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Friday, October 1, 2010 By Arvin Poole I had the distinct pleasure and opportunity of attending a welcoming event yesterday in Austin, TX for the Honorable Dr. Leonel Antonio Fernandez Reyna, President of the Dominican Republic (D.R.) . Upon arrival to the Headliners Club on the 21st floor of Austin Downtown Chase Building, I wasRead the Rest…

Arvin Poole, MBA President, SHAARP Management Austin, TX Overview Market research is often conducted to address one or more of the “4 Ps” of marketing (product, price, place, and promotion). The purpose of market research should be clearly defined prior to conducting the research. This means the problem that needs to be solved and theRead the Rest…

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The U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) and the U.S. Census Bureau today announced that the number of minority-owned firms increased by 46 percent to 5.8 million between 2002 and 2007 according to data from the Preliminary Estimates of Business Ownership by Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Veteran Status: 2007, from the U.S. CensusRead the Rest…

Did you know that the average American consumes 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes of non-work-related information on the average day, according to the study, “How Much Information?” performed by the Global Information Industry Center at the University of California-San Diego? The information comes in many formats: newspapers, books, television, computer games, satellite radio and internetRead the Rest…

E-book sales were up over 250% for the first quarter of 2010 according to a report posted by the Association of American Publishers. Additionally, downloadable audio sales were up by 32.5%. Multimedia and publishing companies are taking advantage of the predicted doubling of 2009 sales in 2010 by expanding the services they offer as illustratedRead the Rest…