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In addition to editing this site, I'm also a bootstrapping entrepreneur in my own rite, with my current project being the launch of the fledgling blog network PostRanger.com.

So it's understandable that when I hear of new tools and services that aid bootstrappers in launching their projects, I get excited not just about sharing them with my readers, but also about trying them on for size myself.

That's why when Allan Margate contacted me recently about his new bootstrapped enterprise LeadVine.com, I was immediately interested in learning more.

As Allan explains it, the new site helps with a key bootstrapper problem (and one shared by every business) finding customers and closing sales.

I hope to be publishing an interview with Allan on his new website soon and would like to focus on other bootstrapper tools out there as well.

If you've got a product or service, bootstrapped or otherwise, that can help other bootstrappers launch their own businesses with little or no outside investment or other resources, I'd certainly like to hear more about it.

E-mail me and we'll try to set up an opportunity to chat either by phone or e-mail in the coming weeks for a future post or series of posts sharing your product or service with bootstrappers around the world and across the World Wide Web.