Just about every other time we answer the phone we are greeted with a "I found you online!", or, " I found your picture frames online!" , as the introduction to a Customer's telephone inquiry. While this is stating the obvious, users find us online because we have a web site, because its contents are published online, because search engines display these, and thence people find it! What is not so obvious are the many, electronic, processes, protocols and procedures used to make all this possible. In this post we will endeavour to explain what and how this works. Perhaps the very first step is to fire up one's PC, load up one or more programmes and then create web pages ..
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Of online stores prompts, disclaimers and warnings
Posted on Category: Online Picture FramingWe will begin this picture frames online store prompts post by briefly revisiting the Year of Our Lord 1776. In was in that year that a political economist named Adam Smith, published the momentous book "An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations". From this work sprang the memorable passage: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”. Succinctly, what we are told, is that back then, businesses, whether small, medium or large, provided and ...
Ordering picture frames online responsibly
Posted on Category: Online Picture FramingHmmm .... Ordering picture frames online responsibly ? What’s the responsibility for, or about, most folks would say. You place an online order, you pay, you get your stuff and that’s it. There are no duties, obligations or responsibilities, right? Wait, not so fast, we would respond. While not a face-to-face personal interaction, ordering online is a human activity that does carry some responsibilities. This is because we approach and interact with others asking them to do something for us, even if it’s electronically and not personally. And when interact with others under any circumstances, it pays to be nice, doesn’t it? Have you ever found that ...
The “Free Shipping” confidence trick
Posted on Category: Online Picture FramingNot quite once upon a time, but some moons past, in a faraway land of opportunity, lived a crafty lady called Annie. She cleverly crafted fairy and feathery, wondrous earrings which nobody else made. Then one fine day she thought she should venture on the internet and thus duly signed up with Etsy. Folks from near and yonder places found her online and happily purchased her hand-crafted wares. She enjoyed what she was doing, and after some time, even started to earn a modest living. Alas, one dark day, Etsy abruptly began promoting and prioritizing only the sellers who gave free shipping. Annie wasn’t one of them, because she just couldn’t ...
Of spam, junk, ham, phishing and unsafe websites
Posted on Category: Online Picture FramingWe think we can all agree on this: while spam or junk emails are bad, phishing emails are far worse. What’s the difference between the two you might ask? Succinctly, the former just fills up your inbox with spam, unwanted, or junk mail. The latter can empty your bank account, compromise your financial status, credit rating and even steal your identity, in extreme cases. Our website PictureFrame.com.au is safe, trusted reputable and with a long-established online presence. As it features an Online Store ...
Why buying custom frames or picture framing online doesn’t work!
Posted on Category: Online Picture FramingBuying stuff online with mouse clicks from one's home armchair is quick and easy. In fact, it’s a lot easier and quicker than having to get into a car and drive down to a street store to do it, right? We buy iPads, cars, houses and even Ready-Made picture frames online, so why not custom picture frames ? After all there are online picture framing stores with clever wizards and widgets with .. which frame up pretty much anything we want, isn't that so? But this service strategy doesn't really work for custom picture framing...