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5 Steps To Measure The ROI Of Digital Media Channels

Are you measuring the interplay and overall performance of your combined paid, earned, and owned digital media channels? Here's a 5-step process to discover which elements are driving the most value. READ»

Fast, Green, Deep Orange EV Earns Grad Students an A+

For a group of eco-minded Clemson engineers, graduate school involved serious automotive innovation.READ»

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Razorfish 2010 Outlook: "You Can Innovate Your Way Out of a Recession"

Razorfish isn't labeling their digital trends outlook as "digital" this year. And it's no accident. The marketing and design agency that’s been rooted in digital since its inception in 1995, is making a statement that digital’s ...READ»

Southwest Lands in Two "Overpriced, Underserved" South Carolina Airports

Dave Ridley made good on his word. Southwest’s senior VP for marketing and revenue management said that the discount carrier chooses to add destinations based on whether a city’s airport is "overpriced and underserved" and ...READ»

How an N.C. Furniture Maker's Bright Green Roof Powers Up Its Bottom Line

From where Abel Zalcberg sits in his office at OFM headquarters in Holly Springs, North Carolina, he can’t see the 250-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system on the roof, but its ROI is a glaring factor in his bottom line. His company ...READ»

The KITT of Connersville: How Carbon Motors Decided to Build Police Cars in Indiana

It may take a village to raise a child, but it took the rallying cry of an entire town--and a no-cost, 1.8-million-square-foot building--to convince Carbon Motors to locate its manufacturing facility to Connersville, Indiana. Carbon ...READ»

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A $60 Million Recycling Plant, 500 New Call Center Jobs, and One New Business – Oh My!

It’s been a busy week in the Southeast. That’s A Lot of Bottles About 200 hundred people gathered at the new Spartanburg, South Carolina plant of the United Resource Recovery Corporation (URRC) to celebrate the farthest reaching ...READ»

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Revving the Innovation Engine with a Killer Social Media App

Energy. Enthusiasm.  Optimism. Hardly words that come to mind when describing a 7:30 am meeting on a chilly Monday morning.  But the main dining room of Soby's on South Main Street in downtown Greenville, SC fairly crackled with ...READ»

Good News - $87 Million Investment in Barnwell County, SC

It's green technology on a greenfield site.  Horsehead Corporation, a leading U.S. producer of specialty zinc and zinc-based products, is going to locate a new $87 million recycling facility in Barnwell County, South Carolina.   ...READ»