They most likely aren’t familiar with Brian Williams. Or Charlie Gibson. But Cartman scores high. They don’t go home and turn on the TV or read the paper; they’re online at the location of their choice. They’re the generation that turned Google into a verb, and YouTube is next (you’ve been YouTubed). They range in […]
When your job is pet waste disposal, it pays to have a sense of humor in your marketing. Scoop-N-Doo in Columbia popularized the “Got Poop?” slogan, modeled after the famous national “Got Milk?” campaign Goodby Silverstein & Partners created for the California Milk Processor Board. A burgeoning T-shirt business resulted, and now some people call
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As Columbia moves toward the rededication of the renovated Wabash Station this fall, it seems appropriate to look back at how the city wound up with the building and with the spur of the railroad whose name is chiseled above the front door. Construction on the Wabash Station began in 1909 and cost $15,000. It
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Late last year, Tom Shimmens, longtime senior vice president and manager of Central Bank’s real estate department, looked into the phenomenon of subprime mortgage lending and saw it as a chance for greater profits and better customer service. Shimmens estimated that 15 to 20 percent of the mortgage market had been drained away by subprime
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