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February 11, 2013
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Be Ready for Anything with a Business Continuity Plan
Ensure your business keeps running in the event of a disruption or disaster.
Nobody knows when business disruptions might occur, but we do know they happen. Rather than be caught off guard and unprepared, you can develop a business continuity plan that can help guide you if disaster occurs. From relatively contained technology […]
January 30, 2013
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5 Ways to Simplify Your Online Business
Follow these steps to improve your results and reduce your stress.
Being in business isn’t easy, but it doesn’t always need to be quite so difficult either. As a business owner, you are rightly entrenched in the details of products, services and the methods that keep the customers coming, and the […]
December 18, 2012
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Local Meetup eBay Groups: Meet eBay’s Meetup Manager
An interview with Jeff Terrell, director of community
Editor’s note: This article is the third of a three-part series that discusses meetup groups for eBay sellers and their benefits. If you read the first two articles in this series about meeting up with eBay groups, you know the […]
December 17, 2012
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How to Take a Break from Your Online Business
With proper planning, you can enjoy some worry-free time off.
Here’s a salute to all you self-employed superheroes, you who work tirelessly, endlessly and faithfully to reach your online business goals. What’s that? You’re feeling a little worn down and you might be losing some of the resolve you once […]
December 11, 2012
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Local Meetup eBay Groups: How to Start One
Advice from the organizer of one of the best-known eBay groups
Editor’s note: This article is the second of a three-part series that discusses meetup groups for eBay sellers and their benefits. Our first installment in this series about meeting up with eBay groups in person left you with a homework […]
December 10, 2012
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Use Social Network Marketing to Connect with Buyers
5 conversational ways to get your customers talking to and about you
Long ago, it was considered the “gift of gab”—the ability to meet, greet and gain trust with customers who ventured into your store. These days, with so much communication happening at every moment of every day, is it possible that […]
November 27, 2012
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Be Consistent in Your Branding Strategies
Pointers for developing a memorable identity for your online business
Your business brand is your calling card. It embodies your hard-earned business credentials, and it engages your customers, old and new. Why, then, would you utilize your brand in disconnected methods as you work to saturate the various communication and […]
July 19, 2010
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Get Your Items Found, Part 1
Put your products on the radar of the two most popular search engines.
When you have your own online store, you’re competing with thousands of other merchants to woo buyers into purchasing products from you. Having good, quality items at competitive prices is just part of the “selling” equation. You also need to […]
February 17, 2010
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On the Couch with Twitter
Analyzing the effectiveness of your Twitter campaign
We don’t know about you, but we’ve become Twitterholics and can’t get enough of the popular micro-blogging site. Fortunately, there’s a Web site devoted to people just like us called Twitterholic.com, which lists the top Twitter users by number of […]