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Best-selling Author Scott Fox (me) offers a free download report titled "5 Instant Internet Businesses" if you'll take a reader survey.
The free Special Report details "quick start" start-up e-businesses that anyone can start without much capital or tech expertise.
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Want to get more customers to your web site? Best-selling author, Scott Fox, lays out his "Distributed Engagement" theory of online marketing that can boost your sales.
Learn why you should reach out to customers online where they already are - Facebook, Message Boards, Online Communities, Twitter - instead of hoping and waiting for them to
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To make money online, you need to offer products that customers want to buy.
New online research tools can help you determine what customers want to buy BEFORE you open your store.
This article explains how to use Google, Yahoo, and Keyword tools to uncover profitable customer demand.
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If you read my previous post, you know I'm pretty angry right now. I don't like seeing good people get lousy service, especially when it hurts the future of their business. So I've channeled that anger into a list of things that any competent internet mar
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For very large purchases my husband, Eric, won't leave the house until he's researched it to death for brand reputation, customer feedback, and consumer reports studies. Typically, he'll enter a store knowing more than the salesperson and it becomes a battle of who knows more about what and then Eric hands over the money once he's proven how b
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The WALL STREET JOURNAL offers a list of tips for online marketing success during the upcoming holiday shopping season. And yours truly is even quoted in there. :-)
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American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain’s proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say.
The officials, with organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and
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Are you happy with your credit card processor? Are you getting the best deal? Many small businesses across the U.S. aren’t which has led to the launch of a comparison-shopping website for B2B financial services.
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For many small businesses, the prospect of adding a new way to collect payments, with a possibly unfamiliar technology, can seem intimidating. Here are the answers to all their questions.
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Asked if they preferred shopping on the Internet or in brick-and-mortar stores, the largest group of responding US online buyers (38%) said they used both channels about the same amount.
Slightly more respondents (31%) to PriceGrabber.com's "Back to School Survey" said they preferred making their purchases online than said they preferred bu
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Brands that fail to embrace and engage in online consumer dialog are set be among those most severely affected by an economic downturn, according to research conducted in the UK by E-consultancy, Logan Tod and immediate future.
Some 64% of UK respondents surveyed said they would reduce their spending generally in view of the deteriorating econ
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Simple steps. Make the customer know you care. Organize your business around that one principle.
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A recent survey found that 81% of consumers don't trust small online businesses.
You cannot survive in online business if your customers do not trust you. If they don't trust you, they will never buy and you will fail. It's that simple.
Unfortunately, earning customer trust online is not an easy task, especially when there are so many bi
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Just because you finally have a website, does not mean that you will automatically get those online sales. You will do well to remember these five key points when starting an online business.
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