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Entrepreneurs in Manchester are being encouraged to bid for the chance to create a new online small business on Alibaba.com, it has been reported.

With all the doom and gloom news about the economy, there's never been a better time to make an extra paycheck online with a minimal amount of time and effort

Online shopping last year was up 55 percent over the previous year for holiday shoppers as many time-crunched Santas and gift givers tried to save themselves time and money online. Many of us running online businesses run into the same scenario that brick-and-mortar stores face this time of the year--Black Friday!

Networks that merge online and face-to-face meetings are the wave of the future. Many well-established face-to-face networking businesses have developed their own online components, and many online networks have naturally evolved to regional groups that meet in person on a regular or sporadic basis.

The great advantage online businesses have over other businesses is that you can measure almost everything about your customers--where they come from, how long they spend on your site, how they got there, when they're showing up, and from where--and once you have this information, you can use it to grow your business, increase conversions, and troubleshoot underperforming pages.

The web is the great equalizer in business. Resources aside, every day, billion-dollar businesses and startups compete on an even playing field for internet exposure. To the victor go the spoils: top rankings on major search engines that can skyrocket a business鈥檚 revenue into the stratosphere.

Google Inc, the world's leading online search engine, aims at further integrating its resources in China's major community site, Tianya Club, and may set up a joint venture to run the BBS and Q&A businesses, according to an unnamed insider, sources reported.The speculation came after Google's recent...

Grabbing customers' attention is always challenging, particularly for small businesses with limited marketing and advertising budgets. Smart search engine optimization can level the playing field by allowing smaller shops to march up the search stacks on Google and Yahoo!.

Say you started a food website. Nothing radical there. Say you started a food website that held weekly recipe contests, like a global county-fair cook-off. Say you raised the stakes and told the cooks that winners would have the glory of being published in your next cookbook.

Right now, the internet accounts for one third of the typical media day for all U.S. adults. Consumers spend nearly four hours online daily according to a report from The Media Audit--that鈥檚 32.5 percent of their media time compared to daily exposure to newspapers, radio, TV and outdoor advertising.