Please note that RuthAnn Hogue's most prolific examples of recent writing took place between August 2017 and August 2024 as a ghostwriter for writing marketing content for LAVIDGE.
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What is domain squatting and what can you do about it?
Imagine asking Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana or Alexa to search for your business online. Instead of your familiar domain, you’re directed to a page with a domain name identical — or very similar — to the one you use to do business. That’s domain squatting.
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You’ve registered the perfect domain name for your website. Your product list is coming together and your website looks great. Then, bam. A new contact from the local chamber of commerce asks you over breakfast finger foods if your small business website will be secured with an SSL certificate.
15 best Ted Talks for entrepreneurs
Maybe you want to be an entrepreneur, to make your own way, but you aren’t sure where to begin. Or perhaps you have an idea for a business and have already taken the first steps to get it off the ground, but need a little inspiration to keep going.
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Growing Pains: An investigative series
Teleservices: It’s the fastest-growing industry in Tucson and among those exploding in North America and around the world.
Already between 6 million and 7 million agents work in some 48,000 call centers based in the United States handling inbound calls for businesses and government agencies.
With 16,000 agents in Tucson, a number predicted to double by the year 2003, questions swirl regarding an industry sometimes called the “sweatshops of the ’90s.”
The Journey Home: Diary of a terminal cancer patient
Thirteen front-page stories in the Daily News-Sun provided the starting point for the book "Goodbye, Walter." It's a story about living as much as it is a chronicle of one brave man's march toward death. Author RuthAnn Hogue turns her experiences as a reporter into a powerful story of friendship and self-discovery. In taking us along on this intimate and personal journey, she reminds us-and herself-of the great gifts of love and of faith and of how the two are eternally entwined. Somehow, by celebrating life, she makes facing death a little less frightening for us all.
His name won’t keep Joe Garagiola Jr. on deck
He's vice president and general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks with a six-figure salary and instant name recognition. But Joe Garagiola Jr. still comes across as a weak-armed, no-hit journeyman ballplayer.
"If you are thinking you are somebody, you're probably not," the 45-year-old father of four said. "You just better shut up and do your job every day. I think, no matter what your job is, you ought to show up every day ready to go to work. At the end of the day, you want to be able to look back and think you accomplished something."
Counselor helps teen plot a course for college, career
Veronica Reyna knows that obtaining a college education is the surest way to achieve success in the 21st century.
That's why she's set a goal to graduate from Pueblo High School this spring and to attend the University of Arizona next fall.
She's still a bit fuzzy about the details, though, so a Pueblo High School guidance counselor, Armando Ronquillo, agreed to meet with Veronica and her mother, Lori Reyna. Her Big Sister from the ``I Can Be What I Have Seen'' career mentoring program sat in on the session, too.
Ronquillo began by asking Veronica where she plans to be this time next year.
(From an advocacy series of stories in which Business Reporter RuthAnn Hogue participates in The Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson's "I can be what I have seen" mentoring program matching high school seniors with professionals who can guide them through the process of choosing a career and getting into the proper school, providing advice and more. The school district has kept the above link for many years past publication.)
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RuthAnn Hogue was named Community Journalist of the Year by the Arizona Press Club in 1998 for her body of work overseeing Surprise Today and editing the Northwest Valley/State section of the Daily News-Sun. Part of her award-winning entry went on to become the award-winning book “Goodbye, Walter: The inspiring story of a terminal cancer patient” (Mapletree, 2005). A second edition updated the subtitle (Whiptail, 2014).
Neighbors, a collection of daily micro-local news pages, RuthAnn Hogue developed and edited regularly for the Arizona Daily Star from January 2000 to March 2001. Neighbors published 11 times each week in eight zoned editions and were replated twice per week in two markets. She had previously spent the bulk of her time at The Phoenix Gazette and The Arizona Republic between 1992 and 1996 gathering and writing neighborhood news. She went on to work at several community newspapers including the Daily News-Sun, giving her much insight on how to put together and maintain such a publication with minimal staff, a monthly budget and a stable of freelance contributors.
Arizona Daily Star Neighbors sections edited Include:
North Side
East Side
South Side
Green Valley
Downtown
Northwest
Midtown
Foothills
COVERING Business
Doing business in Canada can be tricky for Arizona companies, but help is available
Doing business across international borders always comes with challenges, regardless of how close those borders are to home.
It's not surprising, then, that Canadians doing business in Arizona and Arizona-based businesses operating in Canada sometimes need support. From private entities to government agencies, that help appears to have blossomed in recent years.
Crossing over: Couple building Mexican practice for Valley law firm
Mentioning the Arizona border town of Nogales probably doesn't conjure up images of complicated, multibillion-dollar business transactions.
Maybe it should. Just ask Hector and Kim Arana, attorneys who are building a successful law office in what many think of as just another small, dusty town at the gateway to Mexico.