5 Feature-packed Shopping Carts

This is a guest post by James Adams. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

The shopping cart which you choose needs to have plenty of features. It needs to be scalable to your needs, offering many categories and products. Shopping cart software is great for providing your customers with a full virtual storefront. Here are five great shopping cart solutions.

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1. BigCommerce
BigCommerce is feature packed, stuffed with everything from premium hosting to single-click reordering. This is one of the most fully customizable shopping cart applications on the market today. This program fully supports electronic goods for direct downloads, 12 shopping methods, more than 50 payment methods, affiliate programs, and more. You can truly automate your store with email notifications when your stock is running low, a newsletter, and a complete return system. The plans are fully scalable to the size of your business.

Pricing: $49.95 setup, plans starting at $24.95 per month for 100 products

2. Volusion
Volusion prides itself on the security features that it offers to customers. It offers 128-bit SSL security, complete disaster planning, and proactive protection against hackers. Volusion can be integrated with QuickBooks and Endicia. This software fully embraces affiliate programs with a 5 tier affiliate system, discounts and coupons. You can build a socially networked store with the Social Store Builder, so you can sell your products directly to customers on MySpace and Facebook. Everything within Volusion is customizable, including the product descriptions, keywords, and website.

Pricing: $49 setup, plans starting at $29 per month for 100 products

3. Fortune3
Fortune3 makes establishing a full store simple. You do not need to have a volume of HTML knowledge under your belt to capitalize on the features of this application. You can sell downloadable products, establish custom pricing and bulk discounts. Checkout and style templates are available. Modify your cart button styles and store design with the touch of a button. Fortune3 supports multiple sales tax options, shipping costs, and shipping calculation. There is automated SEO and an automated affiliate program. If you have any problems, this shopping cart offers unlimited email and telephone support as well as live chat.

Pricing: $39.95 setup, plans starting at $29.95 per month for 30 products, transaction fees starting at .95%

4. Shopify
Set up your shopping cart quickly and easily with Shopify. You can track your inventory, receive email notifications, and receive fully integrated fulfillment through Amazon. Shopify is a simple fully featured shopping cart program. Your administration screens are managed through a single panel and the interface is streamlined for easier use. Tailor discount programs and coupon codes to your specifications. The software is PCI compliant and built on constantly improving open-source software. Shopify does not handle money or ship your packages, but it does integrate with services that can perform those functions.

Pricing: Plans start at $24 per month for 100 products. Transaction fees starting at 2%

5. SunShop
With SunShop, you receive a full service shopping cart without the monthly fee. Set up your store in very little time using their installation wizard. SunShop offers a fully customizable storefront, newsletter support, email templates and website templates. There are unlimited categories and support for multiple product images and options. You can establish on-site promotions, upselling, affiliate programs and referral programs. With SunShop, you can checkout without having an account and receive live order tracking for all of your purchases. The software is fully compliant with all standard security protocols.

Pricing: $249.99 purchases a single license and 60 days of support

If you wish to establish an online store, it is essential to have shopping cart software which can suit your needs. The program you choose needs to grow with your business.

James Adams works at Cartridge Save, a top ink supplies specialist based in the UK.

Do you want Premium quality content for FREE ?

Being a student I know how tight our budgets will be! I was in the same position a year back, before starting blogging. So I love to share about good quality, free content from trusted sources.
Yesterday I read a very good ebook and I recommend it to all bloggers who are stuck at some point in blogging and can’t afford to pay for an online course.

The name of the ebook is Make Money Blogging, by Daniel Scocco. The book is well structured and is worth reading.

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Daniel Scocco has been involved in entrepreneurial projects on the Internet since 2005 and he knows his stuffs. His famous blog DailyBlogTips.com was nominated under the “Best Web Development Blog” category in the 2007 Weblog Awards, and currently it is ranked among the 500 most popular blogs in the world (according to Technorati) and among the 100 most popular marketing blogs in the world (according to AdvertisingAge).
Daniel has also provided consulting services for many companies and organizations (including the United States federal government), and he is the founder of the online marketing and business training program Online Profits.

So Daniel and his works are really worth to be followed, if you want to be a successful online entrepreneur or blogger.

Daniel has worked for about two months and has packed this ebook with all his experience and has made a really valuable ebook.

Many people, including bloggers want answer for this question — How to make money blogging?
This book also concentrates and explains other aspects of money making, that is generating quality content inorder to get the traffic and to gain authority(over time), and then the money aspects, which is exact inline with how things have worked out to many bloggers.
It contains some real suggestions and tips, which most online courses teach.

The ebook contains:

Introduction (which also contains very valuable information’s)
1. The Content: Know the 3 important things that make good content. Good info about Headline and about finding idea’s or inspiration for content creation.
This is the most important aspect for any blogger to know. You can just download the ebook, to read this one chapter, if you don’t have enough time.

2. Design and usability: This chapter contains some list of Usability Mistakes, which are worth noting down and correct them one by one, if your blog is making those mistakes.
Other things like call for action and the action priorities.

3. Networking: Contains some short email templates, that you can use for your networking purpose!, but I suggest get your own. Templates provided by Daniel are just an example. You can make yours more personal and catchy!
Small excerpt from this chapter:

In most professional fields, who you know is at least as important as what you know. Blogging is no exception.

4. Promotion: This is the chapter which I liked the most. It contains some really good information. It tells the importance of guest blogging, social bookmarking sites, Twitter, Facebook and ways to promot your killer content.

5. Monetization: Which stresses about the creation of authority, before trying to make money. And gives 2 important tips for making money with Adsense. Also talks about direct advertising, CPM ads, Affiliate marketing, email marketing(“the money is in the list!”) etc.

In the introduction of the ebook, Daniel says – “If you already have a blog and know the basics, feel free to skip to chapter 1.” But out of curiosity, I read the introduction and I must say, Daniel has packed good info from the very beginning of the ebook.
Although the introduction was valuable, I feel that I had already read it on DailyBlogTips.com!

Introduction goes on with the inspiring revenue figures of TechCrunch, Mashable and Haffingtonpost etc, but at the same time warns not to get into “get rich quick” concept! Here is an excerpt from the ebook:

yes it is definitely possible to make money blogging. At this point many people ask: “but is it easy or quick?” Well, that is a completely different question, and unfortunately the answer here is a big “NO”.
Making money blogging is no different then making money with any other venture, be it online or offline. As such it will take time and require a heck lot of work.

Much like his News Letter(which is kind of personal, valuable and to the point), the ebook also doesn’t contain any fluff, you get the meat directly, so its time saving apart from being valuable.

Finally, if you are a blogger or somehow related to blogs, then you will find the ebook valuable. Do not miss to download, read and implement the tips in the ebook.
To download the ebook(which is Free), you will have to signup for his news letter here.

And also tweet about this ebook to all your friends, fans and followers, I am sure, many of them will find it helpful. And who knows you may even win a laptop! — yes, Daniel is holding a contest and is giving away two laptops to two lucky winners. Tweeting will get you one entry, and blogging about it will give you 5 entries. Nice trick to get the words out. Though I decided to write about the ebook, after reading it and finding some valuable info there. And more over, I always recommend Daniel’s work, as he is a brand built around trust.

Related: 5 Freebies Up For Grab

The 100 Best, Free Online Flash Games

Use Google Chrome or new Mozilla FireFox for better online gaming experience. Its good to open one game at a time, as all these are flash games and need to load before playing.

Currently this list consists of action games, games for kids, Smart or mind games, some puzzles, fun games, shooting games, army games, race – Car race, bike race, beach race etc, strategic game, tankers, fighting games etc. I will be playing these games in week ends again and will be further categories it properly and put them into relevant categories and organize them.

Caution: Try these games at your own risk. These games may turn addictive! This list helps to spend weekends with fun or helps when your child or you need some entertainment.

These are some of the Best Free, online Flash Games available. And I am sure that we are missing many more:

You can add your favorite online game to this list, in the comment section.
Use this format while leaving your comment below, for better understanding and readability:
Name of the Game:
Category of the Game: (Ex:- Action, Shooting, Sports, Race etc)
Why you like it:
Some rules of the Game:
Link to the Game:

I love games and I enjoyed a lot while compiling this list. Most of the time got into the game so much that I forgot about writing this article, taking screen shots etc. I only realized when I finished the game!
Hope you also enjoy playing these games. Your feedback and suggestions are highly appreciated. I would love to know which other online games you love to play. Please share it in the comment section, so that I can play them too 😉

And please correct me, if I have linked to an unauthorized site.

1. The Shell Game(Mind Game):

The Shell Game

This is an interesting game, where you need to bid certain amount(don’t worry, its not the real money!) and there will be some shells, and a ball inside it. Once you start the game, it will shuffle the shells and you need to tell, in which shell the ball is present.

2. BridgeCraft(Mind Game):

BridgeCraft game

This game seems to be simple in the beginning, but once you cross those 2 or 3 easy once, you will see more constructive things where you need to apply your mind in order to build a strong bridge.
You will give up playing this game, if you don’t understand how to build the bridge. See above image for some hints.

3. Theres Two Wires(Mind Game):

Theres-Two-Wires-Game

Its like playing spider man. With practice we can easily get through the levels, but by the time, you will surly get addicted 🙂 You have to apply your mind, for when to jump and when to simply crawl.

4. Curveball Game(Mind Game):

Curveball-Game

Easy game and addictive. As you move forward, the game becomes more speedy and difficult. But its fun to play this game as many times as possible.

5. IndestructoTank(Action):

IndestructoTank

Your only weapon is yourself! like a missile to destroy the onslaught of the enemy army. The longer you plat, the more enemies you can have onscreen at once. To increase the enemy is fun.
Enemy helicopters will drop bombs and you have to make it fall on you. When the bomb falls on the tanker, it jumps on to hit the helicopters and destroys the enemies.

6. Crimson warfare(Shooting game):

Crimson-warfare-Game

What a game it is. Very addictive. Please read the instructions before starting to play. You need to be pro-active inorder to win this game.
Build the base, as soon as possible and launch the attach.

7. Ninja Rinseout (Action):

Ninja-Rinseout

Nice action game. Very less levels and can be mastered soon.
If you play it 2 to 3 times then you will come to know some of the easy ways to defeat the enemies. Jump and hit, is the key in this game.

8. WinterBells(Mind Game):

WinterBells flash game

Its a simple game. it may not interest many people. But it involves great mind control. When you reach the heights the chances of falling to the ground is high and this challenge requires considerable amount of mental preparation.

9. Zuma(Mind Game):

zuma mind Game

Very Addictive game. You have a rotatable monster at the center, under your control, which keeps on emitting different coloured gems. You need to rotate its head so that you match the colours of the gems that are rolling on the track.

10. Bejeweled(Mind Game):

bejeweled-online-Game

Somewhat similar to the above game. You must make a set of 3 or more gems of similar shape and colour.

11. Metal Slug Flash(Shooting, Action Game):

Metal-Slug-Flash-Game

Wonderful game. Its similar to the TV video games, and has a typical level ending with killing of a big boss of enemy!

12. The Last Stand(Shooting Game):

The-Last-Stand

You need to act fast in the game, so as to shoot all the enemies before they break the wall and hit you.
During the night, protect your barricade against the oncoming hordes. Manage your time during the daylight hours to search for weapons, survivors and to repair. Move with the WASD keys and aim/shoot with your mouse. Reload with the R key. Press space bar to switch weapons.

13. Crazy Taxi(Race):

Crazy-Taxi-Game

The trick is, you must drive faster inorder to jump the cars infront of you and to move forward. Use space bar to jump.

14. RotatSpin:

RotatSpin

Not an easy game. Its an interesting game and you need to apply your mind to win in this game. Try it till you finish 5 or 6 small small levels, and you will know the actual potential of this game.

15. Submachine 4:

Submachine-4

Submachine 4 is the fifth in the highly addictive point and click adventure game series. Click around with your mouse in the various scenes to move through the game, find objects and add them to your inventory for later use in completing the game.
In this game, you need to be alert and pick up the weapons carefully. And read the rules before starting the game, orelse you can not even move anywhere!

16. SHIFT 2:

SHIFT-2-online-Game

Do not click on any thing, before the game completely loaded. Its a tricky game and you can get the hint for the traps that you are in, at the bottom of the game. The hints are written upside down! Overall, a good game.

17. Zwok-games:

Zwok-flash-games

Choose quick play to skip the registration. In this game, you need to point the shoot direction, before the attach is launched. Target with some decent angles to hit the opponents.

18. BoomStick:

boomstick-game

[Very Good game..you will love it]. You need to shoot the cubes flying on top of you. You have limited bullets. To get the maximum score, you need to hit multiple cubes with a single bullet. Its an addictive game.

19. Puzzle Farter:

online-puzzlefarter

Its a quite easy game. To fly, press up arrow once and then immediately press and hold the up arrow. It gives you a very nasty, bad sound while flying. Don’t try it when in public 🙂

20. Dolphin Olympics 2:

Dolphin-Olympics-2

Cool game. Pass the ring to get the acceleration that is required. Have control..and the control comes by practicing the game.

21. Ngame:

N-Game

Figure out the moves and you will fall in love with this game. You will have the ability to move very fast, which is a greatest power to climb up the stirs.

22. Warfare-1917:

warfare-1917

You need to use your strategies in the battle field to win this simple looking terrific game.
The best part is, the game gets tougher and tougher as you finish the levels. Interesting enough, you will unlock a weapon at the end of each battle. So you will be more powerful each time you win a battle.
You must try it. And after each battle you can upgrade with a weapon. Its really awesome game. Be warned, its addictive enough!

23. Gangland(Shooting Game):

Gangland-Game

The trick here is, you must hide behind something and then start shooting. And press the down arrow key to sit. Hide behind something and sit, so that no one can hit you. Once the enemies stop shooting, suddenly getup and hit one at a time. You will surly be a winner.

24. World’s Hardest Game:

the-worlds-hardest-game

Simple game, but requires a lot of focus/concentration. I took almost 34 attempts to complete my first round! Read the instructions before playing.

25. Dinorun Pixeljam:

Dino-run-Pixeljam

Get the white magic power boosters allover the places and escape from the rolling stones. You can jump and get the help of flying dragons to jump a long way. You will get large wild dragons on your way, move forward by jumping above them.

26. The Maze:

the-maze-Game

Amazing game. Try to reach the goal without touching the walls. Do not press the right or left mouse button. Just gently slide the mouse with out shaking your hands more. As you go farther, the levels the game becomes highly impossible.
And do not shake your hands once the level is completed, because the journey will continue from the point where you left it previously. And you will see a scary thing once you fail in the task. See it, have the thrill. (Its really scary, try at your own risk).

27. Tetris:

Tetris

Its the most common game you mostly have played in your mobile phone and video games. But still its a good time pass game even in the online world.

28. CRIMSON ROOM:

Crimson-room-Game

Is an interactive game. You have to escape from this room by finding, using, and combining items you find in this room. Only thing you have to do is to click on right places on the screen. Using the graphics, the sounds, and the responses as clues, you are to escape with your idea and inspiration.
After the escape, you are invited to a special page, so please don’t give up. For those who are stuck in the middle of the game, three game guides are prepared. Use them carefully.

29. Super Mario World:

Super-Mario-World

This fabulous online game reminds me of my old video game, which my mom had gifted me long back! This is so amazing that you need not buy a Super Mario game, you can experience the same level of joy when you are playing it online.

30. Pirates of the Caribbean – Cursed Cave Crusade(Must try, ultimate game):

Pirates-of-the-Caribbean

Use keyboard arrow keys to move and jump. Use SPACE BAR to attack.

31. Contra World Challenge:

Contra-World-Challenge

Similar to the video game version. Before starting the game, make sure you set the preferred keys for controlling your moves.

32. 3D Logic Cube(Mind Game):

3d-Logic-Cube

Easy game, but as you go ahead the levels you will need to apply more of your brain. To clear and undo the last changes, use the buttons provided at the bottom of the player.

33. Squares 2(Mind Game):

Squares-2

Very addictive game. You will have a medium sized square in your control and you have to collect only the squares of colour similar to that of your square. And you should escape from hitting the other colour squares. It looks so easy, but that’s the secret of the game for being so addictive. With the levels increasing, the speed with which the squares move will also increase, along with the increase in thrill and fun. You will also get some power boosters in between the games, in the form of round bolls. Make sure to catch them.

34. Artillery Live(Shooting Game):

Artillery-Live

Easy shooting game. The secret to win this game is to often move and shoot. Target precisely. And know how to use the arrow keys to adjust the length and angle of the shoot.

35.Deanimator(Shooting Game):

Deanimator

This is a good game, if you come to know that the shooting keys is not in keyboard, but is in mouse right click! It gets tougher with the levels and more fun with demons.

36. Max Dirt Bike:

Max-Dirt-Bike

Learn the controlling of the bike and you will master this game. Few things to concentrate on, like the bending forward and pulling backwards, mastery over it will make you win the game. But this is not for everyone. Some may get bored.

37. Tennis Game:

Tennis-Game

(Must try game)Use the arrow keys to move. Press the Spacebar to serve the ball, then use the Space bar to hit the ball. You can try to direct where your shot will land using the arrow keys.

38. BMW-pace(Car Race):

BMW-pace

Most wonderful race game out there. The only trick is to stay on the road(do not leave the road, it will slowdown your wheels!) and focus on the route. This is one of the most addictive online game and I almost forgot to write this post while I was playing it. Please give it a try.

39. Stickpage(Action Game):

Stickpage

Easy to play game. You need to see the instruction video each time the level changes, to know whats the mission is. Graphically good.

40. Sea of Fire(Army, Shoot Game):

Sea-of-Fire

To start the game, you need to select the place in the map, where you want the campaign to start. After selecting, you will have to quickly build your base with the help of the initial amount that is given to you. And you need to generate solders(which costs money!) and building each building in the base also costs some money. So be careful with the budget and plan before launching the campaign.

41. Too Many Ninjas:

Too-Many-Ninjas

No much of movement, due to which the game may seem to be boring, but its a challenge to block the attacks from the Ninjas and to hit them hard to death.

42. Tactical Assassin(Mission, Shoot Game):

Tactical-Assassin

Simple and graphically good game. But you need to read the “BRIEFING” before entering, to clear the enemies. Its almost impossible to clear a level without knowing the objective. So read the BRIEFING without fail.

The clear objective will be given in the TARGET INFORMATION of BRIEFING.

43. Vector Runner(Race):

Vector-Runner

It has a minimalistic graphics and seems to be easy. But its lot more interesting and difficult. You need to have all your focus on the drive orelse you will loose.
Collect all the coloured objects and escape from hitting the obstacles on the road. There is auto acceleration, so you need to handle only 2 keys(right and left). Its a real challenge. Try it.

44. Space Invaders(Shooting Game for kids):

Space-Invaders

Use keyboard arrow keys for movement and SPACE BAR for shooting.

45. Gold Miner:

Gold-Miner-Game

Just collect the valuable things fast and hit and vanish the more weight full things, to make the process of collection faster. You will also get some objects to purchase from the earnings that you made by collecting the stones, cash and gold and diamonds.

46. Splash Back:

Splash-Back

You start with 10 drops in your tank. Use them to grow blobs until they burst. Create combos to earn more drops. How many levels can you clear?

47. Penguin Smash(Fun Game):

Penguin-Smash

Very easy game, yet so addictive. You just use your mouse left click button to play the game. One click to lift your bat and another click to hit the penguin.
The trick is simple, hit the penguin when its above your shoulder level, to cover the longest distance. Try to cover 600km.

48. FL Tron:

FL-Tron

Its a very interesting game. You need to block the other person by making no room for him to move around in the space provided. Best part is, you can play it in a multi player mode or with the computer. Try it without fail. Its very simple game, as it involves only the movement on your mouse.

49. Bloxorz(Pure Mind Game):

Bloxorz

Ah..got it. I was searching for this game. I had played it long back and its one of my favorite.
The aim of the game is to get the block to fall into the square hole at the end of each stage. There are 33 stages to complete.

Just use the arrow keys in your keyboard. No huge, confusing controls to configure. Make sure to read the instructions in the beginning to know about the switches that comes in the Game.

50. Mass Attack(Mind Game):

Mass-Attack

You need to balance the weights on both side of the balance!
You just need to press and hold the left mouse button, to grow the size of the mass that you are putting into one side of the balance. You can put the weight on either side of the scale. Just make sure that you will make it balanced at the end.

51. Uphill Rush:

Uphill-Rush

Very good game. There are many levels in it. 4 are unlocked for you and you need to unlock 2 best levels by playing. The game involves beach riding, Skare Board, Motorcycle tasks, quad etc.

52. Missile Game 3D(Pure Mind Game):

Missile-Game-3D

IT requires your full concentration. Fly through the holes in the rotating obstacles to survive and make it through each level. The position of your mouse is the position of the missile in the tunnel. Moving your mouse moves the missile.
A must play game.

53. Ant Buster:

Ant-Buster

The ants will try to get a piece of the cake and take to the anthill. Your goal is stop them. Put some cannons next to the ants to annihilate them. Remember: The cannons have a limited range. The cannon will shoot automatically the nearest ant. When an ant is selected, it is merged with a target symbol and the cannons will try to shoot them. When you select a cannon, its possible to visualize some improvements. Any cannon or improvement have costs. Also it is possible to undo any improvement and sell a cannon.

54. Flash Chess:

Flash-chess

Its interface is very simple to understand and the game is easy to win in the BEGINNER mode and requires a lot of practice and talent to win in the Advance mode. Worth checking.

55. Wedgie Toss(Funny Game):

Wedgie-Toss

Do you have some one in your HIT list? If yes! This is the right game for you. Press space bar to lock in your angle. Press Space BAR again to in power, then watch Johnny fly!! During flight press SPACE BAR to flap Johnny’s arms.

56. Tumbler:

Tumbler

One of the best games which is simple yet so addictive. Collect as many of these as you can to gain some points. Control our friends the shiny black ball through the treacherous Tumbler using the mouse.Avoid theses objects in the Tumbler. You will lose a life, if you run into one.

57. Fragger:

Fragger

Aim at the target and use your mouse to adjust the angle and force of hit.

58. Line Game:

Line-Game

Select your control as either arrow keys in the keyboard or select the mouse pointers.
You must move in the track and must not go out of track and must not hit the coloured blocks.

59. Uber Pool:

Uber-Pool-Game

The stick follows your mouse, move the mouse towards the cue ball to hit it. Hold down the left mouse button to keep the stick steady. Get power-ups by rolling the cue ball over them.

60. Ballooon Hunter:

Ballooon-Hunter

Set either keyboard arrow keys or the mouse as the control keys. And start targeting the balloons from your bow.

61. Attack of the Cheese Eating Robots:

Attack-of-the-Cheese-Eating-Robots

Swing the mace with the mouse to hit robots who want to steal your cheese. Destroy as many as you can before they eat it all.

62. Bounce:

Bounce

Use your mouse to control blue paddle, strike balls to score points. Score on red paddle for bonus.

63. Vector Boom:

Vector-Boom

Destroying this power-up will temporarily turn your power meter white and give yyou unlimited energy. Making explosions that fill the whole screen is advisiable during this period.

64. Generic Space Game:

Generic-Space-Game

Use your mouse to control. And shoot the abstractness with mouse left click.

65. Duck Hunt:

Duck-Hunt

Similar to that we have played with our video games. You will have 3 bullets each time a bird lies, and you need to hit them with your mouse click. Fun game.

66. City Jumper:

City-Jumper

Use right arrow key in the key board for long jump and left arrow key for a short jump. The game seems easy, but its not so. Just play 2 or 3 levels and you will recognize to importance of proper jumping.

67. Defend Your Castle:

Defend-Your-Castle

You will need both speed and agility to survice. To kill enemy units, pick them up with the mouse and fling them through the air. Gravity should take care of the rest!

68. Mario Bros:

Mario-Bros

Similar to the video game version of Mario. You will enjoy the game more when you cross some levels and the game gets tougher.

69. Crush the Castle:

Crush-the-Castle

Its a real addictive game. Just use the mouse to play the game. You will get a new Ammunition along the new levels.

70. Super obama world:

Super-obama-world-game

Very similar to Super Mario. But with Obama flavor. Its a good fun game. I like it.

71. Crazy Penguin Catapult:

Crazy-Penguin-Catapult

Some penguins are captured and the remaining penguins try to rescue. Use your skills to rescue the penguins.

72. Stunt pilot:

stunt-pilot-Game

Simple game, yet so interesting. You just need to use two keys, up arrow and down arrow of your keyboard. And make sure not to touch the rings and the ground. You need to pass through the rings to get the points.

73. Doom(Shooting Game):

Doom-Online-Game

The original Doom game has been so nicely converted into a Flash Game. You can see the intro to get some idea about the game, if you have somehow not played the original Doom Game.

74. Pig Race(For Children):

Pig-Race

Nice game for small children. Though it requires concentration to play. Funny game. Use key board arrow keys to control the moves and space bar for jumping. Keep playing and unlock the levels.

75. Madness Regent Game(Shooting Game):

Madness-Regent-Game

Good Graphics. Destroy the enemy by shooting them. Use “S” for single jump and double “s” for double jumping. And “a” for shooting. Arrow keys in the keyboard for moving in the respective directions.

76. Mud and Blood 2(Army, Shoot Game):

Mud-and-Blood-2

You can hide behind the stones and bushes to hit the enemy and choose the arms and extra solders to fight. You must use your skills to win this game.

77. GlassezLD(For Children):

GlassezLD

Make a picture from the pieces of glass! Take the pieces of glass from the blue container and place them on the colored template. Click on the piece to turn it. Put unnecessary pieces into the trash.

78. The Bank Robber(Strategy Game):

The-Bank-Robber-Game

Rob the bank as quickly as possible, taking no necessary risks. Meaning: Find the safe, crack and empty it and escape out if the bank through the exit door as fast as possible and with as less causalities as possible! Each level needs its own strategy and it gets more difficult, but the goal stays the same. At the end you become that famous bank robber. Create your own strategy for each level, select your team of criminal specialists and buy the items you need to get the job done. Avoid triggering the alarm when you are robbing the bank. If you want to restart the level with a better strategy and/or better tools, you can leave the bank through the exit door.

79. Sky Wire:

Sky-Wire

Nice game. Demands a lot of patience from the player. Its simple. Play with the help of arrow keys of your keyboard. Escape from the Obstacles and move on the wire path.

80. CDX:

cdx-Game

( Point and Click Game) A sacrificial blade forged at the birth of the Roman empire holds the key to an ancient and bloody conspiracy that threatens to erupt into the present day. Stranded in 21st century Tunis, Adam Foster is plunged into a world of greed, betrayal and murder. But who has the blade, and can the killers be stopped? Unlock the mystery in this unique interactive-video adventure.

81. Weapon Fire(Shooting Game):

Weapon-Fire

Use your mouse right click to shoot. You can set the other options like jump, weapon change etc in the configuration section. You need to kill the ghosts and you will get some new weapons along the levels. There is a small place you need to stand and fight. You can’t jump somewhere and go from there. Wait until the ghosts come on your way.

82. Bank job(Mind Game):

bank-job-Game

Use arrow keys to navigate. Get to the safety place and return to your destination before the time runs out.

83. Glow-Fish(Mind Game):

Glow-Fish-Game

Use mouse for the movement and left click to destroy the enemy fishes.
It may look as a very easy game in the first level, but from 2nd level you will know the real fun of the game.

84. Matrix Rampage:

Matrix-Rampage

This is a fantastic game. You need to destroy the enemies with all kind of stuffs you get on your way, including table, chair, gun, sword etc.
Initially you will have to hit them with your hand. Once you hit your 1st enemy, you can pick up his weapon and start fighting. You can also pickup the chair, table and the pots etc from all around you and hit them to death. Over all, a very good game.

Use arrow keys for moving. “a” for shooting. “s” for picking up the weapons or items.

85. Pong:

Pong

Basic game, but still can turn addictive.
Use mouse for the movement and space bar to quit.

86. Powergolf:

Power-golf

Use mouse buttons to play and target. Angle of hit is most important in this game.

87.Zombie Assault 2(Shooting Game):

Zombie-Assault-2

For movement use, up -> “w”, down -> “s”, right -> “d”, left -> “a”. Reload weapon -> “r”, Fire -> “right click”, Change weapon -> “q” or “e”. Unlock street -> “f”. Throw grenades -> “g”. Space Bar -> pause, shop etc. You get the points as and when you kill your enemies, with those points or money you can purchase weapons and unlock some door etc.

88. Sixers Cricket:

Sixers-Cricket

Move batsman using arrow keys. Use mouse to select the direction. Keep the left mouse button clicked and release after selecting the desired power in power meter. Hit these boards to get more confidence and extra runs.

89. 3D MotorBike Racing:

3D-MotorBike-Racing

Throw on a helmet and get racing in this fast paced motorcycle game! Play the single player version or connect on the multiplayer network to play people from all over the world. Compete for the best times and unlock new levels as you complete each track!

90. StitchTikiBow:

StitchTikiBow

Position Stitch on the lane. Select the angle of Stitch’s curve. Select Stitch’s speed

91.Age Of War:

Crimson-warfare-Game

Defend your base by building turrets and soldiers, all while trying to evolve faster than your opponent. Create your solders team, with the money that you generate by killing your enemies. Save as much money as possible, to purchase more sophisticated weapons than your enemy team, so that you can beat them easily. The game seems like silly in the beginning, but its when you come to know about the weapon purchasing and power booster attack etc, the game will turn addictive and impressive.

92. Sushi Chef:

Sushi-Chef

Sushi Chef is a fun time management game. Your main goal is to keep your customers happy and serve them the right dishes in time to reach your daily target. You really have to rely on your memory skills. Extra features like reservations and take away orders coming in constantly keep your adrenaline going.
You start your own sushi restaurant, build your sushi restaurant emporium and finally become the one and only Sushi Chef! Serving your customers all kinds of sushi, your goal is to reach a daily target. Every next level more sushi ingredients will be added and the more complex your sushi making will be. To reach your target in higher levels you can buy upgrades to serve customers faster, make combo’s or serve some take-away meals to earn extra money. To keep your customers happy you can decorate your restaurants, perform great knife tricks or serve some sake while your customers are waiting.

93. Tank Wars(Kids game):

Tank-Wars

A and Z to adjust the velocity. Space Bar to fire the cannon. Goal: Blow up the other tanks before your tank is blown up. Use arrow keys for movement and to adjust the angle of cannon.
Adjust the Velocity of shoot before shooting.

94. Gold Strike Game(For kids):

Gold-Strike-Game

Hit those coloured bricks which are arranged on above the other or placed adjacent to each other, before the bricks approach towards you.

95. Packman:

Packman

This game is not like the usual packman. In this game, you will have to control the rolling ball using 2 pads on either side. Use keyboard arrow keys for movement.

96. The Commanders Sister:

The-Commanders-Sister

Awesome game. You need to watch and read the story to enjoy the game to its fullest.

97. Prince of Persia (Awesome Game):

Prince-of-Persia

Almost all of us have played Prince of Persia in our childhood. We have a flash version of that game here. I am sure you will love it, if you love the desktop version of the game.
Use arrow keys to move. Space bar to make long jumps. Shift key to pickup things. Shift + up arrow key to climb up. etc.

98. Tom & Jerry:

Tom-and-Jerry-Game

Two different games, if you play as Tom you throw water balloons, Jerry you drop cheese to Nibbles.
Move Jerry using the Arrow keys. Pick up and drop food to a hungry Nibbles with the space bar. The higher the drop, the more points you’ll earn. Be careful: If Tom hits you three times, it’s game over.

99. Table Tennis Championship:

Table-Tennis-Championship

The matches take place in eleven points. You must have two difference points to win the match. When you win a match you receive an upgrade.

100. Homerun Mania(Base Ball) :

Home-run-Mania

Move the mouse horizontally to position your player. Move the mouse vertically to select your angle of shot. Press SPACE BAR to start a pitch. Click the mouse at correct time for the best shot. Homeruns give you 2x the score!

I enjoyed playing all these games. I would suggest you to bookmark this article and pull it back on week ends and have fun. And do not forget to send the link of this article to your friends and family people.

Free ebook download -“Tips, Tricks and Strategies to Make Money Online”

The ebook is finally out for Download.

Writing an eBook with collective effort:
Some time back Daniel scocco from DailyBlogTips cameup with an idea of writing an eBook with collective effort. The project was to group together the ideas and tips from different people, in a way that it would benefit both the collaborators and the end user (i.e. the readers).
People participating/contributing to the ebook were supposed to write about “Tips, Tricks and Strategies to Make Money Online” in not more than 200 to 300 words. This is indeed a good idea, which would bring value to the readers as well as to the participants, as we were assured of link backs to our blog.
I always admire Daniel’s work and the community he has build around his blog. I just wanted to be part of the community and wanted to take part in the group work. And ofcourse the traffic and the boost to our brand awareness was an additional reward.

What most of us had expected?
Daniel and most of the participants had expected that this ebook will bring in a lot of traffic, when it is released on DailyBlogTips.com. Thousands of internet users were expected to download it, and hundreds of visitors would be visiting to each blog, if things happen as Daniel had planned.

But what happened?
Fortunately quality of most entries was good, but unfortunately the tips and tricks were too broad to make sense under a single ebook.
And as usual, Daniel did not compromise, and so did not release the ebook on DailyBlogTips. He is committed to provide value to his readers, which is a very good commitment indeed, and very less people can actually deliver this commitment.

What’s the fate of the ebook ?
But as promised, Daniel took the pain with pleasure and spent some time to collect the entries and formatted, styled them under a simple ebook anyway. Now we are free to release the ebook on our(participants) blog.

What I feel is, this ebook gives us a chance to know what other people around the world think about Making Money Online. So I made my mind to give it to our readers.

So how can I download the ebook?
While announcing the ebook writing project it was made clear that the copyrights belong to everyone who participated, and that we can’t give away a direct download link to the ebook, we must require people to subscribe to our RSS feed or email list before they can download it. Its a rule of the project and I must follow it to keep the interest of other participants.
So please take a moment to subscribe to our email or RSS updates to get the download link for this ebook. You can always unsubscribe after downloading(Oops I shoot my own legs 🙂 ).

Finally, I would like to thank Daniel of DailyBlogTips.com for holding such an interesting and valuable project. Atleast the intention was good, outcome is not in anyone’s hand. And thanks to all the participants who have shared their knowledge and experience in the ebook, which may help our readers to gain some knowledge. And last, but not the least(actually the most important), the readers of the ebook, thanks to everyone who invested their time in reading this article and put their effort in downloading the ebook. You can freely distribute it to your friends, friends of friends and friends of friends friends, relatives and to whomever you want. Thanks again.

Foot Steps of Marketing — Where Do You Stand ?

We have heard a lot about both Online as well as offline marketing.
Marketing strategies have been changing from the day it was invented. Its good to see many new and sophisticated techniques coming every now and then and solving many problems..and creating some!

First thing first..

What is Marketing ?

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

Ethical / Unethical Marketing ?

With increase in the population and user demands, many businesses started appearing and the competition obviously increased among businesses. It increased so much that its now the matter of survival to most companies. So the only way left on their part is aggressive marketing strategies, which brings them large number of conversions.
An example:-
We see in daily commercials showing, women with black colour skin complexion being harassed and the white women being respected, and the next thing is they show their cosmetics product and tell us to use it and to turn white! and to get the respect from the society. These kind of ads work magically and bring about many conversions.
On the other hand if they start showing ads with not so good looking women in the ad, people watching it, will take it easy and are less likely to purchase the product!
I don’t really have to tell you which ads would be more desirable to marketers.
But the question is..Do you think such ads are an ethical marketing?
Playing with the human emotions? Yes…No.
Answer varies from person to person, depending on their perspective.
Some people may say that this kind of marketing is not at all wrong, because we all see it almost daily and are used to it!. We are so used to it that we think that its not a big issue.

While some people say that this kind of marketing is completely unethical, as it plays with the emotions of people for meeting marketers selfish goals. There are many others who defend that this is a ethical marketing and the best way to get a conversion.
Its interesting to hear all your ideas and thoughts. So please please please share your thoughts in the comment section of this article.

Target Audience(Target marketing):-

Marketers target group of people who are more likely to purchase their products, hence making them more profits.

Some examples:-
1. Ads showing more imaginary adventures, cartoon etc may target children.
2. Quick Money making ads may attract more of business people.
3. Cosmetics ads for girls.
4. Body building ads for men.
5. Speaker systems for music lovers. etc.

As all these production industries have a lot of competition, they need to reduce the price inorder to sustain in the growing competition.

Desperate buyers:-
There are products like medicine which will be purchased by people as they are in a situation where they can’t give more importance to money(when compared to their health). They are in a position where purchasing the medicine becomes crucial. In these kind of situations marketers may take advantage of the situation of people and may try to mint more money. Making use of the desperate situation will get them more conversion and hence more money. But again the question arises in our mind..Whether its Ethical or unethical marketing ?

Obviously, I’m not speaking about all emotional marketing. Most of the marketing involves interaction with peoples emotions, but I am talking about the one’s which is too low in its purpose and aims only at the sale of their product(conversion).

Impatient Aspirers

Impatient Aspirers are a group of target customers who have some what same taste and status. Watch the funny video below. Please do not miss watching the video. Its funny as well as insightful, and worth thousand words.



Marketing and Blogging:-

There are many ways of monetizing a blog. One way is to write an ebook and sell it on your blog. This is a popular and proved to be efficient way of making money online. Now to get most money out of the ebook, you need to sell as many copies of ebook as possible. And to do so, you need to Market it properly(if you do not have an already well established blog).
Landing page should be more engaging and trust worthy. When someone lands on your landing page and reads about your product details, you need to arouse their interest first. You might not know every single person who reads your site, but that’s fine. Because you do know what they are generally familiar with. Use those references to bridge the gap and connect. Attention getting strategies and tactics can be helpful if the product, service or information lives up to the promise.

Rather than trying to sell an idea to the masses, you sell something desirable to people who already want and have a need for it. It’s much easier to fulfill a need than to create one.

So there are many many marketing strategies and as far as I know many people are trying and succeeding with newer marketing strategies each day. So, as a marketer we need to be innovative, creative and responsible. As a customer we need to be more cautious and clear about what we want and what we do not want.

Word of Mouth Marketing:-

Over years we have seen many MLM’s(Multi-Level Marketing) or Network Marketing coming, growing, glowing and going!
What makes people join MLM’s ?
Its the money. The easy way to start earning money, by referring other people to join under you.
So, from where do MLM companies get the money from?
Most MLM companies sell products. By purchasing which people become their members. These MLM companies remove the middle man between the product and the customers, hence saving a lot of money.
Another big saving comes from the marketing effort. There is no need to get a VIP or a celebrity to endorse the products. So a lot of money is again saved. These MLM companies then distribute the money saved, to all its members, by following some of their rules/policies.
So, how do these MLM companies do the marketing ?
Its done by the members of MLM. These members do the marketing on behalf of MLM company through WORD OF MOUTH, these products will be sold and new members keep joining(thus products are continuously sold), everybody(most of them) make good income.MLM is just an apt example for the WORD OF MOUTH marketing.

Here is a list of WORD OF MOUTH marketing, that you can choose, test and implement on your blogs, to increase the traffic and conversion rate significantly.

Word of mouth marketing:

* Buzz Marketing: Using high-profile entertainment or news to get people to talk about your brand.

* Viral Marketing: Creating entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by email.

* Community Marketing: Forming or supporting niche communities that are likely to share interests about the brand (such as user groups, fan clubs, and discussion forums); providing tools, content, and information to support those communities.

* Grassroots Marketing: Organizing and motivating volunteers to engage in personal or local outreach.

* Evangelist Marketing: Cultivating evangelists, advocates, or volunteers who are encouraged to take a leadership role in actively spreading the word on your behalf.

* Product Seeding: Placing the right product into the right hands at the right time, providing information or samples to influential individuals.

* Influence Marketing: Identifying key communities and opinion leaders who are likely to talk about products and have the ability to influence the opinions of others.

* Cause Marketing: Supporting social causes to earn respect and support from people who feel strongly about the cause.

* Conversation Creation: Interesting or fun advertising, emails, catch phrases, entertainment, or promotions designed to start word of mouth activity.

* Brand Blogging: Creating blogs and participating in the blogosphere, in the spirit of open, transparent communications; sharing information of value that the blog community may talk about.

* Referral Programs: Creating tools that enable satisfied customers to refer their friends, to your product or service.

More on Marketing Strategies(mainly to increase your blog traffic) coming soon..so please subscribe to our free email/rss updates and stay tuned.

Please do not forget to share your thoughts about current marketing trendz. What Marketing strategies you are following? What strategies worked and which did not work for you? Whats Ethical and Unethical about it? Please share your opinions in the comment section below and involve yourself in the conversation going on here.

Google Docs improved: Now with instant templates

Google Docs was/is of great help from the day it launched, but today we have a speacial reason to thank Google Docs Team. That is, they have launced a  new template gallery for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Now, whether you need business cards, letterhead, or employee time sheets, you don’t have to start from a blank slate. Find the template that’s right for you and start customizing it with your information – you’ll save time on formatting and formulas.

To access the template gallery:

1. Log in to your Google Apps account at http://docs.google.com/a/example.com (Be sure to replace ‘example.com’ with your actual domain name.)
2. Click ‘New’
3. Select ‘From template…’

or click here and login with your Google account.


Many templates leverage the collaborative aspect of Google Docs so that several people can work on a single document online without having to email attachments back and forth. To hear the story behind two templates, watch these videos: