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Get Their Attention With A Hat!

Caps have all the elements of the perfect promotional vehicle for delivering your message. Increase brand awareness Deliver repeat exposure Long-lasting High perceived value Cost effective Here's proof of that. A study by the Advertising Specialty Institute showed that caps deliver real impressions: 53% of consumers who received a hat…

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Giving Back To Your Community

No matter how large or small, a business is part of the community in which it operates. This holiday season, put aside the holiday parties and look for creative ways to give back to your community. Coordinate charitable donations. Consider taking up a regular donation for a local charity or…

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The Perfect Publicity Cocktail

Craft cocktails are all the rage, featuring the perfect balance of alcohol, bitters, zest and sweetness mixed into creations such as the Old Fashioned or Sazerac. In the board room, a different brand of mixology is taking place: the meticulously designed publicity campaign. All beneficial and lucrative PR and marketing strategies…

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Tips for Improving Communication, Part 2

If you haven't noticed, many managers do not communicate well and do not set an organizational climate where communication within the organization is managed effectively. This isn't surprising, since a manager who communicates ineffectively and does not encourage effective organizational communication is unlikely to hear about it. Poor communication is…

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Tips For Improving Communication, Part 1

Research indicates that managers spend somewhere between 50 and 80 percent of their total time communicating in one way or the other. Without effective communication there can be little or no performance management, innovation, understanding of clients or coordination of effort, and without effective communication it is difficult to manage…

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Ready to Say Thanks?

Thanksgiving is just around the corner (literally), and many of you are making plans for how you are going to use this time; visiting with relatives, serving meals to the less fortunate or whatever it is that you do on Thanksgiving. It’s odd that, as the majority of our waking hours…

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Low-Cost Ways To Show Customer Appreciation

It’s Friday, and on golf courses across the country, you’ll find company executives and their top clients squeezing in 18 holes of golf. It’s a traditional way to say “thank you” to a customer and spend some valuable relationship-building time with them as well. But let’s face it, golf can…

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Making Collaboration Easier

These web sources for small businesses will make collaboration easier, as identified by content expert Ken Lyons. Skype: Skype is still one of the best online tools for collaborative communication. Voice, video and text chats to your team are completely free; you can even share files. In addition to the Windows,…

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