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How to Really Annoy your Web Site Visitors
smallbusinessbrief.com - It is quite easy to build a web site. It is even easier to really annoy your web site visitors.

Do Tradesmen Like Plumbers Need A Basic Website?
smallbusinessbrief.com - Small traders gain a number of advantages when they use a web builder to create an informative website.

Choosing a Mind-jarring Name for Your Business
smallbusinessbrief.com - One of the most important things your new business needs is a name. Your business’ name will often be the very first thing your customers see, and the very first impression you make on any potential customers.

Dodge the Perils of Early Adoption
pcworld.com - Buying a hot new product shouldn't feel like paying to be a beta tester.

Is Your Email Address List Clean And Up-To-Date?
workz.com - Once the perfect message has been created, it is just as important to focus on its successful delivery to the intended recipients. Unfortunately, it is likely that your current email address list has a number of significant problems.

Six Essential Email Delivery Tips
businesstoolchest.com - Here are 6 essential email delivery tips that we have found which can be used by beginners and experts alike…

Seven Rules of Effective E-mail
allbusiness.com - Here are my seven rules of effective e-mailing.

Dealing with Objections
If you too experience anxiety around "closing sales" here are my favorite responses to the top five objections your prospective clients are likely to raise.

How To Write An Effective Sales Letter For Your Business
mailingknowhow.com - For the business owner who chooses to write their own sales letter: A proven process for writing effective copy.

The ABCs of Begginning Your Blog
businessweek.com - Once you determine that blogging makes sense for your small business, here's how to get started.

Are You Cut Out To Be a Consultant?
startupjournal.com - Now's a good time to jump into self-employment as an independent consultant -- at least for some professions.

Spyware, Adware and Virus Removal First Steps: Get Rid of Temporary Files
businesshighlight.org - Before running virus scanning software, or programs to eradicate spyware, adware and other "nasties", it's a good idea to eliminate the many temporary files and temporary Internet files that build up on one's hard disk over time.

HTML Ezine - Does Yours Render Right? CSS vs. Inline HTML
emailuniverse.com - One huge mistake that many ezine publishers do when sending HTML email newsletters is that they will test their design to their email client (software they use to check & send email) and wrongly assume the rest of the world uses the same email software.

Turn Your Competitors Into Allies
entrepreneur.com - Five ways to increase sales by forging competitive alliances

Tapping the Business Plan Competition Circuit
about.com - Think of business plan competitions and images of brilliant business students trying to create the next big thing comes to mind.

How to Do One Thing Right
inc.com - What do you do better than anybody else? Identify your "one thing" and everything else will fall into place.

6 Hottest Businesses on the Web
powerhomebiz.com - The Web is moving towards a new direction. Learn the six areas of the new Web that present new opportunities to small online businesses.

Boost Your Affiliate Sales Programs With Popular Trends
homebizjour.com - It doesn't take an Einstein to realize that matching affiliate sales programs with popular trends can be very profitable. If you're an affiliate marketer you should be keeping a close eye on what people are using and buying; then matching and marketing those trends with appropriate affiliate programs.

The 7 Secrets Of Wow! Customer Service
morebusiness.com - Your aim in giving your customers exceptional service is to make them say “Wow!” as soon as you disappear. You can do that if you make the following 7 tips part of your normal pattern of service.

Maintaining Your Motivation
workz.com - It is not uncommon for the business to drain our energy and motivation, regardless of how much we enjoy the business.

An Optimization That Can Please Your Customers AND The Search Engines
businesstoolchest.com - There´s a big difference between hits to your site and qualified visitors to your site!

Are Some Customers More Valuable Than Others?
allbusiness.com - A customer is a customer right? Their money is all green and every one is equally valuable. Not so fast! It turns out that there are some customers who can not only buy your product but help evangelize it as well.

If It's All in a Name
startupjournal.com - What is the procedure for naming your own company? My goal is to avoid any problem with another company challenging the name of a jewelry business I'm starting.

Source of Strength
entrepreneur.com - Bolster your eBay business by being the first to find the products everyone wants.

Franchise Opportunity of a Lifetime?
about.com - Put aside your emotions and dreams for a moment and take a hard look at the franchise opportunity. Consider the following evaluation checkpoints:

Making It Easy for Customers To Choose You
smallbusinessbrief.com - Here's something every web site owner should know. When visitors come to your site, they are looking for a reason to buy from you. Think that's stating the obvious? You'd be surprised!

What Do You Have to Believe to Prosper as an Entrepreneur?
smallbusinessbrief.com - What do you have to believe in order to show up, serve, and prosper as an entrepreneur?

What Is A Traffic Exchange?
smallbusinessbrief.com - If you have surfed the internet for very long, you have probably ran into what is referred to as a "traffic exchange".

Freelance Moms and Dads Working At Home With Kids
allfreelancework.com - 10 Tips for Working at Home With Young Children & How to Become a More Productive and Happy Work From Home Parent

Are Blogs A Meaningful Tool For Startups and Small Businesses?
smartbiz.com - Ask yourself what two things you want as a new business: you want people to find you online. And when they do, you want to be memorable. They may not buy the first time but you want them to be intrigued enough that they'll come back. Here's where a blog comes in.

Understanding Web Metrics to Improve Site Performance
powerhomebiz.com - Many online entrepreneurs fail to properly understand and utilize their site's metrics. Here's an in-depth look on how statistics could be used to achieve traffic, marketing, sales and customer service goals.

How Lead Programs Create Affiliate Success
homebizjour.com - There are various lead generating programs all over the internet. Some of them are free of charge while others will cost a one-time or monthly fee. These programs can be found as Co-Registration sites, FAA sites, Guaranteed Sign Up Programs, Joint Ventures and others may be offered on Affiliate Program sites.

Seven Ways to Boost Sales
homebusinessmag.com - Great selling techniques will fatten your profit in good times and bad. And there’s certainly no time like the present. If you’re like most business people you’re getting a rude reminder that making a sale means more than just writing up an order form, or hitting a key on a computer.

How to Use E-mail to Find New Customers
inc.com - Mailing to rented or purchased e-mail lists won't establish the trust you need to reap -- and keep -- customers. Here are some strategies that will.

Get Off the Internet
It seems like every business success story told today has the letter “e” in front of it. E-business success. E-commerce success. E-tail success. But long before the letter “e” was hijacked by the online world, businesses seemed to operate (successfully) without the Internet. It’s hard to believe but many profitable enterprises grew from good, old-fashioned marketing efforts.

10 Steps to Running a Successful Home-Based Business
allbusiness.com - These steps are easy to follow and will help you along your way to becoming a home-based business success instead of a failure.

Five Steps To Getting The Fees You Know You Deserve
businessknowhow.com - If you follow these five steps to provide value before, during, and after the sales process, you will get the fees you know you deserve.

Finding the Perfect Business Idea
entrepreneur.com - You know you want to start a business. Now what? Try searching these sources for ideas.

Dealing with Spyware
smallbusinessbrief.com - No matter if you are an amateur just getting acquainted to using your computer or an experienced computer user, we all have to deal with the annoyances of spyware and/or malware.

Quality Over Quantity Crucial In Growing Your Opt-In List
smallbusinessbrief.com - You've heard it many times: quality over quantity. This is certainly true in the field of e-mail marketing.

How to Run a Contest on Your Website
smallbusinessbrief.com - A contest is a great way to attract traffic to your website. However, handling contests manually can become very difficult if you receive a huge number of entries.

Overcoming Sales Objections
morebusiness.com - Objections. Among sales people it can be a curse word. Anyone in sales can tell you that only a portion of objections are legitimate… the rest are stall tactics to unconsciously hide the real objection. Salespeople face them every single day as a natural part of the job.

Why Your Business Needs a Guarantee - With Teeth
morebusiness.com - Do you have a guarantee? Nearly every business offers a guarantee of some kind. Unfortunately, few guarantees are really worth anything.

Death And Taxes
workz.com - I'm sure you all like paying taxes as much as I do. Some taxes we just have to pay, end of story.

7 Online Copyright Myths
workz.com - One of the most misunderstood issues online has to do with copyright. Both with e-mail and Web site copyright issues.

You Don't Have to be the Best. Just be Very, Very Good
allbusiness.com - Too often we hear people telling us the way to business success is to be the best in our industry. Our culture focuses on being number one, sometimes at all costs. I have to take issue with this.

Delivering "The Right Stuff"
businessknowhow.com - Your customers, or would-be customers, need to be informed and reminded of what added values you provide them -- extras that can save them money, time, and aggravation.

Manage your finances, and your business
msn.com - While trying to grow a new company, owners should also save for rainy day.

5 Security Considerations When Coding
businesshighlight.org - Always check user input to be sure that it is what you expected. Make sure it doesn't contain characters or other data which may be treated in a special way by your program or any programs called by your program.

Super Charge Your Business With Profit Pricing Strategy
about.com - The pricing strategy of a small business can ultimately determine its fate. Small business owners can ensure profitability and longevity by paying close attention to their pricing strategy.

Building Your Home Business with Residual Income
workoninternet.com - Having an Internet marketing business is great, but did you know that doing it with residual income is even better?

How to Collect Business Debts from Deadbeat Customers
morebusiness.com - Wouldn’t it be great to always get paid? If everyone treated your business the same way you treated everyone else, there wouldn’t be a problem. People would willingly pay what is expected of them and business would go on as usual. Sadly, not everyone has nearly as high standards as you.

Active Home Web Use by Country, April 2006
clickz.com - Active users worldwide dipped by about half a percent in April, according to data from Nielsen//NetRatings.

eBay Holds Seller Promotion on Features
auctionbytes.com - eBay is holding a 2-day promotion on optional listing features.

Looking for a Sign?
entrepreneur.com - A great logo can help make or break your startup. Here are the tools you need to create a memorable mark.

Teens and E-Commerce: Selling to the Teen Shopper
ecommerce-guide.com - About 80 percent of online teens age 12-17 visit retail sites, according to ComScore. This represents an audience of between 12 to 15 million teen shoppers.