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		<title>Local Small Businesses – Get Your Yelp ON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you own a local small business, Yelp can be your friend or your worst enemy… depending on your reviews.  I use my yelp app on my mobile phone everywhere I go as did 66 million other folks in the 4th quarter of 2011.   If someone is heading to your neck of the woods, chances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skagit Marketing &amp; La Conner Chamber of Commerce Facebook Up</title>
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		<title>Facebook Power Hour Workshop Wrap-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who attended the Facebook 101 (beginning) Power Hour.  We have already had many requests for more, more and more!  As long as the La Conner Chamber of Commerce keeps sponsoring the workshops, we will keep talking and teaching the power of Facebook and Social Media for small businesses and non-profits. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2011/12/06/facebook-power-hour-workshop-wrap-up/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=facebook-power-hour-workshop-wrap-up</link>
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		<title>New Media Marketing Workshop Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we held a New Media Marketing workshop in La Conner in order to help our local businesses find ways to capture more business by taking advantage of today’s social media solutions.  Thank you to everyone who attended our hour-long workshop! For those who were there, and for those of you who missed our first one, read on for some great tips to get you thinking.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2011/11/14/new-media-marketing-workshop-series/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-media-marketing-workshop-series</link>
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		<title>Increase Sales with Social Media Marketing:  A Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're not paying attention to social media marketing and how it is changing the face of retail business, you're missing out on a whole lot of potential revenue]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2011/11/07/increase-sales-with-social-media-marketing-a-workshop/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=increase-sales-with-social-media-marketing-a-workshop</link>
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		<title>What Squirrels and Marketing Have In Common</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been having a lot of fun lately watching the squirrels in our yard scurry to and fro. They run up a tree, down a tree, along the fence, down the fence, leap from one branch to another, then back to the fence, then back to the tree. Then they chase a buddy squirrel around the tree, along the fence and back up the tree. Then they stop for 15 seconds to catch their breath (I’d be wheezing if I were a squirrel!) … then off they go again.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2011/10/25/what-squirrels-and-marketing-have-in-common/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-squirrels-and-marketing-have-in-common</link>
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		<title>Want More Sales? Engage on Facebook!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was talking to a client about the struggles of trying to run a busy retail business, and yet still stay connected to the customers who keep her business afloat, but don’t come in every day (or week, or even month).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2011/09/20/want-more-sales-engage-on-facebook/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=want-more-sales-engage-on-facebook</link>
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		<title>This Is Way Right &#8211; Welcome Writeology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Janet Gifford joins the Skagit Marketing team.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2011/09/13/this-is-way-right-welcome-writeology/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=this-is-way-right-welcome-writeology</link>
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		<title>SXSW &#8211; A Creative Convergence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I landed in Texas today.  Austin that is.  Guitars and baggage at the airport.  Sun shining and tex mex restaurants line the drive.  I find the Austin Convention Center (SXSW headquarters) no problem, score a parking spot and pick up my $1,025 badge to wear for the week (hoping nobody steals it right off my neck).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2011/03/12/sxsw-a-creative-convergence/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sxsw-a-creative-convergence</link>
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		<title>Re-Brand &#8211; it&#8217;s makeover time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you have a brand which includes the name, symbol/logo, tag line, colors, look/feel which all together identify your products and/or services.  Ask yourself, is my brand truly differentiating my products/services from my competition and telling a story?  If the answer is no, you may be ready for a re-brand.  Before and After Vital Earth Traditions owner, Kelly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skagitmarketing.com/2010/12/16/re-brand-its-makeover-time/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=re-brand-its-makeover-time</link>
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