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Most businesses can benefit from free online promotion. We round up a handful of the best free resources for promoting your business on the web.

Some people might say that the yellow pages are the original business data base. Researchers of business history find these time capsules buried in such places as Baker Library at the Harvard Business School. They are a fascinating snapshot of what people once bought and sold.

Web logs or blogs started as a way to talk about new technologies, vent about life and interact in a no-holds-barred forum. Since blogs became the next big thing, an increasing number of companies have come to see them as the next great public relations vehicle a way for executives to demonstrate their casual, interactive side.