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Site To Connect People Who Want To Start A Project?
"I'm looking for a website that connects people with different talents together on one project. Like, say I'm a developer I can go search projects that need one and people who are designers, authors, marketers, etc can all join as well. Any sites like this?"

Separate Blog Vs. Blog On My Site
"I have a Yahoo store that has been open for business for about a month. I have been wanting to start a blog that can drive some traffic (via my original content/articles) but I read or heard that it would be better to have the blog as part of your website (I guess like an additional page)...not separate like one from blogger.com or wordpress. So I have several questions..."

Article Writing - Quality Control - Flooded Market, Etc...
"I'm curious whether there is any real quality control in place for all these free article submission websites. Since most articles are written as a means to raise linkage and ranking, is the market flooded with poor quality flotsam? Considering this is the case, does it some how look unprofessional to have your articles appear on one of these article submission websites?"

Site To Connect People Who Want To Start A Project?
"I'm looking for a website that connects people with different talents together on one project. Like, say I'm a developer I can go search projects that need one and people who are designers, authors, marketers, etc can all join as well. Any sites like this?"

Separate Blog Vs. Blog On My Site
"I have a Yahoo store that has been open for business for about a month. I have been wanting to start a blog that can drive some traffic (via my original content/articles) but I read or heard that it would be better to have the blog as part of your website (I guess like an additional page)...not separate like one from blogger.com or wordpress. So I have several questions..."

Article Writing - Quality Control - Flooded Market, Etc...
"I'm curious whether there is any real quality control in place for all these free article submission websites. Since most articles are written as a means to raise linkage and ranking, is the market flooded with poor quality flotsam? Considering this is the case, does it some how look unprofessional to have your articles appear on one of these article submission websites?"

Dialing for Dollars by Blogging for eBay
auctionbytes.com - How do you reach potential buyers outside of eBay, including the millions who read "Web 2.0" content like blogs and RSS feeds? You can create a blog and include a text link to one of your sales in your blog post. But eBay sellers know how important it is to include a photo. A simple text link doesn't induce anyone to click and shop.

Avoid Duplicate Typepad Homepages
webpronews.com - I had a client recently ask me about a blog that was using TypePad’s domain mapping feature and it was causing duplicate homepage URLs for the blog.

10 Ways to Expand Your Business with Little Cash
powerhomebiz.com - With limited financial help available, small cash-strapped businesses must think of creative ways to push their business forward.

Taking the Video Wheels Off
clickz.com - Talk is cheap. It's easy to discuss video and how it works online, but what about producing it? Yes, money makes it easier. But a lot of money has been wasted on the medium for lack of a little knowledge.

Are Ya Feelin' Lucky?
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Got a great little business going? Ready to tout your accomplishments? Why not – especially when doing so could net you $25,000? Yes, that's the top prize in the UPS Best “Out-of-the-Box” Small Business Contest. For the first time in its three-year history, the UPS contest is also open to small businesses outside of the United States, specifically Canada, Mexico, China, the Philippines and Singapore.

Mother knows best
msnbc.msn.com - The number of mom-daughter businesses is on the rise.

Ten Things Every Good Business Plan Must Have
forbes.com - Solid business plans don't guarantee success. But for entrepreneurs with decent ideas, they surely boost the odds.

The Advertising Medium Is Not the Message
entrepreneur.com - Learn 5 ways to make your advertising message more powerful--and more relevant--no matter what medium it's in.

Betting Your Retirement on the Business
businessweek.com - You can use money from an IRA or 401(k) to start a business, but it's essential to understand the rules and be prepared to pay steep fees.

How To Emotionally-Charge Your Copywriting To Boost Sales
smallbusinessbrief.com - Are you frustrated that your sales letter isn't getting results? Do you wonder how you could make a satisfactory sales letter even better? If you said, "yes" to either of these questions then I invite you to read on, as you will be richly rewarded. In the next few moments you are going to discover how to instantly amplify the selling power of your direct mail and web copy. Enabling you to potentially break sales records and outshine your competition.

How to Determine Pricing for your New Product
smallbusinessbrief.com - You’ve taken the first step to building your own home business by choosing a product to sell. Next comes the hardest step for most people, determining your pricing strategy.

The Necessity of Starting Your Own eBay Store
smallbusinessbrief.com - According to eBay, "over 75% of eBay store owners say that opening an eBay store has significantly increased their sales" (eBay, 2007). Quite simply, if you buy and sell on eBay, either as a hobby or full time job, you are falling behind if you don't have your own eBay store.

Telling Your Story
advisortoday.com - Sometimes you need to connect with a prospect in a more emotional way—that’s where your “story” comes in.

Play by the Rules
usnews.com - eBay regulations and guidelines keep buyers and sellers on the same page—of the rule book.

Improve sales conversions with segmented email lists
ecommercenews.org - According to an Internet Retailer study performed by Vovici, eCommerce merchants and eTailers could greatly improve their online sales and conversion rates by utilizing segmented email lists.

10 Home-Based Business Ideas for Moms
about.com - If you're a mom who's always wanted a work-at-home opportunity, you may have found it frustrating when searching for work from home jobs. More than one work-at-home mom wannabe has contacted me and voiced her frustrations about finding legitimate work from home job opportunities.

Making The Leap Of Faith And Starting A Business
powerhomebiz.com - Many people nurture the dream of becoming their own boss and turning what they love into a business. However many find their dreams derailed as their lives lead them to different paths.

Do I need a business-plan writer?
money.cnn.com - A software entrepreneur needs a business plan, but wonders if a professional consultant is trustworthy.

Setting up Your Own Retirement Plan
morebusiness.com - Advances in medicine are leading to increasingly longer lifespans, thereby making having a sound retirement plans in place even more important. Most employees save towards their retirement with employer based plans, but if you are self-employed, you need to know how to set up a retirement plan on your own.

eBiz News: Tax Trouble Brewing, Free Feedback Tool
ecommerce-guide.com - This week in e-commerce news is a "disturbing" proposal by the IRS to collect social security numbers of online sellers, a free "eBay-style" customer feedback and reviews tool called Feefo, the beta launch of an online community-business directory and a new multivariate testing application that works with most analytics programs.

Should You Hire A Search Engine Consultant?
forbes.com - As a small-business owner with a Web site, you know that one of the most important things you can do is get your site ranked high on a search-results page at Google, MSN and Yahoo!. But how to achieve that high ranking?

10 Lies VCs Know You're Telling
entrepreneur.com - In the quest for capital, many entrepreneurs stretch the truth. One venture capitalist calls them out.

A Workspace Makeover
inc.com - Your desktop doesn't have to be drab.

Teach Your Customers Something New
businessweek.com - By incorporating fresh ideas into your pitches, you're more likely to capture your audience's imagination—and land their business.

Passion as a Sales Tool
smallbusinessbrief.com - Passion is an effective sales tool because it isn’t artificial and can’t be faked for a long period of time. It is displayed in people who genuinely care and are willing to take the time to serve their customers in whatever manner is necessary.

Avoiding The Third Degree Syndrome In Marketing
smallbusinessbrief.com - When you last wrote a flyer or a webpage, or when you last read one, what was the first bit of text on it, after the headline? I'm willing to bet you beads to bogarts that it was a series of questions. Like this list I just saw on a website I randomly picked off of Google: "Are you: Feeling that more meaningful success and far better results are possible in your life, career or business?

Knowing Your Visitors Through Website Traffic Analysis
sitepronews.com - Analyzing your web traffic statistics can be an invaluable tool for a number of different reasons. But before you can make full use of this tool, you need to understand how to interpret the data.

Government launches new small business forum
bytestart.co.uk - Small business owners and the UK's main business representative organisations met last week for the first of a new series of round table meetings to discuss key issues facing the UK's 4.3 million small and medium-sized businesses.

7 Steps for Creating a Landing Page that Sells
businesstoolchest.com - If you practice Internet marketing, you know the importance of a high converting “Landing Page”. Also called a promotional page, jump page, or squeeze page, effective development of these pages are essential for online marketing success.

How To Spot A Legitimate Mlm Business Opportunity
Adevshed.com - An MLM business opportunity is something that is widely available so many people looking to get into a home business will likely be faced with a MLM business and they should understand the basics of MLM before ever considering going into this type of business.

In Praise of Selflessness
inc.com - Why the best leaders are servants.

Getting A Line Of Credit For Your Business
morebusiness.com - Financing a small business is not easy. Lenders are not likely to extend loans to a business that is relatively unestablished. Therefore, most small business owners need to rely on their own resources to finance their businesses.

7 Strategies to Get Email Under Control
businessknowhow.com - Email was designed to be a tool to expedite and simplify communication. Tools are effective when managed properly. What happens when the tool starts to manage the person?

Franchise Marketing: Cause and Effect
startupjournal.com - Many franchisers are adding a new ingredient to the formula they give independent operators: a charitable cause.

Storage Capacity Planning: What's Enough and What's Too Much?
smallbusinesscomputing.com - The days are long past when many small businesses could get by with their files stored on desktops or one small server. In an era of PowerPoint presentations, videos and graphics files disk space fills up and maxes out too quickly.

Avoiding the MySpace Mistake
businessweek.com - Follow these eight dos and don'ts for marketing your small business through online social networking, and you won't be the bore of the party.

Millionaire Moms' Secrets to Success
entrepreneur.com - Learn how these women turned great ideas into booming businesses.

Tightrope: Attitude is important, but it isn't everything
usatoday.com - A positive attitude and optimism are just one part of the solution. You also need to develop a plan for increasing your business income.

Yahoo Auctions Going, Going, Gone
internetnews.com - Yahoo (Quote) has decided that its gavel has had enough. The company announced on a post to its Web site that its U.S. and Canada Auctions site will go dark on June 16.

Mpire Strikes Back: Launches Money-Making Widgets
ecommerce-guide.com - Web shop owners are now just a widget away from making extra cash through both the Amazon and eBay affiliate programs.

We Knew Them When
entrepreneur.com - They were just upstarts when we first featured them in the pages of Entrepreneur, but now they've become big names. Revisit entrepreneurs from the past 30 years who have since become seriously successful.

Managing your “Inbox Tasks”
smallbusinessbrief.com - Our company has built our own custom task management system that integrates with our SEO and Marketing client reporting system. It’s great. In fact, I’m a big fan of task management. But having a task management system in place, and even when used properly, still does not take care of all of my task management issues.

Selling On The Internet
smallbusinessbrief.com - Contrary to what most Internet ‘gurus' will tell you, being successful as an internet marketer isn't as easy as putting up a website and waiting for people to flock to it. Just like in a ‘bricks and mortar' business, what product you offer and how you present it will determine your level of success.

Where to Find Stock Photos for Web Design
smallbusinessbrief.com - Professional photographs in a website give the website a professional look. Many webmasters do not realize that photographs are copy written and in many cases illegal to use a photograph or image that you find on the web without properly licensing it.

Helpful Questions And Tips on Niche Marketing
smallbusinessbrief.com - My clients and students are surprised and delighted to discover that a refined niche marketing strategy not only attracts significantly more business but also provides richer opportunities for self expression. To help you discern your own market niche, try using "where" and "who" questions like the following.

Don't Go Postal: Shipping Rate Survival Plan
ecommerce-guide.com - New postage rates go into effect May 14, and for Web shop owners, there's quite a bit more to consider than just the hike in stamp prices. To help you get prepared, we're outlining some of the changes that are most likely to affect e-tailers, offering some tips for mitigating rate increases and providing some resources for future reference.

Ask an Expert: Gen Y ready to get into the game
usatoday.com - What if I was to tell you that Generation Y is poised to become maybe the most entrepreneurial generation ever? That rings true, right?

Keeping the Lights on When Mother Nature Hits
smartbiz.com - Small businesses all across the country are not immune to Mother Nature, nor the effects of a significantly weakened power grid. With no means of business continuity when the power goes out, every owner faces the realistic possibility of significant revenue loss when a blackout occurs and the doors remain closed for any length of time.

The 10 Marketing Commandments
about.com - These Ten Commandments didn’t come from the Mountain. And they’re not carved on clay tablets, but on a high-tensile polyfiber instead. Yet any marketer worth his or her salt must follow these commandments in order to find the Promised Land.

Why Franchisees Fail The Common Mistakes
startupjournal.com- Franchising makes owning a small business easy. One buys into a proven business model, follows the instruction manual and, voila, presumably experiences financial success. That's the myth, anyway.

Uncut E-mail Lists Can Hurt
emarketer.com - Online retailers could improve sales by using segmented e-mail lists, according to an Internet Retailer survey analyzed by Vovici.

How a Brand Agency Can Help Your Business Grow
morebusiness.com - A brand offers definite value to your product or service line, by giving your business an image that personifies and projects your product’s goodwill effectively to customers.

New Changes for eBay Users
entrepreneur.com - From postage changes to great new additions to the eBay site, keep up with the alterations that will affect your eBay business.

The Best Way to Combat Rising Postage Costs? Free Stamps
inc.com - DYMO, an Internet postage service and manufacturer of on-demand labeling, is launching a free postage campaign to help small and midsize businesses adjust to the upcoming postage-rate increase.

Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur
businessweek.com - Stuart Skorman, a former hippie turned dot-com mogul, offers lessons from his spectacular wins and equally disappointing losses.

Getting Started: Selecting a PC for Your Small Business
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Today more than ever, selecting the right desktop PC for your small business takes a bit of crystal-ball gazing. You need to weigh your current needs and budget with what you might need down the road. With the transition from Windows XP to Windows Vista clouding the picture, even the once-easy decisions are less clear. But there is good news.

Don't Ask Why
smallbusinessbrief.com - "Why?" seems like a good question, doesn't it? I certainly used to think so. I've asked "Why?" often in my life so I must have thought it was a good question. Or maybe I never had thought about it or noticed what happened when I asked that particular question.

Want Website Traffic? Start A Free Blog
smallbusinessbrief.com - If you own a website, then you know how difficult it is to get exposure to it. Creating a blog is one of the best resources there is today for receiving that exposure.

The Amazing Money-Making Power of Internet Marketing Forums
smallbusinessbrief.com - One of my favorite ways of marketing my business is posting on various Internet marketing forums.

The Truth Behind Successful eBay Drop-off Stores (Vendor Monday)
auctionbytes.com - Combining the three fundamental truths with educating the market and delivering an exceptional service is the recipe for success in the drop-off industry.

New Benchmark Tests For Vista
pcmag.com - When Microsoft Windows Vista debuted back in January, its new architecture (which Microsoft built from the ground up) meant that the current benchmark tests could no longer accurately measure performance. In order to test the true limits of systems equipped with the Vista OS, a new test was required.

The Right Questions
advisortoday.com - You can’t talk people into buying, but you can listen them into it. Questions are your greatest selling tool.

Strategies: Show me the money
usatoday.com - You'd be surprised at how some of the most uninteresting products or procedures can become engaging once you're building your own business. After all, an acquaintance told me he was continually fascinated by his business and made a lot of money as well. What business was he in? He distributed urinal deodorants.

Calling All Customers Marketing on Cellphones
startupjournal.com - MobileLime Inc., a mobile-marketing firm in Quincy, Mass., helped Broadway Marketplace realize the cellphone's potential as the basis for a one-on-one connection with customers. In summer 2005, MobileLime replaced the store's card-based loyalty program with one that used cellphone numbers as a way to alert loyal customers about special events, discounts and rewards.

How Precarious is My Business Model?
powerhomebiz.com - Big and small businesses have to think about risk management and how these risks will affect the company's business model.

7 great ways to finance a startup
money.cnn.com - From credit cards - hey, it worked for Google - to your own customers and suppliers, there's money out there if you get creative.

How To Buy A Small Business With Little Money Down
morebusiness.com - You’re probably wondering how you will get the money to buy a small business in the first place, and how you will know that your plan is going to work. First, you have to pick a business that’s a high earner, and then get a loan to buy it. Now, this is where most people waver. They hesitate to take that initial step. But, it is important not to vacillate at this point, and if you see a good business opportunity with good revenue potential…don’t let it pass you by.

New Service Offers Interactive-Affiliate Ad Publishing
ecommerce-guide.com - Tumri, Inc. today launched its Publisher platform, which is designed to blend merchandising with advertising with a combination of contextual and behavioral targeting that can help e-tailers promote affiliate partnerships.

A Faster Phaser
smallbusinesscomputing.com - Almost exactly a year ago, we reviewed a Xerox color laser printer priced at $499. The Phaser 6120's standard Ethernet and USB 2.0 interfaces made it suitable for a small business, while its print shop- or graphics studio-worthy PostScript 3 and Pantone color and PCL support put it a cut above basic office models. Today, it's déjà vu all over again as far as Xerox's brand new Phaser 6180 printer is concerned.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
entrepreneur.com - If you raised your hand, take a cue from 7 savvy entrepreneurs who used eBay to build million-dollar businesses.

Customer Service Award Finalists Announced
inc.com - "Providing good customer service is vital for businesses of all sizes, especially smaller companies trying to differentiate from the competition," Frank Muehleman, vice president and general manager of Dell's small-business division, said in a statement.

A Higher Hurdle For Inventors
businessweek.com - Has it become too easy to win and defend patents? The Supreme Court says yes.

Eileen Coale: Making It Big in Freelance Copywriting
powerhomebiz.com - Currently, one of the hottest careers on the Web is freelance copywriting. PowerHomeBiz.com interviewed Eileen Coale, President of Coale Communications, to learn how to start and succeed in the business of copywriting.