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If it were me and my client, unless it was a huge monetary purchase, I would just redirect it to the current domain. The reason being is that you can 301 redirect everything and the link juice is suppose to stay very close to the same; but why would you? Sure it might be easier for people type in the browser. But people already know the name more than likely. What I would do is redirect the new domain to the current domain. Then I would use the new domain in print advertising. That way you can really monitor how many people are coming from the print advertising (if the company even uses it). But from everything I have learned when you change domains and 301 everything the traffic tanks for about a month or two. If this is ok, then it might be viable to switch.

Great advice. The DIY way could easily be better. An informal study I read found a pretty strong correlation between featured stories and use of the standout tag.

Very helpful -- gives me some great perspective to start with.  Thanks to both EGOL and Yannick for your responses.

Yes it is still relevant, the www is a old unix standard but is not nesasary today and i believe makes domain names less memerable and is a confusion when talking of root and sub domains. Your in luck, I just finished a tutoiral for microsoft IIS servers. i will be doing more including how to do this in code, but for now, i only have the Domain name fix http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials

"Do not create listings at locations where the business does not physically exist. P.O. Boxes are not considered accurate physical locations. Listings submitted with P.O. Box addresses will be removed." http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?answer=107528 Yes.. I believe you recalled that correctly.

I tried Mike's suggestion (thank you Mike, and Jordan).  It didn't work -- first few times anyway.  Then I took the Suite # out of the address (to change the address, but with only a slight edit) and tried verification again.  Again, only the phone option was offered.  I tried Mike's suggestion again, failed the phone verification and this time -- Google DID come back with the postcard option.  Yahoo! I'm not sure whether the multiple tries is what did the trick or if the address edit did it.  I hope the address edit hasn't made things worse.

You are very welcome, Denis, and good luck!