Happy Valentines Day! This is the perfect day to plan your next vacation and why not focus on one of the top 10 best wine travel destinations? Wine Enthusiast Magazine has crowned the 10 Best Wine Travel Destinations of 2015 in their annual February Travel Issue, and three US cities...
Business Email: Why Your Response Time Could Be Hurting You
When this press release passed my desk, I couldn't turn it away. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people don't get back to me via email. I send out an email, I expect to get an answer pretty quickly. I mean, we do have mobile phones, tablets and...
Etiquette Expert Offers Tips on Holiday Tipping
It's that time of year to think about giving thanks to the many people in our lives through holiday tipping. It’s a topic that confuses many: how much to give and to whom? Jacqueline Whitmore, an internationally-recognized etiquette expert, author and founder of The Protocol School of Palm Beach, offers these...
Seven Reasons to Bite Your Tongue in the Office
When it comes to behavior in the office, it’s important to err on the side of caution when you are establishing your professional image in the workplace. Diane Gottsman is a national modern manners and etiquette expert, sought out industry leader, accomplished speaker, author and the owner of The Protocol...
How #Selfies Are Changing The Face of Photography
Art professors Ren Hullender, Al Wildey discover 63 categories by analyzing 4,500 selfies The world is having a love affair with selfies, the digital self-portraits usually taken with a mobile phone and uploaded to social networks such as Facebook or Instagram. This year alone, people will publish 880 billion self-portrait...
How to Save On Halloween Costumes, Candy and Fun by Stephanie Nelson
Halloween is now reported to be the 2nd most expensive holiday of the year! Even though we don't exchange expensive gifts on Halloween, it is easy to rack up big bills on costumes and candy. The good news is that there are many easy ways to save money on Halloween...
New Influence Central Research Upends Traditional View of Empty-Nester Generation
When the descriptors “tech-savvy” and “digitally fluent” become attached to a consumer group, they typically evoke images of a young, Smartphone-wielding, 20-something cohort. But according to unprecedented research findings from social media and digital consultancy Influence Central, this ease and fluidity with online technology can now equally describe today’s 45+...
Do’s & Don’ts Tips On Social Media…
This was a press release I recently received. It was so funny and yet so true, I thought I'd share with you... ----------------- Trend Micro, a global developer of security software solutions, provides a summer social media guide to ensure you’re engaging with friends, family and acquaintances with content that...
Celebrity Softball Game to Benefit American Cancer Society
To benefit “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” and provide a memorable day of summer fun in the sun, the Ronkonkoma Chamber of Commerce is hosting its second Annual Celebrity Softball Game on Sunday, August 3rd at the CYA Complex on Easton Street, in Ronkonkoma, NY. Last summer’s first-ever celebrity softball...
5 Steps to Make Your Ad Go Viral
These days, it seems like every marketer wants to create the next viral video hit like Evian's "Baby&Me" (88 million views), Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" (63 million), Dollar Shave Club's "Our Blades Are F***ing Great" (14 million), or the most viral brand video of 2013, Turkish Airlines' "Kobe vs. Messi" (137...