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Who’s your mommy? Reviewing the excellent Mommy Blog

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I’ve found the gold standard of writer’s blogs: The Mommy Blog. It’s been around a while, but in the past few months they’ve undertaken a redesign. The result is a terrific site that builds the writer’s and the book’s brand, creates and enhances community, and is just plain fun to explore. The site has so […]

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Straight from the Customer’s Mouth: How Customer Testimonials Can Win Sales

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From Startup Journal: “Winning Sales Through Customer Testimonials” by Sarah Needleman. Mr. Welsh recruited one of Expensewatch’s first customers, a director of finance at a Texas manufacturer, who had sent a complimentary email about its products. The executive presented a 20-minute speech, accompanied by an online demo Expensewatch created. About 75 participants called in. The […]

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Eyes on the EnterPrize: Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Business Plan Competition

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Got a killer business idea? Need to put together your business plan? Enter the EnterPrize Business Plan Competition, sponsored by the Pittsburgh Technology Council and get all the tools you need, plus a chance at investment cash. From the website: Who will be the next EnterPrize winner?Someone with the next great technology business idea. Someone […]

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Google vs. PayPal

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From today’s Wall Street Journal, “PayPal Prepares for a Challenge from Google” (free feature): Long the Internet’s leading online-payments service, PayPal has a 24% market share of U.S. online payments, according to financial-institution consulting firm Celent LLC. PayPal, founded in 1998, boasts 96 million accounts with consumers who want to send payments online without revealing […]

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Geek Night the 45th

Backdoor Web Design: Creating Websites Without Resorting to FrontPage

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We received a request for a free site analysis this week, asking us to help debug a site built in Microsoft FrontPage and wouldn’t display correctly on a Mac. As it turned out…

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