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Large Internet Service Providers like AOL, MSN and Yahoo filter millions of spam messages each day. They accomplish this by using filters that search for words commonly used in spam messages and move these messages to a junk or bulk folder. If you want to avoid having your messages filtered, you need to avoid using [...]

Hi guys,
Sorry to have been away this last week - preparations for this year’s eBay Live! have been time-consuming…
I’m packing my bags and heading to Boston tomorrow, where eBay Live! will be held this Thursday-Saturday. For those of you who are attending, I will be speaking on the “Top Seller Panel: Metrics to measure and [...]

It slays me when a presenter in a meeting or at a conference throws up PowerPoint slides full of words, then proceeds to read them to the audience. I mean, if words alone are enough to communicate your ideas, send an email.
If you use PowerPoint for sales presentations or internal communications, you’ve got to watch [...]

Hi, I’m Jeff Williams, Boomer entrepreneur and chief coach for Bizstarters, and now the newest blogger for StartupNation.
I’m very pleased to be joining the network of experts who provide advice and thoughtful perspective through the various blogs presented on the StartupNation website.
You may be wondering why we’ve added a blog specifically aimed to the concerns [...]

Last time I talked about Can-Spam and how it affects your email campaigns. Today I'll talk about blacklists and how to stay off them.
If
you send out email messages and receive a decent chunk of spam
complaints, you will probably eventually be blacklisted. A blacklist is
a list of IP addresses that have been reported as sending spam. [...]

I've been tracking conversations in the StartupNation small business forums about people in the military and what their options are after service.
Now, I'm the last person to know what our soldiers' business is fighting a war in Iraq - if you listen to our government, it's a story of "progress" and "purpose." If you listen [...]

I’ve mentioned that PFL’s business model is built on "customer intimacy," or knowing a lot about our customers and how each of them defines success for their small business.
One obstacle we encounter is when growth and career moves force us to "churn" a team. So when we add a new team member, we proactively introduce [...]

If you have been reading my blog, you probably recall that my husband and I are entertaining the possibility of moving to North Carolina. We are currently in New England. I’m really excited, but I’m also really nervous about transitioning my business if this does in fact happen.
Right now, I am home-based and my [...]

In 2003 Congress passed the Can-Spam Act. This law is designed to help cut down on the volume of spam email through the US. Even if you're not based in the States, complying with the Can-Spam act will significantly improve your deliverability.
Can-Spam basically includes six major provisions. They are:
1.The email message must not have misleading [...]

If you have a website that matters at all to your business, please read this NY Times article.
It is one of the best I’ve seen to give you a feel for how Google operates, especially in terms of its algorithms for deciding who gets the all-important top rankings for search results. 
 
Andrew Field is President of PrintingForLess.com, [...]