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		<title>A Quick Surf Around The Blogosphere</title>
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	Life's A Beach!
I&#8217;m going away tomorrow morning on holiday (fly 8 hours from now to be precise!!) so I haven&#8217;t got time to do a post this week. So you still have something quality to read this week ive put links below to some of my favourite recent blog entries to do with online business. 

Getting the best price for your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/08/03/surf-around-blogosphere/</link>
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		<title>Ecommerce Study: Investing In Ecommerce Despite The Times</title>
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	Research Study
An ecommerce study called &#8220;No Retreat! Investing in Ecommerce Despite The Times&#8221; has recently been published with some interesting results, the study is by Acquity Group, a Chicago based consulting firm.
We all know the current economic climate is gloomy in the US and UK. Despite this the report has found companies are continuing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/07/28/ecommerce-study-investing-in-ecommerce/</link>
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		<title>Chinavasion - Worldwide Electronics Dropshipper Review</title>
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	Chinavasion
In June I published a free dropshipper list of companies based in the UK who ship to UK customers. Now I want to look a little more at companies who are based abroad but ship to the UK and worldwide. There currently isn&#8217;t very many so I&#8217;m going to look more in-depth at the suppliers rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/07/21/chinavasion-worldwide-wholesale-electronics-dropshipper-review/</link>
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		<title>Use Yahoo Answers For Quick Answers To Your Q&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you need a question answering quickly, sometimes you need the answer now in order to carry on with what you are doing. How do you get a quick answer? 
You&#8217;ve searched through google but can&#8217;t find the answer, you could post your question up on a forum but you know it is going to take hours (sometimes days) until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/07/14/use-yahoo-answers-for-quick-answers-to-your-qs/</link>
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		<title>You Have To Be Involved To Take Advantage! Business Opportunities</title>
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	To Find The Key To Success You Have To Be Involved
When stories are told about successful people you often hear others saying &#8220;you&#8217;re so lucky&#8220;. To take advantage of opportunities you have to be involved where the opportunity arises.
Other people will say you have been lucky to have found a great online business opportunity and make money from it, but the people saying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/07/07/involved-to-take-advantage-business-opportunities/</link>
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		<title>Progress Is When You Raise Your Expectations</title>
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	What Are Your Expectations?
Just a short post today to get you thinking! Jack Nicklaus once said:
&#8220;Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one&#8217;s levels of aspiration and expectation.&#8221;
I read this quote whilst watching the golf yesterday afternoon and realised how true it is, and not just for golf but for everything.
So what are your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/06/30/progress-is-when-you-raise-your-expectations/</link>
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		<title>Watch Free Business Videos To Increase Your Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People learn in different ways, some people learn better by reading whilst others learn better by being shown diagrams and other images. Reading articles, blogs (like this one!), business forums etc is a great way to learn, but watching business videos is also a great way to learn. You may find you learn more and take in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/06/23/watch-free-business-videos-to-increase-your-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>Why Making Money From Dropshipping Has Become Even More Attractive!</title>
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	Don't Let The Economic Downturn Deter You
Lots of focus is currently on the gloomy economy, I seem to hear/read the phrase &#8216;credit crunch&#8217; a couple of times every day! With companies listed on the FTSE losing value fast, retailers complaining of &#8216;tough trading conditions&#8217; and capital harder to come by you would think now is not an ideal time to start up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/06/16/why-making-money-from-dropshipping-became-more-attractive/</link>
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		<title>Two Different Ways To Use Press Releases For Marketing Your Ecommerce Website Online &#038; Offline</title>
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	Get In The Newspapers!
A press release is a written announcement that seeks to draw media attention to a specific event or product launch. When you are doing something big in your business sending out press releases can get you great coverage in the media sending you more visitors and potential customers to your ecommerce website.
Press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/06/09/ways-to-use-press-releases-marketing-efforts/</link>
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		<title>Free Dropshipper List - UK Dropship Companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of UK based dropshippers. All of the websites below are free to join and based in the UK. Each link opens in a new window.

DropshipOnline
Eyewear Systems Ltd
Pretty in Pink Clubwear
Dropship Services
Wholesale Knives
Grab A Gift
Emporium UK
1000and1
iPhones 2U
Electronic Wholesalers 4U
Wholesale Film Cells
Sourcing House Ltd
Help is at Hand
Fe-Lines
Beauty Kisses
Sexshop 365
1on1dropship
Devilwear (require £9.99 deposit which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/06/02/free-dropshipper-list-uk-dropship-companies/</link>
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		<title>Trying Something Different To Stand Out</title>
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	Stand Out By Being Different
In order to move your business forward you often need to be trying different things, this can improve your existing practices and may make you stand out from competition. Whether it is the images you use to sell your products, the length of descriptions or even the price.
This week I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/05/28/trying-something-different-stand-out-online-business/</link>
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		<title>Now Is An Ideal Time to Invest In Your Ecommerce Site!</title>
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	Want To Earn More Money? Now Is The Time To Invest!
Due to the rising cost of living many of us are having to spend less money on other parts of our lives, one of those areas may be the amount of money you are investing in your business. With the economy being pretty gloomy at the moment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/05/20/now-ideal-time-invest-your-website/</link>
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		<title>7 Ways NOT To Promote Your Online Ecommerce Shop</title>
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	Marketing No No's!
Once you are up and running you should spend a very large chunk of your time promoting your ecommerce shop. In a business seminar I was once told 75% of the time spent on your business should be on marketing!
Getting highly targetted visitors to your ecommerce website isn&#8217;t easy (unless you&#8217;ve got thousands of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/05/12/7-ways-not-to-promote-your-ecommerce-shop/</link>
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		<title>Getting Your First Ecommerce Order Gets Your Business Ball Rolling!</title>
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	The First Customer Payment!
No matter what type of business you run getting momentum is important, this drives your business on and fills you with confidence. Getting your first order is a fantastic feeling, the small amount of profit doesn&#8217;t matter - it is the fact that a web surfer has found your website from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/05/06/getting-your-first-ecommerce-order-gets-your-business-ball-rolling/</link>
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		<title>How To Spot Middle-Men &#038; Dropship Scams</title>
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	Avoid The Baddies!
What is a middle-man? A middle-man is a website which claims to be a dropshipper, however in reality they are not the actual dropshipper, they take your order and pass it on to the real dropshipper adding their own profit margins in the process. This may not be illegal but it is bad for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/04/28/how-to-spot-middle-man-scams-dropshipper/</link>
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		<title>How Much To Pay For An Established Ecommerce Website?</title>
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	How Much Money Should I Pay?
Dropshipping products from your own ecommerce website has massive benefits compared to selling at auction sites. Higher profit margins, clear branding, a valuable business asset, higher customer trust and basic sales management are just some of the benefits of having your own website.
If you don&#8217;t want to or haven&#8217;t got the knowledge/skills of how to start a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/04/21/how-much-pay-established-ecommerce-website/</link>
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		<title>Measure Your Conversion Rate - Targets</title>
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	Calculate Ecommerce Conversion Rates
What Is Conversion Rate?
Your conversion rate is the percentage of your visitors who buy from you. It is worked out by dividing the amount of sales you make by the amount of visitors you receive and multiplying it by 100. If this week you made 30 sales and you had 2000 visitors to your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/04/14/measuring-conversion-rate-set-targets/</link>
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		<title>Ebay Alternatives: Auction Sites, Classified Ads, Ecommerce Website</title>
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	Sellers eBay Alternatives
Long-term I don&#8217;t think eBay is a viable way to dropship products with real success. You may always be able to make small profits from it but you wouldn&#8217;t be able to expand into a bigger, stronger and more profitable business. The competition, fees and product management required is too high to allow this. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/04/07/ebay-alternatives-auction-sites-classifiedads-ecommerce-website/</link>
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		<title>5 Easy Ways To Increase Ebay Conversions</title>
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	Increase Auction Conversions
Long term I always recommend dropshipping from your own website rather than auction and classified websites, mainly because of profit margins. However using auction sites is a great way to build up a customer database and get used to running an online business. eBay is the website of choice for the majority of dropshippers.
Here are 5 really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/03/31/5-simple-ways-increase-ebay-conversions/</link>
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		<title>Guide To Listing On Google Product Search</title>
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	Google Product Search
&#8216;Google Product Search&#8217; is a shopping index which allows shoppers to browse and search products for sale online. It is a very easy tool for shoppers to use. It is also a great tool for sellers to use because it is free (no charges for uploading items, no charges for traffic, there is never any charges!), it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dropshipblog.co.uk/2008/03/25/10-step-guide-listing-google-products-free-shopping/</link>
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