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Publishing a book is easier than you think

Traditionally, publishing meant preparing your book and submitting it for someone else to take up the rest of the hard work. This is a seductive model, but one which is very limiting for first-time writers without a track record to garner the attention of that publishing house. Consider publishing your book with a combination of old and new business strategies. Hybrid Publishing offers a mix of traditional and self-publishing....
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Why emailing your customers is important

When Jim Koch started Samuel Adams Brewing Company in the 1980s, everyone said he was crazy. Today, he is a billionaire who speaks about the importance of communicating with customers in ways that other businesses are failing. “It was a long, slow process for the education of a consumer,” Koch says. “Beer was sold on the advertising and the marketing of a brand, not the ingredients, brewing process, and the passion of a brewer.” Marketing has changed significantly with widespread adoption of email and social media, not to mention the way customers expect to be educated on a business. The story, ideals and values of your business should be told by emailing your customers, mailing your customers, posting to your customers. The point here is that the small business needs to cater to this new generation adverse to print and suspicious of companies who don’t demonstrate an elementary aptitude for new technologies or who are afraid to tell their stories. more
Is Bitcoin dependable?

Edward Hadas at Reuters is so sure Bitcoin will collapse that he wrote an early obituary eulogizing the loss of confidence in a baseless cryptocurrency, caused by an illicit and valueless speculation war. Ignoring this death knell includes a long list of Bitcoin investors, each of whom harnesses arbitrage to stabilize the currency. A futures market for Bitcoin already exists and others are on the way. These proponents also point to the world’s first Bitcoin ATM installed in a Vancouver coffee shop in October 2013 and the others springing up since. It would seem the cryptocurrency craze has reinforced usable modularity across the spectrum – from investing to retail banking. The Bitcoin digital currency, which exists as software, is created by solving complex tasks embedded in a program through a process called mining. Once successfully mined, the currencies can be bought and sold via online exchanges. Websites like startbitcoin.com help novices learn to mine Bitcoins, and the underlying open source more

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