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Event Marketing HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY PROMOTE EVENTS, FESTIVALS, CONVENTIONS, AND EXPOSITIONS Leonard H. Hoyle, CAE, CMP JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. Event Marketing The Wiley Event Management Series SERIES EDITOR: DR. JOE GOLDBLATT, CSEP Special Events: Twenty-first Century Global Event Management, Third Edition by Dr. Joe Goldblatt, CSEP Dictionary of Event Management, Second Edition by Dr. Joe Goldblatt, CSEP, and Kathleen S. Nelson, CSEP Corporate Event Project Management by William
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EDITION Easy Ways to Hypnotize Your Problems Away DR. BRUCE GOLDBERG New Page Books A division of The Career Press, Inc. Franklin Lakes, NJ 2 Self-Hypnosis Copyright ∞ 2006 by Dr. Bruce Goldberg All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or
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