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IT Companies capital stuck in PayPal Payment Issue
Dollar payments by thousands of small and medium Indian businesses have been stuck over the last three weeks, after US online payments company PayPal suspended payment transaction to and from India over regulatory issues. PayPal’s move followed questions from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) about whether the US firm complies with laws on cross-border money transfers. Over 7,000 complaints, from customers who are unable to trace their money, have flooded internet portals and blogs.
On January 28 this year, the RBI clamped down on PayPal for carrying out interbank money transfers without a requisite licence. PayPal, which manages over 190 million accounts in 194 countries, responded by suspending monetary transfers to and from India, a move that has affected 30,000-40,000 businesses and individuals. Even as the outage is likely to continue in March, PayPal India officials were inaccessible for comment. Neither Farhad Irani, PayPal’s Asia Pacific head, responded to an e-mailed questionnaire nor eBay India’s spokesperson.
Meanwhile, small businesses are bearing the brunt of the impasse. Mahendra Sharma, chief executive of IT companies in India, a Web solutions company, had requested withdrawal of $6,500 made to a US client via his PayPal account. “I assume it is nowhere in the system, because till date, I am unable to trace it; it is neither in my PayPal account nor in my bank. PayPal simply apologises for the inconvenience and says that it is ‘working on it’, but has no clear explanation to offer,” Sharma fumed. PayPal users were first told on February 3 that the portal was in the process of upgrading its systems.
Krithika, a director with Chennai-based website design firm Anis Info Web, is yet to trace her $2,000, transacted to a US client on February 1. “They promised to reverse the money to my bank account which they didn’t. It’s not there in the PayPal account either. There is no clear time window on when I will get to know the fate of my money.”
PayPal has become the standard mode for making payments and withdrawals to many Indian SMBs and freelance programmers, bypassing the high processing fees of conventional banking channels. Companies noted that banks typically charge between $40-$50 as transfer fees per $1,000 transacted. Making a snappy money transfer via credit card on PayPal was viewed as a cheaper and better option.
According to users of PayPal, while the portal does not have investment bank status, it has been performing the functions of an investment bank. “If they did not have the RBI approval for conducting bank-to-bank transfers, why did they start money transfer operations? In the event of them going ahead with processing business transactions and charging fees for the same, RBI should have stopped them early on. Too many transactions are blocked, with absolutely no clarity on payment and withdrawal status,” said the CEO of a trading company, who finds himself unable to access the $15,000 which he sent via PayPal earlier this month.
Defining himself as a “creditor” in a purely legal sense, the CEO said that PayPal users are likely to form pressure groups to press their case with the RBI. “We are unable to understand PayPal’s reticence and lack of transparency with customers.”
Saurabh Bhandari, CEO of Indore-based Flair Solutions, said, “My money with them is untraceable at present, and my complaints are still unresolved. Practically anybody in India who does business with small clients in the US have been using PayPal because they trust them. But this trust is disappearing.”
“We are working on a consensus among affected users and exploring legal options, if the status of the money remains unclarified by PayPal,” added Sharma, who has written to the RBI’s Mumbai branch for a clarification on the issue.
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Blog Marketing Plan for Instant Traffic
Getting traffic to your blog is quite difficult. But here are the few tips that help you get good targeted traffic for your blog just within a short span. This will also help you earn from your blog.
Starting a blog, writing something for it and posting on it, is quite easy. But getting traffic to your blog and earning from it is quite tricky and needs your patience. So to earn quick just apply these tips and get the potential traffic just within a short time.
Here are the ways just get going…
Submit your blog RSS feed to RSS directories
The most effective and the easiest way is submitting your blog RSS feed to RSS directories as this will gain followers on your RSS feeds as well as clickthroughs. It also creates instant back links. Hundreds of blog feed directories allow to submit your blogs for free.
Comment on other people’s blogs
It is always a nice thing to leave comments on other people’s blog posts. It will help you increase traffic to your blog. Never leave a spamming comment but always leave a good comment. This will create a positive impact. Also be careful that you do not copy other’s comment and paste it this can irritate the blogger or take it as spam and may delete your comment. It is better to read the blog and post a good comment so that you can get enough backlinks.
Submit to directories
Another good way to get direct targeted traffic is to submit your blog to directories this will get you good traffic and backlinks. You will find many free directories that allow free submissions. But while submitting your blog it is necessary that you select the right category otherwise you will not get the targeted traffic to your blog. Usually these directories require link back to their site for listing your blog on their site. But, in return, these sites help you get more traffic quite easily.
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Get Business Leads through Corporate Blogging
If you are looking for an effective and low-cost marketing tool to help your business reach new horizon then just go blogging. Creating blog for your company can help you gain more than your competitors.
It may be surprising that now a day blogs are becoming effective tools for promoting business and gaining potential customers on the web. Not before a long time it was considered as a hobby or a journal for passing on ideas, views and sharing information. But, today they have totally transformed taking a new look of not only helping people but also businesses to grow.
Well, first we will know about a blog. Basically, a blog is a simple, sweet and small web site in an interactive format so as to allow users to read, to post comments and add any new information relevant to the site. The interaction process is the main feature of a blog which differentiates it other basic sites. You can find the blog entries in reverse order appearing on the page with the latest comment at the top.
It is amazing and quite unbelievable that blogs are available on almost every subject. Thus, businesses find that creating their own company blog can help them easily communicate with their customers, increase their search engine rankings, and attract larger number of potential customers.
Just look at the different ways given below that are helpful for your business promotion online:
• Google, Yahoo, Ask, AOL, MSN, etc. all the search engines love blogs as the content is regularly updated, it results in high search engine rankings for the business.
• Your business will be explored by visitors who discover the relevant products through your blog entries where the information is provided which they have not got on the blog. In these ways customers get attracted and you gain the business.
• Blogs are always categorized under different topics so it easy for readers to find their interested topics.
• Like other forms of online marketing, blog is also one of the marketing tools. Here you can get 24/7 hours web traffic through blog entries. Blogs provide content and links that are continuously shared and published on various web pages.
• The information you provide on your blog is directly distributed to your readers through an RSS newsfeed. Your readers automatically get notification whenever you post a fresh content on your blog.
• Your blog differentiates you from your competitors. You can even see that your competitors are not offering such type of communications to their customers. Thus, you have an upper hand compare to them.
So, blogging is a nice opportunity if you are looking for a low-cost marketing tool which helps you reach your customers more effectively, increase your search engine rankings thus giving your business an innovative strategy.
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Monetize your Blog and increase Adsense Income
Want to earn money through blogging but seems quite time consuming then know how monetization strategy helps you earn. These are simple ways through which you can blog and earn.
Be it a hobby or just a time-pass people start blogging and later on release that money has started flowing in. Money does not come so easily, you need to have little patience as earning from blogging takes times. But, it can be done if you know about monetization and monetization strategy works for your targeted audience. Know the best ways for monetizing your blog given below and get more than others.
Valuable Content is necessary
Before looking at the other monetizing strategies first pay attention on your content. It is always important to create a great content to make money from your blog. A good content always help you gain good traffic. On internet, people are always looking for solutions for their problems, tips or other valuable content that help them. Thus, if you create your content giving worthy information that helps them solve their problems then they will certainly buy the products that you recommend. They can even support your site by clicking on your links.
Affiliate Programs are helpful
Referring your blog’s visitors to a merchant’s website is one more way of monetizing your blog. Merchants are those who sell products or services online. Thus these merchants from affiliate programs range in size from small businesses to big companies. Therefore you can earn depending on the terms and conditions of the affiliate program. They can even pay you commission you refer your visitors who buy from their site, download software or become successful leads.
Amazon’s Associates Program
Here is one more great opportunity. Joining Amazon’s Associated Program is simply great because you can link to the site every time you post something informative about a product or give review of a book on your blog which are available on Amazon. Thus, you earn a commission when a visitor through your link on Amazon buys something that you have mentioned on your blog.
Create Your Own Information Products
Bloggers have expertise in their own field. Thus, they can even blog about the products that they have created such as e-books, tele-seminars, online courses, online audio books, and videos and so on by selling these products. These informative products prepare by you have low costs, no distribution charges and you will gain high profit.
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Top 50 SEO Blogs 2009 to Read
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Ads of the World : Ads of the World is an advertising archive and community
Logic+Emotion : David Armano’s personal blog: Logic+Emotion exists at the intersection of business, design + the social web.
adfreak : One the leading seo blogs to find seo news, articles and resources
Online Marketing Blog : TopRank internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social media and search engine marketing (SEO).
PSFK : PSFK spotlights new ideas and trends in consumer and business culture.
John Chow dot Com : The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul is one of the most popular blog in the web,
Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media for Social Change
Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
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