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	<description>...contemporary e-commerce business with a small business slant</description>
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		<title>Yahoo Stores and Microsoft Bids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morale must be pretty low at Yahoo! these days. Takeover bids, job cuts, and desperate measures - like pairing with Google for ad serving - make it seem like dark days for the internet pioneer company. Very few people are talking about Yahoo! stores in this deal. Yahoo! Stores are a well oiled ecommerce engine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/04/20/yahoo-stores-and-microsoft-bids/</link>
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		<title>Ecommerce Summit in New Orleans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 9th Annual Ecommerce Summit is taking place in New Orleans, April 22 through April 25. It has a lot of interesting looking session centering on things like navigating eBay changes using social networks in an ecommerce business. Also, there are panels on subjects like Product Sourcing and Yahoo Stores.
Cost is $299 minus travel and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/04/17/ecommerce-summit-in-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>Battling Behemoths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had always thought of Yahoo! as a major playa in the internet search marketing area. How odd they are fighting for survival right now. Attempting to deflect Microsoft&#8217;s takeover, which is becoming increasingly hostile, Yahoo! has taken to a Google partnership for ad serving - on a &#8216;test&#8217; basis. How ironic that just a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/04/10/battling-behemoths/</link>
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		<title>Longer than Normal Hold Times?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard that when calling certain companies?  Does it seem like you hear it every time you call? Such is the case with Monster Commerce.  I have called them many times over the past few years and each and every time I hear the message (aka excuse) &#8220;We are experiencing longer than normal hold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/03/14/longer-than-normal-hold-times/</link>
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		<title>The Strange Case of CompUSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CompUSA - memba them? Well they&#8217;re still around, sort of. CompUSA was once one of the top electronics retailers in the US but fell on hard times. Last March, they announced the shuttering of stores in many states (including Washington where I live). Then late last year, they announced they were just calling it quits.
However, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/03/02/the-strange-case-of-compusa/</link>
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		<title>MonsterCommerce Upgrading to Network Solutions Shopping Cart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MonsterCommerce is a long standing, mature provider of shopping cart software. They have been especially popular for home-based businesses using a Drop Ship model. In late 2005, they were acquired by Network Solutions. Now it appears they may be actually winding down their name. In fact, the MonsterCommerce.Com URL redirects to a Networks Solutions page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/02/22/monstercommerce-upgrading-to-network-solutions-shopping-cart/</link>
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		<title>The Best Sized Thumbnail?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the optimal sized thumbnail? Answer is &#8220;it depends&#8221;. Don&#8217;t you just love that answer? For one thing, it depends on what you&#8217;re thumbnailing. If it&#8217;s just a caption or something, a small one might do. But if you&#8217;re selling products of some kind, larger ones might be in order.
It used to be that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/02/15/the-best-sized-thumbnail/</link>
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		<title>Wrestling with Audible Audios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love audio! I&#8217;m not referring to music (although I like that too) but rather audio files that I can listen to providing me with some sort of insight, enlightenment, or otherwise educational information. I like them because I listen to them while I am engaged in activities where I can&#8217;t read a book or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/02/15/wrestling-with-audible-audios/</link>
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		<title>Amazon Merchants and Sales Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this bit on the NY Times blog about Amazon Sales Tax in New York State. As we all know, internet sales tax is about to be levied one way or another. That piece is about New York State sales in general, but it reflects a larger problem with Amazon and sales tax.
Their shopping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/02/14/amazon-merchants-and-sales-tax/</link>
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		<title>Will Buyers Leave eBay?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year we go through this: eBay announces fee changes, sellers get mad, threaten in the online forums to quit. A week or so later, life returns to normal. But is that the case this time?
This article from CNN Money, discusses a few of the eBay alternatives and it seems they are suddenly picking up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commonsenseecommerce.com/blog/2008/02/07/will-buyers-leave-ebay/</link>
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