I usually end Friday with “Who Said That?” but not today. I have something more to say.

I just had someone want some link love which I gave and then revoked after discovering things about his/her blog that I thought were not integrity based: Don’t take this article from May 24th, 2006 Digging Out of Personal Debt, re-title it, use the same copy and have the nerve to say, “If you liked this post…yada, yada” with no indication that you stole someone’s writing from over a year ago. Also, do not use an image of someone’s RSS readership that has over 5,000 readers and pass it off as your own. The image simply links to the correct RSS feed but does not actually display the correct RSS readership for the site.

I’m not mentioning this BLOGS name (yet) and DO NOT plan to provided that this BLOGGER either comes clean or simply doesn’t comment here any longer unless he/she has cleaned up his/her act. Do me a favor… don’t ask for link love if you are a SCAM BLOGGER. Integrity never fails. Scammers always fail at some point.

FYI, we have had 3K unique visitors in the last few days and are well connected in the blogging community. If you don’t want your blog name mentioned here, clean up your act.

Do any of our integrity based readers have something to say about this? I’d love to hear from you.

If you are new to Create Business Growth, this is how we close out our week. However, there are SEVERAL other posts for today below this one. Happy Reading!

With our Who Said That?, we give some link love to other blogs and regular websites that we feel you may find interesting. We do continue our Daily Quote on Saturday and Sunday.

Wendy with e-moms at home wrote: “The Things That Get You Successful Won’t Necessarily Keep You That Way.” Wendy is asking for some feedback and I’m hoping that some of you will chime in.

Brian, over at SEO Position, posted this on June 12th “Referral Scoring, .edu’s, and Improved Rankings.” Brian is into DRUPAL which is a great content management system. Be sure to check out his site.

I like to feature a couple of blogs each week from Fast Pitch Networking. If you are not a member of Fast Pitch Networking, I highly recommend that you take this tour and consider at least creating a FREE profile. However, I think the paid ones are well worth the money: Online Security Authority.com wrote “Way to go, Albertsons! No more Preferred Customer frequent shopper card.” I posted this one because I HATE having to show a card at the grocery store to SAVE money. The Affiliate Marketing Publisher’s Report wrote about “Brand Evolution vs. Brand Revolution.”

I’m going to break up some of this copy with a quick plug for you to get our RSS:

Something “NEW” this week which I’ll do at random. I’m a member of My Blog Log and BumpZee. I plan to randomly feature at least two of our My Blog Log Community Members Blogs (Have you joined our Community yet?). I also plan to feature two from the I Follow group over at BumpZee.From Our My Blog Log Community: Jonathan Phillips, of Smart Wealthy Rich, wrote “Don’t Put All Your Eggs in the same Basket…Wait a sec.” If you cater to the real estate community, check out Carson Coots new blog Real Estate Remix and his post “My Formal Invitation.”From the I Follow Community at BumpZee started by Andy Beard: From Best Real Income.com… “Work at Home Success.” Ben Yoskovitz, of Instigator Blog.com, wrote “Social Networks Are Not Personal.”In case you missed it, we launched CBG Rocks this week and featured Patrick Schaber of The Lonely Marketer in our weekly NON-Sponsored interview segment.Problogger may not need the link love but I thought that I would mention “Goals to Achieve in a Blog’s Launch Phase” and “10 Techniques I Used to Go from 0 to 12,000 RSS Subscribers in 7 Months – With no ads or leverage.”I’d like to close the week with one of our favorite up and coming bloggers NATE WHITEHILL, of Nate Whitehill.com, Nate wrote “Why Risk is Worth Taking.”

Be sure to sign up for our RSS feed before you go. If you need help with RSS, check out this tutorial. Have a GREAT weekend! Come back for the “Daily Quote” on Saturday and Sunday and we’ll be back Monday with regular posting. DON’T FORGET TO TELL SOMEONE ABOUT CREATE BUSINESS GROWTH. Thanks for reading!
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Doesn’t it drive you nuts that a largely agreed upon inferior product like AOL managed to become for a time the biggest provider of internet service, even with a price tag higher than it’s competitors? How did they do it?

I think everyone in the entire United States and perhaps throughout the world has seen the boxes of AOL disks at the grocery store, book store, drug store, and just about every other kind of store with 4 walls. Essentially, they turned their service into a physical product, causing it to carry some sort of additional value in the mind of its consumers.

How can you turn your service into a product?

Creating packaging, discs, and plastic credit card-style cards, is relatively inexpensive today. By packaging your service, you suddenly have the potential to get it in front of more eyes, particularly those who may not know how to find your service otherwise.

Here are a few ideas:

Web Developer: A website in a box that includes a disc full of potential designs, content development templates, website marketing tutorials, and an online order request form.

Cleaning service, handyman service, tutor, personal trainer, etc: A plastic credit card style gift card the kind you see hanging in the checkout lines at the grocery store. Have some printed up in various denominations and get them into local stores. These would make great gifts or personal purchases.

Graphic Designer: A free disc with various basic design elements, tutorials for creating different types of marketing materials, color matching guides, and of course, a link to your website where customers can order custom designs.

This is an idea that’s been rolling around in my mind off and on for about 6 months now. What do you think? Would it work? How could you turn your particular service based business into a product?