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		<title>9 Ways to Optimize Images for Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone and their mother tells you how to optimize your website or blog for a keyword, but how many share with you how to rank images? Images are pretty important, because a lot of people look for images on a subject and find articles on the subject on accident. It can add up to a good amount of traffic, and I know I get a lot of people visiting my articles from Google image search. Here is my top 6 list of how to optimize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Google Eats the Yellow Pages for Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The yellow pages are dead. We all know that. It’s like the elephant in the room&#8230;it like that gigantic unspoken fact that everyone knows but no one says. Yellow pages, uhhhh, sure, I guess I’ll take a copy. The fact of the matter is that we live in a digital world, with digital things. Digital things work faster than print things. In today’s fast paced world, you need a fast paced solution. And the yellow pages it seems, is prey for the behemoth we call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Social Media Right For Your Business? 4 Questions to Decide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been reading my stuff for more than a few seconds, you probably know how anti-logo I am on social media channels. Big businesses trying to use social media for direct marketing just doesn’t work, because people don’t want to be interrupted. Luckily though, I work with small businesses and I’m here to help you with how to effectively use your social channels to improve people’s lives. The issue though, is this: sometimes your business just isn’t right for social media. It’s nothing personal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Personal Brand: How Personal Should you Get?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A personal brand is a powerful beast. When unleashed on the world with passion and motivation ready to change it, you can very quickly gain the momentum you need to build an enterprise. But a personal brand has to be just that: personal, and to some this can be scary. We live in a social world, and very recently we have witnesses the backlash from social channels that reject a person or a statement, and its not pretty. So a personal brand is powerful, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reputation Management – 5 Steps to Positive When People Talk Negative</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who’s anybody has gotten bad press. It just happens. You can have the best product or service in the world, but it seems that there is always one disgruntled person for every do-good company. It’s not your fault though, you’ve spent the time to build your brand and your company and you wished the best for it. The kind of paradox here is that the bigger you get and the more people you spread your great stuff too, the more likely it is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Reasons Why You Should Never Ever Read This Post</title>
		<link>http://webvitals.com/mindset/7-reasons-why-you-should-never-ever-read-this-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of times I write posts designed to get people to read, but this time I am specifically asking you *NOT* to read this. I&#8217;ve even went as far as listing seven reasons why, many of which are ridiculous. So whatever you do, you should not read this post. Don&#8217;t even look at the page, because I&#8217;m asking you not to read it. #1) It Has an Edgy Title: Designed to Intrigue We always see the big dogs talk about ‘catchy titles’ and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Brand Recognition Burned my Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://webvitals.com/?p=396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So it was a normal day, just me working on my book, talking to a few clients when all of a sudden I noticed I had a bit of free time. This doesn’t happen often because I plan out my days, but this particular day I had an open slot, and I decided to use it. Just so you know, I rarely go “shopping” at all. In fact, I think it’s more accurate to say I never go shopping. On this particular day though, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Ruin Social Media and Make Everyone Hate You</title>
		<link>http://webvitals.com/social-media/how-to-ruin-social-media-and-make-everyone-hate-you/</link>
		<comments>http://webvitals.com/social-media/how-to-ruin-social-media-and-make-everyone-hate-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://webvitals.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the dawn of time&#8230;err&#8230;Facebook, people have flocked to social media as “the next big thing” and continuously talked about it as if it were the end-all of marketing. As more people flocked to this new medium, we witnessed the snowball effect in action; that is, as something gains popularity, the speed at which it gains popularity increases, resulting in it gaining even more popularity even faster. We now live in a world where “Social Media” is the buzzword, and everyone on earth that runs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Apple Effect: How to Sell Bacon to a Pig</title>
		<link>http://webvitals.com/business/the-apple-effect-how-to-sell-bacon-to-a-pig/</link>
		<comments>http://webvitals.com/business/the-apple-effect-how-to-sell-bacon-to-a-pig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://webvitals.com/?p=365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple is the role-model for every tech company in existence. Over the years, Apple has gone from near bankruptcy to and industry behemoth that is sitting on a pile of cash bigger than the United States Government. There is no doubt it is a force to be reckoned with. Every time a new apple product is released people head out to social media outlets to shout their excitement to the world. People tweet on Twitter, update on Facebook, and every tech blog scrambles to cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information Flow: How to Utilize Insight to Gain Influence</title>
		<link>http://webvitals.com/marketing/information-flow-how-to-utilize-insight-to-gain-influence/</link>
		<comments>http://webvitals.com/marketing/information-flow-how-to-utilize-insight-to-gain-influence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ruswick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What we are witnessing in our world today is an unmistakable pattern: our world is focused around information flow. We are connected on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions and game consoles nearly 24/7. Everywhere we go, we are connected to a world of information flow. With more and more real-time tools popping up like facebook and Twitter, access to information is even more critical, and it is becoming an integral part of our society as a whole. Your business may or may not focus around sharing [...]]]></description>
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