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It's here - the Mahwah Regional Chamber of Commerces' 7th Annual Summer Connections Open House!

All local businesses and organizations are invited to attend the event, which will be held on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel & Conference Center in Suffern, NY. The event will run from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m.

Do you ever wonder whether or not you are allowed to use the images that you insert into your blog posts? I hate to break it to you, but I bet that the majority of pictures you have ever used are considered to be stolen. On the plus side, I am not connected to the local police authority to report you so you're in the clear (for now).

It is really quite simple to go to Google and look for specific images that compliment what you are writing about, but have you ever asked yourself if you have the legal right to use the pictures that appear in your search? Check out this compiled list of steps to assure that you are completing all of the necessary precautions in finding the perfect, legally usable images.

Artist Stefan Stagmeister once noted: "Keeping a journal promotes personal development.", he was reflecting on the growth made possible just by writing. The same is true for modern businesses, just swap the journal out for a diary, and personal development for business growth - now, you have a 21st century friendly formula for why to create a blog for your website.

So why is it important that you start a blog (preferably right now) for your website? You're about to find out.

Blogging...

Let me guess: You woke up today, grabbed a cup of coffee and started to browse the web (I did the same, except I spilled my coffee). You looked at your website, and just weren't impressed. Maybe it was the layout, content or a gut feeling that your website isn't performing up to its potential.

Let’s be honest. Even with virtually unlimited access to the vast realm of mobile apps that can simplify the daily grind, we are still guilty of limiting ourselves to the biggest time wasters. Mobile apps have unlimited potential to increase productivity for small businesses, both on-the-go and in the workplace. So why are they so vastly underutilized?

Being a good marketer is a lot like being a good athlete. Both require a good amount of blood, sweat and tears to achieve the win. We’ve all had days when we don’t want to “carpe diem”, seizing the day sounds worse than spending the weekend without Wi-Fi. We understand, we’ve all been there.

In an era defined by innumerable fads, it’s often difficult to determine whether you’re a trendsetter or a social straggler. The worst case scenario is you might be off on what year it is. I would know, I wore a crochet poncho last week.

As our society becomes increasingly consumed by technology, you need to ensure that you’re maximizing potential inbound traffic to your website. We compiled a list of the do’s and don'ts of web design for the upcoming year so you can step up your game.

Bonjour mes amis. I'm Elizabeth (Elle/Ellie/Beckely/L/Burger King) and I'm a summer intern here at The DSM Group. I'll begrudgingly admit that I'm now a senior (WAH) at Indiana University, with majors in International Communication, and Telecommunications, and even though any professional will tell you your minors in college matter even less than your major, I threw two in the mix anyway- French and Communication & Culture.

When I'm not in Bloomington lounging in my sorority house or cheering on the Hoosiers at any IU sporting event (except for Football, although you can definitely find me in the tailgating lot), I'm pretty much always eating NY pizza, drinking Starbucks, painting my nails, or partaking in any other #basic activity you can think of.

My name is Nicolette and I am one of the new interns here at The DSM Group! So far, each of my fellow interns have crazy nicknames besides me, but something that my coworkers do not know yet is that all of my friends refer to me as “Buss,” (short for my Croatian last name, Bussanich). I recently caught the travel bug after studying in Barcelona, Spain for four months so now all I can think about is my desire to backpack through Europe and the possibility of moving back to Barcelona one day.

If you haven’t realized that you need to update your website, you should probably rearrange your priorities.

They call me Trill (adapted from my Twitter handle @RemdawgTrill). My story is not much different than the plight of other kids growing up in Bergen County. Jason Diller plucked me up off the streets of LinkedIn and gave me a chance I probably did not deserve.

We all know that you need to be creating great content. Everyone is looking for the best list of content marketing ideas online.

Although no one knows for sure where content marketing is heading in 2014, one thing is for sure...you have to click publish.

But we get it, sometimes you run out of things to blog about, and no one wants to just create content for content's sake. That's why our marketing agency created this list of over 100 content marketing ideas for 2014. Check out the list and let us know what you would add in the comments below.

I'm Maggie. I drink too much caffeine, Instagram often and quote a lot of movies. That pretty much sums up my life in one sentence.

My name is Luke Palmer and I am one of the fascinating new interns for The DSM Group! I am currently a rising Junior at Fordham University, on track to graduate in the Spring of 2016. While studying Business Administration in Fordham's Gabelli School of Business, I am heavily involved in school clubs including Campus Activities Board (event-programming) and the campus radio station.

Unknown to the general public, my relationship with Google has been on the rocks for awhile now. So, I decided to check out DuckDuckGo’s newly rolled out interface to see if the privacy-oriented search engine lived up to the hype.

Like many before me, I recently vowed to delete my Twitter account. It became a routine chore to scroll through the exponential number of subpar thoughts and spam tweets that littered my newsfeed.

I was fully prepared to poke my own eyes out if I had to endure another 140-character anecdote about a Starbucks employee misspelling the Tweeter’s name on her Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino (complete with a color edited twitpic of the coffee cup).