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		<title>Developer Spotlight: Ventura Web Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, we brought you the first in our ongoing Developer Spotlight series, which highlights developers belonging to the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Developer Network. Next up, Kevin Richards, CEO of Ventura Web Design, shares a bit about the popular services and enhancements Ventura Web Design provides for Yahoo! Store merchants. He also offers some valuable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/05/developer-spotlight-ventura-web-design/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo! Small Business Awards Grants to Women Entrepreneurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, Yahoo! Small Business and Carolyn Kepcher (entrepreneur and former star of NBC&#8217;s &#34;The Apprentice&#34;) announced &#34;Seeds for Success,&#34; a new grant program for women entrepreneurs. Out of more than 5,500 submissions, Yahoo! and Kepcher selected three finalists. Each of the finalists will receive $20,000 business grants, $5,000 in web site and online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/yahoo-small-business-awards-grants-to-women-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<title>One-Two Punch Webinar: Web Design and Online Marketing Best Practices to Grow Your Yahoo! Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join Scott Smigler (Exclusive Concepts) and Eric Yonge (EYStudios) on Thursday, May 15 at 1&#160;p.m. EDT as they present One-Two Punch, a free webinar that will highlight web design and online marketing best practices used to design and market million-dollar Yahoo! Stores.
Topics will include:
PUNCH 1: Branding and Design for your Yahoo! Store

Why branding is important
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/one-two-punch-webinar-web-design-and-online-marketing-best-practices-to-grow-your-yahoo-store/</link>
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		<title>Delivering the Complete Package</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Mother&#8217;s Day coming up, I was recently browsing the Vermont Teddy Bear and PajamaGram stores for some gift ideas. While looking at the items in each store&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day section, as a potential customer, something caught my eye &#8211; messaging about the free gift packaging, gift card, and other special items included with every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/delivering-the-complete-package/</link>
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		<title>Join Yahoo! at the E-Commerce Summit in New Orleans April 23rd &#038; 24th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your business optimized? Are you working with the best vendors? Have you negotiated the best services and rates? Do you ever really know?!
It&#8217;s tough to know the all answers, but a good business manager should always make the effort. Yahoo! Store is working with an educational trade association of small business owners, called the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/join-yahoo-at-the-e-commerce-summit-in-new-orleans-april-23rd-24th/</link>
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		<title>Catalog Request Released for Checkout Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next time you&#8217;re in Checkout Manager, you may notice some new additions.  Page Configuration now has tabs for &#34;Catalog Request&#34; and &#34;Catalog Request Confirmation,&#34; there&#8217;s a few new Checkout Buttons, and Advanced Settings includes a section for enabling or disabling Catalog Request.  All this can only mean one thing &#8211; we&#8217;re happy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/catalog-request-released-for-checkout-manager/</link>
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		<title>Better insights into your traffic and conversion rates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what percent of visitors are first time vs. returning visitors and the difference in sales between the two? Ever wonder which keywords bring in traffic but not sales?  Ever wonder what you would do if you knew how your ad campaigns were performing in real-time and were able to make immediate changes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/better-insights-into-your-traffic-and-conversion-rates/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Developer Spotlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, we&#8217;re fortunate to have a substantial partner network devoted to our customers&#8217; success.  Our developer partners represent technology professionals with diverse types of expertise ranging from RTML development to custom design, and from backoffice integration to online marketing.  Over the coming months we&#8217;re going to be inviting our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/04/introducing-developer-spotlight/</link>
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		<title>Exclusive Concepts Free Webinar: Email Campaigns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merchants who&#8217;d like to learn more about running email campaigns for their store may be interested in an upcoming free webinar, Generating New Sales from Old Customers with Email, hosted by Exclusive Concepts. Join them on Wednesday April 9, 2008 from 1-2 p.m. EDT and learn how to:

Use email to speak directly to the different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/03/exclusive-concepts-free-webinar-email-campaigns/</link>
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		<title>Finding the &#8220;Seeds for Success&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a woman who&#8217;d like to start or grow a business online, or if you know someone who fits this description, be sure to check out a post made by entrepreneur/television personality Carolyn Kepcher to Yodel Anecdotal, the Yahoo! corporate blog.  The post outlines &#8220;Seeds for Success: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs,&#8221; a new grant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ystoreblog.com/blog/2008/03/finding-the-seeds-for-success/</link>
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