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Marketing Tips: How to Get Your Web Site Noticed Andrew Lock shows entrepreneurs how to “get more done and have more fun,” as he talks about pets, how to promote your Web site, M&Ms and a whole lot more.

Buyers' Guide: Choosing a Payment Gateway Provider
[March 9, 2010] From chargeback fees to PCI-compliance issues, this ecommerce buyers' guide will tell you everything you need to know to select a payment gateway service provider. [More Secure Payment Processing ]

Ecommerce Design: Save Money on Stock Photos
[March 8, 2010] Andrew Lock's latest webisode features a new photo site could save you a bundle, affordable services to help you transfer and store large files and restaurant chain's marketing tip that you can apply to your e-tail biz. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

A Guide to Small Business Marketing
[March 5, 2010] In this do-it-yourself guide, we look at five types of marketing strategies that any frugal ecommerce owner can use to grow a business. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Marketing Tools: Set Up An Ecommerce Blog
[March 4, 2010] Blogging is a great way to drive traffic to your site, and we've found a great Web resource to set up a professional blog for you. Plus, an emarketing site to help you get interviewed on TV and radio. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

The Positive Side of Negative Product Reviews
[March 3, 2010] From educating customers to making more informed purchase decisions to guiding your own product development; negative product reviews aren't really all that negative. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Google Takes a Picnik
[March 2, 2010] Google adds the online photo editor to its application stable, which is good news for ecommerce shops looking for more easy ways to prep product images. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Businesses Target Multiple Social Networking Sites
[March 1, 2010] As marketing budgets dwindle, companies big and small turn to social media to boost customer outreach. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

CyberSource, ThreatMetrix Partner to Secure IDs
[February 26, 2010] The electronic payment and risk management services provider has teamed up with security software vendor ThreatMetrix to provide advanced identity protection applications to combat online transaction fraud. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Ecommerce Design: 5 Common Mistakes
[February 26, 2010] Helen Bradley looks at — and shows you how to avoid — five small business Web design mistakes that are guaranteed to turn customers away. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Ecommerce Marketing: How to Make Web Forms for Free
[February 25, 2010] Check out this free service that lets you build Web forms for your small business ecommerce site. Plus, how you use Google Alerts and a streaming audio tool. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

E-commerce Content: Writing Product Descriptions
[February 24, 2010] From writing an original product description to adding call-to-action statements, we offer tips on how to write e-commerce content that attracts both search engines and human shoppers. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

How to Make an E-mail Newsletter in Publisher
[February 23, 2010] Helen Bradley shows how to save money on your e-commerce marketing by making your own newsletter in Microsoft Publisher 2003. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Mobile Commerce Advantages for Retailers Emerging
[February 22, 2010] Using mobile devices to shop is starting to catch on but has some hurdles to clear before it gains broad acceptance with U.S. consumers, according to a new report. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Web Marketing Tips: Tracking Direct Mailings
[February 19, 2010] Andrew Lock shows how to use the Web to track your snail-mail marketing campaigns. Plus, a tool for pricing real estate and why an old-as-dirt advertising tactic is so successful. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Don’t Bail on Your Business Blog
[February 18, 2010] Recent studies may have you thinking that it’s time to give up the blog and focus on Twitter or Facebook. But don’t be rash. Search engine optimization is a major benefit of keeping a business blog. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Images in MS Word By Helen Bradley - [June 2, 2008] Microsoft Word offers handy tools for working with images.

How to Use Queries By Helen Bradley - [July 31, 2009] Learn how to extract information from your Microsoft Access database to answer typical business questions and analyze your data in new ways.

Word Tips: AutoCorrect By Helen Bradley - [June 26, 2008] The AutoCorrect and AutoText tools in Microsoft Word can help you reduce repetitive typing and avoid common typos.

Advanced Excel Charts By Helen Bradley - [June 2, 2008] Here are five less-obvious tools that bring your charts to life.

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Daily News

New Avaya IP Office: Unified Communications For Small Biz
Avaya's SMB-targeted IP Office 6.0 delivers enhancements especially userful for smaller businesses.

RightNow Says SaaS Vendors Need Fairer Pricing
Will its competitors listen, and change pricing practices left over from packaged software days?

IceWeb Iplicity: Integrating Legacy And Cloud Storage
IceWeb announces the launch of its Iplicity Data Storage platform.

Disaster Recovery: Small Biz Needs A Different Approach
SMBs may not need to spend as much as enterprises on disaster recovery solutions.

Google Translate: Breaking Down The Language Barrier
How Google brain and computing power made online machine translation a really useful business tool.

Market research & Whitepapers

Measuring SMB Customer Outcomes: The Dell Managed Services Advantage
The second in a series of white papers from Dell on the advantages of using the company's IT management outsourcing services.

Solving The SMB IT Infrastructure Management Dilemma
Dell makes the case for managed services to help small businesses with limited or no inhouse IT expertise.

Assessing Your Organization's Readiness for Windows 7
What to look out for and how to minimize the disruption when migrating to Windows 7.

The Power of Mobile Peripherals
Companies are extending the value of their BlackBerry solutions by adding peripherals that automate data collection, improve accuracy, and lower costs, among other benefits.

Broadband Adoption Jumps in U.S.
Thinking of adding rich media to your Web site? Now may be the time.

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