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Business Accounting

5 Areas to Assess When Evaluating a Website for Sale

Experienced investors usually have a well-defined auditing process that they follow to assess the websites they're interested in purchasing.

By Thomas Smale

Building a Business

You Can Have the Best Website Ever, But It Won’t Be a Successful Business Without Customers

If you don't have any traffic to your page or subscribers to your email list, all of your efforts won't get you the results you're striving for.

By Kimanzi Constable

Thought Leaders

6 Overlooked Ways to Vastly Boost Traffic to Your Ecommerce Site

From creating a value-driven blog to publishing videos, here are a few ways to increase traffic to your online store.

By Bryan Lovgren

Marketing

10 Hacks to Help Your Website Generate More Leads, Sales and Revenue

There is one thing that every business wants to accomplish with its website: leveraging it to create more growth.

By Jonathan Long

Building a Business

Rue La La Founder’s Next Venture: Luxe Italian Shoes at Bargain Prices

M.Gemi offers Italian-made designer shoes for women for between $128 and $298, roughtly one-third the cost of comparable quality brands.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

How a Brick-and-Mortar Furniture Shop Struck Ecommerce Gold

The owner of a Missouri-based appliance and furniture store moved online and now has a national customer base.

By Gwen Moran

Building a Business

5 Reasons You Should Start an Online Business in Your 20s

Low overhead and fewer commitments makes young adulthood an ideal time to become an entrepreneur.

By Thomas Smale

Building a Business

5 Ways for Online Entrepreneurs to Stand Out

The real competition online is for notice, credibility and respect. Achieve that and sales will follow.

By Kimanzi Constable

Building a Business

From Clicks to Bricks: How Ecommerce Companies Benefit From Physical Stores

Find out why some web companies are expanding their business offline.

By Grant Davis

Building a Business

Yahoo Wants You to Set Up an Ecommerce Shop on Its Revamped Small Biz Platform

With its eye on snagging more of the DIY ecommerce market, Yahoo has introduced a new suite of tools for small businesses.

By Nina Zipkin

Marketing

Afraid to Put Your Contact Info on Your Site? You Could Be Losing Sales.

If you run any type of online business, your customers – and the media – need to be able to contact you quickly and easily.

By Joan Stewart

Marketing

The Secret to Recovering From a Negative Customer Review

It's hard to prevent your business from ever making a mistake (or a consumer from thinking so) but here's what to do when your firm is called out online.

By Firas Kittaneh

Building a Business

How a Teenage Entrepreneur Built a Startup on Bitcoin Riches

What happened when 15-year-old Erik Finman invested a $1,000 gift from his grandma in Bitcoin. Hint: Big money. New business.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

Why the Future of Retail Will Blow Your Mind

Merchants will merge shoppers' physical and digital worlds, bringing an online data-driven strategy to storefronts

By Puneet Mehta

Building a Business

How to Use the Psychology of Color to Increase Website Conversions

Color wields enormous sway over our attitudes and emotions. So, when we use the right colors, we win. Here's how.

By Jeremy Smith

Marketing

The 6 Types of Online Buyers

Find out what types of buyers are shopping online so you can learn to attract new business.

By Richard Stokes

Building a Business

5 Simple Steps to Building Your Business Online and Getting Millions of Visitors

An informative and insightful conversation with Derek Halpern, founder of Social Triggers.

By Lewis Howes

Building a Business

How to Fix Your Website If You Violate Google’s Quality Guidelines

Step-by-step instructions to get your site back in the search giant's good graces.

By Jennifer Riggins

Tech

Your Password Is 123456? Wow. Seriously?

Massive security leak shows just how lax many people's standards are when it comes to online security.

By Jason Fell

Tech

How a Content Audit Can Turn Your Site Into a Publishing Powerhouse

Follow these three steps to identify gaps in your existing pages and realign your content to focus on what's engaging your visitors the most and driving the most conversions.

By Eric Siu

Building a Business

Tech Giants Form Another Group to Bring the Internet to the Global Masses

Google, along with several other companies, form the Alliance for an Affordable Internet.

By Jason Fell