It’s not surprising that more people do searches for “plastic surgeon” in California than any other region, but I must say, I was surprised at the volume of searches in Texas.

Monthly Search Volume Estimates December 2005 * for terms that include “plastic surgeon”

# of Searches
Keyword/Region

290,634
plastic surgeon

16,443
california (OC, newport beach, san diago, […]

The Wall Street Journal reports that auto-classified ads in newspapers plummeted 16% in December, yes folks a 16% drop in one month, sounds like a continued exodus. This is a trend that has been continuing for 7 straight quarters.
Auto Ads Veer Off Newspaper Pages, Head to Web
Dealers that have discovered advertising on the web […]

In follow up to my recent post on GM pointing users to “google pontiac”, i’ve noticed that some companies are cashing in, namely mazda.
When you advertise on keywords on Google, you have a set budget and once you hit that budget your ads stop showing up. It would have been great if local dealers […]

Pontiac is telling people to “google pontiac”, now if only local car dealerships can cash in they could be capturing leads and phone enquiries from this regional campaign.

Last night watching the Daily Show I was quite stunned to see a commercial from pontiac, in which the closing statement was
Don’t take our word for it, […]

This blog hasn’t been around for long but already has 2900 people subscribed to it via feedburner. Anyone in business should read this blog, Guy Kawasaki is a straight talking person who understands business and innovation.
Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki
Thanks to http://www.workhappy.net/ for pointing to this blog.

Some nice tips from lifehacker for the “small business blogger”
Getting To Done: Tips For The Small Business Blogger - Lifehacker

Yahoo is teaming up with six apart, makers of typepad, to provide blog hosting aimed at businesses. 5 gigs of space and 200 gig of bandwidth is a pretty good deal for 12 bucks a month.
BetaNews | Yahoo to Offer Blogs to Businesses
The disadvantage of a hosted system like this for a business is […]

The wonderful guys at Feedburner can help you turn your RSS feed into an email newsletter. This is a wonderful addition to the tools that feedburner provide, and i’m hoping will help continue to build my readership.
See the subscribe form on the right hand side of the page, well just enter your email in there […]

These are three sites that you must know about if you want to sell a product or service locally:

Craigslist.org - the 600LB gorilla of classified ads, you can list products and services for sale here, extremely high traffic
Upcoming.org - List upcoming events, seminars, happenings here for free, just purchased by Yahoo so traffic is sure […]

I just came across businesstown.com and this is a great collection of resources and articles for the small/medium business. It covers a multitude of topics in a clear and down to earth fashion that is unlike what seems to be the trend online. I wish more sites were like this.