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		<title>Link Title Tags: Useful or Useless?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, before yesterday, I had never heard of the Link Title Attribute, which is an HTML tag you can assign to a link that will provide more information via mouseover. It&#8217;s a lot like the alt text that can be added to images. There were some questions about whether this would be a benefit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mean Streets of Internet Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet Marketing industry has grown and changed ever since the Internet became a viable place to buy and sell goods. Sure, there was that little hiccup with the .com bubble some years back, but we pretty much trimmed the fat and got all that stuff straightened out. About a decade later we’re smarter and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECommerce Customer Service Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many different aspects to having good customer service for an Ecommerce business today. Forget about the fact that your company needs to compete on a Search Engine Marketing and Social Media level, forget about the fact that your products must be useful and your services worthwhile. You can have all of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Humanity Keep Up With The Internet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire.  The Wheel.  Farming.  The Printing Press.  Many think of these advances as some of the greatest in human history.  Where would we be without fire?  Before the wheel was invented, moving anything heavier than one could lift was either impossible or simply not worth the effort.  Man would still be hunting and gathering if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Great Things About BigCommerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have worked as an Ecommerce Manager in a variety of Internet industries for the past several years and have had good experience with a variety of Ecommerce platforms including Yahoo! Store, GoECart, AbleCommerce and others. Getting to know a completely new Ecommerce platform is always a pretty big undertaking as you learn new processes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Get What You Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  was reading an insightful article the other day about who should shoulder the responsibility when the client fails to heed the wise words of the Search Marketing Consultant. The SEO Blame Game doesn&#8217;t stop at SEO, however. Regardless which department you&#8217;re in, or what your responsibilities are in a given day, you always stand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Lose Sales and Alienate People!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The single most important factor in having a successful business is what? Revenue! Making sales! If you&#8217;re not selling your product or service then you&#8217;re not making sales. If you&#8217;re not making sales, then you&#8217;re losing them. I would venture to guess that many, many businesses fail because they didn&#8217;t get enough sales. I know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecommerce Review: The Premium Business Directory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I received a free listing in an online business directory for writing the following honest review. I was also offered a promo code so my loyal following can get their own listing at half price if they so desire. So, there you go FTA! Premium Business Directory is one of the latest in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting Your Business With Streaming Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long night so I&#8217;m going to skip all of the graceful, creative descriptive that would normally follow this sentence because tonight, I have a more direct message. Whether your company lives online or in the real world, promoting your business with streaming video is one of the most affordable and effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chat Support &amp; Language Translation to Improve Customer Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Schubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve worked a lot of customer service jobs throughout my life and while I certainly didn&#8217;t enjoy the vast majority of them, I do have appreciation now for what they taught me about the market and how a customer should be treated. A staff that is highly skilled in customer service is a staff that [...]]]></description>
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