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Turkish women participating in the march on Saturday, dubbed "Don't Mess With My Outfit", chanted slogans and carried denim shorts on hangers as examples of the type of clothing that some men in the country find unacceptable.

They chanted: We will not obey, be silenced, be afraid. We will win through resistance.

It follows harrowing footage of a woman named Asena Melisa Saglam, who was targeted and attacked on an Istanbul bus for wearing shorts during Ramadan.

The city has seen a spike in attacks against women for their choice of clothing.

One participant said: We will not remain silent and we do not want to stop. We want to put an end to these incidents.

Therefore I call on all women to take to the streets and I support them in defending themselves.

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Riot police use rubber pellets to disperse LGBT rights activists as they try to gather for a pride parade in central Istanbul

The march saw several women protesting against criticism for choosing to wear headscarves.

Another participant told Channel 4 News: As you can see my friend is not wearing a headscarf but I do. I have the right to dress freely as much as she does.

Nobody can mess with their mini skirts and shorts, just like they cant mess with our headscarves.

Istanbul, once revered for its liberalism, has seen increasingly conservative attitudes as the Erdogan regime has eroded decades of secular government.

Human rights groups and government critics say Turkey has been drifting toward authoritarianism for years, a process they say accelerated since the attempted coup last year and a referendum in April which granted Erdogan stronger powers.

The government claims the crackdown and constitutional changes are necessary to address challenges and security threats.

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It follows a rally earlier in July that saw hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets in the biggest protest against Erdogan since the failed coup.

Turkey's main opposition leader told a huge protest rally that the country was living under a dictatorship and pledged to keep challenging the crackdown launched by the authorities after the military failed to seize power last year.

Mr Kilicdaroglu, addressing the crowd, said: "We will be breaking down the walls of fear.

The last day of our Justice March is a new beginning, a new step. We demand justice. We demand justice not only for those who gathered here, not only those who support us but for everyone.

Justice is the foundation of the state. In present-day Turkey, the foundation of the state is at risk. The era we live in is a dictatorship.

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EAGLE, Idaho, Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --LiveRez.com, the most widely used cloud-based software for professional vacation rental managers, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Blizzard Internet Marketing to provide LiveRez's customers with a wide range of digital marketing services.

Based in Glenwood Springs, CO, Blizzard is a leading provider of online marketing services for professional vacation rental managers. As a preferred LiveRez industry partner, the company will become LiveRez's go-to recommendation for online marketing services for its rapidly growing base of customers (called partners).

"We carefully vet every single one of our preferred partners, and over the years we've seen Blizzard's commitment to the long-term, sustainable success of professional managers," said Tina Upson, LiveRez's VP of Operations. "As we've continued to grow, we've had a huge influx of our property manager partners requesting additional online marketing services. Partnering with Blizzard will allow us to provide our users with these services at scale."

Traditionally, LiveRez has accomodated its partners' needs with its own in-house professional services team, but due to the increasing interest in additional marketing services Upson said the company knew it would need to find an industry partner to help meet the demand.

"With all the recent changes to the marketing landscape in our industry, we've witnessed a fundamental shift in our partners' marketing strategies, trending toward online marketing services focused on building a manager's brand and helping them secure more direct bookings," Upson said. "But, as a company hyper-focused on our users' long-term success, we had to find a provider that shared our values."

Upson noted the work that Blizzard has done for some of LiveRez's current partners as a big factor in the company's decision, as well as Blizzard's ability to offer LiveRez partners a wide variety of services, including search engine optimization ("SEO"), paid ad management, email marketing, social media, and content writing.

"LiveRez is committed to the success of the professional managers using their property management software," said Susan Blizzard, CEO of Blizzard Internet Marketing. "That means having a solid online marketing presence. SEO and all other digital marketing strategies are constantly changing, and they are evolving even more rapidly now because of mobile devices. Blizzard has a team of experts specializing in each major area of online marketing, and we're excited for the opportunity to help LiveRez's partners further diversify their marketing portfolios and take their businesses to new levels."

About LiveRez.com

LiveRez is the world's most widely used software platform for marketing and managing vacation rental homes online. The LiveRez solution offers professional property managers all the tools they need to run their business in a single, cloud-based platform. And, the company's unique "pay-as-you-book" business model creates a mutually beneficial partnership between LiveRez and its vacation rental manager partners. This partnership fuels the company's mission of continually developing and supporting cutting-edge solutions that empower independent property managers to compete in the rapidly evolving vacation rental space.

About Blizzard Internet Marketing

Specializing in the Vacation Rental Management industry, Blizzard Internet Marketing provides comprehensive online marketing services, employing a group of in-house experts in all areas of online marketing, including SEO, Pay-Per-Click, Email Marketing, Social Media, Local Search, Analytics, Usability and Website Services. Our experts regularly attend online marketing symposiums, ongoing education courses, and subscribe to all of the most highly relevant blogs for their area of expertise. In addition, we offer training and consultation to our clients through our services as well as holding in person Blizzard University Workshops about digital marketing techniques.

Contact: Rob Holderness Director of Marketing (208) 639-6108 rel="nofollow">170887@email4pr.com

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TRIBECA, N.Y., Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- fishbat, a leading internet marketing firm that combines proven digital marketing strategies to help businesses increase profits and expand brand awareness, discusses how to attract more followers and social engagement.

Digital outreach is extremely important for building brand awareness, establishing social proof, and for driving traffic to the business. However, just being on social media isn't enough. For digital branding to be effective, it must encourage the audience to follow the brand and be engaged with the brand online. These factors increase audience reach, brand recognition, and trust factors.

fishbat Internet Marketing Company is a full-service digital marketing firm that takes a holistic business approach to their clients' digital marketing programs. The fishbat team understands the importance of business principles just as well as the nuances of the latest digital technologies. fishbat offers every digital marketing service available from digital marketing research and planning to brand development to website and asset creation through social media management and search engine optimization programs - all custom calibrated for both B2B and B2C businesses.

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On Aug. 10, 1991, the World Wide Web went live. Now, more than 25 years later, its had a lasting impact on real estate, business and the world.

Despite the fact that the internet has changed how the vast majority of consumers search for and hire people in service-related industries such as real estate, some businesses still havent caught up with the times.

The real estate industry in particular seems to have a hard time letting older less effective marketing methods go.

If youre still wasting resources on marketing methods that became obsolete along with floppy drives and dial-up modems, its time to make a change.

Here are five real estate marketing methods that should have died off years ago:

Print advertisements are more expensive and less effective than ever. Not only are less people looking at these ads year after year, but its also nearly impossible to target potential clients via printed ads with any success.

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Stop wasting your time and money with printed ads, and start learning how to reach the right people via Facebook advertising.

Dont you just hate making cold calls? Thats probably because the vast majority of modern consumers hate receiving them.

Instead of popping into peoples lives unannounced and unappreciated, reach out to leads at opportune times with a system that allows you to catch them when theyre ready and willing to hear what you have to offer.

Theres one thing that people hate even more than unsolicited phone calls: unsolicited home visits.

If youre knocking on random doors in random neighborhoods and hoping to snag a few eager clients, youre going to be disappointed.

On the other hand, if youre hosting an open house nearby, stopping by neighbors homes to invite them over is a lot less likely to end with doors slamming in your face.

Believe it or not, your contact list is not interested in every detail pertaining to local real estate. If you regularly send generic messages to your entire email database en masse, please do everyone (including yourself) a favor and stop.

Marketing via email is fine, but you need to do it in a strategic, segmented manner to achieve respectable results.

A decade ago, pushing out content that wasnt optimized for mobile was pretty much a non-issue. Now that nearly everyone has and uses a smartphone, however, mobile-friendly websites and emails are essential for effective marketing.

Consider this: How effective can your marketing truly be if roughly half of the people reading it are thinking about how bad the formatting is instead of the message youre trying to convey?

As the internet continues to shape how potential clients perceive your business and your marketing, theres only one thing you can do: adapt.

If youre still reliant on any of the aforementioned marketing methods, take a moment to step back and evaluate your strategy. If you somehow manage to make it work, by all means keep at it.

However, if youre doing what youre doing simply because its what youve always done, keeping your business afloat is only going to get harder unless you make some major changes.

Pat Hiban is the author of the NYT bestselling book 6 steps to 7 figures A Real Estate Professionals Guide to Building Wealth and Creating Your Destiny, the founder of online real estate sales training site Rebus University, and the host of Pat Hiban Interviews Real Estate Rockstars, an agent-to-agent real estate podcast with Hiban Digital in Baltimore, Maryland. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter.

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The Storage Group (TSG), an Internet-marketing company serving the self-storage industry, has hired Stevie Harris as its first business-development manager in the west-coast office. In her newly created position, Harris will manage the companys involvement in industry tradeshows, develop new vendor partnerships, build on existing relationships with industry associations, and enhance business processes. Shell also partner with the sales and marketing teams to build new market messaging, expand the companys reach and accomplish TSGs strategic business goals, according to a press release.

Harris has extensive experience working with associations in the construction and real estate industries, particularly in professional education and license compliance. In previous positions, she developed and managed programs to increase and retain association membership and implemented a CRM (customer-relationship management) platform for small businesses. She also spent time in the corporate world managing online-learning and service-area training programs.

Im thrilled to be joining an industry that prides itself on innovation, yet simplicity, Harris said. We have some projects in the works, specifically for small self-storage owners, that Im excited to implement and oversee. I truly believe my experience in small business will be a good crossover to this role.

Based in Maitland, Fla., TSG provides online tools and marketing solutions to the self-storage industry. The company's services include local-listing management, mobile websites, online rentals, pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimization, social media marketing and website development.

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