In today’s fast paced world, everyone seems to be too busy with their own day-to-day routine, to take care of their health and fitness. Too much work pressure and fatigue drains out every bit of strength left in our body. Also, an unhygienic way of living tends to make us ill that hampers our daily activities. So, doesn’t it become essential to take out some time from our hectic schedule to pamper ourselves and get revitalized for the next day? Adopting a sound lifestyle and taking care of our body is indispensable for leading a healthy life.

Health has become a matter of concern, especially in case of women. The reason behind this is generally lack of sufficient time. Be it working ladies or homemakers, everyone seems to have the same excuse for not being able to take care of their health. Others find it a hassle to install various health instruments at home. However, with the rise in the number of health and fitness clubs and gymnasiums, it has become a lot easier for many to take out time for exercises and body-care routine. Shopping for the same is difficult and due to the shortage of time, there is a better way – shopping via Internet .

Online shopping is a process where customers visit portal sites and avail services to their purchase. This method is more accessible and convenient as one has no need to go out . Retails Direct is an online shopping portal which offers an exquisite range of excellent medical fitness equipments. It has all ranges of pedometers, blood pressure monitors, body-fat monitors and simulators .

Retails direct is also offering some ultimate range of herbal products like body and hair oil, skin tones face pack etc.

Home appliances are an essential utility for every home. Any form of home appliance acts as an aid in the daily household chores. A home décor is governed by the correct placement of these gadgets which lead to the proper furnishing of a house.

Today, with online shopping buying home appliances is easy. Usually in India, a home maker is an important decision maker while selecting a particular product meant for her dwelling. Hence, it is the housewife or the home maker who has to take time out from her busy schedule to go out shopping. This is not very feasible for a working woman.

The online shopping portals are a relief for such people. Instead of hopping from one shop to the other, a house wife can now shop from her work place or from home. Also, these e – stores are available twenty four hours a day. This gives an advantage over malls and other show rooms. Also, a customer can check the authenticity as well as the credibility of a particular e – store.

RetailsDirect is an e – store where many different products are put on sale which include home appliances such as washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, kitchen appliances etc. Discounts are also available which gives more options to the buyer.

Therefore, the online shopping industry can be considered as a boon for those who are engaged in work at all times.

Diamonds, or for that matter, jewelery of all forms and sizes are a girl’s best friend ever! You name an occasion and the ladies in the house start flocking the best jewelery stores in town. The reason is simple: they can’t afford to miss the best designs from the best brands in.

Keeping the consumer interest in mind, Retails Direct has tied up with some of the most prestigious brands in the Indian markets and brings an exclusive repertoire of the same just for our prized customers.

Retails Direct, a rapidly growing shopping portal, has been bringing you a wide assortment of the best and latest designs from market leaders like Sangini Jewelers. Now, joining the RD bandwagon of elite brands are D’damas, Asmi, Nakshatra and Diya, bringing precious jewelery sets at the best prices.

The portal takes immense pleasure at announcing new products from these market giants in the form of pendent sets, bangles and necklaces along with popular products like earings, finger rings etc.

After making in-roads in the online shopping arena, Retails Direct is taking care of the minutest details and the smallest of needs of its consumers. It is proud to bring you a wider and a more divergent shopping bag to dig out from.

Therefore, look no further, as RD is focusing on almost everything and anything that you may desire to own. So the next time you think of the bling, you know exactly where to login.

Termed as only a rich man’s privilege when they were earlier introduced, mobile phones are no longer the prerogative of the elite class with their prices continuously lowering down to allow everybody to access the most revolutionary technology of our times. Due to their affordability to the common masses, they are slowly becoming a common commodity. Further, features such as voice conferencing, camera facility, bluetooth devices, video player, etc., everybody is attracted to these marvels of science as today they have evolved from being just a communication device to an all-in-one package that satisfies all the needs of a common man. Businessmen too, are not the ones to complain these days, since there are many advanced business phones that work as efficiently as a modern day computer, and allow their owners to carry on with their daily activities besides offering them mobility.

With detailed market evaluation and sensible business judgment, mobile manufacturers have come up with mobile handsets for as low as Rs. 1000/- which are now readily available in the market. Therefore, now we have a mobile phone available for every economy class in India. According to Portio research, the worldwide mobile industry will be worth US$ 1 Trillion by the close of 2008, and a majority of the credit for this phenomenal growth has been attributed to the growing demand of cheap mobile phones in the market.

The challenge, however, lies in finding the best place to purchase a quality mobile handset for yourself at the best price. This is where RetailsDirect steps in; Offering you a wide array of options to choose from the likes of Motorola, HTC, Sony Ericsson and many more. What’s more, these products come to your doorstep with an assurance of unmatched quality. What else do you need? Log on to RetailsDirect now and and get ready to communicate in style.

As per our promise in the earlier blog post, we have now made our community feature LIVE. This is going to be your platform to speak out your mind, know the best deals, interact with shoppers all around India, and many more features that are going to change the way you shop online. Below is a list of everything Cafe’ Retail, your very own online shoppers’ community, has to offer :

Shoppers blog: Share your shopping experiences with thousands of shoppers, let the world know what you feel, write about your experiences with products, good or otherwise. There’s no stopping you at RDs Shop Blog

Shopper’s forum: Ask questions and get answers instantly. Interact with shoppers’ and get direct feedback regarding products, the best deals or just plain old comparison based on performance. This is one place where you will never feel exhausted of information related to shopping.

Group Bargains: Now, shoppers get the bargain of their choice with RetailsDirect’s Group Bargains feature. Just huddle up, demand for the product of your choice at the rate you want and presto! You have it.

Video/Picture Gallery: Upload and share your fond memories and product purchases; You iwth your favourite products and Service Experience, Birthday, Anniversary, that big promotion, or just a rocking night out with friends.

Voice-Video-Text chat: Enjoy free voice-video-text chat and talk with your near and dear ones just like you were sitting right beside them.

RD Coins: RetailsDirect introduces RD coins, the best online currency that actually allows you to make product purchases from our store. What’s more, you can earn RD coins for practically everything. Right from blogging and participation in forums to writing product reviews.

With so many new features, RetailsDirect is all geared to give you, our customers, the ultimate online shopping experience. Come, and experience the magic, at India’s first online interactive store.

Diamond – the ageless gem that has never skipped a lady’s eye and captivated the women the world over. It has built around itself one of the most profitable industries reigning in the markets today. Retails Direct, a noted player in the e-commerce circuit has now decided to feature these sparkling gems on its virtual shelf. Already beset with numerous brands in categories ranging from consumer electronics, home entertainment, apparels to travel and musical instruments, it represents products across diverse categories assorted on its site. Diamonds are a new addition.

Retails Direct has tied up with Sangini Diamonds, one of the most coveted labels in the Indian Diamond Industry, to have its jewelry sparkle on its mantle.

The challenge now, however shall remain to attract the niche community along with others who belong to different moulds and buying cultures. So how is Retails Direct going to do that? Sangini has already established its equity in the offline premises. Its IGI (International Gemological Institute) certification which gives it world-class quality assurance will invariably play an acer in instilling confidence in the minds of the consumers.

Besides, Retails Direct is soon to integrate a community feature within its site, making it the most interactive shopping portal on the web, ever! The idea is to let people create their own space, share their thought pool with many others and contribute towards making themselves better known to their business counterparts. This strategy will help invoke a more responsive audience and create a junction where people will enjoy visiting and developing their respective networks.

Specific groups for people sharing similar product/brand interest will facilitate people to join such groups more eagerly as they may become their consulting nodes. Shoppers love to talk and exchange experiences. Therefore, be it diamonds or mobile phones, Retails Direct will generate an interest-invoking space for every unique customer under its roof.

The world today is standing at the threshold of a new era. Consumer Mindsets have evolved. Complimenting the change are new businesses which have re-modeled their strategies, divulging an approach which is more transparent, open and realistic.

From traditional monotones to dynamic exchange of thoughts through blogs and forum discussions, communication channels have also witnessed a sea of change. In present times, not only do people appreciate views that are real and honest, but businesses too are open to critical feedback rather than pleasant but deceptive. Well, if you are still skeptical to voice your ‘honest’ views, would you try if you were rewarded to do so?

Yes, you now have an opportunity to earn rewards for simply venting your opinions, writing reviews, blogging and participating in forums. Retails Direct’s community feature, Café Retail has put on its board a fascinating feature called ‘Free your mind’. This attribute will allow people to earn reward points in the form of RD Coins (Retails Direct Coins) which you can redeem while shopping on the site.

The concept of shopping portals encouraging members to rate products is not new to the e-commerce industry but getting rewards for doing so is a concept never ever sold in the market so far. The intent behind this is to help buyers vocalize honest perceptions about the brands they buy- products in particular, share ideas, exchange opinions and carve their own space which allows them to speak and most importantly get heard by their counterparts.

So are we heading towards creating higher value for businesses? Candid reviews will help gauge the market and target products more effectively. Additional rewards to “free your mind” are an added incentive!

Well, pictures do speak more than a thousand words, don’t they? Infact they are the best stories one can ever write without using a single word. With media doing digital, people can now express their creative potential more powerfully and effortlessly. And that is what they are doing. The rising number of photo sharing websites is proven evidence. What if you were allowed to share the pictures of your favorite products with your friends on the site you’ve been shopping from??

Well, the good times have finally already arrived!

Retails Direct, a web portal gaining credible presence due to its customer-friendly features, has integrated yet another attribute which will mark the first of its kind, in the internet world. It has set on its board a new community feature called *Café Retail* to facilitate online shoppers get connected with each other in a most dynamic way.

Café Bargains, Café Chit Chat, Talks, Free your Mind, Fresh from your zone are some of its elements which will help buyers to not only share experiences and exchange opinions but also create or choose bargains, participate in contest, invite more people to join shoppers’ groups, meet buyers from their local areas and earn rewards for doing so. And that’s not all!

Here’s More!

Café Gallery

Café Gallery is dynamic photo-sharing feature at Café Retail which will help people vault their reach with many others through PICTURES.

In a world where people are going digital by the minute and are seeking social networks to get connected, *Café Gallery* will serve as a brilliant interface for online shoppers to meet their counterparts, exchange views and collaboratively participate in building their unique space on the net, the first time ever.

Retails Direct has finally geared to become its audiences’ most friendly shopping portal. Now shoppers will get more than just products on their e-stores.

It’s time to go on a digital spree and explore new grounds of communication. Social networking still remains high on the cards of the new breed of web users but they are still speaking innovation. They are still getting better and better.

Retails Direct, a young seedling in the genre of e-retail gamut, has announced integration of a community feature on its shopping portal. A never-seen-before footing in the history of e-commerce, this feature called Café Retail is skillfully designed to cater to those unmet needs of the online shopper which he has ever dreamt of so far. Yes, the businesses are finally walking hand in hand with the customers. Or are trying to at least.

Café Retail will be including in its arsenal some highly interactive features which will redefine the way entrepreneurs have been connecting with their consumers so far. Café Talks (open discussions on products and brands) , Café Bargains (option to choose or create one’s own bargains), Free your Mind (blogging), Café Gallery (photo/video sharing) and most importantly, Café Chit Chat are some of its predominant attributes.

Café Chit Chat

The decimal of the web fraternity is on a rise. So is their need to communicate. Café Chit Chat is one such stepping stone which will leverage people to enjoy a more feasible, faster and a low-cost face-to-face interface to connect and network with their peers and friends. Voice Video Text chat is what it will enable, taking people to a new genre of interaction. Yes indeed! For the first time ever, a shopping portal will enable its shoppers to form their own community and interact in a most dynamic way. Voice/video chatting is not new to the web world but its usage by the online buyers will be a great contribution to e-commerce industry as it will open grounds to directly know consumer likes/dislikes from their mouth itself.

You could say that this is an interesting way to build customer relationships. Customers always seek an added value, along with a particular product, they buy. Retails Direct is doing just that in a BIG, BIG way.

Sahil, an IT Professional in Bangalore, is passionate about gadgets, particularly mobile phones. Every morning, before starting his day at office, he browses through the net to not just find the latest handsets but also the sites that can give him the best deals on his desired products. If he finds one, he’ll probably end up buying one without delay.

Just like Sahil, there are thousands, if not millions of web techies who browse through the net for the same. So do they really get the site which can answer their needs? Well, Retails Direct has for them all this and more than what they dream of.

Here you go!

Retails Direct (RD) has in its offing, a community feature called Café Retail, which will include numerous other attributes which will help shoppers/ members connect with each other with greater ease and feasibility. More so, these features (Café Bargains / Cult (forming shoppers’ groups) / Cafe Gallery (sharing photos and videos) / Free your Mind
(blogging) are some elements which will help bettering customers’ buying experience by drawing inputs from them straight away. Furthermore, Retails Direct intends to reward its members for doing so. The idea is to have shoppers/buyers themselves speak about what they want, when and how.

MY PROFILE!

‘My Profile’ is a simple feature in Café Retail where shoppers’ will be required to fill their details (professional and personal), likes/dislikes under various heads. Members filling in same details or answers will help RD find like-minded people so that:
* Customers themselves can form groups based on shared interests
* This will help them find members for groups in Café Bargains as well
* Also help them find old pals
* Help Retails Direct to create customized offers/promotions as per members’ profile
What’s More?

Shoppers needn’t get bugged with the idea of going to the Profile page every time they login on the site to fill details. Retails Direct will bring you pop-ins on your landing page, asking about the details it needs you to fill in. Therefore, you can effortlessly fill your profile preferences and…GET REWARDED IF YOU ARE FAST ENOUGH TO DO SO. Yes! RD gives you an option to win rewards in the form of RD coins, the moment you complete filling the Profile form. These points can be redeemed against any offers available at Retails Direct during that time.
Technology is on a high and best of it is leveraged by enterprises like Retails Direct
which are continuously flying higher on improving its customers’ buying experience and giving them maximum customer delight with its products as well as services.