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		<title>Handwritten Notes can make a difference.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes you, as a customer, feel more special &#8212; an email thanking you for your business or a handwritten note.  Even though we, subconsciously know that most of the handwritten thank you business notes are sent out in bulk, psychologically they create an emotional response that an email just can&#8217;t do.  I believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customers and Spiders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 16:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me know that I&#8217;m somewhat of a workaholic.  Not at housework!  Heaven forbid!  But at growing my business. Yesterday was no different. I was sitting at my computer, going down the list of &#8220;to-dos&#8221; that I create for each day, when husband Ron walked up behind me.  He does this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you using Email Marketing to Grow Your Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you using email to grow your business? It not, why not? It is one of the fastest ways to get information out to your customers. Remind them of an approaching holiday. Tell them about a new product. Send them some information that applies just to them at just that moment. Emails can be effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More about Branding &#8220;YOU&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post about Branding, I talked about the secret of Branding that most people forget &#8212; You are your Brand.  Be Yourself. Another  example of someone who did exactly that through the years is Mike Wallace.  His personality was his brand.  Questioning.  Sometimes abrasive.  But getting the story in an entertaining way that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret You Need to Know about Branding Your Business.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been an out-going, party-loving person. I&#8217;m basically an introvert who enjoys working alone and wants to do what is ethical and right regardless of the consequences. You may think that is not a good personality for building a business or creating a brand for your business. But my mother told me something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Use Pinterest and Should You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joyce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gift Baskets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re hearing a lot about the new social media sharing site &#8212; Pinterest.  But a new survey of  4,851 U.S. online shopping consumers, conducted earlier this month by online shopping site PriceGrabber.com, found that just 10 percent of respondents had Pinterest accounts. About 58 percent did not have a Pinterest account, while another 32 percent didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you forget the most important thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite bloggers is copyblogger.  In one of his recent posts, he wrote something that all of us who sell things, whether it be services or products, should think about. &#8220;You need to tell your reader exactly what to do, how to do it, and that you want her to do it right now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you find your Pot of Gold?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the wee leprechauns of Irish lore, we, as small business owners, seem to be constantly searching for that &#8220;pot of gold&#8221; at the end of the rainbow. But, no matter how hard we search, it frequently remains elusive. The best of us are constantly trying something new &#8212; adding a new niche, taking a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Timeline for Business Pages &#8211; Are you ready?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that you&#8217;ve created your business page on Facebook, they&#8217;re in the process of changing it.  And the changes are big ones.  Just like your personal page, your business page will automatically go to the Timeline format as of March 30th.  You can still preview what it will look like and make any changes.  You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let the Blind Lead You Blind! Alice Seba says it well.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice Seba is someone that has been a leader in internet marketing for many years.  She recently wrote this blog post that is right on target. Don&#8217;t Let the Blind Lead You Blind! I have been seeing a dangerous trend lately and with the big vastness of the Internet, I suppose it’s not at all [...]]]></description>
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