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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.

FTC Concerns over Social Media Privacy Linger
[March 18, 2010] Commission officials say current policies don't work, but have not yet said what actions they will take to protect the public's online privacy. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

CoreCommerce Adds Free Mobile Shops to Platform
[March 17, 2010] The popular storefront e-commerce platform offers free mobile-optimized Web shops in its newest version, CoreCommerce 7.7. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Ecommerce Marketing Tips: Writing Better Copy
[March 15, 2010] Check out handy marketing tips on the latest Web TV episode of 'Help! My Business Sucks.' This week's topics: copywriting, improving productivity and customer research. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Mobilize Your Ecommerce Web Site
[March 12, 2010] The most important mobile marketing tool you can have is an ecommerce site that's optimized for mobile devices. Why risk losing out on potentially thousands of mobile customers and sales? [More ECommerce-Guide ]

Tame Web Marketing with Social Media Management
[March 11, 2010] Social networking sites make up a large part of ecommerce marketing, but with so many outlets it's easy to become overwhelmed. Social media management tools can help. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

E-commerce Content: Be Ready for Any Holiday
[March 10, 2010] Investing a little time now in your holiday e-commerce content can attract visitors to your Web shop all year long. [More ECommerce-Guide ]

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 ECommerce-Guide ]

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 ]

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

10 Ways SMBs Can Save Money On IT
It isn't news, but here are 10 ways to reduce IT expenditures without sacrificing services.

Canon Launches New LCD Multimedia Projectors
Priced from $800 to $1,200, the new presentation projectors include widescreen and normal view models.

The New Smarter Way To Reschedule Google Calendar Appointments
The experimental smart rescheduling feature is available for both the paid and free versions of Google Calendar.

EMC Offers Disaster Recovery For Latest MS Exchange
Storage, backup and database developer EMC is offering integrated disaster recovery and online storage for users of Exchange 2010.

RIM Makes It Easy To Push Any Data To BlackBerry
Extending BlackBerry Push Service to all third-party developers means more apps will be able to push content to the BlackBerry.

Market research & Whitepapers

Small Biz Dashboarding Tool: Crystal Reports Server
An overview of dashboard and database reporting software that the vendor claims is easy to use.

IT Outsourcing For Small Businesses
Progent Corp. makes the case for small businesses outsourcing IT services.

Pay-per-use Software Pricing: Pressure Is On SaaS Vendors
Software-as-a-service vendors must adjust pricing models to attract customers, IDC says. Good news for small businesses that rely increasingly on SaaS.

Big Surprise: SMBs Migrate In Droves To Windows 7
What does this tell you? Small businesses have more confidence in migrating to Win7 after the launch than before.

Google Android Gaining Ground On iPhone
Market data from Quantcast suggests the battle for small business palmtops isn't over yet. Android puts the moves on iPhone.

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