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The Wide World of Retailing
entrepreneur.com - Whether you're into model trains, the latest wireless tech or trendy teen fashion, there's a retail franchise that will work for you.

5 Reasons Not To Mix Personal & Business Banking
about.com - Frequently, business owners try to process business transactions through their personal bank accounts in an effort to reduce expenses and bank fees. Unwittingly, they are creating more potential problems for the business in the future.

Internet Marketing - Complying with the CAN-SPAM Laws in Your Online Business
smallbusinessbrief.com - There are some things that you should do and things you should not do when you embark on email marketing. There are some hard and fast rules to follow when beginning to make money online by using email advertising that will increase the effectiveness of your advertising.

Customers Buy When They Feel Good
smallbusinesssuccess.biz - Prospective customers will not buy unless they feel good about you, your company and your product or service. Here are 4 simple ways you can stimulate their good feelings ...and motivate them to buy.

"I Don't Need a Website" - Why Small Businesses are Being Left Behind
ezinearticles.com - Millions of people are turning to the internet to find local business and use local services. Is your business one of them? Or have your competitors gotten the jump on you and are slowly taking your business away from you?

Branding and Marketing
quickbrand.ca - So, you know what a brand is. You know what makes up a brand and which parts of your company you might be able to exploit … I mean use, to define and manipulate your brand and the way you are perceived by the public. But, well, how?

Web Hosting: More than Meets the Eye
smartbiz.com - If you have a domain name, such as yourcompany.com, then you have a web host. If you are considering registering a domain for a website and email addresses, then you need a web host. There are a lot of hosting companies out there with wide variations in price and quality. How do you choose a good hosting company? How do you get a good value?

How To Drive Traffic With A Blog
devshed.com - When the blogger is very regular with new material and gives people a reason to tune in frequently.

Interesting RSS Feeds More Than Just News
businesstoolchest.com - The core use for RSS is generally considered news headlines and blog syndication, but innovative businesses are learning to use RSS in different ways. Consider RSS as a communication channel that can provide current, targeted information as it appears within a very targeted audience.

How Can I Find Out About the Financial Performance of Specific Franchisors?
allbusiness.com - The information can you can find out about regarding the financial performance of specific franchisors will depend, in part, on whether you are a potential purchaser of a franchise, or just a member of the public who might be interested in finding out about maybe owning a specific franchise.

Finding a Supplier with the Perfect Merchandise
msn.com - Get the eBay products you want--and the quality your customers demand--with these tips for finding a product supplier.

Be sure 'busy work' isn't keeping you from growing your business
usatoday.com - I am doing everything I can think of to increase business in my home remodeling company. So far I am making ends meet. I want to do better. My wife says I do too much of what she calls "busy work." She doesn't understand that it takes a lot to own and run a business and "busy work" is part of it. How can I increase my business and how do I get her to understand that I have a lot to do?

Business A Great Responsibility Teacher
smallbusinessbrief.com - As parents, we all want our kids to be responsible. We want to raise children who will be responsible adults and who will willingly take responsibilities for their actions. Having a business is a sure way for children to learn responsibility.

Unusual Ideas to Build Your Business
morebusiness.com - Use these businesses as inspiration and as a springboard for your own ideas. It’s only when you get creative and different that you’ll put your competition into your rearview mirror and take the lead.

What One Thing Can Lose Clients Fast?
smallbusinessbrief.com - There is one simple thing that can lose potential clients fast. Once you have lost them due to this one thing, it is virtually impossible to ever get them back.

Sales - How to be successful at Cold Calling
bytestart.co.uk - Whether you like it or not, at some stage, you are going to have to pick up the phone and ask a complete stranger if they want to buy your products or services. Here is how to do it.

Starting and Managing an Import Export Business
morebusiness.com - Importing and exporting (IMEX) can be a business that drives entrepreneurs away. There are many laws – put in place for consumer safety and to promote at-home manufacturing – that can sometimes infuriate the person who wants to start their IMEX business. Here are some resources and ideas to help you get your foot in the IMEX door.

Personality Test
entrepreneur.com - Creating the business personality that leaves a lasting impression

Report: 2006 Online Retails Sales to Hit $100 Billion
ecommerce-guide.com - Just how big is the online marketplace getting? Well, one new study predicts e-commerce in the United States will surpass a major milestone in 2006.

Bay Tips: Choosing Auction Management Software
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Roughly speaking, eBay sellers are divided into two groups. The first group is casual sellers, who make a few bucks with occasional, one-time sales of items like uncle Gary's old bowling shoes or aunt Mildred's old Elvis albums. No real work is involved. But 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?

5 Online Businesses for People in the Trades
morebusiness.com - If you work in the trades and want to start an online business, you can draw from your industrial experience to help you. Here are 5 businesses you can start if you have a background in the trades.

5 growth tips for women in business
cnn.com - If you're a smart entrepreneur, you want intelligence. That means finding groups, individuals and sites with information that can help your business. Here are a few.

Time to Spring-Clean Your Site?
clickz.com - It's time to do a little spring cleaning before getting out to enjoy the warm breezes and longer days. Appropriately enough, maintaining a well-organized Web site isn't all that different from a spring cleaning regimen.

For the People
entrepreneur.com - Landing government contracts is tough--but it can be done. Learn from these entrepreneurs and Uncle Sam could become your biggest client.

Business by the Book
businessweek.com - Can writing a book boost your outfit's bottom line? According to marketer Mike Schultz, the answer is a yes -- and in a host of direct and indirect ways

Get The Picture: What To Look For In A Monitor
smallbizresource.com - Need to replace your old computer monitor? Buying a new desktop computer and the monitor options have you perplexed? The choices are really pretty straightforward.

Fail To Succeed
mybusinessmag.com - Lisa Johnson sobbed. It was Christmas Eve 2001, and Johnson and her husband were within $5 of bankruptcy. Six months pregnant, she’d been hospitalized eight times already. Her health was suffering—and so was her business. She was broke, exhausted and anxious about her unborn child, but even at that low point, Johnson never considered herself a failure.

Small Business Pro: Cheap but Hard to Use
pcworld.com - A poor interface mars Avanquest's bundle of tools for accounting, financial forecasting, and and business plan creation.

Make Your Newsletter Rock
smartbiz.com - Newsletters can -- and often should -- be a vital part of a company's branding and marketing strategy, and new software tools take all the mystery out of measuring an audience.

Why Streaming Audio And Video Is A Trend You Must Not Ignore!
businesstoolchest.com - Have you noticed it already? What is the biggest change on the internet in the last five years? If you haven't already noticed it, it is the growth of audio and video on ordinary websites.

Do Some Web Hosts Specialize in E-Commerce?
allbusiness.com - Almost any Web host will tell you that it's able to handle e-commerce. Take these claims with a grain of salt: E-commerce is a special application, and mistakes or problems can upset your customers and hurt your business.

Name Your Business in 3 Easy Steps
msn.com - First impressions are everything, so here's how to choose a name your customers will bond with.

Need Cash? Call a Hedge Fund
startupjournal.com - When fast-growing technology company Pay By Touch went looking for cash slightly over a year ago, it met with private-equity firms and venture capitalists.

How to Explode Your Online Sales!
businesshighlight.org - The Headline is the life and soul of not just your site, but your entire business. It is the one thing a visitor sees when they first land on your page, but it should be the one thing that keeps them ON your page. Find out how to write a Killer Headline!

Blogging to Increase Home Business Profits
smallbusinessbrief.com - Blogs have many applications and there are a number of ways that they can help you either advertise your business, a current promotion or idea. Here are few ideas for using a blog in your business.

How Your Business Can Take Advantage Of eBay
smallbusinessbrief.com - Recently online auction websites such as eBay have been on the hearts and minds of many business owners. Why so you ask? Simply put, there are millions of online auctions taking place as we speak. And you can bet your bottom dollar that many eBay sellers are raking in the dough.

Top Ten eBook Mistakes and How to Correct Them
smallbusinessbrief.com - Did you know that you already have an eBook inside you? And, like your coach, you can earn thousands of dollars each month?

Myths Regarding Online Home Based Businesses
smallbusinessbrief.com - So many times you will hear how easy it is to sign up for a few programs and throw up a website and then just watch the money come rolling in. Sorry to burst your bubble folks, it just doesn't happen that easily.

Starting A Business – The Three 'Ps'
morebusiness.com - There are a lot of factors to consider when starting a business. Primary among these are the three “P”s – Plan, Prepare and Persist.

Tracking Expenses In A Mobile Business
ezinearticles.com - Keeping track of expenses in any business can be a very frustrating exercise and even more exasperating for a business that is on wheels and moves to numerous locations throughout a state and/or country.

Ten Commandments of Written Communication
morebusiness.com - There’s one thing that makes every relationship work: communication. It doesn’t matter if that relationship is a romantic one, a peer relationship, or a business relationship; Communication makes the world go around.

The Lease You Can Do
mybusinessmag.com - If you’re like most small-business owners, your business is located in leased space. When it comes to commercial leases, keep one thing in mind: Leases are binding contracts. Don’t assume that you’ll be able to change the agreement without extra cost and hassle.

Which Strategies Improve the Open Rates Of Marketing Emails?
smartbiz.com - The top drivers of open rates are your Subject line, offer and ongoing relevance. Before we talk about each of these, let's first talk about what an unreliable metric open rates are.

Are your shipping fees driving away customers?
microsoft.com - Shipping and handling fees represent one of the biggest quandaries that e-commerce businesses face today. Consumers hate them but merchants can't survive covering the freight themselves.

Nine Steps To FAST Success
workz.com - How many times have you smashed up against a road block when you were after a goal, and wondered if you would EVER get there? There really are only two types of goal seekers -- those who "get it" and achieve their goals, and those who spend their lives wondering WHY they keep smashing up against those road blocks. Here are nine ABSOLUTELY PROVEN keys to immediately "get it," and finally make some fast and lasting progress.

6 Powerful Tips to Creating Testimonials That Sell Your Products Fast
businesstoolchest.com - There are many ways to market a product or a service and providing the potential clients and customers with testimonials is one of the best ways to market.

Buying Desktop Computers for Your Growing Business
allbusiness.com - Let us give you some useful advice and handy rules of thumb for buying the right kinds of business desktop PCs at fair prices.

The Politics of Home Business
businessknowhow.com - Let’s travel the murky waters of politics in the home business. If you have not yet owned a home business, you probably think there are no politics involved in home business. Most people start a home business to get away from office politics, and they are usually surprised to find there really are politics involved in running a home business.

$1 Million in Sales at 19: He Did It on eBay!
entrepreneur.com - This lucky entrepreneur found eBay success with a product he knew would always be in demand.

How can a business plan be helpful if it is quickly outdated?
about.com - Depending on the business, metrics can be many items such as inventory turns, sales conversion or product defects. By regularly monitoring the performance metrics, the business owners can identify negative or positive anomalies, correct problems, capitalize on opportunities and keep the business plan current.

PayPal - A Safe, Secure Option for Small and Medium Businessmen
smallbusinessbrief.com - Getting a merchant account is not easy for all. It is an expensive proposition, in terms of initial set up costs to have secured huckster proof network and security levels have to grow to keep pace with growing threat perception. Here comes PayPal.

How "Your Ad Here" Can Hurt Your Site
smallbusinessbrief.com - So, you have set up a new website! Fun, isn't it? You have seen other websites with advertising. You have probably even bought some of that advertising space yourself. Because it tells the person viewing your site that you are a brand new site. It also implies that you have no current sponsors or advertisers. This tells the potential advertiser that you probably don't have any traffic to your website. This devalues your advertising spots.

Maximize your eBay Selling Potential
smallbusinessbrief.com - Many people believe that to be successful on eBay, all you have to do is login and put up a few auctions. They believe that their products will naturally sell because they're on ebay. This is definitely not the truth. If you want to have maximum success then you have to work at it, improve your business and most importantly, promote your auctions. In this article I will tell you of a few things that you can do to sell more items on ebay.

Wholesale Distributor: How To Start A Wholesaling Business
smallbusinessbrief.com - Wholesaling is a very profitable business, provided that you have a large dealer network behind you.

Avoiding Pitfalls When Partnering with a Friend
startupjournal.com - friend and I are going into business. How do we structure it so if things go sour, it won't destroy our friendship?