When you don’t have enough time to focus on selling ads, what do you do? Shut down your site and cry. Or, hire an Advertising Sales Director. We’re more than pleased to welcome Courtney to the team. She happens to be the fiance of one of our long-time members, Justin Nowak, and a very interesting gal. You can read a bit more about her on our About page and see her little headshot.

We’re still working on setting her up with all the e-mail, management, and sales tools she needs. It’ll be another week or so before you see some more action from her.

This happy announcement made us feel all generous, and giving, and stuff. So we figured we might as well use some of Eric’s car sales tactics, and WE’RE GIVING HALF OFF ALL ADS UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER. Yes, that’s right folks, one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial blogs with one of the nicest communities behind it, has lost their minds. We even have one of those inflatable gorillas on each of our roofs. Such a shame you can’t see them.

Those lovely image ads you see in the sidebar are now only $90/month until September 30th. We figured the Text Link Ads should go on sale as well, so we’re selling our own SEO links for only $25/month until September 30th.

If you’re interested in advertising on YGG and want to snap up one of the spots, send an e-mail to hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com, or use our contact form.

I honestly didn’t see this coming, but Business 2.0 is to close after the October issue.

TechCrunch states…

There previously has been some rumors that Business 2.0 would be taken over by a new publisher, however it appears that Time has decided to kill the magazine (as the NY Times suggests) so as to not provide a ready made magazine and subscriber list to a competitor.

Check out TC’s brief write up about it here.

Okay, this may have aired a little over two months ago on The Today Show, but I only saw a clip of it moments ago on this evening’s episode of The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.

Tough to choose sides on this one. No matter who you support, you have to feel the awkwardness Tim sat through in that hotseat.

Visit this page, then click the launch link to watch the video.

Making Baseball History
EA Sports style replay, via pictures, of Bonds hitting number 756.

Cadbury Dairy Milk - A Glass and a Half Full Production
I’ve said it before: something is better than nothing. Different is better than something. This is different alright. Being unpredictable is a nice shortcut to being effective.

Britney’s Comeback Single (With Lyrics)!
Who let Britney write her own lyrics? I want names, damnit! If there are any wizards or voodoo people reading this, please bring Stevie Ray and Jimi back. Please!!!

7 Ways to Grow the Action Habit
A straight-forward guide to developing a habit of action. TIP: Don’t bookmark this, because it’ll probably end up lost in the archives. Read it and do something now!

Fake HDR Photos in Photoshop
This tutorial has been circulating for a little while, but I just stumbled upon it in my archives. Really cool guide to creating some trashy and expressive imagery with a standard photo and a bit of potatochop magic.

2007 Logo Trends
A handy guide to the styles that seem to be catchy in logo design. Great source of inspiration.

Living in a Billboard
Gorgeous, minimalistic design, plopped right in the middle of a massive body of water. Cool and scary.

John Chow dot Com Income Report - August 2007
We hate and envy you equally John. Damn you. ;)

Social Networking License Agreement
You want me to join your Kitty Kats that Know how to Knit social network? (KKKK) That’ll be $25.

How Do You Decide What To Write About?
A few directions for when you’re in a writing slump.

Have a link or article you think should make the Entreprenews? Send it to us before Saturday each week, and if we think our readers will like it, we’ll include it and give you due credit. hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com.

Jimmy Kimmel ran through the list of this coming season’s Dancing with the Stars contestants moments ago. A couple names in he mentioned Mark Cuban, and I thought he and the rest of the names were part of a mock joke list. But nobody laughed.

And so it seems it’s true. Mark Cuban is a contestant on the show. I’m kind of speechless. Mainly because he and I have much in common: We both have brown hair. Just about the same skin tone. Both businessmen. His lunch bills equate to what I make each year. But most importantly, I can guarantee you, neither of us can dance worth *#@!.

Why is this billionaire business geek throwing on his stilettos? Not a clue. He sure as hell doesn’t need the promotion. But hey, if it helps him up his star ranking as high as somebody like Ian Ziering (90210), more power to him.

Pathetic Update:

Found this really short clip of Cuban dancing. Dance white boy, dance!

Most people are nice in person. For some reason, when they have a monitor hiding their face, a few of them act like douchebags. We love the community here and are glad that we don’t have any of these DBs. But when you go popular on certain social bookmarking sites, they seem to arise.

So we created a tool just for those rare instances. It’s a simple and straight forward plugin for WordPress, called Douche Bag.

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American Gladiators is Back!
This had to get top of the list. AG is coming back! Hell yeah!

Sneak Peek: Magento Demo Store Homepage
Magento, the most promising looking e-commerce platform, is set to roll out within the next 5 days. Here’s the first sneak peek of the homepage, and I’m now more giddier than a 12 year old and his first copy of Maxim.

What’s Your Archetype?
If you run a community (blog or forum), this is an interesting look at the different archetypes you can expect and hope for within your community.

[daily dose of imagery]
I think we already proclaimed our love for this site way back when, but it’s worth another plug. Toronto should throw out all their cheesy marketing and just make a book out of these photos. Absolutely, inspirationally stunning.

MoanMyIP.com
If there’s a more embarrassing way to find your IP address in the office while speakers are cranked aloud, I’d love to hear about it.

Which Ads Don’t Get Skipped?
BusinessWeek put together a list and slideshow of some of the spots that are said to be the least skipped on Tivo. Go Bowflex, go!

Better ways of working — Part One — Part Two — Part Three
Gareth at Brand New took some of the highlights from a recent presentation he made at VCU Adcenter. It’s a fantastic branding series broken up over three posts.

The New Disruptors - Inkless printing
A video tour of Zink’s office, creators of a new inkless printing technology. Printing pictures directly from your digital camera and cellphones, is not too far down the road.

How to Get 6,312 Subscribers to Your Business Blog in One Day
Step 1) Pray a little. Step 2) Suck less.

18 Tips for Killer Presentations
Simple, straight-forward tips to help you feel less like an ass in front of that bright projection light.

So there was a video post (Trust Me Im A Professional) that hit the front page of Digg.com today, where in a video supposedly shot in 1994 a motivation speaker talks a woman into doing a trust fall where she smacks her head on the floor. The controversy comes from the intro clip to the video that shows what is supposedly the same man, selling his motivation material today, 13 years later…

So how can this guy who knocked a woman out on stage still be a motivational speaker?

He isn’t. It is called a viral video. Made specifically to fool you into talking about it.

Notice that there is an eerie resemblance between the girl who smacks her head in 1994 and a girl in his current promo video…

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