March 9th, 2010
One of the great things about the Internet is that it provides a great marketplace where traders and customers can meet. And it’s really effective at providing a steady stream of custom for niche markets that wouldn’t survive otherwise. If you deal with specialised products, like Wordpress themes or gold coins, you wouldn’t survive unless you had a way to tap into a steady stream of customers. And one such market is industrial valves.
Valves Suppliers UK is a company that specialises in industrial values, a pretty specialised market where customers number in the thousands rather than in the millions. They sell products like the Stainless Steel Dual Plate Wafer Check Valve that retails for around £500. You won’t be buying one of those every day, won’t you? Anyway, the Internet lets them get in touch with customers all around the globe, offering their products to any potential customers regardless of where they are in the world. They also have a selection of technical documents on the website and a user forum that helps them prove their authority in the field.
Any other niches you can find online?
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March 7th, 2010
It’s interesting to see how new products evolve, sometimes out of innovation, sometimes out of a gap in the market. It’s particularly interesting when the gap in the market is artificial, created by legislation that couldn’t even have been conceived a few years earlier. Take for example, the e cigarette market. It’s highly unlikely that unless legislation was created that stopped people from smoking indoors, this market would never have really materialised. Instead today, the market is booming and new products keep getting developed all the time to extend it.
I’ve never really seen one of these, but I’m curious to think what a real smoker thinks of them. Are the adequate in times of need, or are they just a fad?
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March 7th, 2010
There’s a new version of the WordPress application for Android. Here are the improvements on the previous version:
- Support for https (including self-signed certs)
- Connection issue fixes for self-hosted WordPress sites
- Fix for local drafts not showing if the user had no posts/pages
- UI tweaks including a new loading bar in the tab view
- Better support for WordPress MU blogs
- Automatic detection of xmlrpc.php w/ fallback to manual prompt
You’ll find the QR code for the application in this post. Just point your phone barcode scanner at the application and your Android phone will download it for you.
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March 5th, 2010
I’ve been using my laptop bag for a couple of years now, and since I got my laptop I’ve been adding more and more kit. I now carry a couple of PCMCIA cards, a webcam, a headset, a portable hard disk and a few other pieces. My laptop bag is busting at the seams, can you recommend a more spacious one?
There are a variety of laptop bag on the market, all you have to do is walk into a computer outlet or fire up your browser and have a look around and you can find tens of different ones. You can get them in all shapes and sizes, but I did come across one on sale from Buy.com that looks like it could take all your bits and pieces and then some.
It’s the Kensington 15″ SaddleBag Pro Notebook Carrying Case and currently retails for under $30. It has one great feature which I think you’ll like, check out the photo below:
Yup, it has a drawer that sites at the bottom of the case letting you store all your cables, peripherals and other bits and pieces in case you ever need them. The comments on the site look pretty positive, most people saying it’s light and rugged, so I think you might like this one.
Check it ou
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March 5th, 2010
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Mavenlink. All opinions are 100% mine.
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