A couple of months ago Alex Hardy bought some advertising on this site promoting his simpleContact products. They're custom-contact forms with a focus on usability and he's just released simpleContact Pro 2.0.

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On today’s show with Jack Humphrey and Jim Stroud, learn about making money with Twitter (you haven’t heard this one yet!), a scary site to visit, how to track link activity on Twitter and all your other social accounts, and much more!

The game changed September 15, 2008.

As world markets came tumbling down, the future of many internet start-ups also turned to dust. The message from the financiers is clear - they will be no more money. Web watchers, such as TechCrunch, feature a deadpool of failed internet start-ups. That list is going to grow exponentially in the new year as company after company runs out of cash.

One of the most salient points of Seth Godin's Tribes book is that in the long run it is much more profitable for most businesses to create a deeper community with stronger and more passionate connections than it is to create a broader one that has strong reach but no message.