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Jun 26
2008

Promoting your blog

Posted by oscworks in marketingbusinessblogadvertising

You have a blog. How do you promote it?

Here are some great tips to help you promote your blog.

1. Set your blog to send 'pings'. This will mean that your site is able to be added to 'recently updated' lists, which will help drive traffic to your site - and search engines.

2. Add social bookmarking links to your blog pages. Customers can then save your pages to sites like Digg that get regularly

Jun 26
2008

Newsletter Writing Tips

Posted by oscworks in newsletter

How to get started on writing your own newsletters.

The first thing you will need to do is setup a newsletter template that you can edit every time you want to create and send a new newsletter. Try designing your template in a free HTML editor such as Coffee Cup. It's a good idea to signup to other newsletters to get an idea of how you want to design your newsletter.

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Jun 24
2008

Making money from ecommerce

Posted by oscworks in shopping cartsshopping cartecommerce websitesecommerce cartecommerce

How do you make money from an ecommerce website? What kind of e-commerce solution do you need?

Why are so many businesses adding ecommerce to their website? New ecommerce websites are appearing every day and turning retailers into etailers. What's more, many existing businesses are realising that they need to have an ecommerce website to stay ahead of their competition.

Luckily it's not too late

Jun 12
2008

Own site or auction site?

Posted by oscworks in shopping cartsshopping cartecommerce websitesecommerce cartecommerce

Have an auction site already? Do you want to keep paying listing and success fees or have your own website and control your content and profits?

Avoid Auction Listing and Success Fees

Setting up an ecommerce site usually comes down to answering a simple question: do you want to keep paying listing and success fees or have your own website and control your content and profits.

If you're a small

Jun 03
2008

What happens when domain names expire?

Posted by oscworks in renewaldomain names

What happens to domain names that are not renewed? Can you make money from expired domains?

When a customer chooses not to renew a domain name and the renewal date passes, a domain name is delisted from the DNS registry so the domain name no longer works on the Internet.

For the next 30 calendar days, the domain name sits in a buffer where nobody else can purchase that domain. The registered