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You know that you need to do more to market your small business, but you have no idea where to start. Augusta Free Press has the answer – with proven steps on how you can build your own effective marketing and PR machine. Build the Machine: A One-Day Marketing Workshop is being offered on Thursday,…
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Harrisonburg Tourism & Visitor Services has coordinated a two-day event with Virginia Tourism Corporation. “Your Personal Help Desk” will take place March 28-29, 2012 at the Hardesty-Higgins House Visitor Center. Staff from Virginia Tourism Corporation will conduct personalized sessions with local tourism-based businesses. These private, one-hour sessions will give business owners and operators the opportunity…
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State governments are largely doing a poor job delivering transparency and accountability to their citizenry. Meanwhile, statehouses remain ripe for corruption and self-dealing. This is the discouraging picture that emerges from the State Integrity Investigation, a first-of-its-kind, data-driven assessment of transparency, accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms in all 50 states. In the ranking, not a single…
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Marketing is different today than it was 20 years ago or 10 years ago or even a year ago. You can’t just pour gobs of money into print, radio and TV and hope for the best – and that’s a good thing. Augusta Free Press will help you sort your way through the new media…
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Augusta Free Press will offer two classes in its Building the Machine 101 web-marketing series this week. On Wednesday, the topic will be Setting Up a Business Facebook Page 101. The 8:30-9:30 a.m. class goes into the basics of setting up a Facebook page for businesses and nonprofits.
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Augusta Free Press LLC will begin a series of classes on web, social media, marketing and public relations beginning this week with the debut of Building the Machine 101. Taught by AFP editor Chris Graham, the classes will provide you with the building blocks for an effective approach to reaching out to consumers, business-to-business clients,…
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Rockingham Memorial Hospital has joined on as an online partner of AugustaFreePress.com, agreeing to a one-year contract for an ad on the news website promoting the Harrisonburg-based medical-services organization. Rockingham Memorial Hospital is a 238-bed community hospital providing the best in healthcare services since 1912. RMH serves a seven-county area with a population of close…
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At the end of his first semester as a vice president of enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University, Luke Hartman answered questions on why he feels passionately about his enrollment portfolio, a new position in the university’s leadership cabinet. How has the enrollment process changed for students entering college since your undergraduate days in late 1980s…
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On the heels of its most successful year ever in 2011, Augusta Free Press LLC will mark its 10th year in business in 2012. “Our focus in this anniversary year is the same as it has been for us from day one – building on our success both for ourselves and for our growing list…
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Virginia’s Farm Link program is a decade old, and Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers are working to reboot the program and encourage more farmers and would-be farmers to get connected. “Young farmers are looking for partnerships, not handouts. We want to help preserve farmland by working it,” said Bob Harris, VFBF Young Farmers Committee…
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