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<description><![CDATA[James Burchill helps individuals and businesses express themselves in unique and creative ways through the innovative use of words and Internet technologies. James' focus includes advertising, sales and marketing and his particular specialties include on-line business development strategies, Internet Marketing, and 'Direct Response' style strategic communications.

"Be Found, Be Noticed, or Be History!"]]></description>
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<title>How Old Is Old Enough for Your Kids to Have Cell Phones, Smart Devices?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A growing number of the 90% of North Americans who own cell phones are children under age 18. Parents far and wide grapple with the question: 'How young is too young for a cellphone?' It's a question that, ultimately, parents must decide for themselves, but having at least a few guidelines to help might not be a bad idea. Especially this Holiday Season when kids are going to be clamouring for a phone, tablet, or other smart gadget.]]></description>
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<title>The Quick and Easy Home Networking DIY</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:34:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone in IT can tell you that the most common question they get from friends and family and 'non-geeks' are about networking. Even in today's age of plug-and-play technology, home networks can be confusing. Fear not, intrepid computer neophyte. It's a lot easier to set up than you might believe.]]></description>
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<title>What Does The New iPad 2 Have?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:19:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When the first iPad hit the scene, it was an instant success. Being able to hold the power of an entire computer in the palm of your hand changed business, leisure and communication forever. Now, apple has released a new version. How can they improve on the original? You might be wondering, "What does the new iPad 2 have?"]]></description>
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<title>PS4 Coming Out Soon? How Will It Change Your Life?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:56:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gamers everywhere rejoice! The Sony Corporation has recently hinted at the fact that they are developing a new gaming platform that might take the place of the Playstation 3. So, is the PS4 coming out soon?]]></description>
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<title>Picking the Most Powerful Social Media Outlets</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:37:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the ever increasing number of social media platforms popping up like morning mushrooms, the real question becomes how do you choose between them - how do you choose the most powerful platform for your particular needs? But first we need to start with understanding the buying and selling process. In any transaction-based relationship, there are numerous stages along the continuum.]]></description>
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<title>What Is Mobile Marketing and How Is It Used?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:46:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The term 'mobile marketing' is thrown around a lot these days, but many people are only vaguely familiar with what it actually is. It's important to understand the fundamentals of what this new breed of marketing is, how it works, and why it's important to begin utilizing it for your business.]]></description>
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<title>Going to College? Facebook Is 80% of Admissions Outreach</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:38:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the Kaplan Test Prep's 2010 survey of college admissions officers, the company found that 4 out of 5 of them are using Facebook as a recruiting tool. Many top-tier schools are also using Facebook and other social media profiles to 'filter' students for admissions.]]></description>
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<title>The Looming Data War</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:15:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most people are at least somewhat familiar with what a Trade War is. It usually starts when one country decides to enact protectionism against another country's imports, usually to save jobs or industry.]]></description>
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<title>Marketing to Millenials, Their Privacy Concerns and How They Use Social Networking</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:04:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The term "millenials" was coined to label the current generation of people who have grown up never knowing what life is like without a computer, gadgets, and Internet connections. Many of the younger millenials have had social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter available to them for most of their teenage and adult lives. This group is important to marketers because they are the mid- and long-term future for marketing. For the brand marketing focus, that is extremely important.]]></description>
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<title>The Marketing Future of Predictive Analysis</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:49:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A new technology in marketing, called Predictive Analysis or Network Analysis, is giving innovative trend-setting companies the edge. This newly-emerging trend is allowing companies to analyze their customer data in new ways, predicting who the 'trend setters' in their networks are and allowing more targeted advertising with bigger long-term benefits.]]></description>
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<title>Facebook Vs Twitter - Who Cares?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:45:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether you call it social networking or keeping in touch, the advent of Facebook and Twitter have changed the way that people interact. There are those who refuse to be drawn in, those who reluctantly venture in and become in a sense addicted, and there are those who are at the forefront of any new way of communicating for whom these two platforms are old hat.]]></description>
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<title>Google's New Image Format: WebP</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Google has been working to make the Web faster by releasing a number of developer's tools for site owners and Web Developers to use to speed up their sites. A free Firefox extension called Page Speed, for instance, evaluates the performance of a Web page and suggests improvements for tuning. The same plus an application performance tune suggester for Chrome is also available as Speed Tracer. Now Google is focusing on the most common cause for slow website loading: graphics.]]></description>
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<title>Social Media in Small Business - Making the Most of It</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:31:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt that social media is the fastest-growing marketing frontier in small business. According to the Small Business Success Index (SBSI) from the University of Maryland and Network Solutions, small businesses are embracing social media in a big way.]]></description>
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<title>Unix Is the Operating System of Yesterday and Tomorrow</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:25:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today, there are only two operating systems (OS) left that have any market share: Microsoft's Windows and the various derivatives of Unix (Mac and Linux). On every burgeoning device, however, the Unix offspring reign supreme. In tomorrow's world of high tech, it appears that Unix will still reign supreme. Windows won't be going away anytime soon, of course, but it isn't going to grow much either. Here's why.]]></description>
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<title>Video Marketing to Enrich Your Media Communications Strategy</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:23:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know video marketing can be used as part of a great media communications strategy? This could be a great way to get yourself and your company or brand noticed.]]></description>
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<title>Cloud-Based Security Concerns, Part II</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:25:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this two-part series, we looked at some of the failures of cloud-based systems and at the largest, overriding security concern for IT management. In this second half, we'll be looking at more security concerns such as hack-proofing and data security measures.]]></description>
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<title>Cloud-Based Security Concerns, Part I</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:13:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The future of computing, if you read many of today's IT magazines, is in the cloud. Cloud-based computing is believed to be the next big, emerging trend and the days of the self-hosted, closed-network application are numbered. If this is so, how will it affect security for the near and far future of computing and IT management?]]></description>
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<title>How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:26:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Once again, the blogosphere and tech news media is abuzz with the latest Facebook privacy controversies. Every time the social networking giant changes something in how privacy settings and security works, a thousand pundits have to comment and a million more need to chime in with how they think it does or doesn't 'destroy privacy as we know it.']]></description>
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<title>The iPad Comes to Canada - Media Calls Unboxing Videos &quot;Porn For Nerds&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:35:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Friday, May 28, saw Canadians across the provinces lining up at outlets to get their hands on the latest from Apple. The iPad hit the U.S. over a month ago, selling a record million units in less than four weeks. Canadian sales will probably be a little less brusque, but no less exciting.]]></description>
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<title>The Mobile Web and Your Business</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:26:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most people are probably unaware in 2008, according to the International Telecommunications Union, the number of mobile devices accessing the Web outnumbered the number of desktops. Sites such as Amazon and eBay are showing over 1/3 of their total visitors being mobile users.]]></description>
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<title>Video Marketing - What Works, What Doesn't Work, and the Future</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:20:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Video marketing has been evolving on the Web for some time now. From the viral videos of the comedians (think Red State Update) to the powerful short clips from giants like Apple, the WWW is definitely getting more visual.]]></description>
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<title>Mobile Advertising - The New Frontier of Marketing</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:56:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many marketing experts agree the future of marketing, especially local and regionally-based marketing, will be on the mobile Web. Now that phones outnumber computers accessing the Internet and WWW, they are the new frontier of advertising.]]></description>
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<title>Kids Search Missing the Mark? &quot;Like, OMG! 2Funny&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:52:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you've ever taken the time to watch how children and young adults communicate, you'll notice they employ short-form words and 'special codes' like WTF == "where's the fire?" This 'sub language' -- apart from potentially creating a new generation of "illiterati" -- has far reaching implications for search marketing and e-commerce. Today, search professionals develop sites and content to match keywords and key phrases.]]></description>
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<title>Social Media Public Speaker - How to Choose the Right One</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:02:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Social media public speakers, and Internet marketing public speakers are in high demand today. Choosing the right one for your next business seminar or corporate event can be tricky. The subject is so new, how do you evaluate the speaker to ensure they can 'walk the walk and talk the talk?']]></description>
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<title>Web Video Marketing Blueprint - How to Increase Your Marketing Effectiveness by a Factor of 53</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:51:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Web Video Marketing is big business now that Google's new Universal Search strategy includes video in the search results. According to recent research data there is 53 times as much chance that your video will show up on Page 1 of Google (for your select phrase) than just using a corresponding text-only entry.]]></description>
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<title>Marketing Automation Software - The Key to Your Success</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2804343</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:12:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've said it before and I'll say it again: "People buy when THEY'RE ready to buy... and NOT BEFORE!" Nearly 7 out of 10 people who say "No thanks" today will say "Yes!" inside 12 months. Let that sink in for a moment... that means you need to keep asking, or put in a more more palatable way - keep following up.]]></description>
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<title>Infusionsoft Versus a Marketing Assistant</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:13:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before you read this, remember that we created computerized solutions to save ourselves the work. In many cases we used to hire people to save ourselves the work, today we can choose either a biological solution (an employee) or a digital solution (a piece of software.) With that thought out there for your consideration, consider this...]]></description>
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<title>Marketing Automation - Fixing Your Follow-Up Failure With Technology</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:44:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People buy when they are ready to buy - not before... 67% of the prospective buyers that tell you no today will be ready to buy in the next year. So how will you be ready when they are? By following up, that's how. Sadly most businesses do a poor job of marketing follow-up and leave untold profits in their lead list.]]></description>
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<title>Affordable Search Engine Optimization - Fact Or Fiction?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:48:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Internet Marketing are evolving. Every day more and more websites appear on the Internet touting their wares. Each month, advertisers commit more and more resources to the new frontier of online or Internet Marketing. Certain directories and other 'classic' information sources are losing ground - and losing it rapidly as this new medium picks up speed.]]></description>
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<title>What is Social Media? A Guide to Profiting From Social Networking</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:53:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Social Media is an umbrella term that encompasses the technologies and the activities that people use to share experiences, ideas and information with each other. The term is still evolving.]]></description>
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<title>Is Your Web Hosting Company a Pretender?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1248601</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:31:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When is a web hosting company not a web hosting company? When it's a VAR.]]></description>
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<title>Ancient Memes and the Keys to Social Media Success</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1202731</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 11:26:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What makes for a social media success? What critical elements must be in place for the site to come alive? The answer is ancient and may surprise you.]]></description>
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<title>Social Marketing Has Come of Age - Again?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1165362</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:40:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword. What a great line. Written no doubt by a pacifist I'm guessing, because I'm all for the power of the word (in the beginning there was only the word...) but facing someone in battle armed only with a ballpoint pen... I'd run a mile - unless of course I was Bruce Willis or Stallone, then I'd win no matter what.]]></description>
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<title>Searching For You - Online Brand And Reputation Management</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1165344</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:40:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you Googled yourself recently? Studies reveal half us have sought information about ourself on a major search engine in the last year. More interestingly is the number of us who have gone looking for information about other people (approximately 1 in 3) and the trend continues.]]></description>
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<title>How To Survive and Thrive in a Recession - 16 Tips For Businesses</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:22:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here are 16 tips to help you survive and thrive during a recession. And if you recognize some of the advice as the same for turning around a business in distress then you'd be right because in troubled times, special measures are required.]]></description>
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<title>Grow Your Business Online With This Proven Content Marketing Strategy</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:49:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Growing your business online is part art and part science - here's an easy to understand explanation of the very simple science of content marketing and the elements that make this such a universally powerful strategy.]]></description>
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<title>Perception Is Reality - Are You A Pink Flamingo?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 09:30:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Surely you know what I mean. Those gangly looking birds that stand on one twiggy looking leg. Their beak (or is it a bill?) is hooked and black. And they flock by the hundreds at the watering hole. Thousands maybe, all together and...]]></description>
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<title>You're Not A 'Blue Chip' Company, So Stop Copying Their Advertising &amp; Marketing Strategy!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 08:24:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA['Blue Chip' or not, success isn't necessarily tied to how good they are, but rather to repetitive advertising. Mega corporations of this world advertise to build distribution and brand awareness. They do image advertising which melds certain emotional responses with their product, so you feel the same way too when you buy from them...]]></description>
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<title>Why You Should Ignore a Publisher's Offer for FREE Advert Design</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:43:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I visited with a client today and during the conversation it became apparent they were having issues with their advertising - print advertising to be precise.]]></description>
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<title>How Not To Make Money With MySpace</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:32:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With so many people willing to share their 'secret' to making money on MySpace, I thought you might like to know that MySpace recently changed their rules of use, and now many of these so-called money-making-secrets could in fact cost you dearly.]]></description>
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<title>Are You the 'Bank of James' Too?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:52:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you know what I mean by this? Simply replace my name with yours and you'll see what I mean. This is how I describe to people what I am not (a bank!) - specially when it comes time to negotiate payment terms...You see, far too many businesses think it's okay to expect 'terms' like 30 days net and so on. Terms = Credit. Do you just advance every Tom, Dick or Harry credit when they ask for it? No, of course not...]]></description>
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<title>Are 'They' Stealing Your Traffic With This Trick?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:36:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Protecting your intellectual property is tough enough in the real world, and with the added power of far-away computers doing the dirty work, the newest way to lose your IP and your website traffic is quite ingenious...]]></description>
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<title>Is Your Website a Beautiful 'Hotel Nowhere' Lost in The Internet Wilderness?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:01:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lately it seems I've been explaining to more and more people about Internet Marketing. You see, for some reason folks think that IM (Internet Marketing) is really all about putting up a great looking website. It's not - it's so much more than that. ]]></description>
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<title>7 Reasons Why eCards Suck!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:05:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a fan of both the classical and the modern, I use both interchangedly. However I believe there are certain times when each has its place...]]></description>
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<title>Is Your Web Designer Unknowingly Harming Your Business?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:59:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail and programmers tend to think code fixes all ills, and graphic designers tend to think that graphics will save the day. Here's a quick way to discover what kind of web resources you have and whether they're harming your business.]]></description>
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<title>What Is Search Engine Marketing?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:32:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's in our genes, we're driven to seek. We 'hunt' for food, homes, partners, jobs and lately - with the advent of the Internet - information.]]></description>
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<title>Here's The Secret Formula For Making Money On The Internet</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/55456</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 09:00:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I know, you figure "What a load of BS...Like he has the secret..." but you still had to look didn't you - just in case I do have the secret. After all, how painful would it be to think that the answer to all your problems was offered to you at no cost and you were too stubborn, too closed minded to even give it a chance?]]></description>
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<title>How to Make Money Online With Elance</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:57:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you write? Can you string together words and sentences - like this? Would you like to make a few extra bucks (maybe more...) without the hassles of a traditional job? You would? Then welcome to the wonderful world of freelance writing on Elance.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Make These Common (But Deadly) Website Design Mistakes?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:42:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Building a website can be overwhelming, here are some design tips to help keep you on the right path (or is that web?)]]></description>
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<title>Prevention is Better Than Cure - Says Who?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:52:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You've likely heard this before... "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Says who? I mean come on. If prevention was so popular why would we see so many "cures" being marketed. Why? Because of basic human nature that's why.]]></description>
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<title>5 Newspaper Advertising Myths Revealed</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:29:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What I'm about to reveal are myths that most people think are 'true.' They seem set in stone yet they are deadly to the advertiser...]]></description>
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<title>10 Tips to Give Your Press Release The Edge It Needs to Make the News</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:23:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing a press (or media) release is quite an art (and a science) but don't let that scrae you. Here are 10 tips to point you in the right direction...]]></description>
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<title>Do You Think This 145 Year Old System Still Works Today?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:22:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1860, due to continued pressure from the various employers, the government developed the first education system: to create literate employees.]]></description>
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<title>11 Ways To Spot A &quot;Good Jobber!&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:46:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An integral link in the automotive supply chain, the jobbers provide an invaluable service to many. In an attempt to help you recognize the good ones, we've compiled a list of 11 common traits. 
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<title>Attract Top Talent With Your Website</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:40:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the challenges faced by the automotive industry these days, take a moment and think about this: Are you fully realizing the potential of your website to help improve your recruitment strategy? 
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<title>The Benefits of Specific Advertising</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:35:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The great Claude Hopkins (Author of Scientific Advertising) once said, "Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck. They leave no impression whatever." ]]></description>
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<title>How To Sleep Your Way To Success</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:30:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yikes! That sounds a little sordid doesn't it. Well it's not what you think, it really is just about "sleep" - and not that other fun bedroom activity...
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<title>Selling Your Shop As 'The' Place To Work</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:26:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're a 'smart cookie' you advertise, you market, you engage the services of professionals to assist in the sale of products and services... But who sells your business to prospective employees?
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<title>How Much Should You Pay Your Techs?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:25:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happens when you start talking about jobs and money - people get a little weird. I recently experienced this when a visiting family member decided to talk 'shop.' 
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<title>What Is Better Than FREE?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:25:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oh come on! FREE is free. Zero, zip, nada, zilch. What on earth could be better than FREE?
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<title>Resistance Is Futile - Your Vehicle Will Be Maintained</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:18:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of you pondered the challenge of promoting and selling 'Preventive Maintenance' to your customers. It's quite amazing when you think about it, the way your customers can really dig their heels in.  They just stubbornly resist your every good intention to part them from their money...
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<title>Cashing In Your Chips &amp; Pastures New</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:14:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No, I'm not talking about gambling or dairy cows - although business is often referred to as a gamble, I'm referring to your exit strategy. That time when you decide to 'play no more' and go off and practise your golf swing. Yup, I'm talking about selling your business...
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<title>9 Secrets of Successful Shop Management</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:09:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Profitable shops are profitable for a reason. Often times it may seem like magic, however to those 'in the know', it's just good old fashioned common sense... ]]></description>
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<title>Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:06:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As the 'Great And Powerful Oz' once said to Dorothy, "Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!" and as you know, appearances can be deceiving they are also one of the first things people judge others by. For instance, you recall the old saying 'Never Judge A Book By Its Cover...' well guess what - we still do!
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<title>Gone In Sixty Seconds...Your Cash!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:06:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do sky high fuel prices, flashy cars, whale blubber, and 'tree-huggers' have in common? Not sure? Me neither, but they're the subject of this article.]]></description>
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<title>Unclean! Unclean! Or is that Drive Clean?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:05:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. From tiny acorns grown mighty oaks. For every situation there is some quote that seems to support it...
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<title>China's Tire Industry - Kicking Into High Gear</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:39:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you are so busy dealing with the day-to-day activities of business, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that we all operate in a global economy. Our principle concerns are often immediate and local, but when you read the following information about China and its Tire Industry plans, you begin to realise that we need to think globally and we need to start now...]]></description>
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<title>Do You Want Raspberry, Chocolate Or Vanilla?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:42:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Descartes once wrote, "I think, therefore I am!" and 'hidden' in plain view amongst those five small words - for all the world to see - lays the secret to unlimited success. Do you see it? ]]></description>
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<title>Picking Up Speed, And Accolades - Bridgestone / Firestone Is Back - And On Top Form!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:42:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Comebacks take strong leadership, bravery, unwavering commitment to quality, and to be blunt - quite a set... of tires that is. But more about their new tires in a moment...]]></description>
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<title>Whadd'ya Mean You're Not a 'Grease Monkey'!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:34:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People get so funny (and I mean funny weird, not funny 'ha ha') when you call them by the wrong name. What's even more strange is that I'm not referring to their given name, no I am referring to their job title or their working name... Take for instance 'GREASE MONKEY']]></description>
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<title>West Nile Virus: The Bug Problem That Really Sucks!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:25:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From the moment she lays her eggs, the clock starts ticking, counting down the moments when you'll slip from the top of the food chain and you'll be just being another link and fast food for her hungry young. 
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<title>How To Build Stellar Client Relationships</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:24:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your opportunity to build a stellar client relationship starts with managing the gap between your perception of how things are going and your client's. 

Begin the process here . . . 
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<title>From Channel 4's Max Headroom To Fountain Tire's Paige</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:18:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago a pithy and leading edge TV show was launched by Britain's Channel 4 TV network. It featured a heavily made up Matt Frewer as the virtual character 'Max Headroom'. The cyberpunk TV show gained cult status quickly and even crossed the pond to the US.]]></description>
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<title>The Only Bad Advertising Is No Advertising - Or Is It?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:16:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Depending on whom you ask, you will get told many "truths" about advertising. The question I have for you today is this - "Is the only bad advertising, no advertising?" Before we begin, it might help us to agree on what advertising is, so here's one definition:]]></description>
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<title>What The Heck Is An Eponym, And What Does It Mean For Your Brand?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:10:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today I've decided to share with you a new word that recently made a special appearance in my daily life: eponym. It is pronounced (EP-uh-nim) and I have to be frank, but I was somewhat at a loss when I saw it. 
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<title>Why Is FREE The Most Powerful Marketing Word You Can Use?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2005 20:42:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As the famous cowboy Will Rogers once said, "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there".]]></description>
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<title>Can You Drive New Business With Discount Oil Programs?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2005 20:21:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This one's a doozy. I get into heated discussions about this quite often.  I'm told that discount oil programs just attract 'bottom feeders', 'cheap skates' and 'bargain hunters'. ]]></description>
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<title>How To Write Kick-Ass, Profit Pulling Adverts For Your Business...</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2005 20:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Doesn't that just grab you by the eyeballs and make you stop dead in your tracks? I mean it's a little harsh - grammatically speaking - but holy smokes, it does it have 'stopping power'...]]></description>
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<title>How To Make Your Yellow Page Ads Work</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I hear it often, "advertising in the Yellow Pages directory doesn't work!" I smile knowingly and wait for a pause in the conversation, and this is what I say in response to their claims...]]></description>
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<title>What Do You See When You Look In The Mirror?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 06:21:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA['Image & Professionalism' we hear these words being thrown around in conversation like cheap tokens, almost as frequently as their counterparts 'quality', 'service', and 'value'. So what does 'Image & Professionalism'  really mean, and what do you see when you look in the mirror?
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<title>Marketing For Profit - 6 Critical Traits</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 06:15:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Develop These Six Critical Marketing Traits... And Success Will Surely Follow...]]></description>
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<title>Do You Sell Tires By Mail? Maybe You Should eBay</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 06:14:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I just received an interesting email from eBay and it got me thinking...Do you sell tires by mail? Maybe you should 'eBay' (yes it's now a verb as well as a noun)...]]></description>
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<title>Do You Make These 5 Common Marketing Mistakes?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 06:14:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The famous P.T Barnum once said, "Without promotion, something terrible happens, NOTHING!" And marketing (or promotion) is all about combating that dreaded 'nothingness'. The question is... are you doing it right?]]></description>
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<title>Look Ma, No Tires!</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 06:11:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It can carry 4 passengers safely, travelling at speeds up to 350 MPH. It does approximately 20 MPG, runs on automotive gasoline, and is able to carry a useful payload of 750 Lbs... Oh yes, I forgot to mention, it's bright red, has no tires, and it flies!]]></description>
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