I know there are many distributors out their who simply don’t get the whole Facebook thing, how it is useful, how it can help grow your business, etc, etc. Just how useful it can be to your business depends on how much you put it to work for you. Today may be your lucky day in learning what Facebook can do for your small business.
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Do you remember a few months back when I wrote about the Starbucks Index? The basic gist was this: “In his February 19, 2009 editorial entitled ‘Starbucks becomes a harbinger of the economy.”
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So here goes my own personal challenge, 30 blogs in 30 days. I am constantly discussing the power of the blog. How it is paramount for the small-business owner to be actively blogging on the web, creating a viral marketing campaign and getting involved in social media.
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The Huffington Post does it again. I thought a quick blog today on how technology / texting has changed our lives (including the promotional products distributor) would be fun today.
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The recent wave of suicides at the Foxconn manufacturing plant in China has served as an eye-opener to what life is like living in a factory culture. Proposed wage increases across Chinese factories have created a dialog in the U.S.
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I watched the Oscars back in March. It’s kind of like a glamour and creativity Super Bowl for me. And so it was with surprise and delight that I watched Sandra Bullock win the award for best actress.
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This morning (April 21) the Wired.com blog Geekdad reported on an online store that sells entomologically correct insect plushies. The stuffed animals at the aptly named “Weird Bug Lady” store are created by a zoology student at McGill University who will soon be pursuing a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and entomology at the University of Connecticut.
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Our April issue has been out for a little while now, which among other things, contains my amazing, fantastic and generally mind-blowingly great drinkware story. It contains advice and tips from drinkware experts at Huffermen, 99CentPromos.com, Visstun and Moderne Glass on how to sell different kinds of drinkware, like sports bottles, glassware and travel mugs
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On April 13, Proforma announced the launch of a large new marketing program for its owners, aptly titled the “Demand Generation Program.” The original press release can be read here, but essentially the marketing initiative is designed to bring in new, untapped clients for Proforma distributors.
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For six months or so, in the eye of the worst economic contraction of my lifetime, businesses and forecasters have been declaring the recession over. Regardless of layoffs and spending freezes, experts and non-experts alike stated with great clarity that all was well.
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