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Tina Sharkey’s BabyCenter.com offers advice on everything from fake nipples to getting Botoxed while pregnant—and reaches 80 percent of new moms online.

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Could there be any more desperate group of consumers than new moms? It’s a perpetual market, and one that is willing to spend: Everyone who’s pregnant, adopting, or raising little kids in America is in a constant state of craving—for medical information, strollers, toys—and, perhaps most of all, reassurance.

And Tina...

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