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

Having A Backup Plan For The Serious eBay Seller
smallbusinessbrief.com - Not a day goes past when I here of some seller frustrated that eBay have pulled their auction listing. It is very easy to violate an eBay listing guideline without knowing, the first you’ll learn about it is when you receive an email from eBay.

How To Become A Successful Freelance Translator?
smallbusinessbrief.com - After completing their translation training programmes at higher professional education or university level, many students can’t wait to set up as a freelance translator. However, gaining a foothold as a freelancer in a very competitive translation market may turn out to be a pretty complicated business.

eBay robot aims to track down VAT dodgers
bytestart.co.uk - As our fascination with everything eBay-related continues, the Government has revealled that HMRC has enlisted the help of a robot in its efforts to cut down on eBay seller tax dodgers.

What Can A Small Business Marketing Consultant Do To Help You Grow Your Business
workoninternet.com - A small business marketing consultant specializes in learning the top ways to market a business; creates strategies that will help businesses double, even triple their current profits; and teaches the most effective methods for increasing the bottom line of any business.

How to Make the Community Your Marketing Partner
marketingprofs.com - Today your customers are more empowered than ever. Cell phones, laptops, PCs, blogs, and social networking sites are all tools that consumers use to constantly communicate with each other.

Too Soon, Too Little for 802.11n?
internetnews.com - Being first in line is not always a good thing, especially when it comes to technology that is not quite ready for prime time. It's a lesson manufacturers of devices based on early versions of the 802.11n specification are learning the hard way as negative reports trickle in on these pumped-up Wi-Fi systems.

Business Through Your Browser
pcmag.com - How seven small businesses are using the Internet to increase profit and improve customer satisfaction—and how you can be a success story, too.

Create Your Own Value-Added Services
workz.com - You can offer your customers a wide variety of value-added services to improve their shopping experience. You will want to evaluate each potential value-added service and consider how attractive it will be for your customers. Here are three ways to think about value-added services you can offer on your site.

Present My Business Plan to Venture Capitalist Firm
allbusiness.com - I sent my business plan to a venture capital firm and they want me to come in to present my business. I've never done this before, what should I do to prepare?

7 Ways to Get Publicity This Summer
businessknowhow.com - Now is your chance. While the marketing and public relations experts are off enjoying their hard-earned vacations, the media are left scrambling for much needed copy. Plan ahead, and give them what they're looking for!

Being Good With Numbers Won't Guarantee Success
startupjournal.com - I would like to know what steps to take to start a successful tax practice. And, what are the odds of it being profitable? I am a certified public accountant with 10 years of tax experience.

Writing Business Email That Gets Read
The key to effective and appreciated business email is consideration. I surveyed colleagues and clients and asked them what they'd like other people to know about email. The summary was: clear and concise, in the expected format, and considerate of the reader's time. Here's the list:

Create Success-With Whatever You Have! 7 Practices for Creating What Matters
smallbusinessbrief.com - These 7 practices are no magic formula. But they will help you create outstanding results-with whatever you start with.

A Local Phone Number in Another Country
ducttapemarketing.com - Setting up shop in say Japan or the UK can be a pretty big expense for a small business, but offering a local phone number, giving the impression of a local presence, just got a little easier.

10 Reminders of Effective Management
smallbiztrends.com - Your Business Blogger was recently asked by a small business owner to evaluate a manager’s management skill set. The manager was being overwhelmed. And he is not alone.

Google Spreadsheets - Our review
bytestart.co.uk - At Bytestart, we keep an eye on all Google "new releases" with interest. Google Analytics is an excellent (and free) site traffic analysis tool, and other applications such as the Toolbar and Gmail have been happily adopted by many millions of web users worldwide.

The Key to Niche Marketing is the Right Product
workoninternet.com - When you become experienced with niche marketing, you quickly learn that there is one extremely important factor that plays the most important role in determining whether your business will be successful or not. This factor is the original concept of the business itself.

Top 10 Low-Cost Or Free Ways To Promote Your Small Business
workz.com - Whether you have been in business for years or are just starting out, marketing your business is always critical to your business success. Here are my Top 10 ways to promote your business inexpensively.

New Website Launched to Help Students and Professionals Become Better Writers
powerhomebiz.com - A new site on the World Wide Web offers affordable proofreading services to students and professionals and provides access to a variety of free writing resources.

eBay to sell ads through other Web sites
money.cnn.com - Online marketplace eBay Inc. is set to unveil a keyword advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions on other Web sites, borrowing from the strategies of Google and Yahoo.

Report: Use of Behavioral Targeting to Double
clickz.com - Advertisers will almost double their use of behavioral targeting in the next year, according to a new JupiterResearch forecast.

Business Lessons From Dad
entrepreneur.com - 7 things your dad always did that'll help you succeed in business today

eBay Live: The Auction Faithful Rally in Vegas
ecommerce-guide.com - Imagine 15,000 rabid eBay enthusiasts, all gathered together, exchanging business cards and chattering constantly for three days straight about — yup, you guess it — eBay. And all this auction mania happens amid the non-stop fluorescent neon glow of Las Vegas.

Five Words to Never Use in an Ad
businessweek.com - Forget the meaningless cliches and empty promises. What really matters is what customers take away about a business

EBay Goes Widget Crazy
webpronews.com - eBay made another flurry of announcements this week, this time about four APIs announced during the eBay Developers Conference. The APIs follow the current mashup meme, allowing webmasters and developers to incorporate eBay listings and collect referral fees.

Basic Sales skills: How Effective are you at Selling?
smallbusinessbrief.com - Selling is the major activity that all our businesses depend on, from the smallest one-person start-up to the largest conglomerate. There are three basic ways that goods (products and services) are sold at present.

Is Your Copy Trusted by Google?
smallbusinessbrief.com - As long as I've been an SEO copywriter, I never knew that Google had its own trust factor with relation to site pages and their copy. Yet, a recent column in the Google Librarian Newsletter did a wonderful job of explaining what Google is looking for in the way of copy.

Newsletters: A Great Internet Marketing Tool
smallbusinessbrief.com - One of the tools that smart Internet marketers use to attract new business is a newsletter. A newsletter keeps clients and potential clients informed about products, events and services that relate to your business, and it always keeps your name front and center. It shows readers that you are a good source if information that they can count on.

Test Marketing--How to Increase Your Direct Mail Marketing Response by Using the Internet to Test
smallbusinessbrief.com - I’ve discovered a really fantastic way to discover what works best in direct marketing, BEFORE doing traditional direct marketing. Use these internet tools to find what works best, then apply what you’ve learned to your traditional direct marketing, direct mail, etc.

How Fixing Broken Windows Can Decrease Click Fraud
smallbusinessbrief.com - For the time being, click fraudsters are loose in a neighborhood of broken windows. With the right tools, we can begin to repair the windows and create a community that makes it nearly impossible to get away with their tactics.

Learning From Online Business Failures
smallbusinessbrief.com - In order to be a good businessperson, you have to learn how to fail.

Guide to a Profitable Marketing Mix
smallbusinessbrief.com - Your marketing mix means the combination of promotions, products, places (distribution channels), and prices you chose for your business. Including both short term and long term strategies in the marketing mix can make for a more profitable business.

Desktop Computer Buying Guide
smallbusinessbrief.com - Technology changes all of the time at a fast pace, and computers are no exception to the rule. Whether you want to simply be able to surf the internet or you want to be able to play the latest video games this desktop computer buying guide will introduce you to the basics of buying a desktop computer.

Discount Web Design
smallbusinessbrief.com - The web design that your business presents to the world helps to form an image of your company and the level of work that can be expected in the customer’s mind. It is for this very reason that having great web design is important to your company’s website.

Small Businesses Miss Out
homebusinessmag.com - Half of U.S. Small Businesses Still Use Paper for Organizing Business Information

Troubleshooting Customer Service Challenges
morebusiness.com - In general, there are only three situations when a customer will be unhappy with your business. We will identify each one and talk about a solution that may help you resolve the situation.

Word-of-mouth: Ready to grow from whisper to shout?
btobonline.com - Psst. Pass it on. Word-of-mouth marketing is hot. As momentum builds, a few leading-edge b-to-b marketers are poised to leverage that heat.

More Than a Copier
computeruser.com - Get the most from your multifunction system.

The Happiness Factor
fastcompany.comToday's most successful brands promise to help in our pursuit of happiness. But too often, marketers fail to understand what brings us joy.

Contacting Potential Linking Partners
workz.com - Once you have narrowed down your list of prospective linking partners, you will want to make contact with each site's Webmaster or online editor.

How to Promote Your Business with Tips Booklets
allbusiness.com - Many business owners cringe at marketing their business. Is that you? Marketing can be easy, quick, inexpensive, and fun. This Conversation shows how.

Spotlight on ... Franchises That Cater to Kids
Think business can't be fun? We'll change your mind with these 10 kid-friendly franchises.

6 Simple Savvy Small Business Email Tips
about.com - The number one activity online is email even with the growth of broadband internet and new Net tools such as podcasting. A Gallup poll found over 67% of Internet users send and receive email regularly and email outranks other online activities including shopping, downloading music, or reading blogs.

Starting a Business Blog: Remember the Planning Phase
smallbusinessbrief.com - When you start to put a Business Blog together, there is one aspect which is often overlooked in the excitement (yes, excitement!) of creating your new blog. This is the planning phase - a critical element which you need to spend time on before diving in and writing your first post.

Harmful Secrets of Computer Monitors
smallbusinessbrief.com - If you use PCs, you are staring at that PC screen a lot. Therefore you need a correct screen setup as soon as possible,or your eyes,neck, shoulders and the rest of your body will suffer.

What Makes an E-Tail Site the Best?
entrepreneur.com - Keep your online customers satisfied, and they'll be coming back for more. It's as simple as that, according to a recent report by ForeSee Results and FGI Research. The "Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index" studies the top-grossing e-tail sites in terms of site experience for online browsers--not just buyers--and can give you some insight on how to please your point-and-click shoppers.

Walking The Walk
workz.com - Every company has values. Make sure you know what yours are. Clearly stated values ensure continuity of the corporate culture and help employees "live the brand."

Innocents Abroad
cfo.com - The pleasures and perils of taking a local business global.

5 Things You Need to Know Before Starting a Business
morebusiness.com - I am writing this because I want more business owners to succeed. Having a business plan will help… but so will having an awareness of the emotional rollercoaster you can expect in the early months or years as you claw your way toward success.

eBay: Bidding Big For Contextual Ad Dollars
internetnews.com - Heads up Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.com: eBay is heating up your contextual ad competition. It's also pitching to win developers' hearts and minds the old fashioned way, with cash.

6 Tips For Affiliates - Choose Your Merchant Wisely
homebizjour.com - Here are some tips that will help you to evaluate merchants and their programs, and help you to avoid wasting time and money.

Use Webcasting to Grow
homebusinessmag.com - Looking around for ways to increase your sales and make more money? Of course you are. It's what we all do in business — or we're out of business. One of the smartest things you can do this year to increase your sales is to start webcasting.

Strategies for Leveraging Word of Mouth Among Small Businesses
smallbiztrends.com - Last week I attended the Warrillow Summit, THE conference about selling to small businesses. This is the second of my posts about the material presented at that conference. The entire theme of the conference was “word of mouth” — and specifically about how companies that sell to small businesses can trigger positive word of mouth.

Starting a home internet business from scratch?
workoninternet.com - What is so fascinating about starting a home internet business? Is it the allure of working from home? Is it the idea that there are millions of people out there on the web?

How to Pick a Server — Strategies for Small Business
smallbusinesscomputing.com - A longstanding complaint from many small and midsize businesses is that they receive scant attention from server vendors.

Guide to recruiting staff and interviewing candidates
bytestart.co.uk - With so much face-to-face interaction in business today, and increasing skill requirements, recruitment is the essential first stage of getting hold of the right people to make your business a success. Without good people, customers will look elsewhere.

What Has Matching Got To Do With Presenting?
smallbusinessbrief.com - What do I mean by matching? Matching is where you make the connection between the problems a potential client wants solved and the features/characteristics of your service that solves those problems.

How To Bounce Back From An Ezine Disaster
smallbusinessbrief.com - Publishing an email newsletter or ezine regularly is a lot of work. And if you think that you'll never make a mistake, think again. Even experienced publishers can make mistakes because of technology or human error. It's all too easy to press the wrong button and have a disastrous "oops moment."

Font Basics for Small Business's Logo and Brand
smallbusinessbrief.com - There are many components of a brand identity: logo, color palette, font choice, and the Visual Vocabulary. There's a lot of information available about the use of logos, colors, and Visual Vocabulary, but not much on the effective use of fonts. So, here's some information on the creative, practical, and technical aspects of fonts.

Creative Discipline: Starting Your Startup
smartbiz.com - The Internet offers great options in reaching customers. Let's look at a few.

Direct Mail 101
Is direct mail still a good means of advertising?

A One-Stop Shop For Data Center Control
internetnews.com - Opsware, which specializes in software that automates data center operations, said it has upgraded its two core products, added two new ones, and lumped them into one platform.

10 Rules for Bootstrapping Your Business
powerhomebiz.com - Can you start a business with a small amount of capital? Of course! In fact, many home based entrepreneurs have started their own businesses even with very little money. Learn the 10 rules to follow when launching a business with little cash.

Seeking New Business Capital
homebusinessmag.com - Banks Seek Similar Qualities in a Loan Request

The Lure of Small
mybusinessmag.com - Ever feel second best when you're looking to hire a new employee? Compared to small businesses, large corporations have more money, name recognition and benefits to attract the best and brightest employees. But bigger doesn't always mean better.

Brushed With Greatness
mybusinessmag.com - After spending a week styling hair at the White House, Luna Howard knew her small business had made the cut

Spending Money on Catalog Advertising
businesstoolchest.com - Apart from newspaper advertising, a system of leaflets, cards and catalogs can be operated to a business advantage in marketing its products and services.

Categorization of Products
allbusiness.com - If you sell products online as your home-based business, do you pay attention to the product categorization?

How I Got My Funding: Trying Out Prosper
startupjournal.com - This piece is part of a series on how entrepreneurs secure financial backing to launch their new businesses

Power Up Your eBay Profits
entrepreneur.com - Know how to use eBay's tools and services to get the most out of your business on eBay.