Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Monday, June 24, 2013

100% conversion rate on your website visitors

Major television networks have been in control of what you watch, when you watch it and how often you watch the programs that interest you. With the social boom caused by web 2.0 including social networks and online movies and video, major television networks can no longer confine your mind to their broadcasts for entertainment.

Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail) hit the nail right on the head... In his book, he predicted that television's viewing audience will spend more time on the Internet than watching TV. This former viewing audience will entertain themselves by going to websites they are interested in (to do whatever is more interesting to them than watching TV). Chris predicted that people will spend their time more involved in their personal "long tail" interests.

This trend is bad news for the television networks!

The Internet offers television’s former viewing audience better entertainment because they can do, see and hear what they want and when they want. The big television networks no longer have a monopoly on the public’s entertainment and mind share.

To make matters worse... with the advent of DVR (digital video recorders) less and less people are watching television commercials (the lifeblood of the major TV networks). The average person with Internet access is spending 4 times longer online than watching TV. The effectiveness of television advertising is dwindling exponentially and to make matters worse, 90% of DVR owners are fast forwarding through television commercials!

The truth is, people hate commercials. We all know that sigh when you're intensely involved in your favourite TV show just to be distracted by 2 minutes of commercials. Most people have learned to ignore commercials, even if they are watching them!

All the big brand advertisers that you see on television are well aware of the fact that their advertising dollars are not as well invested in television ads as they once were. These major brands, including the BIG 8 in advertising, have been looking to the Internet as an alternate form of advertising for quite some time now.

For the first time in history thousands of people are going to share in revenue that was formerly paid to major television networks. Millions of dollars are going to be paid on a residual basis to a "core group" of marketing partners... No hype intended or implied!
PPP is a way for advertisers (Like Harley Davidson or Taco Bell) to serve a 5 second audio advertisement to website visitors. It is a way for advertisers to target their 5 second audio ad to specific interests, demographics and geographic locations.

Big TV's ad revenue is dwindling because PPP offers advertisers a more cost effective advertising solution that has been providing positive Return on Investment (ROI) for over 2 years. PPP offers advertisers a way to reach their target audience and is the only form of media whose impressions and ad placements are verified by an independent 3rd party.
PPP is not new, it has been running for 2 ½ years, has over 66,000 advertisers and over 550,000 websites that serve PPP ads to their visitors.

The 550,000+ websites that currently serve these ads are responsible for 43 million streams (impressions) of advertisers' 5 second audio ads on a monthly basis.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

CyberCart Pro Internet Commerce System 3.04 Installation Guide

The CyberCart Pro Internet Commerce System is a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts and Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) pages that enables the sale of goods through the World Wide Web.    Also referred to as a “shopping cart” script, as the experience is much like going shopping in a grocery store.  Customers browse through web pages with items for sale, and when they find something they wish to purchase, they indicate the quantity they would like, and push a button to add the item to their “shopping cart.”  One of the main functions of the script is to keep track of the items the customers adds to their shopping cart.  The script allows the customer to continue to browse through different web pages, adding items until they are ready to “check out.”

CyberCart will then total up their order, collect billing and shipping information, calculate shipping costs, calculate taxes and provide an invoice-like form for final approval.  On approval, both the merchant and the customer are sent (by email) a copy of the order.  The order is also stored on the server where the merchant can retrieve the order details through a secure web administration page.  An optional module also allows real-time credit card processing through Online Analysis’ SocketLink Internet Transaction Gateway.

CyberCart is a form-based system, meaning that the item catalog pages are written using standard HTML forms.  On submittal, a CGI script processes the forms.  This is in contrast to a cgi-based system, where the actual web pages are also generated from a database.  There are benefits and drawbacks to both types of scripts, but the form-based system was chosen for CyberCart to allow maximum flexibility of the web catalog pages.  A database module will soon be available that will allow database generation of CyberCart pages.

To maintain a customer’s session identification, CyberCart does use a “cookie.”  A cookie is a small file created by the web browser that is stored on the customer’s computer.  This means that customers must be using a “cookie capable” browser (such as Netscape 2.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 or greater) and not have cookies disabled.  Some people are concerned that cookies can be used nefariously to obtain and store personal or sensitive information.  The only thing stored in the cookie issued by CyberCart is a unique session identification number - no personal or user information is recorded.

CyberCart is designed for use by Internet Service Providers or web design consultants with an intermediate to advanced level of understand of both HTML and CGI scripts.    CyberCart  is written in Perl 5.003, but with the exception of the search function, will run on Perl 4.036.   Programming experience is not required, although it never hurts.

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