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There are entire books written on the subject of writing attention-grabbing ads but the basics are simple. Catch users' attention with your Google AdWords ad copy and you're more likely to drive clicks and convert sales with your campaign. Dave Collins explains in part four of our Making Google AdWords Work for You video tutorial series.

How to use On-Demand DVD distribution to make money with video over the Internet.

We visit the TELUS Innovation Center to learn about the TELUS Avaya IP Office and how it helps Canadian small business improve their mobile communication. Work is increasingly what we do, not where we go and companies like TELUS are developing VoIP (Voice Over IP) technology to enable people to work by telecomuting on-the-go.

If you learn how to use Google AdWords, you'll find it's a powerful tool for driving traffic to your site and converting traffic to meaningful sales. In the second part of our Google AdWords video tutorial series, we look at optimizing our campaign to get the visitors we want at the price we want to pay.

At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Intercast Network launched a product which allows broadcasters to distribute their programming live via a rich display unit with accompanying social tools and e-commerce functionality. On Monday we spoke with Intercast's Melissa Thomson for an overview and a demo.

In Chapter 15 of 18 in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview, Internet entrepreneur Anatole Faykin notes it was a journey and not a spur of a moment decision. Years before founding the company, Faykin works abroad in the UK, Israel, Sweden, India and China. He ultimately decides on Shanghai, where Faykin had worked years before at Intel, in the process building a local business network. He notes how he and his partner decided on a group buying Internet business, modeled after Groupon.

Mike is joined by Darren Barefoot, blogging expert and author of Friends with Benefits to the show to talk about the many benefits that blogging can have on your business, and some helpful pointers for you to get started.

Erick Schonfeld meets Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson at Techcrunch Tokyo 2011 to talk about why venture capital is being disrupted.

Disrupt San Fransisco 2011 winners, Shaker, talk to MG Siegler and Jason Kincaid about their company and the social platform.

Gary Vaynerchuk talks about the social media bubble and explains why it is going to burst.