How to Attract New Customers With Google AdWords
Regardless of what your small business does, it’s likely that your company can, and will, benefit from an increased Internet presence. Websites and search engine optimization are great building blocks for generating business leads and customers on the Internet.
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Nine Easy Web-Based Collaboration Tools
Most workgroups are stuck in the stone-knives-and-bearskins stage of collaboration tools. Their entire collaboration toolset consists of passing documents back and forth by e-mail. But the Web offers a variety of choices for workgroups looking to implement more advanced technology.
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Lead Generation via Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing — the practice of allowing thousands of small Web sites to send potential buyers to your e-business site — is entering a renaissance of sorts.
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How to start your own TV channel
Mark Hall, a former executive with RealNetworks, fell in love with online video two years ago, thanks to an ultrafast broadband connection in his London home. When he returned to San Francisco last year, he decided to address the growing need in online video: a way to find just the good stuff and skip the junk.
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Tips for Home-preneurs: How to Call It a Day
Before Becky Boyd turned her basement into an office for her public relations business, MediaFirst PR, she fell prey to the “just let me check another e-mail” syndrome that ails many home-based entrepreneurs.
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Will My New Business Ever Make Money?
How can you tell if your business idea will be profitable? The honest answer is, you can’t. But this uncertainty shouldn’t keep you from researching the financial soundness of your idea. Preparing what’s known as a “break-even analysis,” or “break-even forecast,” as well as several other financial projections, can help you determine whether or not your business will succeed.
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Podcasting expected to surge
Podcasting may be the newest - and least recognized - of the social media tools, but a new report indicates that podcasting will come in to it’s own in the coming years. “>Podcasting may be the newest - and least recognized - of the social media tools, but a new report indicates that podcasting will come in to it’s own in the coming years.
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Are Barter Sites Right for You?
Don’t want it? Swap it. Or so says a growing number of entrepreneurs running sites that let people swap all kinds of stuff. Bartering is the oldest business practice around, and a handful of swap sites arose during the dotcom era. Most didn’t survive. Now the sector is re-energized, thanks to better technology and shrewder online shoppers who have accumulated stuff they no longer want or need.
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Offering Information as Incentive to Buy
A successful e-store is one that provides visitors with a powerful and compelling incentive to buy. This incentive can come in one of many forms. Discounts, free shipping and multiple product offers are among the most common, but these can seriously impact your bottom line unless managed closely. Offering free informational products, a trend that has steadily grown in popularity and produces results, however, is another way to make your site stand out without costing you much money.
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Stop Spam Before It Stops You
According to statistics, spam represents anywhere between 90 and 98 percent of the approximately 100 billion e-mails sent each day. At its most benign, spam is unsolicited or junk e-mail, typically advertisements for things you don’t want or don’t need — from curing erectile dysfunction to home mortgages to stock tips. At its worst, though, spam can clog or cripple your inbox, infect your computer or network with viruses and even cause your computer to spam your friends and clients.