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Your Internet Business and the Law
smallbusinessbrief.com - With the number of internet businesses being established on the internet setting new records seemingly every business day, it is no surprise that a growing number of these end with serious business and legal difficulties.

Without Market Research You Could Find Yourself Fishing In An Empty Pond
smallbusinessbrief.com - It’s when we take our customer’s wants and needs for granted that we fail as entrepreneurs and our lines sit in the water undisturbed.

Funding Options for Bad Credit Risks
entrepreneur.com - If your credit score is holding you back from landing startup capital, you'll appreciate these tips for finding the funding you need.

Can I Find You Online In Your Town?
ducttapemarketing.com - You know you need to be found online locally right?

Self Assessment Tips - Get your tax return in early
bytestart.co.uk - Last year, 4.8 million people missed the 30 September tax return cut off date. And while the tax return deadline for this year - 31 January 2007 - may seem some way off, individual taxpayers should remember that there are incentives for filing it early, says PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Is Your Web Site Missing These Crucial Conversion Factors?
sitepronews.com - Want to know how to increase your profits without increasing your web site traffic? Proper testing and tracking is the key.

Voice Broadcasting Boom - The Internet 's New Email
With voice broadcasting approximately a major advantage is that 90% or more of your message is delivered directly to your prospect's phone.

Techniques to Help Your Print Advertising Work
It’s the same challenge everywhere: if you’re advertising somewhere, chances are good that someone else is advertising there, too. Who will get the prospect? The business that gets the prospect is the business whose ad resonates most clearly with the prospect’s needs at the time. But how do you get your ad to resonate with their needs?

Are You A Customer Service Ace? Take The Quiz And See!
workz.com - Test your customer service knowledge and learn how to be a service ace by picking the correct answer to each of these 10 questions.

eBay Drops Seller Advertising Program
auctionbytes.com - eBay will discontinue its eBay Keywords advertising program at the end of September.

Online Vendors Help You Capitalize on Keywords
ecommerce-guide.com - Small businesses — e-commerce or otherwise — don't have the luxury of spending extra time and money on test marketing, which probably works out well as most don't have the means to measure it in any case.

How to Fight Bankruptcy Scams
businessweek.com - Yikes, a customer who owes you is conspiring to protect his assets. Here's how to do battle—and decide whether it's worth your trouble

Making Money on eBay without doing the Dirty Work
wjxx.com - Maybe you or someone you know have heard of people making extra money by auctioning things on eBay. Now there's a way to list your items without doing the dirty work yourself.

What Are You Trying to Do?
inc.com - It's amazing how easy it is to lose track of your real goal.

10 Tips for Working With Family Members
entrepreneur.com - Our employee management expert offers advice on what to do to keep it professional.

Internet Marketing Without a Big-Picture Strategy Dances in Circles
devshed.com - Stop Tracking the Illusive "Magic Bullet" It seems like everyone is beating the drum for one Internet marketing method or another.And in the process they create plenty of hype and conflicting messages.

Building Business Credit
businesstoolchest.com - Most businesses want to be able to borrow money when they need it, without the owners having to personal guarantee the loans. This means less risk to the owners. Hoping to get a business loan without a personal guarantee is one thing and actually obtaining it is quit another.

How’s your customer service? Part Two
allbusiness.com - Sometimes you can’t solve a problem, however, you can offer a solution, a discount etc. Is the customer walking away with a feeling that they got a solution that was hardly worth making the call to begin with. In other words, does the solution warrant the problem?

Google and Your Business
If you think getting your html/text pages indexed in Google or buying pay per click ads pointing to text-based web pages are the only ways to get found on Google, your competitors could be eating your lunch - or more to the point, serving lunch to customers that could have been yours. What's up?

Attract eBay Customers With an Outside Site
msn.com - New customers are out there, but they might not be on eBay--yet. Use a website to show them the way to your business.

Just starting your business? Remember the importance of self-renewal
usatoday.com - Some of the wisest advice I have gotten over the years did not come from other entrepreneurs but came from those who had lived life fully and learned. There are many words of encouragement and advice that you can give to a budding entrepreneur.

Iomega: At Your Service
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Iomega, the company that invented the Zip drive, is reinventing itself in a whole new way. While maintaining its core external storage business, the venerable company that redefined the sneakernet is taking its first steps toward becoming a managed services company.

Doing Your Franchise Homework
nfib.com - Five questions to ask when shopping for a franchise

How to Locate A Manufacturer
startupjournal.com - I need to find a manufacturer to produce a cotton product. How do I locate reputable companies that produce quality products and that will work with a start-up?

5 Secrets of the Most Successful Blogs
smallbusinessbrief.com - Blogs are becoming more and more popular. If you don’t already have a weblog of your own, you’ve at least posted a comment to one, read one, or heard the term used in everyday conversation.

10 Tips for Telephone Success
smallbusinessbrief.com - The telephone is an often under-appreciated and much maligned piece of office equipment. Have you stopped to consider how much business you conduct over the telephone? These 10 tips will help you improve your telephone presence and presentations.

Alexa Traffic Rank: What It Is And Why You Should Care (Or Not)
smallbusinessbrief.com - As a new webmaster, you must understand a few very important points about Alexa’s service. This article will explain what the data collected by Alexa mean and then describe why you should care or not.

Determine Your Niche & Be Successful
smallbusinessbrief.com - It's safe to say you will be most successful and fulfilled in business if you provide a product or service that others want or need, in an area that is "right up your alley."

Using Forums To Network Successfully
smallbusinessbrief.com - Successful networking occurs when the exchange of information or services is amongst people with similar interests or concerns. Maintaining the network of connections provides a networking opportunity when one has new information to exchange with others in this group of individuals.

GetMeVisitors.com - Need targeted internet traffic in a hurry?
devshed.com - What is more agitating than spending your hard earned money behind opening your much planned website, and getting no visitors at all?GetMeVisitors.com promises this ‘most wanted’ treasure of the internet world—traffic. You can buy it from them.

How's your customer service? Part One
allbusiness.com - Do you actually care if your customers are happy or in it for the money? Sounds strange I know but you’d be amazed at the number of business owners (large and small) who could care less if a problem is solved to the customers’ satisfaction.

Email Newsletter Production - Should You Find Someone Else To Publish Your Ezine?
emailuniverse.com - Let's take a look at outsourcing options today for your ezine. Here are some questions to ask yourself

Enthusiasm, personal attention can separate you from your big rivals
usatoday.com - I don't compete against huge retailers, but I do have some competitors that are national businesses with resources I don't have. I run a small shop. How do I compete with such large competitors?

Joining the Blogging Community
nfib.comBy now you have probably heard of Web logs (more commonly known as "blogs"), online journals that feature opinions, news and Web links that you can share with readers. Whether you create your own blog or contribute to someone else's, you can use a blog for any of the following purposes:

Can you restore data from your backup?
smallbusinessbrief.com - Many users don't test their backups. This is because they don't take the time or they don't know the steps to take. This means that there is a risk that the restoration of their system will not work nor can they be sure that they are able to retrieve individual files.

Avoiding the pitfalls of insolvency - Top Tips
bytestart.co.uk - With recent statistics showing the number of company liquidations in England and Wales is up 17% on the same period last year, Bibby Financial Services is advising owners and managers to revisit basic business principles to avoid a crisis.

The 5 Steps to Develop New Products and Services
morebusiness.com - New product or service development: Taking your current offerings and somehow making them different or better. Here are the steps you’ll take in product development

Writing For The Internet: 17 Simple Rules
workz.com - Do you want your web site's content to hold visitors' interest longer? Your ezine readers to keep their fingers off the delete key? Your customers to buy your next ebook? If so, follow these simple rules and recommendations.

Top Tips for Opening an eBay Drop-off Store
auctionbytes.com - If you decide to jump into consignment sales, explore all your options. And Tip #1 applies no matter what kind of eBay business you decide to open. Mistakes can be expensive, so do your homework and get experience.

Public Domain
entrepreneur.com - Don't risk losing your corner of the web by letting it expire.

Selling Luxury Items Online
ecommerce-guide.com - No matter what you're selling online, your customers need to feel confident about your products. But if you're selling high-end items, like antiques or jewelry, there are other things to consider when creating and designing a successful e-commerce Web site.

Going Global, Part II
businessweek.com - Small companies are joining larger counterparts in the international arena. The second of a two-part series looks at key issues and challenges

Which Newsletter Format Should I Use? Text, HTML or PDF?
smallbusinessbrief.com - With some planning beforehand, your small business can create and send an e-newsletter in a way that will increase the number of recipients who will read it and think of your business when they have a need for your product or service.

How to Locate Wholesale Suppliers
smallbusinessbrief.com - When setting up a retail business, one of the most daunting tasks can be locating and establishing accounts with wholesale suppliers. But this process doesn’t have to put a kink in your business plans. Here’s how to get going.

Make Your eCommerce Site Failure-Proof
smallbusinessbrief.com - Building an eCommerce business is not an easy job! The chances of making mistakes in selecting the right solution for your specific business are quite high as there are way too many options around.

Doing Your Franchise Homework
nfib.com -Five questions to ask when shopping for a franchise

Making a Difference As A 'Social Entrepreneur'
startupjournal.com - We hear a lot these days about "the new retirement," a stage in life when older Americans embrace new careers and challenges or satisfy passions they've neglected for years. Some start a business, explore the globe, or hit all the golf courses. But think about this: For some, the phrase means striving to better the world around them.

Where Do Women Business Owner's Open Up Shop?
ducttapemarketing.com - The SBA released a fascinating research paper this month on women-owned business.

Top Tips for Selling a Business
bytestart.co.uk - A leading law firm is warning entrepreneurs looking to sell their business not to underestimate how treacherous the process can be.

A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners to SEO Content Writing
workoninternet.com - This article will try to tell you about the basics of copywriting and its advanced application on the SEO aspect.

What’s Next? What to Do When Your Business Plan Has Come True
morebusiness.com - Here’s what I did and it’s what I recommend you do annually if you’ve found that you have exceeded your business goals.

Fix These 4 Fluffy Flaws In Your Web Copy
workz.com - Do you have fluffy statements on your Web site? Web copy that sounds cool but doesn't offer your reader any real information? Don't worry. Here are four of your favorite "fluff-itus flaws", and easy ways you can transform them into marketing gold.

Clarity on Best Day to E-Mail
clickz.com - Senders of e-mail newsletters continue to ponder the best day to send out campaigns. The "Q2 2006 Email Statistics" report from eROI separates business and consumer e-mail to determine the best day and frequency.

eBay Clamps Down on Shipping-Charge Abuse
auctionbytes.com - eBay users have long complained of sellers who list items for low prices but then surprise buyers with inflated shipping & handling (S&H) charges. So eBay North America President Bill Cobb got a positive response during his keynote address at the eBay Live conference when he said the auction site would begin clamping down on these policy violators.

Inventive Ways to Use Place-Based Media
entrepreneur.com - With place-based media, you can advertise nearly anywhere your customers look. Here's how to choose the right places to get your message out.

Stock Up With Shopster
ecommerce-guide.com - There's a new e-commerce player in town worth checking out — Shopster.com. After two years of development, the Calgary, Alberta-based company is open for business, offering Web retailers an easy way to get started by taking care of payments and shipping, and offering an inventory of 700,000 products from which to sell.

A Company Blog Keeps People Connected
businessweek.com - Blogs can help businesses communicate internally more effectively and cheaply than e-mail and workflow management software

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.

How to Integrate RSS Into Your Marketing Mix
sitepronews.com - RSS is changing the way we consume information online. Instead of being overloaded with mounds of information in our inbox, we can pick and choose exactly which content providers we want to hear from.

Practicing art of business adds to company's success
usatoday.com - To run a good company, you need to know the "craft" of business. To run a great company, you also need to practice the "art" of business.

Online Business Press Release Writing Tips And Ideas
businesstoolchest.com - Press releases are one of the most cost-effective ways to get promotion for your online business.

Will Microsoft Lose The Browser Wars?
devshed.com - Until recently, software giant, Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser enjoyed a relatively unchallenged position as the most popular Web browser in the world.

Seven Guidelines For Honest Advertisers
forbes.com - Advertising is regulated by both federal and state law. Under the law, your ad is unlawful if it tends to mislead or deceive.

Is That Opportunity Knocking?
inc.com - Understanding and responding to market expectations and fluctuations is pivotal to managing a business's operations.

The Fortune is in the Follow Up
businessknowhow.com - One of the best ways to increase sales is to keep in touch with people. From calling on former customers to checking in on new leads, it's critical to stay in touch with people on a regular basis.

Rita's Owner Works To Find Best Ad Strategy
startupjournal.com - StartupJournal interviewed Edward M. Black, 53 years old, a franchisee of Rita's Ices, Cones, Shakes and other Cool Stuff in Fredericksburg, Va.

A Wide-Eyed, Weighty Tablet PC
smallbusinesscomputing.com - After four years, it's clear Tablet PCs have fizzled in terms of replacing conventional notebook sales.

4 Easy Ways to Get Advertisers on Your Site
entrepreneur.com - Pump up your profit margin with these simple tips for attracting advertisers.

eBay Watch: Search Upgrades, Ad Services, Silly Stuff
ecommerce-guide.com - eBay's Nico Posner announced details of an updated search page expected to launch later this month.

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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

Lawdy Dawdy So Many Are Trapped in the 40/40
smallbusinessbrief.com - Why do so many people commit themselves to a 40/40 life?