I recently discovered a great free service from BT where you can advertise your company online for free.  Here's AdStorm's entry by way of an example - Advertising Agency.  It's called BT Tradespace and they offer companies the opportunity to publish a mini website advertising your business, the products you offer, you can write a company blog and various other details - great in particular for small companies or for designers / freelancers maybe who don't want to go to the expense of developing their own website but want some kind of presence to advertise themselves online.

My car was in the garage last week and I was wondering why it is that mechanics cars always appear to be in need of attention.

Well I would be a hypocrite to criticise as it's been a case of the Cobbler's shoes for AdStorm recently too.  We rebranded just over a year ago from Precis Marketing Ltd, but our old marketing agency website has continued to be our main source of leads until recently.  For nearly a year we've been so busy with selling new business and completing client work that the new AdStorm website, here: Advertising Agency, was nothing more than a holding page.  But finally, we've begun the process of developing new content, ramping up the Google advertising and the leads have started coming in.

Initial new pages cover Online Marketing, Email Marketing and Digital Brochures.

According to Brand Republic, Microsoft is today thought to have offered $44.6bn to buy Yahoo!, which represents a 62% premium over Yahoo!'s current share price.

The gloves have been well and truly off for some time now in the battle to dominate digital online media, and Microsoft is beginning to flex its financial muscles, having recently acquired rights to third party advertising on Facebook and also having recently signed a deal to handle advertising on the Wall Street Journal.

The question is, how important will online marketing ultimately be?  Is Yahoo!, really worth nearly half of the value of News Corporation?