If you are recruiting or a candidate, you must prepare interviews ! It’s all about the questions asked during the interview … and the answers ! The recruiter has to find the good questions to allow a better understanding of the candidate ! The candidate must prepare answers (without lying) to the questions that will be (likely) asked !
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Although in theory, it’s possible to create an e-commerce web site for free, in real life, this is not possible. 2 kinds of solutions to create an e-commerce web site You can either use an Open Source CMS or use a SAS application. Open Source CMS You can use an Open Source software to manage your e-commerce web site. The software will not cost you anything, but you will likely need the assistance of expert to install and configure the software. Keep in mind there
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There are many way to make a payment on a e-commerce web site. The well-known way of payments Your bank This is a bad idea to chose your bank: their solution are often technically outdated. They are also expensive, not user friendly and hard to install. You can get a VAD Contract from your bank without using their technical solution. PayPal It’s also a bad idea, as they are quite expensive and not easy to process during the payment for your customer. The new ones
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If you manage a web site, you must have heard about going to HTTPS … well, now it’s officilal: you must use HTTPS before July 2018 !
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If you are still with Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 8, you can still migrate to Windows 10 … but in 2018, it will be too late (may be) !
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Web sites using Adobe Flash technologies won’t be visible, by default, on any devices, after August this year. Indeed, already Apple prevented iphones and ipads to use this technology. The web browser Chrome and Safari do not use Flash plugin any more, and Edge never did. Internet Explorer will ask for confirmation to use Flash, and so will Firefox, from version 55 (out in August 2017). So, if your web site uses Flash technology, its time to change to its modern counter part: HTML
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General Data Protection Regulation The General Data Protection Regulation is the new text of law managing personal data from may, 25th 2018. Software and business processes must be update in a rather short period of time ! Note that big businesses have more constraints than small one. For more information, read the Wikipedia page or the European Concil note.
A little note to point an interview about mind mapping and ERP software.
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The tendancies of 2015 are confirmed : Material Design, images, fonts … There are some novelties : Gifographics, IoT and 360° ! If you want the full story read the french version of the article.
Are you sure of the success of your emailing campaigns ? Here are 4 tips to increase the results of your emailing campaigns. #1 Emailing campaigns: Quality over Quality You may have thousands of contacts in your emailing lists but how many are really active and how many are addresses that are not used any more ? The first thing to do is to clean up you emails list … and to keep cleaning up regularly. Particularly, after each campaign treat all error returns
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Laurent ROCHE organises the first HopDrink in Marseilles : it’s a Freelances meeting to get to know each other. This is at the WhiteRabbit in the Joliette district, on Thursday, december 10th. Register on EventBrite … and come along. Do not hesitate to forward the message: everybody is welcome.
If you want to display a mourning ribbon on your website due to Paris attacks on November 13th, we’ve created a WordPress plugin that will allow you to add a discrete ribbon in your website top corner (left or right, your choice) … like on this website. Here are the available ribbons for the left corner (available also for the right corner). Find this plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory . If you don’t use WordPress for your website and you still want to use
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To celebrate LibreOffice version 5 arrival (3rd quarter 2015), we offer a 20% discount on our best seller: LibreOffice Writer training. Read the information about our LibreOffice training ! And contact us to get the price list and detailed programs !
It looks like Flash is going to die soon ! What Flash ? Flash, is Adobe technology to get web page animated ! This is also the technology that’s been used in many games on the web. However this technology has many drawbacks: there are some security flaws (see the latest malvertising campaign against Yahoo) it is not supported by all browsers (e.g. Apple devices) it does not allow a good search on web engine Not used any more Most of the market actors are
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The Google search engine has been updated beginning of this month. In the States, beginning of May several sites complained about losing their position in the Google search pages (for instance, hubpages). Google waited for an official announcement but eventually confirmed on May 2Oth that an update has been performed. SearchEngineLand give some details, SEO specialist Glenn Gabe named this update Phantom 2 and Paul Edmondson describes all the problems caused by Phantom2. If you have been affected by this update and that you
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There’s a trend of improving web site consultation on smartphones. quicksprout picture explains it all but to me it goes down to one thing: make sure the user will be able to call you easily, i.e. with just one click. Happy phone call management ! !
Here are five tools to create business plans.
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You want to have more Like on your Facebook page : recruit all the people you know to like your page. Next step is to work Facebook … in 5 actual steps: read the French version of the article for all the details (or ask for a translation in the comments).
Write a value proposition: that’s the magic formula to turn visitors into customers. I am talking about web marketing. The goal is to get explain in a few words what you sell / what is your trade at the visitor landing on your web site. An infographic from Quicksprout explains it all. Happy reading !
It’s always difficult to define the right “price” for products and/or services sold … but even more so in e-commerce. Indeed, competition is harsh and it’s really easy to compare prices. You sould not go for the lowest price but define a coherent price strategy. For instance, it should be noticed that, Amazon, who pretends to always be the lowest price, is not. Item with bad ratings from users will be more expensive than at Wallmart, when the ones with good ratings (the most popular)
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