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Eight Key Steps to Selling Your Business and Cashing In
businessknowhow.com - This year, some 700,000 American businesses will be sold. Most will be small and mid-sized businesses like yours. If you, too, are thinking of selling, consider these practical steps for making the process go smoothly.

Put Some Wow In Your Website
inc.com - Your business probably has a website. And you may have paid a developer a lot of cash to set it up. But have you invested in it recently?

Should I Put a Terms of Use Agreement on My Web site?
allbusiness.com - Just like in traditional brick-and-mortar stores, libraries, parking lots, and amusement parks, you need to post notices and policies on your Web site that govern the use of materials, services and goods from the site.

7 Online Marketing Tools for the Smart Webmaster
sitepronews.com - As an online marketer, it's hard to wade through all of the misleading information that is running rampant on the Internet. Who do you trust?

Column: Blogs, Sites Aid Small Business
topix.net - The Internet has become more than just a critical tool for small businesses _ for some owners, it's a way of life.

This Mess is a Place: Get Out From Under the Clutter and Organize Your Desk
nfib.com - As a small-business owner, you're probably so swamped that you might not even realize how messy your desk really is. While some people swear they can find whatever they're looking for under mounds of paperwork or office supplies, experts say organizing your work space increases productivity––and can decrease stress. Keeping a trash can and/or recycle bin at your side, follow these steps as a guide to cleaning up your desk

An Arm & A Leg for eCommerce?
smallbusinessbrief.com - Let's face it, very few entrepreneurs and small businesses can afford to spend hundreds of dollars to set up their dot-com presence without knowing how successful it will be! We've seen the results of high expectations and over spending with the demise of many well-known companies as reported in the news recently.It doesn't have to be this way.

Top Ten Wholesale Drop Shipping Tips For Your Success
smallbusinessbrief.com - For those who aren’t familiar, dropshipping is a business term used for a situation where a seller sets a retail price for an item, collects the payment, sends the wholesale cost to a dropshipper and the item ships directly from their warehouse.

Networking Tips for Moms at Home
smallbusinessbrief.com - Being a stay at home mom has not affected my personality, of course, so I still have a lot of creative energy pent up inside! I thought to myself one day, "what better way to use this energy than to work towards a goal—perhaps start a business?

A Guide To Website Promotion – Part Two
devshed.com - Now that you are familiar with the most important search engines and linking strategies, you should not ignore other promotion tools that will enhance your website promotion efforts.

Marketing Challenge: Two Ways to Market on a Small Budget
marketingprofs.com - What's the best way to get big results from a small budget?

eBay Simplifies Email Messaging System
clickz.com - eBay has created a system that simplifies its email messaging system for communication between sellers and potential buyers. The new system, called "Anonymous Email Forwarding," may also reduce the number of users responding to phishing emails sent by scammers using "Yellow Buttons."

eBay Uses Google to Monetize Classifieds Sites
auctionbytes.com - During a conference call with investors on Wednesday, eBay executives indicated they see great opportunities in the company's classifieds sites through contextual advertising and said there are synergies between classifieds and the eBay platform.

Email Marketing: Software Solutions
smallbusinessbrief.com - If you wish to provide email marketing as part of your online business plan you might want to look at some of the email marketing software applications available.

Hidden Market Research on Ebay, Amazon, and Others
smallbusinessbrief.com - Are you looking to provide interesting content to your visitors? How about popular in-demand products? Do you know what your target customer is really searching for online?

A Guide To Website Promotion – Part One
devshed.com - A great deal has been written about website promotion, yet many businesses fail in attaining visible results: increasing traffic, getting more clients and so on.Why? Because many online entrepreneurs do not exploit the proper website promotion tools at their fullest. ere is a list of website promotion strategies you need to consider if you want a successful online business.

Domain Names For Your Website
businesstoolchest.com - There are millions of websites on the Net, 56 million. Every website has a name and it is unique. No two websites are allowed to have the same name.

Can You Get Paid on Delivery or in Advance?
allbusiness.com - If you are willing to accept credit cards or an e-check, you can get paid on delivery or in advance for your goods or services.

How to Ask for a Fee When Referring Clients
startupjournal.com - What is the proper etiquette for asking other consultants that I refer significant work to for a percentage of their fees? Are there ethical considerations I should be thinking about?

Six Steps to Jumpstart Your Product and Marketing Strategy
marketingprofs.com - Are you ready to transition a product into new markets or define next generations of a solution? Knowing in which direction to take your product and marketing strategy can be difficult to determine, taking many months and using significant resources.

Top 10 Internet Products for Starting a New Business
bytestart.co.uk - Starting a business is an incredibly exciting time for any entrepreneur; however it can also be stressful with so much to do in so little time. The start-up phase is also characterized by significant expenditures against a backdrop of uncertain income.

A Small Business Site That Works
clickz.com - Work.com, the brainchild of business-to-business (B2B) search engine and directory Business.com, the property isn't entirely unlike Terkel's book. Instead of providing insight into the lives of American workers, it's a place for Internet users to get information on business tasks straight from those who have personally performed them.

eBay Buyers Spend $12.6 Billion in Third Quarter, Up 17% Year-over-Year
auctionbytes.com - eBay said Gross Merchandise Volume - the total value of all successfully closed items on the eBay trading platforms - was $12.6 billion in the third quarter of 2006, representing a 17 percent year-over-year increase from the $10.8 billion reported in the third quarter of 2005.

Free For All: Programs for Penny-Pinchers
ecommerce-guide.com - Everyone loves a bargain — especially small business owners. And though there's plenty of free tools on the Internet that you can use to help your site thrive, finding what truly works takes time, and if time is money, well then you're still paying a price.

Sales Shape-Up
entrepreneur.com - Ready to ramp up your sales--fast? Our 30-day action plan takes your business to new heights.

Keep Your Web Site Content Relevant
devshed.com - Visitors and search engines love content-rich web sites, but just having a lot of content on your web site is not enough.It all has to be relevant to a main topic with each page or section of the web site having a specific theme

Headlines Are 90% Of The Success Of Your Ads
businesstoolchest.com - Experts belive that the headline is 90-95% of the ad.

Can You Turn Your Great Idea into a Hot New Business?
businessknowhow.com - Before you invest a big chunk of savings into your new business enterprise, you'd be well advised not to jump to any preconceived conclusions about the merits of your prospective business.

New ThinkPads Offer Total Hard Drive Encryption
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Lenovo's new line of ThinkPad notebooks is designed to secure the entire contents of the hard drive with the swipe of a finger. And given the rate at which laptops are stolen in this country, it couldn't have come at a better time.

Web Helps to Create Genealogy Businesses
startupjournal.com - Before the Internet, genealogy "was primarily a hobby for retired people," says Kathleen W. Hinckley, owner of Family Detective, of Westminster, Colo., and executive director of the Association of Professional Genealogists.

Setting up a Mobile Marketing Program: A Primer
marketingprofs.com - Quick—is your marketing mobile? Can your message reach your on-the-go audience and can your in-motion customer interact with you wherever they are?

Building Customer Loyalty
morebusiness.com - My grandfather was a “Buick man”… he would even refer to himself as that from time to time. All he bought were Buicks. He wouldn’t even look at other cars, even those made by the same manufacturer. Today, I don’t know of many people who would align themselves so closely with any brand for such a long time. People are much more willing to switch. There’s less loyalty. Why is that? A few reasons I’d suggest follow, although this is not a comprehensive list.

Broadband Grew 33 Percent Years' Time
clickz.com - The number of broadband subscribers in the 30 countries tracked by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reached 181 million in June. That's a 33 percent increase over the previous year.

The Secret Ingredient to Restaurant Success
entrepreneur.com - An expert reveals why some restaurants take off and others fall flat.

eBay U 2006: Teach the Children Sell
ecommerce-guide.com - EBay hosts an annual roadshow known as eBay University that helps buyers transition into sellers and up-grades part-time eBay sellers to Power Seller status

Your Franchise Territory: Cause for Comfort or Conflict?
franchisetrade.com - The very issue of franchise territory has been one of the leading causes of conflict, dispute, and litigation in the franchise industry.

Tips and Tweaks to Tune-Up Your Site
ecommerce-guide.com - Competition online is fierce — and getting fiercer all the time. Yet the number of people who actually buy from the Web sites they visit Fortunately, there are many tips and tricks — design and usability tweaks — you can employ to make your Web site stickier and improve sales without busting your budget.

Old Number Rings Up Business at Auto Shop
startupjournal.com - While leafing through the Yellow Pages last fall, entrepreneur Mark Bright saw an ad for a recently dissolved competitor listing an out-of-service phone number. On a hunch that readers would continue dialing the number for some time, he arranged for the line's outstanding calls to be rerouted to his company. Since then, he says, he's turned many unsuspecting callers into customers, thereby boosting sales.

Marketing Challenge: Two Ways to Market on a Small Budget
marketingprofs.com - What's the best way to get big results from a small budget?

Cashing in on Your Competitor's Limitations
morebusiness.com - There are important reasons why your customers chose you over your competition. Do you know what those reasons are? If you don’t, you should. It’s important to know your competition inside and out. In fact, the better you know them, the better your chances are of winning business.

What it takes to be great
money.cnn.com - Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work.

eBay Watch: Is That Relevant?
ecommerce-guide.com - eBay has announced a new optional Best Match option in the search results that allows users to sort listings based on their relevance.

When Free Speech Isn't Free
businessweek.com - Before you turn off your set, consider the lessons that bad political ads can teach marketers

False Positives Declining - Lyris's ISP Email Deliverability Report for Q2 2006
emailuniverse.com - Even after you've done everything you can as a responsible email newsletter publisher or permission-based email marketer (such as watching your email content, mailing history/frequency and list hygiene), false-positives are still a serious threat to your ability to get your emails delivered. BUT!!!... read on for some good news.

Go-It-Alone Businesses
entrepreneur.com - Think your biz will never succeed if you go it alone? Think again.

Avoiding Sales Management Blunders
about.com - Hiring a sales staff for your small business comes with the responsibility to provide effective sales management. Learn the biggest sales management blunders and how you can avoid them.

The Next Generation Website Model
sitepronews.com - The next generation of websites will have a vastly different way of communicating information to their visitors. Websites will evolve into true communication platforms that will take advantage of the Web's multimedia capabilities and the Internet's broadband penetration.

Moms crafted a baby-booming business
usatoday.com - Seven years ago, Julie Dix and Danielle Ayotte were stay-at-home moms, shuttling kids to soccer practice and setting up play dates. Now, the two run a multimillion-dollar company called Taggies that is rapidly spreading into a global enterprise.

Flying Solo: Sole Proprietorships
allbusiness.com - The simplest business structure is the sole proprietorship —the IRS's automatic classification for any business started by an individual. Most new businesses with only one owner start out as sole proprietorships. Some never grow into anything larger. Others start adding partners and staff and may realize that incorporating is a wise decision for legal purposes.

How to Turn Your Articles Into a Viral Traffic Stampede
devshed.com - By writing articles you can send targeted traffic to your website at any time without paying a single cent.Articles are one of the best online marketing investments you can make because you write them once and they send you instant visitors each and every day. The more articles you have circulating the internet, the more targeted traffic they will send to your site.

Five Mistakes: When Buying Business Insurance
forbes.com - Buying business insurance is tricky stuff. Policies, often 50 pages long, are opaque at best, and the underwriters aren't exactly motivated to maximize their payouts--and you surely don't want to fight them on a claim.

How to Give a Presentation About Your Business
morebusiness.com - There aren’t many people in the world who like to give presentations. But they still have to be made. Whether you are faced with the impending doom of a speech at your local Chamber of Commerce, or you are cursed with the fate of having to deliver a sales presentation at a business, whatever the reason, here are a few tips to help you deliver a great presentation.

How to Make PayPal Your Friend
startupjournal.com - PayPal -- the fast-growing payment service originally designed to let you send money by email -- is trying to put its troubled adolescence behind it.

Flip It: ActivePoint's New E-Catalog
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Bruce Fields, president of BF Products, a netting and fencing store, was faced with a dilemma: how to show off his more than 40 categories of products, which are best understood through visuals. The solution, he says, is ActivePoint's new EasyFlip E-catalog, a Web-based application that's designed to give customers a tangible experience while shopping online.

Using Retirement Money For a Startup
businessweek.com - If you are under 59, you probably don't want to touch your nest egg, but you do have several solid alternatives.

Ready for Google Video?
entrepreneur.com - Video advertising has gone live on Google. Is it right for you?