Make Money This Holiday Season - Don't Just Spend It
September 30, 2005 - thelightkeeper.com - What if you could make more money than you spend this holiday season? Sounds like a pretty good idea, you say? If you'd like to be on the making money end during the holidays, now is the time to start preparing. Below I'm going to give you several money-making ideas.
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Should You Publish a PAID E-zine?
September 30, 2005 - mommyportal.com - If you want to promote your current business and sell more of your products and services, a free e-zine is your ticket to success. If you plan to build a new business around making money from subscription fees, of course you'll want to charge. However, publishing a paid e-zine is no small task! Here are some important points to consider.
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Copywriting - Five Ways to Break Into This Field
September 30, 2005 - virtualwordpublishing.com - How do I get a job writing a marketing brochure or a grant proposal? I can’t use my freelance journalism or short stories to advertise myself! True, true, but the steps are easier than you might think. Here are five easy ways to get yourself started on your career in commercial copywriting.
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10 Money-Saving Tips for Home Businesses
September 30, 2005 - home-based-parents.com - One of the most common obstacles many home-based working moms face is trying to start or run a new business on a limited budget. The first few years of a business are usually the hardest financially.
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Parenting and Running a Home-based Business
September 30, 2005 - wahpnetwork.com - If you work from home, chances are you know it can be tough balancing work and family under one roof. Home-based business owners Chuck and Sue DeFiore offer some tips to ease some work-at-home stress.
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Consider the Obvious
September 30, 2005 - planet-e-mom.com - That home business opportunity for which you've been searching for the past several years may have stared you directly in the face today. You may have touched it, seen it or heard it several times. In fact, it may be so obvious that when you finally do discover it, you'll wonder how you ever overlooked it.
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How to Advertise with Flyers
September 30, 2005 - wahmhangout.com - When you first start out on your business venture, money is usually tight but you still need to advertise. One of the most affordable, yet very effective, ways to begin your advertising campaign is with flyers.
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How to Kill Your Online Business
September 30, 2005 - cwahm.com - Here are a few ways to instantly kill your business.
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65 Ways to Advertise & Promote Your Business
September 30, 2005 - mothersworkathome.com - Now that you have a home business, what do you do now? You need to advertise and expose your business to as many people as possible! Here are some QUICK suggestions & things you can do to advertise your business! Alot of them are FREE are very low cost!
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Writing Effective Text For Your Website...
September 30, 2005 - faithfulfriendsonline.com - Designing your website can be mind-boggling to say the least but when it comes to writing the text, sometimes that can just take you clear over the edge! It's difficult to figure out what to say, how much to say, and what wording to use to say it.
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How to Streamline Your Operations
September 30, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - You've been successfully selling your wares on eBay for a while, and you're seeing a greater demand for your products. Now that you've gotten a taste of success, you're hooked--and you want more. So how do you take your business on eBay to the next level?
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Is Your Ebay Income Taxable?
September 30, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - If you make money from it, then it’s income – and if it’s income, then it’s taxable. There is a question of scale involved, though, where the more you’ve sold, the more important it is to declare your eBay income. If you don’t, you risk getting yourself into all sorts of trouble.
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Keeping focused in Online Business is Key!
September 29, 2005 - devshed.com - Creating and making a business successful takes 1. Time. 2. Effort. 3. And finally it requires you not to dump it and stop working on it just because a month after launch you have not made as many sales as you would have liked to.
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Criteria in Determining the Best Affiliate Program
September 29, 2005 - ezinearticles.com - Joining an Affiliate Program is a great way to start earning a sizeable income on the Internet without many of the hassles that come with running your own business.
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Gain Control of Your Marketing Efforts and Assure a Steady Flow of Clients
September 29, 2005 - businessknowhow.com - When it comes to marketing, do you ever feel like you are at the mercy of the tides – following up on a referral here, chasing a lead there and more often than not ending up battered and bruised by the rocks along the shoreline? There is a simple solution. It is a solution that will put you in control of your marketing efforts and help assure a steady flow of prospective clients: develop and use a contact management database.
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New Email List Building Strategy For Forums and Membership Registration Sites
September 29, 2005 - emailuniverse.com - Got a forum or site that requires registration for free or fee-based membership? Recommend That You Do This Email List Building Strategy Immediately.
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Small Business Solution To Get Back On Track
September 29, 2005 - about.com - Running a small business is similar to the highs and lows of a cross-country journey. Success is never a straight line up but a series of slowdowns, dangerous curves, and wrong directions. What small business solution can you apply to get back on track?
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What It Takes to Be A Successful Franchisee
September 29, 2005 - startupjournal.com - For companies that are sniffing out potential franchisees, a clean financial history isn't enough anymore. A growing number of franchisers are turning to personality tests to see whether potential franchisees will be a good fit with the company's vision -- and generate big royalty revenue.
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How To Make Money Selling Your Recipes
September 29, 2005 - topwahms.com - Everyone says you're a good cook. In fact, everyone says you're a great cook. You'd like to make some extra money with your food expertise, but you don't have the time or money to make and sell actual food products, not to mention meeting health department requirements, licensing, and so forth. So, what do you do? Sell your recipes.
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Net Deposits
September 29, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - In theory, the convenience and simplicity of online banking make it a godsend for busy entrepreneurs. Yet recent surveys show that small-company CEOs are slow to migrate their business banking online, lagging behind consumers and big companies.
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How To Get Around Those Email Harvesters
September 29, 2005 - bytestart.co.uk - One solution to having your emails 'harvested' would be to buy some anti-spam software - this is what many people resort to. Of course, this is a good solution, but it doesn't tackle the cause.
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Business Insurance For The Small Business
September 29, 2005 - workz.com - If you're still in the planning stages of starting a new business, you've probably enumerated all your expenses and laid out all your needs in a business plan. In the excitement of actually getting your business up and running, it's too easy to plan for the best and forget to prepare for the worst. A little insurance can go a long way to help your business over crises and rough spots.
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Is Your Business Ready for the Unexpected?
September 29, 2005 - clickz.com - Tragedies such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita remind us how important it is for every business to have contingency plans. Even an online business located nowhere near the affected area must be prepared for the fallout of an unexpected event. It could be a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or major product issue (such as a recall).
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Amazon to Accept Electronic-Funds Payments for Orders
September 29, 2005 - auctionbytes.com - Amazon buyers will soon be able to pay for their purchases electronically through their bank accounts. In addition, sellers were told they will see the bank accounts associated with their Amazon accounts automatically set up as payment instruments.
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Starting Your Own E-Business: Part 1 - The Plan
September 29, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - Roughly speaking, starting an online business is divided into two parts: the hard part and the easy part.
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Using Online Ebay Auctions to Promote Your Website
September 29, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Ebay is easy. You can learn how to use the interface in no time at all and before you know it not only will you sell some of your products and services online, you will generate so many targeted leads for such a low cost you will wonder what took you so long to try it.
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The Power of Negative Thinking
September 29, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - For some reason, most people find it easier to think in a negative way than in a positive manner. It seems that some effort is needed to think positive thoughts, whereas negative thinking comes easily and uninvited. This has much to do with education and the environment one has been living in.
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Sell Anything To Anyone If You Master This
September 29, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve read on selling, marketing, advertising, or prospecting, the most important reason why people BUY is - they liked, and or trusted the individual that was selling.
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Four Easy Steps to a Powerful Joint Venture
September 28, 2005 - ecomhelp.com - The term Joint Venture simply means a partnership between you and another business person. A Joint Venture (JV) usually involves selling a product online by means of sending an email to a mailing list.
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Submitting to Ezine Directories
September 28, 2005 - biztalk4u.com - One of the most popular ways of promoting an ezine is submitting it to ezine directories. When you submit your ezine to directories you ensure that potential subscribers and advertisers can find you.
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Ten Tips for Staying Connected
September 28, 2005 - 1-marketingstrategies.com - Many of my business clients tell me that what they missed most when they started their businesses was the camaraderie of an office setting. Small businesses often start with the owner as the only employee. To combat this sense of isolation here are some suggestions that allow you to connect and market at the same time.
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How to use Testimonials as an additional Marketing Tool
September 28, 2005 - devshed.com - It's been said before that one unsatisfied customer will go out and tell 10-20 of their friends and family about their unsatisfactory experience, but the opposite doesn't seem to occur.Your customers, vendors, suppliers and associates might think you walk on water, but they won't seem to tell everyone else how great you are unless you show them how and give them an actual reason to do it.
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Traffic Exchange Strategy
September 28, 2005 - businesstoolchest.com - For those starting out with their first website, finding visitors can be the most challenging aspect. Your site is new, so nobody knows about it. Fortunately there are tools on the web that can be very useful for new webmasters. Traffic exchanges are an option to be considered.
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Expand your retail business on eBay
September 28, 2005 - msn.com - How to ramp up your sales no matter what kind of business you own
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Buyer's Guide: How to Buy a Server
September 28, 2005 - smallbusinesscomputing.com - We'll describe what makes up a file server, define the different types of file servers, and tell you what you need to look for when buying file-server hardware for your small business.
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10 Ways To Explode Your Online Business Profits
September 28, 2005 - workz.com - What should you do to get more traffic to your website? First, you could invest a little time and money and follow these 10 ways to explode your online business profits. Whether you have an affiliate site or teach people to make money from real estate investing, these guidelines will apply to you.
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Do You REALLY Want to Be a WAHM?
September 28, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Do you treat your business day like an ongoing party? Do you spend hours entering contests, playing games in the WAHM forums, searching for good deals at ebay? Then wonder why you're not making any money?
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Home Based Business Tax Deductions
September 28, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Running a home based business reaps many wonderful tax deductions that other businesses some times may not claim. Unfortunately too many small business owners end up paying the government taxes every year because they are unaware or several small business deductions that are available.
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MLM Training: Let Prospects Close Themselves
September 28, 2005 - Network Marketers lose many prospects because they try too hard to close the deal. It is a natural reaction for people to shun being sold, but they love to buy. By letting prospects close themselves, you will end up putting more people in your downline.
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10 Easy Ways To Organize Your Business Finances
September 28, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Whether you are a new entrepreneur or a more experienced business owner, taking control of your finances can feel like a part-time job. Some simple tips can help you streamline your time, organize your finances and reduce the stress of business money matters.
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How to Find the Best Mailing List for Your Offer
September 20, 2005 - mailingknowhow.com - Implementing any successful mailing program begins by determining who will get your mail. You need to find or compile a mailing list of qualified prospects for your offer. The success of your mailing is directly dependent on the accuracy of your mailing list in targeting prospects most likely to be interested in your product or service.
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Should I move my business out of the house to make it grow?
September 20, 2005 - usatoday.com - I have owned a home-based business for five years. I have seen associates move their businesses out of the house and wonder if I should do the same. There does seem to be a limit on growth being based from home, but I also really like the perks – being near my children, low overhead, and so on. What do I do?
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Is Account Receivable Factoring for You?
September 20, 2005 - about.com - As a small business owner, you know first hand the struggle of attaining capital to finance the growth of your business or meet cash flow shortages. When regular small business financing such as loans and credit are limited, some business owners will turn to accounts receivable financing. Is accounts receivable financing right for your business?
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ThinkPad Goes Cellular
September 20, 2005 - smallbusinesscomputing.com - The latest ThinkPad notebooks from Lenovo — the Z-Series — offer small business owners and employees yet another way to stay connected while on the road: integrated high-speed EV-DO Wireless WAN (WWAN).
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The Long Road To Wal-Mart Shelves
September 20, 2005 - startupjournal.com - The pair had finally scored a coveted 8 a.m. appointment with a Wal-Mart buyer -- giving them a chance to get their ergonomic pen, the PenAgain, in front of the world's largest retailer. But with only 10 minutes to spare, that chance was slipping away as the entrepreneurs sat, panicked, still a mile and a half away.
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Finding the Money to Grow Your Business
September 20, 2005 - inc.com - When banks aren't so willing to lend, franchises offer a very attractive alternative.
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Small business can outsource too
September 20, 2005 - workoninternet.com - Small- and medium-sized businesses are increasingly outsourcing new positions to workers overseas, to the consternation of labor unions everywhere. Once considered a measure used only by large companies, outsourcing has now become a cost-effective option for smaller firms as well.
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Is Your Business Legally Prepared?
September 20, 2005 - morebusiness.com - It is imperative to have your business legally prepared. How you ask? You need to have a business license, a home occupation license, if running your business from home, a city or county license, (depending on what State you live) plus you need to register your business as fictious if you are not using your name as a business.
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Interview: Jim "Griff" Griffith, Dean, eBay Education
September 20, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - On Labor Day weekend 1995, eBay was born. Over the last 10 years its effects on the Internet are wide ranging, and for many it is more than just an e-commerce vehicle. It's a way of life.
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Protect Your Business in a Divorce
September 20, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - Own a business and plan to get married soon? Consider adding a prenuptial agreement to your wedding plans.
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How To Get Broadband
September 20, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Broadband Internet services have become more the norm today, unlike the dial-up days of the late 1990s. With greater amounts of information needing to travel at faster and faster speeds over the Internet and the greater number of telecommuters every year, the need for broadband Internet has stretched beyond the board room and into the home office. So it is clearly more important than ever for everyone to know how to get broadband.
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Here Come The Holidays – Ready, Set, Go!
September 20, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Remember, prepare for the holidays and you will clean up. Procrastinate and you may be out of business.
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The Power Of Web Forms
September 20, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Web forms allow site owners to gather information about their site visitors. Web forms can be as simple as an email newsletter subscription box, or as complex as an advanced ecommerce checkout page. Here are some tips on making the most of your web forms.
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How to Write Foolproof Media Releases
September 20, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Are you looking for inexpensive ways to promote yourself or your business? Well, read on about media releases, one of the most cost effective promotion vehicles available. Free publicity resulting from a media release sounds good, but how do you go about getting it? The first step is to write foolproof media releases.
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Direct Mail Advertising- Email Is Not Like Postal Mail
September 20, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - If you are new to Internet marketing, you might equate direct email to direct postal mail. The concepts are very similar; in both you broadcast a standard message to a large number of individuals in hopes of receiving positive responses. To the uninitiated, it is logical to assume you can approach the two in the same way. It seems like the only difference is the means of communication. If you are thinking this way, STOP! STOP! STOP!
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5 Ways To Explode Your Viral Marketing...
September 16, 2005 - devshed.com - We all know that viral marketing can be a very effective way to drive targeted traffic to your website, but do all viral marketing tools have to be ebooks or little reports?Absolutely not.
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6 Reasons You Must Submit Articles To E-zines
September 16, 2005 - businesstoolchest.com - Writing articles to promote your website is, hands-down, one of the best ways to get targeted traffic to your website. The best part is that this strategy builds itself over long-term.
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How To Select Wholesale Products
September 16, 2005 - ezinearticles.com - One key factor to succeeding in business is having products that are in hot demand. Your wholesale business needs to have the merchandise which resellers are being asked for by their customers.
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Ezine Archiving: How Long Should I Keep My Email Newsletter Archives Up?
September 16, 2005 - emailuniverse.com - Your email newsletter articles should be archived forever and ever and ever amen.
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Q&A: Phising Victim Falls Hook, Line and Sinker
September 16, 2005 - smallbusinesscomputing.com - I recently became the victim of identity theft. One evening, I received an e-mail from eBay (or so I thought) stating that my account would be suspended, possibly permanently terminated, if I didn't update my account information within 24 hours.
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The Future Of Web Design Is Content Management!
September 16, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - More and more we are starting to see a shift in consumer demand for the increasingly popular website content management system.
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12 Keys to Success for Home Party Plan Consultants
September 16, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - There are many things that will affect your success with a home party plan type of business, the faster you get started the faster you will make money & be successful at your new home business.
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Cross Promoting Techniques that Work
September 16, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Cross promotions are not a new idea. There are many ways to use cross promotions in your internet business that can be an effective and cost efficient way to advertise.
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Truths and Lies of Internet Marketing
September 16, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Pure hype reigns supreme on the Internet. The claims of huge downlines, 6 figure incomes overnight and massive mailing lists with no effort are complete drivel. Nothing is easy to make a go of and online it's no different.
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What Do Your Web Site Statistics Mean, Anyway?
September 15, 2005 - passionforbusiness.com - The purpose of analyzing your web site statistics is to look for trends and to research the success level of your marketing campaigns.
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Planning the Design of Your Web Site
September 15, 2005 - biztalk4u.com - You are all set to give your business global exposure through the internet. It's about time you started building your web site, right? Wait. Have you planned for your web site? Planned? Yes, imagine what would happen to a house if you built it without planning it first.
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Protect Yourself From Home Business Scams
September 15, 2005 - topwahms.com - The internet abounds with `business opportunities'. But before you hit the `send' button, take some time to investigate these claims. Some of them are legitimate, and some promoters do have sound advice or a marketable product for sale that can help you set up a profitable home business.
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The Cost of Doing Business: How Do States Rank?
September 15, 2005 - publicforuminstitute.org - The Milken Institute recently released the latest version of its annual ranking of how states perform in terms of the cost of doing business.
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Franchising
September 15, 2005 - bizhelp24.com - Franchising is about cutting YOUR risks when deciding to run your own business, by jumping on the band-wagon of a proven business enterprise and name: in effect, you are COPYING a proven product AND marketing system.
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Build Your House File
September 15, 2005 - clickz.com - As the online market matures and acquisition costs increase, online marketers should seriously consider building their house files. A strong house file, especially one that includes e-mail and postal addresses, helps build revenue.
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PayPal Problems Continue to Plague Debit-Card Holders
September 15, 2005 - auctionbytes.com - PayPal users are again reporting problems with their PayPal debit cards. The first incident occurred right before the Labor Day holiday weekend when duplicate withdrawals were made from their accounts.
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Service Mixes Ads in Blog Chatter
September 15, 2005 - wired.com - A new service would break down the walls between blogs' editorial and advertising content by matching up marketers and bloggers in a manner reminiscent of magazine advertorials.
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Surviving Katrina: One Entrepreneur's Story
September 15, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - A New Orleans clinical lab owner weighs the future of her business as the floodwaters begin to subside in her hometown.
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Selling Books Online: Book Listing Services vs. eBay
September 15, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - In the past, many people fulfilled a dream and opened brick and mortar bookstores only to find they could not pay the rent with walk-in traffic, or were squeezed out of business by chain stores such as Barnes and Noble and Borders. With the advent of online bookselling, all that has changed.
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Quality Call Center Software
September 15, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - By allowing your calls to become automated, you have also freed up human error. There are many reasons why you should use call center software in your business. Can you think of any not to?
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How Do You Measure Success?
September 15, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - You are a Mother and a housewife who decided to try something new, challenging and rewarding. So you start an online business. You work hard for 6 months and your income is just starting to trickle in. You are frustrated and close to giving up hope because you think you are a failure.
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Little Known Ways To Make More Money With EBooks
September 15, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - There are a myriad of free information products on the internet today, and actually looking to make some more money out of the act of 'giving' them away can be a constant source of much frustration. Here is a list of some 15 points that should remove some of these frustrations and actually start to make a deal more money for the site owners.
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A Simple Sales Strategy: Define What Selling Is!
September 15, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - See, feel and know that selling is serving. This will cause a big shift for you. With this perspective, you will really become passionate about wanting to help people. Find this passion and let it shine through.
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30 Different Ways To Promote And Advertise Your WebSite
September 14, 2005 - devshed.com - There are literally thousands of things you can do to promote and advertise your website, here are just a few I have found to work for me.
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Know Your Product Before You Sell it
September 14, 2005 - businesstoolchest.com - Product knowledge is by far the most important key ingredient to posses when it comes to selling your product.
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11 Of The Best Places to Find Items to Sell on Ebay
September 14, 2005 - ezinearticles.com - Last Year over 20 Billion Dollars worth of product was sold on Ebay. (Yes Biilion with a "B"). Many people are earning $10,000 or more selling on Ebay. Many more would like to sell on Ebay but they face that big hurdle - Where Do I find Items to sell on Ebay. Here are the 11 Best Places to Find Items to sell on E-Bay.
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HTML Email Deliverability Tip: URL Unity
September 14, 2005 - emailuniverse.com - When delivering your HTML email newsletter, many ISPs and email software clients are implementing phising detection schemes that help give their members better information about the credibility of the emails they receive. Today, you're going to learn about "URL Unity" - A concept that will help you improve your click through rate and deliverability.
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Hottest Small Business Trends
September 14, 2005 - about.com - Trend watching has emerged in big business as a discipline of business management and a popular topic among top media publications and futurists. Small business can benefit from trend watching, too. This week's feature is on the hottest trends for business of all sizes.
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Usability: One Sure Way to Maximize Sales (and Increase Conversions)
September 14, 2005 - marketingprofs.com - Attracting prospective clients and customers to your site is only half the struggle—the other half is actually making the sale or conversion.
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A Sure-Fire, 10-Step Formula - To Get Started As A Coach Or Consultant
September 14, 2005 - awomaninbusiness.com - Here is my sure-fire 10-step formula to quickly get started as a coach or consultant. And, if you are a well established practitioner, these ten tips may just give you the swift kick in the pants you need to re-invigorate your marketing.
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Tips for Finding the Best Home Business Opportunity
September 14, 2005 - topwahms.com - If you are considering a home business opportunity, make sure it is the best choice for you before you dive in to it.
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Should I Put my Business Online?
September 14, 2005 - bizhelp24.com - Does your business need to be online or are you just reacting to the growth of e-commerce in fear of missing out on the action?
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How to Get Your Customer Talking
September 14, 2005 - internethomebusinessarticles.com - Before we can sell our products to our prospective customers, we must first get to know them and their needs. The best way to do this is to get them talking.
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Promote Your Blog
September 14, 2005 - workz.com - Well, you've joined the others and have created a blog. It is time to tell the world about your online journal. Most blog services generate an RSS feed. If your blogging software does not create an RSS feed, consider using software like FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com to create an RSS feed. Like blogs, RSS is growing in popularity and is a great way to spread the word about a new blog.
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The Art and Science of Retail Displays
September 14, 2005 - You can have the best merchandise in the world but if you don't display it properly, customers will pass it by. Use these tips to create stellar displays that'll skyrocket your sales.
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Should You Telework/Telecommute
September 14, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - There is much more to being a teleworker then working in your PJ's or working when you want to. Yes, those are nice benefits to teleworking, but you'd be surprised by how much work goes into working from home. You usually have to work 10 times harder and longer then in your traditional job outside the home.
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What You Need To Know Before Joining Affiliate Programs
September 14, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - An affiliate program is a revenue-sharing arrangement, whereby the affiliate (you), receives payment from the owner of a product or service that you promote on their behalf. They are also called Associate Programs, Re-seller Programs, Commission or Pay-Per-Sale, Pay-Per-Click and Click-Through Programs.
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What do you do if your art or craft work isn’t selling? Get a job, right? Wrong!
September 14, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Often you will find pieces of your work selling well in stores and going nowhere at art and craft shows, and vice versa. Some items simply don't sell in every market, but this doesn't mean the product won't sell elsewhere or that you should stop making it.
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Tale of the Broken Light Fixture: A Target Audience Analogy
September 14, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Someone knows someone who can do some great flash graphics, or one of the programmers comes up with a cool javascript or the designer builds a knockout design with non-standard navigation. You think it's cool and it brands your company as cutting edge. Your office users can use it fine (with a little coaching at first.) And yet, your web results are lousy.
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Everything I Needed to Know About Article Writing I Learned from My English Teacher
September 13, 2005 - topwahms.com - By now you probably understand how important writing for trade publications is to establishing credibility in the home business world. On to the first hurdle: how do you get past that HUGE writers' block? How do you know what to write about, and how do you make it unique, informative and interesting?
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Succeed With Your Online Business
September 13, 2005 - topwahms.com - Look at all of the Internet businesses now that are very successful and provide service worldwide. Are you a woman with a dream? If you know how to use a computer in even the most basic sense, utilize your savvy with an online business.
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Is Someone Passing Off as Your Business?
September 13, 2005 - bizhelp24.com - If your business becomes successful, you need to be aware of the potential threat of unscrupulous businesses trying to pass themselves off as your company.
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Secret Guide To Help You Succeed In Your Home Based Business
September 13, 2005 - internethomebusinessarticles.com - As a beginning home based business entrepreneur, you wanted to discover the basic strategies that catapulted to the top today's leaders in the business world. But before you could embark on a successful Internet venture, you must prepare yourself for the task ahead. Why? Because the road ahead is laced with victory and defeat.
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Finance Your Small Business: So Much Money, So Little Time
September 13, 2005 - morebusiness.com - Getting your company financed is one of the hardest things you will ever do as an entrepreneur. It can be hugely frustrating, disappointing and genuinely discouraging. But lots of entrepreneurs do it. And so can you. Get the Nos out of the way and go for Yes! The exhilaration of the handshake sealing the deal is unlike any other transaction in business.
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Love At First Site: Giving Your Website Visitors The Right Impression
September 13, 2005 - workz.com - When people do a search for something they want to buy, they usually have many sites to choose from. If yours does not impress them right off the bat, it takes about five seconds for them to find another that does show them what they want to see. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. You are just one among many. So what do people want to see, you ask? There are 3 standards of website excellence, and they are the same standards you would use to judge your blind date.
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Manage the Experience Gap During Downtime
September 13, 2005 - clickz.com - We all struggle with planned and unplanned site outages. Thankfully, most customers understand sites can go down periodically for maintenance and enhancements. A few thoughts for when you must take a site down.
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Amazon Raises Seller Commission Fees...Sort of
September 13, 2005 - auctionbytes.com - Amazon is changing the way it displays its fees to its Marketplace sellers, it announced late on Monday. While Amazon says this won't impact the amount of money sellers receive for marketplace sales, the company is in effect changing its commission structure.
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Pay Per Call Advertising is Growing
September 13, 2005 - smallbusinesses.blogspot.com - While pay per call advertising is still relatively new, it is not experimental. It is very real, and it is taking place now.
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Surprise Your Clients Once In A While
September 13, 2005 - ducttapemarketing.com - Most everyone loves surprises. That's what wrapping paper is all about. Unveiling the unknown and fully appreciating the unexpected. Every now and then it's fun to throw a surprise at your clients and customers as well. Here's one of my favorite techniques.
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The Basics of Money Management
September 13, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - Before you start making money, you've got to figure out how you're going to accept payments, establish payment and credit terms, and manage your finances. This how-to will help.
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New Site Allows Shoppers to Compare and Share
September 13, 2005 - commerce-guide.com - Online merchants take note; there may be a new venue in which to win over new customers or get into the minds of online shoppers. eShopperForum.com today announced the launch of its new shopping community site “to help online consumers find and share the best deals, insider news and reviews of the online shopping experience.
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Stepping Outside the WAHM Zone
September 13, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Advertising to others in business is not going to create the most sales for you. What will create more sales is being an active member of a community that's filled with your potential customers without a competitor in sight.
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How To Build a Business With Attitude
September 13, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Practice sincere gratitude several times throughout your day. In this way you are able to stay connected with an attitude of increase and recognize abundance as it comes your way.
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Writing Effective Text For Your Website...
September 09, 2005 - faithfulfriendsonline.com - Designing your website can be mind-boggling to say the least but when it comes to writing the text, sometimes that can just take you clear over the edge! It's difficult to figure out what to say, how much to say, and what wording to use to say it.
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WAHMS – why are you not succeeding?
September 09, 2005 - wahm.com - I have been a work at home mom nearly six years now and from park to play-date the statement I hear most from other mothers is “I would love to work at home”. Why is it that so many savvy moms start businesses only to see their dreams piddle away to “something they tried once”? Let’s look at what keeps most moms from successfully reaching their goal of working at home.
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Inspirational Women in Business
September 09, 2005 - about.com - Women in business continue to be the shining light in the current market. According to the Center for Women's Business Research, female entrepreneurs generate $2.3 trillion to the American economy and employ more than 18 million people.
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Sony Laptop Offers a Cingular EDGE
September 09, 2005 - smallbusinesscomputing.com - Sitting at Starbucks gets expensive. Taking your laptop to work by the hotel pool, only to learn that you must stay in your room is a pain. In short, the Wi-Fi wireless e-mail and Internet access that seemed so wonderful just a year or two ago now gets taken for granted — and grumbled about whenever we're on the road and out of range of a hotspot or unable to make a connection. Sony Electronics has taken a big step toward a solution: The Vaio T350P's dual data-transmission choices let you use e-mail or a Web browser anywhere you can use a Cingular cell phone.
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The IRS Is Watching Old Business Accounts
September 09, 2005 - startupjournal.com - You just got a letter from your bank, dated a week ago, that the IRS or the state is levying your bank account because of a corporation you quit using a decade ago -- and you have 10 days to object. Which are up right about now. The corporation's gone. Why are they coming after you now?
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Answering the Tough Questions
September 09, 2005 - inc.com - A bank will scrutinize your past business performance. Are you prepared to answer the tough questions when your banker asks them?
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Distributing Content for One-Way Inbound Links
September 09, 2005 - internethomebusinessarticles.com - Find out a great way to get hundreds of inbound links by distributing content while avoiding the common newbie pitfalls. A time-honored way of getting one-way inbound links is to distribute content, usually articles, for other websites to publish in exchange for a backlink. Most often, the backlink is included in an "author's resource box," which is a brief "about the author" paragraph promoting the author's site.
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Take the High Road to the Patent Office
September 09, 2005 - morebusiness.com - Patents are prized assets to a company, but after spending time and money to win one, be sure you don’t gild the lily. Some inventors have been tempted to make exaggerated claims or provide patent examiners with misleading materials to support their applications. The hope is that bigger claims will help ensure getting the patent. The reality is, it’s a dangerous tactic. You may be denied the patent or even lose one that was already granted.
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Florida Online Auctions to Benefit Hurricane Victims
September 09, 2005 - auctionbytes.com - Getaways for Gulf Aid online auction is auctioning off Florida vacations on eBay. The program was created by Visit Florida, the state's official source for travel planning, in conjunction with the Florida tourism industry. People can bid on a variety of Florida vacations on eBay. One hundred percent of the auction proceeds will go directly to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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How To Achieve Your Goals, One After The Other, On Autopilot
September 09, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - We’ll still work, we’ll still take action, but there is a whole world of difference between forcing ourselves to take action and taking "inspired" action. One destroys, the other creates.
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Internet Advertising Options
September 09, 2005 - There is so much competition, that you must take drastic measures to ensure that you are getting noticed. Advertising can be done in so many ways online.
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What's It Worth? Analyze Collectibles Sales Data from eBay
September 08, 2005 - auctionbytes.com - Whether you're a collector or sell to collectors, the burning question in most folks' minds is, "What's it worth?"
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Entrepreneurship: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid
September 08, 2005 - businesspundit.com - If you want to be an entrepreneur, stop waiting. Start doing something. That is how you learn. Make entrepreneurship your hobby, until you can make it your career. And stop reading garbage about these companies that go from idea to a billion dollar valuation in two years. That requires as much luck and timing as it does vision and execution. You will have much more success if you get these crazy ideas out of your head, and if you put the kool-aid down.
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Clicks to Bricks
September 08, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - Ready to take your e-tail site to the next level? Get out of the virtual realm and into the brick-and-mortar marketplace for maximum profit.
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You Are Never Too OLD
September 08, 2005 - 1-marketingstrategies.com - If my great granddaughter had not told me that I was too old to learn new tricks in the first place, I would still be counting the pennies and watching television for the rest of my days.
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Do You Own Your Web Site Design?
September 08, 2005 - smallbizarticles.com - Your web site has been up for a few months and you are making money hand over foot. While surfing sites one evening, you are shocked to find a competitor using your design. You find out your designer sold them the same design. They must be breaking the law, right? It all depends on whether you own the copyright to your web site design. Many site owners are shocked to find out they do not.
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Seven Keys That Helped Me Work From Home
September 08, 2005 - devshed.com - There are several things that need to be considered when your work from home.They are: Do I have enough space to perform the work? Where will I work at? What type of work do I want to do? What hours will I want to work? Some of the questions will be fairly easy to answer while others will take a little more time. Determining the kind of work you want to do is can be difficult.
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How Sneaky Links Increase Your Click-Throughs..
September 08, 2005 - businesstoolchest.com - If you find that your site visitors have developed a high level of resistance to clicking through your affiliate links, you're not alone. What is it that makes affiliate links suspicious to people? They're certainly not meant to be offensive.
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Should Your Web Hosting Service Also Be Your ISP?
September 08, 2005 - allbusiness.com - Most Internet service providers also offer Web hosting services. But a perfectly adequate I SP might make a terrible host for your business.
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Offense: Beat the Odds
September 08, 2005 - ezinearticles.com - When in doubt, cut that out! Yeah, yea, doubting Thomas may have had a point in his day, and life may not be what you want it to be, but if you constantly doubt yourself, how can you accomplish anything?
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Two Keys to Successful Ad Copy
September 08, 2005 - businessknowhow.com - In writing advertising copy or preparing a marketing campaign, it is important that you keep two keys to successful ad copy in mind. There are major differences between “relational” customers and “transactional” ones.
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Understanding MLM Matrix Plans
September 08, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Network marketing companies select a certain type of compensation plan for different reasons. In this article I want to give an overview of the “matrix.”
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7 Steps to Easier eBay Shipping
September 08, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - The following 7 steps will help make your job easier when it comes to shipping, as well as get rid of the stress of waiting for the item to be delivered to the buyer.
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Small Business Essentials: Start Here
September 07, 2005 - morebusiness.com - Thinking of starting a business on line? If so there are two things you absolutely must commit to before ever opening shop on the web. Any one who refuses to realistically consider these two factors should not be in business. That may sound a bit rough, but the glut of businesses on line that ignore these factors will soon come to an end as customers demand service in return for their dollars.
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Create Personal PR With E-Mail
September 07, 2005 - clickz.com - We all want to work with people who are the best in their fields. When we're in an expert's hands, we trust we're getting the highest level of quality. We're often willing to pay more for that confidence. How do we position ourselves and our companies as experts to boost our stature in the eyes of customers and prospects?
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SBA Loans for Your Startup
September 07, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - Find money today for your new business with this review of the SBA's top three loan programs.
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Register.com Boosts E-Commerce Offerings
September 07, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - In an effort to woo more small businesses looking to sell online, Register.com, Inc. yesterday announced that it will work with eBay's ProStores service to offer StoreSense, an e-business solution, to Register.com’s Web hosting customers.
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Are Free Webhosting Accounts Really Free? - 5 Critical Things to Consider Before Choosing a Free Web
September 07, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Many free web hosting accounts are free to use, however they will cost you a lot of money, time, and customers as well if you have a site that is meant for business purposes and is more than the simplest site imaginable. Consider the following items as to why free web hosting might cost you more than you had bargained for when you signed up.
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Rating eBook Compilers
September 07, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Now that you've finished writing your eBook and have a basic understanding of what an eBook compiler does, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of compilers on the market. To help you make your decision, I have tested and reviewed the best-rated eBook compilers currently available.
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Planning A Slow Season Calendar
September 07, 2005 - abundancecenter.com - Every business experiences slower periods. For some, they sell more during the Christmas season while others move at a snail pace. Some sell more during the summer and others less. The key is being aware of your seasons and alternatives available to solve the challenge and change the results.
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How to Revive a Dead Lead
September 06, 2005 - ezinearticles.com - It’s easy to spend days, weeks, or months speaking with a prospect, working up to a decision to buy. This is especially true if your prospects are in larger companies. Sometimes your lead can go dead. You’re not sure why, but your contact person just goes quiet – sometimes disappearing for good.
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Looking Good On The Web Turning website traffic into business
September 06, 2005 - businessknowhow.com - You paid a web developer thousands of dollars to put your business on the web, or spent countless hours of your own time learning enough about the web and about html to put up the site yourself. But your site's been up a couple of months and you haven't gotten a single sale you can trace to the website. What happened? What's wrong?
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Getting a disaster loan for your small business
September 06, 2005 - msn.com - The SBA offers two kinds of loans for business owners in regions that have been declared federal disaster areas. Parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have already received disaster declarations following Hurricane Katrina’s devastating pass through those states.
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Maxtor Drive Learns New Tricks
September 06, 2005 - smallbusinesscomputing.com - Maxtor's been busy creating an ever-expanding family of external storage drives to meet the needs of both small-business and home-computing consumers alike. The latest member to join the clan is the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus.
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Deliverability: Are Your Email Messages Trusted?
September 06, 2005 - marketingprofs.com - Deliverability is overwhelmingly the greatest email marketing challenge. What can you do to make sure your marketing campaigns avoid the obstacles and get delivered for the highest possible ROI?
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Stationery Printing
September 06, 2005 - bizhelp24.com - One of the most exciting moments of starting a business is the prospect of having your name, and your business name, up in lights: in this case, on your stationery. However, almost everyone gets it wrong first time and what should have been a good (and low cost) investment quickly becomes frustrating and costly.
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Top 10 Ways to Start a Business For Less Than $500
September 06, 2005 - morebusiness.com - The bills don't stop coming in just because you've decided to start a business. In fact, they seem to increase exponentially. Your success, as budget-conscious entrepreneur, will depend on thinking and planning smart. Below are 10 ways to start business for less than $500. You may have to make some sacrifices but that's what small business is all about, at least at first.
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PayPal Users Report Debit-Card Glitch
September 06, 2005 - auctionbytes.com - PayPal's scheduled maintenance last Thursday night (http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200508311112161.html) may have led to a glitch that began affecting some of its debit-card users right before the holiday weekend.
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Customer Support — Internet Style
September 06, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - HostedSupport.com, a customer support automation firm with 16 employees located in Los Angeles, offers several products designed to help companies reduce customer support issues while maintaining customer satisfaction.
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No bridal gowns
September 06, 2005 - bizjournals.com - Moms, Maids and More has everything else for bridesmaids, moms on the big day.
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A Special Report With Secrets to Selling Consumer Electronics Online
September 02, 2005 - articleplus.com - Are you selling consumer electronics online? If yes, you must read this article because it tells you how to sell consumer electronics online effectively.
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Buying Laser Toner Cartridges
September 02, 2005 - goarticles.com - Beware of laser toner cartridges that are priced way below market standard. Bad or old packaging should also send up a red flag for phony laser toner cartridges.
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Are You Living The Life You Imagined?
September 02, 2005 - businesstoolchest.com - So you've scoured the internet for a home business and are now totally confused, how do you separate the real diamonds from the fake?
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Should I be using a blog for marketing purposes?
September 02, 2005 - allbusiness.com - The efficacy of blogging as a marketing vehicle is unproven. Blogs are relatively new and entrepreneurs and corporations alike are just now starting to experiment with using them.
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The Secrets to Successfully Learning Basic HTML
September 02, 2005 - ezinearticles.com - If you'd like to create/maintain a website, having some HTML knowledge is necessary in order to create a standard page on the web. Learning the HTML basics is easy and should take less than an hour.
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U.S. Small Business Administration Stands Ready To Assist Victims of Hurricane Katrina
September 02, 2005 - businessknowhow.com - “Our hearts go out to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The U.S. Small Business Administration is ready to assist those hurt by this powerful storm.
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Ezine Width - How Wide Should An HTML Email Newsletter Be?
September 02, 2005 - emailuniverse.com - There are two basic widths that you can produce your HTML ezine in: Full Width or 100% and Defined Width to a specific pixel size.
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Financing growth: More than a matter of money
September 02, 2005 - usatoday.com - Financing growth is more than a matter of grabbing readily available cash from obvious sources, such as banks or venture capitalists. Sometimes, you, the entrepreneur, think you need financing, but think again: Is that what you really need?
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The 6 Keys of Fanatical Customer Testimonies
September 02, 2005 - about.com - A fanatical customer testimony is worth more than 1000 words of bland sales copy. A compelling customer testimony validates the claims you make about how great your business is.
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Customer Acquisition: Improving Subscription Rates
September 02, 2005 - marketingprofs.com - Customer acquisition directly contributes to your bottom line. Use the following five strategies to help you improve subscriptions to your content—print or online.
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Enough With the Upsells Already!
September 02, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Use common sense when adding upsells to your marketing mix. If you, personally, wouldn't want to sit through an additional 20 minutes of sales pitches on the phone, don't make your customers. If you wouldn't want to scroll through page after page of bonuses and specials, your customers won't want to either.
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Craft Fairs, Bazaars & Flea Markets…Oh, My!
September 02, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Many names are associated with events such as these. Craft Fairs, Bazaars, Flea Markets and Swap Meets are a few names you can find. Whatever the name…they all mean the same thing. They allow you to meet new and interesting people (hopefully customers), spend quality time with your family and more of course most importantly make some extra cash.
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Pairing Up
September 01, 2005 - entrepreneur.com - Are two heads always better than one? Know the good and the bad sides of business partnerships.
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PayPal Reduces Micropayments
September 01, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - eBay has reduced processing fees for its PayPal online payment service on inexpensive digital items like 99-cent ringtones and music downloads, the company announced today.
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A Simple Sales Strategy: Talk to Yourself!
September 01, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - You are about to speak to a potential client, go to a networking meeting or give a presentation. What should you be saying to yourself in those few minutes beforehand?
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Beating Adware, The Sneakiest Software
September 01, 2005 - smallbusinessbrief.com - Promoters of adware, software that shows advertising on a user's computer, use some cunning tricks to get you to install their software on your machine. Here's what to look out for.
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