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		<title>One place you probably never thought to advertise your web developer job ad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re advertising a web developer job (nine10 is right now), one place you should post it may be the least obvious: in the source code of your website&#8217;s HTML: Being a web developer for years, I know that one of the first things I do when visiting a site I&#8217;m interested in is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Businesses Connect with People on the Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re an entrepreneur, you likely understand that to be successful and competitive in the marketplace, customer service needs to reach people “right here, right now.” People expect information in real time—with the click of a link or a touch on the screen. And they want it while they are waiting at their doctor’s office, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Client: Why Your Logo Costs As Much As It Does</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nine10.ca/blog/?p=1086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been times when we quoted the price of a logo design and the client was shocked. If you’ve been in sales for a while, you’ve surely seen this before: Their eyes open, lips shut, and they become very timid and reserved for the remainder of the meeting. What went wrong? Well, first of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Wish Somebody Had Told Me Before I Started My Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nine10.ca/blog/?p=900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dating all the way back to high school, I have been running a website design or graphic design business of some kind or another. I started off as a sole proprietor. I later registered as a corporation, and eventually merged that corporation into what is now nine10 Incorporated. During this long and winding road, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking Secrets: Why Face Time Still Matters (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.nine10.ca/blog/entries/networking-secrets-why-face-time-still-matters-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.nine10.ca/blog/entries/networking-secrets-why-face-time-still-matters-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an online world where with the click of mouse you can gain a friend, acquire a fan, or even get people to “like” you, it&#8217;s easy to forget the value of meeting in-person, face-to-face. When staffing is tight—and often budgets and time as well—the convenience of sending a message through social media or by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Client: Why We Don&#8217;t Create Samples Before Starting a Project</title>
		<link>http://www.nine10.ca/blog/entries/dear-client-why-we-dont-create-samples-before-starting-a-project</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A customer calls us, interested in our services. We invite them in to meet with us to discuss their project in more detail. The meeting is fantastic. After an hour of talking about their project and ideas, showing them some of the things we can do, and having a few side-tracked laughs together, we shake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you guilty of obfuscation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nine10.ca/blog/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[obfuscate: to make obscure or unclear; to muddle; confuse; bewilder Potential consumers are busy and sophisticated. They are surrounded every day with thousands of messages and choices in the marketplace. Trying to impress them using fancy terms can not only cost you those customers, but can cost your business in lost sales and revenue. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Domination&#8230; in a Box?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.nine10.ca/blog/entries/world-domination-in-a-box#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nine10.ca/blog/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a branding agency, we encounter many business owners who come to us with their ideas for starting a small business. We get to see some pretty interesting and ambitious business plans. But what always raises a red flag for us is an idea that tries to go too big, too fast, without the proper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Small to Think About Branding? Think Again.</title>
		<link>http://www.nine10.ca/blog/entries/too-small-to-think-about-branding-think-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.nine10.ca/blog/entries/too-small-to-think-about-branding-think-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nine10.ca/blog/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Often we hear people talking about branding like it&#8217;s an esoteric voodoo thing that only Fortune 500 companies can afford to do. Or that small business owners should ignore branding because it costs a lot of money and they need to be focusing on sales and cash flow. Or that you need a big national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food for Thought: Flipping the &#8220;Customer-Oriented&#8221; Business Upside Down</title>
		<link>http://www.nine10.ca/blog/entries/food-for-thought-flipping-the-customer-oriented-business-upside-down</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Podsada</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nine10.ca/blog/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a question to think about&#8230; Why is it that some companies who shout &#8220;customer-oriented&#8221; from the rooftops have an organizational structure that&#8217;s completely geared towards serving the people at the very top? The further away from the customer in day-to-day operations the person is, the more importance, money, and influence they have at the [...]]]></description>
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