Business briefs

Girls night out at Vizcaya Active

Vizcaya Active, 1 Merrimac St. Unit 5, invites the public to join them for a night of shopping, treats and pampering tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. Check out their swimsuits, sugar hand scrubs and aromatherapy oils and leave Vizcaya Active feeling relaxed, rejuvenated and in fashion for summer.

Jewett Farms launches flooring component

Jewett Farms Studio, 58 Merrimac St., will hold an open house Friday, June 24, 3 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, June 25, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., to celebrate their launch of Jewett Farms Flooring. Come, see, touch, feel, experience and, of course, eat, drink, and be merry with the crew from Jewett Farms as they officially launch Jewett Farms Flooring. They are well-known for their passion for great design, as well as building some of the finest cabinetry and furniture, but they also supply some of the highest-quality and most distinctive flooring.

Special rate for new chamber members

The Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce & Industry invites residents, individuals and retirees to be members of the chamber at a special rate. If you are interested in getting plugged into both the business and general community, meet new people and stay abreast of local issues, then join the chamber for just $168. College students can also join for just $25 a year and get a jump-start on their career by networking, learning and being introduced to business owners they might not otherwise have a chance to meet. Discounted educational programs and events are also part of the benefits for students. For more information on how to join, contact Patty St. John, vice president Membership Development at 978-462-6680, ext. 14 or visit http://www.newburyportchamber.org/events.shtml.

AJH honored for healthy hearts campaign

The New England Society for Healthcare Communications recently honored Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport for excellence in marketing, public relations and communications. The hospital won an Award of Excellence for its Healthy Heart Torch program. To help shed light on heart disease, the No. 1 killer of both men and women, Anna Jaques, The Tannery Marketplace in Newburyport and seven communities surrounding the hospital embarked on a heart disease prevention and public service campaign.

In keeping with the spirit of the Winter Olympics athletes, heart disease survivors, elected officials, community volunteers and professional runners carried a special Healthy Heart Torch more than 35 miles between Newburyport, Newbury, Rowley, Georgetown, West Newbury, Salisbury, Amesbury and back to Newburyport. Overall, 15 runners ran more than 35 miles during a two-week period.

Book Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation And Using Press ...

I never imagined myself as an author of fiction, let alone historical fiction but getting closer to completing my manuscript, I realized how little I knew about author/self publishing. My career was in business management, specifically in blue ocean business strategies, which deals almost always with disrupting established business practices so I am no stranger to industry bias and the “Old Boy” way of doing things. In looking at book sales statistics for new self published authors, the numbers can be disheartening. But if you focus your efforts as a work in process, you can enjoy the journey.

In coming up with a book title, I wanted to use a name that was mentioned in my plot and that the s earch engines would feature on the first page of results . I thought of using the name of a location to attract those readers that either knew the area or wanted to know more about it. I would then incorporate some local knowledge reflecting the location’s eclectic charms. Once I had picked the location’s name, I had to find a word to describe my plot musing.  I looked for a word that was short, easy to say and not used in daily conversation and ideally one that had an alternate spelling. Armed with my words, I went onto Google and put my title into the search field. Nothing came up. There were a few results and Google corrected my spelling. I was pleased because no one had taken the domain name in part due to the spelling.  I found this to be a good litmus test for my title’s uniqueness. I registered the name and put up a construction page which stayed in that state for almost a year before I actually published my book. I sporadically worked on it which allowed the search engines to post and refresh the name. I can’t begin to tell you how this one exercise gave me name ranking at relatively low cost. I did the same thing with my name, a nickname helps. Because of my business past, I did have some media exposure but working with web sites like urban dictionary.com and thinkexist.com gave me additional exposure at no cost.

After completing these basics, I tried to absorb some of the many different strategies needed to promote a book. I keep track of many of my research suggestions by using a mind map program called Mindmeister.com which is free for three maps. It allows you to visualize your book marketing plan and corresponding “To Do’s” visually.

Table of post offices in the United States on the first day of January, 1851, arranged in alphabetical order, and exhibiting the states, territories, and counties in which they are situated, with the names of the post masters, also an appendix, containing a list of the post offices, arranged by states and counties, to which is added a list of the offices established, changed, or discontinued to May 31

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Geographical Dictionary Of The World In The Early 20th Century With Pronouncing Gazetteer (in 2 Vos.)

A new universal gazetteer, or, Geographical dictionary, containing a description of the various countries, provinces, cities, towns seas, lakes, rivers, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with an appendix, containing an account of the monies, weights, and measures of various countries with tables illustrating the population, commerce, and resources of the United States : accompanied with an atlas