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Xi’An, the Ancient City of China’s Outsourcing Center

Xi’an (as in most online abbreviation “Xa”) is China’s ancient city. As part of  our “China South to North” tour of 2010, we finally come to this city of 3000-years old and had an up and personal look at this great city of Terra Cotta and High-Tech Outsourcing. Xi’an, called Chang’an (means long lasting prosperity [...]

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Product Experience is Essential to Online Sales

Google just announced it will stop selling its Nexus One phone online and instead will resort to offline retail stores to carry this line. Google’s executive, when asked about the news, said “As with every innovation, some parts worked better than others”. As with any online sales, the customer experience is probably the most important [...]

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Post-process Product Pictures of eCommerce Website

For online merchants engaged in ecommerce, processing the product pictures after being photographed is a common task. A technique called “clipping” can be used to extract the product from background and is introduced inside Adobe Photoshop. Together with the eraser tool, you can achieve the rather simple task of extracting an object from the original photographed background and onto a cleaner one.

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Find an email tool that best fits your business

Email tools are abundant and nowadays, everybody seems to be retrofitted with a gigantic mailbox that will probably never be filled up. Expensive tools are not always the best option for your business, because they often come equipped with functions that, in my opinion, will probably never be used. Let’s imagine a scenario in which someone starts a business [...]

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