WASHINGTON — U.S. charities, which took in a reported $306 billion last year, hope that new strategies for finding and pressing donors will help them keep up the pace in hard economic times. Among the fresh pitches are these: · Seek monthly gifts.

Chicago marketing firms team up to launch a new website and online store for the Boys and Girls Club of Elgin's Duckapalooza and Elgin Duck Pluck event, September 6, 2008.

Mark Dobosz, Todd Friesen and Kent Lewis to kick off annual entrepreneurship and small business conference (PRWeb Jun 20, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/search_engine_marketing/midmarket_businesses/prweb1041994.htm

In a world where more and more households are connected to the internet, bandwidth is becoming an issue and brownouts have been predicted to occur in the next few years. With the strain on the infrastructure of the internet this makes having an efficient,

Pittsburgh-based Betsy Ann American Chocolates, a gourmet chocolate retailer with stores in Pennsylvania as well as an e-commerce site, has been paring down its bricks-and-mortar locations to focus on e-commerce.