Sunday, January 16, 2011

Choosing the name

Opening a new business is a process filled with difficulties and happy moments. The business idea should be unique and “money making”. Building everything from the scratch includes also building the business logo. If the business you are building is a small one or a local one, then the logo is just a thing you have to do but not the most important. I have never seen a small business grow up from it’s nice build logo, but on the other hand i have seen businesses grown up from their support for the customer ant their serious of doing business.
Having an online business, and i mean only an online business or just a business that rely mostly on the online service is another matter. For the online business you have to be careful when choosing the logo and most important when you will do the design of the web page and when you will choose the URL. Your business will be your .com URL.
The most important key factors of having a successful URL are:
Having a unique URL and a short one.
The URL should be simple to be remembered.
It has to be simple to spell out and something catchy , something that you can not forget easily.
You can not have a store at the most visited avenue (yes you can have it if you pay very high price for the rent), but you can have a nice and easy to remember URL if you pay more attention when you choose one and for the cost of $10.

Pay attention when you choose the URL. Do not just let the web designer choose one for you, but be involved and be open to the proposed ideas. Use a keyword of your online business, a simple one for the name of your URL and then watch your business grow up with you.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Laptop shopping recommandations

Buying a laptop t is always a difficult task. A laptop is a handy PC that can be used and transported with facility almost everywhere. The people who want to buy such machines at first need to find on the laptop the replacement of their desktop monster. That is the first bottleneck that makes choosing a laptop difficult. To point as firs, a laptop can not overcome a PC performance, (without spending big amount of money and at the same time having big machines that are everything else but a laptop).
Now the end user may choose and design how he wish the preferred toy, by ordering it online. Customizing a laptop is not as easy as it sounds. You have to find the right parameters that fulfill the request of having a laptop. Now days we have many different type of CPU speeds and CPU brands. Understanding the CPU speed and performance is a tech geek issue. Scaling them up form pentium3 pentium4 dual core , celeron, centrino, core 2 duo , quad core etc is not the only solution. It is possible that a Core 2 duo processor clocked higher can be better in performance than a quad core clocked lower. Reviewing carefully on the internet, reading on the forums and posting is a good solution for having information fast and the right one.
Than you have to specify the ram, graphic card, screen, etc etc etc. Is an endless of additional Gadgets out there.
As a conclusion when choosing a laptop keep this in mind:
1. Choose light weight laptop (You need portability, that's the main reason of having a laptop, other way go and buy a PC).
2. Review the specs on the internet and ask about them on forums (Yahoo answers is a good place too).
3. Choose always within your budget limit , but be open to opportunities like a little more money for more performance or a lot less money for little drop in performance.
4. Buy from trusted sellers.
5. The most important: Come and read my other posts with the new laptop.