Visions & Dreams - A Locally Owned Business in Wilmington
At the suggestion of friends, Marge and I stopped by Diane Young's Visions & Dreams store in Wilmington this afternoon. Located at 4403 Park Ave., Visions and Dreams' tag line is 'Products & Services for Mindful Living'.

Just Say GAR!!
GAR stands for Gratitude, Attitude, and Readiness. GAR is Bruce Brown's formula for clearing confusion, turning around negative feelings, and being ready to make the most of life.

Karen Chevrotee Ribbon-Cutting November 23, 2009
The group gathered early for today's North Brunswick Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting at the NBCC offices for Karen Chevrotee's Wilmington Realty South.In the photo below are Pastor Jay Merritt, photographer Bob Baer, Reator Brenda Bozeman, NBCC Executive Director Terry Grillo (back to camera), and Connie Reeves of Azalea Plaza.

Greeting Card Marketing Tip #14 - Wedding Anniversaries
Here’s a way to really stand out with your clients: send them a wedding anniversary card. It might not always be appropriate, for all businesses or professions, but a great idea if your business has reason to work with both members of couple, for example, financial planners, decorators, travel agents, home or car repair businesses, insurance sales folks, and real estate brokers. You needn’t make a big deal about a client or prospect’s wedding anniversary, a simple card will be enough. I suggest that you don’t get too funny, cute, or clever, but rather just send a card wishing them a happy anniversary and a closing. You can make it more personal if you’re close with th

Greeting Card Marketing Tip #13 - Un-Birthday Cards
Okay, so you get the importance of sending birthday cards to your clients, prospects, referral sources and all that but you don’t have anyone’s actual birthday in your database. You’d love to get started but you feel stymied. Well, here’s a way to solve that problem so you can start right now, retrieve a lot of the birthdays of your existing contact database, give the card recipients a laugh and perhaps have them think you’re a pretty clever marketer. Send an un-birthday card. Send cards to anyone in your contact list for whom you don’t have a birth date and say something like, “Well, I’d really like to send you a birthday card, but I don’t know when it is. So