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June 23rd, 2011

What’s in a name?

The answer to that old question today has to be: How unique is it? If you’re starting a business and investing in a website, this is not something to rush into. Naming used to be so easy.  Your name.  Your hometown.  A swanky vacation destination. That’s too yesterday. Problem is, it all comes down to [...]

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June 2nd, 2011

Whatever happened to the company newsletter?

It died.  It deserved to die.  And it did. A post mortem reveals three basic reasons why. First, for most companies, it was a static, once-a-quarter (at best) effort that left your team struggling for content. Second, customers ran out of time to look at it (if they ever did). And third, print newsletters cost [...]

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May 13th, 2011

Do you really need PR? Take this quiz.

It’s easy to get busy and focus on your real business, but maybe you’re making a mistake by not using PR as an important part of your marketing tool set. So, as a public service, here’s a quiz to help you decide. 1.     Tired of seeing your competitors consuming valuable space in important media outlets [...]

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April 26th, 2011

Why would anyone want to pay to distribute a press release?

Until recently, the paid newswires – PR Newswire, Business Wire, Marketwire, and others – were the necessary evil of PR.  Want to get into the search engines?  Want to achieve disclosure?  Want to give your client’s content a home on the web?  Then you had to go to one of the paidwires.  But now the [...]

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February 8th, 2011

Hey folks, pay attention to your Google!

There’s an annoying company out there in cyberspace called Execudex that sends unsolicited emails asking you to buy, well, email lists, so you, too, can join the spam generation.  OK.  It’s a business.  People buy these lists.  And maybe they actually work.  I don’t know.  But when you do a Google search on Execudex, what [...]

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