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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/March, 2011 Contact: Beth Foster Bfoster@aignerprenskymarketing.com617/254-9500 Local Favorite Hingham Gift Company Opens at The Hingham Shipyard New Shipyard Store will have more Merchandise and Greater Selection than Ever Before Hingham, MA – South Shore favorite Hingham Gift Company is

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Tomorrow (Wednesday), November 10th, 6-9pm.Bring a friend, enjoy some wine and cheese, and get first dibs on our great new holiday gifts...PLUS support Friends of the Homeless of the South Shore!We'll donate 10% of our sales from this night directly to Friends of the Homeless.You'll also have a chance (completely optional) to choose a Friends of the Homeless family or individual to "adopt" for

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Ladies' Night Out for Charity... 2 WEEKS FROM NOW!Hingham Gift Company88 North StreetHingham, MA 02043781-740-4222Join us for... wine, cheese, shopping, fun, and be sure to bring your gently worn (or new) professional attire/accessories for donation.WHEN? Thursday, October 1st, 5-8pm (drop-in.)Donations will also be accepted for one week following the event, during store hours.WHY/HOW? The

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TGIF means absolutely nothing to me, except that Friday is the glorious end of the work-week for lots of people. Just not for me. In fact, for many shopkeepers like myself, Saturday can be the busiest day of the week. If you want to be here for the action, or if it's a fiscal challenge to pay someone else, well, Friday won't be much cause for celebration.As those of you out there who work

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As I blogged about earlier, one of my professional goals this year is to do more networking. And you know what? Networking can be fun, even for introverts like me. Really. Take yesterday's Downtown Women's Club event at the South Shore Natural Science Center, for example. Once I freshened my makeup, consolidated my essentials and business cards/literature into one easy-to-carry wristlet, hit

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Here at the store, we cannot claim to carry only 100% natural bodycare products, although natural products are a personal interest of mine. Our product mix/spectrum features both long-time gift-industry standards and newer brands from smaller companies. When we first opened the store, one of the first bodycare lines we picked up was Plum Island Soap Company, a small natural bodycare product and

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As a person in the US, but more specifically, as a small business owner who currently relies on my husband's health insurance coverage, I am interested in the health care system (well "interested" is probably putting it mildly). To me, the health care debate raging around us today is just another bit of debris in the murky waters our American society is currently swimming in. Think about it:

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Happy Friday!!Introducing a great new product here at the Hingham Gift Company, "Downeast Doormats" by the Maine Float Rope Company. These stylish doormats are actually recycled/repurposed lobster trap rope, which is great because...-this rope was harmful to whales so it is no longer allowed-lobstermen are required to replace this rope with more expensive sink-rope, so a government funded program

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I will admit, I was a bad shopkeeper this morning: I was late opening the store. If there is one characteristic I'd like to change about myself it would have to be my general tardiness. And my lateness is positively correlated with my husband being out of town, i.e. Joel takes the structure of my life with him and I am left to veg on the couch, overeat and watch as many Season 2 episodes of Mad

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One rule of thumb I have in my store is the old adage, "the customer is always right." Customers have a range of interpersonal and shopping styles. Many are bubbly and enjoy browsing and chatting with whomever is around. Others are quiet and really want to be left to shop in peace (I fall into this category myself). Some customers are on a mission, with little time to spare, and really, they

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I've had a Facebook account for awhile, mostly for personal use. A colleague created a Facebook page for the store, and we had some success getting a group together for that. But yesterday, I really took the plunge. I began tweeting (via Twitter of course) and I set up my LinkedIn account. I contacted all of the people in my store and personal networks and quickly developed robust LinkedIn

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I have reheated my coffee and I am ready to blog (yes, I am turning into my mother, not quite at the point of having coffee with my afternoon or evening meal but definitely needing the coffee to be oh-so-hot when I am drinking it).This morning I networked. Deep down I hate networking events. I'm always running late, I get anxious on my way there, and I usually have difficulty inserting myself

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I've learned a lot over the past two years, but the most salient issue for me today (other than the economy and the poor weather in our area this summer) is the fact that consumers appear to have a psychological barrier between the concepts of "gifts" and "gift baskets". "Traditional" gift baskets can carry a bit of a stigma, and I've tried to "reeducate" the local consumer market with my special

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Hello.Since I was little I've enjoyed writing.Also, I meet people every day who say "I've always wanted to start a business like this," or, "So how is business?"So I figured I'd start blogging about my gift business. Basically I'm planning to talk about what it's like each day (for me) to work in and run a gift store. Some posts will be very serious and others, hopefully, will be somewhat

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