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✳ Get Intrist
Want better web marketing? Intrist specializes in helping startups and small to mid-sized businesses with exactly that. They leverage the Internet, social media and mobile arena to accelerate business growth online. They can help you with marketing plan creation, social media management, pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, website design and development, SEO, mobile websites, apps and analytics. Founder Joe Garbarczyk would love to hear from you, and he's extending a special offer just for Founding Moms right here.
✳ Influence This
Are you a small business influencer? The 2012 Small Business Influencer Awards are back, produced by Small Business Trends and Small Biz Technology + BlackBerry. The Awards honor companies, organizations, apps and people who have made a significant impact on the North American small business market. Get recognition from your peers and your industry. Nominate yourself or a friend -- you have until July 15 -- by entering here.
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Coming to Chicago in July for our world famous Taste of Chicago festival? From July 11 to July 15, there'll be food, events, and spectacular sights in the city. If you wanna see Chaka Khan, Death Cab For Cutie, Jennifer Hudson and a slew of other artists entertain you, use this link to get 15% off the room rate and 50% off parking at Hyatt Regency Chicago.
✳ Expect It
Bun in the oven? Amy L. Riley wants to help. Her biz, Loving The Pregnant You, publishes a weekly empowering pregnancy tip sheet that provides ideas and inspiration you can immediately act on. Sign up for these tips by clicking here . And you can download Amy’s eGuide, “5 Ways to Love the Pregnant You,” for free, too.
Copywriter, editor and founder of Well Turned Words' Julie Schumacher composed a brilliant post, Ten Thousand & Counting, on motherhood, mac & cheese and Malcolm Gladwell. Read it here.
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✳ Ship It
Love The UPS Store? Me too. The shipping mecca asked me to create a video showing my undying love for them. True story. So I teamed up with Bum Bul Bee Photo + Films, and sans script we got very silly and made a commercial. Watch what happens here.
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✳ Check It
Priv.ly makes it impossible for others to control your data. By installing their browser extension, you can keep your content, well, your content. For those who don’t have the extension installed, they see a simple link that sends them to your post, photo, or video. For those who do have it installed, they can see your post on the page as it was intended. That’s because the extension pulls the data from the other side of the link into your Facebook page, Twitter feed, etc, seamlessly, without supplying that data to data miners. Privacy junkies: Rejoice!
Neighborland is a platform for residents to connect, share insights, and take action in their neighborhoods. It's changing the relationship between residents and their cities by simplifying collaboration, participation, and engagement. People know what their neighborhood needs, and businesses and placemakers need this intelligence from the street.
Tripit drags traveling kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. The site turns all your flight, hotel and rental car confirmation emails into simple, mobile travel itineraries just by hitting forward.
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