How to Get Customers on Facebook and Twitter
Using social networking sites for sales lead generation
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Coping With Fury at a Price Hike
When eMusic raised prices, customers grumbled and threatened to leave. Was it too late to go back?
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How to Use Google's Tools for Building an Online Storefront
For small businesses just beginning to build an online presence, turning to cheap - or free - Google tools can be a simple solution.
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Should You Stake Your Claim in a Virtual World?
Virtual worlds are no longer seeing the explosive growth of a few years ago, shoved out of the limelight by Twitter and Facebook, but they can still be worth your while.
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How to Use Social Networking Sites to Drive Business
Advice for small businesses on using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, and how to integrate these tools into the marketing and recruiting efforts of your company.
Read moreStaying Connected: WiFi Hot Spots to Go
Two new tools can turn your mobile broadband connection into a Wi-Fi hot spot. Netgear's 3G Broadband Wireless Router ($130) plugs into a laptop or USB mo... Read more
Speed Leader
Peter Wagner, a general partner at Palo Alto venture-capital giant Accel Partners, has seen the future ofInternet hookups for small businesses. It's calle... Read more
How Motley Fools Talk Back
If you've ever wondered whether building an intranet is worthwhile, then consider the example of Motley Fool, an online investor-education company based i... Read more
E-tailers Losing E-Consumers with Poor Navigation
E-tailers need to shape up their Web sites and improve navigation if they're going to retain customers, according to a recent survey by NetSmart. A... Read more
Secrets to Wooing Your Online Customers
Wanna know how to keep customers loyal to your e-commerce Web site? Well, NFO Interactive might have the answers you're looking for. According to NFO, con... Read more
Just Looking
They don't call it a Web browser for nothing. According to a recent survey of 25 top E-commerce sites, conducted by Net Effect Systems, 67% of the merchan... Read more
Selling on the Internet: How to Get Started and How Much Does it Cost?
For many, the biggest barrier to getting started with doing business on the Internet may very well boil down to two basic questions. How, exactly, do you ... Read more
Naming Your Business in the Information Age
Even a year or two ago, naming your business was pretty much a local affair. Choose a snappy name, check to see that no one else is using it in your city,... Read more
The Little Engines That Could
When managers want business information, many now routinely look on the Internet. They use search engines like Alta Vis... Read more
New Ideas for Fighting Spam
An organization focused on controlling spam has come up with new proposals that give Internet service providers more effective weapons to fight unsolicite... Read more
Group Gripes -- and Kudos
At the Motley Fool, an online investor-education company based in Alexandria, Va., the company intranet offers a team forum for constructive criticism tha... Read more
Setting Up Shop in Cyberspace
With research firms projecting e-commerce revenues totaling more than $100 billionin 2003, businesses large and small are considering jumping into theelec... Read more
Test before You Launch
The Internet and E-commerce are maturing at breakneck speed, and the days of getting an E-business started on a wing and a prayer are a diminishing speck ... Read more
ICANN vs. ICANNWatch: An Interview with Opponents in the Domain Space Playoffs
When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) was created in November 1998, the fledgling organ... Read more
Protect Your Domain Name from Cybertheft
You've finally registered that domain name for your business. Now nobody can take it away, right? Wrong. A wave of domain name hijacking is sweeping the W... Read more
Europeans Don't Buy " Dot-Com"
You think dot-com is king? That may be so in the Anglo-American world, but if you want to do e-business in Europe, you should really think of getting a Eu... Read more
What Web Site Builders Need to Know about Trademark Law
Doing business on the Web doesn't spare you from many of the same laws and customs that govern businesses in the physical world. You must pay especially c... Read more
Cybersquatting: What It Is and What Can Be Done about It
If you own a trademark and find that someone is holding it hostage as a domain name until you pay a large sum for it, you may be the victim of cybersquatt... Read more
Attracting Search Engines: What Not to Do
Intentionally launching a Web site that could not be found in any of the major search engines would be a lot like opening a mail-order business and not pu... Read more
Make Sure Your Web Site's Working for You
At one time or another, you've no doubt found yourself stuck sitting in your car in a massive traffic jam, wondering what in the world could have made thi... Read more
Add Streaming Slides to Your Audio Presentation
Just as surely as television followed radio, the rapid advancement of Internet technology now makes it possible to add high-resolution images to your audi... Read more
Deliver the Goods or Say Good-Bye
The days of reckless ad spending and haphazard investment are soon to be over as e-commerce pioneers such as CDNow struggle to stay alive and flashy plays... Read more
The Internet Mini-List: A Subset of the 2000 Inc. 500
This is the year the Internet hit the Inc. 500, Inc. magazine's annual list of the fastest-growing privately held U.S. companies, big ti... Read more
Everything Old Is New Again
Has the e-commerce bubble burst? If recent reports are to be believed, online business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses are in a slump. Stock prices of many l... Read more
Get a Life, Buy a Domain Name
Web-hosting companies are beginning to offer free domain names, or, to put it more accurately, free Web addresses. By signing up for these services... Read more
Acquire an Expired Domain Name
You've set your sights set on a domain name registered to someone else. The owner's registration has expired, but the name still isn't available. What's t... Read more
Using the Trademarks of Others on Your Web Site
Use of trademarks on corporate Web sites can be fraught with pitfalls. The misuse of trademarks belonging to third parties can result in serious consequen... Read more
Searching Out Rank Practices
Some companies and individuals employ unsavory techniques to increase search engine rankings. Search engines are hip to these tactics and are on a ... Read more
Cloaking: Search Engines Shift Gears
As recently as last year, search engine representatives were unclear or did not seem to care much about the search engine marketing application referred t... Read more
How Secure Is Your Domain Name?
Fancy playing Russian roulette with your online business? Of course not, but if you knew how insecure your domain name might be, you'd realize what... Read more
Web Designer as Business Owner
Melody Drew began designing Web pages in 1997 and officially started her Web design business, Melody's Pages , in... Read more
Niche for Success
Danny Sullivan has been dispelling the mysteries of search engines since 1995. He is editor of Search Engine Wa... Read more
Are the New Internet Names Right for You?
Are you frustrated trying to find just the right name for your Web site? Is every .com name you' ve wanted already taken? You' ve now got two new options:... Read more
Make Your Intranet Click
Should your business consider building an intranet? If so, where do you start? We've got recommendations from Web-design consultant Jakob Nielsen. Read more
Intranet Shortfalls
Is your intranet the productivity and communications tool it should be? Read more
IM Product Sampler
A list of free and commercial-grade IM products. Read more
Top 10 Link-Building Strategies
Link-building strategies should be an integral part of your search engine marketing campaign. Read more
Increasing Web-Site Traffic
If you build it, will they come? Last year, Internet sales reached $79 billion, according to Forrester Research, or 3% of all retail sales. Can your busin... Read more
Book Review: Web Bloopers
Web Bloopers by Jeff Johnson Morgan Kaufmann 329 pages $49.95 How To Avoid Common Web Design Mi... Read more
Technofile: Blogging for Business
The word is out: Business blogs are in. "Blog" is shorthand for weblog, a sort of public online diary, updated regularly -- often daily or even eve... Read more
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