Using blogs to drive sales

I am by no means a business person, so what I think should be taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, for someone wanting to start a small business selling something (whatever), it makes sense to me to make use of available tools that are free (or nearly so). So, Blogger (owned by Google I think), could be used to talk about items that are currently available, while the "side bar" could have an RSS feed from your Ebay store, along with another side bar with a video feed from your youTube account.

As a side note, this content from "Scott's thoughts on simple ecommerce" wouldn't stay or in anyway be associated with the final content to show up with the domain that it currently is showing up under.

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