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		<title>The Gap Between Consumers and Small Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How is your business doing connecting with your customers?]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Heard Of This?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old saying: &#8220;Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.&#8221; Have you heard this before? The reason I ask is due to the fact several organization owners, I talk with, are completely  frustrated with the declining sales and earnings that is occurring within their  businesses, yet they feel like they have no control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The #1 Reason Why You Should Cut Your Marketing Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes. That&#8217;s right. I&#8217;m going to talk about cutting your marketing budget. I know that we are in the middle of the worst economic downturn our country has faced since The Great Depression. Unemployment is in the double-digits. Businesses are closing left and right. Homes are being lost. Dreams shattered. It ain&#8217;t pretty. It&#8217;s during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research Shows Websites Influence 97% of Clients&#8217; Purchasing Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your website may very well be the most powerful tool in your marketing kit. Not only is it the place prospects and clients go to learn more about you and your services, but it has a huge impact on their ultimate purchase decision. In fact, only 3% of the 200 buyers surveyed &#8211; from companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ideationconsulting.com/blog/online-business/research-shows-websites-influence-97-of-clients-purchasing-decisions/</link>
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		<title>Delicate Email Marketing Campaigns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just about every day Internet users get plenty of e-mail asking them to purchase certain products or to check out particular pages. Even though these emails arrive in the in boxes of unsuspecting Internet users each and every day, virtually all of them pay hardly any attention. That&#8217;s because emails, the majority of which are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ideationconsulting.com/blog/email-marketing/delicate-email-marketing-campaigns/</link>
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		<title>Email Deliverability Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article written  by Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) Ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to subscriber inboxes is an increasingly difficult battle in the age of spam filtering. Open and click thru response rates can be dramatically affected by as much as 20-30% due to incorrect spam filter classification. Permission Confirming that the people who ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ideationconsulting.com/blog/email-marketing/email-deliverability-tips/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Twenius Twitter Enlightenment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that movie stars, athletes, politicians and well known people from @SteveJobs to @BobVilacom to @HulkHogan to @SoleilMoonFrye and beyond, are racing to establish themselves as part of the Twitter community. However Twitter is much more incredible than that. Truth be told, Twitter is a local communication tool too. It&#8217;s likely your town [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ideationconsulting.com/blog/social-media/twitter-twenius-twitter-enlightenment/</link>
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