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After 35 years, the Choose Your Own Adventure books are finally doing it for the Vine. The popular book series, which allow readers to determine the plot’s outcome by assuming the role of the main character and making decisions along the way, has been recreated for the six-second video-sharing service See also: 10 Vine Videos […]

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Nothing beats the warm and fuzzy feeling we get when we indulge in a meal that hits close to home — except maybe Instagramming it before the first bite See also: If Your Food Told the Brutal Truth Last week, in collaboration with Fried & True cookbook, we asked readers to share photos of their […]

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Today is the day we remember those who’ve gone before us; Those who gave their life so that we may have the freedoms that we have in America. While yes, A Real Change is an International company, we are headquartered in Kansas City, MO, in the heart of the United States of America. But today, […]

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How To Get WELL With An Approach Very Few Doctors Know About, Let Alone Can Suggest Many of you have written us asking about what I’m doing regarding my spondylitis and Ulcerative Colitis. You see me doing well on social media, resting some days, working hard others and want to know HOW!? Well, get a […]

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At the grave of a hero we end, not with sorrow at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a kind of desperate joy we go back to the fight. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes fought in the Civil War, enlisting with the Massachusetts militia during his senior […]

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGTdApG3LIk] How do you cram the ultimate guide for having the best summer break in just one minute of video? Just ask Mashable Minute’s Elliott Morgan, who offers vacation, exercise and fashion tips that’ll make your summer so much more enjoyable. He also mentions polar bears. You can’t have a summer without polar bears […]

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You don’t need to be a ’90s-bred Bill Nye fan to know science rules. Just look at the state of the Internet in 2014 — we f*cking love that sh*t Now, thanks to an outpouring of crowdsourcing calls from scientists and universities across the world, “citizen scientists” — like you, me and our Ph.D.-challenged friends […]

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We’d love to fill your head with some great marketing advice today, but Memorial Day is not the time to do so. We’d instead, refer you to last year’s Memorial Day post which did a nice job of summing up our stance on marketing during a holiday. So, if you’ll excuse the mere link, which […]

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We’d love to fill your head with some great marketing advice today, but Memorial Day is not the time to do so. We’d instead, refer you to last year’s Memorial Day post which did a nice job of summing up our stance on marketing during a holiday. So, if you’ll excuse the mere link, which […]

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Marcus Taylor | The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing & Newsletters for Musicians & Bands Dave Kusek | Make the Most of Your Email List …read more Source: Music Think Tank

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Avoiding Lord of the Flies in your shared rehearsal room is easier than you think If there’s one thing I miss about sharing a practice space with a bunch of other bands it’s walking into an ill-lit room that smells like a sweat-soaked sock steeped in stale cigarette smoke and finding that two of my […]

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Content marketing is all the buzz for 2014. Indeed several studies have pointed to marketers increasing their content marketing budgets this year, but less than half of those being surveyed are confident their efforts are effective. The key, according to the Content Marketing Institute, is to have a strategy. An infographic from JBH Marketing outlines […]

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It’s crazy to think we’ve been updating MailChimp Mobile for 4 years now. Since our first release in 2010, we’ve seen a few mobile platform updates, the launch of a redesigned iOS and Android version of the app, and plenty of feature requests from our 6 million and counting users. So we thought we’d take […]

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Facebook Pages are an excellent tool for engaging loyal customers and spreading the word about business activities. Pages also help customers, specifically those of restaurants, find open locations, hours of operation, and menu recommendations. Through various updates, the social network has steadily become a better fit for local and global restaurants of all sizes. With […]

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Earlier this year, Bebo began working on a strategy for its triumphant return, which may or may not be successful. In attempting to modernize Bebo released its first app, Blab, which was quickly undercut by Vine messaging. Now LiveJournal, another network from the earlier days of social networking, is planning a relaunch, with an app […]

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A couple weeks ago Amazon announced #AmazonCart: a feature enabling Twitter users to add items to their Amazon shopping cart directly from Twitter. And with brands constantly looking for a way drive sales on social media, encouraging consumers to add items to their shopping cart without ever leaving Twitter could be a winner. Indeed, there […]

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10 rules for creating effective Facebook Events Facebook pages seem to be less and less useful these days for promoting music, especially when we’re talking about your average independent band that doesn’t want to drop a bunch of cash just to reach fans that have already liked their page. But one aspect of a Facebook […]

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