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2 weeks ago | 
designrush.com | Anna Hecht
74% of companies fail to scale AI effectively — often because they treat agents as tools, not teammates. AI agents can resolve up to 80% of support queries, demonstrating their value when deployed with clear purpose and context. “The biggest mistake? Hiring before mapping workflows,” says Pavel Sher, CEO of FuseBase. Start with use cases before embedding AI agents. 74% of companies fail to scale AI effectively, according to Boston Consulting Group. That failure isn't about bad tech. It's about bad fit.
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3 weeks ago | 
designrush.com | Anna Hecht
92% of marketers plan to maintain or increase SEO investment in 2025. True SEO performance stems from trust signals: targeted content, multilingual strategy, and user-first experience. Premature scaling and broad outreach waste resources that smart founders avoid by focusing on lean, high-impact visibility. In 2025, 92% of marketers are investing more into SEO, according to MediaValet. Yet most founders still misunderstand what it means to "get found."The mistake?
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1 month ago | 
designrush.com | Anna Hecht
SMUG Dairy used hyper-local ad copy across London and Brighton to embed its brand directly into neighborhood culture, turning public spaces into targeted brand moments. OOH spend is rising ($9.13B by 2025) while time spent with digital media is declining, making location-specific campaigns a smarter investment. Similar to Spotify Wrapped and Heinz’s Ketchup Fraud, SMUG Dairy proves that contextual, culturally relevant creative can drive real engagement and recall. Billboards aren’t dead.
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2 months ago | 
designrush.com | Anna Hecht |Arman Lorenzo Burias |Andrea Surnit
Key Findings:Wyoming ranks #1 as the worst state for digital agency tax savings, with average savings of just $6,719. Several low-ranking states offer no state corporate income tax, reducing the impact of the federal cut. Other states rank low due to small agency footprints, low revenue bases, or minimal business concentration. In 2025, a sweeping federal tax cut could deliver much-needed relief to some U.S. digital agencies.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
magazine.esra.org.il | Anna Hecht
Ten Gav co-founders Naomi Brounstein and Vivi Mann have been helping vulnerable Israelis with basic goods and services for over a decadeDana is a 29-year-old third-year medical student from Netanya, who survived the Nova party massacre on October 7, enduring unimaginable trauma. Her mental health deteriorated to the point where she found it impossible to function, let alone resume her studies.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
valuewalk.com | Aman Jain |Anna Hecht |Dave Kovaleski
Along with Social Security, the Social Security Administration (SSA) administers disability benefits as well. Though the SSA uses a simple and transparent process to determine a person’s eligibility for SSDI, it continuously works to improve it to ensure it stays relevant. In line with this, the SSA recently made changes to the SSDI jobs list to remove outdated jobs. The SSA uses a person’s medical records and ability to work when determining their Social Security disability benefits.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
valuewalk.com | Aman Jain |Anna Hecht |Dave Kovaleski
If you live in Missouri and have saved gas tax receipts over the past year, you can now apply for the gas tax rebate. The Missouri gas tax rebate will allow drivers to get a refund on the Motor Fuel Tax increase. The deadline to apply for the rebate is September 30.
In 2021, Missouri passed Senate Bill 262 to allow drivers to get a rebate, and the same year, the state started increasing the gas tax every year. The extra money from the gas tax is used for the maintenance of roads and bridges.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
valuewalk.com | Aman Jain |Anna Hecht
Eligible Boone County residents can now apply for property tax relief that will allow them to freeze any increase in their property taxes. Applications for Boone County real estate tax relief opened earlier this week. The program is open to residents aged 62 and older.
Boone County created the property tax relief program in response to a bill passed by Missouri lawmakers. In April, Boone County voters approved the relief by ballot, while county officials adopted the program in May.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
valuewalk.com | Aman Jain |Anna Hecht
Starting next week, Pennsylvania will send tax rebate checks to seniors and low-income homeowners. The rebate program was expanded in last year’s budget for the first time in nearly 20 years. And these tax rebate checks from Pennsylvania will arrive in the mail. Are eligible to receive this tax rebate check? Keep reading to find out. Tax rebate checks from Pennsylvania: who will get it?
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
valuewalk.com | David Moadel |Anna Hecht |Aman Jain |Matti Williamson
While social-media commentators chatter about the unthinkable multi-day decline of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock, there’s also been a pullback in another risk-on asset: bitcoin (BTC-USD). But is bitcoin going down? With this digital asset dropping down to $59,000 on Monday afternoon, it feels as if a “great reckoning” may be afoot. Maybe “great rotation” would be a more apt phrase though, since the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed firmly in the green on Monday.
