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BUSINESS
(Updated 2-7-07)
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- Business Auctions
- Business Affiliate Programs
- Business Advice, Planning
- Business Forums, Newsletters, Ezines
- Business Opinions, Ratings
- Financial
- Business Marketing, Advertising, Website Traffic
- Shopping Carts
- Safety, Security
- Shipping
- Technical Help
Business Auctions
- Auctionhints.com with a discussion forum
- Ebay University, from ebay.com information to get started with auctions
Pulse.ebay.com shows the most popular items being sold.
- RITbay, a similar concept to eBay, except that it's a lot smaller and focuses on its own city's vendors and customers.
Business Affiliate Programs
- (1-07) Beware of affiliate programs. Some are not trustworthy. For some companies it would be more ideal if you deal directly with their own affiliate program, provided there are checks and balances with it, and if it's an honest company. You can check out a forum discussing several affiliate programs by clicking here.
There could be thousands of affiliate programs from companies on the internet. Listed here is just a sampling of what's available. If you search many websites of interest, you can check to see if an affiliate program is available.
Linkshare looks like it's making some changes as of 1-07. and Commission Junction (CJ) are well known third party companies who take care of affiliate details for many companies on the internet. I've seen complaints on them, while others like them. Last time I checked their terms, didn't like all I saw, while others might not care.
To sign up as an affiliate, some of these affiliate programs might require an EIN tax number or a Social Security number.
There are other companies doing this also. There are companies who prefer to take care of their own tracking and processing. There can be pros and cons, and you will see many discussions at forums about affiliate programs. Some of them have restrictions on how long you can be an affiliate, if you do not bring in enough business, while others don't set as many limitations.
Business Advice, Planning
- Association of Small Business Development Centers
- Business advice, resources
- Business Know-how
- Business advice for small business including blogs and forms
- Business Journals
- Business technology reviews
- Microsoft.com, the people ready business info. page
- Small business info. from AOL
- Small Business info. from Yahoo
- Small business advice from SCORE including a business toolbox, and disaster planning.
- Wilson's business advice
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Business Forums, Newsletters, Ezines
- Career Journal for work and family
- Freshcontent.net for interesting content to add to your website.
- SEO Chat forums (Search Engine Optimization)
- Small Business Association (SBA), be aware and prepare, emergency planning, etc.
- Thedigest.com about telecommunication services that affect local and long distance carriers, resellers, agents, and consumers.
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Business Opinions, Ratings
- Hoovers company profiles and reports
- Epinions.com product and company reviews from consumers; a Shopping.com company.
- Bizrate.com compare prices, product reviews, online stores; operated by Shopzilla.com
- Hoovers Small Business Center
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Financial
- Paypal, over 100 million members.PayPal's Virtual Terminal serviceallows vendors to accept payments for phone, fax, mail, and in-person orders.
- CPA site for accountants
- ID Theft info. from consumer.gov/idtheft
- Verisign for SSL certificates, communication and information services. Used by Paypal.
- Thawte.com for global SSL certificates.
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Marketing, Advertising, Website Traffic
- Well known internet specialist Dr. Ken Evoy is offering his MYSS 2002 ebook for free. Click for details.
- Google Business Services, including Adsense and Sitemaps
- The Direct Marketing Review about internet specialists known as gurus. For example, one of them had a lot of jobs, including selling pizzas, before becoming successful selling on the internet.
- Gurudaq.com shows reports on how the internet gurus or specialists are doing financially.
- Marketingtips.com for IMC.
The late Corey Rudl, a top internet marketing and sales expert, and business partner Derek Gehl. Within 10 years the IMC company made about $40 million. Corey died in a race car crash in 2005. He wanted help young people, and his parents are working to make that dream come true.
- Niche marketing, (specialized or unique products) three rules from Enterpreneur.com
Niche marketing is considered to be popular for those who want to enter the auction business. this is because so many people are signing up for courses that include the same products that it's become flooded and more competitive. So having a niche or specialized product that not everyone sells can make it easier to gain a foothold in the marketplace.
- Niche marketing on the web from Wilsonweb.com
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) help
Shopping Carts
- Coolcart.com including shipping by weight
- Emartcart.com for a free lite shopping cart, or the Gold or Platinum service.
- Mals Ecommerceshopping carts and shipping info.
- Paypal.com with "buy now" buttons, shopping carts and virtual terminal info. that includes non-internet payment services.
- An independent forum for Paypal developers. This one also discusses various types of shopping carts, and html codes, etc.
For Paypal.com members, in the Merchant section there's a listing of third party companies with a long list of shopping carts available, some of which is shown here. And there are website hosting companies that include shopping carts with their website control panels.
- Paypal's own community forum.
- This is the older Paypal community forum
Safety, Security
- Better Business Bureau alerts links
- Consumer affairs, alerts etc.
- Institute for Business and Home safety, disaster planning, etc.
- Privacy Rights
- Scam Busters
- Truste.com for internet privacy.
- How to avoid phishing from Truste.com.
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Shipping
- The UPS Service Center for Ebay, with drop-off locations.
- Several Ebay forums
- Fedex eCommerce solutions Ebay and others.
- Fedex.com's Small Business Center.
- USPS shipping tools
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Technical Help
- Make sure your website is backed up with a current copy.If the server(s) go down, you might also lose your back-up copy, unless it's on a separate server.
Teleport Pro 1.39 shareware has had over 1 million people download the software. HTTracklisted there is freeware.
- RSS Reader site download, freeware 5-4-06 for Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
- Feed Reader site for Windows 95 and 98
- HTML Generator
- HTML Goodies site
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