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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:58:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Website Designers are not SEO'ers</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86028&amp;amp;tstart=0#86028</link>
      <description>Good post. Those buying web design typically don't know exactly what is needed to produce a quality site with quality traffic,&lt;br /&gt;
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However, I don't want to clump all of the web site designers into this category because many are excellent at conducting SEO programs for their clients. However in my own business I do handle some accounts as well as sales training here in Atlanta. With that being said the post is correct. I spend a lot of time throughout the week calling on web designers and pitching my client's back-end SEO link building process: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/interstitial-page.jspa?businessUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseolinkwheelers.com%2F&amp;referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com"&gt;http://seolinkwheelers.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I don't like to think of web site designers as being bad at the SEO tasks. I like to think that these routine SEO tasks are extremely time consuming which cuts into the designers creative design time. So my client and I just take those routine types of duties off of their plate. What I and my client do leave to the web designer is all of the in-site SEO processes that must be completed. All of the designers that I work with do have a good feel on how a page or site must be structured for SEO purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
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So I agree web site designers are not SEO'ers, but the good ones know that and farm those routine task off to other companies that specialize in those tasks. &lt;br /&gt;
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David Peterson - President: Altanta Sales and Consulting</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:54:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>dpeterson</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86028&amp;amp;tstart=0#86028</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T17:54:07Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>31 minutes ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>Basics Of Internet Marketing</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86010&amp;amp;tstart=0#86010</link>
      <description>&lt;br /&gt;
Marketing is communication about an idea, product, or service. Marketing involved advertising, promotion, sales and various techniques forms of communication used to advertise, promote and sell.&lt;br /&gt;
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Marketing also includes researching the market to learn what consumers want and then we give solution to meet their needs with the appropriate product, price, and distribution method. Marketing includes market research, deciding on products and prices, advertising, promoting, distributing and selling.&lt;br /&gt;
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Making customers aware of our products and services, also we must able to attracting new customers to our product or service, keeping existing customers interested in a product or service, and building and maintaining good relationship with our customers.&lt;br /&gt;
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Some various internet marketing tools we can use including make our own web sites, email marketing, writing ezines or articles, creating banner for advertising, building a bloggs, create RSS, building links to our site, search engine optimization, having our own affiliate to help us promote our products or services, autoresponders list, and other ecommerce applications.&lt;br /&gt;
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I, as myself, recommends &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/interstitial-page.jspa?businessUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.4s2s.com&amp;referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com"&gt;http://www.4s2s.com&lt;/a&gt; for people that are looking for options on how to make extra money online or to build your own home-based internet marketing business. On that website are recommended tools to help you succeed faster.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:24:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>nicotine</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86010&amp;amp;tstart=0#86010</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T13:24:06Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>5 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>I always wanted to be an Entrepreneur!</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86009&amp;amp;tstart=0#86009</link>
      <description>Hello all,&lt;br /&gt;
           Nice forum Greate descussion going on here. I am here for your expert advice. I live in tampabay Florida and I want to start my business in real estate I did research on real estate industry in tampabay and I came to know that &lt;b&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/interstitial-page.jspa?businessUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southtampa-luxuryhomes.com%2F&amp;referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com"&gt;http://www.southtampa-luxuryhomes.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a major player in here can any one plese tell me what am I need to do if I want to go long in this industry. Thanks for any suggestions.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:59:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>LuxuryHomes</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86009&amp;amp;tstart=0#86009</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T10:59:59Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>7 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>Re: Is e-learning really as effective as face-to-face training?</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86022&amp;amp;tstart=0#86022</link>
      <description>Due to drastic use of internet in study, business and at corporte level e-learning become compulsory to compete with others and for batte representation of business. you only need to search tutorial on internent you will find much useful materials of e-learning.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:41:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>colypr</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86022&amp;amp;tstart=0#86022</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T10:41:39Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>7 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>Re: Voice Broadcasting, reach 10,000 for $190.00</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86021&amp;amp;tstart=0#86021</link>
      <description>Hi Mike, i like to test drive your voice broadcasting system. Please send me information here or to: uyiabraham@yahoo.com</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:41:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>zofaa_comm</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86021&amp;amp;tstart=0#86021</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T06:41:16Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>11 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>Big Picture Approach to Financing Growth</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86005&amp;amp;tstart=0#86005</link>
      <description>Finding the funds to grow a company or work through a difficult time is always challenging. The activities that CEOs and CFOs must undertake are the same regardless of whether the company is growing and self financing, raising capital or thinking about selling. In the end, value creation is all about the amount of future cash flow the company can generate. &lt;br /&gt;
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Some of the common questions that arise in driving the funding raising process are: &lt;br /&gt;
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How much capital?&lt;br /&gt;
When do I need it?&lt;br /&gt;
Who should I get it from?&lt;br /&gt;
How much should it cost?&lt;br /&gt;
How much debt and how much equity?&lt;br /&gt;
Should I personally guarantee the company's debts? If so, how much?&lt;br /&gt;
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The answer to all of these questions is surfaced by following a process that begins with end in mind, and then systematically works to narrow the likely and feasible alternatives.&lt;br /&gt;
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Step one involves understanding the current and historical state of the business and how it got where it is. This is coupled with a clear articulation of the objectives of the shareholders and a defined go-forward strategy. Then forecast the likely scenarios and compare proforma company performance to competitive or industry benchmarks for realism. You should be able to assess the likely use of new funds and the timing of when they are required after several iterations. A nice byproduct of the process is an estimate of the value of the business and how it is likely to change over the forecast period.&lt;br /&gt;
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Armed with this information, you can then begin to determine the go-forward capital structure and target funding sources. Test the market to see if you can really get the capital desired and drive the process in a competitive environment to negotiate and close the deal.&lt;br /&gt;
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While this may sound easy, it takes time to prepare and execute... so being proactive is critical if you can (sometimes that is hard in a crisis). Getting the right team of players to partner with you and your management team is critical to drive the process and minimize distractions to operations.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kenneth H. Marks, Copyright 2009, Lead Author of the Handbook of Financing Growth 2nd Edition &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/interstitial-page.jspa?businessUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.handbookoffinancinggrowth.com%2F&amp;referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com"&gt;http://www.handbookoffinancinggrowth.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:39:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>khmarks</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86005&amp;amp;tstart=0#86005</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T00:39:18Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>12 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>Re: A Good Resume or A Good Blog?</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86006&amp;amp;tstart=0#86006</link>
      <description>i will choose "a good blog"&lt;br /&gt;
because most of employers are focus on your past working experience.&lt;br /&gt;
of course,if you can make your resume a  good looking,that will be better to atract them.&lt;br /&gt;
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alice&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/interstitial-page.jspa?businessUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trade-century.com&amp;referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com"&gt;http://www.trade-century.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:33:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>nikecoo99</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=86006&amp;amp;tstart=0#86006</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-27T02:33:15Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>15 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>Re: Starting a Woodworking business</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=85988&amp;amp;tstart=0#85988</link>
      <description>Let me know how to get a hold of you and I will more than happy to help out.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ken</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:35:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>vnavguys</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=85988&amp;amp;tstart=0#85988</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-26T21:35:30Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>20 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>How to start a Mini Help Desk enabling business?</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=85987&amp;amp;tstart=0#85987</link>
      <description>I created a tool called mini help desk widget for business websites. &lt;br /&gt;
You can reach the FAQ section on silkwise.com to find details. The service is very good and convenient to use. How can I quickly help more and more business websites to enable it?&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks, &lt;br /&gt;
Jacob</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:11:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>joolwee</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=85987&amp;amp;tstart=0#85987</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-26T20:11:42Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>22 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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      <title>Re: Starting a Woodworking business</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=85986&amp;amp;tstart=0#85986</link>
      <description>&lt;br /&gt;
We are a very small woodworking business, building out of our shop behind our house. We have done craft shows and all that stuff. Trying to get established online. Not alot of $$ resources right now. Trying to figure out shipping, best marketing...... Please help with any ideas?&lt;br /&gt;
We are in small town midwest missouri. Thanks for any advice.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:30:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>primitive</author>
      <guid>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=85986&amp;amp;tstart=0#85986</guid>
      <dc:date>2009-11-26T18:30:32Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>23 hours ago</clearspace:dateToText>
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