Start Marketing Your Small Business with Facebook

While I’ve had a personal Facebook account for awhile now, like many small business owners, I’ve simply ignored Facebook as a marketing tool for my business. As the leading social media destination site, Facebook’s growth has been nothing short of astounding, but don’t assume it’s being used solely by teenagers and college-aged kids.  According to [...]

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8 Simple Ways to Improve Your Conversion Rate

Question: How can you double the sales from your website without spending a single dollar more on advertising or marketing? Answer: Improving your conversion rate with a few simple changes to your landing pages. We should start with a basic explanation and understanding of conversion rates.  Your website’s “conversion rate” is the percentage of your [...]

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First Edition of the E-Commerce, Online Marketing, Social Media Blog Carnival

Welcome to the first edition of the E-Commerce, Online Marketing and Social Media Blog Carnival. Thanks to everyone who participated in our first edition. There were an amazing number of articles that were submitted for this first edition that took me days to sort through. While most of the articles that were submitted were really [...]

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13 Irresistible Headlines That Suck People In

Getting anyone’s attention today is a difficult task. There are so many distractions and so much competition for consumers’ attention that it’s nearly impossible to break through the clutter. Advertising and marketing here in the U.S. has become so pervasive that consumers end up tuning out most of the nearly 3,000 advertising and marketing messages [...]

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8 Legitimate Home-Based Business Ideas

As the economy continues to limp along, now more than ever, people are beginning to explore the idea of starting a home-based, low overhead business. There are a ton of ideas out there for starting home-based businesses.  Most home-based businesses are started based upon a skill set that an individual already possesses, often times from [...]

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Preparing Your E-Commerce Site Early for the Holidays

During the lazy late summer months, the last thing you might be thinking about is the upcoming holiday season. Yet, the notion of Christmas in the summer time really isn’t that far off base when it comes to your e-commerce shop. We all know the holiday shopping season can quickly turn chaotic so, particularly if [...]

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History of E-Commerce

Shopping on the internet is certainly a popular past time, an efficient time-saver, and a great way to comparison shop on virtually any kind of item you’re interested in. The history of e-commerce as most people think of it has a short but interesting time line.  Most people don’t realize that e-commerce and its underlying [...]

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Tips and Advice on Blog Carnivals

Most experienced bloggers might already be familiar with the concept of a blog carnival, but for the uninitiated, we’ve put together some tips and advice about blog carnivals, including a description of the blog carnival concept, its history, and how bloggers can benefit from it.  A blog carnival is a unique blogging event designed to [...]

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Bootstrapping Your Website Design and Development with WordPress

I’ve recently posted several times about the concept of bootstrapping your first online business or any business for that matter.  I believe that bootstrapping is the only way you should go when starting your first business.  I’m also a huge advocate of using WordPress in general, but particularly for those individuals looking to bootstrap their [...]

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Customized E-Commerce Site in WordPress for Less Than $150

Using WordPress, you can build your own fully functioning, customized e-commerce website with a customized theme and logo design for less than $150.  I’m not talking about a cheesy, poorly designed site either, but a clean, well-designed, professional looking e-commerce site.  In fact, Sell It! on the Web was re-designed exactly in this manner. Here [...]

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Starting A Business with No Money: A Bootstrapping Manifesto

Let’s face it, traditional sources of financing for most new business ventures such as angel investment and venture capital are a long shot, at best.  The fact of the matter is that far less than one percent of all start-ups see any type of venture capital funding.  Even traditional bank loans are exceptionally difficult to [...]

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Start Up Funding for Your E-Commerce Business

Funding your new e-commerce start-up will be the most difficult task in getting your new business up and running.  For most new entrepreneurs, the sources of more traditional financing, such as bank loans or angel investment are simply not realistic options.  For the lion’s share of new small businesses, the most realistic option for start [...]

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Top Internet Business Scams To Watch Out For

Internet business scams have only continued to spread like wildfire, especially in our floundering economy.  From the unemployed to the undereducated, these scams have taken full advantage of countless people.  For those of you considering starting your own business online, many of these scams might sound like a perfect fit.  With the still-shaky job market [...]

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6 Tips for Building a High Quality Email List

If you’re a new website owner thinking about building an email list for your business, or if you’re someone who just wants to improve upon an existing one, we’ve outlined some of the most highly recommended tips and advice on how to build a superb, high quality email list. Successful email marketing begins and ends [...]

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Build Trust When Building Your Email List

Building an email list might be one of the most important things that you do for your online business.  An email list provides another unique way to service your customers.  But try not to think of a building an email list single-mindedly as just a way to generate more sales.  You just might be killing [...]

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