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Promotion Tip: Web Site Promotion Success Story It's always a pleasure when NetMechanic customers and newsletter subscribers contact us with their success stories. Perhaps a certain technique from a newsletter story helped make their page better, or maybe HTML Toolbox virtually eliminated the tedious process of code debugging. But we don't often hear a compelling story like the one Larry Fleshman shared with us. Read how successful web site promotion saved a company from bankruptcy.

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