In early 2000, Craig and Abby Clark stumbled into the pillow business. With some leftover inventory from a former venture, they quickly discovered a ravenous niche market that was not being fed — luxury hotel pillows.
They immediately formed PacificPillows.com, an online retail site featuring high-end hotel bedding: such as down pillows, comforters, featherbeds and other luxury items intended to help customers emulate sleep experiences had at lavish hotels.
The couple initially started the business as a side project while Abby worked full-time as a teacher, and Craig focused his time on law school, and later on serving in the JAG (Judge Advocate General) corps.
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Domain sellers listing names with AfternicDLS using the expanded promotion option will now have their domains promoted to 20 million small business owners in China.
In July NameMedia announced reseller agreements with China's leading registrars: Xin Net and HiChina.
Xin Net, one of the largest registrars in the world with more than 1,000,000 domains under management, provides domain-related services to China's rapidly growing small- to mid-sized business (SMB) community.
Long recognized for its award-winning e-commerce services, HiChina will provide its business-focused client base with access to more than 2,000,000 high-performance domain names via NameMedia's AfternicDLS domain sales platform, driven off of the company's Afternic.com sales channel.
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Radio advertising can be a cost-effective way to reach thousands of prospective customers — especially if you have a locally-based business where geo-targeting matters — such as a restaurants, lawyers, realtors, contractors and the like.
Google's radio advertising model allows you to receive bids in their ad creation marketplace, elect the geographic targeting and the station format(s) desired. You can also specify demographic targeting — by gender and age range.
You can set a weekly budget and CPM (how much you will pay per thousands of listeners in the audience). In addition you can opt to select time segments and days of play — giving you a great deal of flexibility about when and where your radio spots will air.
Ad creation costs vary according to the complexity and length of the spot to be developed, but can be as little as $99.
If you haven't tried radio advertising for your business Google's radio campaigns could be a cost-effective marketing vehicle.
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