Hello, just read an article in Chicago Crains Business about how effective blogging can be for a small business as a sales and marketing tool and thought I better get to it!  If you would like to read the article you can find it here http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?article_id=26325&postDate=2006-08-12 

Another amazing (to me anyway) thing this edition talks about is how more than HALF of all small businesses don't have a website!  And of those that do only 15% use it for real marketing or sales tactics.  That was really surprising to me.  Haven't those businesses heard of eBay?  There are a number of good articles in their Focus section on small business and the internet, click here for all the articles.  http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/department.pl?postDate=2006-08-12&id=65&arc=n

I hope some folks outside of Chicago can enjoy and learn as much as I did from these articles.

My intention is to help those businesses without websites, or who are afraid of getting online all together find an additional sales channel for their business by allowing me to sell their products for them.  I handle all the fun stuff!  Hopefully I will here from some of you!  Have a great day!