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		<title>Welcome to Eric Haaranen&#8217;s Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for visiting.  If you&#8217;re interested in looking at different ways of improving the online marketing of your business, either download my free guide to your right or review some of the posts in the Marketing Ideas category also on your right.
My photo albums are pretty cool and you can also check out my books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Easiest Path to Better Website Conversion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about the importance of website conversion in the past but a quick review here won&#8217;t hurt before I dive into why it is so critical to the success of your websites.
First, conversion is the percentage of your website visitors that take a positive action on your site.  For most small business websites that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Art of Selling Over the Phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The more business owners I speak with the more evident it is that we, as a society, are losing the one most important skill that makes a business work.  That skill is selling.
I recently re-read Robert Kiyosaki&#8217;s &#8220;Before You Quit Your Job&#8221; (an awesome book if you haven&#8217;t read it) and he repeatedly makes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Site Structure When it Comes to SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a very common scenario. You decide that you need a website so you pay good money to have someone design and build a site for your business.  You go back and forth with the designer getting everything looking the way you want it to and a month later you have a sparkling new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs Speaks to Stanford Grads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An awesome speech by an awesome speaker.  I can&#8217;t believe I had never seen this before today.  Too many great points to list here.  Fifteen minutes well spent.












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		<title>Marketing in Vancouver Book Almost a Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In May &#8211; as I often do &#8211; I awoke in the middle of the night with a crazy idea.  I&#8217;m sure you get those thoughts that nag at you to the point that you either go insane or do something with them, right?
Well, my idea was to write a book to help local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Philosophy Lesson from Dave &#8220;The Hammer&#8221; Schultz</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun and Inspiration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I was watching the Stanley Cup Finals this evening and the Canadian icon Don Cherry interviewed legendary tough guy Dave &#8220;The Hammer&#8221; Shultz before the game.
If you&#8217;re not familiar with &#8220;The Hammer&#8221; he was the king bully back in the 70&#8217;s when the Flyers were known as the Broad Street Bullies. I was only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gramps, the Canadian Weather and Cordaroy Pants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun and Inspiration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written anything just for fun for awhile so I thought I&#8217;d share this amusing little diddy.
I&#8217;m in Vancouver now where it has been raining for three weeks straight.  I was in Calgary visiting my sister&#8217;s family on the weekend and it snowed there. Not just a light dusting but two days and about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Local Search for Small Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Local search is the term we use to describe the action that people take when they turn to the Internet to find information about local businesses.  For the first time in history, people are more likely now to search for your business on the Internet than in the Yellow Pages.
What this means to the average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is an Awesome Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun and Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m blasting through a book by Mike Lipkin called &#8220;Luck Favours the Brave&#8221; and in it he shares a great story.  It is the amazing true story of Australian speed-skater, Steven Bradbury and it first appeared in the Globe and Mail on February 18th, 2002.
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The luckiest man at the Winter Olympics is an Australian speed-skater [...]]]></description>
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