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Since 2002, we who advocate the paid search niche of marketing have been pretty vocal about how much more this stuff can do than people realize. It's not pure direct marketing, we've pleaded. It can do other stuff too! It can sing, dance, weld, flutter, soar, and giggle. It deodorizes, disinfects, scours, and scrubs - without scratching (unless th Read More

Are you wilting in a market meltdown? If you're a real estate agent, there is a good chance that a daisy chain of financial disaster—collapsing housing bubble, wave of sub prime defaults, frozen corporate credit markets—has become your worst nightmare. Read More

One of the simplest things to do to get your contact in front of other bloggers in these circumstances is to email them to let them know of your post and/or to suggest it as a potential story for their own blog. Read More

I can't believe a new feature from Google isn't getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free. The Google webmaster blog just announced that you can find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site. Read More

MySpace launched a beta version of its do-it-yourself advertising platform that's aimed at letting individuals and small businesses create their own ads that can be customized to specific users of the social network. The new MyAds service, which MySpace first detailed in November, will enable anyone to create customized banner advertisements u Read More

E-mail lead-nurturing programs that garner the highest clickthrough rates are those that send e-mails to prospects at least three to four times a month, compared to programs that send just one e-mail a month. Read More

Here are ten cool links to free stuff that will benefit both bloggers and copywriters. Read More

For marketers, the most chilling piece of the Sequoia presentation is a slide on the advertising market. They show the total U.S. market beginning to shrink and growth of online advertising beginning to slow. Read More

In speech after speech, presidential candidate John McCain hammers on the claim that his rival Barack Obama will raise taxes on many small businesses. Should small business owners fear for their wallets if Obama is elected? Read More

Lately I've been pondering the part that social media plays in my blogging business. This post is an attempt to make some sense of it. I'd value your thoughts in comments to help me take these half thought through ideas to something more concrete. Those who have been following me for a while know that I not only spend a lot of time on my blogs b Read More