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		<title>Top 4 Web Optimizing Process Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To make the most of your investment in a Web site, social media and online marketing, we have developed a process you can follow to grow your business on and offline, using the tools the Web site and your social profiles provide you with.

 Use Google Analytics to extract important information about your audience and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2010/01/25/top-4-web-optimizing-process-tips/</link>
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		<title>How to Craft a Compelling Vision Statement</title>
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Is your company or organization struggling to define itself amidst a sea of competitors? If so, you need more than just a few improvements to your product or service. Incremental improvements might put you temporarily ahead of the competition, but why not totally change the game?
Establishing a compelling vision statement is the first step to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2009/11/23/how-to-craft-a-compelling-vision-statement/</link>
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		<title>Publicity: building on your laurels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MacCALLUM HOUSE, AN AMERICAN HISTORIC INNS’ 2009 TOP TEN ROMANTIC INN, GIVES A $25,000 DREAM WEDDING IN THE COASTAL VILLAGE OF MENDOCINO - http://dreamwedding.maccallumhouse.com]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2009/04/27/publicity-building-on-your-laurels/</link>
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		<title>Case Study: publicity opportunities, making lemonade&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Branding Salon publicist Jude Lutge makes the most of an interesting opportunity to market a high end B&#038;B to unemployed travelers! Read the full story in the Branding Salon Blog.]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2009/03/26/case-study-publicity-opportunities-making-lemonade/</link>
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		<title>Two Creatives Get Hitched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following my Holiday Proposal in December of 2008 I figured it was time for the sequel!  I have to say marrying another creative has been so much fun! We share a love for vintage and modern style so we had a lot of fun with planning the wedding – from the invitations to all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2009/03/12/two-creatives-get-hitched/</link>
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		<title>Join the Social Media Cocktail Party &#8211; We&#8217;re on to our Second Martini!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you have your cutest little black dress on and are dressed to the nines&#8230;. what now? in the old days we used an old-fashioned landline and, if no one picked up, we left a message after that ubiquitous beeeep!
Well now it&#8217;s time to join the cool kids and learn how to stalk your friends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2009/02/13/join-the-social-media-cocktail-party-were-on-to-our-second-martini/</link>
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		<title>Have a Martini and join the social media cocktail party&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a Martini and join the social media cocktail party…
“Twitter is like a casual cocktail party”&#8230; Rebecca Shapiro, “Portland Ladies Who Launch Leader.”
This is Shona in Portland. I’m a bit of a technology geek and seminar addict.
I’m feeling especially inspired today after an excellent social seminar by Cheryl Jannis of planetpinkngreen.com.
I’m a member of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2009/01/10/have-a-martini-and-join-the-social-media-cocktail-party/</link>
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		<title>Seizing Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a friend extended an impromptu invitation to visit with a prominent Burmese monk she has been hosting at her beautiful villa on the Bali Bukit. &#8220;You have to meet him, Rachel. He is really quite amazing.&#8221; I realized I must seize the opportunity while available, as he was headed back home the next day, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2009/01/03/seizing-opportunities/</link>
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		<title>A HOLIDAY PROPOSAL IN PORTLAND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the night before Christmas Eve and all through the house I was baking up a storm for a Christmas Eve soirée Michael and I were planning to host. Here in Portland it has been a snowy wonderland and the local news coined the storm ‘Arctic Blast ‘08.’
While we where getting ready Michael said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2008/12/30/a-holiday-proposal-in-portland/</link>
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		<title>Finding Christmas Spirit in Bali</title>
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I am really struggling to write a holiday post from Bali. What holiday is it again? My husband is still away at work in Sumatra. There have been no carols playing in the stores, no Christmas trees, no chilly bite in the air, no egg nog or pumpkin pie. No cuddling by the fire, watching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandingsalon.com/blog/2008/12/30/finding-christmas-spirit-in-bali/</link>
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