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    <title>About Electronic Commerce</title>
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    <description>Get the latest headlines from the About.com Electronic Commerce GuideSite.</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov. 2003 05:34:03 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>E-Commerce FAQ </title>
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      <description>What is Electronic Commerce?&quot; &quot;How do I accept credit cards?&quot; Find out the answer to these and many other frequently asked questions on Electronic Commerce....</description>
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      <title>Make Money from E-Commerce</title>
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      <description>Ideas and advice on how to make money from E-Commerce. Some popular article from the About.com E-Commerce site. If you are a small business, it isn&apos;t easy to make money from Electronic Commerce. These articles may help....</description>
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      <title>E-Commerce Basics</title>
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      <description>E-Commerce Basics : Articles covering the basics of e-commerce. FAQs 101s and tutorails. A gentle introduction to Electronic Commerce....</description>
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      <title>With a Little Help from Your Friends</title>
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      <description>“Social Sites” are apparently this month’s big thing on the Net. Building networks of friends, both for fun and business, is proving extremely popular and sites like Friendster, Tribe.net, LinkedIn and Meetup are drawing large numbers of visitors. Of course...</description>
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      <title>How To......</title>
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      <description>How To Choose a Web Store. How To Become a DotCom Millionaire. How To Make Your Web Store Sticky. How To Find a Career in E-Commerce. Find the answer to these and many other E-Commerce questions in this selection of...</description>
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      <title>E-Commerce Essentials</title>
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      <description>Here&apos;s 10 essential things you really should know about E-Commerce. (Sometimes it&apos;s easy to get so bogged down in the detail that you fail to consider the obvious.)...</description>
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      <title>E-Commerce  in China</title>
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      <description>It’s surprising how the Internet has taken off in China - apparently nearly 5% of the population are spending an hour or more a week on the Net. E-Commerce is also growing rapidly with online sales expected to exceed US$2.4...</description>
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      <title>Coupons are Cool</title>
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      <description>In a recent survey, CoolSavings.com reports that 60% of people who responded find online coupons useful when shopping. (Maybe not so surprising as this is the line of business CoolSavings.com is in.) The survey also shows that promotional offers and...</description>
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      <title>Jupiter Research Reports Online Holiday Spending to Increase 21% in 2003</title>
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      <description>A survey by Jupiter Research suggests that online holiday spending will increase 21% this year to reach $17 billion. Almost 40% of Internet users will do some, or all, of their shopping online. (I&apos;ll certainly be one of them!) Perhaps...</description>
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      <title> 7 Fatal Mistakes CEOs Of Smaller Companies Commonly Make</title>
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      <description>According to the Small Business Administration, more than 10% of businesses will fail this year, and two-thirds of all new businesses fail within six years. This report explains why CEOs often contribute to the failure of their business. The report,...</description>
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      <title>Singles Online Behavior Differs From Married Surfing Habits</title>
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      <description>A new report from Nielsen/NetRatings shows that married Web surfers make more online purchases than single surfers....</description>
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      <title>WorldPay Woes</title>
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      <description>WorldPay, the Internet Payment System which is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, has been hit by a denial-of-service attack. Thousands of businesses have been unable to process transactions as unknown attackers managed to overload the WorldPay systems....</description>
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      <title>How to Value and Grow Your Online Business Relationships</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new e-Book by David Teten with Donna Fisher & Scott Allen examines Networking; “the key to business success”. It’s full of practical advice in how to make the most of your business networking activities. Your “to do” list will...]]></description>
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      <title>Mothersbliss.com</title>
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      <description>Find your niche and make your site sticky. That&apos;s probably the best advice I can think of for E-Commerce success. This year&apos;s winner of the E-Business Startup Award in the annual UK E-Commerce awards competition illustrates this perfectly. Mothersbliss.com started...</description>
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      <title>Benchmarking your E-Business</title>
      <link>http://ecommerce.about.com/b/a/038915.htm</link>
      <description>UK Online for Business, a UK government agency, recently started a new web-based service that allows small and medium sized companies to assess the effectiveness of their e-business activities. Depending on the results the service offers advice and guidance on...</description>
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