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Newsletter August 26, 2014
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What's Hot Happy & Healthy Employees Creating a worksite wellness program is a great step toward encouraging healthy habits with employees. The benefits don't stop there though: Studies reveal correlations between worksite wellness programs and performance! What's New A Look at Franchises Specializing In Security Joel Libava - August 26, 2014 Like most people, when you think of franchises, you probably think of fast food franchises or retail franchises. But, there's so much more to franchising. One sector worth mentioning is… Quitting Your Day Job to Start a Business? Take This Test First Barry Moltz - August 26, 2014 Create a Return Policy That Yields Many Happy Returning Customers Rieva Lesonsky - August 26, 2014 Colorado Coffee Shop Focuses on Hiring the Homeless Annie Pilon - August 26, 2014 Begich Bill Could Reduce Healthcare Premiums by 18 Percent, Study Says Joshua Sophy - August 25, 2014 What the Smartest Voices Have to Say Phil Hill of Flashissue: Turning Gmail into an Email Marketing Platform Brent Leary - August 22, 2014 Sending emails and doing email marketing campaigns are two completely different things. But with many small businesses living in Gmail today, being able to do full blown email campaigns right… Blast From The Past: What Was Hot One Year Ago? What Is “Owned, Earned and Paid Media”? Anita Campbell - August 26, 2013 If you work in a marketing agency, or are a marketer in-house in a larger company, you probably know the answer to “what is owned, earned and paid media?”.But… Featured Expert Each week we feature a Small Business Trends Expert. See all the Experts here. Brent Leary Brent Leary is a Partner at CRM Essentials and organizer of the Social Business Atlanta conference. Brent serves on the advisory board of The University of Toronto CRM Center of Excellence, writes the Social CRM column for Inc.com's technology site, and blogs at Brent's Social CRM Blog. … More	Hot on BizSugar 3 Ways to Promote Your Business through Twitter Ads Should Banks Refer Declined Business Owners to Alternative Capital? 7 Types of Repurposing Content To Save Time
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