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Google's local business center is providing marketers with a complete arsenal of weapons to trap time-starved prospects, including video as we told you last week. Marketer John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing followed up with great post, reminding me of all the ways you can use Google local business services (i.e., the maps). To my mind, his li Read More

Welcome to the world of "credit card shaving." Like mathematicians searching for the right formula, thieves painstakingly try out combinations of 16 digits until they come up with a series that fits someone's card number. They grab gift cards found in most grocery stores and craft their own credit card or debit card -- shaving numbers off the g Read More

With the tagline "Change the world...one business at a time," Kivab4b.org offers entrepreneurs and small businesses an easy way to participate in cause-related marketing. Read More

A competing online marketing company's unorthodox approach to self-promotion got consultant Karl Long thinking about ways he could use his personal blog as a public relations tool to help his company, Local Zing. Read More

It's a frighteningly common myth - small businesses who falsely believe their data is safe. After years in IT, featuring numerous calls from people asking to be rescued, I assembled this quick guide which can help any small business avoid the misery. Read More

In the last 30 days, lenders have sent several hundred thousand letters advising borrowers that their home equity lines of credit are frozen. Small-business owners who use home equity lines to bridge cash-flow gaps throughout the year are also being stricken by these curbs. Read More

Many Corporations start blogs without the right idea of how to really connect with their customers. See some great examples of how some top companies are using their blogs to connect. Read More

Is there anything in your email that you would not want exposed? Our recently resigned D.A., Chuck Rosenthal, was ousted, or outed, when his past years of emails were subpoenaed by defense attorneys in preparation for a trial. Somehow the judge who granted the subpoena allowed press access to not just the messages relating to that case, bu Read More

A comprehensive listing of sites with publicly available data to be used for programming or even marketing research and analysis. Read More

We've all seen the usual success story: a 20-something programmer gets an idea, launches a website, and within months he's already got huge traffic, multi-million dollar exit options and an interview with Wired. All the traffic graphs go straight up without faltering even for a day. These types of stories have created an atmosphere in which no Read More