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  When Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers in 1969, he sought to build a marketing campaign based on some principles that apply to every start-up. He succeeded in developing a niche in fast food that

Marketing is a scary term for most business owners. It’s a catch-all word that encompasses advertising and how it’s designed, word of mouth and handling negative reviews, media relations and even how a storefront is set up and run.

The heyday of print newspapers may be history, but a changing marketplace doesn’t necessarily mean that newspapers are a thing of the past. More than half of American adults still read a daily newspaper, and while some of them

You may think public relations companies only service large corporations, but if you’re a small business owner, think again. A recent study by Constant Contact revealed that many small business owners are confused by the wealth of online and

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The most coveted endorsement of any author’s book is the right review. Today’s educated and discriminating consumer is bombarded with so much information, it’s hard for an author to know how to go about getting a book reviewed and

You can probably find an Encompass Home Health office in or near your town, and if you do, you’ll also find a company that’s not afraid to brag on its employees. In fact, the Dallas office has turned its

Some charitable organizations are downright puritanical when it comes to media relations, but it’s the successful nonprofit that practices unabashed self-promotion. The relationship between the media and its top sources of “feel-good” news is a symbiotic one that gives

Some photos tell such a compelling story that they become our memory of an event or an era. Quick: think of the Oklahoma City Bombing. Did the photo of a firefighter cradling a dying infant flash into your mind?

Today’s national news media takes a lot of heat for being biased, and that same court of public opinion can hold sway for local reporters. The only words that mean much in this case are the completely objective ones