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Amazon Takes Stand Against Ending Saturday Mail

Small businesses that rely on the United States Postal Service to get merchandise to their customers may have a friend in Amazon.  Amazon has come out in opposition of the USPS's proposal of discontinuing Saturday deliveries.

What You Can Learn from Amazon to Increase Holiday Sales

There is a reason Amazon is widely known as one of the biggest retailers online (if not the biggest). The company knows what it's doing. Amazon has appeared in headlines recently for a number of reasons, and a fair amount of them are related to different things the company has been doing to increase its sales as the holiday season approaches. While as a small business, you don't likely have the clout that Amazon does, they do employ strategies that you can learn from in order to potentially increase your own sales. 1. Mobile Payments

Is There Any Point To Your Product?

Every morning, I make the same breakfast. I’ll put the coffee on, then make myself an egg bagel. Pop the bagel in the toaster, fry up a couple of eggs, and good to go. Except it’s not.Every morning, without fail, my smoke alarm goes off. “Adjust the toaster,” you might say. I did, and still the alarm goes off. “Cook the eggs on a lesser heat,” another good suggestion. Which I’ve tried. And still the damn alarm goes off.

Amazon Gives Businesses More Payment Options

If you are an eCommerce business and you use one of twenty-five popular shopping cart solutions for your checkout process, you may have a new payment option for your customers. Amazon announced today that its Amazon Payments solutions are now available on platforms like CardinalCommerce, Miva Merchant, Magento, ShopVisible, Mercantec, and Zoovy.

Customer Experience is More Than Customer Service

Customer experience is more than just customer service. This is Amazon's philosophy, and you can see how successful that company is. BusinessWeek has an in depth look at Amazon's practices when it comes to dealing with customers, and small businesses looking to boost their own success should pay attention.

Items of Interest Regarding Amazon

There are a couple of items floating around the web about Amazon that may interest small business owners. First off, today they announced the opening of their office supplies store.

Can Venture Capital Be More Like EC2 and S3?

I'm becoming an increasingly big fan of infrastructure services like Amazon's EC2 and S3. The reason is simple: You pay for what you need at around the time that you need it. This is the point I made when recently interviewed by Erica Naoone of MIT Technology Review in an article aptly and succinctly titled "Cheap Infrastructure".

Getting Customers Without Google

Let's not be mistaken. Google is an incredible tool to get customers to find your business. There's no question about that. Some might spend so much time worrying about Google, however, that they overlook other areas of the Internet that can be just as helpful in attracting customers. Social Media