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Carving out her own niche in a crowded field, Erina has found a balance that works. With a focus on trendy junior fashions she has built an online business that offers a selection affordable, popular, clothing.

As I move around the ‘net visiting various blogs and forums I hear a lot of complaining about eBay search, the feedback system and DSRs. Most of it is coupled with comments about poor sales, high fees, and general business failure. I simply don’t agree with most of it!

There’s a lot of hype around about mailing lists. You’ve seen it. The sites that offer guaranteed success if you just build a gigantic list, or the spam mail that offers six secrets that make the gigantic list possible. That one usually comes between the other gigantic offers. And it seems the same kind of people get caught up with idea that size is critical. But are these mailing list offers all they are put up to be? Does size even matter?

For most people selling online, the holiday season, which is typically said to start sometime after Labor Day and certainly by the beginning of October, is the prime time for their business. Searches for the terms “holiday gift ideas”, “holiday gifts”, and “Christmas giftds”, among others, explode in numbers during this period. In early October the number is up 40% over the previous month.

The Wiz is teaming with a group of vintage clothing and accessories sellers to offer a search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing (SMM) program to help promote their businesses. The program is available to all sellers of legitimate vintage clothing, as well as vintage hats, vintage belts, vintage gloves, vintage scarves, vintage purses, vintage shoes, vintage jewelry, and other vintage apparel and accessories regardless of where they sell.

Participants can be selling on eBay, Main Street Mall Online, Etsy, Ruby Lane, Bonanza (formerly Bonanzle), other venues, from their own website, or any combination of sites. The program includes a significant package of SEO reporting and analysis, as well as extensive social media marketing activity for each member of the program.

Sally Milo is one of the partners operating GOing1nce LLC. (the other partner is Kyle Bennett). Sally has been a graphic designer since the days, as she says, “When cut and paste meant using an Exacto knife and rubber cement or melted wax.” From 1990, when she got her first Macintosh and learned how to do the cut and paste thing electronically, and to draw with a mouse, Sally has been creating web graphics. It’s only natural, she says, as she has “been an illustrator since I held my first crayon.”

I’ve written about OpenOffice.org before — a couple of times! because I really like it. I like that it is quality, powerful, open source, software with all the features of the more expensive commercial packages. I like it because it is not a Microsoft product. And I like it because it is FREE!

But, like any good product, there is probably a significant learning curve to its use. This is often the primary reason for sticking with what you have and never moving on to something that is actually better. And I do think OpenOffice.org is better!

I’ve written about this before but it really is such a good solution for so many that I feel I need to revisit the topic.

For many years now Microsoft has dominated the office productivity software market with products like Work, Excel, Power Point, and Publisher, banishing the likes of WordPerfect, Lotus 1 2 3, SuperCalc, and so many others, to a distant memory. Productivity products like these are often bundled together into what is known as an office productivity suite. When Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Publisher, and other software packages are bundled together like this it is known as Microsoft Office. And it is quite expensive; often several hundred dollars.

There is a lot of heavy “get rich with this program” promotion going on for what I call “cookie-cutter” affiliate websites. You sign up, pay a fee (often a down stroke and a monthly hosting/service price) and you get a pre-made website. You are told you can just sit back and watch the dollars flow in. Typically the only person that gets rich with this kind of a deal is the person running the website program in the first place. Even re-sellers of the program, if they have their own affiliate offering, seldom make any real money!