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Teaching Sells, and free content catches

TeachingSells.com, a website that means what it says, is giving away free (subsidised) content.
here is the link
http://teachingsells.com/get-the-goods/#item-07
So now you to can learn why teaching sells.

Bill Mays’ Selling Magic

A great article on what key factors Billy Mays attributes to successful marketing.
http://www.melissadata.com/enews/marketingadvisor/articles/0909/1.htm

my smb - my small biz store

this is a website to copy
http://www.mysmbstore.com/marketplace/storefront/index.espx

learning from under the radar

http://www.undertheradarblog.com/
very interesting

Save time with TimeSvr

I just found TimeSvr.com (while commenting on a neat post over on personalmba).
From the looks of it TimeSvr is a virtual assistant service. So I am “bookmarking” it here to look into at another time.
Virtual Assistant services have been in the lime light with books like The World is Flat and 4 hour work [...]

MerchantCircle - a one-stop small business marketing solution?

I have known about MerchantCircle for quite awhile but had never really delved deep into all that they have to offer.
Interestingly, today I was creating a listing on MerchantCircle as part of some local search optimisation for a client and I found that MerchantCircle offers a basic blog and a (seemingly free) basic newsletter [...]

A real freeware bulk photo resizer - Picasa

I don’t know about you, but to me there are few things worse that the tease of shareware.
If it is the case that I only need to use a certain software once then I do not mind shareware. But in general that is not the case.
So I have a client project that requires me to [...]

How to get customer reviews on Google

here is an interesting article about getting customer reviews on Google!!
http://www.semreportcard.com/small-buiness-tips-for-local-online-customer-reviews/

Just Say No To Flash

Flash makes my small business look more professional = Common misconception
As a minimalist-loving web developer nothing gets my eyes rolling faster than a small business that “has to have” flash animation on its website.
Please! read http://flashsucks.org/
It is a common misconception that small business people have that adding Flash to your website makes it look [...]

Tattling on Google Local Spammers

Are your competitors spamming Google Local?
Turf them out!
Google has a page for reporting Google maps spam
Thanks Blumenthal