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The 2012 Readers' Choice Awards is an exciting time at About.com. It's when we get to showcase services, tools and applications from dozens of categories. Here on the Online Business Site, we are accepting nominations in four categories. This is your chance to vote for your favorite provider, service or designer.

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Where to Find Email Templates

Thursday February 23, 2012

As you prepare your email marketing campaign, you'll need to determine the design of your newsletter. In most cases, you'll want to use an email template to create the overall appearance of the email newsletter.

Learn where you can find email templates.

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Learn How to Build a Social Media Community

Wednesday February 22, 2012

Sure, everyone knows that social media is important. But maybe your results don't back that up. You need to learn how to build a social media community.

I recently chatted with Gio Palatucci, a social media expert, about how to build a community. Check out the feature interview.

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How To Beat Web Scrapers and Data Miners

Tuesday February 21, 2012

If you have been blogging for more than a few months you've probably noticed your content showing up other places online. While sometimes this is thanks to raving fans who just can't help but share your great stuff - it is frequently the work of Web scrapers. What is a Web scraper?

How can you stop them? Well you can't really. But there is something you can to lessen the pain of copied content.

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Affiliate Marketing vs. Referral Marketing

Monday February 20, 2012

As you prepare your marketing plan for your online business, there is an important distinction to make. What's the difference between Affiliate Marketing and Referral Marketing?

Once you understand the differences, it time to prepare your affiliate marketing plan, along with your overall ecommerce marketing plan. These three pieces were published by my colleague Ajeet, Guide to Ecommerce.

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