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ClickBricks sets a new Standard for Online Business Directories

ClickBricks.com offers small businesses a unique way to advertise their services online. The name ClickBricks cleverly invites Brick & Mortar businesses to list their services to be a click away in a great Web 2.0 feel.

I had the opportunity to talk with Brandon Muth, the owner & designer of the ClickBricks, about his vision to [...]

Small Business Innovators - Rebecca Malik of 17thAndRiggs.com

Rebecca Malik is a traditional entrepreneur with her online store “17th and Riggs” based out of Washington, DC that sells high-quality, affordable home furnishings in a range of styles. In the interest of full disclosure, she is wife of Raj Malik Sr. Director, Legal & Business Affairs here at Network Solutions. It is really saying [...]

Secrets of Serial Entrepreneurship - An Interview with David Troy of TwitterVision.com and OpenLocation.Org

Dave is a serial entrepreneur and deeply passionate about social media. He came from the old technology world of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and built one of the first true providers at the dawn of the public Internet. Called Toad.Net, it evolved into a dial-up and broadband provider that held its own as many companies [...]

Domain Name Browser Search Plugin

This is a great tool for those of you that are domain name junkies! And it’s free.
Network Solutions has created a plugin that lets you search for domain names so easily!
In the past I had to open a new window or tab then open Networksolutions.com to search for domain names. The plugin installs into the [...]

Cool review of Cuil search engine

There’s a new search engine in town. Cuil is pronounced ‘Cool’ and many are giving it a chilly reception.

Background: It’s a startup created by past Google employees. Dan Sullivan outlines how it’s different in four main areas:

Big web index
Unique relevance algorithm
Unique results display
Privacy

The one noticeable difference is the way that it displays the search results. [...]

LifeCoaching Entrepreneurs - A Discussion with Freshteh Nassir of Life Perspective Coaching

Freshteh is a woman who has found her calling. After fourteen years of working in corporate America as a Relocation Counselor she decided to leave that behind and take a look at her life and create a job that she loved getting out of bed every morning to do. She has the heart of a [...]

Use Social Networking to Grow Your Small Business

Have you gotten a Twitter account & added a bunch of friends? Or maybe you signed up for LinkedIn or Facebook & aren’t sure how it’s going to help your business?
There are so many networks that you can join! Each has it’s idiosyncracies but they all have one thing in common: It’s all about building [...]

Small Business Innovators - Andy Ketter of PlazaRugs.com

Andy Ketter took a unique route to entrepreneurship. He worked at Network Solutions for 5 years doing Technical Support, Sales & Marketing. During this time, he started an online business with a business partner. It was called PlazaRugs.com and as if you couldn’t have guessed, sells rugs online. Over time, the business grew to the [...]

InfoWorld Blog Post Got It Wrong

Yesterday, Paul Venezia, author of the Infoworld blog “The Deep End” wrote a post questioning whether our DNS servers were hacked. Paul writes:
“I was just hipped to the fact that two DNS servers apparently operated by Network Solutions aren’t returning valid results for some domains, notably www.google.com…”
Firstly and most importantly, we need to state that [...]

The Power of Life Coaching - An Interview with Michelle James with the Center for Creative Emergence

According to her bio “Michelle James is a pioneering creativity catalyst who has been using universal creative principles and the process of emergence as the basis for her work with thousands of people - individuals, corporations and communities - for the past 14 years. Michelle’s passion is infusing creativity and imagination into current knowledge and [...]