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eBay business profits may lie in the price of shipping
bytestart.co.uk - New research from the Haas School of Business, part of the University of California, suggests that the key to increased profits for eBay sellers may lie in shipping costs, as well as the price customers pay when they bid for an item.

Small Business Loans – Encouraging Business Initiatives
workoninternet.com - Being a small business owner is not easy. Apart from the problems that the small business owners have to face in operating business, the severest of problems is in raising capital.

Five Online Businesses for Freelancers
morebusiness.com - If you are looking to start a business and aren’t sure what to do, consider one (or more) of theses 5 businesses for freelancers. Additionally, if you are a current business owner, consider adding one or two of these businesses to your product and service line-up.

How To Write An Attention-Grabbing Op-Ed In Five Steps
workz.com - There are few better ways to attract new clients and customers than by becoming known as an expert in your field. And the fastest way to establish your expertise is by writing op-eds for newspapers, magazines, trades and the Web.

How Good Is Goodmail?
clickz.com - Goodmail is an accreditation service for e-mail senders. Habeas, Bonded Sender, and others have been doing this for some time. Unlike competing systems, bulk senders pay Goodmail for e-mail delivery. It's been likened to buying a stamp.

eBay Expands RSS Feeds to Search
auctionbytes.com - eBay announced it has expanded RSS offerings on its site to include search pages. RSS is way for users to receive instant content updates from various websites or sources in one central location.

Small businesses may seek tax extension
businessweek.com - The last weeks of the tax filing season can be dicey for small business owners if they're just starting to get their returns together. Anyone who is just now booting up their tax prep software or pulling together papers to take to the accountant might want to think about getting an extension of the April filing deadline.

Coupons
entrepreneur.com - No one can resist a coupon! Find out how to take advantage of this enticing form of advertising.

Persistence Always Wins
smallbusinessbrief.com - Any great accomplishment that has ever been achieved has been brought about and made possible by an all important trait called persistence.

How You Can Avoid The Three M's Of Drop Shipping
smallbusinessbrief.com - There are many Website owners trying to find authentic drop shipping companies for their online retail business. Our experience has taught us the do's and don't of identifying authentic drop shippers. Let's now cut to the chase. In finding an authentic drop shipper, it is important to avoid the three M's.

My Mistakes as a Web Design Newbie
smallbusinessbrief.com - Approaching retirement age I was made redundant last year and decided to create my first web site, initially knowing little about it. I hope that, by reading about my experiences, I may save you both time and money if you ever find yourself in the position of wanting to build a site with little initial knowledge.

As a Business Owner do you know how to be a good customer?
smallbusinessbrief.com - As business owners have you ever considered how you act as a customer will reflect on your own business?

Consignment Sellers: Save Time & Money With Automation
smallbusinessbrief.com - Time is a valuable commodity for eBay Trading Assistants. Therefore, they should deploy business practices that allow them to reduce the time they spend on low-value tasks (administrative), and allowing them to refocus their energy on high-value elements, such as recruiting new business and marketing.

How To Make Just $200 Per Week Online
smallbusinessbrief.com - The whole key to online success is finding a pressing problem and filling it. People go online seeking solutions to painful, nagging problems, and if you offer those solutions, they will gladly pay you for your assistance.

Time to Grow
nfib.com - So your business is a success, and you're ready to take over the world? Here are a few tips on evaluating your basic needs before expanding your business.

Make Money Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling Them on eBay
smallbusinessbrief.com - Vintage books and magazines were packed with prints and advertisements and other paper items which are not only interesting, but very collectable, and profitable, too. So many things derived from these old publications are hot sellers on eBay including: prints, advertisements, knitting and other craftwork patterns, recipes, how to articles, historical articles, music scores, stories and other out of copyright material … etc., etc, etc. Let me introduce you to just a few of these easy to find items.

Do you Control Your Email Marketing Deliverability?
bytestart.co.uk - You play by the rules. Your list is confirmed opt-in. You have spent time writing a compelling message and an inspiring call to action. Your graphic designers have designed a stunning custom email. You then send the email to your list but find that deliverability rates are lower than you planned.

5 ways to protect information. Clear recommendations and direct links.
workoninternet.com - It's not the big secret that modern operating systems are not as reliable as they supposed to be. At the same time the most of info is stored on the hard drives nowadays. And every minute all the data can be vanished from your drives because of the system crash or virus attack. Here I'll tell you how to keep your info primitive.

Finding the Money You Need
morebusiness.com - Here are some ways to help your new or growing business get money.

Brand-Building 101 - Where Do I Start?
workz.com - Start-ups and small companies ask the same questions when they first contemplate a formal marketing program: Do we need a brand yet? Can we even have a brand when we are this small? How do we build a brand from the ground up?

E-Mail Help for a Help Desk Company
clickz.com - If you're a B2B marketer and haven't moved a significant portion of your marketing communications to e-mail yet, this case study featuring Parature, the award-winning provider of help desk software, should be the convincer you need to get started.

eBay Rolls out Custom Categories for Stores
auctionbytes.com - If you operate an eBay Store, you know that Store categories are like the aisles, or departments in a bricks and mortar retail establishment.

What's Your Type?
entrepreneur.com - Anyone can start a business! The secret is picking a venture that fits your entrepreneurial personality. Here's how to determine yours.

Affiliate Week Update - Google AdSense
ecommerce-guide.com - While most Web surfers have no doubt seen countless sites with the usual Google-sponsored text ads, they are likely seeing more of a new program Google launched in November. The "Referrals" program — aimed at promoting the Firefox Web browser with integrated Google search toolbar or its AdSense program — now ups the ante for affiliates.

Give Yourself Some Credit
businessweek.com - Building a credit record for your small business is imperative. The tricky part is doing it without endangering your own

Warehousing Wholesale Inventory
smallbusinessbrief.com - A lot has been written online regarding the magic of drop-shipping. It's true that drop-shipping has a lot of advantages for the retailer or online auction seller on the Internet. It's biggest disadvantages, however, are such that many consider keeping an inventory of products instead.

Improving Conversion Rates
smallbusinessbrief.com - Now you are getting hundreds of visitors a day to your website. Unfortunately very few are staying to browse your site and even fewer are purchasing your products or enquiring after the services you offer.

How Can People Find Your Site If They Don`t Know What To Search?
devshed.com - We all know it is difficult to promote commercial products, especially those commodity items.People selling commodity items are generally submitting their sites to search engines, such as Google and getting links from other sites to increase page ranks. But you will lose some potential customers who don’t know what or how to search.

Traffic: Let Your Web Hosting Company Be Your Guide
businesstoolchest.com - Presumably you have a website because you want people to visit it. Visitors are traffic. And generating a constant flow of fresh traffic, both unique and repeat visitors, will take up more of your energies than probably any other website-related task, including website maintenance and sales. It is with this imperative in mind that web hosting companies have begun offering their customers assistance in generating that traffic.

Where's the best place for me to advertise online if I'm a service business?
allbusiness.com - If you're a service business, then most likely you're a local business. That probably means you do most of your business with customers within a 50-mile radius of your physical location. That also means, perhaps unexpectedly, that you need to be online.

Can You Update Your Own Web Pages?
ezinearticles.com - When your website is finished, can you change information on the pages yourself, or do you need to pay someone to do that? You need to think about this before the website is started.

What if No One Signs Up?
businessknowhow.com - It's the nightmare of every professional who offers group programs. You design a powerful workshop, schedule a date, broadcast your marketing message and no one registers. Then what?

Finance Companies: An Alternative to Bank Loans
msnbc.msn.com - When it comes to lending, finance companies are often less demanding and more understanding than banks.

Older entrepreneurs face special considerations
usatoday.com - As the Baby Boom generation ages, and as life expectancy increases, older Americans are finding that they have the time, energy, desire and, sometimes, need to start their own business.

Scanning for Digital Documents
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Office space is at a premium in just about any small business, and it's getting harder to justify the file cabinet space when a decent scanner can digitize all those documents for you.

How to Craft Compelling Offers to Boost Response Rates
marketingprofs.com - If you want to improve the response rate to your direct mail, the answer may be as simple as making a better offer.

Is It a Good Idea to Pay Biz Taxes with Plastic?
startupjournal.com - Should small businesses pay their taxes with a credit card?

Creating a Brand Name for your Company
smallbusinessbrief.com - Developing a brand is a difficult challenge even for the most experienced executives. This is mainly true in hard financial times when consumers tend to forego known brands and names to buy less expensive replacements.

Blogs, Podcasting, And RSS Within Ecommerce
smallbusinessbrief.com - You probably have heard all these terms an awful lot lately. You wonder about what these technologies do? What value to they provide? If you aren't up to speed on these new applications and how they are impacting retail online interaction then read this brief further.

How To Start Your Own Nursing Agency
smallbusinessbrief.com - The time is now for entrepreneurs to start a nursing agency,nursing registry business, operate a homecare business, or as a medical recruiter or just become an independent healthcare contractor.

Key Steps to a Sound Business Purchase Structure
woopidoo.com - If you have just decided to start the process of buying your first company or if you are a seasoned mergers and acquisitions professional, you as a business buyer, need to utilize a disciplined, structured approach to purchase the best business acquisition possible.

The 5 Cardinal Sins of Email Marketing
businesstoolchest.com - You could overlook these, and you'll still have an email campaign. But if you're stuck wondering why your email messages are yielding little to no response, you may want to take a closer look and consider if you're commiting any of these 5 email marketing sins.

The 25 Franchises That
startupjournal.com - StartupJournal turned to FRANdata to help us come up with a group of 25 high performers for our readers' consideration. Ultimately, we cannot say that these franchises are the best in the U.S. or that they are the outfits that will net potential franchisees the most profit. Rather, we looked to create of list of franchises that are well established, have experienced leadership, exhibit overall financial health and have a proven record of franchising success. Our list is not a ranking; franchises appear in alphabetical order.

Friday Best Day For Email Newsletter Open Rates?
emailuniverse.com - This week, ExactTarget released their 2005 Response Rate Study that summarized open, click-through and unsubscribe rates.

How to Start a Restaurant
entrepreneur.com - Whether you want to serve fast food, steak, pizza or coffee, start your journey here with this comprehensive guide to launching your own food establishment.

Phishing - You Can Protect Yourself If You Stay Awake Online
about.com - Phishing scams are gaining in use by scammers all the time. You don't have to be caught by it. The one main thing you can do to protect yourself is that if you get an email from your bank, eBay, PayPal etc - DO NOT click on the link that comes to you via email. Instead go directly to the web site.

Seven Sales Tips For Solo Operators
startupjournal.com - We asked folks to send in their best sales tips for small-business owners. Here's a sampling of the responses we received:

These Simple Strategies for Positioning Your Small Business Are A Must
ducttapemarketing.com - A simple strategy for positioning your firm or product deeply in your target market's mind is a tool called a USP. The term USP has been around for a long time. The letters stand for Unique Selling Proposition.

eBay business profits may lie in the price of shipping
bytestart.co.uk - New research from the Haas School of Business, part of the University of California, suggests that the key to increased profits for eBay sellers may lie in shipping costs, as well as the price customers pay when they bid for an item.

How to Find a Niche
workoninternet.com - Ok so you know you need to find a niche market, but how on earth do you do that? With so many niches out there, where do you start?

Web Design that is Screen Resolution Friendly
smallbusinessbrief.com - Surfing the web always brings up a swath of different problems all based on the different settings implemented by the web designers in their signature web designs. Among these problems is a major one that has to do with the screen resolution settings of all the different visitors who may visit any given web design.

Starting A Lucrative Business Teaching What You Know To Kids? Important Questions To Answer...
smallbusinessbrief.com - A business teaching what you know to kids is a great way to make money doing something you love. But, whether you will teach private singing or sewing lessons or group dance or karate classes, there are a few questions you should answer before taking the plunge into this type of business.

How to install and use phpList
smallbusinessbrief.com - I will explain how to install phpList and how to use this great PHP script. First, let's answer the question what is phpList good for. PhpList is free script written in PHP which can be used as a newsletter manager.

Don't Sell Your Services; That's Not What People Buy
smallbusinessbrief.com - Believe it or not, no one actually buys your service. No one buys coaching. No one buys consulting. No one buys financial planning. So what do people buy? Well, there are, in fact, two things people buy.

The Greatest Marketing Blunders of All Time Occur When You Ignore The Power of Referrals.
ducttapemarketing.com - Everybody knows that one of the most effective ways to grow any business is through referrals. Yet, when I ask most small business owners what they do to guarantee that they receive a steady stream of referrals, they are hard pressed to give an answer.

Techniques For Finding Telecommuting Employment
awomaninbusiness.com - It seems everyone wants to do it: Work from home, that is. Whether it’s being able to work in their pajamas, or getting to spend some extra time with their children, something is prompting people to consider giving up their day job to look for this "alternative" form of employment. The only problem seems to be actually finding a work-from-home job! Where are these companies that have openings for telecommuters? And how does one go about finding them?

Small Business Loans – Encouraging Business Initiatives
workoninternet.com - Being a small business owner is not easy. Apart from the problems that the small business owners have to face in operating business, the severest of problems is in raising capital.

Promoting Your Offline Business Online
morebusiness.com - Here are 6 ways that offline business can promote their businesses online.

Mind Your Manners: The Accent News Group Shares Simple Rules To Improve Business Communication
powerhomebiz.com - Accent staff writer Lori Davis tackles garbled voice mail and mangled e-mail and gives a few simple tips to put them back on track.

Family ties
money.cnn.com - A recent court ruling lays down new guidelines for transferring a business to your kids

The E-Mail Marketing Success Forecast
clickz.com - As the end of the first quarter draws near, it's time to review your e-mail efforts to determine if you're still on the road to success.

eBay Rolls out Custom Categories for Stores
auctionbytes.com - The new 300 Category/Subcategory feature went live Thursday night, March 16, 2006. Here's a first look:

Good Things in Store
entrepreneur.com - Use an eBay store to set up shop in your own little corner of the eBay universe, and watch sales take off.

Give Yourself Some Credit
businessweek.com - Building a credit record for your small business is imperative. The tricky part is doing it without endangering your own