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Here are few of the comments on this book from the readers at Amazon:
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The winner for our weekly comments contest is Brandon Watts. Brandon won a copy of “What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive” by Mark McCormack. Congratulations Brandon!
I have about 70 blogs I read regularly. But there are couple that I always start my day reading because frankly their content is unique and refreshing.
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If you are active on online forums, you must be familiar with Steve [a.k.a. vangogh]
And I think everyone knows Chris Garrett but did you know that he also started authority blogger forum, one of my all time favorite forums for bloggers.
If you want to learn read quality posts about online marketing and advertising, then Muhammad Saleem at Pronet advertising is your man.
We talk a lot about conversion optimization on our blog. One of my favorite blogs on the topic is Lead optimize by Chris Denny who guest blogs with invesp as well.
Don’t forget that before August 31st, we will pick one lucky RSS subscriber to win either $400 or $800 in cash!
All you have to do is subscribe to our RSS feed and look for a secret word that will be included at the end of one of our posts. The message will only be shown to those viewing via RSS.
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And good luck!
Let me start with a confession: UI is not my strongest skill. Actually I survived for 15 years in the software industry without having to touch any html (jsp in my case). Of course, that all changed with our blog. In my attempt to move the blog from Joomla to WP, I customized the WP template to match our Joomla design. Everything looks good. Except, well for the white space that appears whenever it feels like it. You can see the whitespace problem here. Needless to say, IE and Fire fox don’t behave the same way. Something I feel IE is to blame for. But you will notice that some of our posts will have a large white space in them. The only common factor where this happens is I use the html element blockquote. The css for it is defined as follows:
blockquote {
background:transparent url(http://www.invesp.com/site/v1/images/blockquote-invesp.png) no-repeat scroll left 0%;
clear:left;
font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;
font-size:1.1em;
font-style:italic;
line-height:1.75em;
margin:15pt 40px 15px;
min-height:35px;
padding:15px 0pt 15px 70px;
}
So, if you have any suggestions on how to fix this, please share them with us. Or bare with me as I try to figure out how to fix the problem.
An update: Yannis helped solve this issue on the Cre8asite Forums. Thanks A lot! The problem was with “clear:left” element in the css. I removed that and the problem is gone 
The winner for the comment give-away will win a free copy of “What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive” by Mark McCormack. This is an essential anyone running a business must read. Within fifteen years, Mark took his small sports agency to be one of the largest in the world.
Here are few of the comments on this book from the readers at Amazon:
I really enjoyed reading this book and go back to it periodically and read sections. I think McCormick breaks everything down in a no-nonsense way. This is great for most things, but be on your guard.
And
This was one of the first business/management books I purchased upon my graduation from college in 1988. Since that time, I find myself reading the book at least once every 12 to 18 months to refresh my memory as well as my attitude.
Keep those comments coming and wish you all luck!
Inspired by the give-away running on one of my favorite blogs, create business growth, we are running a new give-away for the next few weeks. Every week we will randomly pick a visitor who left a comment on our blog and send them a free book. This is our way to say thank you to those who help make the discussion on our blog much more interesting.
Simple! Leave a “good” comment on one of our posts during the week and you will automatically be entered to win the contest. Of course, please make sure to include your email address so we can contact you. Winners who live outside of North America will receive a gift certificate from Amazon.com for the price of the book for that week.
Of course Spam comments are not eligible to win. The same applies to filler comments such as, “great posts.” We are looking for ways to enhance the conversation so that everyone can benefit.
Our $400 free give away is still running. Make sure to look for that secret word at the bottom of one of our posts in the next couple of weeks.
I just noticed that the invesp blog made it to the BIGLIST of Search Marketing Blogs: top blogs on the Internet which is published by Top Rank Online marketing Blog.
If you do keyword research regularly, then here is a coupon that you might find useful. The guys at Trellian are giving a free one month subscription to their keyword discovery tool. What is the catch? You know there is always one? You have to sign up for one moth of the keyword service and you will get the second month for free. The regular price for the monthly subscription is $59. I guess it is like getting a 50% discount of the regular price. The coupon code is “ATCH KD PROMO”. It is valid until August 31st, 2007.
You also might be interested in learning how the different keyword research tools stack against each other.
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