The World Wide Web supposed to be an international network. Hence “the” and “world” in it. With exception of the Great Chinese firewall anybody in the world could see any information on any website. And, theoretically, anybody could buy any product from any website. I do understand why e-shops, selling real goods like books, clothes [...]
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Antivirus Direct – Information overload
When I started the first version of antivirusdirect.info , I tried to represent the data in the minimalistic way. The less steps user needs to perform to get all the information, required for the analysis – the better. One page per product sounded like a good idea. Well, I didn’t think there are so many antivirus vendors [...]
New project: Antivirus Direct
April 18th, 2011 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce, Information Technologies, IT Security | No Comments »
I’ve spend the last 4 years working for different antivirus vendors (Kaspersky and Trustport) helping consumers to buy and renew their antiviruses online. The online sales industry of antiviruses is a bit strange. Vendors are still mostly oriented on retail market (well, they’ve build their empires based on brick-and-mortar retail sales). And online shops are [...]
The role of e-commerce in your business
January 24th, 2011 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | No Comments »
The more I think on the subject, the more I come to the same thought. e-commerce doesn’t exist as a separate discipline. Basically it’s just one of the parts of process called “sales” or even more abstract “business”. If I’d try to describe, what e-commerce do for your business it would be: ” improving the information flow [...]
Luxembourg as online offshore zone
A lot of Internet companies, dealing in Europe are trying to reduce their VAT. Opening a company in Luxembourg is a good choice, they have just 15% and they’re respectable European country, nothing like strange islands, which could be covered by occasional tide wave. However, you have to consider a lot of additional problems, such set-up [...]
Catalog vs pricelist
October 10th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | No Comments »
Normally a catalog is the same as a price-list. Just more pictures and info. You choose something from the catalog, write down the SKU and purchase it. That’s now distribution works. However, online the prices could be much flexible. Price is, at the end, an instrument of marketing and online you can feel it’s power.. There [...]
Orange champions mailing
July 9th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | No Comments »
It’s very good that Netherlands has won semi-final. The whole country is busy with celebrations and the spirits are high. I’ve just send a special discount mailing to all our clients with a present for the championship. At mininum we have 2 more days of the “orange champions” spirit, until the final game against Spain. [...]
Open source forever
June 21st, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | No Comments »
Last couple of days I was testing the new bright and shiny e-commerce engine Magento. The main reason why I wanted to switch from the OS:commerce-like solutions was amount of fine-tuning required. It never works perfectly out of the box. Nor should it, to be honest. It’s not a box product, it’s a basis for [...]
Avira sense of humor
I don’t know if there is a joke is there a word in English language for something like “compulsory but made to appear as voluntary”. There is one in Russian. The literal translation would be ”voluntary-compulsory”, but it doesn’t sound that funny. Yesterday I’ve tried a test installation of free antivirus from Avira. I’ve already [...]
Online sales vs Online support
June 10th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | No Comments »
Some people ask why it’s so easy to buy something online and why it’s so hard to perform any other operations with your money or goods. For example, cancel your purchase. Or change the dates of the purchased ticket. Some people even think that business are doing it on purpose: making the process of taking [...]
