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Troubles for Trump supporters on college campuses continue. Now, they cant find roommates.

An NBC News/Generation Labs poll on Thursday found that 62% of college Democrats say theyd refuse to room with a student who voted for Donald Trump in 2020. Very inclusive of them.

Forget house cleaning and drinking habits and weird activities, voting for Trump is the deal-breaker for college liberals.

I could never live with someone who supported a racist, homophobic, xenophobic and sexist person, an 18-year-old Siena College student told NBC.

The choice to use racist, homophobic, xenophobic and sexist in one sentence suggests this student aspires to be a journalist or professor. It must be one of the two.

The polling previews a situation where campuses could essentially have Democrat dorms and Republican dorms, colleges segregated by political affiliation. Hows that for a representation of the cultural divide that Biden vowed to alleviate?

College students who admit they are Republicans are far more tolerant of Biden voters. Less than half, 28%, of college Republicans say theyd refuse to room with someone who voted Democrat in 2020.

A persons political views do not affect whether or not I would have a friendship or relationship with them. Many of my friends have vastly different political views than I do, but I do not let that affect our friendship, a 19-year-old Republican said of the study.

Between self-important college Democrats and woke curriculum, a college campus hardly welcomes someone who voted for Trump or thinks independently. No wonder theres a record number of American men abandoning college.

Blue collar jobs, that dont require a degree, are in-demand across the country. Trucking companies are offering drivers a starting salary as high as$110,000,more than double the starting salary of college graduates.

So, double the starting salary, no six-figure debt, and no wacky professors and racial classmates. #HonkHonk. We stand with the truckers.

The study ultimately proves the entitlement of liberal Gen Zers. They are the generation of feelings. They cant room or make friends with someone who does not share their woke politics.

Imagine wanting to hire these students, despite whatever random degree they eventually earn.

No matter how cool your gender studies degree looks on a wall, you have diminished value if you cannot work alongside someone who thinks differently.

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Opinion: Did Democrats or independents help Kari Lake and other America First candidates win by voting for them? A look at turnout data suggest otherwise.

One of the theories floated in the aftermath of Arizonas primaries was that non-Republican voters flocked to the GOP side to vote forthe most extreme candidates.

That is, they acted on a coordinated campaign to set up Democrats for a win in the general election.

It would be a convenient explanation for the sweeping victories by America First candidates.

But that scenario is highly unlikely.

While statewide figures are not readily available, the recent canvassing, or formal tallying, of votes in Maricopa County which account for nearly 60% of all ballots cast in Arizona is illustrative.

The county did experience a higher-than-usual turnout in the Aug. 2 Republican primary (59%), considerably higher than for the Democratic primary (47%).

The GOP turnout is some 9 percentage points higher than the previous midterm primary in 2018. But theres no evidence Democrats defected; their turnout was up this year, too, though by a more modest couple of percentage points.

Could independents have givenfar-right conservatives a boost? Their turnout in Arizona primaries hit a new high of 13.7% this year, and a greater percentage of them opted for a Republican ballot than in 2018.

Nearly 75,000 Maricopa County independents requested a GOP ballot (it pushed up the Republican turnout to 59%, from about 51%).Thattheoretically could have propelled gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake to her narrow victory of fewer than 14,000 votes in metro Phoenix.

But theres little evidence to prove that, as well. Independents have been steadily increasing their participation in primaries in recent elections, their turnout climbing a couple of percentage points each time. In 2016, it was 8%; in 2018, 10%; and in 2020, 12%. The new high this year is consistent with that trend.

Like Democrats and Republicans, a majority of independentsvoted by early ballot, which tends to trend more favorably for moderate candidates. That was demonstrated on election night, when the early results (mail-in ballots are tabulated first) showed Lake to be trailing.

Independents in Arizona, I believe, view partisan politics with disinterest at best and disdain at worst. The few (but growing number) of them who vote in primaries cast a ballot to advance more moderate candidates or to vote against partisans. (I count myself among them.)

That approach favors GOP establishment candidates like Karrin Taylor Robson. If anything, independents probably helped Robson make the race for governor a little closer than otherwise.

The logical explanation for the high turnout in the GOP primary is simply a greater interest generated this year, in which Trump-backed candidates challengedthose representing the more traditional Republican Party, endorsed by establishment players such as Gov. Doug Ducey and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Anargument certainly can be made about Democratic operatives spending money and time to promote extreme GOP candidates while attacking more moderate ones. Mysterious dark money campaigns both at the national leveland in Arizona lend credibility to that contention.

It is, however, more difficult to show a cause and effect. Were partisan Republicans, who make up the lions share of primary voters, dupedinto voting for Lake, or for any of the America First candidates? Or did those dark-money campaigns merely strengthen thesupport that was already there?

Misleading?Group behind Kari Lake ad may have to disclose its donors

The GOP portion of the 106,000 election day votes in Maricopa County 4 of 5 ballots castthat day were Republican decisively powered Lake past Robson. That sliver of the Republican electorate is more inclined to believe early balloting isnt as secureas in-person voting, a premise pushed by Lake and the America First slate.

The results set up a general election that both far-right conservatives and far-left liberals want. As always, the decision come November will be left up to moderates and independents.

Reach Abe Kwok at akwok@azcentral.com. On Twitter: @abekwok.

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Have you spent the time and money to get your business website off the ground but your analytics still look a little lackluster?

Dont feel discouraged! Here we will break down three ways to drive people to your website without having to empty the bank on paid advertising.

First and foremost, be sure your bases are covered in regards to basic SEO needs so your site appears when the right prospect is searching. Make sure your pages have correct meta descriptions and you have fixed any and all broken links. Take a deeper dive into SEO best practices in regards to building a real estate business here.

Once you have the basics covered in helping search engines find your site, then you can focus on how to assist prospective clients in finding your site.

Its critical to have a digital footprint for your business. If you dont exist online, you might as well not be in business.

But establishing a digital footprint is so simple these days, and you can do even more than simply put up a site. You can establish yourself as a thought leader and expert. The more quality content you have online, the more opportunities you have to create leads for your business.

Like everything in business, the secret to success is to provide clients with value, and creating valuable content is no different.

Evergreen content is multi-purpose content that can stay fresh and alive forever. Its always valuable and useful for your audience no matter where they are in their buying or selling journey.

This is a very effective type of content for generating leads, as it wont age out over time, like most other trends or topics. Creating evergreen content may take more effort up front, but its worth it in the long run, as you wont have to continuously create new content.

What kind of evergreen content should you create? Well, as a real estate agent, it would be taking a look at the markets you serve and creating landing pages, video content, blog posts, and more around topics that buyers in your area are looking for, such as reviews on local schools, parks, and recreational areas, coffee shops, theaters, and more.

Our Keeping It Real episode with Bob McCraine is an excellent deep dive into how Bob has created substantial lead traffic to his site and business using these exact methods.

If youre looking for a way to increase traffic to your real estate website, consider using video. Videos are an extremely powerful marketing tool, and they can be used in many ways to drive traffic to your site.

YouTube is the second largest search engine on the internet, potential clients can find you there and get to know your company better.Almost 85% of content being consumed these days is video because more people prefer watching over reading articles; thats why its critical to have a YouTube channel.

When using videos to generate leads and traffic, you want to make sure that theyre effective. They should be engaging, informative, and properly edited. Make sure that your videos are also placed in the right locations on your website so that they can be easily found by prospective clients.

To keep your content as effective as possible, make sure that you create videos discussing details of the real estate services youre marketing, and make sure that the video content is evergreen.

Its also helpful to build a Frequently Asked Questions page on your website and record a video answering those questions. This will certainly cause an increase in website traffic and engagement.

Consistency is key. Many think that the only way to obtain substantial reach across social platforms is to pay out of pocket for promoted posts. But youll set yourself up to fail if you cant commit to a consistent posting schedule on social media.

Use a social media publishing tool such as Buffer to schedule posts in advance. Then share more off-the-cuff, day-of posts here and there.

Show up for yourself and make sure to minimize the number of zero days. Have something going out on each platform daily.

This can be achieved easily by recycling your evergreen content and mixing it with some timely and trending content. Put yourself in the shoes of the average internet user.

Many people are scrolling through their feeds while commuting to work, waiting in line, or in a waiting room at the doctors office. By constantly putting out a mix of evergreen and trending content, you will be sure that you appear on someones feed and that is half the battle.

Showing up is the most important part of content marketing. Many will feel a little self-conscious about posting at such a high volume but that typically stems from thinking users are only watching your feed, which is rarely the case.

Get creative and put yourself out there on alternative platforms as well. The social media landscape is always changing, new platforms rise up and others stagnate and die off. Be sure you are visible to a wide range of audiences and are constantly assessing where you can expand your reach.

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4 ways to drive people to your website - Inman

We recently introduced you to theAgile Marketing Navigator, a flexible framework for navigating agile marketing for marketers, by marketers in the articleA new way to navigate agile marketing. The navigator has four major components: Collaborative Planning Workshop, Launch Cycle, Key Practices and Roles. Within these categories, there are several sub-pieces for implementation.

In recent articles we covered the Collaborative Planning Workshop and the Launch Cycle. Now were going to dive into the third of our6 Key Practices: Work in Progress.

Lets face it, marketers have a big problem theyre overloaded with too much work. A big consequence of too much work happening at once is getting a lot of work started, but nothing really finished.

In agile marketing, a primary goal is to deliver work rapidly so we can get feedback to inform future work. However, when marketers are spinning in a sea of content creation soup or email overload, work is often getting caught up somewhere in the internal workflow and not getting delivered as quickly as it should.

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Work in Progress (WIP) limits derive from the popular workflow framework Kanban and its a practice that helps teams understand optimal workflow.

Lets say that youre a content marketing team and youre visualizing your work in an agile tool such as Workfront or JIRA. The team notices that they could be more efficient at getting work from in progress to done and that limiting how much work is in progress at any given time may help them be a better-performing team.

To get started, the team should take a few weeks to track how much work they currently have in practice each day, coming up with an average. Heres a simple way to calculate the teams current WIP by jotting down whats on the teams board:

To calculate the teams current work in progress, add up the total in column 2 and divide by 14, which gives an average of 10. This means that the team averages 10 items in progress at any one time.

Now that the team understands their starting place, they can experiment by setting different WIP limits. Since they know that with 10 work items in progress at any given time they are not at optimal efficiency, they should agree to set a lower limit, such as eight, and experiment over the next few weeks by not allowing more than eight pieces of content to be in progress at once.

After that two-week period, the team should discuss how it went. Did they see any improvements in how much work got done? If yes, they may have found an optimal number. If they believe it is still too high, they can try another cycle with a lower number.

It may take several experiments to understand the teams WIP limit, and that number may change over time. The main point is that the team is empowered to set this themselves and to work together to improve their efficiency.

This isnt a beginners practice, so I recommend only trying this with teams that have been working in agile marketing together for six months or longer and have mastered the basics. This practice is more about refining and optimizing a relatively experienced agile marketing team to improve efficiency.

Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.

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The digital marketing agency earns national recognition as the 3917th fastest-growing private company in America.

Press Release - Aug 16, 2022

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., August 16, 2022 (Newswire.com) - Digital Resource is the 3917th fastest-growing private company as ranked by Inc. Magazine's annual Inc. 5000. This is the marketing agency's fifth consecutive year making the list, a milestone only one in 10 companies that make the list achieve.

"Digital Resource is honored to have our sustained growth recognized by Inc.," says Shay Berman, the founder and president of Digital Resource, who started the company in 2014 at age 23. "It was always a dream to make Inc. 5000, and I am beyond grateful that our team's hard work has made that dream a reality five times over!"

Digital Resource debuted on Inc. 5000 at #262 in 2018. Since then, the company has seen exponential growth. Now with nearly 130 employees serving 700+clients in its downtown West Palm Beach office, the company will complete the buildout of itssecond floor at the end of August 2022.

Additionally, Digital Resource acquired a dental marketing agency in Nashville, Tennessee, in April 2022. The acquisition brought new talent and services that bolstered the agency's nationwide presence.

Director of Client Operations Nathan Mendenhall says, "As an organization, Digital Resource is constantly searching for ways to improve whether it be in our client service, processes or culture. If we keep collaborating, innovating and enjoying the process, the sky is the limit."

To learn more about Digital Resource and its history as an Inc. honoree, visit: https://www.inc.com/profile/digital-resource.

About Digital Resource:

Founded in 2014, Digital Resource is a full-service internet marketing agency headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL. The company's winning solutions and experience deliver great results for businesses in all verticals across several key areas, including but not limited to search engine optimization, social media marketing and lead generation. Digital Resource has a proven track record in generating online leads and sales, elevating brand market share, and proving return on investment.

For more information, please direct all inquiries to Emily Creighton at (561) 429-2585 or email press@yourdigitalresource.com.

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