started out as possibly the store’s worst cashier ever, knowing nothing whatsoever about retail transactions from the drawer-side of the cash register. Based in Maryland with roots in New York, she’s been crafting effective marketing copy as a writer and polishing many forms of prose as an editor since 2002. Let me tell you a story I’ve never told anyone else. was a pharmacy technician at Wal-Mart years ago, and one day when a customer and his wife showed up, I began automatically tapping his name into the touchscreen before they reached the counter. Johnson?”* You’re good.”. MORE >>

Founded in 2002 in Brooklyn, NY by Chris Winfield and Danielle Lanzillo, they have since grown into a boutique Internet marketing powerhouse focused on increasing their clients’ sales and decreasing their customer service costs. She oversees the integration of social media communication into PR and marketing strategies for the company’s three brands, including an online retail stock and options broker, a Web-based options news and education site, and an online community that allows people to learn about the stock market through investing in virtual stock portfolios. Blonde 2.0′s MORE >>

Holiday retail sales bounced back last year and are expected to turn even higher this year, while charitable giving has not done as well. So, we started a program called Holiday For Charity in 2002, and once again My Creative Team is promoting the program that provides some simple ways to help the less fortunate. In fact, according to barna.org , 41% of people have cut back on their charitable donations this year. Americans spent more than $470 billion in just two months of holiday shopping in 2011, while total 2011 charitable giving amounted to $347 billion. MORE >>

If you''re selling online or in retail, that''s probably close to true. For the phone companies, DSL service circa 2002 was constrained by geographic footprint, technical limitations, compatibility issues, and customer ability. 'When people ask me what I do, I usually say something about exploring the edges of the market for intelligence and analytics capabilities, starting with social media data. also like to connect threads from separate topics and look at things from unusual perspectives. Is this what you expected? What about hard data? Sounds pretty useful to me. MORE >>

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