In the world of online business networking, there are many quality communities available depending on the particular market you are interested in pursuing. openBC is fast becoming my favorite of the business networking sites as it not only has a significant American presence, but an enormous European and International audience.

If you are interested in networking with any businesses located outside of the United States or with International businesses with offices in the US, I highly recommend using openBC. From Indian outsourcing to Chinese start-ups to high-profile Japanese and German firms, it is helping me make facile connections to an excellent cross-section of very talented individuals.

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Advenir Principal and Founder, Ethan Pierse, is now offering complimentary, weekly teleconferences covering the concepts, tools and methods of Internet Marketing. Using Skype’s new Skypecast service, people around the world can now present or take part in high-quality teleconferences directly through their computer. Skype is the leading provider of voice instant messaging as well as offering many premium VoIP services.

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In their lawsuit with Lane’s Gifts of Arkansas regarding Google Adwords Advertising click fraud, Google has agreed to a settlement of not more than $90 million including attorneys’ fees.

Google already offers a 60 day window to request reimbursement for clicks advertisers believe to be invalid, but this settlement will apply to complaints dating back to 2002. Considering the billions of dollars in Adsense revenue, this would seem to indicate that click fraud is a miniscule problem in the Adsense system.

Google will be writing the legal fees off as an expense and the settlement costs will be charged against revenue in the affected periods.

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If you or your business answer a lot of email, you know well that the majority of email asks one of only a few different questions of your business. Individually responding to these inquiries takes a lot of time, yet prompt, thorough responses are an important edge for your customer service. People appreciate a rapid response, and even more so, they appreciate a full response that answers their questions well.

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Jay Conrad Levinson, the father of Guerrilla Marketing, has an excellent summary of his Guerrilla Marketing tactics, free on his website. Many of them are to be expected, but a few of the standouts are:

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I was contacted several weeks ago to ask my opinions on several aspects of blogging behaviour and corporate interaction to determine how companies can best engage the blogosphere and its prevailing attitudes toward corporate information/PR. Check out the 2005 Edelman / Technorati Blogger Survey to see the results.

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