In addition to finding a professional, affordable web site designer, securing a web host is another crucial step in the web site design process. A web host is a company that stores your web site's files. All the pages you see on the net are a collection of pages stored in an online folder. You pay a web host to store your files in its online folder. Having a reliable web host is crucial to your business. Everytime you send a potential or current client to your site, you need it to be up and running error-free. Since this is so important, we have listed a few guidelines in selecting a reliable web host.

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Tax season is upon us! Continue reading to get tips on how your home business can decrease your tax liability. This article was contributed by Barbara Weltman of JKLasser.com. A home office can mean the end of stressful commutes and bad hair days. A home office also can deliver a …

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How can we achieve that ever elusive work-life balance?

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This month, Entrepreneur Resources turns its small business spotlight on Mr. Brady Lewis of Spanish 4 Emergencies. During his years in law enforcement, Lewis recognized the language barrier between criminal justice personnel and the Spanish speakers they served. His company, Spanish 4 Emergencies, makes products that to ease communication between these two groups and makes working together more effective. Read on to learn more.

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When you are selling a product online, good photos are crucial. The pictures on your web site will probably be the only chance a customer gets to see your products up close prior to purchase. It’s important that they look good. The best option is to hire a professional photographer, …

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Tax season is upon us. Since I’m sure we’re all busy gathering our documents and preparing our returns, I wanted to provide links to two articles that might help. The first, from TurboTax.com, gives the new business owner a list of tax issues to consider when getting ready to file. …

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Please take a look at the following article, written by guest author, Jeff Beale: Seven Ways to Put Your Business Online And The One Guaranteed Way to Do It at No Cost Ever since businesses realized that the Internet the ultimate resource to reach more people in less time for …

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Hello everyone! After an unexpected summer hiatus, the Entrepreneur Resources blog is back! Thanks to everyone who sent in small business articles and links to be posted. We will contact you soon about your entries. Thank you for your patience as we get our posting schedule back on track. We …

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Then, I received another e-mail directly from a "seo specialist" who said he could improve my web site rankings if I just hired him for $xx per hour. He gave me his web site information to look at client testimonials. Most were measured in terms of competition, like if you type in "affordable web site design" and Google says, these are results 1 - 10 of 158,000,000. For that phrase, there are at least 158,000,000 sites that come up. That is the competition. The guy's site also had a list of phrases that his clients are coming up as #1 for in the search engines. From an outsider perspective, it looked very impressive. Then I did some digging...

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Ms. Cleo Anderson provides rules for business success.

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Tip: If you own an affiliate program, please be prompt in paying those who represent your company. Today’s tip was prompted by a recently received e-mail. This e-mail was a PayPal payment notification for an affiliate program payout. As phishing e-mails are common, I was skeptical. Rather than click on …

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Tax season is upon us. For most of us it’s the time we gladly pull out our old receipts and calculate how well we did with our businesses last year. For others, it’s a season of dread. Below, we have compiled three key resources to help make your tax preparation …

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News about computer viruses has been popping everywhere, from your computer screen to the nightly news. As hackers become more sophisticated, computer users need to know how to protect themselves from the latest onslaght of viruses. Use these tips to keep your computer virus-free.

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Have you ever received an e-mail like this? "Hi. I just received an official looking e-mail from my small business payment processor that looked suspicious. It said that the company noticed fraudulent activity on my account and wanted me to log-in to verify that the account was mine. I clicked the link in the e-mail. The company's homepage and a form popped up asking me to enter my ATM card number, user name, password and social security number in order to verify and unlock my account. What do I do?" Read on to find out how to protect yourself from e-mail spoofing and phishing.

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Happy New Year everyone! Inspired Graphics Media and Entrepreneur Resources wish you a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2006. To aid in your prosperity, we have compiled a short list of three things to help get your small business in order and start the year off right...

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I received this in an e-mail today. It contains some things we need to think about as the year draws to a close. Jim Rohn's Challenges to Pursue (excerpted from the 2004 Weekend Event)

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