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		<title>Small Business email breaking point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s your breaking point on email overload? Responses vary but a USA Today article says that for most small business owners it&#8217;s 50 emails a day. And no wonder, with everything else we have to juggle on a daily basis. Email becomes another source of frustration that we can&#8217;t ignore because we might miss an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transaction size trumps customer volume on Celebrity Apprentice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t resist the play on words in the title of today&#8217;s blog post. I started watching Celebrity Apprentice primarily to watch the antics of the ex-Governor of Illinois. I figured it would be good for a few laughs. Of course, once I started watching, I couldn&#8217;t resist putting my coach&#8217;s hat on and looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl ad complements social media marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Orleans Times-Picayune said it best &#8211; Amen! in 5&#8243;  high type. The road to their first Super Bowl appearance and victory for the New Orleans Saints was 43 years long and covered in bumps, bruises and set-backs. They played for twenty years before having a winning season. But  in 2009, the Saints set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t buy into other&#8217;s limitations for you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;ve been enjoying the Australian Open tennis competition. Any of the Grand Slam tournaments carry an element of surprising upsets, annoying injuries and tough competition. A continuing source of annoyance for me are the player interviews after each match. At best, no new information surfaces and at worst, we have to watch the players [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed messages hurt your brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Celebrity Branding Agency has a fantastic post about the dangers of being inconsistent with your brand image. Not only do you send mixed messages but you miss opportunities to engage your customers and strengthen your brand. In their example, they talk about a Mercedes dealer who provides loaner cars to their best clients but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand Identity: Will the real Apple please stand up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a hot debate going on at the Mashable blog. Seems that Australian based Woolworths Limited has unveiled a logo which looks suspiciously like the Apple computer logo. The company sells a variety of products and&#160; brands such as food &#38; grocery, liquor, gasoline, general merchandise and consumer electronics. According to Woolworths, the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Impressions count in Social Networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a kick out of Seth Godin&#8217;s &#8216;Tiny Picture&#8217; blog post. Most social networking sites force you to insert your profile photo into a small handful of pixels. Seth has some great suggestions on how to use that space wisely. I&#8217;d like to offer up a recommendation that he didn&#8217;t &#8211; always put up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subtlety doesn&#8217;t work when branding yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Two Scoops!&#8221; Those are the words that woke me up when I was supposed to be watching TV last night but was dozing on the sofa instead. If I told you the commercial was for a breakfast cereal, you&#8217;d probably guess pretty quickly that it was Kellogg&#8217;s Raisin Bran. On their web site they write: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With 99 days left to brand yourself in 2009, what will you do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was preparing for a call today previewing my upcoming Business Retreat in October and decided to check the Time and Date web site to see how many days we had left in the year. To my shock, we have less than 100 days before we ring in the year! Wow! As usual, time has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Branding yourself for health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index&#8482; &#160; is an ambitious 25-year project whose goal is to collect and measure the daily pulse of the well-being of U.S. workers. By interviewing at least 1000 people each day, the project aims to help people create a better way of life by understanding how work affects life and health and [...]]]></description>
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