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Blitz Ezine # 197 January 13, 2003
Creating a Database - Newbie web site start guide

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Happy New Year
The Blitz-Promotions News Letter.
Issue no. 197, Jan. 13, 2003

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Comments
Food for thought
Articles
The Classifieds
Next Issues
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This year we're going to search our archives for some golden oldies. Articles we published in 2000 that are still relevant today.

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Food for thought
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Norman Vincent Peale

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Creating A Database - The Basics
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This month's articles are all about how to build databases to help your business run smoother. Last week we talked about some off the shelf solutions for databases.

http://www.blitzpromotions.com/blitz196.htm

This week we'll start building a follow up database. Next week we'll finish it and then we'll work on a customer database.

For our project we'll be using Access 2002. We also learned a lot ourselves from the following site - you should take some time and read their tutorial first - then continue with the lesson.

http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/access/begin.html

1. Open Access 2002

2. Select File > New > Database - then name it.

3. We then want to Create a table using the Design wizard. What we want to use this database for is a follow up manager. When someone calls us or emails us for a quote or for more information, we'll add them here.

4. We then choose the fields that we want to use from the samples.

5. We then add data in our database, this sample record will help us to play with our database a bit.

So far the database is useless - now we want to actually put it to work. So we want to create some forms. A form can be used for gathering information or inputting records. We created one to make it easier to add our followups by using the following guide.

http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/access/forms.html

Next week we'll be adding function to the database and also making it 'look' better.

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From the Archives - Blitz 80
Promoting your ebook - 9 good spots
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1. From Yahoo- Two directory lists. http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Electronic_Literature/Web_Directories/

2. And a larger list http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Electronic_Literature/Collections/

3.The Ebook Directory
http://www.ebookdirectory.com/

4. Ebooks and Bytes ($19.95/year)
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/ebooks.html

5. Ebookstand
http://www.ebookstand.com/bestsellingdirectorymore.html

6. Electronic Journals and Newsgroups- pick the appropriate announcement list.
http://inf2.pira.co.uk/base11.htm

7. E-book Palace
http://www.ebookpalace.com/

8. Announce it with E-book News
http://www.egroups.com/community/Ebook_News

9. Ebook Connections
http://www.ebookconnections.com/

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Tidbits
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Found this in my morning ramblings on the net - some places to find wholesale products.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Wholesale_Trade
http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Wholesale_Trade/Liquidators
http://www.tdwcloseouts.com/