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Small business marketing: how to get your brand seen, what it costs, and what moved on the board.

Plain notes for anyone with a brand, a link and a budget that has to earn its keep. Where to spend it, what a dollar buys, and who took the top spot this week.

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Traffic10 min

How to Promote a New Website in the First 90 Days

Nine ways to promote a new website, priced and dated, sequenced by how fast each one actually pays off.

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Advertising9 min

Buy Website Traffic? What a $0.001 Click Is Worth

What buying website traffic from push, pop and native networks costs in 2026, how much of it is bots, and a fifty-dollar test that answers in 48 hours.

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Launches12 min

The Startup Directories Worth Your Time in 2026

Every startup directory worth submitting to in 2026, ranked by what it actually sends, what it costs, and which ones to skip entirely.

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Advertising9 min

Cheap Advertising for Small Business and What It Really Costs

Real 2026 prices for the cheapest ways to advertise a small business, what "free" costs in hours, and the platform that isn't as cheap as it looks.

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Advertising9 min

Where to Advertise a Startup Without Guessing at the Price

Nine real numbers for where a startup can advertise in 2026, what each channel actually costs, and how to tell if the money worked.

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Announcements9 min

Hello World

The Board is live: a leaderboard of brands sorted by money, not an algorithm. Here's why it exists, who the villain is, and what changes now.