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Costco booze fight is only the beginning
Alcohol-sales wars are brewing across the nation. Costco this week failed in a well-funded attempt in its home state of Washington to expand its revenue from alcohol sales. The discount retail giant backed a ballot initiative that essentially would have booted alcohol...
Embrace the unconventional, and prosper
Letting go of conventional paradigms helped Media Salad’s founder and chief executive officer, Christine Tatum, see professional opportunities she probably would have missed — and even resisted — otherwise. Today, her thoughts about how to achieve professional success...
Take it from our developer: web services don’t have to cost much
We deliver Market Intelligence to meet the specific needs of the busy executives and civic leaders we serve. We do not deliver it on paper that arrives on our clients’ desks once every 24 hours. And we do not deliver it in Word documents attached to e-mail messages....
Improve business by mining public information
Companies and organizations could double their business opportunities in only a matter of weeks if they devoted more time and resources to inspecting public records. Local, state, federal. Doesn’t matter. The information that springs from a city’s planning department...
Not an optimist? Go away.
“The first step toward innovation is optimism,” writes Mark Briggs, a veteran journalist and author of a book we like, Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing. Let’s just say Media Salad abounds with optimism. We’re innovating every day....
Disabled vets lose business to fraud
Because of fraud and corporate shenanigans, hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts have been awarded to large — even multinational — corporations instead of to disadvantaged business owners who have served the United States honorably. Abuse of the...
Christine Tatum, president and CEO of Media Salad
Christine Tatum is a veteran writer and editor who has worked for the Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, the (Arlington Heights, Ill.) Daily Herald and the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. She was among the first journalists to work simultaneously in print, broadcast...