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Personalize your wedding ring at Zales.com

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zales.jpg If you’ve never bought a diamond before and aren’t familiar with the variety of cuts, clarity and precious metal choices available, Zales.com Romantic Creations is a big help to you.

This site allows the customer to personalize and create unique wedding bands and engagement rings online with just a few mouse clicks.

“Buying a ring doesn’t have to be intimidating and complicated. At Zales.com, you can design the perfect ring in the comfort of your own home. Our site walks the customer easily through the entire process from start to finish,” said Steve Larkin of Zales.com.

Once your ring is customized, a final price will be displayed. If you go over your budget, Zales.com will offer suggestions on how to lower the cost, whether it’s changing the metal type and/or changing the characteristics of the diamond.

Indeed, customization is the next big thing regardless of business you’re in. This reminds me of a consumer trend coined by Faith Popcorn called EGOnomics. In her book entitled Clicking, the essence of EGOnomics is this: “Feeling unconnected in the depersonalized Information Age, consumers are drawn to customized, individualized, products and services.” In case you have an online business, you may want to explore this concept.

Originally posted on September 13, 2007 @ 8:02 am

Pronto.com adds “social shopping” features

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pronto.jpgPronto.com, the Web’s most comprehensive social shopping engine selling 70 million products from over 65,000 online merchants, announced that it is the first comparison shopping site to enter the “social shopping” space with the launch of new community features that allow users to rate products, interact with other users, write reviews and gain insight from trusted peers and other like-minded shoppers.

“Traditional comparison shopping engines provide advice on WHERE to buy products, but do little to help users decide WHAT to buy. At the same time, existing social shopping sites fall short by relying on users to gather products from across the web for them — which dramatically reduces the number of products available to the community,” says Dan Marriott, CEO of Pronto.com.

According to comScore, Pronto.com is changing the online shopping model by becoming the first to fuse comparison shopping with a full range of social features to help people make smarter buying decisions.

Originally posted on September 11, 2007 @ 9:20 am

Buy.com launches Garage Sale

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buycom1.jpgBuy.com today launched its Garage Sale service on Facebook. It allows members to post and sell items on their profile pages. Buy.com is charging 5 percent commission for items sold.

“In essence, we’re empowering the social networking sites in some fashion to compete with eBay, but we’re processing the transactions behind that,” Buy.com Chief Executive Neel Grover said.

Grover envisions the service benefiting social networking sites by encouraging users to spend more time looking at profiles, and aiding consumers by allowing them to sell things without hopping over to eBay.

Eventually, users should be able to search for items up for sale on Buy.com and get alerts about what their friends are selling.

Originally posted on August 7, 2007 @ 10:29 am

10 Shopping Apps Worth Using at the Grocery Store

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Grocery shopping is no mean task. Most women, however, including moms can be considered pros in this aspect. With patience and some budgeting skills, they can easily accomplish their task without much stress.

These days, men and women who want to do grocery shopping in a shorter period than usual can get help using technology. Thanks to mobile apps, making a list as well as saving money and checking out what’s available at the store can be done easily. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 16, 2016 @ 11:24 am

How To Turn Your Arts And Crafts Into A Business

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It is completely possible to turn your hobby into a business, even if your hobby revolves around arts and crafts. Once you turn a hobby into a lucrative business though, it’s important to remember that it may not be as fun as it once was.

You will be turning something fun and stress relieving into a job that requires focus and will sometimes actually cause you stress. However, don’t let that keep you from chasing your dreams if you really want to turn your creative endeavors into a job.

Come Up With A Business Plan

You want to know what you are getting into and have a plan together of what you want to accomplish. Start out by not quitting your day job until you actually have some income coming in from your new business. Then start making a list of what you want to make, how much you need to make, and where you plan to sell. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 28, 2015 @ 1:33 am