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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

Contrary to the image of imports and exports being only “stuff” flowing in and out of places like the Port of Long Beach, the report notes that services accounted for 31%, or $525.8 The statistics in from the Brookings Institution’s excellent report – Export Nation – also speak to this trend. billion of total U.S. exports in 2008.

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Using Forums to Market New Products and Services to Existing Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

Using Forums to Market New Products and Services to Existing Customers written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Nativo, a content marketing firm in Long Beach, Calif., Businesses of all stripes are always looking for new customers to buy their products or services.

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Irene brings rain, flooding and end of news as we know it [#irene]

This is going to be BIG.

Seven years ago, we bemoaned the end of the mainstream media when blogs grew in popularity, but that was premature. Blogs were just a way for us to comment about the mainstream. Was it really a surprise to anyone that the Long Beach lifeguard house—a wood framed building on a beach—floated off its foundation?

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