By: The Editor

If you ask people where to advertise a product or service, most would simply say Google. What if you were looking to reach a very specific audience? Let says you were trying to market a product in the automotive business or in the real estate industry?

Based in Burlingame, CA, Leadtail.com has a created an online advertising search engine to suggest exactly where you may want to advertise your goods and service(s).

The mission of Leadtail is to make it easier for marketers, business owners, and entrepreneurs to find out where to advertise online. Leadtail does this by providing an easily search-able database of 1,700+ ad networks and quality publishers to choose from.

Leadtail is a relatively new company founded by a network of marketers who believe that “online advertising has become way too cluttered, complex, and difficult… and it doesn’t have to be that way!”
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By: The Editor

As an entrepreneur myself and “the Editor” of GreatStartups.com, it is my jobs is to write about the good, the bad, the “not so good” and the ugly.

As many of you know, we receive a ton of companies that ask us to write stories. This particular company in my humble opinion did not “knock my socks off. ” However, I think Guidedmed.com deserves to have a mention here because their site does try to help people and I really think it expresses the true entrepreneurial spirit of trying to start/run a business.

Guidedmed seems like a micro WebMD.com, and please note micro is probably being more than fair. Guidedmed states they are based in a suburb of New York City and does not provide any further information about their business at this time.
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By: the Editor

One of the things that I like about Mashspots.com is its simplicity. Based in Portland Oregon, this company which launched in January of 2008 has made your local searching a bit easier.

MashSpots.com is a free service. Just click on any location on the their map to get the four closest places of interest. Mashspots makes it easy to find places around any location without having to know the address of the location you are searching around, just search for the city you want to search at and click on any location on the map to get the 4 closest search results.

For example, type “supermarket” is the “What” field of the website, then enter your location in the “Where?” field and instantly a ton of matches appear in your location area. It is a no brainer to use this site, yet is is an great tool to use.

In addition, they have created a great Mashspots.com application for the IPhone. Just as easy and accurate to use as if you were using your desktop. Mashspots also makes it easy if you want to intergrate their service into your website.

In closing, simple, cool, fun, accurate and useful is what describes Mashspots. After 5 minutes, you will surely find this free service useful on a daily basis.