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ShimBi Labs :: Mega Bargains Month 2010

Hello Customers!

As informed earlier Mega Bargain Months is finally here!

Avail the amazing discounts all month this month!

(Ends on 30th September 2010)

3 Great Products! 3 Great Offers!

• Get ShimBi CMS Based 10 pages website ONLY for INR 2500!
• ShimBi Biliing: Online Billing Application ONLY for INR 2500!
• Unlimited Hosting Windows/Linux ONLY for INR 450 per month!

Send email to sales@shimbi.in or sales@ask4host.com

More Products more discounts

• ShimBi CMS: 40% Discount on all plans
• ShimBi Cart: 40% Discount on all plans
• ShimBi iCollege: 40% Discount on all plans

www.cmsen2.shimbi.in | www.shimbicart.shimbi.in

ASK4Host Web Hosting

40% Discount on all Shared Hosting and Reseller Hosting Plans.

www.ask4host.com

ASK4Domains

• .CO.IN, NET.IN, ORG.IN, GEN.IN, FIRM.IN, IND.IN SALE! INR 225.00
• .MOBI SALE! INR 621.91
• .IN SALE! INR 225.00
• .ASIA SALE! INR 560.00
• .CN.COM SALE! INR 621.91

www.ask4domains.com

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact your account

manager or send email at sales@ask4host.com or sales@shimbi.in or  call us on 9890645779 

Last Day Offer Updates

As you all might know, we celebrated this month as ShimBiLabs Birthday Bash month!! We appreciate our customers sincere support from years and hope to continue long term relationship with everyone.ShimBiLabs also welcomes new clients who wish to use our products and services.We have also updated our twitter friends, by tweeting about our offers for whole month.

What are our Offers?
These are some of the offers of this month, validity expires today 30th June 2010 still we want all of you to take advantage of all our discounts so hurry !!
PRODUCTS

                                               40% Discount on all plans

ShimBiCMS :: 
ShimBi CMS is a Web Content Management System (Web CMS).It is a total Content Management System, Unlimited Menus, Pages, News updates, all types of content text, image,  photos(photo gallery) and much more..
www.cmsen2.shimbi.in

ShimBiCart::
ShimBi Cart is easy to use E-commerce Solution that Increases Your Online Sales.
Unlimited Product Categories, complete SEO optimization, easy checkout to newsletter, product discount module, business intelligence reports and much more..
www.shimbicart.shimbi.in


ShimBi iCollege:: 
ShimBi iCollege for all Educational institutes to manage there website and student database.It has all fuctionalities similar to ShimBiCMS and database management.
www.cmsen2.shimbi.in/icollege.html

SERVICES

ASK4Host
ASK4Host provides web hosting solutions for businesses and individuals...
We specialize in Linux Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting and Dedicated Servers.

                                40% Discount on all Plans www.ask4host.com

ASK4Domains
For all kinds of Domain Name Registrations, Transfers, Renewals, Resellers..
 
                            9% discount on multiple year new Domain booking 
                              and Domain renewal!! www.ask4domains.com

News Updates ::
http://newsletter.shim-bi.com/details.php?id=82
http://newsletter.shim-bi.com/details.php?id=84

ASK4Domains Promotions on Domain Names!!

ASK4Domains is a domain registration and web hosting service provider based in India & Japan.They offer windows hosting, linux hosting, reseller hosting, domain name registrations, email hosting, digital certificates, transfer domain all at affordable prices.This month promotions are on popular domains like .MOBI .IN .CO.IN etc read more..

ShimBi Cart :: February Promotions Now Extended!

    Save 30% Discount on all our ShimBi Cart Plans.
    February Promotions Now Extended till 31st March 2010!

Above promotion will NOW end on 31st March 2010.
 Hurry and cash in on this great promotion!
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Note:
    * This promo is applicable on all  ShimBi Cart Plans.
    * Promotion is only for new purchase.
    * There are no restrictions on the number of ShimBi Cart packs
       that can be purchased during this period.
    *For more details please visit our website.

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Email - sales@shimbi.in | www.shimbicart.shimbi.in

How to use Online Marketing for promoting Business?

There are dozens of online marketers, internet marketers available online from all over the globe. The question is how one start promotion in a right way! As these terms sound really vague if you search online you would get 100s of sites, blogs etc. related to them. Online Marketing creates a Brand Identity of the Company its products, its services in front of global audience on internet. It saves money on advertising. Online marketing is cost effective and provides real time tracking results. This allows businesses to make changes "on the fly".

Online Marketing is type of marketing which promotes your company, its products, its services everything to online customers all over the globe.Online marketing gives us the capability to track and change when necessary. This saves money and stretches our marketing budgets a little further.

Online Marketing can be implemented in many ways following are some methods:
1. Website Marketing:

Publish/Update your website that represents your company, will create online presence. The website must be designed professionally as it creates a level of credibility and trust in customers.

2. Search Engine Marketing:

Whenever a customer searches your company or some products related to your products your site must appear in at least first two pages. This can be done by optimizing pages of your website i.e. inserting meta tags, title tags etc. in web pages. Perform Search engine optimization on your website. 

3. Social Media Marketing:

It includes creating social profiles on popular socializing sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. Just creating profiles is not enough you have to keep posting, updating your status on these sites and sometimes it’s really time consuming as Social media works if you engage all your friends, followers. Hence if you have that edges then go for it else don’t try it. 

4. Content Marketing :

Make your content worth reading, if you have an official blog then keep updating, posting quality content on it. If done correctly, will engage your target audience and drive profitable action to your business.

5. Affiliate and Strategic Partnership Marketing:

This is a process in which a product or service developed by one person is sold by other active seller for a share of profits. The owner of the product normally provides some marketing material (sales letter, affiliate link, tracking facility).

Out of these methods you can decide which one can be suitable to your company promotion, how much time you can invest in that particular marketing. Decide a online marketing strategy set goals and start over. Keep track of your business in cost effective way using Online Marketing. 

Do you think Japanese language is barrier while doing business with Japan ?

When you have a business, its obvious you need to expand it, explore it first locally, nationally and then globally. Yes this is easy to accept, but hard to implement as it needs years of patience, investments loses and profits as well. To start with doing a business in Japan is difficult then exploring it out, why? There are lots of reasons for this - new place, new people and new language. Even if we adjust with place and people what about communication? Here we can also consider we are exploring business online in Japan still communication barrier comes. For this translation is the best option!

But what is the need of translation when you are using the global language of communication - “English”? Well there are few very minute but important reasons for translating language when communicating with particular clients group::

Communication:

Communicating in a standard language is needed and it’s ok. But just think if you have a Japanese customer and you just greet him as “Ohayogozaimasu!” the look on his/her face will be different than usual. You might end up in more customers through his/her reference.

Stay up in Competition:

Helps to stay competent when targeting particular region for example: If a company wants to do Business in Japan but doesn’t know how to? Suppose they hire a specialized translation service like ShimBiz the company will be guided from how to start, market research till getting people as clients.

Increase Online Sales:

It will just boost your graph of customers as it will increase customers in particular region as well as others. Explore your language of communication for business. Customers might get deviated by constant promotions, so sometimes if you can be personal (to some extent) it can make them stay for long time. Communicating in there specific language might increase their trust with us.
Get more out of it:

Following customers cultural aspects or even etiquettes will make them close and attached to our company. For a good translator it is important for him to have a thorough understanding of the culture of the source language as well as that of the target language apart from hold in linguistic. When looking for translation service, make sure that the company gives due importance to the cultural aspects of both the source and the target language. But that doesn’t mean that the company has to change all management rules, regulations or culture.

All the above mentioned factors are ok but what to translate? Translate those documents that communicate all related to company it might be Company Website, Company presentations, Mail communications, Product brochure, Technical datasheets ,Specification sheets, PDF etc. Once we know what to translate, next job will be hiring a translation service.

Few things to consider when hiring translation service are::
1.Turnaround Time :: Minimum
2.Translators:: Native Translators, Thorough knowledge of translation
3.Online secured file transfer
4.Expert Language Review
5.Intensive research into the subject matter to be translated should be carried out.

Finally, translation is not simply replacing words with similar meaning but of finding proper ways of expressing things in another language. For accurate, efficient translation from the one language to another language importance must be given to the culture of the target language. It is the cultural aspect only that can help in communicating the message in the way it should be.

For more details on Translation Services:
Visit ShimBiz at :: www.shimbi.in/en/translation_service.html

ShimBiz is the leading Japanese-English language translation service provided by ShimBi Labs based in Pune, India and Yokohama, Japan.

Review Of a Ecommerce Solutions Web Store :: ShimBi Cart

Setting up a Business online is not that difficult nowadays, yes but selecting proper ecommerce cart software is a very crucial factor. Researching more about the product will give you more idea and confidence that it will work properly. Go through various ecommerce sites, some sites provide demos so take them see whether it is really user friendly!

I would like to give an insight why ShimBi Cart is the Best Option as an Ecommerce Web Store.

There many things to start with, you will need website to set shopping cart, but first the basics domain names registrations, hosting etc. Once this is done, you have to start setting up your web store! Please note that this task can be easy or sometimes time consuming depending upon what kind of ecommerce software you are using.

With ShimBi Cart, you will have a personalized, customized experience still the professional touch of website will be there!

ShimBi Cart is Feature rich product wherein you will need to go through each feature one by one. There are plenty of features of ShimBi Cart. 

ShimBi Cart Feature List ::

• Design Features
• In-Store Features
• Content Management Features
• Search Features
• Product & Inventory Features
• Marketing Features
• Reporting Features
• Order & Checkout Features
• SEO Features

This is just the outline of features list, for more details please refer site.

Also Promos are live on ShimBi Cart ::

You will get flat 30% OFF on all plans of ShimBi Cart Software.

Try live free demo of our cart :: www.shimbicart.shimbi.in/shimbi-cart-live-demo.html

For more details please visit our website :: www.shimbicart.shimbi.in

Write to us at :: sales@shimbi.in

ShimBi Cart :: February Promotions Now Live!

ShimBi Labs February Promo is Live from 5th Feb 2010.ShimBi Cart is a Ecommerce Solutions Web Store product.It is easy to use e-commerce solution that Increases Your Online Sales.Business Owners, Online Retailers can now start selling online in just hours from now.

Get 30% Discount on all our ShimBi Cart Plans

Please Note that this promo is live from 5th Feb 2010 and is available on all ShimBi Cart Plans.

Grab this offer and order your own shopping cart software today!

For more details on E commerce Cart:: How to start? Where to get more information?
Please check our sites: http://www.shimbicart.shimbi.in
Or write at: sales@shimbi.in

Urgent Job Opening at ShimBi Labs!

Position :: Software Developer
Technology:: PHP MySQL,WAMP/LAMP
Location based in:: Pune, India.
Number of Openings:: 2
Job Description::

Are you a PHP guru? We are looking to hire an experienced PHP/MySQL developer for a long-term position within our company to work primarily on client custom development projects and develop our CMS (Content Management System) version 3.

Interested Candidates can mail resume at jobs@shimbi.in
Or Call us at :: 020-26632255
Also Visit our site for more information:: www.shimbi.in

                  

Few Reasons To Start Building Your Ecommerce Web Store Today Itself!

You've been brainstorming on how to improve your sales, attract customers and improve customer retention. May be you successfully short listed many important points and they showed you positive results on implementation. There’s one more brilliant idea for improving your current sales - selling products online. Ecommerce is here to stay for a long time ahead. If you're a small firm in a retail market and you want to expand it and increase your sales as well than just go through some features of starting ecommerce web store.

# Ecommerce market:

The economical crisis storm that raked the global economy worldwide for more than a year is slowly decreasing. E-commerce stocks sailed ahead of the broader market with the Internet Retailer Online Retail Index gaining 26% in the third quarter. E commerce has become an important revenue sector in a country's economy. So you must ensure that your business is ready for becoming part of this Big share of revenue. Go ahead and build your Web store now!

# Access to global market:
Displaying all products online leads to a huge customer advertising at low price.
# Easy Communication: 

Communication is the key to success when dealing with people. Online Web Stores come with email modules. All outgoing emails to your buyers are automatically sent. Saves time and keeps your customers informed. This helps in building customer relationships as you are always in touch with them.

# Improves Sales:

E commerce online shopping cart has that potential to gain more sales at low advertisement costs. Customers get know more about you and your products. Also e commerce improves customer retention as once a customer is satisfied by your service and products they will 101% come back to you.

 # Cost Saving: 

Advertising is the medium with which one can reach every individual in this world. Advertising can be done through newspapers, radio, TV etc. sales will increase depending on what type of ad mode you select the more costly ad the more sales you will get. But this will not be the case if you have your own online cart. Internet is the medium which has a potential to reach out to each and every individual globally. There are many factors that will save money -No Advertisement costs, No paper, bags expenses... Instead you will gain more sales at low advertisement costs, you will have all details of customers; also it will help in customer retention. Saves per customer per employee time as customer has access to all products where he can select them all by himself.

# Transactions processing at economical price:

Online transactions processing cost is lesser than the traditional process. Processing orders is typically cheaper than traditional methods.

So hope this article has helped you, to decide whether to go with ecommerce web store.
For any queries regarding setting up web store:
Visit Us : www.shimbicart.shimbi.in
Or write to us at sales@shimbi.in

Can WhoIs Protection help Secure Domain Name?

Well it’s obvious that you have a domain name or close to it as you opted to read this article. The fact is that whenever we register a domain name we have to provide all our details correctly. Moreover the details collected are like your name, residential address & email address which are often made freely available to anyone who wants to access it.

This means that your very personal geographical as well as virtual details are accessible to anyone online on internet. This information might be useful to spammers or even hackers which might result in online/offline abuse.

But its sad that we cant hide our details as ICANN [Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers] the global registry for domain name industry, has stated a policy that each and every registrar is required to maintain a WHOIS database that contains publicly accessible contact information for all names that have been registered.

Although this is true still, Whois has an ID protection service to rescue Lets find out how?

Whois protection is provided by a web host or some others as a separate service or you can add up to cpanel provided to you. There you can change the settings to hide ID and update the changes .Each domain name & web hosting provider has different ways to change this settings. So you have to contact them for hiding Whois details.

WHOIS Protection guarantees that your private contact information is kept invisible to all Internet users, including spammers and identity thieves.
Hiding details in whois lookup will give following benefits:

1.Hide Private Information

2.Spam Protection
3.Complete Control over Domain

With the Whois details being hidden you now have even greater control over your domain name. You can have its security increased with few steps.

For more details on Domain Name Registration: How to register? Where to get more information?
Please check these sites:http://ask4host.com
Or write at: sales@ask4host.com

Want to Increase Online Sales ? CMS here to Help!

People are trending on the internet to stay up with new topics, discussions, news.Even sometimes i dont check up my twitter i feel like i am so out of track on whats new! Internet really helps in reaching people around the world, you can make best buddies on internet who can turn out to be your technical helpers sometimes your best customers or may be promoters also.And if you are a bussiness tycoon and you have a lots of online presence on every popular site then its obvious that you have your own website! You can share your products, services or views with all online people, not realising you are reducing the cost of advertising on big banners, TV commercials etc.

So to stay tuned in this competition one has to create his own website & then comes the need to keep your website updated.Some key features of having a website & constantly updating it are:

1.    Get noticed by mass group of people
2.    Increase contacts/clients
3.    Increase Popularity of your business
4.    Improve sales

Problems with Existing Website:

Sometimes if you have a website which is up and running for many years it may happen that much of the content is inaccurate or not useful now, it’s very difficult to find things, updating the website is a complex task, and the appearance is also not so well or has become monotonous. All these problems occur if your site is not maintained properly. Website maintenance can done by website developers at extra cost which would be another cost overhead factor. To solve all these problems a content management system is specifically designed.

CMS is here to help!!

CMS or content management system supports the creation, management, distribution and publishing of web pages. It provides an easy to use interface such that even a layman can understand how to operate it. When using CMS you need not be an expert web developer or designer; even if you know how to browse you can easily use a Content Management System. You can easily drag and drop menus, images etc. Check the appearance then again change it according to your requirements. Within few minutes you can build a professional website of your own! A CMS has N-number of features to use. Investing in CMS software is like one time investing for building 100’s of websites.

Some of the basic features provided by CMS are:
1. Fully customizable
2. No knowledge of HTML needed
3. User Friendly
4. Creates Unlimited Pages.
5. Manage Menus and Sub menus
6. Insert / Edit Images easily

And there are many more features of using a CMS for building websites. Get a CMS software from a Web Based Application Development Company today itself and start Building your own website right away!

For any queries regarding CMS visit :: www.cmsen2.shimbi.in

Does Reseller Hosting Really Help To Make Money?

I was just going through few hosting sites and reading more about reseller hosting. Reseller hosting has many types like it can be done for Windows, Linux Shared Dedicated etc. To become a Reseller the requirements are like a computer (many people have), internet connection (yes it’s a basic need of all these days), money (small amount) and finally the willingness to do it.

When I went through the requirements I was moved as anyone can afford them!
Further reading more about how to start, what are the factors, tactics to develop this reseller business seriously. Few insights into peoples experiences testimonials I came to know that to make your reseller business a success requires lots of dedication and sound marketing strategies.

Also there are few things to consider before implementing your reseller business:
Hosting Company:   

Research the hosting company as this company will ultimately act as Brand name and also decide the success of your Reseller Hosting Business. The Company should be reputable and also provide fully featured packages.

Reseller Account:

Get your reseller account! You can usually get a basic package which includes disk storage, bandwidth and various other features with some limitations. But usually these features are enough to start with!

Hosting Plans:

Until now all steps were easy but now the real challenge comes, planning the hosting prices. After purchasing a reseller account, you will be provided access to a control panel, where in you can create hosting packages, decide prices etc. Actually this is not the main issue as the package creation is easy but pricing is more tough decision as it is the main factor of attraction for customers.

Promote Your Business:

Once all done setup is finished, you have to promote your hosting business. As this is the only way by which world can know about you as a Reseller! Obvious way of promotion is creating your own website; this is the easiest thing nowadays with so many Content Management Systems to help.

One might be wondering while reading this article where is the money. This was the same question which came in my mind when I was reading about reseller hosting. Reseller accounts allow the space and bandwidth to be bought in smaller ‘chunks’. That way smaller hosts aren’t wasting resources – and subsequently money. This allows new hosts to grow into a dedicated server instead of taking the large initial plunge with the much higher monthly fee. A start up host may now yield a small profit instead of a large loss month after month.
I’ll take http://www.ask4host.com as an example. They provide a very competitive reseller account priced at $39.2.Their Reseller’s Package allows you a Disk Space of 5 GB and monthly Bandwidth of 500GB also provide Unlimited Sub domains, FTP accounts, Email accounts etc.
Also I just went through some testimonials of clients and individuals. And read more about their experiences all were just bubbling with happiness. This was really motivating for me so I end up writing this article. Hope you liked it will I get back to you with more sound research about Reseller Hosting.

For more details on Reseller Hosting: How to start? Where to get more information?
Please check these sites:
http://ask4host.com
http://ask4host.partnersite.myorderbox.com
Or write at: sales@ask4host.com