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3 historical innovations and the businesses they birthed

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By the mid-18th century, the Empress had decreed that vodka distilleries were the exclusive purview of the government and and in the latter half of the 1700s taxes on Vodka sales were responsible for up to 40% of the Czar’s revenue! Meanwhile, distillation of Vodka spread like wildfire to neighboring countries.

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

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Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. Amazing tragedy as Poland’s entire leadership dies in plane crash – [link]. There are no firm answers in social media – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. Amazing tragedy as Poland’s entire leadership dies in plane crash – [link]. There are no firm answers in social media – [link]. – [link]. – [link].