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If you haven't noticed, some blogs are a lot stricter with their comment policies than others. I have recently advocated using blog comments as a way of promoting your site, but not in a form that is in any way spammy. The best way to get traffic from blog comments is to link your name to your site. This will give them the opportunity to see Read More

Ubuntu's deep software catalog, focus on usability and active community combine with long-term support to put desktop Linux's best face forward. Read More

I thought this was a great video on the importance have providing more than one offer when selling and negotiating. Read More

John Holsen, Founder of www.bizSugar.com, was gracious enough to allow for an interview. This very busy entrepreneur has a lot on his plate, but takes some time to share with us why “bizSurgar,” what it will do for fellow entrepreneurs, how it compares to Digg and much more! Read More

Though fashion still accounts for 41% of the total teen budget, total teen spending in the category declined nearly 20% year over year, pointing to a “discretionary recession,” according to the 15th semi-annual “Taking Stock With Teens” study by Piper Jaffray. Compared with last year's study, young men spent 15% less on discretionary items (fa Read More

Want to know the secret to email follow up? TWO WORDS: Subject line. Because that's the only thing customers see. Because that's the only thing customers have the time to read. Because that's the only thing customers will use to decide whether or not to open it. Because that's the only way you can immediately differentiate yourself in the Read More

What's more stereotypically trivial than shoe shopping? Using Twitter, of course! Online shoe retailer Zappos does shoes and social media remarkably well. Scores of bloggers, lots of video blogging and 198 employees on Twitter help keep the company's profile high and humanize the folks behind the shoe sales. Of all the different types of soci Read More

Jeff Bezos recently highlighted, Animoto, a great self-service video creation site. As a former TV commercial director and still photographer I can relate to what Jeff is saying -- in the old days it took dozens of hours in an expensive post-production studio to create even the simplest video from collections of stills. Animoto can do it in a Read More

Picture this: you get to work on time (because you've followed a well-thought-out morning routine!), you have fresh coffee just the way you like it, your computer is completely booted up and ready to get some work done, and you look over to see your neatly stacked pile of projects for the day—already prioritized because you've mastered your paper Read More

You know about backing up files at work, but when you get home it is easy to overlook the home computer, which in so many cases has insinuated itself into household routines. You come home, you check your email. You need to write a quick thank you to a friend, you run to the computer to pull up her address. You want to keep up with your nieces and Read More