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Inside the Newsroom: Businesses getting ready for Black Friday

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marketingBlack Friday is three weeks away. Businesses are in the throes of efforts to try to lure customers to spend money with them.

Today’s Inside the Newsroom takes a look at those efforts, and how businesses are adapting to the changing economic realities.

Online sales are projected to account for 33 percent of all spending. Can small local retailers compete with the big boys to get their piece of the pie?

Host Crystal Graham and Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham dive into this topic, and discuss how small business can utilize social media to their advantage to try to level the playing field.

 

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