Yahoo! Stores opened in 1998, making it one of the oldest, fully hosted ecommerce platforms available. The biggest strength of Yahoo! Stores is its immense, stable and reliable infrastructure. That means you don't have to worry about find your own Web hosting or worrying about site outages. Additionally, because of its long history, a large and experienced community of freelance designers and developers are available to help you customize your store. The biggest weakness of Yahoo! Stores is also its long history. There is a lot of legacy code and features added on top of other features. That means all the various options and features are confusing for new Yahoo! Store owners, and its admin interface is not optimized for ease of use. Yahoo! Stores also uses a proprietary language called RTML that is only useful for customizing Yahoo! Stores (good thing there's a large network of developers you can hire). Read more: Profile, Pricing, and Quick Review of Yahoo! Stores

Today, April 22, is Earth Day. One way to reduce our national carbon footprint is to increase the number of telecommuting hours we work from home.

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Oprah joined Twitter this past week. I think we can safely say Twitter is no longer a fad, and that it is here to stay.

Twitter is a medium for posting very short messages (140 characters or less). Even with that limit, businesses are using Twitter to:

• market products,
• run promotions,
• engage customers,
• talk industry associates,
• monitor their brand,
• ...and more!

Are you or your business on Twitter? If you are, how are you using Twitter to help your business?

If you're not yet on Twitter, now is a good time to get started.

Read it: Twitter 101: Twitter Basics for Small Business Owners

The deadline for filing your taxes this year is Wednesday (April 15, 2009) at midnight. Even if you don't think you can file by tomorrow, at least start the process and ask for an extension. You can get the 6-month extension online, though you will still need to pay what you owe (or a portion of it) by April 15.

Here are some tips for last minute filers....

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