You're participating in an experiment.

I have enjoyed millions of readers on my personal blog, but it was a tad too myopic. They came, made friends temporarily, but the true sticky factor simple wasn't there. The focus of this site continues to morph and change. But, it basically remains a constant experiment. Can I build a decent sized viewership, from scratch? And, can I do it basically sticking to topics that interest me and my clients?

Selling something? That requires you have a product with an offer that induces people to take action. That's your job. My job is showing folks how to generate interest and traffic. I'm pretty good at that part.

There are meal planning companies online, pitching savings through planning that help to lower overall grocery meals. This seemed like a brilliant service to me, but I wondered (aloud) why grocery stores weren't using this feature as a free offering to luer and retain customers.

Many companies are rushing to pick up the premium social media marketing services business. Involver is among this throng, offering services to big clients to beef up social presence, as well as offering automated premium services.

I enjoy some of the cartoons on BusinessGuysonBusinessTrips.com. You should check it out. This caption captures the methodology of many businesses. Dumb, slow, unnecessary and broken.

Much of your answer relies on your goals. And, we each have different reasons for using a URL shortener. Most use shorteners by default via some social media tool, to cram long URLs into limited character spaces.

Which URL shortener creates the shortest URL? Creating an unabridged list of URL shortener services is virtually impossible. These are a hand full of free services publicly available.