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		<title>What Makes a Successful Website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is understandably bogged down with a wide variety of failed ventures.  While web hosts and domain registrars have made the process of website creation extremely simple over the years, little has been done to teach webmasters how to transform their domains into places that web surfers want to visit.  For any website, the [...]]]></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>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Security]]></category>
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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>SEM is a Circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paid Search]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know there are specialists in the industry who focus on one specific area of Search Marketing such as Paid Search or Link Building, and they do very well for themselves. I think it&#8217;s important to know a lot about your niche in the industry and the experience you gain from focusing on one area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heaven In Free Online Documentaries</title>
		<link>http://upsmack.com/social-media/free-online-documentaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunday Stumble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free online documentaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time on the computer. As an Ecommerce Manager and Internet Marketing (by day and night) I almost always have my laptop on. Nearly all the music I listen to is via Pandora or iTunes, and about 85% of the programming I follow, I watch on Hulu or other television network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Search and Social 2010 Made Me Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 00:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paid Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEM Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viral Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#SSSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over a week has passed since the Search &#38; Social Spring Summit concluded in Tampa, Florida. Like everyone who attended the intimate gathering at the DoubleTree Hotel overlooking Tampa Bay, I&#8217;ve returned to work and am working hard to implement the great ideas I took away from the conference. Sure, I took note of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streaming Video Wars : YouTube Vs. Blogspot</title>
		<link>http://upsmack.com/social-media/streaming-video-youtube-vs-blogspot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Tools & Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogspot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[streaming video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youtube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Streaming video is here to stay, and it&#8217;s only getting faster, smarter and better. There are a multitude of sites where you can house your videos for all to see with the most widely-used being YouTube. The great thing about having your videos on YouTube is the fact that it&#8217;s literally a video search engine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SESNY : What&#8217;s The Big Deal?</title>
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		<comments>http://upsmack.com/social-media/sesny-the-big-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paid Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEM Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEM Oracles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Search Engine Strategies conference is underway in New York City and sadly, I am not there. But don&#8217;t you worry about me because I&#8217;ve got plenty to be happy about. I  have a great Twitter list of SEM Oracles to follow, many of which are at #SESNY and dutifully reporting back the latest-and-greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Lose Sales and Alienate People!</title>
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		<comments>http://upsmack.com/social-media/how-to-lose-sales-and-alienate-people-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

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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>Make a Custom Twitter Background</title>
		<link>http://upsmack.com/social-media/make-custom-twitter-background/</link>
		<comments>http://upsmack.com/social-media/make-custom-twitter-background/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Tools & Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[custom twitter background]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://upsmack.com/?p=701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter includes a lot of standard options for sprucing up your profile and while they do a fine job, many users want a little something more. We want to express ourselves and while 20 themes certainly is a fair amount to choose from, we require our individuality! It&#8217;s not even a little bit difficult to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Follow or Be Followed: A Twitter Story</title>
		<link>http://upsmack.com/social-media/to-follow-or-be-followed-a-twitter-story/</link>
		<comments>http://upsmack.com/social-media/to-follow-or-be-followed-a-twitter-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Tools & Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improving twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the followers debate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Twitter now for almost a year and while I do admit I was a bit late to the party, I know plenty well how the social media juggernaut can benefit users on both a professional and personal level. Businesses have been using the juggernaut micro-blogging web service as a means to get [...]]]></description>
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