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New York, 1935. The city is overflowing with immigrants from Europe. Among them are Kurt Safranski, Ernest Mayer and Kurt Kornfield. A few years before they were still successful professionals in the flourishing world of publishing and newspapers in the Weimar Republic. Safranski had been an editor...

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VIDEO: Google Analytics for Photographers

February 27 | By Kim Larson | Posted in Video Blog Posts

In my last two posts, I explained how I expanded my business by redesigning my Web site, and some of the techniques I’ve used to attract prospective customers to my site. In this post, a three-minute video, I discuss the benefits of Google Analytics and how to install it on your Web site.

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