I took a little hiatus of doing the Free for All Friday posts but it is back now.

I wanted to do a tribute to Small Business Month so here are some places online to go and find some wonderful information, read posts, gain insight about small business.

Next week, Stacey Hylen will be conducting Business Optimization Week 2.0. A 4 day teleseminar series of speakers talking about Marketing and Mindset in a Troubled Economy. You can go and attend for FREE. There is an option to purchase the downloads after the event.
Some of the speakers listed are, The Blog Squad, Kim Castle, and Kendall Summerhawk.

Also, I wanted to tell you about Melody Campbell and her site The Small Business Guru. Melody’s site is filled with tons of great information for the new or experienced small business owner. She also has a weekly podcast show on Blog Talk Radio called Get More Business.

I am increasingly surprised at the power of Twitter and how it has helped me connect with other people. Here are a couple of people that I have met over the last week or so on Twitter.

Julie Roads -Julie is a freelance writer and her site is Writing Roads. She wrote a post called The Importance of Having Promotional Materials at the Ready . She leads the post off with an example. What if Dell computer came out and said, Hey come see our new computer! And then the masses went out and said, Ok, let’s see it and then they replied, “oh, well, we have to build it first”. I like this because my first reaction was, Hey, that would be pretty bad. And it did make me think, when people are coming to your site…are you saying, well, wait, I am not done yet. Follow her on Twitter at writingroads

Terri Zwierzynski of Solo-E
One of her authors, Kendall Summerhawk wrote a post recently about the economy entitled . It was so on point about now that the country is exposed we are at a cross road and NOW is the time to take the opportunity to become what you want instead of allowing the fear to overcome you.

Wendy Y Bailey of Group Mastery and I talked last week and we hit it off. She is a kind and smart women who is sharing her knowledge with other coaches to help make their group coaching better. Her latest post was Powerfully Persuasive Marketing Pumps Profits.. In this post, Wendy talks about thinking about the emotions when speaking and marketing. She has 6 questions she asks herself when persuasive marketing. Who is my audience? How does my audience feel? to name a few.