mark8t: not just another e-marketing blog

not just another e-marketing blog

Entries from July 2008

Mark8t: E-Marketing Solutions For All

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

You may have noticed a couple of changes around here. Mainly you will notice the electronics industry will no longer remain our primary focus. Why? We realize there are many users who are interested in e-marketing, besides those in the electronics industry, and this platform provides us with a broader canvas to continue and expand [...]

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Tags: Services · Website Improvements

Benefit of Hit Counters, Statistics and Visitor Logs

July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Electronics is an industry full of numbers. MRP Reports, Market Share, raw material costs, profits, QA reports, POA reports, design wins, registrations and much much more. The amount of numbers would make any Math lover crazy. As someone looking at their company website, you need to embrace the love of statistics. It will benefit you. [...]

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Tags: Services · Software · Web Design · Web Technology · Website Improvements

Stock Checking: Should You Get It On Your Site?

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments

A great addition to your site, especially if you use distribution, is a stock check service. There are two major players who focus on this one aspect of the business and both have an impressive line up of satisfied clients. The first is being Stock Check. There customers include: Allegro Microsystems, Fairchild, AVX, Semtech, Microsemi, International Rectifier, [...]

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Tags: Customer Service · Services · Web Design · Web Technology · Website Improvements

PartMiner MarketPulse

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Today there was an annoucement from PartMiner on it’s new web application PartMiner MarketPulse. According to the release: “PartMiner collects pricing and availability information from more than 11,000 sources worldwide (5,000 in Asia, 3,500 in North America, and 2,500 in Europe) – much in real-time. PartMiner MarketPulse features a quick view to help analyze [...]

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Tags: Industy News · Services · Software

Why Login Pages Don’t Work

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the great things the Internet has brought to the electronic component industry, and any industry for that matter, is the ability for customer to search for information and find what they are looking for in relative anonymity. They can check specs, compare, read reviews. But occasionally, there are places that require you to [...]

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Tags: Customer Service · Google · Search Engines · Web Design · Website Improvements

opentaps Open Source ERP and CRM System

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Online systems, for customers and distributors, are the hall mark of a forward thinking electronic component companies. It off loads resources needed in customer service for back-order management, stock checks and others such tasks, to focus on more mission critical ares of the business. One excuse, for from smaller electronic component suppliers is that software [...]

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Tags: Customer Service · Software · Website Improvements

Electronics can be fun

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Web Design is a serious business. We would never tell anyone to do anything, but put out the most professional website. Nevertheless, we still think there is room for fun in electronics. We, of course, use the term fun loosely. One of our favorite sites, was from a supplier called Associated Components Technology (ACT). This [...]

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Tags: Web Design

Free SEO Tools

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the biggest problems with internet, in our view, is scams involving people paying for services they can get for free. You should never pay for basic SEO tools .Sure there are consultants and others that can provide specific info, but when it comes to getting some basic info about your website, where you [...]

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Tags: SEO · Search Engines · Web Design · Web Technology · Website Improvements

When all else is equal…It’s all about the service

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

In the electronics industry there is a ton of competition. Heck in any industry, there is ton of competition. Now think about this. When all things are equal, what is the one thing that becomes the deal breaker? Service. It wins every time, and the dirty little secret is, even if your price is not [...]

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Tags: Customer Service · Web Technology · Website Improvements

Why Use RSS Feeds?

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Do you recognize the logo to the left? It’s the symbol for an RSS Feed, of course… But what does that mean and why are RSS feeds so important? RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. In short, RSS is a protocol for delivering ever-changing web content and is used by many news-related sites (such as [...]

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Tags: Google · Web Design · Web Technology · Website Improvements