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		<title>5 ways to combat ADD using your smartphone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no shortage of articles and explanations about how smartphones are causing serious focus or attention problems &#8211; but if you are prone to be forgetful or lose focus, there are a number of tools you can use with your smartphone to help combat this. For general computing, try some of these ideas…  - Timer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 ways to avoid your phone system crashing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Your phones are down. Phone outages occur in nearly every small business, and here are 4 ways you can reduce the likelihood or impact of an outage. 1) First, expect to have issues with your primary carrier. For decades, phone technology has enabled a single pair of copper wires to carry a huge amount of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islands are great for vacation, not corporate data</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try this simple exercise: pretend one of your employees changes their name from Jennifer to Jessica. How many places do you need to make that change? Payroll? HR portal? Timesheets? Job assignments? Phone list?  The more places you have to manually make that change, the more places you risk data entry errors in your business. The best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a problem with your best client</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your best client. You know, the one that&#8217;s kind, polite, patient, appreciative, punctual, generous, understanding, and empathetic.  You love seeing them. You ask yourself (and your coworkers) why everyone can&#8217;t be like them. The it dawns on you. They&#8217;re the exception. So if you believe all clients should act like them, you&#8217;re going to be disappointed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should is an awful word.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You should brush your teeth more. You should exercise more. You should pay your electrical bill. &#160; Wait a sec. Those are all normal &#8220;should&#8221; but the electrical one isn&#8217;t. Why? Oh, that&#8217;s right. They don&#8217;t say should. They say &#8220;pay your bill or your power gets shut off.&#8221; It&#8217;s not pretty. But which of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Starbucks REALLY wants to know your name</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might think that name the Starbucks employee writes on your cup is so they can call out your name or avoid having someone pick up the wrong beverage from the counter. But that&#8217;s not why they write it down. They write your name down to get to know you, to personalize the experience, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year? Change ALL your passwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, all of them. No, you say, that&#8217;s going to take too long. It won&#8217;t be immediate, but just google &#8220;identity theft&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find the time is well spent. Password managers like 1Password or LastPass can aid in this process, as they&#8217;ll sync with your various devices using services like Dropbox or iCloud. Plus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death by a million tiny mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coupon drew me in. 25% off any lunch item. So I ordered my chicken sandwich and chose my side, turkey chili. Tried to pay the woman who took my order, but she said I had to pay at a separate register. OK. They took my name, and I went to the other register. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The chopped salad is just ok</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customers begin a sales process with skepticism. Their job is often to sort out the facts from the fiction, and because the salesperson&#8217;s interests aren&#8217;t always aligned with the customer, they have to often find the &#8220;cons&#8221; on their own while being deluged with all the &#8220;pros&#8221;. One insurance company has successfully accomplished this by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in the age of outage</title>
		<link>http://www.mann.com/blog/index.php/2012/11/living-in-the-age-of-outage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Many small business owners are reluctant to put their data in the cloud, fearing security breaches, data loss, and system-wide outages. How can you prepare or prevent this? You can&#8217;t completely prevent it, but you can prepare for it.  The stock prices of companies like Salesforce.com or NetSuite are a clear indication that businesses [...]]]></description>
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