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California Association Turns Farm Workers Into Farm Owners

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ALBA owns a 110-acre organic farm, and to help the laborers get started with their own farm businesses, it leases them farmland at subsidized prices. An article at NPR profiles 45-year-old Raul Murillo , who leases a three-acre strawberry farm from ALBA. It also provides supplies like fertilizer and irrigation tools.

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Email Marketing Trends: What’s Hot in 2017

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A recent article in Digiday underlines this point pretty well. Simply, it’s cheap: The service allows you to send 62,000 messages each month for free (which is about 12 messages per user each month, if you have 5,000 people on your list), and prices from there are 10 cents per thousand messages.

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Big Data: Big Headache or Big Opportunity for Associations?

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If it can, then they will pay a premium price for it—think Dyson (vacuums), iPhone (smartphones) and Nest (thermostats). Slater and other experts consulted for this article agreed that 10 to 15 minutes is the upper threshold for an online survey. Ask how your product and service can fill those unmet needs. Not knowing your audience.

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