Things are shaking up again at Miami Cigar & Company. With the departure of EO brands and the introduction of new cigars, Miami Cigar & Company makes another significant move, this time internally, by promoting Jason Wood to be the new director of finance. Vice President of Miami Cigar, Rene Castaneda, had this to say [...]
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Starting yesterday, the Nation’s Capital Cigar Enthusiasts began to vie for your membership. The new Facebook group has announced that it’s going to spend the month of August beefing up its membership, with a goal of 100. If the group hits this threshold, it will select a random winner on September 1, 2010 to receive [...]
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Guest post by Juan Ulloa, founder of Directive Social Media The 1989 Kevin Costner film “Field of Dreams” coined the phrase, “If you build it, they will come.” When it comes to social media, nothing can be further from the truth. A company website, YouTube channel, Facebook page or Twitter feed without relevant, regularly updated [...]
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The cigar business is all about personality, and there’s no doubt that some of the players in this industry are larger than life. So, if you had your chance to sit, cut and light with one of them, which big name would it be? Rocky? Pepin? Padron? Here’s your chance to sound off! Head over [...]
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While we will undoubtedly continue to fight the high rate of taxation for “Other Tobacco Products” in New York, the cigar industry also needs to prepare for what could be a new reality. Betting everything on a tax reduction makes about as much sense as making any unhedged business play. There’s a risk that we’ll [...]
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Eddie Ortega made two announcements at once: (1) the new EO Brands cigar forum is live and (2) he needs moderators for it. Spend time over on the forum, reading and contributing, and you can earn points toward various cigar rewards. If you’re after more of a sure thing, volunteer to become a moderator (as [...]
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The notion that there aren’t any secrets on foursquare isn’t exactly new. The whole point is to announce where you are, of course, with the hope of scoring frequency-based bragging rights. Derived from this, we’ve seen applications that signal homes at risk of burglary and developed dreams of location-based marketing, a decade-old objective that finally [...]
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