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3 Companies That Give Back to the Community Year-Round

Success

This hashtag-driven holiday generated $3.1 It uses a one-for-one model: One pair of socks is donated for each one purchased. “It For many years, State Bags operated on a one-for-one model: For every stylish diaper bag or weekender customers purchased, State gave a stuffed backpack to a kid who needed it. “We billion for U.S.-based

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Administrative Professionals Day is Just Around the Corner

Office Dynamics

This holiday was created by the president of the National Secretaries Association – Mary Barrett – in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1981, the day was changed from Secretaries Day to Administrative Professionals Day to incorporate not only secretaries into the holiday but a myriad of professional and administrative assistants.

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Take the “Jingle” out of Holiday Stress

The Office Professionals Place

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Take the “Jingle&# out of Holiday Stress Are you planning the holiday party in your office? Or are you stressed just thinking about the holidays? Here are a few ways to ‘deck the halls’ and have a worry free holiday. Use your days off during the holidays to relax.

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Ecommerce Driving Steep Declines in Retail Foot Traffic

Small Business Labs

 Key quote: "Retailers got only about half the holiday traffic in 2013 as they did just three years earlier, according to ShopperTrak, which uses a network of 60,000 shopper-counting devices to track visits at malls and large retailers across the country. The data firm tracked declines of 28.2% in 2011, 16.3%

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Gift Giving for Executive Assistants and Clients

Worxbee

Also, what are some gifts that executive assistants should look at if gift purchasing is one of their responsibilities? Whether it’s for the holidays, for Administrative Professionals Day, as a thank you, or just because, there are great gift options for every budget. Lastly, consider gifting outside of holidays, too!

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Small Business Saturday and New Localism

Small Business Labs

.  As part of their promotion, AMEX was kind enough to subsidize my purchases with a $25 credit.    Small Business Saturday is a buy local promotion.    As John Tozzi's Business Week article on Small Business Saturday  points out, buy local campaigns are gaining momentum. 

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Tweets Not All Sweet on Black Friday

Customers Rock!

Social media has brought the customer experience more in-focus than ever before, and this became very apparent during the start of the 2010 holiday shopping season on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Armed with their own lists, and easy access to their social networks, they shopped and Tweeted heavily on both days.