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How to Choose Online Business Opportunities

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If you want to start your own online business, the first thing to do is choose a small business idea or online business opportunity. When choosing a business idea, there are several things to consider, including:

1. Your interests and passions - An online business opportunity, like any small business startup, can take time to become profitable. If you want to succeed in online business, generally choose a business idea that will keep you interested, even while income may be low initially. Read the rest of this entry »

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MSN Traffic Blows Away Google Traffic (See Screenshots)

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No you didn’t misread the title. MSN traffic blew away Google traffic for me yesterday on two separate domains as shown by the traffic screenshots below. Although the MSN traffic was short-lived, it was nice seeing a few thousand visitors from MSN in one day. I’m sure you’re wondering how did I get so much MSN traffic? I not only had one search term but two search terms listed on MSN A-list Searches which is linked to from the MSN homepage and both search terms appeared within Today’s Hot Topic. Read the rest of this entry »

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How to Design a Website For Your Online Business

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Whether you choose to design a website from scratch or use a free Web template to design a website for your online business, there are many things to consider and ask yourself from the start:

1. Is an e-commerce solution / shopping cart needed on your website?

2. Does it need to allow enough room to easily display articles?

3. Do you need to plan for on-site advertising space in the website design?

4. Does the website design need to be interactive for site visitors?

5. Do you want to run your website through a content management system (CMS)?

6. Does the website need to include an audio or video player?

7. Would your target market appreciate a flashy design, or something simple? Read the rest of this entry »

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YahooSmallBusiness

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YahooSmallBusiness has web hosting plans starting at just $8.96. Mo. 1st 2 months and YahooSmallBusiness has merchant ecommerce plans starting at just $25.97 Mo. 1st 2 months. YahooSmallBusiness uses the same reliable infrastructure as YahooSmallBusiness uses for all of Yahoo websites so you can feel safe and secure knowing their will be virtually zero downtime with using YahooSmallBusiness to host any website. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bravenet Web Services: Bravenet Web Hosting

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Bravenet web services are second to none. How can I make that bold statement? I’ve personally been using Bravenet Web Hosting since March 2005 after using other web hosting companies, e.g. Go Daddy, and they all fail in comparison to Bravenet Hosting. In fact, this very web site is hosted with Bravenet Web Services (See whois nameservers for proof) as is all my web sites. Read the rest of this entry »

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