Shopit in December Issue of Entrepreneur Magazine

Widgets That Wow
These nifty tools add oomph to your website. The best part? They won't break your budget.

Static web pages are a thing of the past. Now you can spice up your site with all sorts of handy widgets to capture your customers' interest and help you stand out from the crowd. Think of widgets as bite-size web applications that can be placed in websites, whether it's your business's homepage, blog or web community profile. Online store widgets are a clever way to extend your e-tailing reach beyond your main website. Widgets can also be a quick way to add social networking features to your online business. Here's a roundup of some handy web widgets to get your internet business started on the right foot:

* Shopit: Put popular social networks and online communities to work with this social commerce widget. You get a free online "portable store" that can be embedded as a widget in blogs and sites like Facebook and MySpace. Yahoo! and eBay Store users can easily import their entire catalogs.