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Commercial Auto Rates Continue Climbing

By now, you’ve likely noticed that your commercial automotive insurance rates have been increasing since last year, and for now there seems to be no slowing the momentum. The increase is probably noticeable since the period between 2011 and 2016 saw rates drop thanks to a number of factors, including fewer accidents, fewer cars on

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10 Ways to Help Designers Visually

The best way to communicate to a designer is through visual stimuli. When it comes to delivering a project, it’s best to learn printer hacks to avoid a catastrophe. Here are some things to teach designers so they can make sure the final product is perfect. 1. Coated vs. uncoated Have two paper swatch books

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Small Business Owners Split over the Affordable Care Act

If you’re a small business owner, you know providing health insurance for yourself, family and team is difficult. And with Obama’s Affordable Care Act, it all depends on how much money you make. “Being able to buy health insurance that didn’t completely break us financially was key to our ability to take the risk and

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How Do Consumers React to Social Media Marketing?

It’s not because it’s a cool brand, or a cool product: it’s all about how a brand connects to its audience. Just like a relationship, you have to foster it with connection, check-ins and good humor. Here’s the latest report on how consumers react to brands via social media marketing. Be Responsive For their Q2

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Art Camp Creates Stop-Motion Animation Video for New U2 Song Release

By: Jessica Farris | September 12, 2017 Released just this past week, the stop-motion animation video for U2’s new single “You’re the Best Thing About Me” is making waves—not only among the band’s fans, but also in the design world. Created by Art Camp, the studio of animator/designers Santiago Carrasquilla and Jos Diaz Contreras, the book in the video was created after photographer David

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Why Your Business Needs an Umbrella Liability Policy

If you own a business or commercial property, consider how easily you could absorb events like these: You own an apartment building with a porch that does not have railings. One of your tenants falls from it, and recovery from her injuries requires months of physical rehabilitation. A court awards her $3 million. The poorly

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Why Your Business Needs an Umbrella Liability Policy

If you own a business or commercial property, consider how easily you could absorb events like these: You own an apartment building with a porch that does not have railings. One of your tenants falls from it, and recovery from her injuries requires months of physical rehabilitation. A court awards her $3 million. The poorly

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How to optimise resolution to get the highest print quality

Most wide format printing engines have the potential to produce excellent output quality, both in terms of resolution and colour gamut. But to achieve the highest possible quality day in and day out, printing companies must make preparations before the device is installed to establish prime conditions for its performance. All large format printing engines

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The Opioid Crisis and What Businesses Can Do about It

America is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid abuse. Use of these medicines, also commonly known as “painkillers”, has exploded over the last two decades. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that opioid prescriptions nearly quadrupled between 1999 and 2013. Prescription opioids include medicines such as Vicodin, morphine and

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