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<title>The Case Against Outsourced SEO</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The absolute best companies I've worked with make every decision with SEO in mind.  Everyone in their organization - from management to programmers to marketing - is thinking about the search impact of their decisions.  For that reason it makes sense to hire a consultant or to learn it yourself, but not to hire an outside firm to outsource your entire SEO campaign to. ]]></description>
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<title>Building the Perfectly Optimized Site Using WordPress</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:12:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WordPress can be customized to automate many of the most arduous SEO tasks.  The result is a powerful and easy to use search engine friendly publishing platform that eliminates the majority of both upfront and ongoing SEO work.]]></description>
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<title>Web Development with SEO in Mind</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:32:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When a business owner decides to bring their business to the web, generally the last thing that they think about is search engine optimization.  They assume that whomever they hire to do their web design will put up a site and then submit it to the search engines and the traffic will magically pour in.  Unfortunately it takes more than that to drive search engine traffic to your site, and even more unfortunately most developers don't program with SEO in mind, nor do they educate the client about the process involved in gaining traffic from search engines.]]></description>
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<title>Preparing Your Site for Internet Explorer 7</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here's the scenario:  one morning you open your email and your inbox is flooded with emails that your site isn't working properly.  Maybe your text or images don't look right, or even worse maybe your site isn't properly processing credit card transactions.  How could this happen when you didn't change a thing?  Well, that morning could be the morning later this year that Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7.]]></description>
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<title>Writing for the Web</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:01:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried to read your local newspaper online?  How about the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal?  It just isn't the same.  Do you know why?  Because articles meant for print don't translate well to the web, and the rules that apply to writing content for the internet are different than those for print.  What constitutes quality content offline does not necessarily constitute quality content online.]]></description>
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<title>You Don't Need More Traffic to Make More Money</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:33:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every website owner has a somewhat unhealthy obsession with driving more traffic to their site.  We all want more traffic, if for nothing else to be able to brag to others how many unique visitors we've received.  Competition among web owners aside, actually doing something with that traffic is equally as important as getting it.  Yet for some reason, most site owners make the mistake of focusing most of their time on getting more traffic and rarely, if ever, focus on improving their conversion rate.]]></description>
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<title>5 Free Things You Can Do to Get More Traffic Immediately</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:07:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Just because you have a new site, it doesn't mean you have to wait months to start getting some traffic.  Most site owners are so focused on search engine traffic that they neglect other sources of traffic that can pay dividends immediately and help their search engine rankings in the future.  Below are five ways that you can bring quality traffic to your site today that won't cost you a penny:]]></description>
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<title>Using Blog PR to Promote Your Site</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:36:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The recent trend of using the press release to promote an online business has emerged with good reason - good press costs very little and can do more for a business than thousands of dollars of marketing.  Most businesses use press distribution services like PR Web or PRFree to get the word out about their news. While distribution services certainly can be effective, they tend to miss out on arguably the most influential group of the press - bloggers.    ]]></description>
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<title>13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:58:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like most web developers or SEO professionals, I use a vast array of tools to get the job done.  I use a combination of desktop and web applications, some purchased and some free.  Everyone I know has downloaded a free copy of Mozilla Firefox, but few realize that by installing some of the 1,500 free extensions they can eliminate the need for most of the other applications they currently use.  Below are my 13 favorite extensions for web professionals (in no particular order):]]></description>
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<title>Google's Next Move - Video Game Ads?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:46:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Since AdWords was launched in 2001, Google has expanded to image ads, video ads, and print ads, and has frequently been rumored to be entering radio and television.  While many think that television ads (ala Spot Runner) could be Google's next major move, they may be neglecting a potentially larger opportunity: in-game video game advertising.]]></description>
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<title>Using Google Alerts to Help Your Business</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:07:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At times it seems that Google releases more new products and services than we can keep track of.  From Google Calendar and Google Video, to Google Base, Google Finance, and Google Trends, it can be overwhelming just to remember what each one does.  One of the oft overlooked hidden gems in Google's enormous offering is Google Alerts.    Within minutes, one can be signed up for email alerts that can give them and their business a leg up on the competition.  Alerts can be used to spy on competitors, keep track of what people are saying about your business, or follow an important news story.]]></description>
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<title>Do Search Engines Care About Valid HTML?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:02:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like most web developers, I've heard a lot about the importance of valid html recently.  I've read about how it makes it easier for people with disabilities to access your site, how it's more stable for browsers, and how it will make your site easier to be indexed by the search engines.  So when I set out to design my most recent site, I made sure that I validated each and every page of the site.  But then I got to thinking - while it may make my site easier to index, does that mean that it will improve my search engine rankings?  How many of the top sites have valid html?]]></description>
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<title>Getting Your Site Indexed Before You Launch</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:45:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've noticed that most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site.  Those that do deal with preparing your site for launch usually discuss on-site SEO like keyword research and meta tags.  What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch.  With a little planning and a few hours of work it's easy to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN before your site goes live.  ]]></description>
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<title>Book Review - Warriors, Workers, Whiners, and Weasels</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:44:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all know a Weasel.  You know, that person that threatens to take down your organization by using every sleazy tactic in the book to advance their careers regardless of how it effects others.  Warriors, Workers, Whiners, and Weasels: The 4 Personality Types in Business and How to Manage Them to Your Advantage  by entrepreneur Tim O'Leary takes a refreshing look at the different personalities we encounter and how to handle them.]]></description>
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<title>Are Made for AdSense Sites Ruining Search Results?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:10:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's happened to you.  You've searched for something on Google and several promising results appear.  You click on a link, but when you get to the site all you see are a few ads and nothing even remotely close to what you searched for.  So you go back to the search results and try again, only it happens again and again until you finally find a page with some decent content...or frustration sets in and you give up all together.]]></description>
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<title>Book Review - Guerrilla Marketing for FREE</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:54:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sure, advertising is easy if you're Pepsi or Apple, but what if you don't have millions of dollars to throw at TV and print ads?  Any business owner out there looking to cut their marketing budget should look no further than Guerrilla Marketing for FREE - Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits  by Jay Conrad Levinson.]]></description>
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<title>Increase Your Productivity and Your Margins with Free Software</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:15:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm guessing you're pretty busy.  You've got a ton of stuff to get done everyday and you don't need to waste time doing monotonous and repetitive tasks.  But you also are probably pretty cost conscious and don't have money to throw away on every piece of software that you need.  Thankfully, there are several fully-functional free software packages out there that can help you and your business save time and money.]]></description>
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<title>How to Prioritize Your Work</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:16:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Regardless of whether you are a student, work at home mom, a web designer, or a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, prioritizing your work is critical to your success.  Failing to prioritize your work load usually results in being extremely inefficient and extremely stressed out.  How many times have you thought to yourself "I have so much to do today, how am I ever going to get it all done?"  ]]></description>
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<title>Book Review - Net Entrepreneurs Only</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 13:33:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves to read other peoples success stories.  It provides us with evidence that amazing things do happen to normal people.  By learning what they did to succeed we come one step closer to success ourselves.  Such is the case with the ten stories told in "Net Entrepreneurs Only - 10 Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of their Success" by Gregory K. Ericksen and Ernst & Young.]]></description>
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<title>What Does Everyone Have Against Hockey?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 08:30:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We're in the middle of the first NHL Playoffs since 2004 and there seems to be a common theme.  No it's not Ilja Bryzgalov shut-outs (although those seem to be happening quite often), it's NHL bashing.]]></description>
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<title>The NBA Needs to Change Its Playoff Format... NOW</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 05:50:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One great thing about the NBA and commissioner David Stern is that they fix mistakes with their game. Case in point - in 2003 the NBA switched the first round of the playoffs from a best-of-five game series to a best-of-seven to help ensure that the better team advances. That's why it's mind boggling to wonder why they won't change the playoff format to account for debacles like this season.]]></description>
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<title>Embrace Rapid Change</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:04:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are living in a very unique time period. Innovation happens faster than we can process it, especially on the internet. If you literally take a week off, you have missed a ton. There's a good chance you missed Google's latest release, Apple's newest iPod, or AOL's legal battle. Take a few months off and you've probably missed the introduction of a technology that will be pivotal in the future.]]></description>
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<title>OLN's Playoff Hockey Coverage Doesn't Make the Cut</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:33:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like many hockey fans, I was just happy that hockey was back this year.  I didn't care that ESPN didn't renew their TV contract with the NHL - I figured OLN might have a few hiccups, but overall they would do fine.  I was wrong.  OLN has been a disaster all season long and it's not getting better.  ]]></description>
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<title>The Top 5 Sports News Web Sites</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:41:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are literally thousands of places on the web to get your sports news information.  Whether you want the latest headlines, up to the second scores, editorials, or in depth analysis, there are a myriad of choices for you.  While some sites only offer one or two of those things, there are several that offer all of those and more.  My Top 5 are below:]]></description>
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<title>Entrepreneurial Failure - Get Used to It</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:12:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To be a successful entrepreneur you are going to have to learn to deal with failure. There is no way around it. Thomas Edison tried over ten thousand different experiments before he finally demonstrated the first incandescent light bulb on October 21, 1879. ]]></description>
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<title>The Top 10 Sports Movies of All Time</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:57:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There have been thousands of sports movies throughout the years.  Some have been absolute crap and most are mediocre at best, but there are that select few that remain deep-seated in our memories.  Those movies not only invoke our passion of sports, they manage to cross over and teach us greater life lessons.  They teach us the importance of hard work and learning from our mistakes.  They teach us that the impossible can come true.  That's what I consider a great sports movie.  Well, either that or it has to be really funny. ]]></description>
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<title>The Top 5 Sports Books of All Time</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:26:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There have been thousands of sports books written throughout the years.  Some have been absolute crap and most are mediocre at best, but there are that select few that remain deep-seated in our memories as classics.  Below is my Top 5 of all time.  There are some popular books missing - either because I don't think it is as good as everyone else, or because I haven't read it.]]></description>
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<title>The Top 10 Sports Video Games of All Time</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:17:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There have been hundreds of sports video games throughout the years.  In less than forty years we've gone from Pong to MLB 2K6 for the Xbox 360.  But the evolution of games hasn't always meant better games.  Just because a game has flashier interfaces and better graphics, it doesn't necessarily make for good gameplay.  That's the reason that many PS2 and Xbox games are doomed to linger in discount bins at your local game store, while classics like NHL '94 and Tecmo Super Bowl continued to be obsessed over by sports fans.   Here's my Top 10 of all time:]]></description>
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<title>Tips for Success in the World's First Sports Stock Market</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:33:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The AllSportsMarket is a financial exchange using a professional trading platform to buy and sell issues of sports teams.  It is just like the stock market, but with sports teams!  You compete with other players for real money.  Money is earned from the ups and downs of the prices of teams and from dividends paid when teams win.  The AllSportsMarket is 24 hours, 365 days a year - you can trade at anytime and as often as you would like.]]></description>
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<title>Book Review: Start Your Own Business</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:21:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you want to start a business, but don't know where to start, then the place to start is with 'Start Your Own Business: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need' by Rieva Lesonsky.  The book is put out by Entrepreneur Press and is essentially a compilation of Entrepreneur Magazine's large knowledge database regarding starting a business.]]></description>
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<title>Is Mike Breen the Best NBA Play-by-Play Announcer?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:33:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When ABC "traded" Al Michaels to NBC this off-season, ABC replaced Michaels with Mike Breen as their lead NBA play-by-play announcer.  Breen will now be calling the NBA Finals with Hubie Brown, Michaels former partner.  Breen is an established play-by-play announcer, but is he the best in the business?]]></description>
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<title>Older Announcers Need to Know When to Call it Quits</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:32:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Deciding when to retire from something you love has to be a difficult decision.  Whether you are an athlete, business owner, architect, writer, or sports announcer, the decision to walk away from a life that has defined you for nearly half a decade is certainly not an easy one.  That said, no one wants to be the one who is holding on to a position that they are no longer good at, especially in a field that has superior talent waiting in the wings.]]></description>
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<title>Is Al Michaels Still the Best NFL Play-by-Play Announcer?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:20:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When ABC "traded" Al Michaels to NBC this off-season to be their number one play-by-play announcer for their new Sunday night NFL football package, it became clear that he is still perceived to be the best play-by-play announcer in the business.  However, is that perception still a reality? ]]></description>
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<title>Why is Billy Packer Considered a Better College Basketball Analyst than Bill Raftery?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:18:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every year around this time I ask myself the same question - why is Billy Packer the lead analyst for CBS's coverage of March Madness?  While Packer is working the game for the TV audience, Bill Raftery is calling the game for the much smaller radio audience with more passion, knowledge, and love for the game than Packer.]]></description>
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<title>Book Review - Loyalty Myths: Hyped Strategies That Will Put You Out of Business - and Proven Tactics</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/162687</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:10:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you ever wonder if some of those age old sayings about marketing are true? For instance, we've all heard "It costs five times more to acquire a new customer than to retain a current customer."  But does anyone have any proof of that?  That is exactly what a group of authors set out to do in 'Loyalty Myths: Hyped Strategies That Will Put You Out of Business - and Proven Tactics That Really Work'.  The authors, Timothy L. Keiningham, Terry G. Varva, Lerzan Aksoy, and Henri Wallard are all experts in consumer loyalty and use their wealth of knowledge to dispel common myths and offer insight into what really works.]]></description>
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<title>$85,000 UD Legendary Cuts Card May Have TWO Fake Autographs!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:16:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The one of a kind Upper Deck baseball card featuring autographs from Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner might not be so rare after all. The card was pulled from a pack of 2005 Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts and features four of the five inductees into the inaugural class of the Baseball Hall of Fame. But then Kevin Demitros, the 50-year-old airport planner from Milwaukee who purchased the card for $85,000, was watching an HBO Special on Sports Memorabilia Fraud and shockingly saw his card's authenticity called into question.]]></description>
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<title>Do you Have a Sacred Cow Holding you Back?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:14:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[According to Wikipedia, the term sacred cow is used for a "person, institution, idea (often a theory) or ideology that is immune (usually unreasonably so) from criticism or opposition."]]></description>
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<title>How to Use Mail Merge in Outlook to Send Personalized Publisher Newsletters to a Distribution List</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:39:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Step-by-step instructions on how to send professional looking, personalized email newsletters using Microsoft Publisher 2003 and Microsoft Outlook 2003 so you don't need to purchase expensive email software packages.]]></description>
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<title>Why It's Best to Start a Business Before Your 25th Birthday</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:57:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being a 23 year old entrepreneur, I am slightly biased when I make the statement that the best time in life to start a business is before your 25th birthday. That said, I still think I make a great case for starting a business sooner than later (please note, I understand that the statements I make don't apply to EVERYONE, however I feel they apply to the overwhelming majority of people).
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<title>Life is Short - Love What You Do, Do What You Love</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:40:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Life is short. Are you doing what you love? Are you living your passion? If not, why? I am guessing most people will answer that question with "I have a mortgage, a spouse and three kids to support, and $20,000 in college loans to pay back. In the real world people have responsibilities. They have to make sacrifices. You aren't supposed to be happy with your job but you do it because you have to."  With all due respect, they are wrong.
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<title>The Internet is Responsible for the Resurgence of Sports Cards and Collectibles</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:25:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In recent years there have been discussions among collectors suggesting that the internet may actually be hurting the sports cards and collectibles hobby.  Not only was collecting not ruined by the internet, it was saved by it.]]></description>
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<title>How to Make a Custom McFarlane Sports Pick</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:48:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Step-by-step directions on how to make a custom McFarlane of your favorite athlete.]]></description>
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<title>The Problem with Autograph Authentication</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:57:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As recently as 1997, the FBI estimated that between 50% and 90% of all collectibles in the marketplace are not authentic. Everyone that cares about the hobby agrees that something must be done. And most think that autograph authentication - paying a third party company to certify that an autograph is real - is a logical solution that benefits everyone involved and eliminates counterfeiting. ]]></description>
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