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MSI to Build the Southwest.com Dive Shop Exhibit

We are excited to announce Marketing Specifics will be building the Southwest.com Dive Shop Exhibit for the Georgia Aquarium which will be opening in Mid-February. Can't wait to transform this area to be an exciting interactive display for children to learn more about dolphins and their habits.

January 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment

2012 GTC Gives Back™ 4th Annual Play for Pink Tennis Tournament Raised $25K+ to Help Fight Breast Cancer

ACWORTH, GEORGIA – September 4^th, 2012 - The Governors Towne Club Tennis Center was the setting for the community’s 4th Annual Breast Cancer Fundraiser – 2012 GTC Gives Back^® Play for Pink Tennis Tournament – to benefit Susan G. Komen for The Cure^®, Pink Ribbon Story Foundation and the GTC Gives Back™ Angel Delivery Community Outreach that identifies and helps local breast cancer patients with financial and/or emotional challenges during their treatment and recovery period. GTC Gives Back™ has raised over $135,000 since it’s beginning in December 2009. This year’s fundraising event was held last weekend, August 24^th and 25^th. The Sponsors of the event included Fireside Natural Gas, Prince, T2Tennis, La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant, Chandon

September 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Inspirational Ways to Live Life Outdoors

In challenging economic times, it is often difficult to entice or convince prospects to take the time to come out and take a look at a new home community or speculation house. However, creating a compelling reason to consider a move has never been so easy or affordable on a square foot basis. Welcome in "The Outdoor Room" to your product mix and in most markets, your community or building company will suddenly break out of the pack! Need a little inspiration? Check out the interesting outdoor rooms and spaces on Southern Living’s website. There are lots of ideas to extract, emulate and/or combine to make it your own.

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June 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Mom Turns Grief into Advocacy & Wins the 4RentonFripp.com Vacation Getaway to Reward Her Efforts

Fripp Island, SC, November 11, 2011: When Marketing Specifics launched the Facebook contest “Win a Free Fripp Island Getaway Vacation” for their client 4RentonFripp.com, everyone expected to read postings by the site’s fans that would be both varied and interesting. Perhaps there would be posts about not having money to spend on a vacation at this time, a post desiring a family reunion, or even a request for a wedding or anniversary celebration might be posted. Over 850 Facebook fans wrote on the site why they needed a vacation on the small island of Fripp and why they should be chosen to

November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Top 25 State Business Climate Rankings – Texas Dominates the List

Texas Tops the List Ask any Texan if the above image is true and if they’ve lived in Texas for more than a decade, they will agree. It’s not an ego thing, the state really is giant and has had one of the best business climates for many years. Atlas Van Lines’ annual study of corporate relocations in 2010 logged more than 7,200 relocations inbound to Texas, the sixth highest, claiming 58 percent of all inbound relocations in the entire nation. With Texas Governor Rick Perry vying for the Republican nomination for President, most have heard that 40 percent of all jobs created since 2009 were created in Texas. What makes Texas the state to beat

November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Half of U.S. Now Influenced by Ads on Social Networks-Infographic

Most Americans Now Influenced by the Web As we reported in August, one in three American adults claim that they give advice about purchases on social networks, and the number of people whose purchasing decisions are influenced by social networks is on the rise. NM Incite used Nielsen data to break down this information even further by categorizing digital media into three formats – social, local and mobile, all three of which intertwine and are equally important. The infographics below show how digital consumers are engaging each of the three formats and developing preferences as they go and which hotspots have emerged in each category: SOCIAL: 64% of parents use social media to learn about

November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment