PUYALLUP, WA – This past May, six Puyallup business owners traveled to Colorado to hear business growth guru Jon Schallert share ideas to grow, market, and promote their businesses. Shaun Nestor, of Coffee Bar in downtown Puyallup, was one of the attendees and wants every area business owner to hear what Schallert has to say.

“Jon [...]

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Amazon and PayPal have long not been partners in commerce. Of course, the reason for this most oft stated is basic competition. As you might know, Amazon introduced last year its Amazon Payments shop-till-your-cell-phone-drops Apr-2-2008 system for use at Amazon.com and partner sites.

Still, the idea of broadening the Amazon Payments business greatly piques the [...]

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Nearly three-fourths of U.S. cell phone users recently surveyed don’t want to ride in airplanes with passengers talking on phones.
The results dovetail with what several airlines have apparently decided already as they prepare to roll out wireless in-flight services such as e-mail, text and instant messaging access from user devices. Those services, however, apparently [...]

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Contrary to popular belief, great companies are not borne from great ideas alone.  We’d all love to think that if we could simply invent the next Post-It note, we could sit back and watch the cash tumble in.

But if great ideas don’t spawn great companies, what does?

The short answer is: you.  The longer and far [...]

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Some say that since the economy is suffering from slowed growth right now, the amount of money spent on advertising will also take a downward turn. Others point towards the online marketing solutions as cost effective ways in which to circumvent any budget-pinching effects on the marketing end. Whatever the case may be, organic, word-of-mouth [...]

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Last week, Connecticut’s Attorney General sent a letter to Craigslist demanding the site cleanup what he described as “widespread public reports of prostitutes using the site,” according to Thomas Claburn at Infoworld. At issue are the “erotic services” sections that can be readily found in most of the cities that the popular classifieds site supports, [...]

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Hey there … my buddy, Nathan Anderson, author of Search Engine Optimization Tactics (available right now for free) recently re-launched his incredible SEO Club.

I was a member of SEO Club back in 2003 when Nathan first started providing this kind of data. “What kind of data” you ask?

Here is a snippet:
Membership to SEO Club [...]

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Over the past week, I’ve come across several very interesting sites. Rather than writing an entire post for each of them, I’ve consolidated them into one post. Have fun:

Zopa
Zopa calls what they do “Social Finance”. They want to change how money is shared (borrowed/loaned). “We will bring people together online so they can [...]

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Written by Mashable.com contributer, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins

Jason Calacanis today wrote what I think is one of the best guides for startups looking to save money I’ve seen in a while. Most of the ideas are more or less of the V-8 variety (that is, the kind that after you hear them make you slap your [...]

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