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Provides a comprehensive checklist of 27 promotional techniques to build traffic to a business website, with links to sources with further information, including advertising, search engine stratagies, META tags, reciprocal links, PPC buys, e-zines, newsletters, PR public relations, and e-mail marketing.

excellent article. maybe could combine some of the numbers.

Notice "Weekly Poll" on marketingpower.com home page

I thought this was an interesting article potentially for maybe a Center for Regional Studies Blog

Here is another good article on small business uses for Twitter

From INC. Magazine Using Twitter to Find Customers By Minda Zetlin Most businesses think of Twitter as a promotional tool, but it can also be used to find sales leads. Here's how to use Twitter to find potential customers and how to convert those contacts into sales. Boloco, a burrito restaurant chain with 16 locations often runs ads in a Boston newspaper. The ads contain coupons for the chain's popular burritos for a special price of $3. It makes sense to advertise in Boston, since 13 of the chain's 16 restaurants are there, but CEO and co-founder John Pepper wished the ads could also bring customers to Boloco restaurants in New Hampshire and Vermont. So, when he ran one recent ad, Pepper also posted a photo of the coupon on Twitter, inviting diners to bring in any image of the coupon -- a photocopy, printout, or even an image on a mobile phone -- to get the discount.

Social Media Report is really interesting