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Credit Key Gets $33.85M

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Los Angeles-based Credit Key , a startup which helps e-commerce merchants offer up instant point-of-sale financing to customers, has raised $33.85M in its Series A funding. The startup--led by startup veteran John Tomich--integrates with e-commerce payment systems, appearing as a payment option at checkout. READ MORE>>.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales.

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How OneStop Internet Is Powering Ecommerce For Brands

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If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. John Tomich: OneStop Internet is an e-commerce services company.

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White-label it: Make it ‘YOU’ inside.

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But, more often, this is just the virtualization of what we used to call outsourcing. In short, the underlying value of that company is the old-fashioned underlying value of outsourcing (if there was one): the outsourcer not only does it for you, the outsourcer shows you how to do it right, and does it at lower cost. .

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Prioritize mergers and acquisitions early.

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inQ Becomes TouchCommerce

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Agoura Hills-based inQ, a provider of outsourced web sales services, has renamed itself TouchCommerce, the firm said today. inQ offers web chat services for e-commerce web sites, which helps to close online sales and guide users to select and find products. inQ did not detail reasons for the name change.

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7 Keys To Making Many Millions In A Business You Love

Startup Professionals Musings

Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Use the Internet to outsource staff. A great way to make more money more easily online is to replace one-time sales with automatically renewing subscriptions. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.