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I touch a lot of sites every month -- some small, some large, some that we built, and some that were done by outside firms. In doing a wide variety research into what is and isn't working for a small business Web site, I find the most frequent issues fall within the following six categories.
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The following 10 tips will help make the most of the advertising dollars you do spend, and if followed should result in overall cost savings without jeopardiznig the reach of your advertising campaign.
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So make the most of business blogging. Follow a few rules and you'll have a business blog that actually helps you grow online:
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Informative hour long interview and downloadable MP3 podcast by Scott Fox, author of Internet Riches (me) with Tawnya Sutherland of VAnetworking.com, the largest online community for virtual assistants.
Learn:
- how to find and use a qualified Virtual Assistant in your business
- the types of administrative, project, and marketing tasks where
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Keep motivation high by first discovering passion and then following through with this 30 day plan. Combining positive and negative motivation together, along with daily tasks makes it easy to stick to this plan.
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Small businesses have been having increasing trouble getting loans as the credit markets have seized up. But some, such as Tio's Mexican, are finding that smaller community banks and credit unions are more open to offering financing. For one thing, many smaller lenders are in relatively strong financial shape because they didn't make the types o
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Flossie.com, a New Zealand-based, female-centric Web site full of fashion, beauty, sex and dating, entertainment and career tips, recently launched.
In an effort to convey the site’s abundance of content for women of all ages, Flossie.com launched a campaign on a busy New Zealand street using a vending machine that dispensed living, breathing,
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You were absolutely sure you had the sale, but it fell through in the end. What happened? Chances are, you didn't pre-close.
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Google has made two major changes to the AdWords algorithm to improve the quality of the calculation and render it "fairer."
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Is this a first? Furious business execs create their own hate site to harpoon a supplier after things go bad, horribly bad. In the past, most hate sites like WalMart-Blows.com were the work of angry consumers. Maybe the Web will provide b2b with faster and more effective dispute resolution than the courts.
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The best news about this whole trust business is that you can charge a premium for trust. Trust can be a fantastic investment into your business.
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Every time Google does a Page Rank update it sets the SEO community on fire with people constantly refreshing their url in multiple Google data centers to see if they have moved up or down.
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The congressional defeat of the proposed bailout plan by the Treasury led to one of the worst stock market days in history.
The result was an elimination of trillions of dollars in shareholder wealth.
The main reasoning for the rejection of the plan was that ordinary taxpayers should not have to subsidize the fat cats over on Wall Street.
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"Not only does this bill not contain any provisions that specifically help small business, it has provisions that could actually harm middle class firms. The language in Section 107 of the bill is totally inconsistent with the stated objectives of this legislation," says ASBL President Lloyd Chapman.
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It’s not the nicest thing to do. But for small-business owners who are having difficulty collecting receivables from their customers, especially in this tight business climate, this is an extreme option that just might work.
They’re turning to a complaint-and-resolution Web site called Uradeadbeat.com, which seeks to make nonpaying customers or
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