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		<title>Memorial Day/Tax Refund Homepage: Free Volusion Graphics to Decorate Your Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honor Memorial Day and promote special savings with new Memorial Day and Tax Refund homepage graphics, created just for you by our design team. Show site visitors your support for May 26th and offer sales for those itching to spend their tax refunds.
To save a graphic for uploading, right click on the image and hit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/memorial-day-tax-refund-homepage-free-volusion-graphics-to-decorate-your-site</link>
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		<title>Kyle at Hungate Business Services Gains Over 100 Percent More Clients Using Volusion</title>
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Kyle Hungate at Hungate Business Services decided it was time to stop relying on the phone and purchase orders and time to bring his business online.Initially, Kyle just wanted to use the internet to take orders. He had no intention of pushing his business online. &#8220;Going online for us was more to capture receivables from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/kyle-at-hungate-business-services-gains-over-100-percent-more-clients-using-volusion</link>
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		<title>MAKE Magazine to Hold Maker Faire in the Bay Area This Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volusion customer MAKE Magazine is holding Maker Faire this weekend, May 2nd and 3rd at the San Mateo playgrounds.
What is Maker Faire?
Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things.
Check out what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/make-magazine-to-hold-maker-faire-in-the-bay-area-this-weekend</link>
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		<title>Corey Anderson Uses Volusion to Expand featherdusterdepot.com</title>
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Corey Anderson started his first commercial janitorial business in 1993, and relied heavily on feather dusters as a &#8220;staple&#8221; in the industry. Over the years he struggled to find quality feather dusters, and when he did, they were extremely overpriced.
As Corey&#8217;s business grew, he developed a supply division for his corporation (Alta Supply, Inc.), and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/corey-anderson-uses-volusion-to-expand-featherdusterdepotcom</link>
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		<title>Tessa Luu Uses Volusion to Spread Her Fashion Expertise with insidefabric.com</title>
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Tessa Luu owns the successful home fashion site www.insideavenue.com and was looking to start a spin off site selling interior fabrics.
Tessa tried several options before choosing Volusion for www.insidefabric.com. In 2000, she paid a developer $35,000 to build a website from scratch. &#8220;The site ran ok but it was very difficult for us to upgrade/maintain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/306</link>
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		<title>Choosing a Layout and Template for Your Online Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine walking into an electronics or jewelry store with some of the most amazing products you&#8217;ve ever seen.  Everything this store offers is unique.  The people seem kind.  The prices are right.  But the store itself is very drab and almost looks like a warehouse, and you can&#8217;t find anything.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/choosing-a-layout-and-template-for-your-online-store</link>
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		<title>Choosing the Right Logo for Your Online Store</title>
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Your logo seems like such a small part of your online store.  After all, your customers are looking at your products, right?  A logo is an afterthought.
Your company&#8217;s logo is the most prominent form of branding your store will have.  A logo can go on a receipt, a letterhead, a t-shirt, banner, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/choosing-the-right-logo-for-your-online-store</link>
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		<title>Adam Guthrie Breaks Out of the Cubicle and Into His Own Successful Ventures with homebarsource.com</title>
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After graduating from UC Berkeley, Adam Guthrie realized that he would not be happy with his career working for someone else. &#8220;Since I had some bartending experience (mostly as my fraternity&#8217;s social chair for a couple of semesters), I decided that retailing bar supplies for the at-home enthusiast was an underserved niche that I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/adam-guthrie-breaks-out-of-the-cubicle-and-into-his-own-successful-ventures-with-homebarsourcecom</link>
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		<title>USPS Will Offer Bulk Discounts on Shipping Starting May 12th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was taken from ECommerce-Guide and was originally written by Michelle Megna.  This discount can be applied to a bulk shipment, but will not apply to shipping rates that pull up on a Volusion store, as these will not factor in bulk.
For the first time ever, the U.S. Postal Service is offering discounts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/usps-will-offer-bulk-discounts-on-shipping-starting-may-12th</link>
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		<title>Phil and Brad Ellis Turn Hard Times into A Thriving Online Business and Blog with Divesports.com</title>
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Although the two took their first scuba lesson by accident, Phil Ellis and his son Brad quickly fell in love with scuba diving.  &#8220;As soon as I went underwater for the first time, I was hooked.  Both Brad and I began immediately thinking how we might make a living doing that great sport,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/phil-and-brad-ellis-turn-hard-times-into-a-thriving-online-business-and-blog-with-divesportscom</link>
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		<title>Will James &#8220;El Tigre&#8221; Booker Live Up to Hype in Volusion Putt Putt Masters Tournament?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James &#8220;El Tigre&#8221; Booker felt robbed back in 2001 when his four putt putt wins in one year was dubbed &#8220;the Booker Slam&#8221; rather than a Grand Slam.  &#8220;It shouldn&#8217;t matter that they weren&#8217;t all in the same calendar year.  I held all four titles at once.  That should count for something,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/will-james-el-tigre-booker-live-up-to-hype-in-volusion-putt-putt-masters-tournament</link>
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		<title>Want to Get More Done for Your Business?  Start Project, Finish Project, then Repeat</title>
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Apparently if you can finish reading this blog article start to finish, you will get more done in the day.According to a study done by the American Psychological Association, the often heralded act of multi-tasking actually ends up costing us time instead of saving it.


David Meyer, a researcher at the University of Michigan, explains how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/want-to-get-more-done-for-your-business-start-project-finish-project-then-repeat</link>
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		<title>Jen at The Little Hat Company Finds a Business by Meeting a Need</title>
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Jen Houghton went shopping at the outlets in Kittery, Maine for a hat for her baby.  The hats she found either didn&#8217;t offer enough shade or were not very cute.  I can remember my sister remarking about people who didn’t put hats on their babies, no matter what the season was.  Hats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/jen-at-the-little-hat-company-finds-a-business-by-meeting-a-need</link>
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		<title>Volusion Hosts Its Annual Basketball Tournament&#8230;Amid Controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the NCAA basketball tournament, Volusion decided to host its own round of hoops.  Last week, Cris &#8220;Jimmy Chitwood&#8221; Angelini reigned superior by just topping Adam Hensley in a 9-8 shootout. Adam would have his revenge in week two by scoring an unprecedented twelve baskets in one minute, just topping David House&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-hosts-its-annual-basketball-tournamentamit-controversy</link>
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		<title>Volusion Offers Non-Profits Online Stores for Free with “Stores to Change the World”</title>
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Non-profits  help cancer patients.  Non-profits bring aide to third world nations, improve literacy rates, help those with disabilities and diseases, and improve our  technology and research.  When we lament the world&#8217;s problems, it is the people  at non-profits who are actively working to solve those problems every single  day.


Volunteers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-offer-non-profits-online-stores-for-free-with-%e2%80%9cstores-to-change-the-world%e2%80%9d</link>
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		<title>Read Tips on Making Your Brand Rock from PR Expert and Author Rohit Bhargava</title>
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Rohit Bhargava leads the interactive marketing team at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and is a recognized blog author, industry speaker, and expert on integrating social media with marketing, advertising and public relations.  He recently wrote Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity-and How Great Brands Bring it Back.  Rohit was kind enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/interview-rohit-bhargava-pr-tips</link>
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		<title>Alan and the Crew at Stuffedanimals.com Serve &#8220;Stufftomers&#8221; the Ultimate Fun Interactive Experience</title>
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Despite only being online since May 2006, Alan Townsend and the staff at stuffedanimals.com saw over 1 million visitors flock to www.stuffedanimals.com and their other store, www.puppet.com.  Stuffedanimals.com isn&#8217;t just an online store&#8211;it is an experience.


Alan explains how they took their fun theme throughout both their website and their company culture.  &#8220;Since we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/alan-and-the-crew-at-stuffedanimalscom-serve-stufftomers-the-ultimate-fun-interactive-experience</link>
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		<title>Photoshop Unleashes Free, Web-Based Program for Editing Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you wanted the photo editing tools of Photoshop but aren&#8217;t interested in investing in software you may or may not use?  Adobe just launched Photoshop Express in beta.  Photoshop Express will allow you to crop, rotate, tweak, and twirl your photos for free.  Adobe even gives you 2 gigabytes of hosting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/photoshop-unleashes-free-web-based-program-for-editing-photos</link>
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		<title>A Personable &#8220;About Us&#8221; Page Can Boost Conversions Up to 30 Percent</title>
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Imagine you are walking down the street and a street peddler offers to sell you a Rolex for 50 percent of its retail value. You have wanted this watch for as long as you can remember. You aren&#8217;t sure if it is real or not, but the gliding second hand makes you think that perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/a-personable-about-us-page-can-boost-conversions-up-to-30-percent</link>
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		<title>Mark and Bill at Decor Interiors Use Business Savvy to Create Ideal Home Decor Site</title>
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Neither Mark Samojedny or Bill Ferris ran a home decor brick-and-mortar store before deciding to open a store online. They both realized that there was a definite growth in online retailing and decided that they wanted to open an online store. After much research, they realized that many of the stores in the high-end modern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/mark-and-bill-at-decor-interiors-use-business-savvy-to-create-ideal-home-decor-site</link>
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		<title>Blogging for Business: Pegging Down What You Are Going to Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;blog&#8221; sounds so geeky, but a blog is simply a journal that is archived on the web.   The number of possibilities you have when creating a blog is  limited only by the words in your vocabulary.  That being said, pegging down subject matter and a voice for a blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/blogging-for-business-pegging-down-what-you-are-going-to-write</link>
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		<title>Business Blogging: Choosing a Blogging Platform for Your Business</title>
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You know blogging is a good way to get your brand out there. You also know that it is a good way to get backlinks to your online store. Having a  store allows you to sell online, but having a blog allows you to have a more established presence in your industry.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/business-blogging-choosing-a-blogging-platform-for-your-business</link>
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		<title>The Sommeliers at Sortthisoutcellars.com Win Volusion&#8217;s &#8220;Ultimate Sellers Contest&#8221; with Movie Inspired Theme</title>
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Felicia Munsey isn&#8217;t a VP or advisor for Sort This Out Cellars&#8211;she is consigliere.Jeff Munsey and Michael Cobb draw from their extensive experience as sommeliers when creating their unique line of red and white wines, but their branding for sortthisoutcellars.com and their wine labels actually derived from their favorite movie &#8220;Made&#8221; starring Jon Favreau and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/the-sommeliers-at-sortthisoutcellarscom-win-volusions-ultimate-sellers-contest-with-movie-inspired-theme</link>
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		<title>Volusion Sponsors BarCamp Austin 3</title>
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If you wanted to attend an event where you could meet the guys who invented Twitter, visit a SEO round table discussion, participate in an iPhone SDK Dev Camp, watch a 340 lb. battlebot in action, and go crazy with Karaoke Apocalypse and a giant unicorn, then BarCamp Austin III was the place to be.Volusion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-sponsors-barcamp-austin-3</link>
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		<title>Volusion&#8217;s Shopping Cart Software Tops Industry with &#8220;Excellence in Technology&#8221; Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 7, 2008 &#8212; Volusion Inc., a provider of ecommerce solutions and marketing services and an independently run company, beat out over 300 available shopping carts to win the 2008 Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Award for &#8220;Best Ecommerce Storefront&#8221;. Online merchants picked Volusion over industry giant Yahoo! Small Business for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-shopping-cart</link>
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		<title>Why the Golden Rule Should be Your Marketing Weapon of Choice</title>
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Marketing on the web can be very overwhelming. With so many websites out there, it seems impossible to get your name out there to everyone. There are entire books dedicated towards managing your reputation online. You can check Google alerts on your company constantly. You can be in every forum and at every conference. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/why-the-golden-rule-should-be-your-marketing-weapon-of-choice</link>
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		<title>Brooks Lambert and Crew Stumble Upon Success in the Popular Beerbelly</title>
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Brooks Lambert didn&#8217;t come up with a great idea for a website by putting together a focus group or scouring through Google keyword searches. He didn&#8217;t pour through marketing documents for nights on end or pay to go to retail conference after conference. When Brooks came up with the concept for www.thebeerbelly.com, he and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/brooks-lambert-and-crew-stumble-upon-success-in-the-popular-beerbelly</link>
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		<title>Categorize Adwords Keywords and Ad Campaigns to Improve Your PPC Conversion Rates</title>
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If you don&#8217;t know what you are doing, setting up Google AdWords can feel a lot like playing a slot machine in Vegas. You keep paying and paying, and nothing happens. Meanwhile, the experienced retired grandmother in the Wayne Newton t-shirt finds the right machine, slaps in a dollar token, and wins $5000.


Several key steps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/categorize-adwords-keywords-and-ad-campaigns-to-improve-your-ppc-conversion-rates</link>
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		<title>Google Analytics: Analyzing Visitor Behavior to Increase Conversions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher-converting websites.&#8221;  And, it&#8217;s &#8220;absolutely free&#8221;.*
Google Analytics Overview
 At no charge, Google Analytics allows online business owners of all sizes and across all levels to gather crucial information on the behavior of visitors on their site.  Learn how visitors found your online store, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-google-analytics</link>
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		<title>Morton Golf Sales Brings 50 Years of Service and Experience to Online Store</title>
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When Jennifer and Ken Morton decided to take their award winning brick-and-mortal business online, they expected that the site would be nothing more than a convenient way for local customers in the area to browse their products. Since opening Morton Golf Sales in 2005, they now offer their service-based golf shop to a clientele around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/morton-golf-sales-brings-50-years-of-service-and-experience-to-online-store</link>
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		<title>Free Tools to Make Your Store&#8217;s Graphics Look Legit</title>
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If you go to a site, and it doesn&#8217;t  look right, you will probably go somewhere else. After all, if someone doesn&#8217;t care to make their website look good, what will their product be like?


It&#8217;s not always a correct assumption, but it is one that we make.
One way to give your website legitimacy is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/free-tools-to-make-your-stores-graphics-look-legit</link>
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		<title>Outfox the Herd by Using Peripheral Marketing</title>
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Major retailers like Kohl&#8217;s, JC Penney&#8217;s, Bath and Body Works and Macy&#8217;s are all currently having Presidents&#8217; Day Sales. As tempting as it can be to use Honest Abe and George Washington&#8217;s endorsements to hock t-shirts, body spray, or electronics, it can prove quite difficult to avoid getting lost in the messages that tell us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/outfox-the-herd-by-using-peripheral-marketing</link>
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		<title>Creating A Story for Your Store: The Soup Peddler Shares His Love for All Things Tasty</title>
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If someone is new to your online store, they do not truly know if you are a mom and pop operation to trust or some scammer in a far off country. For this reason, it is important to use your website to tell a story. Giving your audience an opportunity to get to know you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/creating-a-story-for-your-store</link>
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		<title>Homepages Revisited:  Three Tips to Make Your Homepage Your #1 Salesperson</title>
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No matter how many sales reps you get, those salespeople will never be able to close as many sales as a good website. They cannot be as accessible or offer as much information in as little time as a well executed online store.This being said, your homepage acts as your display window and the front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/homepages-revisited-three-tips-to-make-your-homepage-your-1-salesperson</link>
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		<title>Is Your Homepage Just a Cluttered Shop Window?</title>
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Imagine you are strolling through the mall and stop to look at your favorite department store&#8217;s window. Instead of seeing the usually up and coming trends displayed or a sign that marks an annual sale, you see a barrage of everything that the store sells, from furniture to mens, childrens, and womens clothes, to shoes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/is-your-homepage-just-a-cluttered-shop-window</link>
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		<title>Marquette Fans Show Their School Spirit by Flocking to Online Store</title>
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The NCAA basketball season is in full swing, and Marquette is ranked #16 and is battling for the top spot in the Big East. How do Marquette fans help show their support for the mens&#8217; basketball team as well as other Marquette athletes? They purchase gear from Marquette&#8217;s official online store run by Julie Mikolajewski.


Marquette&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/marquette-fans-show-their-school-spirit-by-flocking-to-online-store</link>
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		<title>Is the Potential Microsoft/Yahoo Marriage on Your Small Business Owner Radar?</title>
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It should be.
Microsoft offered  $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo.   Although former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel did not heed much attention to Microsoft in past years, the two companies are currently in talks as to how and are evaluating how this merger could benefit both parties.  Expedience is an issue, as Microsoft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/is-the-microsoftyahoo-marriage-on-your-small-business-owner-radar</link>
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		<title>Are You Ready for Super Tuesday?  The Barack Obama Store is</title>
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Have you bought an Obama t-shirt or bumper sticker?  If so, you&#8217;ve been to store.barackobama.com, the official  Barack Obama store.  The Obama camp hired Tigereye Designs to set up their shopping cart with Volusion&#8217;s eCommerce software. The presidential hopeful raised $32 million in January alone, a record for any candidate ever in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/obama-fundrasing-through-online-store</link>
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		<title>Is Your Online Store Just Another Pretty Face?</title>
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You have your designer on speed dial. She makes sure that she has four to five hours to devout to you each time you call. You have had splash intro pages, cascading graphics announcing your next sales, and gorgeous models sporting your latest gear.  Now your website is interactive with various cool clubs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/is-your-online-store-just-another-pretty-face</link>
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		<title>Post Oak Motor Cars Uses Boutique to Boost the Bentley Marque&#8230;and Its Own</title>
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Mike Berray saw opportunity in setting up an online store.  Mike manages Post Oak Motor Cars, the largest Factory Authorized Rolls Royce Motor Cars and Bentley Motors dealership on the Gulf Coast.  By turning to an online market, Post Oak could extend the Rolls Royce and Bentley brands as well as the Post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/post-oak-motor-cars-opens-boutique</link>
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		<title>Thank You for Choosing Volusion as Small Business Computing&#8217;s &#8220;Best Ecommerce Storefront&#8221;</title>
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The votes have been tabulated and for the second time running, Volusion won Small Business Computing&#8217;s Excellence in Technology Award for &#8220;Best Ecommerce Storefront.&#8221; Volusion received 37 percent of the vote, beating Yahoo&#8217;s ecommerce solution by three percentage points.


Volusion would like to thank all the merchants and industry insiders who helped us win this award. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/thank-you-for-choosing-volusion-as-small-business-computings-best-ecommerce-storefront</link>
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		<title>Generating Online Buzz:  Don&#8217;t Sell&#8211;Ask to be &#8220;Endorsed&#8221;</title>
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In 1984, the Chicago Bulls picked shooting guard Michael Jordan as the third overall pick in the NBA draft. A shoe company named Nike decided that this shooting guard had strong skills and charisma and decided to offer him  $2.5 million over five years plus royalties and fringe benefits.  Converse


decided they were too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/getting-your-products-endorsed</link>
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		<title>Front End Audio Turns Hobby into Big Business with Quality Customer Service</title>
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Shane Selby at Front End Audio always liked audio equipment. He and his friend Warren Dent liked it so much that they slapped together a website and decided to run a small business out of a spare bedroom in his house. The two didn&#8217;t expect much from it&#8211;they were just having fun selling unique products [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/front-end-audio-turns-hobby-into-big-business-with-quality-customer-service</link>
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		<title>The NoFollow Attribute: Understanding What Will and What Will Not Give You Link Juice</title>
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A nofollow attribute is:
A.) A sign you slap on your kid&#8217;s back before they walk to school.
B.) A fog of noxious aroma that follows a person who does not bathe.
C.) A gadget James Bond uses to cloak his Aston Martin convertible as he narrowly escapes his nemeses.
D.) An attribute assigned to a hyperlink to prevent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/understanding-the-nofollow-attribute</link>
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		<title>Shopsar.com Sets Up Thousands of Products Using Volusion&#8217;s Import Tool</title>
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If you are looking for after market car accessories,  you should be hard pressed to find a site with more variety than shopsar.com.The website, which has been on Volusion&#8217;s platform since August of 2007, has over 3,000 leather seat kits and 1,200 grilles alone.  Shopsar came in with some pretty substantial needs early on. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/shopsarcom-sets-up-thousands-of-products-using-volusions-import-tool</link>
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		<title>Is Someone Stealing Content from You?  There is a Quick Way to Find Out</title>
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You wouldn&#8217;t want a competitor to steal your marketing ideas. So why would you want them stealing the words on your website? Although duplicating someone&#8217;s content is not supposed to benefit your search engine rankings, it is not uncommon for someone to steal or &#8220;scrape&#8221; text from your site


without linking that content back to you.
What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/is-someone-stealing-content-from-you-there-is-a-quick-way-to-find-out</link>
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		<title>Focus on Your Strengths: Redhatsandmore.com Outsources the Work to Have More Fun</title>
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Do you have joie de vive after the age of 50? Then perhaps you should join the Red Hat Society, a society of women who believe in their words that &#8220;silliness is the comedy relief of life and since we are all in it together, we might as well join red-gloved hands and go for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/focus-on-your-strengths-redhatsandmorecom-outsources-the-work-to-have-more-fun</link>
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		<title>Volusion Gives Back this Holiday Season by Offering Assistance to Those in Need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Austin, TX (Volusion Inc.) January, 2008- Volusion employees set out to make a difference in the lives of families in need during the 2007 Holiday season.  The Volusion team adopted a total of eight families to provide for this Christmas, from locations in both Austin, Texas and Simi Valley, California. For each family, Volusion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-charity-2007</link>
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		<title>Didn&#8217;t Get to Vote in the Primaries?  Vote for Volusion in the Excellence in Technology Awards!</title>
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So unless you live in Iowa, you didn&#8217;t get to vote in the primaries last night. Not to fret! You can still express your desire to choose something by voting in Small Business Computing&#8217;s Excellence in Technology Awards.  The deadline to vote is midnight on Tuesday, January 8th.


Volusion barely edged out Yahoo last year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/didnt-get-to-vote-in-the-primaries-vote-for-volusion-in-the-excellence-in-technology-awards</link>
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		<title>Online Business Tips: Resolutions to Keep for Your Online Store</title>
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Most of us have already concluded that come January, we are going to start losing those pesky 15 pounds, quit smoking, do more volunteer work, and reduce our debt.  While all of these are certainly all worthy causes, you can also take the potential downtime this January to make improvements to both your store [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/online-business-tips-2008</link>
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		<title>Social Networking Tools: Over 5000 Resources to Do Just About Anything Online</title>
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Did the socks your mother-in-law gave you this year just not do it for you? Tired of yet another tie or goofy red and green sweater that will just end up in the back of your closet? The social networking blog Mashable created a list of over 5000 Resources to Do Just About Anything Online. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/find-useful-tools-online-store</link>
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		<title>Sell Online Through 2008: Six Steps for Marketing After the Holidays</title>
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All that is left under the tree are pine needles.  Mom is diligently whipping up her famous post holiday concoction composed of turkey, stuffing, peas, a can of mushroom soup, and whatever else was leftover from  dinner.  You have already vowed to lose ten pounds (well, after all the holiday cookies are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/marketing-after-the-holidays</link>
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		<title>Sell Online Efficiently: triathletesports.com Uses Volusion Tools to Save Time This Holiday Season</title>
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In summer of 2007, Ron Lawson and his business partner decided to make a big business decision. They decided to shut down their brick and mortar store, Triathlete Sports Inc., and take their business completely online. “Because we are such a niche business, selling online makes sense to us,” says Ron.
Since making this decision, Ron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/sell-online-efficiently</link>
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		<title>Volusion Newswire - December 2007</title>
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		<title>A New Record for Online Sales in 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, December 10th marked $881 million in online sales, making it the heaviest online spending day on record!  This number was up 33 percent versus the previous year’s high of $666.9 million.
For more information on Cyber Monday, Black Friday and overall ecommerce holiday sales, see the updated version of “Holiday Sales: When Will Your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/2007-online-holiday-sales</link>
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		<title>Online Spending Trends: Gucci and Prada are In, Microsoft and HP are Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are people buying online these days?  According to an article in ecommerce-guide.com, more online shoppers purchased apparel than computer hardware and software last year. This was the first time that apparel, footwear and accessories had surpassed the huge market for computer hardware and software, with sales reaching a staggering 18.3 billion dollars.
Who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/online-spending-trends-gucci-and-prada-are-in-microsoft-and-hp-are-not</link>
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		<title>Great SEO Tools For Writing Bot-Friendly Content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing for search engines is evil.  After all, Google prides itself in its ability to constantly innovate its algorithms so that those trying to trick the system will not dominate the search engine rankings.  You should write the content on your site only for the people who read it, right?
When thousands of dollars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/tools-writing-seo-content</link>
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		<title>Preventing Credit Card Fraud: Are You Making Sure Your Customers Are Legit This Holiday Season?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For consumers, the holidays mean buying all the items our loved ones have wanted all year, and receiving all those great gifts we&#8217;ve wanted but would not buy for ourselves.  For online store owners, this can mean record sales year after year.
And just one credit card fraudster can ruin the holiday season for both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/preventing-credit-card-fraud-this-holiday-season</link>
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		<title>Will Cyber Monday Be Topped This Year?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Monday is:
a.) The second day of every week for Al Gore.  It is preceded by Green Sunday and followed by Green Tuesday.
b.) A wretched  Green Day cover band.
c.) Historically, the biggest shopping day of the year.
d.) A term coined by eBay as a ploy to outpace Black Friday and Cyber Monday&#8217;s sales [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/biggest-online-shopping-day-of-year</link>
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		<title>Improve Site Conversion: Help Your Customers Pick Out &#8220;The Right Holiday Gift&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody has been disappointed by that holiday gift that they didn&#8217;t want.  It&#8217;s not that you received something you can&#8217;t use&#8211;it&#8217;s that your loved one failed to notice the items that you use or would like to use everyday.
You can&#8217;t completely prevent a husband from giving the bowing ball to the wife who doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/improve-conversion-during-the-holidays</link>
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		<title>Ecommerce Resources: Stay Ahead of the Competition by Using eCommerce Forums, Blogs, and Online News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are running an online store, but how do you know if you are running it well?  Are you up to date with the current trends in ecommerce, or are you spinning your wheels with little results?
Aside from Volusion&#8217;s blog, there are many resources online to help you get ahead in online business.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/ecommerce-resources-to-help-you-succeed-online</link>
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		<title>Niche Marketing: Gothic Catalog Uses Better Content to Enrich the User Experience</title>
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Roger Sherman realized in December 2006 that his Yahoo store, www.gothic-catalog.com, was &#8220;stale.&#8221; Gothic Catalog had a lot of hard to find choral and organ recordings, but it lacked many key SEO features and was not easy to use. His customers didn&#8217;t like the way the site looked, there was too much information to skim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/niche-marketing-for-ecommerce</link>
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		<title>Volusion Newswire - November 2007</title>
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		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-newswire-newsletter-november-2007</link>
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		<title>Microblogging: Using Twitter to Keep Your Customers Informed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever missed a sale because you didn&#8217;t know about it in time?  Have you ever lost out on a limited edition product or missed an event because you weren&#8217;t in the loop?  Chances are that if you have a product that people desire, your customers have missed out too.
Twitter has created [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/microblogging-using-twitter-to-keep-your-customers-informed</link>
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		<title>Ecommerce 2007 Holiday Season Facts and Predictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Click Here for Free Ecommerce Holiday Homepage Graphics
Click Here to Add a Christmas Countdown to Your Online Store
What the 2007 Holiday Season Has In Store for Online Stores
According to a recent Forrester Research report, online holiday retail sales in the U.S. are expected to hit $33 billion in 2007, a 21% increase over last year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/ecommerce-2007-holiday-season-sales-facts-predictions</link>
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		<title>Improving Usability: thesucculentwife.com Does Her Homework to Increase Site Conversions</title>
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Although Anne-Marie Kovacs started the concept for The Succulent Wife 17 years ago, she was getting into something completely new by opening an online version with Volusion&#8217;s online storefront in 2005.Kovacs saw the increase in number of online shoppers as an opportunity to expand her business of promoting the work of women artists.  When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/improving-usability-to-increase-conversions</link>
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		<title>Keeping Your Sanity While Managing Your Holiday Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the holidays are the most lucrative times to own an online store, they can also be the most stressful.  Being prepared can mean the difference between making the most of a busy season or deciding to quit the holidays all together.
What can you do to make sure your holiday business plans go well? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/keeping-your-sanity-while-managing-your-holiday-business</link>
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		<title>Merchant Spotlight: Partycheap.com Obtains More SEO Friendly Online Store by Focusing on Content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By early 2007, Mike Anderson at partycheap.com realized his online store had a problem.  His custom built ecommerce solution was not scalable.  It was good for about 10-30 orders a day, but could not handle the volume of orders he received at that time.
Mike decided to go with Volusion&#8217;s online shopping cart with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/merchant-spotlight-partycheapcom-obtains-more-seo-friendly-online-store-by-focusing-on-content</link>
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		<title>Volusion Customer Care Representative Finds Volusion Branded Cheeto in Snack Bag</title>
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Volusion Customer Care Representative Kate Polito did know that her company offered the best all-in-one shopping cart solution on the market. What she didn&#8217;t know is that it could burst with so much cheddar cheese flavor.
&#8220;I noticed that all of my Cheetos that day were broken into smaller pieces. I was a bit disappointed, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/volusion-customer-care-representative-finds-volusion-branded-cheeto-in-snack-bag</link>
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		<title>Writing Product Descriptions that Sell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selling an item in person is a lot easier than selling an item online.  If a customer walks into your store, he or she can gauge the size and usefulness of your product in person. That customer can also weigh how much they trust you by getting to know you and your store.
If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/writing-product-descriptions-that-sell</link>
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		<title>Finding the Most Useful Comparative Shopping Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Increasing exposure to your site by using comparative shopping sites is good.  However, sorting through the dozens of comparative shopping sites can take time, especially if you are trying to find the ones with the best traffic.  According to http://www.ebizmba.com, an informational site about eBusiness, here are the most popular bargain hunting sites [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/finding-the-most-useful-comparative-bargain-hunting-sites</link>
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		<title>Tips for NOT Selling Items Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you tired of fulfilling orders?  Wanting to take a vacation now?  If selling online is just proving to be too much of a hassle, take these following steps to ensure that any visitor to your site decides instantly that ordering from you is not worth it:
1.)  Start off with a cluttered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/tips-for-selling-items-online</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Facts and Homepage Graphics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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What Thanksgiving Means to Online Sellers
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has been deemed as one of the largest shopping days of the year. On Black Friday in 2006, comScore reported that e-commerce spending was up 42 percent over the same day during the year prior. According to comScore [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/ecommerce-thanksgiving-2007</link>
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		<title>Volusion Newswire - October 2007</title>
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		<title>RSS and Other Feeds: Save Time Keeping Current with Industry Trends</title>
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Keeping up to date in the constantly changing trends in ecommerce can be overwhelming.  It can be difficult to monitor so many new ideas about usability, design, SEO and general consumer behavior when you are worried about getting all of your orders processed in a day.
Fortunately, there are tools out there to make keeping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/keeping-current-with-small-business-trends</link>
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		<title>Dimensional Shipping Added to Volusion&#8217;s Advanced Shopping Cart Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Austin, TX (PRWEB) October 29, 2007 &#8212; Volusion Ecommerce continues to push the limits of online commerce by offering dimensional shipping in the latest version of its ecommerce solution.
Dimensional shipping allows merchants to enter exact dimensions for all of their online stores&#8217; products. This is an improvement over the typical internet shipping module available in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/dimensional-shipping-added-to-volusions-advanced-shopping-cart-software</link>
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		<title>Ecommerce-Guide Reviews Volusion&#8217;s Newest Version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volusion 5 Delivers the Goods So You Can Too
by Wayne Kawamoto
&#8220;In our 2004 review, we said that Volusion offered comprehensive features for e-commerce, and now the platform provides even more. With some 40 new features in its latest version, Volusion 5 now comes with stronger product and category management tools, advanced order processing and shipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/review-compare-volusion</link>
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		<title>Top Blog Directories:  Submitting Your Blog to Gain More Exposure for Your Online Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve embraced the concept of Web 2.0 by creating a blog for your online business, you can pat yourself on the back for evolving with the ever-changing internet.  It&#8217;s likely that your blog was created for your customers, to engage and inform about topics of interest regarding your product line or range of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/best-blog-directory</link>
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		<title>Removing Conversion Barriers by Improving Homepage Usability and Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a customer drives to your brick and mortar store, gets out of their car, and walks towards your shop door, chances are they will at least browse through your items for sale.  If a customer opens your website in a browser, he or she can exit that site in less than a second. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/removing-conversion-barriers-by-improving-homepage-usability-and-design</link>
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		<title>Free Online Resources to Help Learn HTML and CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thought of learning a new language can be a bit intimidating at first.  Especially if instead of Spanish or Latin, that language is Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. To a novice this may sound scary and one may think that instead of hypertext, &#8220;this sounds Greek to me!&#8221;  In addition to hypertext [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/learn-css-learn-html-free-and-online</link>
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		<title>Stone Edge Order Manager Integration Now Available with Latest Version of Volusion Ecommerce Solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Austin, Texas (PRWEB) October 18, 2007 &#8212; Volusion has just revealed a recent integration included in the newest version of its ecommerce solution with the advanced order management software system, Stone Edge Order Manager. The Order Manager is a complete back-office package for single and multi-channel merchants, which enables users to manage activity from multiple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/stone-edge-order-manager-integration</link>
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		<title>Understanding the Causes of Shopping Cart Abandonment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Home Depot or Macy’s had to physically pick up as many abandoned shopping carts as online merchants face everyday, they would have to hire employees to do nothing but stack shopping carts.
Fortunately for online merchants, there is no issue of clutter in the eCommerce world.  Shopping cart abandonment is a serious problem though. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/understanding-the-causes-of-shopping-cart-abandonment</link>
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		<title>Niche Marketing:  Focusing on a Portion of the Whole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Defining Niche Marketing
A niche market can be defined as a focused and targeted, marketable portion of a larger market sector.  Niche marketing would then be, focusing ones marketing efforts on that particular sector rather than the market as a whole.
Who Could vs. Who Would
Although your online store may be open to everyone on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/niche-marketing</link>
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		<title>Volusion Offers Merchants a Peek at 2007&#8217;s Biggest Online Shopping Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, TX (PR Web) October 8, 2007&#8211; After analysis of previous years&#8217; holiday sales figures, Volusion Inc., a leading provider of eCommerce solutions, predicts that the biggest shopping day of the year will break the typical patter seen in most years this decade.
From   2000 to 2005, the biggest online spending day of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/holiday-shopping-statistics</link>
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		<title>Are you “LinkedIn”?  Using LinkedIn to Build Useful Business Connections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you told a college senior that his social networking profile would not feature the latest and greatest Kanye West song, hundreds of photos of him and his friends, or funny clips from YouTube, he would probably think his profile was pretty lame.  That is until that lame profile finds him the job he’ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/business-social-networking-using-linkedin</link>
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		<title>Get Online Customer Retention by Communicating with Your Customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a study done by shop.org, online consumer spending is expected to increase 18 percent in 2007.  As exciting as this statistic may be, research shows that the number of customers new to ecommerce is slowing.  As a result, online merchants must focus more on retention rather than acquisition.
The prospect of less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/maintain-online-customer-retention</link>
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		<title>Halloween Facts and Homepage Graphics</title>
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What Halloween Means to Online Sellers
According to OneUpWeb&#8217;s study 2006 Holiday Online Retail Buying Trends, consumers start thinking about the holidays in October, which marks the start of the long tail holiday season.  Regarding the Halloween season, the study also states, &#8220;Halloween is a good milestone to keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/ecommerce-halloween</link>
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		<title>Understanding Chargebacks and Why They Matter to Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this recent American Express ad, John McEnroe comes to an epiphany that credit card “dispute resolution” is easier than he’d ever realized.  The commercial ends with McEnroe hugging after resolving a tiff with Klauss Umlauf, his former nemesis and referee at the U.S. Open.  The announcer then reminds us how easy it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/chargeback-process-explained</link>
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		<title>Including Bad Spelers in Your Paid Search and Internul Search Rusults</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acording to Goggle, 10-20% of all Goggle searches are actually mispelled.
If you didn’t catch that much of that sentence itself was misspelled, you are probably also missing out on the 80-90 percent of searchers who aren’t misspelling their search terms.    As crucial and somewhat obvious it seems to ensure you actually spell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/misspelled-keywords-for-ppc</link>
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		<title>Improve SEO and Conversion by Using Niche Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I’ve optimized the content on my site as well as all of my metatags.  I have quite a few backlinks built up.  Much of my site is custom designed as well.  Despite all of my work, I am not getting great traffic, and the customers who are going to my site just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/marketing-online-store</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 Design: When and Where to Use Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all seen it.  You enter a site expecting to see about 20 categories, perhaps an attractive graphic on the home page, and the merchant&#8217;s contact information.  And then something flies in your face out of nowhere.  Some merchant trusted a designer who probably just learned Flash, and that designer decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/flash-ecommerce</link>
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		<title>Establishing a Web Presence by Posting in Forums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before the internet, merchants often made more money by withholding information.  To shop around for a car, you had to comb through scores of newspaper classifieds or drive to several dealerships just to compare prices.  Before do-it-yourself websites, a contractor banked on your insufficient knowledge of the electrical components in your house.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/web-2-0-marketing</link>
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		<title>Volusion Newswire - September 2007</title>
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		<title>Improve Site Conversion and Consumer Loyalty with Customer Reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think about it, buying something on the internet without speaking to someone is actually quite odd.  You can&#8217;t see the person you are buying from or verify that they actually have an item in stock.  You don&#8217;t know where they are, how they got there or what they have done. Nonetheless, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/customer-loyalty-strategies</link>
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		<title>CAPTCHA Form:  Trip Up Spambots by Installing One on Your Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a disease plaguing the entire world.  You can guard against it, but inevitably it always finds you.  It finds you and then it gets worse over time.  Eventually, you become less bothered by it, merely accepting it as an annoying problem that will never go away.  This acceptance only makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/captcha-form-stop-spam</link>
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		<title>Using Blogs to Gain Influence in Your Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere someone is broadcasting the most random details of their life on the internet.  And another someone is sitting at their computer watching that broadcast of that person eating cereal or watching TV. Anyone with a computer and internet connection can blog about anything, and as unsubstantiated as that opinion can be, nothing stops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/small-business-blogging</link>
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		<title>Making a MySpace Page for Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MySpace is all over the news and all over computer screens across America and beyond.  In November of 2005, MySpace had 26.7 million users*.  Just one year later, an estimated 128 million people were using MySpace, the site that according to Wikipedia &#8220;attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day&#8221;.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/myspace-business-page</link>
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		<title>September Homepage: Free Volusion Graphics to Decorate Your Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Celebrate Labor Day and welcome relaxation with new September homepage graphics, created just for you by our design team. Show site visitors your support for the month that honors the working man and woman.
To save a graphic for uploading, right click on the image and hit Save Image As.
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Uploading your  New Homepage Graphic
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		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/september-labor-day-homepage-free-volusion-graphics-to-decorate-your-site</link>
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		<title>Moving from eBay to Your Own Online Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You realize that relationships are give/take, and in this one, you&#8217;ve realized you are giving much more than you should be. It started off so great though. As time wore on, you found more and more demands made of you with so much less in return. Honestly, how much more can you really take?
It&#8217;s time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/ebay-fee</link>
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		<title>The Definition of Web 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When asked the question, &#8220;What is Web 2.0?&#8221; perhaps you can offer more insight to the term other than &#8220;It&#8217;s the word with 580 million listings in Google*&#8221;.  Any knowledge about the phrase may place you above the norm, as most internet users are still perplexed at its mention.  The actual origin and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onlinebusiness.volusion.com/articles/definition-of-web-2-0</link>
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