Each year we celebrate the powerful and most inspiring women in our lives: our mothers. We gather many qualities from our mothers, including strength, passion, kindness, determination and love. While we should really celebrate our mothers each and every day, you can start with these inspiring words from celebrities who are strong women who have admitted imperfection, but are wonderful mothers.
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Bill Gates Expands Resume with DJing Stint and the Splits
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Your Smartphone Holds Personal Information
You phone probably knows more about you and your personal (as well as professional) life than you think. It knows where you’ve been and who you were with, the birthday gift you bought your mother and even who you plan to vote for.
Apple vs the FBI: Which One is Right?
In today’s world, the Internet is where we live the majority of our lives: We work, we shop, we chat with our loved ones. It also functions as our global town hall: a forum for debate, education and a springboard for taking action. It’s possible, when the Internet is open and secure, to live our personal and civic lives online in a way that feels safe. One of the elements most central to this feeling of safety, is in danger of being undermined: encryption.
How to Effectively Listen to Your Customers
Your customers are talking. Are you hearing them? We have put together a few tips on how to effectively listen to your customers.
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Influencers and Content Marketing Platform
With the New Year upon us, the marketing statistic are coming out, and the numbers on content marketing remain confusing. The content marketing platform is becoming more pervasive, as nine out of 10 business-to-business marketers (b-to-b marketers) use content marketing to drive customer engagement.
Pre-Roll Ads Dramatically Increasing Ad-Block Installs
A recent study by the video ad tech company Teads surveyed 9,000 people who either have or are aware of ad-blocking technology. This study aims to provide insight as to what motivates people to use ad blockers.
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MailChimp Integration with Magento
UPS vs. USPS vs. FedEx: Battle of the Shipping Carriers
As the holidays quickly approach, one question on the minds of many business and company owners is “Which shipping carrier should I use for my business?” This may be a difficult choice for some, as there are a lot of carrier options available. The three major carriers in the United States are UPS, FedEx and the United States Postal Services (USPS). Each of these brands are most familiar among Americans and are associated with reliable shipping to consumer residences.
Each carrier has specific strengths, however their differences are not as stark as they once were. They each have strategies to serve the eCommerce market and continue to improve their service and delivery options, while also meeting online sellers’ (and buyers’) needs. Consequently, USPS now has exceptional 1-3 day Priority Mail capabilities, FedEx and UPS offer competitively priced ground solutions, and services like FedEx SmartPost and UPS SurePost leverage USPS for final package delivery to residences buying online. With each carrier being so similar, choosing one that is best for your business may be difficult. This article will discuss how these 3 major carriers compare to better help you make your choice.
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GigCity Broadband Service in Bryan/College Station
On July 9, 2015 Suddenlink announced that it would be offering an Internet service with an up to 1 Gigabit per second download speed throughout Bryan/College Station, making this area the first Suddenlink-served community in Texas to receive this service. Suddenlink also announced that it has increased other residential Internet speeds at no additional cost to customers.
Experts say this puts Bryan/College Station in an elite class to which only parts of some major U.S. cities have access.
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