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What’s that smell? A lesson in teamwork

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Fork out the dough, do right by your interns

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Let’s get old together

Complete Randomness Ladies Listen Up

Let it go! Let it go!

Ladies Listen Up

Ladies Listen Up: Friendship

Ladies Listen Up

Get it over with, stop procrastinating

Small Biz Tips & Tricks

Listen up ladies

#GirlBoss Complete Randomness

Listen up

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How to crush an interview

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Code of Ethics: Trump Administration

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It’s all about the hustle

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Keep your monkey

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How to crush an interview

It was time to update this blog, the original was written in 2018 and was recently trolled by someone who pointed out several spelling and grammatical errors (oops)...so I figured

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Code of Ethics: Trump Administration

Public relation professionals are required to abide by a code of ethics. You can read the entire code here, but for the purpose of this blog, I want to highlight

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It’s all about the hustle

PR seems like a sexy field, am I right? If your older like me, then you think of Samantha from Sex in the City and her high rolling lifestyle. She

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Keep your monkey

We have a saying at our office, "keep the monkey." Yeah, it's weird, but here is the point. You've heard people say, "I have a monkey on my back." They're

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Hi, I'm Kim!
Writer of musings.

Thank you for being here and for being open to being a part of an exploration of all things small business.

I can’t wait to share all the things you never knew you needed to know.

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I own 8THIRTYFOUR Integrated Communications.

Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We are an award-winning Communication Strategy, Digital, Social Media, Public Relations and Creative firm that is redefining how agencies do business.