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They tout discloses simple text unravels ads alongside search results as one of the most effective strategies to land new customers. Advertisers like search ads because they're highly targeted and shown to people who are actively looking to buy a particular product or service. Major advertisers have seen the upside for some time and are increasing their spending on search ads. Revenue from search advertising in the first half of 2007 jumped nearly a third to $4. 1 billion, representing 41% of all online ad spending, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said. But because mounting an effective search marketing campaign is complicated, most small businesses have yet to experiment with it. Some small businesses have mastered the science of rising to the top of search results without having to buy keywords by tweaking their websites and getting prominent ones to link to them. Others buy their own search-engine ads, but analysts say most either don't know how or can't spare the time. That's where ReachLocal and its competitors come in. The services vary, but essentially small businesses hire these companies to buy keyword ads on major search engines such as those of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Corp. Some companies track the results for their clients through e-mails or phone calls. Now many of these companies are developing video and mobile technologies.

And they are finding success. Take Eddie Ugalde, 33, who runs an eco-friendly carpet cleaning business in Altadena . He started spending $1,000 a month with ReachLocal in March and got such a dramatic response from the search campaign that he moved Right Away Carpet Drycleaning out of his home, grew from two employees to 10 and bought a distribution business . He recently increased his monthly ad purchase to $1,500. "It would have taken a real long time for word of mouth to give us the opportunity to be in the place we are today," Ugalde said. To reach this largely untapped online market, the old-fashioned yellow-pages publishers have an edge because they already have relationships with small businesses around the country, said Matt Booth, a Kelsey Group senior vice president. After a few fits and starts, these publishers increasingly are marketing search advertising to mom-and-pop operations. "As online takes off, small businesses know that they need and want to be there," said Matt Crowley, chief marketing officer for AT&T subsidiary Yellowpages . ReachLocal is borrowing a strategy from the yellow pages . Chief Executive Zorik Gordon says his 300-person company will use some of the money invested by Rho Ventures, Galleon Crossover Fund and VantagePoint Venture Partners to hire a national sales force to sell its product directly to small businesses. "We are going to try to grab a real big chunk of this market as quickly as we can," Gordon said . "To the victor in the space will go a lot of spoils. "Yodle CEO Court Cunningham said his venture-backed company had 25 salespeople in five cities and was growing. WebVisible, with 54 employees, focuses mainly on working with partners such as newspapers and yellow-pages publishers with established ties to local communities, CEO Kirsten Mangers said. All work closely with search giants, which are weaving together information about local businesses, enticing them with free listings even if they don't have a website. Ultimately, the idea is to use mapping and satellite imagery to create virtual storefronts that tell information such as the types of products and services offered and methods of payment accepted, said Chris Sherman, executive editor of SearchEngineLand . "Hopefully we will see businesses participate more and add more information," he said. That's the theory behind Google's pilot program: Collect data on local businesses and expose them to search advertising. "The only way to have the richest index of local information possible is to solicit directly from businesses," said Eric Stein, Google's director of local markets. Small businesses with an online presence already see search engines as a crucial way to drive sales leads. Ask , owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, is working in partnership with resellers and its sister company, Citysearch, to reach the rest, said James Speer, general manager of search marketing for Ask . "It will probably take a bit longer for off-line businesses before it becomes a critical component of their limited advertising buy," he said. --jessica Mamma Mia! - mammamiamovie . guynn.

It was the Kerri Strug vault, landed with her left ankle sprained, so far beyond pain that she told Coach Bela Karolyi, "I can't feel my leg. " And he told her, "You can do it. " So she did . Under the bright spotlight of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Or maybe it was when Dot Richardson hooked a two-run home run down the right-field line, the ball kissing the inside of the foul pole, and George Steinbrenner leaping to his feet in the stands, just another smitten softball fan crammed into Golden Park, one of 8,750 lucky enough to see the game in person because NBC didn't bother to televise it live. At the Atlanta Games, it was softball, not baseball that was standing room only. It might have been on the night at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. , where normally the stands are filled with Georgia Bulldog football fans but on this night was packed with fans roaring in approval as Mia Hamm, her ponytail bouncing, hit a cutting Joy Fawcett who carried the ball with her feet to Tiffeny Milbrett who drilled home the gold-medal-winning goal Game over U. S 2, China 1 . Three months earlier the same women couldn't draw 2,000 for an exhibition in Tampa, Fla Now 76,000 wouldn't leave the stadium . For American fans, men's soccer at the 1996 Games barely registered. But then for two weeks a modest gang of basketball players had taken turns firing behind-the-back passes, making jump shots look easy, shooting free throws as if they mattered and then behaving as if they were thrilled to be playing wherever they played, at Morehouse College or at the Georgia Dome. While the U. S. Dream Team, the men that is, complained about the poor quality of room service in their five-star hotel and clogged the streets with Hummers taking their friends and families to private parties, the U. S. women won Olympic gold in as dominating a fashion as the men. After they had beaten Brazil, 111-87, in the championship game, point guard Dawn Staley said wistfully, "The difference between us and the other Dream Team is, we don't know where we're all headed We just appreciate the moment. "U. S.

Olympic Committee executive director Dick Schultz summed it up: "These Games have belonged to the women . By their performances, they've given girls around the world athletic role models. "It was, even then, the "Summer of Women. "While the U. S . four-man 100-meter relay team lost Olympic gold for the first time partly because of squabbling over whether Carl Lewis would run, the women swept all their relays Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! - imdb . Mamma Mia! tickets It was, as soccer player Kristine Lilly said, "because the fans saw women for the first time as athletes who loved competing for no other reason than to have fun and win and not for money or glory, and I think that kind of swept the country. "It was a national love affair Kerri Dot Mia Dawn We knew them by first names, we recognized their ponytails We got them They were like us Not millionaires with entourages . They were the girls down the street. Ten years later, we remember the girls Mia is married to the Dodgers' Nomar Garciaparra Dot is a doctor Dawn is a coach at Temple University But few are pro athletes The soccer league was a flaming failure. The gymnastics tour that was modeled after the ice-skating tour never took off Pro softball leagues have gone nowhere.