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Experiments – Get feedback on your product or service before it’s launched

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Undoubtedly, market research is very important when you are promoting a product, a service or planling to launch a startup. But market research also involves some amount of investment. Consumer feedback does enhance the products’ long-term longevity. Keeping this in mind, a US-based company Javelin has developed a Web-based product that helps startups & small businesses to make a trial based experiment for their to-be-launched products.

‘Experiments’, as they have named it, works like a log book for your activities. Users can input their plans & ideas & track them as they proceed. The main benefit of Experiments is that it can help plan & track every action done or to be done in the pre-launch stage. Experiments runs these tasks & gives a quantifiable outcome based on interim results. These results can help get things done more in less effort.

Javelin provides various templates with Experiments to craft various hypothesis to fetch the results. For example, what will be the impact of adding a particular hashtag in my Twitter Campaign? The outcome will say 20% increase in user engagement. Users can save their experiments & apply them in real time for better results.

Experiments also gives feedback on the assumptions you make. As this system is linked to every stake holder of your company, other stake holders can give feedback & you can take the action, accordingly. Multiple experiments methods can be chosen from a wide range of methods & assumptions.

As all the experiments are saved & synced they can be accessed at any time & you can choose which one to run. Experiments automatically documents every result all the time.

Experiments has a free-trial period of 30 days. The personal edition is for US $29 per month which gives access to 1 Project, 5 users & Run & Track Experiments features. Other packages are yet to be announced. Experiments is still in beta & many new features are to be added.

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Uniqly offers a platform to sell your products without the accompanying tech headaches

The e-Commerce boom happened some time ago. One of the early starters was Amazon, which in 1995,  launched the world’s 1st Online book store. Today, the same Amazon is one of the world’s largest digital stores. Over the years, due to advancement in software & of course the Internet, Online retailing no longer remains the purview of large corporations but individuals, too. Almost anyone can now sell their product or service  on the Web using some rather advanced selling software & payment gateway. One such platform is Uniqly, which offers individual sellers to setup an Online shop for their products.

There are others like Ebay that do offer a similar service, right? The answer is, a ‘Yes’ & a ‘No’. Ebay & Amazon do offer a platform for individual sellers but these comes with some restrictions. For example: Some sellers can’t deliver to certain places. This is where a platform like Uniqly may make a difference by offering “a no worries solution” to individual sellers. Essentially, Uniqly takes care of all your back-end worries that come with Online selling while you concentrate on the business of selling.

So how does it work? The potential seller has to 1st sign up & provide information about the product along with  some photographs & the pricing. Once the process is complete, the seller can log in, go to the dashboard to tweak the rest of the things. There is no direct interaction between buyer & seller. As a consumer, the user will interact with Uniqly. It’s like buying directly from Best Buy or Wallmart Website.

The technical part like consumer feedback, payments & logistics will be hled by Uniqly. The seller just has to be ready with their product to be delivered. The seller can request logistics to pick up the package at desired time. The payment to the buyer will be done after 14 days on the seller’s PayPal account. Sellers can get notification of new orders on their dashboard & via email.

This platform makes it easy for sellers to focus only on business & leave the technical part to Uniqly. This service is free of cost & sellers can start their Online shop immediately after sign up. Sellers can also post a link to their blog or Website so that users can also access it. For the services it provides, Uniqly keeps a 5 % transaction fee from the seller. Uniqly also has some restrictions on the selling of  products such as alcoholic beverages & perishable goods.

Uniqly.net is a product of Philippines-based 88DB Philippines Inc., which claims to have 8 years of expertise in Online marketing & retailing.

Click here to know more about Uniqly.

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