On December 1, 2009

Landing Page Optimization Silver Bullets

If you're out of ideas to improve your landing page and boost conversion rates, this article will be refreshing. Landing page optimization expert Tim Ash explore three themes: "Less is more," Personalization, and the Offer. It will stimulate your thinking -- and affect your bottom line very quickly.

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Raise Your Voice on Online Merchant and Advertising Taxes

We’re keeping a close eye on legislation related to Sales Tax and how it affects online merchants. Not long ago, Wray covered briefly what is popularly called the “Amazon Tax,” for the impact sales and state tax legislation will have on Amazon’s behemoth online business and the affiliates who earn some money because of their [...]

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Conventional Buy: SandRidge Plunks Down $800M for Popular Permian Basin Property

Less than a month after SandRidge Energy dropped its bid for bankrupt Crusader Energy, the company announced another acquisition -- one nearly four times as large -- of oil and gas properties in the Permian Basin in Texas. SandRidge will spend $800 million for the property owned by Denver-based Forest Oil Corp. About $720 million of the price will be used to acquire 80 million barrels of oil equivalent of proved reserves. The remaining $80 million will be used to buy undeveloped acreage, equipment and other assets, according to a statement from SandRidge. The transaction is expected to close on or before Dec. 31. SandRidge has focused on traditional conventional gas plays in the West Texas Overthrust, where it holds leases...

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Fritz Quits: GM Board Makes a Change After Opel Non-Deal

Fritz Henderson resigned as president and CEO of General Motors, after plans to sell GM's European operations very publicly fell through. Chairman Ed Whitacre will take over his duties for now.

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Sanofi’s Cancer Division Next on the Chopping Block? Up to 1,200 Jobs Gone This Week

The cancer shoe has yet to drop at Sanofi-Aventis (SNY), a source tells BNET, as the company lays off as many as 1,200 sales reps and other staff. Sales of Sanofi's Eloxatin cancer drug were decimated by generic competition this year, and the company is getting ready to ax many staff there.

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On December 1, 2009

AHA Figures Show Rise in Government Underpayments, Charity Care

AHA figures show that hospitals are providing more charity care and are being underpaid by the government at an increasing rate. But what lies behind the data?

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On December 1, 2009

Rate Your Follow Through on Ideas

I was chatting with a friend this weekend and she asked, “Hey, what ever happened to that great idea you had a couple of weeks ago?” My initial response was, “which one?” After all, I’m an entrepreneur and a coach;...

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Shoppers Mean Business on Cyber Monday

Online sales were up almost 14 percent year over year for 2009's Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving and traditionally a big selling day for online retailers. Shoppers spent over 38 percent more per order compared to 2008's figures, and they bought nearly 10 percent more items per order, according to market research firm Coremetrics.

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Why are Taxes so Complicated? The Eight Levels To Tax Law

While most people assume that tax laws are absolute, the truth is there are many areas of tax law which require significant interpretation by experts. It is virtually impossible for Congress to anticipate every possible application of any new law when that law is written. The responsibility falls to the Internal Revenue Service [...]

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On December 1, 2009

Small Businesses Stand Ground On Environmental Issues

In case you were wondering, the recession hasn't caused the average small business to either take another look at coal or replace all of its light bulbs with the latest in LED technology. A new report indicates that businesses' environmental policies have more or less remained the same.