This made me smile on a dreary Monday morning. Instore magazine' s tip of the day eblast was spreading optimism so I felt like contributing to the cause! Are you still bummed out

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Instore Magazine says: Snap Out of it! Post Recessionary Advice for Jewelers

On a recent trip to New York City, I was surprised (and delighted) to find many businesses are now offering free Wi-Fi, from department and electronics stores to the local coffee shops as well as national chains like Starbucks . Although the private businesses in Paris have been slow to catch on, the city of Paris hasn’t been and they offer complimentary Wi-Fi in 400 locations around the city, including public parks and municipal spaces. The Wi-Fi (pronounced wee-fee ) is available from 7am to 11pm, or during the hours the park or building is open

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The French have a lot of protests and manifestations . Some of the issues they march for are a bit of a reach and we roll our eyes. And it’s annoying when the trains and other forms of transport go on strike and you need to get somewhere

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Social marketing has made millions for those who adapted early, but it’s not too late to jump on board and benefit from the marketing potential social media have to offer. You may be wondering why social marketing is so powerful. Well, mostly because you’re able to reach prospects in new and creative ways on their terms, giving them a sort of home field advantage, if you will

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Start Earning Online In The Next 30 min! If you are looking to work from home and would like to start earning anywhere from $200 – $1500+ everyday then you would want to check out this offer and learn how you could soon be quitting your day job to work from home! No Technical Skills Required, Anyone Can Join! Get The My Home Wealth System Today! Do you think blogging has changed over the last few years? Well I think it has for me, at least over the last 3 years that I’ve been blogging.

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When I worked in the restaurant business, if you happened to walk in during staff meal, you could always tell who were the pastry people: we were the ones dousing our food with vinegar and salt. That is, when we had time to sit down and eat. I like sweets, but I like them tempered with something not-necessarily sweet, which is why sometimes you’ll see a squeeze of lemon juice added to a fruit ice cream base or bakers like me include a pinch of salt in batter, to balance things out.

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Salted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Daily Candy is turning 10 and to celebrate their decade of great finds, new discoveries and fantastic new designers they're running an entrepreneur's contest.

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Many members of JewelryDesignerFinder.com are showcasing their jewelry at the NY Gift Show this week… stop by to see great trends and new products for holiday 2010. Or see them online at www.JewelryDesignerFinder.com — our new site that brings you the world of designers in one place

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This is the year of the wrist. Every trendsetter is sporting a stack of bracelets, and Georgianna Koulianos of GK Designs is no exception.

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GK Designs Debuts "Wrap the Gulf in Beauty" Bracelets to Support Clean Up Efforts

“Hi Lynn, I have a quick question. In order to have a successful blog, do you have to target keywords? I’m blogging mainly to give information, but it would be nice to profit from it as well

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In late 2009, we posted about problems at a Genzyme plant that manufactured some fabulously expensive drugs, e.g. Cerezyme whose cost to patients approximated $160,000 a year. We thought then that for a drug costing that much, the company ought to have figured out a conservative process to provide pure and unadulterated product.

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A Golden Parachute for Making Contaminated Drugs?

If you manage a business, you have learned that it is a lot easier to retail a designer item than an unbranded one. Many customers are faithful to a brand name and will obtain that item over a no-name one despite price

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An Ideal Fit for Dollar Stores: Drop Ship Licensed Products

Friday – August 13 12:15 – 1:00 Century Ballroom 915 East Pine Street Seattle, WA 98122-3849 www.centuryballroom.com Oh how I love Seattle and I couldn’t be more thrilled and proud to be speaking with lots of creative and entrepreneurial minded friends and colleagues at The Creative Conference of Entrepreneurs .

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Direct marketing has been around for a long time and you might think that there are newer, better ways to invest your advertising budget. But really, direct marketing is a lot like the wheel; you will never run out of uses for it. As long as there are buyers and sellers, there will likely be direct marketing.

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As I get set up and prepared to start podcasting professionally, which will include video podcasts in addition to audio, a brand new free report just happened to cross my screen. The title: Rapid Video Blogging by Gideon Shalwick. Perfect timing! I should tell you now that Gideon is giving away 3 iPads – because there is only ONE left

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New -Awesome- Free Video Marketing Guide

I’m getting ready for our trip to explore the Rio Grande Rift . Like the Rift, our route will bisect New Mexico, from north of Santa Fe all the way down to Las Cruces. There will be geologic glories galore, including calderas (volcanic craters), lava frozen in place by millions of years of time, mountains (ditto), and the sparkling water of the Rio Grande itself.

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Facebook fan pages number among the few social media channels that allow page customization for users, says Ching Ya , author of Social @ Blogging Tracker. She is a header designer and provides Facebook customization service for small businesses. Many people may be unaware of the advanced functionality FBML gives a fan page, she says and you can follow her advice by reading this article on the Social Media Examiner Blog: 9 Ways to Enhance Your Facebook Fan Page | Social Media Examiner .

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9 Ways to Enhance Your Facebook Biz Page | Social Media Examiner

There's been so much interesting news lately that it's hard to keep up with it all. These are the stories I've personally found most interesting: 7/28/2010 – from WIRED: Google, CIA Invest in “Future” of Web Monitoring “The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come.

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Computerworld, 16 Jul 10: Colorado’s Secretary of State and other officials are warning the state’s 800,000 or so registered businesses to watch out for scammers who have been forging business identities to make fraudulent purchases from several big-box retailers in recent months. So far, at least 35 businesses in the state have had their corporate identities

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Colorado warns of major corporate ID theft scam

d) Online Businesses – Do you want to start an online business and get rich quick? Be extremely cautious on such tempting ads too. Most such ads will have you paying for some ‘guide to working at home business ‘ which is often just a …

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