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St. Louis CVC Issues One Direction “Warning”
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It’s not every day that a city’s convention and visitors bureau issues an advisory so that people can “survive.” But that’s just what the St. Louis CVC did in advance of today’s British invasion so that normal people like myself can survive the insane hordes of hysterical teenage girls heading to downtown St. Louis to…
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LinkedIn: PR & Lack of Self-Esteem Should Go Hand-in-Hand
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So, congratulations. You’re a PR flack. You get to guide your clients or your company through the minefield that is today’s media environment. Gone are the days when PR was a day spent with the fax machine, sending your latest big company news to the awaiting journalists who would eagerly turn your creative prose…
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Meet the Scottish Government During St. Louis Visit
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The Scottish Government’s senior diplomat in the America’s, Donnie Jack, is set to make an official visit to St. Louis, Missouri, on Sept. 12 & 13. During the visit, which takes place less than a week before the historic Independence Referendum in Scotland, Mr. Jack will speak at the SLU Boeing Institute of International…
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St. Louis Startup Advice from Jim McKelvey
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St. Louis’ Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square (with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, another St. Louis success story), and the lad behind SixThirty and LaunchCode, shares some insights on startups and what it takes to be successful with Entrepreneur magazine. Take a read.
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A wee victory for proud Scots all over the world wide web
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Scotland finally has its own homeland on the web, in the form of the .scot domain. “As a Scottish expat, this launch, in the midst of an independence debate, is rather exciting. It gives us yet another reason to throw on the kilt, raise a glass of Scotch, and chow down on some haggis,”…
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The Shrinking Atlantic
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Looking to expand your US business overseas? The UK might be a good fit for you. “Britain and the USA do a huge amount of business together. Perhaps that’s what you would expect from two of the largest, most advanced and most open economies in the world. But you needn’t take my word for…
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St. Louis is a Top Place to Start a Business
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has ranked the city of St. Louis as the second most favorable city for starting a business in the United States, coming in after first-ranked Dallas and before third-ranked Raleigh. The study ranked cities according to their regulatory environments. Read more at the St. Louis Business Journal
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St. Louis Sites Become Scottish Pioneers
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STL.Scot and MarkSutherland.Scot become first two online .Scot sites in the US Scotland now has its own domain, that of .Scot, which allows Scots across Scotland and around the world to have a domain name that celebrates their homeland. “The time is ripe for the worldwide family of Scots to have their own domain,…