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Anaheim Adventure: An Exclusive NAMA Foundation Scavenger Hunt
This NAMA Foundation event takes the classic scavenger hunt to the next level, where instead of looking for a list of objects, you will be placed in a team to compete in a series of clues, challenges, picture and video tasks.
Begin your journey at the Anaheim Marriott and explore parts of California’s best city, including Downtown Disney, in a whole new way. Join us Tuesday, November 19th!
Learn more and register today!
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Search Engine Journal
Holiday shopping accounts for a significant share of retail sales in the United States.
Americans spend billions of dollars on gifts, decorations, and food for Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Easter, and other holidays throughout the year.
To cash in on holiday spending, take some time to set up a well-planned holiday marketing campaign.
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Opportunity knocks with TWO new delicious snacks from Little Debbie® Vending brand Fieldstone® Bakery. The Frosted Mini Donut (6ct) is a bite-sized dunkable treat and the Cosmo Blast Brownie is 4 ounces of dark, chewy brownie topped with fudge icing and colorful candy coated pieces. Order samples by clicking here. |
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Entrepreneur
Any company, from a startup to a conglomerate, that wants to connect with its customer base may want to rethink its reason for being. Truth is, we’re watching companies like never before. While American politics and talk shows split everything into left and right extremes, the majority of us live in the middle. That has left a plethora of interests to serve. Less plastic in the oceans, reasonable gun control, inclusion and acceptance, free speech — who doesn’t want some of that?
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Inc.
When the recession decimated the corporate-gift-market accounts of the Goulet Pen Company, founder Brian Goulet sought out new ideas--and customers — at a fountain pen show near his Richmond, Virginia, home. "It was a revelation, seeing all these fanatical people in fishing vests with pockets stuffed with fountain pens," says Goulet, who quickly realized that pen fans represented a community that he'd missed. He wrote a new business plan, going from pen maker to online fountain-pen retailer.
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By Lisa Mulcahy
 It's never too early to start planning your digital marketing approach for the coming year! You've probably been thinking about your options and are trying to figure out what trends are the most important to pay attention to as you look at your new campaigns. Now is the time to focus your efforts on the following key areas.
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Retail Customer Experience
August 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the first item ever sold online. An album by English rock artist Sting, Ten Summoner's Tales, was sold for just $12.48 plus shipping.
Fast forward a quarter of a century to present day, and 63% of US consumers now shop online at least once per month. Now more than ever, consumers make the vast majority of their purchasing decisions online. And, for the most part, retailers have adapted their customer experience accordingly.
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Fast Company
Twenty years ago, McKinsey predicted that the success of organizations would primarily depend on their ability to identify, develop, and retain top talent. Those employees are responsible for most of their employer’s productivity, revenues, profits, etc., and are therefore also the key to outperforming their competitors. Today, few companies would disagree. There is also ample scientific evidence that in any workgroup or team, a small but vital number of people have a disproportionately high impact on that unit’s performance and success.
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American Express
No doubt social media plays an integral part in the lives of many of your customers. The Manifest 2019 Consumer Social Media Survey found that "more than 80 percent of every generation uses social media at least once per day."
But even though everyone uses social media, it turns out that each generation has different social media habits.
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Serve your customers Fieldstone® Bakery Honey Buns (4 oz) and Frosted Mini Donuts (6 ct.) offered by McKee Foods, makers of Little Debbie Vend products. These two delicious snack cakes are perfect for vending and micro markets. They are sure to satisfy for breakfast or anytime!
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Bloomberg
The coffee market is looking increasingly bleak.
While robusta futures rose on Tuesday, the gain followed the biggest daily slump in four months that sent prices to the lowest since 2010. The beans, favored for instant drinks, have been pressured by a glut of coffee and money managers have never been so bearish.
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NBC News
In a kitchen at Isola Quassud, a community center in eastern Sicily’s Catania, Elsa Habte roasts coffee beans on a pan over an open flame, while her daughter Meninet Teferi cuts a himbasha, an Eritrean sweet bread, into small slices.
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New York Post
If you’re a creative, introverted morning person, then odds are you prefer coffee over tea.
A new study of 2,000 Americans examined the personality differences in people based on their morning beverage of choice: coffee or tea.
You’d expect coffee fans to be the buzzy, loud ones up at all hours; however, the results found that tea drinkers are more likely to be extroverted, adventurous night owls.
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Food Dive
Few U.S. food brands have managed to survive through a world war, two bankruptcies and increasing consumer demand for healthier products — but one icon has managed to last and even thrive. Twinkies, the yellow cream-filled cakes invented in 1930, are flourishing today, a rarity in the rapidly evolving food space where thousands of products disappear from store shelves every year.
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Daily Coffee News
If farmers can’t — at minimum — break even with their costs of production, they will very likely abandon the crop. There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence these days to suggest that many are even choosing to completely abandon their farms.
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KXMC-TV
One quarter at a time, Sophia Snustad is learning — and earning.
“I don’t know in profit, but maybe like two-fifty from how much I’ve collected,” she says.
That’s 250 dollars — all from candy machines that the 11-year-old has scattered across Bismarck. “One of them is at the [BSC] Career Academy. I have one here at Plato’s Closet, and one at Sweet Treats.”
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Forbes
According to the NPD Group future of snacking report, almost 386 billion snacks was consumed by Americans last year. How is the industry changing in response to consumer demand for healthier products? What does the future hold? Industry leaders and entrepreneurs share their perspectives on the future of snacking, their perspective is divided into 3 categories below.
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Forbes
As digital media continues its coming-of-age story, public relations and brand reputation management tactics have been enduring some awkward growing pains. The value of the once almighty press release has dwindled, and many brands have struggled to understand how to harness the news cycles and gain the attention of audiences.
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