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Shop online and new businessCloud Computing Solutions e-commerce are the main drivers of online business among SMEs in traditional trade, and for managing an online store easily without computer skills and web design.

The data, obtained from a sample of over 2,500 companies, shows that SMEs dealing in Fashion & Accessories (14.73%) are the best are leveraging online sales channels, followed closely by the Food and farther from the Computer, Audio & Video, Sports, Beauty and Gifts.

As for place of origin, most businesses that market their products and services via the Internet come from Catalonia (23.13%) and Madrid (22.64%). Followed by Valencia and Andalusia. By contrast, companies located in Cantabria, Asturias and Extremadura are the least represented are for sale online in comparison with the rest of Spain.

26% of companies with fewer than ten employees have a website and a quarter and sell online, allowing them to find new avenues of Internet access to customers and potential customers to deal with the fall in consumption, which according to sector is around 7%.

In addition to electronic commerce, Spanish companies use the Internet to display their product catalogs and price lists or strengthen their customer service, allowing them to also increase their transactions off line due to the influence of the Internet in the habits of consumers. Currently, it is estimated that one in every two purchases is influenced by online information searches.

Preventing financial fraud internetHelping to claim an inheritance, a lottery win, businesses or new investment billionaires are some of the hooks.

The Financial Supervisory Authority issued a warning voice on a wave of fake messages that is coming through e-mails, in which prizes are announced there are apparent to users, but that really only looking for gullible people committing fraud .

The watchdog called attention especially while four messages are appearing on the Web, which offer lucrative prizes through various modalities.

The text of the first false message refers to an alleged heritage and invites recipients to make a business in which the sender undertakes to recognize 20 percent of 2’100 .000 U.S. dollars (420,000 dollars, about 840 million pesos ), the sum of which claims to be heir and is deposited in the Bank Ivory Coast.

In return, the person concerned must provide a bank account to transfer money, to serve as custodian of funds, an arrangement so that the sender can continue their studies and eventually provide an investment plan for those funds.

The second message refers to an alleged lottery prize and is transmitted by a suspected bank located in London. The agency informs the recipient that he won a lottery prize by $ 900,000 (1,800 million pesos). He warns that to deliver the money required initially sending through mail, documents and copy of passport, driving license, permanent residence, among others.

Once this procedure, you must go to a particular office to be officially identified, sign the documents and hire an attorney to represent them, among other requirements. Read the rest of this entry »

Utilizing the Internet to sell“The great digital gondola.” So called Google on the Internet and its potential for businesses to have more sales, through the virtual network. For this company, Peruvian consumers have changed their shopping habits largely influenced by the Internet.

Thanks to the environment ‘on line’; today millions of Peruvians research a product online before making a consumption decision. However, Peruvian businesses are not yet realizing the full potential that the platform offers.

Gianfranco Ploesti, general manager of Google Peru, noted that currently 1.5 million searches conducted on electronic products, but only 5% have a related announcement. “Every search is of someone saying ‘I want to know something about a particular product,’ and those who do not take advantage of losing money,” said the executive.

To search the Internet. Google said that customers come to the Internet to research prices, features and availability of products and services. Thus, the network becomes a huge digital display or shelf.

In this context, audiovisual content emerge as the star: 72% of consumers watch videos online here on products that analyze buying. Another interesting fact is identified by Net pop Research that 99% of people entering the Internet to research products using the Google search engine. For its part, YouTube is globally the second largest search engine.

Also, ads on the Internet are used more than the TV to make purchasing decisions, and determine consumers taking action. 79% of respondents stated that online advertising helps them find stores that sell the product (79%), to encourage a visit to a local (70%) and buy the product (49%).