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- State to step up wildlife marketing
- Companies want applicants with social-media skills
- A $5 Pizza Slice: Recession Recovery or Savvy Marketing?
State to step up wildlife marketing
Austin American-Statesman
1 in hunting license sales and No. 2 in fishing license sales. The marketing campaign which will roll out fully in September is one way to do that and to highlight the resources Texas has he says. “A landowner can tie the power of the campaign directly to his ranch” Staples says. The program which is a direct partnership between the Agriculture Department and Texas Parks and Wildlife is just one more way to draw hunters and anglers to Texas and to put them in contact with landowners. “Farmers and ranchers are struggling to maintain and hold onto their property right now” Staples says. “Diversifying their income helps them do that.
Companies want applicants with social-media skills
Atlanta Journal Constitution
“If you’re in advertising marketing or communications the more information you can put out to people where they want to see it the better” said Bob Van Rossum president of MarketPro a marketing recruitment company. “If you’re in one of those fields it’s now required for you to be pretty savvy in the social media area even if it’s not your primary focus. ”Atlanta job postings on a number of Web sites include Twitter and Facebook requirements for applicants. A senior account executive position at Softscribe Inc. requires “5 years Tech PR Agency Record + Twitter.
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A $5 Pizza Slice: Recession Recovery or Savvy Marketing?
New York Times
Bloomberg weighed in on Thursday saying: “The real question relative to the local economy is whether people are trading up from a $2. 75 slice or down from a $25 entree. ? It’s a bit of both he proclaimed. A ne-in-a-Million AccidentThe one-in-a-million accident that critically injured a Google engineer is.