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Customer service is increasingly seen as one of the most valuable uses for a commercial World Wide Web site. Your Web site is available on a 24 hour, seven days a week basis. So it is well worth exploring ways in which your customers can virtually “serve themselves," without the need for overtime staff, or lengthy voice mail procedures. James Feldman is President of JFA, Inc., an online business offering high quality and unique gift items including automatic watch winders, Grundig shortwave pocket radios, and nitroglycerine pill fobs. The JFA Web site has been online since 1997, and has doubled
Lets try out one more example Thread, this time from a software forum
[USER1] I'm trying to find a link to the phpBB web site and can't find it anywhere, does anyone here know what the URL is?
[USER2] You could try doing a Google search on php
On June 30, 2000 President Clinton signed the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act" (ESIGN) using his electronic signature ID, and thereby established the validity of electronic signatures for interstate and international commerce.In the fours year prior to this Act’s passage a dozen states had passed similar laws and guidance for state specific business purposes, and in the five years since the Act’s passing every other state has passed similar laws and legislation. What does it all mean, and in the end how can it benefit businesses, individuals and the nation or world as a wh
Forum Thread, Subject UFC in Canada on a Mixed Martial Arts site.
[USER1] Has anyone heard that the UFC might be holding an event in Canada?
[USER2] Yes, I heard that. In fact, I heard that George St Pierre will be on the card and it will be at the Bell Center.
[USER1] Thank you USER2, I can't wait to get my tickets.
[USER3] Actually, I heard that it's been canceled and George St Pierre is out with a knee injury.
So, you can see that the web master has gotten some valuable content with no work on his/her part. The users are able to ask questions and respond to them. Once the forum is set up initially and you've found a way to get traffic to your forum, it becomes a perpetual content machine, generating useful content for your web site and hopefully in the process some revenue based on some sort of ad or affiliate program, like Google Adsense or ClickBank.
Lets try out one more example Thread, this time from a software forum
[USER1] I'm trying to find a link to the phpBB web site and can't find it anywhere, does anyone here know what the URL is?
[USER2] You could try doing a Google search on phpB
Advertising gifts are those gifts that you hand out to potential clients and to future clients to keep your company’s name on the tip of their tongue and in the forefront of their minds. Mugs and mouse mats and other functional items are great for this purpose, as there is a good chance that your advertising gifts will be used again and again by customers and your name will be exposed to them constantly as well as to anyone that they come into contact with.Think carefully about these investments, though. Mugs can be replaced with gifts from other companies or from family members, pens can be lost
Forum Thread, Subject UFC in Canada on a Mixed Martial Arts site.
[USER1] Has anyone heard that the UFC might be holding an event in Canada?
[USER2] Yes, I heard that. In fact, I heard that George St Pierre will be on the card and it will be at the Bell Center.
[USER1] Thank you USER2, I can't wait to get my tickets.
[USER3] Actually, I heard that it's been canceled and George St Pierre is out with a knee injury.
So, you can see that the web master has gotten some valuable content with no work on his/her part. The users are able to ask questions and respond to them. Once the forum is set up initially and you've found a way to get traffic to your forum, it becomes a perpetual content machine, generating useful content for your web site and hopefully in the process some revenue based on some sort of ad or affiliate program, like Google Adsense or ClickBank.
Lets try out one more example Thread, this time from a software forum
[USER1] I'm trying to find a link to the phpBB web site and can't find it anywhere, does anyone here know what the URL is?
[USER2] You could try doing a Google search on php
While marketing and branding are alike in some ways, they are also sometimes mistaken as the same business action. This is not true, but definitely understandable on the two can be misconstrued as the same.There are several brand tools that can also fall into the marketing category. This is what makes the two concepts so closely related, but at the same time so much different. Brand tools can consist of several different components, all of which are useful. Brand tools such as positioning, or where to position a product, can be a very important and effective technique. These brand tools can als
[USER1] Thank you USER2, I can't wait to get my tickets.
[USER3] Actually, I heard that it's been canceled and George St Pierre is out with a knee injury.
So, you can see that the web master has gotten some valuable content with no work on his/her part. The users are able to ask questions and respond to them. Once the forum is set up initially and you've found a way to get traffic to your forum, it becomes a perpetual content machine, generating useful content for your web site and hopefully in the process some revenue based on some sort of ad or affiliate program, like Google Adsense or ClickBank.
Lets try out one more example Thread, this time from a software forum
[USER1] I'm trying to find a link to the phpBB web site and can't find it anywhere, does anyone here know what the URL is?
[USER2] You could try doing a Google search on php
Communication is the key to vendor relations. In your small business, you will be in need of many products and services. Unfortunately, not every company that provides these products and services will have their act together as much as you do. You, as a small businessperson, were able to carefully study each purchase because it was your money. You knew exactly when, where, how and at what price you were willing to partake in those purchases. Not all vendors you deal with will have such savvy folks working for them.Most business people, especially small business, owners are not as refined or effi
Lets try out one more example Thread, this time from a software forum
[USER1] I'm trying to find a link to the phpBB web site and can't find it anywhere, does anyone here know what the URL is?
[USER2] You could try doing a Google search on php
"The increasing availability of new information and communication technology is one of the key ingredients that make a high-involvement management approach possible. This capability, more than any other, makes it possible for individuals to become self-managing, to be involved in the business, and to control processes and operations..." — Edward Lawler III, The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement OrganizationShortly after Vanessa, our second daughter was born, my wife Heather was talking with six year old Chris, our only son, about how much she liked having a boy in the family. "If you
Lets try out one more example Thread, this time from a software forum
[USER1] I'm trying to find a link to the phpBB web site and can't find it anywhere, does anyone here know what the URL is?
[USER2] You could try doing a Google search on phpBB. It should be near the top of the search results.
[USER1] Thanks, USER2, how about a guide on how to install phpBB?
[USER2] Do a search on "Installing PhpBB On GoDaddy", or there is also a guide included in the package.
[USER1] Thanks again for the help! Once I get my forum up and running, I'll post the URL here for you to take a look at.
You can see how the interaction works. It's not always question and answer, a lot of the time, somebody will post some new information they discovered, or expereinces they've had (like on a travel forum).
There are two driving factors which make forums popular. The first is what drives the posters/question answerers, this is either fame or promotion. They either like seeing their name in lights, or they have a link to their web site in their signature (I allow this on my forums as long as they are posting useful information).
The driving force for the people reading the forums is the need for information. Computer forums are extremely popular in this area. People need help finding drivers, installing software, diagnosing problems. People want reviews of products one on one, by other users who don't have a vested interest in what the
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