Having an online business, and in particular, an online store, is not that uncommon these days. A lot of people have started selling stuff online, whether these are items they made themselves or they are resellers of products of other merchants. The competition is tough these days online, so if you have an online store, you must find ways to make it the people’s choice instead of your competitors. This means you need to make your online store as customer-friendly and as appealing as possible to your target market.

So, what should you do to achieve the kind of revenues you have always dreamed of with your online store? Do you know how to make your online store more user-friendly? To help you out, here are some of the things you should keep in mind:

Easy navigation and responsive design – Whether you have an online store or any other type of online business, these two should always come hand in hand. What people are looking for should always be easy to find and can be located with the help of an intuitive navigation system that isn’t difficult to figure out. Simple categories, proper categorization of products, and a menu that isn’t complicated should be part of your design.

Your site (or store) should look good and properly displayed on whatever device is being used to view it. This is what responsive design is – it translates your site according to whatever format the current device is using. This will help you generate more leads and sales on all platforms, be it mobile, tablet, or desktop.

Great customer service – One thing that a lot of buyers find irritating when they want to buy something online is that there is no one to cater to their needs immediately. Whether it’s to answer a query, to follow up an order, or to handle a client dispute (another way to handle these conflicts or disputes is to use third-party mediation services such as Purchase Guard), highly-responsive online support should be continuously provided. In order to do that, you can have either an online chat portal for visitors to use or a hotline that they can call. You can also have both to ensure that your customers can easily get in touch with you or your staff for assistance whenever they need it.

Reliable site security – Another thing that online shoppers are concerned about is the security of their private information. This is something that most people should be worried about since identity theft is pretty rampant and can put a person in a huge amount of debt (or other danger) without them even knowing. Personal information security can be implemented with the help of third-party providers who encrypt the data that is sent to and from your store. Use trusted payment portals that ensure people’s personal data stay private and secure.

Fast loading speed – If you noticed people are leaving your store in the middle of shopping, then you might have problems with slow loading speed. This is one of the pet peeves of online shoppers. This can result in abandoned shopping carts right before the checkout or even at the beginning of their shopping. Make sure that all your web-pages load quickly to provide your visitors with the best and smoothest shopping experience possible.

Syska LED offers a wide range of international quality LED Lighting and other various products. This time Syska announces the launch of 5 grooming products as a part of Pre-wedding beauty routines.  Where everyone might be busy with perfect wedding dress, visiting the salon to look their best, it might happen that they might invest a lot of money on grooming and to avoid that Syska came up with 5 grooming products:

Syska HSP1000i Professional Hair Straightener and HDP1000 Professional Hair Dryer

Features of Hair Dryer:

1. The hairdryer helps women to get rid of those unwanted waves and untamed curls.
2. The hairdryer offers a bouncy hair look.
3. The dryer provides a salon-style finish
4. The hairdryer is equipped with a narrow detachable concentrator and a removable wind inter grill for easy cleaning.

HDP1000 Professional Hair Dryer is priced for Rs. 4,599/-

Features of Hair Straightener:

1. The hair straightener gives users a diva-like look.
2. The hair straightener is portable and compatible and is comfortable to use at home.
3. The product comes with 12 temperature settings

HSP1000i Professional Hair Straightener is priced for Rs. 3,999/-

Nova NHT-1071 Titanium Coated USB Trimmer

Features

1. The trimmer comes with incredible features including a USB cable for more flexible charging, an adjustable trimming range from 2 mm to 18 mm and high-grade titanium blades.
2. Th trimmer comes with a High-grade titanium blades.

The 1071 Titanium Coated USB Trimmer is priced for Rs. 625.

Braun BT3020 Beard Trimmer 

Features:

1. It is equipped with20 precision length settings ranging from 0.5 mm to 10 mm, fully washable comb for easy cleaning, 40 minutes of wireless use, an LED charging indicator and two years of warranty.
2. It is the best beard trimmers for men in India and is made up of an absolute steal.

The Braun BT3020 Beard Trimmer is priced for Rs. 1,899/-

Syska SH0300 Pro Shaver

Features:

1. It is equipped with high-end 360° rotary shaving technology which will help you achieve accurate precision in all dimensions and leaves you with a perfect shave.
2. It comes with a dual-track blade system that enables a quick trim with precision and a two-year warranty.
3. The shaver enables cordless operations and has a very comprehensive recharging system that runs straight up to 40 minutes with only 2-hour charging with a battery charge indicator which keeps you updated about the battery level.
4. The shaver is equipped with a pop-up trimmer facility which enhances your grooming experience and gives you a fine look.

Syska SH0300 Pro Shaver is priced for Rs. 1,999

Vega Instant Hair Styler

1. It is the multipurpose tool of your dreams with wands for straightening, curling and crimping in one single product.
2. The styler comes with chrome plates with ceramic coating and a cool tip for safer use.
3. The styler comes with a 2-years manufacturer warranty.

The styler is priced for Rs. 1,599/-

So you’ve watched countless movies over your lifetime and now you reckon it’s time to get started on your very own screenplay. Around fifty thousand screenplays get registered with the Writer’s Guild of America every year. Yours is going to need to stand out if you’re going to get it noticed, and one of the most important and effective ways to achieve that is to write something truly inspired. That means not copying others’ work and finding your own voice and niche. Here’s how to find that inspiration.

Look for unusual sources

While turning your own life story into a screenplay is perfectly valid if you’ve had an exciting life, it’s not the only way to find inspiration, so don’t fret if you’ve lived a perfectly ordinary existence (as most of us have). All you need to do is use your imagination. Spirituality is a great place to look; why not brush up on your Rider-Waite tarot? Alternately, you could look to little-used mythologies or ancient belief systems to incorporate into a fantasy script.

Just start writing

Freewriting has a lot of proven benefits for any writer and nowhere is this truer than in screenwriting. When you’re sitting there staring at a blank screen – or a blank page, if you’re old-school – the best solution for that problem is simply to start writing. Don’t worry if what you’re putting down isn’t any good, because that’s not the point; flexing your writing muscles and learning to create even when you’re not feeling inspired are both two very important skills.

Examine your life

Some say that there are only seven stories in the world. Whether you agree with this or not, there’s no doubt that you’ll need to inject your story with a little of your own personality if you want to see it succeed. You don’t need to write a screenplay based entirely on your life; you can simply slip in characters or situations that you’ve encountered and fictionalize them. Either way, you definitely need to put a little of your life into your script.

Write everywhere

Just as you shouldn’t wait for inspiration to simply strike you, it’s also not a good idea to wait until you get home to jot down that incredible idea. Make sure to carry writing equipment with you when you’re out and about. The lightning bolt of inspiration is a flighty one, and if you don’t immediately capitalize on it then you may forget it when the time comes to write. Naturally, you should use your discretion when it comes to social situations, but don’t wait too long to get your idea on paper (or on-screen).

Allocate distractions

The modern world is absolutely chock-full of distractions. Whether it’s breaking news stories on your smartphone or friends asking you to tag along to social events, you can easily be distracted from your writing and lose your thread of inspiration. Rather than trying to force yourself to stay focused constantly, allow yourself a couple of distractions, but dictate what they are beforehand. For example, you might say that after half an hour of writing, you can watch a single episode of a show on Netflix.

Don’t worry about stealing

Obviously, we’re not saying that you should go out there and shamelessly appropriate the work of others. What we are saying, however, is that you shouldn’t worry about being inspired by other stories. Every story is an amalgam of its writer’s influences and what they enjoy in fiction. If your screenplay looks a little derivative, don’t worry – there’ll be time to hash that out when you write a second draft and edit. For now, simply get your ideas down.

Exercise regularly

If the ideas aren’t flowing, it might be because you haven’t left the house and enjoyed a good walk. Exercise significantly improves creative flow for many reasons; it releases endorphins, which lift your mood, but it can also allow you to see things you wouldn’t see if you simply remained indoors. Getting regular exercise is an incredible way to boost your creativity, and the best part about it is that it’s completely and utterly free. There’s no excuse not to get out and get moving!

Do your research

Let’s say that you’ve had an idea, but you’re not sure how much mileage there is in it. There’s absolutely no harm in heading online and doing a little research. You’d be amazed at what kind of details you can turn up, especially if your screenplay is set during a particular period of history. You can, of course, take some slight liberties with history if you need to, as well. Research can give your story a much more clearly-defined and interesting shape, so get Googling.

Take advice from fellow writers

It’s a very good idea for screenwriters to network with one another. Again, don’t simply pillage your fellow screenwriters’ ideas; that’s poor form at best and rampant plagiarism at worst. Instead, talk to them about their process. How do they manage to find inspiration to do what they do? Is there anything you can learn about your own process from them? Talking to fellow writers opens up a lot more avenues for you and the ways in which you can construct your own screenplays.

Innoviti Payment Solutions is up with a new plan in action which is called “Juno”. It’s a self-healing machine which is aiming to detect and heal the complex payment systems which are based across India. This company is currently backed by investors such as Catamaran Ventures, SBI Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. It’s one of the most capital-efficient company working in this space.

Talking about Juno, this system overcomes the issue where humans are unable to track any complex problem or a pattern which may cause a malfunction in a sequence of transactions. Most of these malfunctions are caused when there is a bug which gets triggered by a particular sequence of transactions. Juno continuously scours through the error codes which may happen (around 1 million transactions per day). If it finds any break happening, it heals the break before it reaches the terminal (which can make it non functional). Innoviti has been successful in reducing manual errors, speed up time to resolution and enhance its control over its platform performance.

“At Innoviti, we pride ourselves on the industry-leading reliability metrics of our POS terminals – something that is widely recognized as best-in-class by the retail industry. The introduction of the new Juno Self-healing system will further strengthen our innovation edge in this crucial domain. It is in keeping with our ethos that every POS-related problem faced by our customer is our personal headache, even if its origin may actually lie in the external environment or partner networks not working optimally.” said, Mr Gaurav Mehrotra, VP Technology at Innoviti at the launch.

Innoviti has established itself as a leader in the market with its average POS reliability creating a benchmark of 99.3% (vs the industry norm of 92%)

CNC machining is a technology that was once only available to large scale industries and manufacturers. But in the past few decades, the technology has become more and more ubiquitous and is now used by many all over the country as a profitable side hustle. We’ll take a look at what CNC machining is and how many creative people were able to leverage it and become financially independent.

What is CNC Machining?

First, what exactly is CNC machining?

The “CNC” stands for “computer numerical control” and the “machining” can be anything from a milling machine to a lathe machine or a drill, bore, grinder, laser, and many others.

How does it work?

A computer program gives numerical inputs to guide the machine, making precise cuts on the material which can be anything from wood to metal to wax or plastic. A CNC machine can carve material much more efficiently and precisely than a human-controlled machine.

The first numerical controlled machines were conceived in the 1940s using punched tapes to direct the cuts of the machine. During the 1950s, programmers developed various languages used by computers to instruct the machines. Since then, innovation has continued, making them more efficient and widely available.

Nowadays, programs and machines are available, not just to manufactures, but to everyday individuals.

What are its Applications?

CNC Machining is widespread throughout the manufacturing industry. One of the most common applications for this technology is metal removal and fabrication.

One example is the automotive industry. In order to produce the gears and shafts for vehicles, a precise and efficient method for cutting metal is required. The rounded or square edges or threaded parts need to be incredibly precise and consistent and CNC machines do it better than any human-operated machine can.

CNC lasers or flame and plasma cutters are commonly used in metal fabrication industries as well. The machines can cut and weld raw materials for a variety of applications from automotive to construction and much more.

CNC Machining Has Become More Widely Available

In the past decade or two, there has been a trend among manufacturing technologies in which the scale is becoming increasingly smaller. Although once only available to large scale industrial and manufacturing operations, technologies such as CNC machining, laser cutting, and 3D printing are now accessible to individuals who have found creative uses for such technologies.

One of the biggest contributors to this trend is cost reduction. Technologies that once cost manufactures tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars are now available for much much less. Inventables, for example, released a CNC machine for under two thousand. Something that was unheard of less than a decade ago.

In addition to cost, improvements in technology are making it more ubiquitous. As companies pour more resources into the coding and programming side of CNC, the barrier to use the machine is lowered. Companies are focused on making the user interface as intuitive as possible so that special training is no longer required.

Side Hustles and Small Businesses

With the increased accessibility of technologies like 3D printing and CNC machining, creative and entrepreneurially minded folks are able to take advantage of this in unique ways.

It’s common for companies to offer payment plans on these machines, further driving down the barrier to entry. And with access to cheap materials like wood or plastic, side hustlers and small business owners are able to become profitable very quickly.

There are countless success stories of people who, either out of curiosity or desire for a creative outlet, purchased a CNC machine. Many used social media to sell their creations and before they knew it, they were running their own small businesses. Soon enough, they had a profitable side hustle or became financially independent and were able to commit themselves full time to something they enjoyed doing.

CNC machines are among the many technologies that are revolutionizing, not just industry, but the everyday lives of people. CNC machines, laser cutters, and 3D printers are becoming ever more accessible to hobbyists and entrepreneurs.

As innovations in manufacturing make these technologies cheaper and more efficient for big companies, it’s also making them increasingly accessible for individuals. It’s an exciting future for technologies of this kind.

There’s no denying the importance that employee engagement has on your business. By employee engagement, we’re referring to how actively involved employees are, and they connect with your business on an emotional level.

If someone comes into work, doesn’t speak with anyone, only does their job to the bare minimum and then goes home, this is known as a very low engagement rate, and obviously, this employee is not working to their full potential, which then affects your business.

Today, we’re going to talk about why a high level of engagement is so important, and how you can achieve this within your business.

Why is Employee Engagement So Important?

According to a 2016 survey, the results of thousands of businesses showed that around 53% of employees were very confident in the fact they could quit their current job and find something that was equally comparable within six months. This is a shocking figure because it details that over half of employees believe the business they work for is nothing special, and they could easily go out and find something similar if they needed to.

If an employee isn’t engaged in business and something happens, such as falling out with a coworker, or a stressful time happening within the workplace, they are very likely to leave and find something else. Having a high turnover rate as a business is a situation you don’t want to be in, especially with the time and money it takes to recruit, and the fact you want to keep growing consistently.

More often than not, a high employee turnover rate will spell failure in the foreseeable future.

How to Improve Employee Engagement

To bring down your turnover rate, you need to get employees involved and engaged, which while the main concepts are simple, you’ll need to be proactive in implementing sustainability over the long term to guarantee success. Here’s how you can get started;

Use the Right Tools

There are plenty of fantastic modern tools, apps, and services that can help people to get engaged. By implementing services to make your employee’s job more satisfying and easier to carry out can help increase job satisfaction and help people feel more productive. You can even invite employees to take engagement surveys, such as Harrison’s Engagement Survey, that points employee expectations out. It’s all about making the right investments in the right places in a way that works best for your business.

For example, using Visitor Management software can dramatically improve the productivity of your reception staff, who will be far happier in their roles and far more likely to do a better job.

Emphasis Teambuilding

Bringing your team together to feel like they are part of a community and belong to something bigger than just themselves is a great way to get people engaged. By making your staff base feel more like a family or group of friends will make people far more emotionally connected to your business, thus making them want to stay and work hard.

Value People and Their Input

While you may have hard and fast ways of doing certain things, you need to make sure you’re valuing the input of your employees. If they have a suggestion or an idea on how to make something better, give them the time of day. Their contributions to your business matter.

Summary

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to improving employee engagement within your business, but there’s no tried and tested way. Your business is its own entity, and you need to figure out what works for you through trial and error.