Debut of new AFP Marketing Solutions web ad

  
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AFP Marketing Solutions is debuting a new web ad today. The ad features Chris Graham detailing the different components of a typical marketing and PR strategy.

Watch the ad to learn more about how AFP Marketing Solutions can help you raise your profile. Read more

Trivial, indeed

The paper is getting caught up in city politics

Column by Chris Graham
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“(T)rivial inconvenience.” That’s how casually the News Virginian dismisses the concerns raised by parents of elementary-school students in relation to the half-baked redistricting plan being advanced by the Waynesboro School Board.

Trivial – that’s how the paper characterizes the issues you have with having your children changing schools in the middle of elementary school.

An “inconvenience.” Yeah. It will be pretty inconvenient for people with kids a year or two or three apart to take them across town to two elementary schools, to be involved in two school PTOs, to have to support separate school fundraisers. Read more

Steroids aren’t funny

 
Column by Chris Graham
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“Ever used performance-enhancing substances?”

My friend Eli. I’m sure he had an angle.

“Do M&Ms count?”

“Funny. And?”

I couldn’t think of any. Not that I’m morally opposed.

“Nah. I’m too cheap,” I finally settled the matter.

Which is pretty much it. Well, there’s that, and what good would it do me? Read more

AFP editor Chris Graham on WINA’s ‘Charlottesville-Right Now!’

  
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AFP.com editor Chris Graham joins Coy Barefoot on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!”

Chris and Coy discuss the top news stories in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro in 2009.

A link to the podcast courtesy the Charlottesville Podcast Network – http://bit.ly/8fkVH5.

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The Rant | It’s Christmastime in the city

 
Video Essay by Chris Graham
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Not that you’d be able to tell by watching the Grinches in City Hall. That’s maybe a bit harsh, but so is the policy that is being cited as the excuse for not rescheduling the Waynesboro Christmas Parade that got snowed out last weekend.

AFP editor Chris Graham delves into the topic and suggests adding some flexibility to the policy in today’s installment of The Rant. Read more

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Banner ads on AFP.com normally go for $75 per month; but the first 10 people to respond to this week’s newsletter special offer can get three months of advertising for $75. Read more