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15 Basic Steps to Starting an Online Store

Many people wants to start their own online stores, whether clothing, gift basket or toy stores on the Web. Using a clothing store as an example, here are some basic steps to creating your online storefront:

1. Define your business. The very first step is to always know what it is you want to do. This [...]

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Get Listed on Google Maps and Increase Exposure of Your Small Business

Yellow Pages are so 1990s. Nowadays, if you are running a small business dependent on customers finding and coming to your physical store or office, then you need to get listed on Google Maps.
Type in Google search terms that include business types and specific locations such as “landscaping Annapolis MD” or “hair salon in Chicago” and the [...]

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How Small Online Businesses Can Increase Conversion

In today’s business climate whether you have recently started or whether you have been in business for a while, you are very likely to have a website. If you think about it carefully, it does not matter if you are selling a product or service, your aim is to increase conversion rates and get more [...]

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How I Created an Effective Web Site for Under $100

Can you create a website for under $100? Of course you can! I did it, and so can you!
Is it easy? Maybe yes, maybe no. A person knowledgeable of HTML and CSS can whip out a website very easily for a low price. For someone with little to no skills, then it all depends on [...]

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Internet Marketing Lessons from eBoot Camp Book

eBook Camp: Proven Internet Marketing Techniques to Grow Your Business” by Corey Perlman is an excellent primer on internet marketing and search engine optimization for beginners. The book covers all the essentials of Internet marketing, from the effective use of metatags to the right way of using the social networks to the steps needed to [...]

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Choosing a Keyword-Rich Domain Name

Choosing the domain name is the first important decision you will make in creating the website.
There are actually two schools of thoughts in selecting the domain name for a website: the branding approach, and the keyword approach.

The branding approach is choosing a short, catchy and easy to remember domain names such as Twitter, Flickr, Google [...]

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My Twitter Experiment: How to Use Twitter to Market a Business

Though I created my Twitter account back in January, I never used Twitter except to send one tweet a month (which is basically nothing in the Twitter world).
Recently, I started to look seriously at Twitter and how to use it to market PowerHomeBiz.com. Maybe it’s all the hoopla surrounding Ashton Kutcher’s millionth follower, or a [...]

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Marketing with Yahoo Answers: 10 Ways to Promote Your Business Using YA

I previously wrote about How to Use Yahoo Answers to Promote Your Business . The article was first written in 2007 when I just started to top the Business and Finance category, and 2 years later, I am still in the top 10 of the Business and Finance category.
Why use Yahoo Answers? For PowerHomeBiz.com, Yahoo [...]

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Can a Blog as Main Web Presence of a Business Be Taken Seriously?

A startup photographer wants to market his business on the Web. But he’s got a limited budget, and would prefer to create a web presence as cheaply as possible (free even better). So he’s looking at the option of creating an account with the free Blogger.com.
His main question is: Will potential clients take his business [...]

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How to Earn from Your Videos

With the rapid growth of broadband, videos have become a vital part of the Web and watching videos on the Web have become much more commonplace. My 4-year old son, for example, is addicted to YouTube and watches videos of Bugatti and Ferrari cars.
But if you’re at the other end of the spectrum and loves [...]

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