards online marketing in the coming years, all businesses should think about online marketing more profoundly. For example, the value of internet sales by UK businesses rose to £130.4bn in 2006, an increase of 29.1 per cent on the 2005 figure of £101bn, according to estimates from the Office for National statistics (ONS).Therefore, businesses regardless of their specialization should make use of this burgeoning trend. It is no longer relevant to have a static website to give away product or service information and contact details. Instead it is a worthwhile effort to take the trouble to come up with an e-commerce web portal and make use of this ever increasing trend of online marketing.

Stay Tuned!

Thanks.

E-Commerce & Marketing Technology for your Business,

By: Israth Ismail - Consultant / Senior Technology Architect at Bountylab International