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re: Got a renewal letter about your domain? Please read the fine print

lewis4884 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:35:39 GMT

Im new at this and would someone check out my site and give me some feed back on what else I should do to at least get people to view my site. Can I change my URL? I think it`s too long

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Microsoft Office Live Small Business Community | Blog — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:28:07 GMT

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know we’ve devoted some space to the virtues of e-mail marketing

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Microsoft Office Live Small Business Community | Blog — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:28:06 GMT

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know we’ve devoted some space to the virtues of e-mail marketing

re: Welcome to the new Office Live Small Business Community Site!

kitkat5 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:15:48 GMT

i just downloaded office 2003 on my new laptop, i have registered and when I open "word" I get the "end-user licensing" "print" accept" "reject"...I hit accept and it goes away. The problem I continue to have is it continues to pop up everytime I open an office program. how do i get rid of the "end-user licensing agreement" from poping up all the time?

re: Vision to Venture webcasts: Free advice, inspiration from small-business experts

franc_s — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:28:52 GMT

Ever since I added SP3 to my XP operating system, I cannot go to my Office Live website at www.francstratton.com. Instead I get a prompt from the Website that states that I need to install IE 6 or 7, but I have IE7. What is going on at the Small Business Center?

re: Operating an online store just got way cheaper

NWweddingplace — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:48:16 GMT

How does Store Manager compare with a shopping cart solution such as ZenCart? Any thoughts?

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re: Operating an online store just got way cheaper

scybyte — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:22:58 GMT

Office Live Small Business Store Manager offers secure "add to cart" and "view cart" connections (SSL)

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re: Want help from a pro? Check out our new partner listings

Cheri — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:57:00 GMT

Donna a friend of my husband and myself, is also a quad. We have found a few ways to assit him in many ways. He is currently very depressed and could benefit from your book. Great idea.

Have you considered just dictating your book. Alot of us do not do much reading from books anymore. We listen on the web or in our cars. SO a cd might be a solution to us both.

There are software pckgs out there that will type the document for you as you dictate.

And also there are programs in your community that can help you financialy with this or provide you with the equipment you need. One of those is the ability to continue working how ever that may be.

One of the web sites my company is designing right now is for one of these providers. However they only assist in our little valley.

They are affiliated with United Way, so if you call them in your area they do know of places like this.

Hope this was some kind of assistance to you.

re: Operating an online store just got way cheaper

viivian — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:16:55 GMT

After taking advantage of this nice promotion, what is the fees after the promotion to maintain Store Manager?

re: 8 things you should know about domain names

MaeMcdonald — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:45:46 GMT

I own two domains. I need them to be completely separate web sites. I didn't know that I can't do this with OfficeLive. I just figured it out on this forum. Now I am in deep doo-doo.

How can I fix this? I really, really, really have to have these two domains going to different web sites. Can I someone make one "inactive" so that people don't type in the URL for the first domain and get redirected to the other domain name.

I can't go into details, but this is a nightmare for me and I am hoping one of you angels will help me figure out what to do.

If push comes to shove, I will just delete one of the domains - but how do I start all over again?

re: eBay is cool, but eBay with Store Manager is cooler

Owen Frankland — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:37:27 GMT

I have been a seller on eBay for some time, and at present I don't think eBay is a good place any more for a start up business. It's getting tough out there with new changes that are intended to rid the site of poor sellers, but are actually catching some very good sellers in the net.

1. eBay have set very tight targets for seller performance. More than 5% buyer dissatisfaction in the last month will get your account restricted for 30 days and you will be unable to buy or sell in that time. Quite how you improve your performance whilst unable to sell is unclear and eBay aren't answering that question. 5% might appear to be a reasonable target, but in reality, If you sell low volumes you are at significant risk. Buyer dissatisfaction is measured by taking account of non positive feedback and any selling related disputes, such as items not received of not as described. I can give more information if needed. Businesses and reputations are built over time by good customer service and products. On eBay you are only as good as your last 30 days. Would you really want to put your business at risk every 30 days?

2. eBay are making it compulsory for new sellers to use only PayPal to accept payments. New sellers and even established sellers in certain 'high risk' categories will have their payments held by Paypal for 21 days or until positive feedback is left for the sale. Not every buyer leaves feedback. Can your cashflow stand not being paid for 21 days?

3. There have been recent changes to the feedback system and there are reported intstances of buyers blakmailing sellers for free postage or refunds with the threat of non positive feedback. Some sellers feel they have no option but to give in to those demands as the non positive feedback counts against them when they are assessed for non performance and could result in their account being restricted. eBay do say they have systems in place to report such behaviour, but these systems take time and restriction for non performance is instant.

I could say more but I would advise anybody thinking of setting up on eBay to register and log in to the community forums, particularly the Question and Answer board and read. There are a lot of very experienced eBayers in there and they tell it like it is.

re: 8 things you should know about domain names

Colin Layhe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:15:06 GMT

I have just tried adapting to a free primary domain name... everything works fine until I register from the choose country stage and then find out that I have to live in the states (and this is after designing my web site.)

Obviously the mighty MS corp can get along quite nicely without us Europeans so I guess I won't be using the small business option. Unless of course some one can supply me with a fake address, ID and zip code.

re: Welcome to the new Office Live Small Business Community Site!

gjean — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:08:27 GMT

Hello I need alot of help with my site!! I don't know what I am doing and don't know if I am going to be charged for two domaine names or what?? I have several e-mail addresses I use and one I messed up on. Darn! Cause that site was the one I wanted to use! I have the e-mail addresse wrong and don't know how I can change it. I don't know what I can do with my site and what is charged and what is included with it?? It is more confusing than I thought it would be I hope I can get some help with my site! Please!!!!! Help!!!