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How to Start a Small Business - Fabulous Tips on How to Get Started
There is always something special in undertaking a business due to the wonderful challenges which one has to face during this process. There are numerous business opportunities that are available to people which will be of great help to earn good amount of money.
Two Business Owners - Two Ways to Ring in Success in 2010
Most female entrepreneurs probably strive throughout the year to improve their business' efficiency, strategize for growth and meet market needs. However, the New Year provides women business owners with an opportunity to slow down and really examine the structures on which they've built their companies, and to work strategically to better those structures for long-term success - in whatever way they define it.
What to Do When You're Paralyzed by Fear
Over the last year, as business owners we've come through all types of ups and downs with our economic shifts. Times have changed for sure. Some businesses made it, others closed their doors for good. All business owners go through some level of fear - whether we choose to admit it or not. Here's my 5-part strategy for pulling yourself right out of that paralyzing fear and leaping straight onto the path of success.
Top Three Reasons Your Business Will Benefit From Off-Site File Storage
A lot of small businesses struggle with lack of physical space. Off-site self storage is a solution that doesn't require long term investment. Check out reasons why you should sign-up for one.
Four Questions About Core Values and Your Business
For entrepreneurs and small business owners, business values are personal values. Your personal core values define who you are and what you believe in, align your business with your true self, make it easier to identify your ideal clients, establish a powerful voice and provide a clear path for the tough decisions every entrepreneur faces.
Open Coffee Shop - Does Your Coffee Shop Strategies Makes Any Sense?
Now, you have made a lot of plans and finally it is time to take the plunge into entrepreneurship. Before you open coffee shop, there are a few things you must consider first. One of the most critical things is the level of competition in the area. You do not actually have to make sure that your coffee shop is the only own in town. What you need to do is to conduct an in depth research before committing your hard earned money in a coffee shop.
What Are Business Requirements in a Software Company?
Business requirements gathering is an important yet vital thing to do before starting development work for a software project in any organization. Here we will see what are requirements in business?
Buying an Existing Business vs Starting My Own Business
Do you buy an existing business? Do you start your own business? Buying an existing business can be safer than starting your own business from start-up. Business start ups unfortunately have a fairly high failure rate. Some risk may be mitigated by buying an existing business.
Don't Mix Personal (Email Addresses) With Business
If you're a small business owner you should be promoting yourself as a real business in every way you possibly can. And with so many services available, such as virtual office addresses, telephone answering services, and 08 or 03 business telephone numbers, it's really not difficult to so just that. There is, however, one sure-fire way to destroy your business image and that's by using a personal email address on your business stationery.
Managed Anti-Spam Services Keep Small Businesses Clean
A managed anti-spam program is more than just a convenience; it is an insurance policy for your small business. In 2003, Trend Micro estimated that viruses caused a total of $55 billion in damage to businesses, and this number continues to climb every year as new viruses are created and distributed-usually through spam emails. The best and most up-to-date spam filters, equipment, and engineering are needed to keep these Internet threats at bay.
Four Effective Small Business Marketing Tips
The time is now for small businesses to take control of their marketing. Consumers are gravitating towards the internet every day looking for solutions to their problems. We've listed a few tips for small businesses that will effectively generate interest and traffic.
Corporate Catering - How to Do it the Right Way
It's a tricky thing to organize corporate events. You have to learn a few tricks here and there in order to meet the budget and deliver the best corporate party.
How to Stand Out From Your Competitors
Why will people choose you over the myriad of companies in your market? What makes people buy from one company over another? If it's not price then what?
5 Questions to Ask Your Wholesale Flowers Supplier
Success of a flower shop hinges on many variables, including marketing and customer service. But the basic building block is finding the best wholesale flowers supplier. Finding the best wholesale flowers supplier is simply the single most important business decision you will make.
Hot Dog Concession Trailers - 3 Tips About Hot Dog Concession Stand Businesses
When it comes to hot dog concession trailers and owning one there are some advantages and disadvantages when comparing them to hot dog carts or trucks. When you run a hot dog business you will need either a cart, trailer, or truck; therefore, knowing the pros and cons of a concession trailer for your wiener business is important. These 3 tips will give you some good suggestions and facts about how to make the best decision for your hot dog business profits.

Newsfeed display by CaRP

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Displaying RSS Feeds on Your Web Page

 Sanjay Johari

RSS feeds have made it very convenient to syndicate information from various sources. Most of websites and services that publish fresh content, such as ezines, press release, new agencies, blogs make their content available thru RSS feeds. As new content is published the RSS feed gets updated automatically.

Adding RSS feeds to web pages has many advantages. Let us say you have added RSS feeds from a popular ezine on one of your web pages.

• The content of the web page is automatically updated as the ezine makes new content available via RSS feeds. Every time search engine spiders crawl your web page they are likely to find the web page updated.

• The visitors to your web site will also find new content on every visit and they might be tempted to visit your web page more often.

• You do not have to bother about writing fresh content as RSS feeds are updated automatically.

Earlier I had written an article on adding RSS feeds to a web page using java script. While this method makes fresh content available to the readers, the content of the feed cannot be “read” by search engine spiders. Therefore the web page does not get the benefit of changing content from the search engines.

On the other hand php based installation makes it possible for spiders to notice the changing content of the web page. This article is a follow-up of my previous article which outlines simple steps to put RSS feeds on a web page.

For the purpose of this article I have chosen the free version of software available from CaRP. The software can be downloaded from this site:

http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

The instruction manual which comes with the package gives detailed instructions for installing and running the software. Additional information is available from the site. While there are several options available for using the software, I am showing here the simplest steps to load and run the software:

1. Download the software on your computer. It comes in a zip file. After unzipping save the available folders and files on your computer. These files and folders will be available – carp (folder), img (folder), carpsetup.php, README.html .

2. Upload all the files and folders to the root directory of your website. This can be done by using FTP. If uploading is done file by file, ensure that the names of the files and folders, and location of files in their folders do not change.

3. Create a new mySQL database.

4. Run the setup file carpsetup.php from you web browser.

5. A new page will be displayed. On this page select mySQL database option which is easier of the two options given there.

6. Another new page will open in which you have to fill the details of mySQL database. Click on “Create Database Tables”.

7. The page which opens now will have code which has to be put on the web page where you want to show RSS feed. The code will be displayed in a gray box.

8. Within the code there is “setup code”. This setup code should be pasted into a file called carpconf.php . The file will be available in carp directory. On the html script of this file locate the line “//Add configuration code that applies to all themes here” . Just below this line paste the setup code.

9. Choose a web page where RSS feed has to be displayed. The file name of the page should have .php extension. If your page has .html or .htm extension, you can try replacing only the extension with .php . Normally this should not change the way the page appears in a web browser. If you encounter any problem you could make a new web page with .php extension.

10. At appropriate location of the web page, where you want RSS feed to be displayed, paste the code in the html script of the page. From there you can remove the setup code. It is not required to be added to all pages once it has been added to carpconf.php page in step 8 above.

11. If you now open your web page in the web browser it will start showing the RSS feed which comes along with the package. For changing this to RSS feed of your choice you will need to make changes in the code you have entered in step 10. In the code there is a URL after CarpCasheShow. Change this URL with the URL of RSS feed you wish to display.

Now the web page will display the RSS feed of your choice. You can choose to display more feeds on the same page or have separate pages for RSS feeds for different sources.

You can see this page on my website on which RSS feed has been added using exactly the steps shown here.

http://www.sanjay-j.com/RSSFILE/homebusinesspop.php

You can see some more pages from the links on left column of this page.

I have tried to make the process easy to follow. You can always refer to more detailed instructions which come with the package. Take advantage of the free content available and use them to boost your page positioning and traffic to your website.