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Online Sites and Shopping Carts  Since money is tight, is it really a good time to start an online business?  Absolutely!  To begin with, Internet startups have a low overhead.  You can have a shopping cart site for under $100 a month!   What's more, the business can be set up in a home office and attended to at night and on weekends, allowing entrepreneurs to keep their day jobs.  In addition, many online businesses can be set up in less than a week.   Another reason an Internet startup could be lucrative even in a down economy is that online shopping is growing.  In the first quarter of 2008, revenues generated by online-based businesses were up 13.4 percent from the third quarter of 2007.  If you look at total retail sales with annual growth in the low single digits, the online channel has been growing in the low to mid-twenty percentile.  Although the economic downturn is slowing eCommerce sales, online sales are still growing at triple the rate of brick and mortar store sales.   Read more. . . Should I Design My Own Website? You have something to sell or a message to spread and you want a website. What should you do? Should you pay someone to do it for you or should you learn the art of Web design yourself? There are pros and cons to both.  In theory, we could all build our own house. But, how well will it function and how would it look?  Probably not very good. Consider looking at building your own website in the same way. Just because you or someone you know says they can do something, does mean they should? More. . .

Choose a SEO Developer          by Jim Kincaid www.Lease-a-Website.biz Many companies can design attractive websites. They can even lease them to you.  But, the majority of developers do not understand how to make your site visible on the Internet.  Your business needs to locate a qualified search engine optimization (SEO) company that specializes in the type of website leasing you require. The key is to find a company that extensively offers search engine optimization services at competitive SEO rates to maximize ROI and click through traffic.  A website needs to be found to be functional.   More. . .

Why Lease a Website? eCommerce is the bright spot in the retail world today. It works for Brick & Mortar businesses to draw traffic to their stores and for Online Sites to sell through shopping carts.  Leasing the website allows businesses to ramp it up in this down economy.      The concept of leasing a website is very similar to that of a business leasing a car.  Because quality websites can be expensive, spreading the cost over time is attractive to businesses that would otherwise opt for an inferior product or contend with the one that they already have.   More. . .   Mother of the Year In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.    Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.  The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine.  The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into depression.  The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. More. . .       Back | Next