Instagram Refresh: How to Drive Website Traffic

With 75 million active daily users, Instagram continues to be one of the most popular social media platforms used. Over a quarter of the US population used Instagram last year, and this number is expected to climb. After introducing ads in 2013, the platform has been growing in popularity with businesses ranging from industry leaders…

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6 Vital Lessons I Learned By Taking A Vacation

There are some life lessons we only have to learn once. And then there are others. Like, how sometimes life gets so busy that we forget to take a break. Or, we just choose to stay in the wheel, grinding out the day-to-day routine until we are forced to quit. Whether it is our body…

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Building Their Online Kingdom From the Press

There’s nothing like fame to get you to social media stardom. Many famous people today are well known not only for their respective talent, but also for their presence on social media. Is it just because they’re famous these people have millions of followers, or is there something more to it? Building an online kingdom…

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Introducing Live Streaming Into Your Current Marketing Strategy

Over the past few years, we have seen the development of social platforms like Vine introducing users to video. Other platforms, such as SnapChat, Facebook, and Twitter, have encouraged users to use videos as part of their online strategy. However, the video-loving internet has led to an updated version of video: live streaming. Live streaming,…

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Introducing Facebook’s “See First”

If you haven’t seen these new Facebook options on your mobile device or computer yet, you will soon. Facebook has recently made yet another change to the way consumers receive information…and it requires your attention. Gone are the days of simply keeping up with a business on Facebook. If you don’t interact with other pages’…

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Hiring & Your Online Presence

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Just this week I was talking with one of my loved ones in California who is currently looking for a new position. As many of us experience, she is working for an employer who is not the correct fit – and for many reasons. After learning about her new search, I gave her my usual job-seeking advice about doing…

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How Insurance Is Changing Again & Oregon Businesses Are Being Affected

Health insurance is quite literally on everyone’s minds these days, especially if you’re in the business world. With the mandate to have every American insured for health coverage, businesses who aren’t offering those benefits are suffering the consequences, in more ways than one. While companies with less than 100 employees are not currently required to…

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Using Snapchat for Business

Whether it is the introduction of a new platform or changes made to a current platform, the social media realm is constantly changing. Originally, social media was created for you and me – people just trying to connect and interact with their friends, loved ones, and old classmates. Gradually, we started seeing social media adapt…

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Welcoming Niteo Tours: A Look At A New Startup

Love to travel? Enjoy learning about and experiencing global cultures? Welcome to… With their own love for and long experience with traveling, John and Amy Haley paired with Kjell and Carol Garborg to form Niteo Tours. Combined, the four have traveled to 56 different countries across 5 continents. Now, they want you to explore, encounter,…

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Selena – A Real American Drama

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“Selena”  Hard work, vision, entrepreneurship and the making of a true American dream! If you haven’t seen or heard of it, “Selena” is a movie based on the life of Selena Quintanilla Perez: a once up-and-coming Hispanic pop star.  This biography follows the star from her humble beginnings to her untimely death in 1995 at the…

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