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If you regularly sell items on online auction sites, you may find yourself on the Internal Revenue Service's radar. Recent legislation aims to help the IRS collect more taxes from online enterprises, many of which either don't know about their tax obligations or are ignoring them, according to the agency. The provision, part of the housing re Read More

As of June 2008, if your business processes credit card payments, you are required to comply with new security standards to prevent fraud, hacking, and various other security vulnerabilities and threats, or risk losing this ability and being audited or fined. Any company or government agency that processes, stores, or transmits payment card da Read More

Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000. Mr. Hermansen is Read More

Andy Sernovitz shares some good ideas for viral marketing. Read More

Here are 21 free and online web based applications which are very helpful for you to process your daily work. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their fe Read More

To all the usual reasons that small businesses are put up for sale, add economic woes this year. But even as for-sale listings rise around the country, so is buyer interest. The problem for owners is that prices appear to be softening. Brokers say buyers are often retirees looking for a second act, or laid-off executives looking for a busi Read More

Examples from an interview with Dan Ariely, author of Predictibly Irrational, on how companies can increase perceived value and get their customers to spend more by creating a decoy offer. The decoy marketing offer introduces false choices to make another choice look more appealing. We have a hard time valuing offers, but are relatively good a Read More

Think online social networking sites are just for singles and high school and college students? Well, think again, say small- business experts. With hundreds of millions of registered users frequenting such sites as MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn, it's time your small business started to look at ways to leverage these and other social networks to Read More

You can't close a sale through your website if you can't keep the customer there. Read More

Thought these thoughts really needed to be heard- how some businesses ignore the internet and why its killing them. Read More