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	<title>Marketing Works &#124; Online Marketing For Small and Mid-Sized Businesses &#124; Mirchandani Consulting &#187; Website Design</title>
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		<title>When Is a Blog Not a Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reply I most often hear when I broach the subject of using a blog as a marketing tool is &#8220;I&#8217;m not a writer.&#8221; And while most small business owners aren&#8217;t &#8220;writers&#8221; they are usually subject-matter experts in their field.
What does this mean? They have oodles of information to share. But they may not have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 01:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO is the practice of optimizing your website to make the most of "organic" search results - in other words, developing and maintaining your website in such a way as to maximize your rank in the results returned for a given search phrase. So what are the elements of a good SEO strategy?]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design For Mobile Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your website is an opportunity to communicate with your audience. Give them the information they need. This is not an opportunity for your designer to show off. It's about the user.]]></description>
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		<title>Website Design Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, what else would you expect us to say? But that doesn&#8217;t make it any less true; website design matters to the success of your site, the plethora of exceptions to the rule notwithstanding.
When visitors land on your site their first impression will greatly effect the amount of time they spend on that page and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You A Moving Target?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nagivation design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just visited two websites &#8211; completely different businesses, different web developers, different industries &#8211; with the exact same problem; horrible navigation.
Now I don&#8217;t normally like to start on such a negative note, but these were especially egregious examples of a really bad user experience. The navigation links on both of these websites were quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Blog or Not To Blog…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about everyone has heard the term &#8220;blog&#8221; bantered about. That doesn&#8217;t mean you know what it is or how to use it to promote your business. So let&#8217;s take a look at blogs as a marketing tool.
Definition
Blog is short for &#8220;web log&#8221; but if you say web log you will sound like my mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity In Advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to the radio the other morning, as I do most mornings  and &#34;The Osgood File&#34; came on. Dave Ross was filling in and and talking  about &#34;Figuring Out Ways To Force Viewers To Watch TV Ads.&#34;
Now  with so many of us using TiVo and DVRs, fewer and fewer of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing An Effective URL</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selecting THE PERFECT name for your online business can often be a daunting task, especially if THE PERFECT domain name is already taken.
So here are some things to consider in selecting your URL.
Keywords
Our  natural inclination is often to use our name as the URL; janesmith.com,  joeshmoe.org. And in some instances that makes sense.
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Grab; Content Writing For Your Home Page</title>
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		<comments>http://jannmirch.com/blog/the-gift-of-grab-content-writing-for-your-home-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When creating your web site,  you have about 15 seconds to capture your visitor&#8217;s attention. That&#8217;s it. If  they decide you are not what they are looking for they will move on and not  look back.
So knowing what a small  window you have, how do you capture their attention and entice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be The Master of Your Domain: Domain Name Registration</title>
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		<comments>http://jannmirch.com/blog/be-the-master-of-your-domain-domain-name-registration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domain name registration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too often I get phone calls from business owners who no longer own their domain names.
&#8220;How  can this happen?&#8221; you ask. More easily than you realize. When you hire  someone to develop your website, often they will be the one to register  your domain name and sometimes they do it under their [...]]]></description>
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