Yahoo owned Overture Services, a provider of Internet marketing services, extended its search agreements with CNN.com and ESPN.com. In addition to extending its existing deals, Overture has also signed an ad distribution agreement with Wall Street Journal Online.

When Robert Middleton moved his marketing consulting practice, Action Plan Marketing, to Palo Alto, California several years ago, he started his business from scratch. He had left his well-established client base several miles away and now had to find strategies to generate new clients.

Need some tips on how to handle some curve balls you may get when you’re presenting from someone who’s been in the trenches?

Need some tips on how to handle some curve balls you may get when you’re presenting?

At the RSA Security conference last week in San Francisco, the big news was a new set of cybersecurity best practices, a new application vulnerability description language and a push for Web services security, along with the usual collection of new IT security products.

In the quest to attract customers and make more sales, the temptation is to focus on the Internet. It’s easy to forget there are other tools that are less tedious, easier to use, and even more effective.

How much time do you spend promoting your business? Two hours out of six? One hour out of six? Maybe not even that much.