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Marketing In Your Local Community

For most small businesses, all marketing is local marketing — as it should be. But even if your company is regional or national in scope, it's a good idea to "go local" to select, targeted communities. The keys to effective community marketing can be summed up with three guidelines:

1. Get local: target your marketing efforts down to the neighborhood level

2. Get involved: participate in the community to generate visibility and good will

3. Get personal: as much as possible, market on a one-to-one, face-to-face basis.

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Easy Parties

Coordinatr is a new events communication service that's been designed for creating spontaneous get-togethers among tight knit groups of friends. What makes the service particularly useful is its integration with high profile media sharing sites and a mobile service that sends quick distributed messages to your friends.

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Meet The iBar

Unveiled in 2006, the iBar is a customisable surface technology that turns any bar into a giant version of an interactive, touch-sensitive screen. Integrated video projectors can display any content on the bar's milky surface, while built-in intelligent tracking software maps the position of every object touching its surface.

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Car Camera Recorder

Record everything happening in front of you with the rear view mirror car camera recorder pro. The first of its kind, this advanced mobile DVR w/ built in 2.5" LCD screen provides instant playback of recorded audio and video footage of everything in front of you. The mobile DVR is automatically activated once the engine starts.

   Read More | Comments | Automobiles | Article by Trend Insights

Sustainable Style

We certainly cannot talk about spring sustainable style and layered dressing for the great outdoors without checking in with Patagonia to see what they have on tap for the season ahead. Patagonia organic cotton hoodies and hemp separates create eco-chic combos for both travel and at home lounging.

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Pillow That Wakes You Up

The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. This substrate also functions as a display, showing the time on the pillows surface using the grid of LEDs below. 40 minutes before the pre-set alarm time the pillow begins to glow and gently brings the user out of sleep.

   Read More | Comments | Technology | Article by Trend Insights

LED Candles

Do you want to enjoy the ambiance of candle light that is flame-less, wax-less, and heat-less? If yes, read on. These flickering rechargeable candles are made of Silicon with the included adapter that plugs into the base. This is great lighting option available for lighting both indoors and outdoors.

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Location, Location, Location

JustToiletPaper.com also allows you to create promotional travel packs of tushues. There is no special equipment needed other than an ink jet printer. To get started printing your company’s latest promotional offer, you can purchase mini travel rolls that are packaged in their own individual plastic dispenser.


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5 Top Tips For Managing Your Emails

Technology is a wonderful thing - it allows us to work virtually, from anywhere in the world, and makes our lives easier. However, it can also hinder us, and this is particularly true in the case of emails. Every day we are bombarded with hundreds of emails, only a small percentage of which are necessary.

   Read More | Comments | Entrepreneurs | Article by Tracey Lawton

If Confucius Is Your Public Speaking Coach

“I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” If you want your presentation to be memorable even after 90 days, I strongly encourage you to INVOLVE YOUR AUDIENCE…. through DOING. Couple of ideas for you to try out. After teaching a concept, get your audience to split into groups.

   Read More | Comments | Communication Skills | Article by Eric Feng

Influencing And Reinforcing The Behavior You Want

We’d love to think that employees will do the right thing and that customers will make the right choice, but since only a segment of your employees are motivated to do what you need them to do, and only some of your prospects have become customers, how can you get the rest of the people to see the light?

   Read More | Comments | People & Management | Article by Marcel Sim

Is It Possible To Work From Home?

Have you ever wished that you could work from home? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 19 million people worked from home (either part-time or full-time) in 2001. It’s a growing trend in our society with the number steadily rising as many people are leaving the workplace for a work-at-home career.

   Read More | Comments | Home-Based Business | Article by Jill Hart

8 Easily Avoidable Causes Of Business Debt

As an emerging entrepreneur, it is very easy to quickly accumulate debts that are substantial enough to kill your burgeoning business before it even gets off the ground. Take the time to examine your business workflow and you will likely discover a number of extraneous costs that can be eliminated.

   Read More | Comments | Finance & Capital | Article by Steven Teo

10 Tips for Student-Entrpreneurs

Money. It’s what every college student wants and what every college student lacks. You can save up all summer and it is sure to be gone by Thanksgiving. Or, more likely, Columbus Day weekend. There are tons of ways students can earn money online and keep up with the trust fund kids.

   Read More | Comments | Entrepreneurs | Article by Steven Teo

Why Working For a Startup Isn’t So Risky

Startup goes under? Sure, it’s tough to see something you worked so hard at fail; but you’re awesome and you will find another job easily. How do I know? Because if you’re not awesome and great at personal branding then you don’t get recruited for startups in the first place.

   Read More | Comments | Starting Up | Article by Monica O’Brien

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