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Advantages of Offshore Software Development:
Outsourcing is one of the best measures to stretch your budget
and still get the highest quality. You can get your project done
in time and that too of best technical standards. Outsourcing is
strongly driven by the economic value it adds to your...
Computer-Virus Writer's: A Few Bats In The Belfry?
"Male. Obsessed with computers. Lacking a girlfriend. Aged 14 to 34. Capable of creating chaos worldwide."
The above description is the profile of the average computer-virus writer, according to Jan Hruska, the chief executive of...
Instant Traffic Using Expired Domains
Every day thousands of domains 'expire' and are put back into the pool of available domains that anyone can register. They can be very valuable if you are looking for a quality domain for your online business, or if you want to re-sell them for...
Making the most of podcasting
Have you come across the term podcasting yet? If you haven’t you probably soon will. Steve Nichols explains all. Adam Curry, a former VJ for MTV, developed the concept of podcasting. He became intrigued with the idea of freeing internet radio and...
The Move to a New Anti-Virus Model
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting reasons why today’s anti-virus security solutions don’t work. Reason #1: the Basic Model Anti-virus software vendors still rely on yesterday’s methods for solving today’s problems: they wait...
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Small Business Web Shopping Cart Software: 7 Reasons Hosted Is Better
Why should you pay for a remotely hosted shopping cart for your
small business website, rather than just install a free
OpenSource shopping cart on your site?
There are a lot of reasons:
1) Focus. Your business is selling stuff, not installing and
managing a complicated script. You'll have enough issues running
a business that you won't be able to outsource to someone else
the way you can with a shopping cart script.
2) Price. Paid hosted shopping cart software's price is
inconsequential: $10-$100/month. If that's a significant expense
for your business, you need to look into improving your profit
margin.
3) Support. While support for "paid" business software is
included in the cheap price, support for "free" business
software is pretty expensive. OpenSource and other free software
come without any support except forums for do-it-yourself-ers to
share ideas. So, you'll end up paying someone to install and
maintain it. Or you do it yourself, which costs so much time
it's more expensive than paying someone if your time is worth
anything.
4) Installation. When you buy hosted software on a subscription
plan, installation is already done and support is included. When
you have
an issue-and have you ever had software that you didn't
have an issue with at least once?-you don't have to pay a
developer $150/hour to make it go away.
5) Security. Security issues are taken care of for you by the
provider-no patching software.
6) Speed. Hosted online shopping carts really do work now, out
of the box. You just input your inventory and go. OpenSource
shopping carts come with dozens of customization options that
will take you hours just to decide you don't need most of them.
7) Peace of mind. The shopping cart is the jugular vein of an
online business. If anything makes the blood stop flowing,
however minor the cause, you'll feel it fast. If you are the one
who has to make sure the blood stays flowing, or if you have to
rely on the availability of a freelance programmer, you won't be
getting the soundest sleep. Let a specialist do that worrying
for you, 24 hours a day.
About the author:
Joel Walsh is a business writer. Try EasyStoreCreator for an
easy hosted shopping
cart software http://www.easystorecreator.com
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