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Free Professional Resource :: Business Cards & 5 Tips To Utilize Business Cards

Free Professional Resource :: Business Cards & 5 Tips To Utilize Business Cards

5 Tips To Utilize Business Cards 1. Business Card & House Keys Leave Together :: Never, ever leave home without at small stack of business cards.  You just never know. 2. 6 Degrees of Separation ::  When you send a birthday card, gift, thank you note, and even paying a bill – a business card should be a habit with everything (minus funerals).  Hand your business card out as if the more you hand out the longer you live. This is your lifeline . . . you want to sustain yourself and handing out business cards is the first...

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Pandora Launches Live Concert Video Series

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Pandora, the leading personalized radio service, today announced an online extension of the free, live concert series that the company debuted earlier in the month. The Pandora live concert series hub, currently sponsored by Budweiser, can be accessed at: Pandora. The live concert series launched in Portland, Ore. on December 13 with Dawes, an emerging rock band from Southern California. As the official launch sponsor, Budweiser presented the inaugural concert free of charge to more than 230 fans, and is now bringing the experience online via the dedicated hub. All artists that participate in Pandora’s live concert series will be showcased on the hub. The...

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Frugal Tip: NBC and NFL Will Offer Live Streaming of Super Bowl

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The Super Bowl will be streamed online and to phones for the first time, the NFL said Tuesday. NBC’s broadcasts of wild card Saturday, the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl will be available on NFL Network online, NBC Network online and through Verizon’s NFL Mobile app. The service will include additional camera angles, in-game highlights and live stats — and replays of those always popular Super Bowl ads. NBC has been streaming its “Sunday Night Football” telecasts for four seasons, and the network has found that it’s not just being used by fans who can’t watch on TV. Many of...

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Pete Townshend calls Apple ‘a vampire’

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The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has urged Apple’s iTunes to use its power to help new bands instead of “bleeding” artists like a “digital vampire”. He also argued against unauthorized file-sharing, saying the internet was “destroying copyright as we know it . . . . The word ‘sharing’ surely means giving away something you have earned, or made, or paid for?” and added that people who downloaded his music without paying for it “may as well come and steal my son’s bike while they’re at it . . . If someone “pretends that something I have created should be available...

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Google Acquires More and More and More . . .

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Google spent more than $1.4 billion to purchase 57 companies of various sizes and persuasions, blasting apart the company’s previous record of 48 acquisitions from 2010. That sum includes: ITA Software ($676 million) Propeller (price unknown) SayNow (price unknown) fflick ($10 million) Zynamics (price unknown) Beat That Quote ($61.5 million) Next New Networks (price unknown) Green Parrot Pictures (price unknown) PushLife ($25 million) Talk Bin (price unknown) Sparkbuy (price unknown) PostRank (price unknown) AdMeld ($400 million) SageTV (price unknown) Punchd  (price unknown) Fridge  (price unknown) PittPatt (price unknown) Dealmap (price unknown) Motorola ($12.5 billion) Zave (price unknown) Zagat (price unknown) Daily Deals ($114 million) Social Grapple (price unknown) Why buy all of these companies and...

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