There's an enemy that you have to face if you want to run your own business -- online or otherwise. It keeps a lot of good business ideas from ever being developed at all. It keeps others on the sidelines or in the shadows.

If you're an entrepreneur who's not thriving (or if you've wanted...
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Five months too late to do me and good, Amazon will start shipping an ad-supported version of their Kindle* eBook reader on May 3 for $114 (you can pre-order now).

They folks over at Ars Technica don't seem to think that cutting $25 off the price will be enough to induce a lot of people...
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Google has announced their own rival to the Facebook "Like" button: +1.

Which is better? Let's give them a look.

Facebook "Like"

The Facebook "Like" button appears on a webpage. When a Facebook user clicks it, their name may be listed next to the button, and a note about it will appear on their Wall....
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Every few days, I see a tweet about the latest edition of somebody or other's Paper.li publication. Occasionally, something I've written shows up in one, and I appreciate that. But do I ever read them? Well, I haven't yet.

Paper.li looks kinda cool -- you mash up all the interesting stuff you've been reading, organize...
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Today, let's sing the praises of people who deserve praise. Name the best internet marketing product you've ever bought, and tell us what's so great about it.

It could be an info product, a script, a coaching package, a membership, a seminar you attended -- whatever. As long as it made a difference in your...
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My wife and I had been thinking for a while of getting Amazon Kindles, so when dad asked what we wanted for Christmas, we decided it was time. Let me share the good and bad of my experience so far.

Since wireless internet is available at home and church, and we don't anticipate needing urgent...
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David Frey asked his Twitter followers a question this morning:

QUESTION: I'm building a new blog. Should I use a commenting system like Disqus or Facebook comments? What say you?

I'd been thinking of blogging on the subject, so I guess today's the day.

I, for one, don't like third party comment systems, for a...
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Did the announcement for your last event look something like this:

The door opens at 12:00 noon Eastern. That's 9:00am Pacific, 11:00am Central (sorry, Mountain, not enough people in your timezone for me to list you), 5:00pm GMT (a.k.a. UTC)...

The only thing worse than that mess is to only name your own timezone, leaving...
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Dan Thies and Leslie Rohde are launching Link Liberation 2.0 today. It looks like a great product, but the price tag is going to be hard for a lot of people to swallow. Scratch that. It's going to be impossible. Fortunately, you have an alternative.

Link Liberation is a combination of SEO/link building training and...
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When I heard the other day that Jason Potash and Jason Katzenback are launching a new autoblogging course/system, it caught my attention. Not because I'm planning on becoming an autoblogger, but because I wondered how any big-name marketer could be pushing autoblogging these days.

I downloaded their "free report" and gave it a read. It...
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