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Creating Your Own Marketing Product
devshed.com - There are thousands of marketing tool kits available online for a whole range of prices, but what if you are not interested in buying someone else’s tool kit and are more interested in creating your own internet marketing product or e-book to sell.Well, there are plenty of ways to going about doing this.

Email (Newsletter) Publishing Predictions For 2006
emailuniverse.com - Chris Knight's 2006 Ezine Publishing Predictions.

2005 Top Homebased Franchises
msn.com - Unlike other business phenomena we've seen come and go over the past decade, one seems certain to stick: homebased businesses.

New year, new business
usatoday.com - Is your New Year's resolution to start your own business? If so, you're not alone. Each year, nearly 1.5 million Americans launch new businesses. This year can be the year you finally become an entrepreneur.

Data Backup: Peace of Mind for $9.95 a Month
smallbusinesscomputing.com - If your New Year's resolution wasn't to keep your data safe at all costs, it should have been. Theft, fire or force of nature — any of these could easily wipe out your primary data and your contingency plan.

Auction Sites Encourage Sales of Unwanted Gifts
marketingprofs.com - Now that the season's holiday presents have been unwrapped, big online auction sites are trying to entice people to resell -- instead of return -- unwanted gifts.

Marketing Challenge: Email Ethics
marketingprofs.com - At a networking event, you exchange business cards with another person. The card includes an email address. No doubt, it's OK to contact the person by email. But what about including that address in bulk emails? Is that OK... or not?

Fax Scam Targets Business Owners
inc.com - The U.S. Secret Service and Kansas police are investigating an alleged business-valuation scam that has already hit several small companies.

How To Find Products To Sell On eBay
smallbusinessbrief.com - The first key to success for business sellers is an old marketing rule, RESEARCH. The products to sell on eBay are products that eBay buyers will want to buy. Apart from being a massive market place, eBay offers you a cheap source of research that you can conduct without moving from your computer.

To Help Things Grow
smallbusinessbrief.com - It is important as leaders or mentors that we handle our "new growths" the same way. They can not succeed and grow with just a little help. They need all the knowledge, care, and tools that you have. The task of being a leader is to get your people from where they are, to where they have never been.

Sell More by Testing your Web Headlines and Home Page
smallbusinessbrief.com - At what point do you change your Web site when not making enough sales. As your ad copy is weak, those weak sales numbers will continue. My Web master says "It depends on how much traffic youre getting. If you are getting a lot of traffic but no sales, you should change it a lot sooner."

Are You A Mostly-Sane WAHM, Too?
smallbusinessbrief.com - I’m a mostly-sane WAHM. I’m far from the ‘got it together’ work at home mom that I’d like to be. I believe that there are a lot of women out there like me – clutching onto your sanity while juggling family, daily work requirements, basketball practice, ballet recitals, PTA meetings, and the many other responsibilities we carry on our shoulders.

Empower Your Marketing People
ducttapemarketing.com - Let's start with the assumption that anyone in your organization that comes into contact with a prospect or a client is a marketing person for your company. Like it or not, for good or bad, they are performing a marketing function with every interaction. So, why not give them to tools to do it well.

Ebay launches new guide for online entrepreneurs
bytestart.co.uk - Given the explosive growth in the number of startups selling their goods and services via auction sites, it will come as no surprise that Ebay itself has published a thorough guide to setting up and running an ebay business.

Setting Yourself Apart From the Affiliate Marketing Crowd
homebizjour.com - It's no secret there is money in affiliate marketing, in fact there is great money in affiliate marketing if you align yourself with a good company with good products.

Never Sell Again: Get Repeat Business and Avoid the Need to Prospect
morebusiness.com - If you're a business owner, you know that repeat business is critical to your success. It also makes your life much easier because you can count on ongoing business without having to continuously find new prospects and convince them to hire you.

Avoiding 3 Common Problems With Online Stores
workz.com - Problems with conducting business in online stores typically occur in one of three areas: with your Internet service provider (ISP), with the connections to your server, or with your expectations for success.

SpeedyPR.com Becomes Finally Available
powerhomebiz.com - After extensive testing throughout 2005 SpeedyPR.com has launched its web site available to public on January 1, 2006. SpeedyPR.com offers free online press release submissions.

Internet people and products to watch
cnn.com - Last year, new ideas seemed to emerge daily, as bold inventors and leaders kept companies fecund with new services and software. And some of the coolest stuff didn't come from companies at all. Many people and products that came into their own last year will have even more impact in 2006.

Seven Resolutions to Increase Revenues in 2006
clickz.com - As 2006 begins, it's a good time to assess your marketing programs to determine what worked last year and where you should put your effort in the year to come.

Amazon Decision Raises Shipping Costs for Third-Party Sellers
auctionbytes.com - Amazon told third-party sellers Wednesday they will have to absorb the increase in shipping costs when the USPS raises postal rates next week.

Gripes of the Web Shopper
businessweek.com - Speedy page loading is no longer such a big concern, but transaction glitches can easily be a dealbreaker, says a new survey

Ideas For Small Store Owners
smallbusinessbrief.com - Just when you thought you had run out of things to try, here are five ideas to customize and apply in your store to increase sales and gain the edge on your competition.

How to Obtain Grants for Your Child Day Care Center
free-articles-zone.com - Today childcare centers are gaining importance as a profitable business. Many people are seeking advice to obtain grants to start their own childcare center, expand their program, or upgrade their facilities. One way to locate financing for your childcare business is to:

Things to Consider Before Redesigning or Redeveloping a Website
smallbusinessbrief.com - Its 2006 and you have made a few resolutions. You need your website to perform so that you reap the rewards. This article will be more useful to companies who have a web based business or a portal.

Is Your Logo Helping or Hurting Your Business
smallbusinessbrief.com - Trademarks and Logos make up the most international language in the world. An excellent logo can cross many barriers and provide your organization with a means of delivering to your customers an unequivocal and uniform message.

"Set" your Products to Sell
smallbusinessbrief.com - If you spend any length of time selling products on the Internet, you're going to find out that it's very hard to sell "very low priced" products. What? Why is that? You'd think that people would LOVE to pay Very Low Prices for products.

Where To Place Classified Ads To Build Your Business
devshed.com - The real value of magazine-type classified ads is that you’re able to specifically pinpoint your target prospect, based on the subject matter and focus of each particular publication.

Driven to Success by Digital Business Cards
businesstoolchest.com - Today, there is a better and more cost effective way of marketing your products and services – that is through digital business cards. But what exactly are these digital business cards?

What Goes Around, Comes Around - Get Active On Forums!
ezinearticles.com - If you want to take full advantage of forums to get your site exposed to active members of that particular forum that you are in, find a couple of busy forums that interests you and where members talk about topics that are relevant to what you do on the internet.

Planning to Succeed in 2006
businessknowhow.com - Have you ever wondered why some people accomplish far more than others in life? While it’s tempting to attribute other people’s accomplishments to good luck, good contacts and deep pockets, in reality most people who achieve great things in life don’t have any more luck, friends or money than anyone else. So what do they have? What makes them different? The answer is goals – and a system for achieving those goals.

Scenario Planning for Tomorrow
about.com - Begin a scenario planning group to meet at least once a year. The group should be made up of others who will challenge your assumptions and thinking. Use Schwartz's process to prepare your business in times of rapid change.

Lawmakers' New Look at Online Sales Taxes
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Legislation to level the taxation playing field for all in-store, catalog and online retailers is back on the table in Congress.

Getting Organized in 2006
nfib.com - A disorganized workplace results in mountains of paperwork, overdue bills and other obstacles to a smooth workflow. Any solution you choose will have to fit your personality, work style and environment, but a few guiding principles will help you get your work environment in shipshape.

Working at Home Works for This Mom
startupjournal.com - How I've made working at home 'work' for me.

Five Surefire Content Ideas (When Your Blog Is Drawing Blanks)
marketingprofs.com - If you're like me (and many others building a business), you may have created a Web log to communicate more intimately and more frequently with your audience. But after the initial wave of enthusiasm, you may find it increasingly difficult to generate ideas for the blog that began with so many thoughts—and so many posts—just a few months ago.

Ignore At Your Own Peril - Article Submission Mistakes
smallbusinessbrief.com - The most important task in the world of marketing with articles is to create relationships with editors.

PR Tips for Business
morebusiness.com - There’s plenty of research to show that young companies – weighed down by the business of simply running a new business – pay scant attention to PR, yet that’s exactly what they should be doing from the very start to get their names and products known.

Are Your Articles Creating An Avalanche Of Traffic?
workz.com - One of the most popular ways to market an online business is by writing web articles. Unfortunately because of this growing popularity, many webmasters are discovering that it is getting more difficult to get ezines and directories to publish their work. As a result, this hurts their web-traffic and ultimately their bottom-line. So how can you ensure that your articles will reach the maximum amount of potential web visitors?

PowerHomeBiz.com Suggests Six New Year’s Resolutions for Home-Based Business Owners
powerhomebiz.com - PowerHomeBiz.com, a leading online magazine for home businesses, has created six New Year's resolutions to support the growth of home businesses and work at home ventures in the coming year.

Get Customers to Open Your E-Mail
entrepreneur.com - Looking for a low-cost, high-return marketing tactic? Follow these four expert tips for a successful e-mail campaign.

Podcasting for eBay Sellers
auctionbytes.com - I am now offering audio descriptions of my eBay auctions and RSS feeds for people to keep up with my latest offerings. You may have heard of this concept by another name - podcasting.

Online Shoppers Came Through For Holidays
ecommerce-guide.com - A major e-tailing tally is in for the critical Christmas shopping season and it shows a 30 percent jump in holiday spending online.

Trade Show Giveaways: What Works
smallbusinessbrief.com - You have your trade show exhibit ready to go, the trade show booth is set up, and your product is a winner. Now all you need are the customers. Standing room only, please. Right?

Estimating Business Costs
smallbusinessbrief.com - How much financing do you need for your company? What is the repayment period that you intend to work with? These questions need to be answered in order to determine the amount of financing to be obtained.