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Developing A Business Forum: Focus And Function
September 29, 2006 - Scott Lindsay - It doesn’t take long to discover the incredible diversity in online forums.
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My Emails Are Not Being Delivered. Black Lists and White Lists Explained
September 29, 2006 - by Karen Fegarty - Over 40% of all emails within your marketing campaign are not being delivered. You may not even be aware of this, as many ISPs will not send back a bounce message. In fact if you are sending messages to AOL customers, AOL is now blocking over 80% of the messages that come into their servers.
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Finding The Right eBooks to Sell on eBay
September 29, 2006 - by John Thornhill - Member name has been chosen, payment options have been arranged, and now you are ready to sell on eBay. This might be your first foray at eBay sales, or you might just be ready for a new product. Either way eBooks will surely help you make high profits while keeping costs astoundingly low.
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Pricing Strategies in Marketing
September 28, 2006 - by Bobette Kyle - Price is an often overlooked marketing strategy, as many tend to focus on promotions or advertising. Pricing strategies, however, can have a large impact on sales and (more importantly) profit.
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Spy on the Competition
September 28, 2006 - by Sharon Housley - The old adage, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer", is applicable not only to personal relationships but business relationships as well. While I'm not suggesting that you befriend your competitors, it is important that you are cognizant of your competitors' business ventures and methods.
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Advertising For Beginers
September 27, 2006 - by Graham Winmill - When advertising, you need to promote your U.S.P (Unique Selling Point), your products, and yourself. What sets you and your product apart from everyone else?
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The Low Down on Self Employed Quarterly Taxes
September 27, 2006 - by Arika Lewis - Do I Have to Pay My Taxes Quarterly?
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How to Increase Web Traffic
September 27, 2006 - by Michael Fleischner - To succeed on the Internet, you must learn how to increase web traffic. Without getting targeted visitors to your website, you don't stand a chance of selling your products or services to any large degree.
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Write Articles, Market Smarter
September 27, 2006 - Karri Flatla - Your written work can be the dangling carrot that converts prospects into clients, and marketing it as such is less work than you may realize. Here are five simple tactics for leveraging your writer savvy.
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Write Articles To Presell
September 26, 2006 - by Dale King - If you own an online business - any online business, and you're not preselling that business, you're leaving a ton of money on the table.
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Advertising Strategies: Calculating Banner Advertising Rates
September 26, 2006 - by Robbie Darmona - There are many types of advertising strategies used by different people. Upon testing which strategy will be best for you, you should remember that one strategy may have different results with different people.
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eBay Affiliate Program
September 26, 2006 - by John V. W. Howe - Learning about the eBay affiliate program and how it functions within eBay can be time well spent toward developing an effective affiliate program.
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The Successful Network Marketer
September 21, 2006 - by Michael Orsini - What are the personal qualities needed to succeed in network
marketing? Let's assume for the sake of argument that the
particular company being promoted is a rock-solid, bona-fide
opportunity: something worthy of your time and effort, something
that offers the end consumer real value. In fact even with a
great opportunity, nothing happens without the development of
these personal qualities.
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Better Online Communication Makes for Happier Customers
September 21, 2006 - by Mark Ramirez - Many companies are now doing the majority or even all their business online and foregoing the “Brick and Mortar” storefront. It is easy to see why that trend has happened. But when businesses shift from face-to-face customers to anonymous online customers, there is a loss of personal connection and trust.
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Guide to Buying a Webcam
September 20, 2006 - by Andrew Gates - Webcams are those handy little cameras that attach to your PC and send images to a web page that can be viewed by others.
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Seven Myths About Making Money From a Blog
September 20, 2006 - by Hendry Lee - More and more business people are realizing that a blog can be a viable marketing tool in building readership, attracting traffic and prospects to their websites. But there is a simpler use for blogs: to build and manage standalone and content rich websites.
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Build a Mailing List While Speaking
September 20, 2006 - by Eileen Parzek - Do you do presentations or speaking engagements in front of your target audience? If so, you have a wonderful opportunity to grow your opt-in relationship building mailing list in big leaps.
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Offline Marketing Your Web Site – Don’t Overlook the Obvious
September 19, 2006 - by Tammy Ames - How many hours a week do we spend online trying to finesse our online business success with little or no progress? I would venture a guess ~ to many! Don’t overlook the obvious! Offline marketing is the fastest way to generate interest in your business web site.
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Article Marketing Strategies: Selecting The Best Sites & Ezines For Your Article Marketing Campaign
September 15, 2006 - by Eric Gruber - Writing and marketing articles online is probably the most effective, most cost-effective way to publicize your website, and promote your products and services online.
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Seven Tips for Marketing Your Seminar
September 15, 2006 - by Cathy Goodwin - Want to begin offering workshops (by phone or in person) to attract clients and maybe build another revenue stream?
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Creating a Buzz on a Budget
September 13, 2006 - by Jeff Solochek - When starting a new business most people are trying not to overspend. So one of the places they cut back on is in advertising which is actually very important when starting a new venture.
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Web Design And Navigation
September 13, 2006 - by Scott Lindsay - As people “browse” the Web, they “land” on a page and “navigate” on a website. To find their way around they need a “navigation” system.
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Legitimate Home Based Businesses and The Tax Department
September 13, 2006 - by Elias Georgi - There are a number of steps that must be followed when you set up your home based business to ensure that it is legitimate and that you do not contravene some of the local and federal laws.
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Setting Goals: Your Only Recipe for Success
September 13, 2006 - by Innocent Mwangi Gathungu - Goals are like rails. Without them, our claim to success will never find expression in reality. Just as a train must stay on the rails to complete the journey, our dreams, our ambitions, and our desires must find expression in goals that are clear, realistic and timely.
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Why pay for advertising that does not yield sales?
September 12, 2006 - by Sharon Housley - Before you part with your cold hard cash, consider various ways to increase and maximize your conversions. The term conversion simply represents the number of website visitors that take the action that the web publisher desires.
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Elements Of Great Websites
September 12, 2006 - by Irene Kopaliani - There are literally millions of websites on the Internet these days. How do you make sure that your website is not lost in virtual obscurity? Well, there are several key elements that every great website has. These elements are described below.
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Marketing Strategy: Developing a Website Marketing Plan
September 12, 2006 - by Bobette Kyle - For many of us, finding the time and commitment to develop an online marketing strategy is difficult. There are so many other obligations vying for our attention it is tempting to push strategies to the back burner. Giving into that temptation, however, means putting your business at a disadvantage.
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Is Inventory Important
September 08, 2006 - by Anita DeFrank & Kara Kelso - One of the hot questions when it comes to direct sales and offline shows is this:
"Do I need a large inventory, or can I just take orders?"
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Guide to buying Hard Drives
September 08, 2006 - by Andrew Gates - Apart from being one of the most essential parts of your computer, hard drive storage is constantly updating, in terms of both capacity of disk space and in physical size. When it comes time to upgrade your disk storage, there are a number of factors for you to take into account.
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Before You Sell On Ebay, Take The Most Important Step
September 08, 2006 - by Isaiah Hull - If you want to earn a full-time income selling on Ebay, you must take the first and most important step in all successful business ventures: you must accept that it is possible.
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10 Suggestions For Blog Usability
September 07, 2006 - by Danny Wirken - Ignoring key usability issues on blogs may make it difficult for readers to understand a site. Writer confidence can also be hard to attain as well. This would certainly not work well for the site since all sites strive to reach the widest audience possible. Here are some suggestions to ensure your blog usability.
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Lightening Storm, Now No Internet?
September 07, 2006 - by John Magluilo - After a lightening storm it is not unusual for your Internet to go out. There are several causes of this and a few ways to fix it.
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Tips On Increasing Your Newsletter Subscribers
September 07, 2006 - by Stefani Partin - Do you own an online newsletter and you are trying to gain subscribers to it? You have built the website for it and you have your subscription box in place, but nobody is subscribing? Don't worry, you are not alone. There are many others out there asking themselves what it is that they are doing wrong.
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Sales and the Importance of Following Up
September 06, 2006 - by Halstatt Pires - Sales are the life force of any business. Here’s an outline of the key factors in getting them for your business.
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How to Approach Someone about Your New Home Business
September 01, 2006 - by Dave Saunders - When you get started with a home business, you have two options: You can promote your product or service to people that could benefit from them or you can promote the business itself and grow a larger team which expands your influence and makes it possible for even more people to learn about your product and service.
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