Tips, thoughts and topics on marketing for small to medium-sized businesses in Michigan and
throughout the world. Contributions by Chris Slocumb, Casey Frushour, as well as other members of the Clarity Quest team.

Blog posts and articles are far more effective and eye-catching if you use an image. Need a free image? Check out Creative Commons'
Google Image Search Assistant. It will return free images that can be used and modified without licensing.
You'll have to sift through some junk, but the search often results in thousands of images so there's sure to be one to meet your needs.
Labels: free, image search, images, photos

I was fed up that Basecamp does not provide Gantt charts, so I searched for options. I found Viewpath - a fee beta up with up to 25MB. It's pretty user friendly and just has the basics. It also has a time tracking module.
I especially like the export to PDF and Excel options. Labels: basecamp, free, gantt, project management, viewpath
If you have a LinkedIn profile, you can enter up to 3 website URL addresses. If you select "Other" as a category you can choose any term you want for the link name. For example, I choose "Michigan Marketing Firm" for our company and linked the phrase back to our page which is optimized for that term.
LinkedIn does not have a "no nofollow" on their links, so Google and other search engines still count them as quality backlinks. Labels: build backlinks, free, LinkedIn, no nofollow, SEO backlinks, trick