My Shopping Genie Review
Recently the second version of My Shopping Genie resurfaced and that is what prompted us to write this My Shopping Genie Review. The review will consist of two part, the actual shopping tool itself and the business opportunity.
Lets start with the tool itself. The Shopping Genie initially launched about two years ago primarily as an ebay companion. The new offering called My Shopping Genie 4.0 is actually a lot more than that. I am typically pretty skeptical about products attached to network marketing companies but this was actually pretty cool. First off, its not a toolbar which is nice, its just basically an application that shows up when you are searching for things in your favorite search engine. It will automatically scour the internet and all the major shopping sites and a lot of smaller ones to find you the best deal. You simply scroll through the results and choose the one you want, pretty simple. As soon as you leave the search engine results pages, its gone.
So needless to say I was impressed with what they have done to revamp the tool itself, but what about the business side of things. Well, what initially started out as what I would call a subpar network marketing company has actually taken shape and grown as well. They have some powerful new elements to the program and from what I hear leadership as well, which goes a long way.
The new pay plan is a binary with all the fun stuff like bonus sharing pools and fast start bonuses, but all that pales in comparison to the coolest thing I have seen in a network marketing company is a long time. It’s a direct 50/50% revenue share on the click revenue generated from the genies themselves.
Let me explain, the genie itself generates click revenue when people are shopping and a fair amount of it at that. So what the company has done is code each genie that you give away for free and will split the money with you. That’s pretty cool, because it’s a free giveaway for you and it generates revenue, so kind of a no brainer.
All in all, I think My Shopping Genie has done a really good job revamping their overall product offering, commission structure and corporate image, I would feel confident referring people to this opportunity.
As with any network marketing company if you do decide to join, make sure you do so with a leader who has a good track record of creating success and duplication, so do your research! Enjoy and good luck out there
What Do People Dislike About Online Shopping
What Do People Dislike About Online Shopping?
In an industry where double-digit growth has previously been the norm, it would seem
hard to imagine finding much dissatisfaction amongst its consumers. Online shopping,
one would gather, offers benefits that would attract anyone who has a computer with
access to an internet connection. Although not everyone has that access (in the
United States over 50% of the US population is now connected to the Internet), those
that do are not 100% convinced that online shopping is the way to go.
In finding out about the why, what and how of online shopping, you may be surprised by
why people shop online, what they dislike about shopping online, and how online shopping
might change to continue growing in the future as it has in the past.
Online buyers are shifting a greater share of their purchases from the traditional brick and
mortar stores to the web in search of more convenience, cost savings, and broader product
selection. These three “whys” of online shopping were found to be consistent throughout
the research for this article. According to an October 2008 report by Forrester Research,
in a survey of 1000 adult online buyers, 48% expect to find the best values online (that’s
up from 41% in 2007). In a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled
“Online Shopping:Convenient but Risky”, the whys were similar. Of the people surveyed
for the report, 78% stated convenience while another 68% cited saving time as the reasons
for shopping online.
Further evidence of the reasons why people shop online was reported in June 2008 by
ERetail in their “Top 100 Online Retail Index” . The major factors for shopping online were
financial(26%), gas prices(16%) and the economic outlook(14%). Additionally, 34% of those
surveyed said they planned on spending more money shopping online. If financial and the
economic outlook are about savings, then gas prices (not driving to the store?) is about
savings and convenience. And of those planning to spend 34% more, they probably have
found out about the broad product selection.
If the “whys” of people shopping online seemed consistent, then so will the “whats” of things
that people dislike. It’s not surprising that in an industry with such dramatic growth (more on
that later), technology glitches and process management have combined to create some
dissatisfaction. That those same areas of dissatisfaction are consistent tells us that those
areas can be improved if not totally eliminated.
In a Nielsen Consumer Report/Global Survey conducted in February 2008, the top security
concerns regarding online shopping were reported. The first concern was not receiving the
item(s) purchased or receiving different item(s) than what was purchased. The second
security concern was that personal information would be sold to a third party. Lastly, the third
concern was financial information being stolen. Referring back to the Pew Project, it was
reported that 75% of those surveyed were concerned about both financial and personal
information being secure. The other area of concern was regarding the amount or the way
which online shopping information was presented, with 58% stating they found that information
to be overwhelming. The Privacy Rights Clearing House, a report titled “Online Shopping Tips:
Ecommerce and You” cited the number one concern of online shoppers as a combination of
Pew research piece. Those online shoppers in the Privacy Rights piece declared that not only
should the payment and product process be secure, but that both the financial and purchase
information be simplified, not in any way overwhelming.
If Ecommerce growth will be fueled to some degree by increased spending of current online
buyers, then attracting new online shoppers seems to be a key factor in the equation of
continued growth. However, although online shoppers agree to the benefits (convenience,
savings, selection), most also agree on the detractions (financial and personal information
security, the purchase process). Let’s take a look at some of the numbers to see how change
could affect growth.
If we look back at the Forrester Research report of October 2008, we find some of those
interesting numbers. Forty-seven percent of online shoppers plan to spend the same amount
in the next twelve months. Further stated, 27% plan to spend more and 26% plan to spend
less money. By my math, that adds up to basically flat growth. The US Department of
Commerce projects the 2008 growth for online shopping to be about 7% (the DOC tracked the
industry’s growth rate at 20% plus since 1999). Additionally, eMarketer reports the 2008 holiday
season (November & December) grew at about 10%. Combining the DOC and eMarketer
findings, we do see some growth but not at near the double-digit rates of years past.
So what’s an industry to do? Referring again to Pew finds an interesting analysis. Pew
measured the combined effect of making non-online shoppers comfortable with some of the
hesitancy of shopping online. The data gathered reflected financial/personal information, the
purchase process, along with the previous “whys” regarding savings, convenience and
selection. Improving the confidence of non-online shoppers in these areas could have an overall
impact of as much as 12% growth. If you consider that some of the drop-off in growth may be
due in part to economic concerns around the world, then sustained ecommerce growth seems
very much a potential outcome.
In closing, because online shopping is such a dynamic industry, the technical and processing
aspects will only continue to improve. As those two areas seem to be at the root of any
dissatisfaction with online shopping, those improvements are probably in place and taking
affect. Making online shopping a better experience benefits all of us –
those who provide it and those who use it.
Jackie Caggz
NeverPayFullPrice Online Shopping
Online Shopping Store – Is It Really Cheaper
With Internet and World Wide Web, most buyers now prefer to go for online shopping. But is online shopping really cheaper?
Shopping at online shopping store is usually most convenient for any buyer but when it comes to saving money, they have to take care of certain aspects like savings code, deals that are currently available, discount offers, and free shipping offers. When all these are taken care of, the shopping online could be really cheaper than shopping offline.
Difference in Deals
Some reasons why the online shopping could come out cheaper are as follows.
Dealers do not always offer identical deals in brick and mortar stores and online stores;
Since they expect to hook more number of customers online, and as the competition is much more intense there, they often come up with various discount offers, attractive prizes, and also free shipping offers online;
For instance; a buyer may have to pay different prices while buying books from the highway shops or Buy Books Online because of such difference in deals; and
Online buying always offers much greater scope and flexibility for the buyers as they have numerous options available with thousands of stores operating online.
How Online Stores Manage Lower Price?
One of the questions that buyers might have in the back of their mind is how the online stores often manage with much lower prices of the same commodity that costs dearer in brick and concrete stores.
For instance; when you buy movie online, it is much cheaper than buying them in the brick and concrete stores;
The reason for this is that in the online stores, the establishment cost and overhead is too little compared to the brick and concrete stores that has to deal with room rent, electricity, payroll, shrinkage loss, and such others that contribute to enhancing the rate of the products and services offered; and
Online retailers can meet the identical requirements of the customers with much less operational expenses and that helps them cut down the cost of products or services offered by them.
Online Shopping Advantages
Online shops are great resources for finding products that have already been liquidated. This practice also results in large savings for the customers that do not find any requirement to purchase the high priced latest products and manage with their older yet effective versions. Usually, the online shopping process is streamlined making it interactive through automatic response to questions as well as follow up. An advantage is the huge information the customer receives before settling for some products like to buy music CDs online that helps them make their choice.
Online stores are usually managed by skilled and professional people and the customers’ services are prompt and often better compared to those offered by brick and mortar stores, often limited in scope due to various reasons including geographical and cost barriers.
Ashok Kumar is a professional writer, presently writing for Video & DVD Genre books and House & Home books
[Top]Interpretation Of Online Shopping For Your Advantage
The reason why online shopping in full swing, in addition to promoting the development of a variety of objective circumstances beyond their own consumption patterns and the charm of this is inseparable. The reality of the traditional consumption patterns than to go shopping, it has many tempting advantages and characteristics, so that consumers have to look askance.
1Compare products more intuitive
There is a saying “shop around, preferred to buy” in online shopping we can open multiple pages, browse multiple stores in the same class / price items, functions and distribution methods were introduced various comparison.ugg boots
In real life, we will need to compare the same site to more than a commodity business, take a look at the things Which is more cheap, do not say the extra mile, but also a number of test samples added to the embarrassment of not buying.
2Convenient way to gift
In real life, if you want to give gifts to distant friends, relatives, customers, etc., need to buy goods, and then packaging, mailing went out, the whole process is very cumbersome. And if by way of online shopping, you can simplify this step, by providing one-stop e-commerce sites directly to the other hand, is very convenient.
3Have more options
We know the business from the dry physical store space is limited, and there is no shop on the network space limitations. Thus, in principle, the network stores the types of goods can be sold much more than physical stores. In this way, consumers will have more options. Especially for consumers, the relatively underdeveloped areas, are available to residents of other developed cities, like the range of goods to buy.
4A wider
Internet without geographical, national boundaries, making the online shop not only limit the scope of services in a fixed area. Users regardless of where can buy goods around the world. Especially through the online store to find what you want to buy but the local shops in the entity is not difficult to find or basic commodities, which complement the traditional way of selling product shortages in different regions or weakness.
5Save shopping time
Because homes can be purchased online shopping to the desired product, thus greatly save shopping time, if in real life is far from the shopping areas also eliminates the trouble of commuting. Thus, this way of online transactions daily to work for the family is particularly busy for Office, even if no time for shopping and other reasons to work overtime, moncler jackets the gap can also use a little work to complete the purchase of goods.
6Cost savings of shopping online
shop simplifies the manufacturer to the retailers by the middle link, saving the entity to pay the rent premises sales, labor costs, business utilities, inventory, fees and other charges, thus making the additional cost of goods sold less not even, to varying degrees, are generally priced below the market retail price. For example, the denomination of 50 yuan or 100 yuan mobile phone recharge cards, discount purchase online generally. It can be said in the traditional shopping malls, general rate of profit to reach 20% or more, it may be profitable vendors; and for online stores, its 10% profit margins in the seller can profit. Moreover, it can save arrival of goods sold out of traffic areas, parking, time and other related costs. In addition, online shopping through the relevant price ratio can be very fast search function to find the most affordable of the seller, unlike shopping in reality have one by one inquiry, more.
7Shopping fatigue remove
General non commodity shopping home delivery service is not available and therefore often are large shopping bags each time to a rewarding experience, which could make the shopping process is very tired, even if the hosting package can be very troublesome. The online shopping consumers can choose the appropriate delivery of goods means, enjoy home delivery services.
[Top]Splurge in Shopping on Your South India Tours
Every traveler’s dream destination, southern part of India is one place blessed with angelic beauty and cultural elegance; the place oozes out spirituality with its quaint environs. Tours to South India brings enormous opportunity to study the region’s legendary culture and engulf tranquility that encapsulates its surroundings. On South India tours visitors are mesmerized by its awe-inspiring beauty and thus desires to take back a piece of this paradise with them. A shopping spree in the region is thus an ideal way to go about it and one has amplitude of options to pursue this euphoric zeal. Silk saris, jewelry to all kinds of handcrafted decorative objects one can get a whole range of interesting souvenirs to be taken back home. The rich cultural heritage and history of legendary empires, have bestowed its riches to South India and its artistic brilliance radiates in its exquisite handicrafts. While on South India tours one must splurge in shopping spree for a memorable touring experience. The famous shopping destinations and their specialties are:
Tamil Nadu: World-renowned for handicrafts, Tamil Nadu is where one can shop for exquisite Kanchipuram Silk Saree. These saris are renowned for their graceful design, weaving and fabulous quality of silk used. The glamour silk saris from Kanchipuram have never faded for its elegance and color pattern continues to steal hearts. Chennai and Coimbatore also produces a wide range of silk saris and Khadi garments. An idol of Nataraja (the cosmic dancer form of Lord Shiva) and ancient paintings can be bought from antique shops at Tanjavur. For stone statues one should head towards Mahabalipuram.
Kerala: Kerala has its own treasure of beauty and antiquity for shopaholics enjoying their South India tours. The bazaars in this pretty hamlet are laden with high quality wooden objects, flawlessly designed metal idols of deities, and intricately designed silver and gold jewelry, sandalwood items, beauteous lamps and much more. The best buys from the state can be wooden elephant donning colorful attire, exquisite floral vases carved out of coconut shells, Kathakali dolls, coir carpets, Kathakali masks and bamboo mat paintings and more.
Karnataka: Karnataka’s range of shopping options is equally wide. Once in the state one can stock a whole range of amazing silk and cotton fabrics. There is more to shopping spree in Karnataka, as you venture more inside you will be amazed by intricate carvings on wooden objects, metal ware, beauteous pendants, stone statues of gods and goddesses, stunning paintings and jewelry.
Pondicherry: Buy authentic perfumed candles, handmade paper, pottery, jam, pickles and even leather ware from bazaars in Pondicherry. This Union Territory of the country is crowded by inhabitants mainly clad in renowned graceful Khadi clothing you can pick some for yourself from famous Aurobindo Ashram Factory and Sunday Market in the region. On your South India tours indulge in your favorite hobby and bring back lots of mementos at cheap prices. The Government owned Emporiums are always the best places to shop for they offer most authentic objects reasonably priced.
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