5 Tips to Ensure Your Press Release Gets Read

Taking the time to write a press release and then never seeing it printed can be frustrating. When it happens several times in a row, your tendency may be to devote your time to something else and forget press releases altogether. There are several reasons a press release may not be published. Perhaps you didn’t contact the right editor. Maybe

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Are Your Brochures Bringing You True Return on Investment?

A good brochure may capture someone’s attention and inform them about the services you provide at your business, but a great brochure does something more. A great, well-written, brochure persuades the person reading it. Unfortunately, most brochures never go from good to great. They never provide a true reason to the reader on why they should utilize a service. Where

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If I Had Only Known

There’s a song I heard for the first time in the sixth grade when we were shown a video by MADD. It’s name, If I Had Only Known.. I have always loved the song. It was, and still is, one of my favorite songs to play on the flute. But over the last two years I have really wondered if

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Get Your Business Found by Siri on iPhone

If you have an iPhone 4s or greater, you’ve probably spent a great deal of time playing around with Siri. Designed to be a voice activated personal assistant, Siri helps you send messages, schedule meetings, and much more. One heavily utilized feature on Siri is helping iPhone users find the nearest restaurant, gas station, store, or other nearby place. This

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What You’re Marketing May Be Hurting Your Marketing

You’ve paid a lot of money for your website, your beautiful brochures, and your advertising campaign.  You’ve told everyone you know about your business.  You’ve listed off a slew of services you offer, that in your eyes make you better than anywhere else in town.  Yet the response you’d anticipated to all your efforts has been dismal. If you reexamine

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An Update on Meg & Tips for Surviving Canine Chemo

It’s been almost a month since I last wrote, and a lot has changed … for the better!  :) First off, Meg seems to be doing really well.  She’s now only taking chemo every-other-week, and that will continue until almost Christmas.  We attribute the key in her turnaround to Dr. Joanna Pridgen at Wisdom Animal Clinic.  Dr. Pridgen put her

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How’s Meg & Other Crazy Questions

I have officially decided the worst question anyone can ask me is, “How’s Meg?”. While I appreciate the genuine concern, the reality is there’s no real good answer. “She’s still dying.” “She’s still got an incurable lymphoma.” “She’s energetic at times but not herself.” Those are all the answers I want to give. They’re the truth. But no one wants

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Take Care of the Little Things Every Day

Yesterday afternoon I pulled into the drive-thru at a local restaurant to order a late lunch. It took me eight minutes to get out of the drive-thru empty handed, after the lady taking my order provided the most horrible customer service I’ve ever received in a drive-thru. I decided I’d rather spend my money where I felt like a customer

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Latest on Meg’s Treatments

It’s amazing how fast time goes by. It’s been almost a month since I first noticed something was wrong with Meg. It feels like it was just yesterday. The good news is she seems to be tolerating this week’s chemo treatment a lot better than she did the others. This week she’s on a chemo pill. We were actually able

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Meg’s Progress & Treatment for Canine Lymphoma

Well Meg’s first week of treatment went better than anticipated.  She started chemo on Friday, July 27th, and the vet gave us prescriptions to continue her on Prednisone (upped from 5mg to 15mg a day), and to also treat her for nausea and diarrhea as needed. We only picked up the Prednisone prescription last Friday from the pharmacy, but by

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