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Something All My Own
smallbusinessbrief.com - Owning my own business has taught me many things about myself. I’ve learned that I can make wise business decisions, I can manage the accounts and taxes for my company, and I can type with one hand while holding a sleeping 6 month old. All of these things have helped me develop into a much more confidant person. My business has also given me the freedom to test my limits and see what I can accomplish.

Creating Premium Information Products That Sell For Higher Prices
smallbusinessbrief.com - For many people who have decided to create their own product, the next question is how do they create a back-end product.

Customize Your Email Marketing Campaign For More Sales
smallbusinessbrief.com - If your email campaigns only talk about what YOU think and nothing about the subscriber, no personal touches, guess what? Your subscribers will get tired very soon of reading your emails. Many will unsubscribe and forget about your products. You wouldn't want to lose subscribers so quickly, right?

Shared Or Dedicated Web Hosting? What Does Your Business Need
businesstoolchest.com - Good quality web hosting is not cheap, but you need to balance your business needs with what you can really afford to pay. So what web hosting service should you be using? Good question!

Top 7 Advantages of Autoresponder Services
ezinearticles.com - By paying a modest monthly fee, you can have unlimited, sequential autoresponders working for you. Here are seven advantages of using paid autoresponder services.

What's So Great About Franchising?
franchisetrade.com - Notwithstanding the fact that there are problems to overcome, franchising can often be the best business approach.

Align Your Business Goals With the Future
about.com - Setting new goals for your small business is an important process to success. But will the future cooperate with your plans? Planning your goals with the discipline of scenario planning can provide your company with the flexibility to respond and adapt to an ever-changing environment.

Writing content to help promote your small business site
bytestart.co.uk - One of the best ways to attract visitors to your site is by providing related sites with quality editorial relating to your subject area. Not only will this give you a chance to promote your service or business, but it can also indirectly aid your search engine promotion efforts via link popularity.

Online Seizes More of the Advertising Mix
clickz.com - An increasing number of advertisers commit a portion of their budgets to the Web. The "Annual Ad Spending Study: Where and Why Advertisers are Moving Online" released by Outsell, Inc. says 80 percent of adertisers include the Internet in their marketing mix.

AuctionBytes Releases Results of Online Payment Survey
auctionbytes.com - The results are in from AuctionBytes' online-payment survey of readers conducted in January. While the survey shows PayPal is used by an overwhelming majority of respondents (over 94%), a look at the comments fields reveals that some sellers do have areas of concerns with the service, including the following:

Small Business Online
entrepreneur.com - Here are statistics of 2005 of small businesses online.

Homebased Business
entrepreneur.com - I thought this might be interesting. Here are some statistics on home based businesses in 2005.

Tips for Tough Transitions
businessweek.com - When the older generation steps down, family members are faced with difficult decisions about the future of their business. Here's some expert advice

5 Winning Ways For Your E-Business To Convert Phone Inquiries
smallbusinessbrief.com - Let's get right to the point. If you don't have your telephone number displayed clearly on your website, then you are losing sales and leads. It's that simple.

Become a Self-Published Web Content Writer
smallbusinessbrief.com - Web content writing is one of the fastest-growing areas in the writing industry. You can self-publish your web content and reap all of the financial benefits from your writing. How do I get started?

Freelance Productivity: Do One Thing Extra Each Day by Nick Usborne
smallbusinessbrief.com - This may not sound like a big deal. But it's amazing how completing one extra task each day can quickly add up and make a difference.

Freelance Productivity: Do One Thing Extra Each Day by Nick Usborne
smallbusinessbrief.com - This may not sound like a big deal. But it's amazing how completing one extra task each day can quickly add up and make a difference.

Home Office Tips
smallbusinessbrief.com - You've decided to start a home based business. Now your next important step is to decide where to place your home office.

eBay Marketing Psychology - Loss Motivates More than Gain - Book Excerpt
allbusiness.com - We’ve talked a lot about benefits, and they are very important. However, here’s a little secret that’s emerged from psychology research, and it directly relates to scarcity: Customers desire benefits, but they are even more motivated by the prospect of losing something. That “something” could be any number of things.

Tips for a Successful Web Site Auction
ezinearticles.com - I have seen many unsuccessful site auctions here recently, and most of those can be attributed to insufficient information being published by the seller. A good site description will make potential buyers feel comfortable in bidding on your web site.

Big Files Don't Have to Be Big Problems
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Sending large or sensitive files to clients and co-workers isn't always easy, especially for small businesses that don't have the luxury of an extranet. E-mail has its limits — e-mail systems typically handle attachments up to — at most 10MB. The cost and complexity of an FTP site doesn't make it an a practical solution for SMBs. ShareFile, a Raleigh, N.C.-based company, hopes to solve that thorny dilemma by offering its ShareFile service — a way to send, receive and store business files online.

Some See Opportunity In the New Paper Trail
startupjournal.com - For Sharon Katz, producing fliers and postcards for her company used to be a time-consuming and complex job. First she had to bat around ideas with a designer and sort through the finished proposals. After that came another round of discussions with her printing company. Then Ms. Katz discovered VistaPrint Ltd., an online printing company that allows consumers to design and print everything from business cards to brochures through the Internet.

Stressors and Stress Relief for the WAHM
topwahms.com - Work at home moms have such stressful days, filled with work, work and more work! When does mom have a chance to play? The answer is not often, the average work at home mom can become so over loaded with work, it's sometimes necessary to calm down, walk away from everything for a few minutes and put things back into perspective. If you're a work at home mom with tons of stress and no way to relieve it, listen up.

Content Management Systems - Why bother?
bytestart.co.uk - The fact is, there are some great reasons to adopt a CMS, but on the face of it there's some fairly convincing reasons not to bother with one as well... Read on to find out!

Most Expensive Internet Ad Launches
powerhomebiz.com - Advertising space has always been a hot commodity. Newly launched www.mostexpensiveinternetad.com will test to see how much people are prepared to spend for the top advertising position in what could be one of the world's most popular Web sites.

Advertising in My Online Neighborhood
clickz.com - Small businesses, many of which are local, are an important component of the U.S. economy. According to the Kelsey Group, they drive about $2.2 trillion in economic activity each year and spend over $30 billion on marketing. Only a fraction of that is spent online.

New Portal Helps eBay and Online Sellers Fill out USPS Forms
auctionbytes.com - Window Book, which offers mailing solutions suited for the shipping needs of eBay Auction and Yahoo Store online sellers, has launched a portal to make it easier for customers to complete United States Postal Service application forms.

Mastering the Art of Influence
entrepreneur.com - When it comes to getting your employees to do what you want, don't discount the effect of a positive impact.

Site Critique Series: Getting to Know ScoutingBooks.com
ecommerce-guide.com - Unlike previous ECommerce Guide critique participants, our latest participant didn't come to us asking for help to rescue the site from impending doom. In fact, ScoutingBooks.com, is considerably successful. So why did owner Dave Tracewell come to us for help?

Tax pitfalls for small businesses
businessweek.com - Every tax filing season, many small businesses end up paying the government more than they need to. Some don't take advantage of all the deductions they're entitled to. Some haven't kept up with changes in the tax law.

Developing and Marketing Niche Products
tools.devshed.com - In today’s business world conventional and online business markets are so competitive that many business persons are turning their attention toward developing niche products where the competition from very large firms is not nearly as large.

Use Paypal to Accept Credit Card Payment Online
articleplus.com - Accepting credit card payment online such as Visa and MasterCard is essential to Internet business. Usually, internet merchant requires to apply for a merchant account before they can accept online credit card payment. However, as a small business or home business owner, the fee incurred may not be affordable. PayPal will be a very good alternative to help you accept online credit card payment.

Internet Advertising Options
businesstoolchest.com - These are some of the most successful ways that you can promote your online business.

Whitelisting your publications
allbusiness.com - Do you provide instructions to your email newsletter subscribers about how to put your publication on their whitelist?

Create Newsletters (Ezines) Practically Free in 8 Easy Steps
ezinearticles.com - If you are on a limited budget as a start-up business, then I have great news for you. You can create newsletters practically free. Yes—from obtaining well-written free articles and delivering your ezine to subscribers, to web promotion—it can all be done practically free.

IRS Announces "Dirty Dozen" Tax Scams for 2006
businessknowhow.com - The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2006 "Dirty Dozen"--its latest annual tally of some of the most notorious tax scams--along with an alert to taxpayers this filing season to watch out for schemes that promise to reduce or eliminate taxes.

Understanding the Franchise Territories Issue
entrepreneur.com - What should you know about protected territories? Our expert provides both sides of this important issue.

Improve Your Visitors Experience - Add Scripts to Your Website
smallbusinessbrief.com - For new webmasters, adding third-party software and scripting to a website can be a really scary proposition. In its most basic understanding, "scripting" is the process of programming webpages to perform certain calculations, which will affect how information is displayed on the webpage.

Bonding is Critical for Some Small Businesses
nfib.com - The cliché of “you have my word” may soon be replaced by something akin to “you have my bond,” especially when it comes to small businesses acquiring service contracts. Bonding is a way for some small minority- or women-owned businesses to land contracts with various private and government agencies.

9 Secret Ways To Boost Your Business With Teleseminars
smallbusinessbrief.com - Teleseminars are a great way to prospect, sell, stay in touch with current customers and clients, build your list, and so much more. Here are just some of the ways you can use teleseminars to boost your business.

Scan Your Items for Online Auction
smallbusinessbrief.com - In some cases, a scanner provides better and clearer images for online auctions than a camera. Here are some tips on using your scanner for this purpose.

The Fruits of Your Labor
businessknowhow.com - Most articles on home business and start-ups focus on the strategies and tasks required to get a business up and running. Experts rush in to tell the entrepreneur how to avoid disaster. But sometimes the struggling entrepreneur needs to be boosted -- and bolstered -- by the reminder of the rewards that come when you're finally successful.

Knowing When to Run
entrepreneur.com - The top 5 reasons not to buy a franchise.

6 Essential Questions for Selecting Merchant Services
about.com - All small businesses require some form of payment processing. Understanding how to select merchant services can impact your sales revenue and profit. Learn the essential 6 questions of merchant services, and the hidden rules of the merchant account game.

The Art of the Handwritten Note
nfib.com - There are many occasions related to your business where a personal note would be appropriate and have more impact than a quick e-mail message.

A place to go for an expansion loan: SBA 504 program
microsoft.com - So you've gone through the first hurdle of starting and building your own business. Where can you go for a loan to help expand an existing business?

Tips to keep your e-customers coming back
smallbusiness.ninemsn.com - It is difficult to say what customers want because they are all individuals. What you can find out is what they expect. There is always a certain level of service a customer will expect and their expectations are easier to address if you have done the research.

Employment Taxes for Small Employers
inc.com - Having employees is a benefit that comes with many responsibilities. While employers gain valuable assistance from their staff, they must comply with time-consuming federal and state employment tax rules.

Start Last, Finish First
money.cnn.com - Have an idea for a startup that could challenge an industry leader? There's never been a better time to come late to the race.

May I Help You?
inc.com - New live-chat software helps Web merchants convert browsers into buyers.

Family Biz Circle: The Boomer Handoff
businessweek.com - Successully handing the baton to the next generation of management requires years of preparation.

Small Business: You’re never too old to make your first million
timesonline.co.uk - Entrepreneurs don’t have to be young and thrusting to make it — these days age is no barrier to success.

How to be successful with email subscriber lists
bytestart.co.uk - Before you send each promotional email or newsletter, pause for a moment. Review the contents and make sure you have the balance right. Make sure there is enough value there. Make sure the value of what you give outweighs the attention you ask for in return.

Top 10 Tools to TurboCharge Your Marketing
sitepronews.com - To aid me in my marketing efforts, I try and "get the most bang for the buck" out of what I actually end up doing -- and try to do that with a minimal amount of effort. These are 10 tools that I use in my marketing efforts that help me turbocharge my marketing.

How to Hire Some Help (a Virtual Assistant) and Give Yourself a Raise
workoninternet.com - Whether you're just starting out or have been in business for awhile, the thought of bringing on a support team member can be daunting, and you wonder, "How can I bring in someone else when it's just going to increase my expenses?" You need to make the shift to seeing this cost as an investment in your business, rather than as an expense, and let go of the need to be in control.

A Foolproof Formula for Writing Great Copy
morebusiness.com - One of the ways to make more sales -- whether you're offline or online -- is to make sure that your copy sells! That is, make sure that every piece of printed material that goes out of your office or is viewed on your website is enticing your potential customers to turn into actual customers! Here is one of the tried-and-true methods to ensure that if your marketing material has words, the message is "buy now!"

AuctionBytes Releases Results of Online Payment Survey
auctionbytes.com - The results are in from AuctionBytes' online-payment survey of readers conducted in January. While the survey shows PayPal is used by an overwhelming majority of respondents (over 94%), a look at the comments fields reveals that some sellers do have areas of concerns with the service, including the following:

A Day in the Life
entrepreneur.com - Tag along with these 3 franchisees for a day, and see what it's really like to own a franchise.

E-Commerce Site Design: Checkout Pages
ecommerce-guide.com - No area of e-commerce site design gets nearly as much attention and concern - even angst - as checkout pages. An online merchant building its checkout pages is like an artist laboring over their masterpiece: everything has to be laid out precisely right. Is it the right amount of steps? Is it clear enough?

Dissolving Partnerships
businessweek.com - If your former spouse chooses to leave the business behind as well, there are certain steps you must take to move on financially.

Fort Lauderdale bakery cooks up high-profile clients
bizjournals.com - When real estate agent Lori Karmel's son turned 3, she discovered something seriously lacking in South Florida. "I couldn't find a good cake," she recalled. She never found exactly what she was looking for, but she did find a tasty cake with butter crème-cheese frosting from a Fort Lauderdale mail-order bakery - and shortly thereafter, a business opportunity.