Over the past decade, the two most powerful marketing platforms in the history of advertising have been created: Search Engine Keyword Marketing and Social Network Advertising. With each, you can track your return on your ad spend down to the penny, meaning no more wasted ad spend.

While Internet retail sounds sexy, it’s not… it’s a lot of hard work. We actually have to stock and ship everything from welding jackets to Landau scrubs to breast pumps and everything in between.

Startups from Northwest Arkansas have been generating a lot of buzz recently. Winning international business-plan competitions and ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ will do that. But that doesn’t mean things are quiet on the central Arkansas front.

Another University of Arkansas startup, another prestigious business-plan competition win, another NASDAQ bell ringing. More international prestige for Arkansas entrepreneurs.