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A survey of business-to-business marketers indicated that the migration of communications budgets from traditional media to online has accelerated to the point where nearly half of all spending, 47 percent, is spent on online marketing techniques today. more…

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Articlefarms.com is completing 2 years. While looking for good reasons to celebrate about the achievements, there is plenty more to share using some good features that are already in place. The inspirations continue to discover new content, new ways to blog, & build more connected content.

Video Blogging remains a non-starter. With 5 video blogs, video post is my favorite.

Audio blogs are planned. Trial audio blogs are planned as a regular feature only after a successful trial with 3-5 audio posts and a feedback from members. The trials are planned for second week of December 2008.

Video & Audio comments are working, but no video or audio comments received so far.
So if you have a camera, try out a video/audio comment & Share your experience at the text comment box. The early audio posts will have both text and audio. So you can read or hear the text as and when you like.

Mobile blogging is really an option that is catching up. The Blogxygen experiments have just started and it will take a few months when Mobile blogging will become a part of Articlefarms.com. Integrating podcasting is also an option and is under active consideration. The first series of experiments were not very encouraging, so it may take some time before podcasting features are enabled.

Our joint venture with http://www.blogpico.com is working well with many members creating their own blog at blogpico.com. We are working with blogpico.com to create a blogging network for newbie online entrepreneurs for sharing their experiences on running a online business. Blogpico.com allows upto 100% share for Google adsense, if you plan to use your Adsense Publisher ID.

New features in the coming days will be:

Free banner for 3 days at http://www.dekut.com - if you see an unreserved 125×125 banner, just keep grabbing for 3 days till Dec 15, 2008.
Reserve 100 pixels and enjoy free promotion for 1 month.
Create a free blog at http://www.blogpico.com, insert your adsense publisher id. Start blogging.

The above free advertising resources are for newbies. If you have a running online business or need to take your online efforts to the next level - a promotion campaign at text-link-ads.com can bring traffic & improve your traffic rank. You can also participate in the publisher program to earn extra income from your blog.

In the coming days & in 2009, reviews & views will be on Technology for business,Business Finance, Stock Investments, Forex Investments & new promising business ventures & careers, IT for business efficiency, universities offering the modern courses & careers, business promotions, Occasional writings on personal health issues will continue.

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Every occasion that brings friends, family and relatives together for a party is a great time to enjoy. Of all the occasions, the children birthday party is always a winner for kids, moms & grandmoms.

And it requires nothing short of a family parliamentary session to democratically agree
to select the best gift for the birthday baby. At our last session, we decided on the mickey mouse figurine to be given to the 2 year old son of my niece. My choice of Mini Bucket Firehouse was rejected by 1 yes and 3 Nos. My wife and the 2 kids voted for mickey mouse figurine. Now whenever you need help selecting the right toy for any age group, go straight down the net highway to megabrands.com for a great range of toys for every age group of kids.
Whatever methodology you may adopt for selecting the birthday gift, it is worth constituting a family parliament to decide on the best birthday gift toy for the cradle babies or for the grownups.

It is sure a great fun as you have many choices at the online store and each session creates a challenge to get your choice voted in and be the winner. Remember in a democratic vote-in every body is a winner after the last vote count.

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Marketing and marketing media are changing with increasing focus on Customer, costs, convenience & communications.

Marketing started as a subject of marketing. Early marketing focussed mainly on distribution channels using advertising & personal selling as the main media for reaching customers. Distribution channels also played a big role in promoting the products.
Marketing was synonymous with selling.

As marketing concepts matured and widened to focus on 4Ps - Product, price, place & promotions were the prime factors for developing marketing campaigns & marketing strategies.

With the growth of internet and converging technologies, marketing is now focussing on 4Cs, Customer, costs, convenience & communications

As more informawtion is available about customer preferences, new ideas and concepts are shifting to strategic thinking, market segmentation, & positioning with target marketing.

The dynamics of marketing strategies is again undergoing a change, driven by new ideas, better value & service to the customer in global, b2b, b2c markets.

In the new scenaio, the share of the old media like TV, Radio & print media is seeing a decline as new medias of mobile marketing, video blogging, podcasting, on demand video is increasing. The new media popularity is mainly dependent on the customer Convenience where the customer can view content at the time of his choice and any palce he chooses.

In short, marketing is embracing the 4Cs in the new global market scenario and every business needs to understand the ground work that needs to be done to implement the new marketing strategies that involve one or more new media like mobile marketing, blog marketing, search engine marketing, podcasting & mobile internet content.

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Nature created diamonds and we need diamond polishers to uncover the beauty of diamonds.
Nature created land with beautiful landscpaes but we need land developers, architects, engineers & interior decorators to build a beautiful home or a beautiful office. The aesthetics of space gives life and business a midas touch that is very important for success in life and in business. It is ingrained in our nature to seek the most beautiful at any cost we can afford.

A new dimension has been added to space now. We all need a web space. We need web space for sharing our personal life and for business. An aesthetically designed web site is a must for any business. With the growth of instant interactivity provided by web2.0, it is important to find the best website hosting space from amongst thousand of offers available on the internet. As for the real house, we need web designers & graphic artists to develop a personal or business web site.

So if you are looking for the best web space that provides you speed, reliability and no down time, don’t waste your time on google.com or yahoo.com. Webhostinggeeks.com has done all the work that will help you find the best site with the right features, designing tools. And if you want a quick start with a low budget you may find excellent web template specially suited for your business segment.

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Globalization processes in the new global economies are sweeping industry, trade, education & business in every country on our planet. It brings great great opportunities, greater challenges and also brings vast responsibilities.

Victory of Barack Obama as the 44th Presidentof USA is an important milestone in the new democratic trends in emerging global economies. It is an opportunity without precedence and a new experience for internatinal trade. Every economy will need to adapt to the fast changes & new challenges with confidence, it will be very important to strike a balance between development, environment, industrial & economic growth.

The current economic recessionary trends are likely to be short term. Globalization of economy, industry, trade, marketing, education, travel in the new competitive world is creating new opportunities and this trend cannot be stopped. In fact these initiatives will accelerate and create bigger opportunities for companies offering efficient products & services. Energy issues may be a problem. Alternative energy industry is emerging as a new industry segment for the future markets worldwide. Great initiatives are already in place for alternative energy resources in USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan, China & India. Protecting the environment remains the most pressing problem and this problem will be only lessened by solutions offered by alternative energy technolog.

Today is also the second birthday of articlefarms.com. The blogging journey is a mix of experiments, success & failure. Many new initiatives are to be announced to make the blog more interesting, informative, participative and resourceful for members. Articlefarms.com aims to highlight new issues in the globalization of economy, finance, industry, trade, marketing, education using the features & resources that have benn put together in the last two years.

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“We are traders dealing in importing of submersible pumps & motors from La–Gajjar Machineries Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India under the brand name of “VARUNA” & we have found the performance & the quality to be supreme with very minimal service of the product. We have been dealing with many other brands, but the new addition of these motors & pumps under VARUNA brand added to our product range has yielded good response from the market & better commercial returns as well. The product has consistent reasonable power consumption, has specified longer life cycle & minimum maintenance.”

Submitted by a member using Members’ Desk’

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This post was submitted by a member using the `Member’s Desk` feature (under beta test). All views/reviews are auto-posted after approva. Reviews are either approved and auto posted at articlefarms.com. Current implementation of Member’s
Desk will run through November 5 to November 30, 2008. Using Member’s Desk is very simple and needs no training. Try it out for submitting your reviews of a product that you have used and want to share views with members & web community. The submission shares views on the quality of engineering supplies - Submersible Pumps..

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