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Can you give me any insight as to vehicles to spread the word of our Warrior Entrpereneur course for opening a business and investing in real estate?

Do you read Military Times and base newspapers?

Do you frequent social networking sites such as My Space and Facebook?

 

Do you subscribe to any e-newsletters?

 

What other websites do you frequent?

 

Thank you for any help you can give.

 

Mark G.

www.mastersuccess.com

Mark,

I can tell you that in our squadron (Air Force Staff Sergeant here) the Military Times, Stars and Stripes, and local smaller papers like the Kaiserslautern American are provided daily for us to read throughout work time. Sometimes the mission doesn`t allow us to break long for reading the news, but at least once I see everyone from the newest Airman to the highest Officer pick up the paper to skim it.

Some simple math for my squadron (just the operations floor mind you):

30 Airman per shift, with 3 rotating shifts = About 90 readers
365 days a year (no holidays in my job) times 90 readers = about 32,850 views/yr

Imagine all the squadrons, battalions, or whatnot through the military. (These numbers are VERY rough estimates)

I would suggest the larger military papers, and then do some looking for local papers that serve larger bases possibly. The local papers get lots of face time with us since we often look for used vehicles, houses, and other classifieds fairly regularly.

As far as websites , officially at work we can use .GOV and .MIL sites, major news outlets (CNN, ABC, FOX, etc.), and possibly some .EDUs. Depending on your command though, you have a little leeway with .COMs. Most members (in my experience) have MySpace accounts to "keep up with past friends".

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Jamie Dufrene
Rajin Enterprises
http://www.jceconsulting.net/

I can affirm that almost everyone who can lay hands on a copy of stars and stripes, or the army times reads it cover to cover where I`m stationed (Baghdad) so I would recommend writing them directly to advertise, or even write an article for them about what you offer to Veterans, we all want to know whats available when we come home. And yes, a lot of the soldiers seem to have access to facebook and other social networking sites, hours of use are rather limited due to operational tempo though!

Sgt Soulia, Medic. USARNG VBC

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"The future is sustainable, renewable, and ultimately, inevitable." Sgt S

Greetings,

I'm a former NYC Fireman and fully support our troops and everything they do.  I have a question, I currently live in Toronto and have a startup hosted PBX VOIP telephony company.  Since our technology is relatively easy to implements and cost effective, I was curious if there was a way to help troops overseas communicate w/ their families at home in a cost effective way.  They would need access to an internet line.  Is there anything that troops currently use besides traditional phone service such as SKYPE?  Thanks for the help in advance!