In the Business Express of Jan 9, 2013 the cover story inside headlined the 'Steady growth in credit card purchases' while the cover page proclaimed 'Online shopping surge at Christmas: Click and Collect' causing me to snort out some of my coffee. I couldn't imagine it referring to Trinidad & ... Read More
Category: E-Commerce
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Jan2013
22
Aug2012
What do I mean by ‘real’? By real I mean bona fide e-commerce websites, you know, like Amazon and the thousands of other sites that if you were living ‘away’ you’d be shopping till you drop just like the Americans. I can write this article authoritatively because having lived ‘away’ ... Read More
07
Jul2012
Many clients ask about a ‘local e-commerce solution’ which is somewhat of a misnomer. If by local solution you mean one where online purchases are paid for in TT Dollars then there is none. If by local solution you mean one where the payment is processed right here in T&T ... Read More
11
Apr2012
In my last article An Un-Scientific Analysis of the Trinidad & Tobago Online Market I made a general estimate of the local online market and said that the best indicator was Facebook’s statistics which put the figure around 380,000 users out of our population of 1.2 million. I also listed ... Read More
10
Apr2012
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June 16, 2012 UPDATE: Please view the draft content page here.
April 21, 2012 UPDATE: I’ve started a general outline which will make the entire book into 3 parts: The local e-commerce overview; The e-commerce website; Making it work in T&T. Within that framework are sub-headings with each further comprising their ... Read More
04
Apr2012
When you put up a website it isn’t ‘just for so’, you want people to come to it right? Granted, there are many companies in T&T who actually do that, i.e. put up a website for the sake of having one but that’s them. You want visitors and it’s a ... Read More
29
Mar2012
An article in the daily Newsday newspaper on March 29th, 2012 headlined ‘Postal code coming soon’ described a new postal code system to be introduced in Trinidad & Tobago by the end of the year. Trinis are all too familiar with the American system of ZIP Codes which has been ... Read More
16
Feb2012
UPDATE MARCH 2013: PLEASE NOTE: One of the major issues covered in this article series, that of payment processing has been favorably resolved. See article: Finally An Online Payment Solution For All Of Trinidad & Tobago.
Love me or hate me for you’re going to groan that it took up to ... Read More
03
Feb2012
UPDATE MARCH 2013: PLEASE NOTE: One of the major issues covered in this article series, that of payment processing has been favorably resolved. See article: Finally An Online Payment Solution For All Of Trinidad & Tobago.
In Part One of this series I talked about the options available in Trinidad & ... Read More
05
Jun2011
UPDATE MARCH 2013: PLEASE NOTE: One of the major issues covered in this article series, that of payment processing has been favorably resolved. See article: Finally An Online Payment Solution For All Of Trinidad & Tobago.
In the Part 1 of this article I talked about the 2 kinds of E-Commerce ... Read More