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News: Jim Blasingame Moderating at U.S. Chamber

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011


Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 17, 2011

Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced that leading small business expert, Jim Blasingame, will moderate an opening panel for the Small Business Council at the America?s Small Business Summit 2011. The topic will be challenges currently facing small businesses.

Held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC, May 23-25, The Summit is being conducted to promote the important role America?s small businesses play in jobs creation and economic prosperity and to encourage members of the government to consider small business issues more when making laws, regulations and trade agreements.

Jim Blasingame is recognized as one of the world?s leading experts on small business and entrepreneurship. He is president of Small Business Network, Inc., and creator and host of the nationally syndicated weekday small business radio program, The Small Business Advocate

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News: Advertising Age Names MediaWhiz a Top U.S. Search-Marketing Agency in 2011 Report

Friday, July 1st, 2011

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 26, 2011

MediaWhiz, a leading online performance marketing agency, debuted as the 6th overall U.S. Search-Marketing Agency and 185th U.S. Agency from All Disciplines in Advertising Age?s recently released 2011 Agency Report.

?We are honored to be recognized by Advertising Age as one of the nation?s top Search-Marketing agencies,? said Jonathan Shapiro, CEO. ?Our continued growth is a testament to the results-driven partnerships we have developed with our clients and the entrepreneurial spirit of our employees.?

The 67th annual Advertising Agency Report was produced by Ad Age DataCenter. The report appeared in Ad Age?s print edition and on AdAge.com, released on April 25, 2011. It includes rankings of more than 900 advertising, marketing-services, and media agencies based on 2010 revenue. Both ad agencies and marketing-services agencies are considered for breakout rankings by discipline.

For these rankings, Ad Age applies a 75% rule: If revenue from the discipline in question represents less than 75% of an agency’s total, only the discipline’s amount is shown for that agency in the chart. However, if the discipline’s amount is 75% or more of an agency’s total revenue, an agency is included in that discipline at 100%. This marks MediaWhiz?s first appearance in the report.

“The rapidly evolving online media space poses numerous challenges for the advertising community. Our clients depend upon us to manage this complexity and drive measurable results,” explains Shapiro. “It’s no longer just about executing search campaigns or optimizing social media programs. Now, more than ever, online advertising success depends upon building integrated online performance marketing programs that take full advantage of the interactions across all digital media efforts.?

About MediaWhiz

Founded in 2001, MediaWhiz has rapidly become a leading online performance marketing agency that helps clients acquire customers more profitably. Utilizing their Program of Continuous Improvement, a consultative process which continually analyzes and optimizes each aspect of a marketing campaign, MediaWhiz combines expertise in all forms of online performance marketing (Affiliate, Search, Social, Display, Email and Data Acquisition) with proprietary delivery and analytic technologies to drive greater effectiveness and efficiency for a broad range of leading advertisers such as CarpetONE, Discover, and Nielsen. For more information, visit http://www.mediawhiz.com.

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Does U.S. Capitalism Only Work When the Profits are Privatized and the Risks are Socialized?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The Financial Times in the United Kingdom is especially critical of our taxpayer bailouts:

http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2008/07/the-rescue-of-fannie-and-freddie-by-hankie-and-feddie/

http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2008/07/time-for-comrade-paulson-the-pull-the-plug-on-the-fannie-and-freddie-charade/

Evidence of the latest bailout:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/washington/15fannie.html?hp

The case against Fannie and Freddie begins with their peculiar status: although they’re private companies with stockholders and profits, they’re “government-sponsored enterprises” established by federal law, which means that they receive special privileges.

The most important of these privileges is implicit: it’s the belief of investors that if Fannie and Freddie are threatened with failure, the federal government will come to their rescue.

This implicit guarantee means that profits are privatized but losses are socialized.
If Fannie and Freddie do well, their stockholders reap the benefits, but if things go badly, Washington picks up the tab. Heads they win, tails we lose.
Paul Krugman

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/opinion/14krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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