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Launch Net is making “Naked” DSL available to Small Office/Home Office folks who want to “Lose the Phone Company”. For as little as $39.95 per month, you can operate without the phone company and their hassles! Click here to check availability in your area…
Naked DSL is designed for users who want standard DSL [...]

Many small businesses use MySpace and other social networking sites to bootstrap their marketing.
One tool to automate My Space marketing is SpaceAdder.com
Test it yourself. I’m not a My Spacer so can’t comment on its relative virtues but thought you might want to know about it.
Promoting on Myspace? - SpaceAdder.com
Promoting on Myspace?
Friend Requester - This one [...]

Here’s an article for new online entrepreneurs.
By Pam Lindsay
Like many people, you may have been dreaming of the day when you can start your very own online business. You’ve got a great idea waiting to explode, and you know that it’s going to be a winner. The vision is there, as are the enthusiasm and [...]

There’s nothing worse than having a $300 IPOD sitting around collecting dust because you can’t transfer your favorite music to it.
Here an enterprising computer whiz offers to do just that!
Let me help load your CD collection on your iPod!
Just get a new iPod and have tons of CDs to load on it? Don’t want the [...]

Wal Mart’s latest online move is to cash in on the Teen Scene with their own MySpace clone… The Hub
The power of social networking sites is such that even the biggest retailer in the world had to take a look.
From AdAge:
Desperate to appeal to teens with something other than pencils and backpacks during the crucial [...]

The ingenious but busy Dan Sherman has recently given folks an update. One that that struck me as important for many microbusinesses is one of his projects called PurpleStreet.com for microbusinesses:
PurpleStreet.com - (The site is a template right now… we’re doing development on it so what is there now is nothing like the actual final [...]

New Zealand’s teleworking community is growing slowly and still relatively low tech. It is expected to increase with the proliferation of broadband connections and formal telecommuting policies.From the New Zealand Herald
[Telework Consultant Bevis] England says a well established telework programme will typically deliver a business $300,000 per 100 employees per year in cost savings [...]

Local business owners don’t have time to figure out internet marketing. They just want to make money.
Yellow Page ad providers who are losing revenue to online ads had to do something… they have the time, resources, and expertise (or can buy it) to give the business owners what they want… clicks without having to learn [...]

As I was out snooping around yesterday, I found how one realtor uses the ‘net to his advantage as a powerful lead generator.
As you know homes are listed on the Multiple Listing Service and agent input new data all the time.
Most home buyers depend on an agent to track down new leads or hunt through [...]

Major Newspapers chains seeing their revenues dwindle precipitously are are jumping on board with Yahoo.
Yahoo hopes the joint venture will provide unique content and more exposure for their HotJobs.com job listings.
Newspapers hope to get a share of the revenue from the contextual ads Yahoo will display with their content.
And Yahoo’s penetration into local markets will [...]