Here is an independent blog and forum site with reviews and information about e-commerce software like ours. I've linked to the blog category referencing MonsterCommerce | eCartReviews.
A news blog named RSS Feed Trends has a category of posts about creating RSS feeds for your e-commerce storefront, including 
The idea of the company that has created this blog is for users who can't publish or host an RSS feed on their own e-commerce site, or don't want to publish it manually. You pay them a small monthly fee to host and maintain your feed. You set up a sub-domain to point to their servers which will load your feed. You are in control of what goes into the feed, of course.
Update: FeedBurner now allows you to use a sub-domain on your feed for free! They were also purchased by Google, so if that's not an endorsement...
Here is a very useful article on how to get started with Google Adwords for the first time. An effective web marketing plan will include Pay-Per-Click advertising from the very beginning and Google's system is one of the best to get started with.
Small Biz Resource - How to Attract New Customers With Google AdWords - Small Business Business Analysis
The AdWords program allows you to target your advertising to customers seeking your services by specifying key words with which you'd like to associate your product or service.
The best part is that Google's fee for the service is structured so that you only pay when someone actually clicks on your ad -- and you set a cap on how much you're willing to pay. Assuming that your goods and/or services are satisfying to customers and that they will become repeat consumers, the ability to use Google advertising to draw in new customers has tremendous value for small businesses.
The four-page article walks you through all the necessary steps with some well done screen shots to highlight the features and benefits.
Don't have the time to learn PPC advertising yourself? Have Network Solutions Online Marketing take care of it for you.
As of today, I'm starting back at my old job at MonsterCommerce. It's a long story about where I've been the last few months and I won't be detailing that here.
What I did want to say was that it was very interesting and enlightening to go through new employee training now, after I used to do the new tech support training only a year or so ago. It's actually so much more of an effectivelly formalized process now that it was refreshing and fun.
There has been a few changes internally since I left, too, so it was good to get all of that information in one big chunk rather than anything surprise me later.
Anyway, it's time to get back to work.
. However, this blog is not an official property of MC nor our parent company Network Solutions. I'm simply testing out a few things. My goal is to distribute information that should be helpful to small business owners and ecommerce web developers and to share new ideas I learn on a daily basis.
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