Monthly Archives: February 2013

Cars and Driving: What NOT to do When Negotiating a Car Sale

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If you are on the search for a new or second hand car and are a novice buyer, you may lack the negotiation skills necessary to purchase a prospected car at the best possible price. Unless you work in sales or have that natural gift for persuasive haggling, negotiations can become quite intimidating. It can also be quite awkward when you start speaking about price and the negotiations on the sale price commences. Generally you will inspect the car, take it for a drive and ask an abundance of questions relating to the car history and features. Once you are satisfied with all of that, you begin discussing the potential sale price. This is where you may need help, so here are 3 tips of what NOT to do when in the negotiation process.

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On Businesses: 5 Small Budget Marketing Tips for Start-Up Companies

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Are you planning to start your own business or do you already have your baby but you’re still struggling to penetrate the market and get your own fair share of customers? If that’s the case, here are some marketing strategies for start-up companies from marketing consultancy groups.

Make Your Company Website with a Blog – plus Product-Feature Videos

Your business will most likely die sooner or later if you don’t put it on the web. People spend most of the time online these days – and they shop and spend online too. If you want to tap the market, you have to make them feel your presence online. A lot of customers and clients also believe that reputable companies have websites so if you want to be deemed reliable and accessible, come up with a good business website. Having a blog along with that website can also help, as long as coming up with videos which showcase the efficiency of your services and the reliability of your products. Continue reading

Technology and Gadgets: iSample – a Step Forward in Kiosk Technology?

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At the border of 2011 and 2012, Kraft Foods teamed up with technology power house Intel to create and launch a vending machine. Now, there’s nothing particularly special in that, you might be thinking, but this was a new breed of vending, one which had evolved. It is a “smart” vending machine.

At the launch, it was only used to offer free trials of a new dessert to customers, but this is not its main draw: instead, it is its inbuilt ability to analyse the age and gender of the people who use the machine.

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Technology and Gadgets: Five Things That You Can Do with Your Old Gadgets

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How often do you upgrade your gadgets? Do you feel the need to always get the latest smart phones or mobile consoles, or the latest laptops with the best processors? What do you do with your old gadgets after you’ve upgraded? Here are some suggestions…

Hand it over

Give your old mobile phone or your old laptop to your younger brother or sister in school, or to your mom, dad, or your grandparents who happen to be technophobic and aren’t much interested in genius phones and super laptops. Handing down your used gadgets – especially if they are not that outdated – will surely make the new owners very happy – and they will stop asking you to give them new and more expensive items come their birthdays too. LOL.

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