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Slate BizBox--corporate brother of The Washington Post--on the Post's breaking news that, scandalously, nearly $6 billion in federal "small business" contracts were awarded to big corporations. Read More

Watch out for a new brand of consumer in 2008: the middle-aged Simplifier. She finds herself surrounded by too much stuff acquired. She is increasingly skeptical in the face of a financial meltdown that it was all worth the effort. Out will go luxury purchases, conspicuous consumption, and a trophy culture. Tomorrow's consumer will buy more ephem Read More

Yahoo is giving advertisers the ability to target ads by ZIP code rather than just by city and state. The ZIP code targeting feature analyzes a searcher's Internet Protocol (IP) address and manually-input user data, then serves ads based on their location. Read More

Guy Kingston gives more advice and guidance to entrepreneurs on dealing with the current cash crisis. Read More

Figures suggesting that fake anti-virus packages are allowing cybercrooks to make more than €10m a month are been described as little better than guesswork. Vendors across the industry are warning that scarewore packages - which attempt to trick would-be marks into handing over their hard-earned cash for packages that claim to resolve fictitious i Read More

Every Page has a Unique Title and Keyword Phrase Page title is the most important signal to search engines that a web page is unique and important. The title describes the content search engines and web travelers will find when they arrive at your page. SEO Experts know that web searchers click, they are more likely to go for search engine results Read More

If you're reading this blog, and haven't yet read David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR, go out right now and get his book. When we first came upon his book, about a year into HubSpot's life, we called him up and said, we started a company based on your book. That initiated a wonderful, long-lasting relationship with David, whi Read More

With search engine optimization you can get the benefit of generating a high traffic volume. Let's just say you get only a turn out of successful sales with 10 to 20 percent of your traffic. If you get a hundred hits or more a day, you get a good turn out of sales already. If you get only twenty to ten hits a day, you only get one or two if not a Read More

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