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The Post Wins Third Award For Its Daily Headline Feed

For the third year in a row The Post Publications LLC, parent company of The Main Street Post, has won an award for avoiding e-mail spam and keeping its subscribers’ e-mail addresses safe from prying eyes. It has most recently delivered more than 228,750 headline feed notices to update readers daily on local news and events.

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Reporter, A Pottsgrove Grad, Finds Bargains In MBAs

Reporter, A Pottsgrove Grad, Finds Bargains In MBAs

The most generous school for scholarships to MBA students can be found in Indiana, she concluded Wednesday.

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Big Company’s Big Displays Get Big Pottstown Digs

Upstage Video, which creates the kind of video walls you see at rock concerts and political rallies, has completed its move into renovated space on Shoemaker Road.

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Local Businesses Sign On As Grandview Sponsors

The Bechtelsville PA NASCAR stock car track, touted as among the most successful in the country, is again attracting local business sponsor support.

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Off The Virtual Desk: The Usability Of QR Codes

Those patterned squares are popping up everywhere, in advertising and on products – and on Wednesday, even at The Hill School in Pottstown – with good reason. They help direct more traffic to your business from the growing audience of smartphone users.

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Local ‘Posts On Health’ News Launches At Facebook

The Post Publications is launching another online news service, this one specifically reporting on health news from and for western Montgomery County. We’re going about it differently, though; it’s being started on Facebook first.

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Will Your Branding Idea Make The Grade In Collegeville?

You’ll never know until it gets submitted. Look at it this way: somebody’s going to win $500. Might as well be you.

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Limerick’s ePlus Offers Portable Video Conferencing

The company, with headquarters in Virginia and offices in Limerick PA, is providing what it calls a low-cost alternative for whole-room video conferencing.

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Free In Collegeville, Social Media Course For Businesses

Don’t be left out of the social media usage that can build your brand and your business. Attend a free course scheduled for June 18 in Collegeville.

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Rachael Ray To Sign Book Copies At Wegman’s Market

She’s got a new cookbook, her 20th. Wegman’s has a new, just-opened supermarket brimming with food. Match made in heaven.

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