Online shopping/selling advice

articles by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, www.samizdat.com

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Articles about online shopping/selling

• Web site suggestions for bed and breakfasts
• "Google it" -- word of mouth makes household words
• Sailing into the wind -- real-time marketing navigation on the Web, Part 1 -- Price changes
• "How to make money on the Web -- hypothetical example from the car rental business"
• Build a store at Yahoo
• Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
• Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
• Thoughts about 3D on the Web
• Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions
• Online shopping lessons from the holidays
• What's all the fuss? Putting online credit card security into perspective.
• Shopping for gifts: help in buying things you'd never buy for yourself
• The right stores for extraordinary gifts: personal favorites and advice
• Shopping for what you wish money could buy: health, fitness, and beauty, Part One: Coping with illness
• Shopping for what you wish money could buy: health, fitness, and beauty, Part Two: Wellness -- exercise, diet, and nutrition to get in shape, feel better, live longer, and look better
• Looking good no matter how you feel -- Shopping for cosmetics
• Buying prescription medicines online
• Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch
• Coping with income tax and financial aid in 2002
• Web-based relief for tax-time headaches
• Shopping for a summer vacation: when you want to buy a dream
• Buying tickets for live events -- What to do when you absolutely, positively want to be scalped

• IntroductionWhy shop Online?
•  Part One covers aspects of online shopping that apply no matter what you want to buy.
• Chapter One covers the basics -- how to find your way to the online stores you want by way of the paths that others have laid out for you.
• Chapter Two provides the information you need to become an independent shopper, using search engines and price-comparison sites, and auctions.
• Chapter Three gives you pointers on advanced techniques, which can help you become a creative shopper -- sharing experiences with and getting advice from other shoppers, and becoming a full member of the online community.
• Part 2 covers special cases, where there are major differences in how you shop based on the kinds of things you are looking for:
• Chapter Four -- books, music, and videotapes
• Chapter Five -- computers and software
• Chapter Six -- travel
• Chapter Seven -- food
• Chapter Eight -- money, including loans, insurance, and investments
• Chapter Nine -- cars
• Chapter Ten -- real estate, including houses, apartments, and roommates
• More shopping ideas and resources (the appendices)
• Bio of the author and why he wrote this book
• Acknowledgements and thank you's

• Part 1: General
• Part 2: Categories -- cars, books, music, videos, real estate
• Part 3: Categories -- money, groceries, computers and software, travel
• Part 4: (under construction) Categories -- Health, gifts, collectibles, live entertainment, toys, clothing, education, furniture

• Online Shopping
• Best Web Stores (details on how to get the most out of Amazon, eToys, Barnes and Noble, SmarterKids, FogDog, Reel.com, Outpost, Bluefly, etown, 1-800-Flowers, and CDNow)

• Virtual worlds and 3D shopping/advertising February 17, 2000 See related articles Internet-on-a-Disk #34 and www.samizdat.com/3d.html
• Online shopping, lessons from the holidays January 6, 2000
• Shopping on the Internet November 12, 1998, November 19, 1998

Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions

My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities by Richard Seltzer, on CD, includes four books, 162 articles, and 49 newsletter issues that will inspire you and provide the practical information you need to build your own personal Web site or Internet-based business, helping you to become a player in this new business environment.

Web Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs, and professionals by Richard Seltzer (Wiley, 2002). No-nonsense guide targets activities that anyone can perform to achieve online business success. Reviews.

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