Shoppers Spend $5.5 Billion on Small Business Saturday

by Cheryl Winokur Munk

U.S. consumers surveyed about the event reported spending an estimated $5.5 billion at small businesses on Saturday Nov. 24, according to the Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey from National Federation of Independent Business and American Express.

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http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/225087

Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet

by Eric Clemons

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In it, he argues that the Internet shatters all forms of advertising.

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http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/22/why-advertising-is-failing-on-the-internet