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Your Logo: Much More Than a Decoration
smallbusinessbrief.com - What are the company logos that you remember the most? As you are about to design your corporate identity, take a look around and notice the logos that are all around us. Most of the time, they are very simple icons. Sometimes they graphically represent exactly what the company does, but others are a simple mark that makes an impression. Here are some tips to help you get a memorable corporate identity of your own.

Don't Get Suckered by eBay Scams
entrepreneur.com - Our expert explodes the myths behind all those "get rich quick" schemes targeting eBay sellers.

Writing An Ebook – Learning Step By Step
devshed.com - They say the best way to making money on the Internet, is to create your own Ebook.Wow! That’s a simple statement, but – do you know what is involved. I’ll try to explain what I have learned and I am learning while I’m creating my own Ebook.

Getting Quality One Way Links For Free
goarticles.com - As you probably know, building your link popularity is the best way to get good search engine placement and free traffic for life for your websites. A lot of people have trouble with this, so I decided to make a small list with the methods I use to get tons of quality one way links to my sites.

ROI-calculating accurately
businesstoolchest.com - The phrase "return on investment" (ROI) is thrown around a lot, but do you know what it really means and how to calculate it?

And Then There Were Adwords... An Introduction
ezinearticles.com - If you have been looking into Internet marketing, you have probably seen Adwords mentioned now and again. Why don’t we cover the basics of the program.

Tips to help you avoid the late payment trap
bytestart.co.uk - Typically taking up to 64 days to pay invoices, delayed payment by larger companies can cause a ‘make or break’ situation for many small businesses.

5 Online Businesses for People Who Like People
morebusiness.com -As an outgoing "people-person" you have a great advantage in business. But finding the right business for you can be tough. When choosing a business, be sure to consider your extroverted nature as a strength that you can leverage.

eBay to Launch Express Site Next Week
auctionbytes.com - eBay executives told analysts in a conference call earlier this week that it would launch eBay Express next week.

Does It Matter Where You Incorporate?
allbusiness.businessweek.com - There is no law that says you have to incorporate in the state in which you plan to do business.

Law and Orders
entrepreneur.com - Build your eBay business on a strong legal foundation to keep the bids coming.

Data Recovery
smallbusinessbrief.com - Data is information or statistics, numbers or records that are important and are worth being preserved for future use. Data can be stored in various forms and in different sources depending on the type of data, its importance and volume.

Use These Two Numbers To Double Your Business In 12 Months
smallbusinessbrief.com - Everyone wants to see growth in sales and net revenue. It's important for small business owners to set income goals and to watch sales results, but too much emphasis on these numbers can prevent you from reaching your goals.

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.

Shipping Your eBay Inventory
entrepreneur.com - The right shipping tools and processes can make all the difference to your business' success.

What Is Affiliate Marketing and Is It For Me?
smallbusinessbrief.com - Affiliate marketing can be defined as a widespread method of promotion in which an affiliate is rewarded for every view, sale, and/or registration produced through the affiliate's efforts (depending on the type of affiliate program).

What Is It - an Answer Machine or Voice Mail?
smallbusinessbrief.com - Voice mail response can be an effective sales tool. Voice mail is one of many tools the professional uses to get the job done right.

Outsource Your Hiring Process
ezinearticles.com - Are you drowning in resumes? Is your phone constantly ringing with people (mostly unqualified) asking about open positions? A lot of small business owners and human resources managers run into these issues. Yes, hiring new employees is your responsibility.

Better Online Communication Makes Business Sense
businessknowhow.com - How you communicate with your online customers will make or break your company. What are you doing to improve your customer relations?

No More Cold Calling TM: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust
businessknowhow.com - Selling is the best job in the world. We can solve problems for our clients, be instrumental in helping them grow their businesses, engage in robust discussions, expand their thinking, and build amazing relationships. No other job gives us the opportunity to truly connect with others and to plug into the pulse of the economy from anywhere in the world.

Can Young Entrepreneurs Get Funding?
entrepreneur.com - If you're young and in love with the idea of starting a business, these tips will help you in your search for startup financing.

Problems During Business Start-Up Can Mean Success Later
nfib.com - People always want their start-up company to be immediately profitable, but sometimes a little struggle at the beginning can be the best-case scenario. Why? Because when things go too smoothly right from the start, two dangers can emerge:

Get your suppliers in line
usatoday.com - What do you do when the inefficiency of your suppliers makes it impossible for you to provide good customer service?

8 Simple Rules for Rating A Business Opportunity
about.com - So you think you have found the one business opportunity that will bring you freedom, fame, and plenty of profits? Does it meet the 8 simple rules? Before you run out and cash in your life-savings, stop and separate your emotions from the small business opportunity.

Is Wi-Fi Roaming Really Seamless?
smallbusinesscomputing.com - One extremely beneficial aspect of Wi-Fi networks is mobility. For example, a person can walk through a facility while carrying on a conversation over a Wi-Fi phone or downloading a large file from a server. The Wi-Fi radio inside the mobile device automatically roams from one access point to another as needed to provide seamless connectivity. At least, that's what we hope happens.

In Search of Profits In the Blogosphere
startupjournal.com - Blogs have a lot of buzz, but there's still considerable debate about whether that can translate into profits.

3 Ways To Build A Profitable Opt In List Quickly and Easily
smallbusinessbrief.com - For those who have started an opt-in list and have failed, you can rejuvenate your failed venture. For those who are starting, here are three quick and easy ways to build a profitable opt-in list.

Sell Your Knowledge: Turning Your Hobby Into Profits
smallbusinessbrief.com - Have you ever considered turning one of your hobbies into a business? You may be surprised at how virtually any hobby can be converted to profits, and without tremendous overhead or ridiculously high start up costs. What's even better, you aren't required to have a specific product to sell! In fact, you can make your knowledge your product to sell.

Working At Home With An Uncooperative Spouse
smallbusinessbrief.com - When we first decide to make the transition from an outside job to a home-based job or business, some of us might face a dilemma -- a spouse who suddenly seems uncooperative and difficult. Even if our spouse is usually good-natured, we might find ourselves enmeshed in arguments and battles for control over our own careers.

How to Succeed as the First Franchisee
entrepreneur.com - As the first child of a franchise system, you're the groundbreaker. Here's how to navigate your way through the new system ... and thrive.

Starting An Online Store: The Essential Checklist - Part II
ecommerce-guide.com - Yesterday, we gave you seven top tips for getting your e-commerce venture started. Today, we conclude with the final eight items on your startup checklist.

Selling My Franchise
franchisetrade.com - "I'm interested in selling my franchise. How do I sell a franchise?" That's an inquiry we recently got from a visitor to our Resources for Entrepreneurs site. Here's our advice on how to sell a franchise business.

How to Register a Trademark
businessknowhow.com - So, you've just come up with a snappy product name and you've decided you want to trademark it. What should you do next? Is it really as easy as the website at the US Patent and Trademark Office says it is? Can I really do it without a trademark lawyer? These and other questions will be answered in this article.

It Don't Mean a Thing If the Email Doesn't Sing
smartbiz.com - What makes up a successful email campaign? In the first part of this two-part series, we covered the first critical steps in implementing a successful email marketing campai

3 Steps To Getting Hundreds Of Backlinks To Your Website Absolutely FREE
workz.com - "How can I get those High PR links without having to buy High PR links and/or spend countless hours surfing the web for link partners with the possible potential of being denied?"

AuctionBytes Feature: First Item Sold Online
auctionbytes.com - We received an outpouring of stories from our inaugural publication of the "First Item Sold Online" feature in March. It seems everyone remembers his or her first item ever sold online!

Use Email Marketing Wisely; Stand Out From Junk Mail
businesstoolchest.com - Email Marketing is the most cheapest and efficient way to promote products. However, under tons of junk mail, your marketing mail always be neglected and put into the wastebasket. To stand out from the junk mails, follow the suggestions below to increase the power of your email marketing.

Domain Name Registration Basics
ezinearticles.com - The domain name registration process can be confusing to first time buyers. There are a number of terms to worry about. Hopefully, with the information below, you'll be able to successfully register domain names while avoiding the pain that can sometimes come from the domain registration process.

Brand Transformation: When (and How) to Revitalize a Brand
marketingprofs.com - When should companies allow declining, aging brands to finish their lifecycles? When should they opt to revitalize them? These are hard questions for companies in view of fast-changing consumer demands, increasing global competition, and diminishing awareness of heritage brands among younger consumers.

Are You Threatening Me?
smallbusinesscomputing.com - The modern networked office requires a certain degree of vigilance, and not just from midnight burglars. Thanks to increasing network safety consciousness, you probably already have a router firewall on your broadband connection and anti-virus software on all of your PCs. The D-Link NetDefend DFL-CPG310 bundles these, wireless security, VPN, and many other network safety and management features and wraps them all up into a "UTM" or Unified Threat Management appliance.

Think Twice Before Borrowing from Family
businessweek.com - Small-business owners who ask relatives for money often run into a host of problems, say experts

Tips to Writing a Good Press Release
smallbusinessbrief.com - Distributing a press release to editors and news organizations is only half the battle. Writing a press release that will be published by the media is equally important. Press releases are public relations opportunities. A well written press release, can generate exposure in publications that could be worth thousands in advertising dollars, for a fraction of the cost.

Yahoo Integrates Auctions with Yahoo Maps
auctionbytes.com - Yahoo has integrated Yahoo Auctions with Yahoo Maps, it announced to users on Sunday. When visitors to Yahoo Auctions use the "Near Me" feature to locate items within a certain distance of their zip code, the search results will include a "View Map" link.

The New Frontier of Advertising
entrepreneur.com - Local online advertising is one of the easiest ways to target your local customers. Our expert tells you what works, and what you can do for free.

Starting An Online Store: The Essential Checklist - Part I
ecommerce-guide.com - Here's an inspiring fact for anyone starting an online business: If you gather everything you need before you launch, you'll be far ahead of most people who start online stores.

Vetting Your Idea
businessweek.com - Seth Godin on how to tell whether your ingenious thought could make a viable product -- and how to impress investors if it does

Create a web page for your visitors and your site won't fail!
goarticles.com - Create a web page tailored to your visitors. All websites are designed towards your visitors, but how many sites are actually designed towards the visitors specific? Very few...

How do you get the money you need for your business?
businesstoolchest.com - If you are looking for a small business loan you are most likely going to approach a bank. A bank will look at you and your business and ask, “is this a good investment for us to loan them money”. Then they look at their criteria of determining risk and make a decision to move forward with approving your loan request or not. Knowing what the bank is looking for is key.

IT Marketing: Direct Mail Tips
ezinearticles.com - Regardless of whether you're doing a letter, a flyer mailer, a big oversized postcard, or a standard-sized postcard, make sure that your headline hits them right between the eyes. Your message must do the same thing.

Disaster Recovery Decision Making for Small Business
about.com - Small business is ill equipped for disaster recovery following a major catastrophe. Without the resources of a large corporation, small business owners face tough decisions to close, sell off, or reopen the business. Learn the 9 factors you need to consider when deciding what direction to take your small business following a natural or man-made disaster.

HP Tells SMBs: Print it Yourself
smallbusinesscomputing.com - If you've ever thought about severing the umbilical cord to your local print shop and producing your own marketing materials, then you're just the kind of small business owner that HP's trying to woo. The company's announcing eight new printers — plus new services and updated software — designed to help SMBs produce their own professional results.

The Decision to Buy
marketingprofs.com - How often has a sale been lost after we believed that the customer clearly understood his or her problem and would make a logical, quality decision?

Make working from home enjoyable, not a hassle
usatoday.com - I am planning on moving my business into my home, figuring I can save on rent and other expenses, and be closer to the kids. I have never run a home-based business before and my chief concern is that I do it legally. Is there anything in particular I should be concerned about?

Windows Customers Squeezed Coming and Going
smallbusinesscomputing.com - If you're still using older Windows operating systems, you're likely to feel the pinch as Microsoft prepares to launch Vista, its latest operating system. While the Vista OS may prove too much for older computers, Microsoft has announced that — as of later this summer — it will no longer support the Windows 9x code base.

Starting a Home-Based Business
nfib.com - Could you give me a basic outline for the fundamentals of how to start my own home-based business?

Small Businesses Filing Amended Federal Tax Returns To Recover Money
workz.com - April 15th may be gone but, but certainly not forgotten especially if you, like millions of small businesses, unknowingly overpaid your federal taxes and can recover money by filing an amended return.

Is E-Mail an Art or a Science?
clickz.com - Is e-mail an art or a science? Before you decide, there are a few facts you should consider. According to Forrester Research:

How to deal with copyright infringement - website copying
bytestart.co.uk - With many businesses and organisations presenting themselves on the Internet it is unsurprising that copying by others, especially by competitors is not uncommon.

Words That Sell
morebusiness.com - We all know the English language contains hundreds of thousands of words. But did you know that only 21 of them can easily sell your clients? Yes! It’s true. When you know what these proven words are and how to use them to your company’s benefit, you’ll save both time and money when selling to prospects.

Turn eBay Data Into Dollars: Introduction
auctionbytes.com - Last year, I wrote a book about tools that could help eBay sellers better understand their sales so they could spend more time doing what works best and improve their profitability. I looked at several kinds of tools.

Just for You
entrepreneur.com - Your startup can make customers smile if you let them design their own retail experiences.

Would I Lie to You? Five Cons Still Kicking
businessweek.com - Most of these scams have been around for generations, but people fall for them again and again