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	<title>248creative Blog</title>
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		<title>The New 248creative Color Story Tool</title>
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The first tool we&#8217;ve published on the new 248creative Toolbox is the color story tool. This simple color planner will help designers and user interface developers visualize a particular color palette as it will look as a live site layout. It also includes a convenient palette display for designers to proof clients with easily. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Rules of Recovery: Profiting In The New Business Landscape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve seen a rash of comments on various social media networks that talk about the mysterious &#8220;recovery&#8221; that few small businesses are seeing the effects of. 248creative has seen some pretty exponential growth over the past couple quarters, so this started my mind wandering. Is this feeling really as prevalent as it seems when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Insights Explained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most underestimated tools online is the Google Insight engine. Make sure you take a minute to see if there&#8217;s a way you can leverage this great free tool in your business.

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		<title>Twitter’s Promoted Tweets, A New Advertising Platform… For The Big Corps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 13th, 2010, the social juggernaut twitter.com announced its first attempt at monetization with the promoted tweet platform. Initially launched in 2006, Twitter has built a worldwide membership of over 75 million users (22 million or so of which are actually active). The problem, however, has always been how to make the service generate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Case For Hacker Dojo Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I try to travel to entrepreneurial hotspots as often as I can to keep my motivation and skill set high. The run is usually between the east coast (usually nyc) and Silicon Valley. This year, as business tends to be slow in January anyway and I have no real interest in winter, I headed off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Misunderstanding of Social Networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social networking is about relationships, not delivering ultra filtered marketese. Your posts must value. That value can be legitimate business value or can be of purely personal interpersonal value, but it can’t be thoughtless fluff. You can’t friend everyone possible on Facebook and then begin spamming their newsfeed with “FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY” messages. The verbiage of mass marketing is as dead as their delivery mediums. ]]></description>
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		<title>248creative Merges With The CSM Group of Birmingham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re very pleased to announce that 248creative LLC has merged with The CSM Group, a social media marketing and consulting firm based in Birmingham, MI. The move was based on a shared desire between the companies to enhance offerings to their client bases. The ability to share resources between the two companies will also reduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.248creative.com/blog/248creative-merges-with-the-csm-group-of-birmingham/</link>
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		<title>Yet ANOTHER Social Network? Why You Should Care About Google Buzz.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google recently rolled out their offering to the social media landscape, Buzz. If you’ve already been using Gmail and the Google App system (Documents, Calendar, etc), then you’ve no doubt noticed, as they’ve deployed it to everyone’s Gmail already (or at least they are in the process, if you haven’t seen it yet, you will). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.248creative.com/blog/why-you-should-care-about-google-buzz/</link>
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		<title>248creative @ Choose Troy Expert Forum: Blogging</title>
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248creative&#8217;s Tommy Desmond presented a forum on blogging at the Choose Troy Experts Forum of the Troy Chamber of Commerce on March 6th, 2009. Here is the video of the presentation for those who missed it.
The presentation used a front lighted video projector and due to lighting constraints, we could unfortunately not get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Troy Chamber of Commerce – Member Benefits Video</title>
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At the 2009 Troy Chamber of Commerce Pep Rally, Denise Roberts and Diane Putvin from SalesPartnersTroy.com helped shed some light on a myriad of ways your business can benefit from active involvement in the Troy Chamber of Commerce, regardless of the current economic situation.
It was an eye-opening account of all the options available [...]]]></description>
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