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I'm sure you must have made some new year resolutions, plans or goals for your business. As we move into the last quarter of the year, now is a good time to reflect on them and the progress you've made so far.

You have no doubt been bombarded with emails from all manner of marketing 'gurus', including most of the big names, telling you to hurry up and get in on the "once in a lifetime" marketing opportunity of owning a long domain name of up to 65 characters.

Yep ... I'm going to tell you what you've probably heard a dozen times already - get your own domain name.

1. Email each visitor a satisfaction questionnaire after they purchase. This will allow you to improve your order system, customer service, site, etc.

The phenomenal growth of the Internet is revolutionizing the communication industry. Old models of communication strategy are becoming irrelevant.

1. Make your potential customers forget about the competition. Just tell them to forget with a factual and believable reason why they should.

1. Utilize holidays to increase your visitors or sales. You could give away free electronic greeting cards, hold discounts, send customers holiday cards, etc.

The Broadband Digital Group is busily signing up prospects for its free DSL services, and plans to offer the same service to businesses in the next phase of the plan. The benefits for the web community are obvious: consumers who would rather not spend the money for a DSL connection will now be able to enjoy high-end web content without the painful download time.