today, most of us cannot live without email. What would you do if suddenly all email you sent bounced back for no reason? You would think the problem would only last a few hours, but the issue may persist for days. Clients and friends will start complaining and this could be very annoying. If you have experienced something like this, your email address may be black listed. One of the major reasons is spam blockers.

On a not very beautiful day, you visit your website and suddenly you see this warning "This website at www.MyWebsite.com (example) has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preference". This is not a fictitious scenario; we have seen this problem hurt businesses time and time again and it just happened with one of our clients a few days ago.

If you have never run an ecommerce business, and only have a small budget to build your online business, you will probably want to hire some freelance designers or developers who can help you build an suitable online shopping cart, and begin selling. Here are a 6 points you should know to save time and money:

On May 26, 2010, I attended an event at Asia Society New York. The speaker was Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos. His talk was about "Delivering Happiness", his coming book this June, 2010, and it was very inspiring.

I'd like to share with you my notes at the event, for those friends who was not there:

Many businesses now consider Search Engines as an important lead source for business. The question is how to drive relevant traffic that is more likely to be converted into customers. These 6 quick notes may help you improve the quality of the traffic from Search Engines!

Note #1: Focus on Keywords that exactly target your buyers
Note #2: Learn from your competitors
Note #3: Choose a good domain
Note #4: Optimize your website for long-tail product names
Note #5: Optimize for Google Images
Note #6: Optimize for other Search Engines