What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Karuf, one of the world's digital service marketplaces, offers buyers and sellers a simple digital transaction platform. The unique term for a service offered by a seller on Karuf is called a "Ds". When creating Dses, sellers can choose their starting price point. Sellers can take this a step further and offer Ds packages to buyers using Ds packages. These include multiple price ranges and sellers can offer buyers a variety of tailored service packages. This way, buyers can pick and choose from all the items on offer according to their specific needs.
Register
Registration with Karuf is free, but only registered users can buy and sell on Karuf. Upon registration, your account will automatically become a buyer account. Follow these instructions to become a seller. Almost anyone can find something in their skill set to sell on Karuf. Browse our different categories, see where your skills fit and decide how you want to sell. Bestsellers leave no room for any misunderstandings and manage buyers' expectations well.
Before you can create and sell dses on Karuf, you must create a "Seller" account.
Please note that all sellers are vetted during the signup and ds creation process and are subject to Karuf approval.
Learn more with our Terms of Service.
Our best sellers in general:
Make sure their seller profile is 100% complete
Make sure their dses are well written and detail the services they offer.
Make sure the selected portfolio reflects their skills
Tip for Sellers: Increase your revenue by providing additional services to your customers during the ordering process. Really understand our buyer's needs, show them how your skills can help them achieve their goals, and use effective communication around the world to ensure consistent alignment.
Ratings
If your buyers' expectations are met, or hopefully exceeded, you'll get a good rating from them, which will lead to more buyer business in the future.
Where does it come from?
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.., comes from a line in section 1.10.32.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
Where can I get some?
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.