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Yahoo’s Website for Small Business
This website touts
itself as your resource for web success. In fact, you can stretch your
reach for clients, while increasing your sales, if you use Yahoo!’s
comprehensive set of Web-based solutions.
What are the resources on Yahoo!’s website that can be of use for the
small businessperson?
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1. Web Hosting –
where you can professionally establish your online presence or a minimal
charge or pay for one with all the bells and whistles.
2. Merchant Solutions – this involves providing you the small business
person, software and technical help to get started, from the starter,
standard, or professional packages. The Corporate Merchant Program aims
to help merchants to use Yahoos hosted storefront platform to: lower the
businesses IT costs, while increasing its’ effectiveness, boost sales
and get new customers, as well as improve your websites’ performance and
keeping it stable and secure for your and your customers.
3. Assist you in acquiring your own domain.
4. Set up your business emails – when you get yahoo to set up your email
system, here are some of the advantages.
• Full-featured Mailbox
• A "catch-all" mailbox feature that allows messages that are
misaddressed or misspelled (e.g., bob@ instead of robert@your-domain.com)
to be received rather than bounced
• 24-hour Toll-free Customer Support
5.Marketing Tools – with Yahoo, you widen the reach of your promotions
and for a minimal amount your business goes to the top of the following
well known search engines: Yahoo!, MSN and AltaVista
6.Internet Access - DSL or a dial up account, your choice.
7.Recruiting Services – your hiring needs are put in the hot jobs
website.
The Yahoo small business website, has a business package for your
budget, its’ up to you to weigh which of these online features will
justify the expense.......
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