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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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There’s community-based and community-driven. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. The studio will serve as a central hub for consumers and creatives, with the goal of giving back to the local community. Our downtown L.A. “Downtown L.A.

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Coronavirus And The Global Rush To Create Connected Communities

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Despite being less than halfway through, it seems clear at this point that the second week of March will make the list for wildest weeks in the market this year, or even possibly this decade. This, according to some reports , has caused some system-wide refocusing, as marketing and advertising budgets are shrinking drastically.

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How Adventure Commerce Is Finding New Adrenaline Through Social

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Tour operators who offer a wildlife adventure or a skydiving experience may face a common challenge: How can they market their activities to the right travelers? To reach those customers, some businesses are turning to social media networks designed around travel offer deals and reservations. Social Networks for Businesses.

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SMB Profile: Looking Forward To Christmas In Connecticut

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Paul Listro, co-owner of Breakwater Books , remembers the day well. “We I remember being really disappointed that no one was going to see the shelves or the books for a long time.”. The classics and science-fiction sections were hardly the biggest casualty of the Guilford’s Green’s tight small business community.

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Fair Value Accounting and Silicon Valley Bank Failure

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Some blame the dilution of the Dodd-Frank provisions, others the lack of oversight by regulators, and others still blame social media for exacerbating the deposit run. Even using Level 3 measurements (non-observable) market input values creates better estimates of the economic value of the bank than historical costs.

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How To Improve Uninsured Deposit Performance

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In this article, we will look at deposit performance data related to high balances and show how banks can dramatically increase value by restructuring relationship-based products and better-allocating marketing/sales dollars more efficiently. This is over three times the life of a money market account that is over $1mm in balances.

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Is The Recreation Market Ready For A Payments Makeover?

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Fortunately, it appears the recreational market is getting some much-needed innovation to help organizations and associations process payments and participant registration. By some accounts, the recreational activity market is valued at over $250 billion each year. Getting Recreational Programs to Act Like Businesses. In the U.S.,

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