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EBay Selling Basics
allbusiness.com - You have probably heard people making six-figure incomes selling their wares on eBay. Its popularity has skyrocketed, and the momentum isn't showing any signs of slowing down. If you are ready to join the fray, here are some tips to make the most of your online auctioneering.

Seal the Deal Sales Technique
about.com - Can you close a sale in just seven seconds? You can do it faster if you use a sales technique to make a great first impression.

The Lowdown on Wi-Fi Security: From Supplicants to Keys
smallbusinesscomputing.com - For those of us who care about security, the wireless world finally has some meaningful tools.

Tactics for Growing New Company Sales
startupjournal.com - Looking for new ways to build sales? Consider these suggestions from small-business owners:

How to Create a Successful Business Blog: 8 Planning Tips (Part 1 of 2)
marketingprofs.com - The most successful business bloggers are knowledgeable about their subject. More importantly, they are passionate. Usually, they are evangelists. It's the combination of insight, passion, and good writing that attracts followers.

Bytestart Sales Training for Small Businesses
bytestart.co.uk - To help small business owners to learn how to make more sales we've developed a breakthrough sales workshop. The workshop is dedicated for small business owners that need to dramatically boost sales.

Additional Money-Making Ideas to Take Advantage of for Your Business
morebusiness.com - We’ve talked about upselling and ancillary products as a way to help you increase your business. Here are a few additional ways to earn more money in your business.

Smothering Me With Customer Service
clickz.com - It's fantastic to really understand our customers. We can track their behavior and provide information that's relevant, timely, and important. But there's an art to that science. We need business rules that don't smother our customers with customer service. Some companies actually drive away customers because of their customer service.

An eBay Seller's Tips for Product-Sourcing at Trade Shows
auctionbytes.com - There are many ways to source products for your eBay and ecommerce business, and trade shows are a great way to keep your product line fresh.

Expanding Your Customer Base
entrepreneur.com - Get the most from your marketing efforts with strategies that'll build your customer base, one customer at a time.

eBay Watch: Rain, Rain, Go Away!
ecommerce-guide.com - eBay is now strictly enforcing its latest Safe Payments Policy in order to stem the tide of bogus sellers ripping off naïve buyers.

Making Sense Of Sales
businessweek.com - Software to improve your sales process may finally be ready for prime time

How to Choose Your Affiliate Program Wisely
smallbusinessbrief.com - Affiliate marketing programs have sky-rocketed in popularity in the past few years. As one of the fastest and easiest ways to start an online home business people are jumping on this wave by the millions. Affiliate programs offer merchants the opportunity to employ vast armies of sales people who get paid for the results they achieve.

Help Desk Software
smallbusinessbrief.com - In today's fast paced business scenario managing customer's requests has become more and more complicated. Call volumes and customer expectations are high and may exceed what staff can effectively respond to. Enter "Help Desk Software" - today's tool for providing an efficient way to manage problems or issues, creating an effective chain of communication.

Get the Drop on Drop Shipping Scams
smallbusinessbrief.com - The drop shipping process involves four basic steps.

IRS Streamlines Extension of Time to File for Business Taxpayers
about.com - The Internal Revenue Service has simplified the process for business taxpayers filing for an extension.

Cultivate Customer Satisfaction by Putting Employees First
nfib.com - Dissatisfied employees often take their unhappiness out on customers. Their inappropriate behavior may not be deliberate, but it can be glaringly obvious to customers.

Advertising Is a Two-Way Street in the Internet Age
nfib.com - Whether you run a small, part-time business out of your home or own a multinational corporation, tapping into the power of the Internet can help you generate sales. It can also backfire, if you don't respect Internet conventions and simple courtesy.

Is Your IP Address Whitelisted?
marketingprofs.com - 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. You then send the email to your list but find that deliverability rates are lower than you planned—mostly because none of your recipients at a major Internet service provider (ISP) received your email. Why did this ISP block your emails?

Design A Customer-Friendly Site
workz.com - Designing your Web site so that customers feel comfortable encourages them to stay on site longer a key to successful e-commerce.

RSS Killer App from Person To Person Direct - An Effective Way to Attract Visitors to Your Website
powerhomebiz.com - Add fresh dynamic content to your website with RSS Killer App and attract an unlimited amount of free targeted traffic to your website.

Sendmail may turn tools over to open source
zdnet.com - Sendmail, whose products are built on the software that delivers many e-mail messages, may release some substantial new technology as open source.

eBay's PayPal Service Launches Mobile Payments
auctionbytes.com - eBay's online payment service PayPal has officially introduced PayPal Mobile, a text message-based service allowing consumers in the US and Canada to send using their mobile telephones.

Coming On Strong
entrepreneur.com - Your efforts to get to know your customers could be driving them away.

Home Is Where the Tax Is
businessweek.com - A question about per diems in home-based business -- when is a job in another state travel, and when is it relocation? The answer: It depends

Getting your idea off the ground
usatoday.com - I have an idea for a new product but am not sure how to get started. I have money to invest, but I certainly don't want to waste it. What suggestions might you have?

Advertising Is a Two-Way Street in the Internet Age
nfib.com - Whether you run a small, part-time business out of your home or own a multinational corporation, tapping into the power of the Internet can help you generate sales. It can also backfire, if you don't respect Internet conventions and simple courtesy.

Marketing Strategy: Let Big Partners Do It
startupjournal.com - Greg Butterfield clearly remembers the moment when he realized Altiris Inc. would have to scrap its sales strategy and go to market in an entirely different way.

Outsourcing HR Reaps Benefits for Small Business
smallbusinesscomputing.com - According to the Small Business Administration, small business owners spend between seven and 25 percent of their time handling employee-related paperwork. Not the most productive use of their time. But by outsourcing some or all of their employee-related functions — such as payroll, benefits, healthcare or recruitment and retention — small business owners can focus on what they do best.

Top Ten Legal Oversights That Can Shut Down Your Website
businessknowhow.com - Although there are many legal problems that can shut down a website, these are some of the more likely culprits.

Podcasting for Learning & Sales Enablment
smallbusinessbrief.com - What do Duke University, IBM, Capital One, Newsweek and Barenaked Ladies all have in common? Answer: they are all reaching out to staff, students, and customers with a new and powerful tool – podcasting.

Getting Your Domain Name
smallbusinessbrief.com - Since thousands of domain names are registered everyday it is a really very difficult to get a domain name of single phrase in English language and other major languages. Given below are some tips to guide you to decide a domain name of single phrase.

Small Business and Branding – Why and How?
bytestart.co.uk - You might be having a very small business but would you like your client to perceive your business as a small time entrepreneurial effort?

Are Autoresponders An Important Asset To Your Business?
myaffiliateplace.biz - Autoresponders are an important asset to an Internet Marketer. When I heard that statement, I said, “Okay – great! What is it!” For all those new to the Internet arena, I’ll try to explain what autoresponders are, how they can be used, and how it can benefit your online business.

Phishers Continue to Target eBay and PayPal with Sophisticated Ploys
auctionbytes.com - Scammers have been targeting PayPal and eBay users for years using "phishing" emails. These hoax emails trick recipients into visiting spoof sites - sites made to look like sign-in pages of legitimate companies, but are in actuality created by scammers to harvest victims' personal and financial information.

Search for Your Web Site
ecommerce-guide.com - When customers come to your Web site, they usually want to find stuff fast. If the site is small enough and designed well enough, they can find what they want by clicking through menus. But once a site gets beyond a certain size — a couple of hundred pages, say — and especially if you have lots of products for sale, you'll need to add a search function so visitors can do fast keyword searches of your pages.

Business Plan Basics
morebusiness.com - If you are just starting a company and looking for funding, or looking for additional funding for growth, you will need to develop a traditional business plan.

Safeguard Your Laptop When You're Away From Home
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Wireless networks and Internet cafes have made it more convenient than ever for the laptop-wielding road warrior to get online, but as the saying goes "nobody rides for free." You pay a price for this convenience and if you're not careful, it could be a high one.

How to Beat the Competition With Your AdWords Campaigns
marketingprofs.com - Nothing gets the adrenalin pumping quite like an AdWords campaign that delivers a strong ROI.

Does My Small Business Really Need a Press Kit?
businessknowhow.com - When the "experts" tell you you're going to need a press kit for your small business I'll bet you're wondering why on earth you'd need one. At least, I think you'd wonder why if you think a press kit is just for the press. But the term 'press kit' is misleading if you ask me because press kits aren't just what their name implies.

eBay Success - Pricing Your Items Effectively
smallbusinessbrief.com - Numerous new sellers don't realize the importance of pricing when it comes to eBay auctions. Some new sellers don't even realize that 'pricing' needs to be done. eBay is an auction site after all.

Find The Free Spyware Removal Program Perfect For You
smallbusinessbrief.com - Spyware is a vide group of software programs designed to spy on computer users, and report back to the owner of the Spyware program. If your computer becomes infected with Spyware, the Spyware will take control of parts of your computer without your knowledge or consent. Free spyware removal programs are available online.

Amazon Changes Affiliate Fees, Raises Ire
ecommerce-guide.com - The online retailing giant sent an e-mail to its affiliates notifying them that beginning in Q2 2006 (April 1), a new compensation plan will be in place that introduces flat-rate commissions and does away with link bonuses.

Great Employees Make a Great Business
businessweek.com - Providing service with a smile never goes out of style. Here's why it's so important to hire the best workers you can find

9 Reasons You Should be Selling on eBay
entrepreneur.com - There are many ways to get started on ebay. Which will you choose?

Why Business Planning is not just for Start-Ups
bytestart.co.uk - One of the greatest misconceptions about business planning is that a business plan is useful only for start-ups.

Small Business Loans – Encouraging Business Initiatives
smallbusinessbrief.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

The Truth about Driving Qualifed Traffic to Your Website
businesstoolchest.com - Companies large and small are constantly seeking creative, high return strategies to increase visibility on the Internet. The quest for a high ranking position seems to be a never ending process. With most people there seems to be an endless search for the one answer on how to drive traffic to their website and turn those visitors into buyers.

Tax extension for small businesses quite easy
msnbc.msn.com - How to get more time to file your taxes

Formalizing Loans
startupjournal.com - Are you searching for money to start a new business? The first place entrepreneurs commonly look is their own savings or credit cards. The second place is family and friends.

Business Plan Basics
morebusiness.com - If you are just starting a company and looking for funding, or looking for additional funding for growth, you will need to develop a traditional business plan. Creating a business plan is a business hurdle that entrepreneurs seem to dread. Do you do it yourself? Do you hire someone to do it? How do you get it done quickly, but without spending too much money on it? Will what you do yourself be adequate to get funding?

E-Mail Is About Awareness
clickz.com - One word best sums up the most effective uses of e-mail in today's environment: awareness.

An eBay Seller's Tips for Product-Sourcing at Trade Shows
auctionbytes.com - There are many ways to source products for your eBay and ecommerce business, and trade shows are a great way to keep your product line fresh.

Harness the Marketing Power of Blogs
entrepreneur.com - This newest web phenomenon can rank your site #1 in search engines, boost traffic and sales, and establish you as an expert in your industry.

eBay Tips: Choosing Auction Management Software
ecommerce-guide.com - What kind of software should you use? What are the best packages, and, more important, which one is best suited for your particular eBay business?

Reaching Out to an Older Crowd
businessweek.com - Dick Stroud founded 20plus30 to teach businesses how to market to the diverse and growing over-50 population