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Building A Successful Local Service Business

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This can include woodwork in kitchens , cabinet making, basement remodeling, repairing of stringed instruments or even in the construction industry. You may need to start with rudimentary construction education or basic projects to develop these skills before starting your own business. Work for a carpenter can be specific or varied.

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8 Steps to Success with Manufacturing Marketing

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Events, industry magazines, and a good reputation have been your marketing strategy for years. All this comes down to constructing your buyer personas – pseudo-realistic representations of your ideal customer (or customers). This information will help you construct a data-driven digital marketing strategy. .

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Welcome To The Era Of Robot Bloggers, Journalists And Writers

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It's scary to think that one day, you may read an article in a magazine or newspaper or online that had no human intervention. It's a simple piece of journalism that can be constructed, much in the same way we used to play Mad Libs when we were kids. No humanity, no personalized style and more. That future is here. What about ethics?

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Is Twitter really working for you? 10 questions

Direct Marketing Observations

I was reading an article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine titled, “I Tweet, Therefore I am&# in which the author Peggy Orenstein ruminates. She goes on to say that “The expansion of our digital universe has shifted not only how we spend our time but also how we construct identity&#. She’s right you know.

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Top 5 Signs Your Business Should Not Be Using Social Media

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A poorly constructed and executed social plan often leads to results more problematic than had the business done nothing at all. You’ve heard the stories; a bookstore ( or was it a coffee shop, no wait, it was a computer company, or was it a magazine, it’s so hard to remember ) set up a Facebook Page and six weeks later had 2.5

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Our moderator, Paul Gillin, has delightfully taken the initiative to not only come up with his own topic, but to construct a post as well. Newsroom employment would peak in 2001 as newsstand sales of the top 100 magazines approached 30 million. This week is an exception. Online advertising was banners and e-mails. Fast forward to 2009.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #171

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I write, construct and share the vast majority of my content via digital channels. On the other hand, I can''t walk by a book store, magazine store or stationary store without walking on. I love looking at books, magazines, journals and writing instruments. I read books on my iPhone via the Kindle or Kobo app.

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