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Analyze This: Web Analytics

By Don Lee · 18 years ago

So, you think you’re off to a good start because you finally got your new Web site up and running. You even have one of those counters at the bottom of your homepage so you ...

How to ‘Download’ Your Old Computer to the Highest Bidder

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

When you think trash, you surely don’t think about your old, trusty personal computer. But that’s exactly what will become of it when you make the inevitable move toward your next laptop or desktop. And, ...

Top 9 Used Car Salesmen Tricks, and How to Avoid Them

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

One of the biggest moments in many people’s lives is driving off in their brand-spanking-new automobile. It’s an exhilarating feeling. It’s also a big moment because in that very instant, that brand-spanking-new car loses a ...

More than Just Money: Barter

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

By definition, barter is the when parties swap services or resources. But in business terms, it’s an exchange that ends usually with everyone a winner. All parties involved in bartering hold onto their cold hard ...

3 Elements to a Deal-Sealing Classified ad

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

Have you ever wondered why your perfectly fine classified ad fails to attract the attention you desire? There should be dozens—no, hundreds—of perspective buyers swamping your e-mail inbox with offers. After all, you are offering ...

A Classified way to drive business to your web site

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

There are more than 105 million of them in the United States. Worldwide, there could be at least 250 million of them. Them, according to statistics from the Nielsen/Net Ratings service, is the number of ...

How to succeed as a stay-at-home mom

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

Stay-at-home moms are no longer just the co-stars from Leave It To Beaver, the Brady Bunch, and other television shows from a bygone era. Taking care of the kids has become the cool thing to ...

Protect your pets from the pound

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

Pets are people, too. At least, that’s the way they should be treated by their owners. The sad reality, though, is that a lot people own pets when they’re really not ready to care properly ...

Negotiations: The art, science, & sport of online deals

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

Negotiations can seem as complex as physics, and in fact, people go to college to study the science of negotiating just as they would the laws of nature. At the same time, negotiation is like ...

Make the Right move

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

America is always on the move—literally. Experts estimate that one out of five households move to a new residence each year. If you do the math, that amounts to a whopping 1.5 million moves every ...

Building a better Brick-and-Mortar with the Billion-dollar Web

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

More than $117 billion passed hands from Internet shoppers to Internet vendors in 2004, according to the statistical research firm comScore. That’s billion, with a B. Compared to the year before, the figure represents a ...

The Benefits of Buying and Selling Locally

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

Shop at a flea market in Oaxaca, Mexico. Trade with a vendor in London, England. Or sport your wares to collectors in Geneva, Switzerland. You can virtually do just that when you shop or sell ...

Thinking about selling your home?

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

Owning a home is the original American dream. It’s the old frontier spirit, wanting to claim your own tuft of the New World. Then again, these days it also makes perfect economic sense. Experts estimate ...

The Warning signs of Online Fraud and How to avoid it

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

The number may seem grim for Web-based commerce. In 2004 in the Unites States alone, computer users logged in more than 207,000 Internet fraud reports to the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center. If you look ...

Launch your Home-Based retail business through the roof!

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

You had a great idea when you decided to open a home-based Internet retail business. You became a “power seller,” as people in the online retail business world call you. Your goal is to move ...

1,001 Deals and Steals: A Guide to Online Classifieds

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

Some naysayers way back in the 1990s predicted that online shopping wouldn’t last. Sure, and they said television was a passing fad, too! As we all know, just the opposite has occurred. There’s a television ...

Park your garage sales on the Internet

By Donald Lee · 18 years ago

You have been planning your garage sale for weeks now. Your garage, as well as you whole home, is stuffed with old records, books, clothing, vacuum sweepers, and other odds and ends that you have ...