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How to Market Your Business With Facebook

Business owner, you might want to friend Facebook.A growing number of businesses are making Facebook an indispensible part of hanging out their shingles. Small businesses are using it to find new customers, build online communities... more »

Wholesalecrafts.com Reports Record Breaking Number of Online Orders in October

Mooresville, NC — Wholesalecrafts.com, the premier web service for sourcing American and Canadian made crafts, reports record breaking number of online orders in October.The total number of orders placed online in October 2009 was 1,746, a... more »

C.R. Gibson Announces Debut of Jim Shore Licensed Gift and Home Products in Highly Anticipated January 2010 Release

Nashville, Tenn. — The enormously popular, award-winning folk artist, Jim Shore, licenses his distinctive American Folk Art aesthetic to C.R. Gibson on a broad line of photo, home and gift products set to debut at... more »

New gift shop opens in Cleethorpes

A Cleethorpes woman has started up her own business – in memory of her late mother.Sadie Harness, 35, has opened Barbarello's Gift Shop in Market Street to honour mum Barbara, who died earlier this year.The... more »

Gift shoppers: Bag your best bargains early

New York, NY -- If you expect holiday bargains to get better as Christmas Eve draws near, you may be disappointed this year.Retailers aren't as panicked about the upcoming holiday shopping season as they were... more »

Holiday Help to Full-Time Hires

Every year around this time, thousands of workers are hired for jobs catering to holiday shoppers and usually ending in January. The work can be a short-term way to generate a paycheck. But for a... more »

Know Your Market Before You Leap

While it is hard to argue with Peter Drucker's much-quoted aphorism that "the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer," it does raise a question. What is the best way to... more »

NYIGF Launches Dynamic New Website

White Plains, NY - Extending its newly-unveiled "New Rules" marketing campaign to the internet, the New York International Gift Fair,® (NYIGF®) has launched a dynamic new website at the same URL: NYIGF.com. The new site,... more »

Colusa is doing well in tough economy

In a time of economic turmoil and uncertainty, it seems Colusa County -- which has seen the lowest unemployment rate in the state more than once -- is enjoying an economic boom. At least eight... more »

Family-run Schacht Groves puts personal touch in gift-fruit business

Vero Beach — Though Schacht Groves was founded 60 years ago, the gift-fruit shipping and retail store is the biggest reason why the business has survived.Traveling salesman Henry H. Schacht had taken a liking to... more »