Online Resources for Innovators--http://www.newideatrade.com/inventions.htm

Written by Neil Armand


Small businesses, independent innovators, authors, and artists often find it difficult to locate useful sources of information and services pertaining to intellectual property industry. A number of online forums, including Patentcafe.com, NewIdeaTrade.com, and Inventioncity.com now provide innovators a wide range of free tools and resources.

At http://www.newideatrade.com/inventions.htm innovators can find detailed information on how to obtain a patent and a list of patent/copyright offices and intellectual property associations aroundrepparttar world. They can also review a sample non-disclosure agreement that can be used when someone with an unpatented idea or invention wants to show it to another party, and wants that party to not disclose any ofrepparttar 124922 information. The forum also lists several free tools and resources that help innovators promote their websites.

Are Banner Ads Worth It? The statistics tell the tale.

Written by A. Joelene Orlando


Most people onrepparttar Internet today simply ignore banner ads and move on to other things. Why so much skepticism inrepparttar 124921 media about Banner Ads? Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but Web Banner Ads are a proven thing. If you don’t believe me, check outrepparttar 124922 hard facts over at Ad Resource (http://adres.internet.com/stories/article/0,1401,7561_182441,00.html). Web ads are a $2 billion per year business!

There are several reasons why people won’t consider having a Banner Ad campaign for their business. The Internet in general has been such a runaway success that anyone who can build up a somewhat convincing rationale as to why all things that go up, will come crashing down, will find many willing ears. (Seriously, don’t hang out with pessimistic people.) The second reason why public perceptions about banner advertising are so much at odds with reality has to do withrepparttar 124923 nature ofrepparttar 124924 Web. The “Web-ads-will-never-pay” articles all start off by pointing out that ofrepparttar 124925 50 million or so web sites out there, only a tiny fraction have been able to attract any ad dollars. This is factually true, but no more so ofrepparttar 124926 Internet than of any other medium. Think of it this way, most ofrepparttar 124927 world’s several million budding artists will never be good enough to sell their art work, and great writers will probably never publish a book in their life time. That’s justrepparttar 124928 way it goes.

So, betweenrepparttar 124929 statistics and of course, my opinion on Banner Ads, it’s a great thing, just not as a traffic-building tool for a small business Web site. It’s just

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