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		<title>Google+ Pages For Small Businesses</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2012/02/03/google-for-small-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;In this video &lt;a href="http://www.humanbusinessworks.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chris Brogan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, author of the book &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789749149/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;#038;tag=chrisbrogan&amp;#038;linkCode=as2&amp;#038;camp=1789&amp;#038;creative=390957&amp;#038;creativeASIN=0789749149"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chris Brogan&lt;/strong&gt; is one of the most well respected social media strategists and an early adopter of the Google+ platform.  In this video he discusses why every business, even very small businesses, can benefit from the new Google+ platform.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here are some of the things you will learn from this video:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul class="ordered-list"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why Google+ changes everything about web marketing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How Google+ can help your site&amp;#8217;s search results&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How to manage Google+ privacy settings&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How to use Google+ to generate leads&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What types of content you should share on Google+&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-bottom:20px; color:#666666; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:30px;"&gt;AVAD Technologies specializes in Business Hosted VoIP and Hosted Call Center Solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://avadtechnologies.com/" class="btn"&gt;Learn About AVAD&amp;#8217;s Hosted VoIP Phone Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="color:#be0000; font-size:18px; font-weight:600; margin-top:40px; text-align:center;"&gt; Speak with a Business VoIP Specialist 800.733.4136&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Related posts:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2010/06/24/frontier-communications-sues-google-to-block-google-voice/' rel='bookmark' title='Frontier Communications sues Google to Block Google Voice'&gt;Frontier Communications sues Google to Block Google Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/08/14/small-business-hosted-call-center-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Small Businesses Can Have a Call Center'&gt;Small Businesses Can Have a Call &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&amp;#8230;&lt;/ol&gt;
Related posts:&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2010/06/24/frontier-communications-sues-google-to-block-google-voice/' rel='bookmark' title='Frontier Communications sues Google to Block Google Voice'&gt;Frontier Communications sues Google to Block Google Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/08/14/small-business-hosted-call-center-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Small Businesses Can Have a Call Center'&gt;Small Businesses Can Have a Call Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2010/02/03/small-businesses-are-saving-money-with-voip-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Small Businesses Are Saving Money With VoIP'&gt;Small Businesses Are Saving Money With VoIP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		<title>Content Marketing Drives Traffic To Your Site Not Away</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2012/01/14/content-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;hr style="margin-left:20px;"/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Internet Marketers&lt;/strong&gt; use content marketing to generate additional business by converting prospects into customers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good content is what consumers are looking for, they want information that solves a problem, not sales pitches. Content marketing will help you build trust, credibility, and authority by reducing sales resistance while at the same time allowing you an introduction to the benefits of your product or service.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Like any technique, there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.  If you use your blog to generate business, the following video will be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom:25px;"&gt;If you really are interested in learning about content marketing, &lt;a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/content-marketing/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copyblogger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a great resource.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-bottom:20px; color:#666666; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:30px;"&gt;AVAD specializes in Business Hosted VoIP and Hosted Call Center Solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://avadtechnologies.com/" class="btn"&gt;Learn About AVAD&amp;#8217;s Business Hosted VoIP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="color:#be0000; font-size:16px; font-weight:600; margin-top:40px; text-align:center;"&gt; Speak with a Business VoIP Specialist 800.733.4136&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>Free Productivity Tool From Salesforce.com</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2012/01/03/free-productivity-tool-from-salesforce-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.do.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/do-logo.png"  style="float:left; margin:10px 25px 0px 0px;" alt="Free Business Productivity Tool" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.do.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#8211; a free, Heroku-based service coupled with Gmail, is a &lt;strong&gt;free&lt;/strong&gt; cloud-based, socially-oriented task management and collaboration platform aimed not just at Salesforce&amp;#8217;s typical office user, but the general public.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It serves not only as a group planning tool for any scale of project, including the smallest scale (e.g., remembering to pick up groceries), but as a kind of cloud desktop for collaborating around Google Docs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/"&gt;Read/Write Web&lt;/a&gt; has done an excellent write up on &lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/11/salesforces-docom-aims-to-torp.php" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salesforce&amp;#8217;s Do.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-bottom:20px; color:#666666; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:30px;"&gt;AVAD Technologies specializes in Business Hosted VoIP and Hosted Call Center Solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/business-pbx/virtual-call-center/" class="btn"&gt;Learn About AVAD&amp;#8217;s Hosted VoIP Phone Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="color:#be0000; font-size:18px; font-weight:600; margin-top:40px; text-align:center;"&gt; Speak with a Call Center Specialist 800.733.4136&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Related posts:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2010/04/09/open-source-pbx-does-not-mean-its-free/' rel='bookmark' title='Open Source PBX Does Not Mean Its Free'&gt;Open Source PBX Does Not Mean Its Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&amp;#8230;&lt;/ol&gt;
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		<title>Industry Watch Dog Warns Businesses About Telecom Fraud</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/12/15/industry-watch-dog-warns-businesses-about-telecom-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;img src="http://avadtechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/12/stop-fraud.gif"  height="100" width="100" style="float:left; margin:15px 25px 5px 0px;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Telecommunications industry watchdog &lt;a href="http://www.siliconrepublic.com/"&gt;ComReg&lt;/a&gt; has warned there has been a rise in the number of PBX fraud incidents.  Criminal hackers have been able to break into the telephone systems of unsuspecting companies and generate enomorous bills by reselling these minutes to ussuspecting consumers.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/10/05/protect-against-telecom-fraud/' rel='bookmark' title='4 Ways To Protect Your Company Against Telecom Fraud'&gt;4 Ways To Protect Your Company Against Telecom Fraud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2009/12/22/voip-is-predicted-to-be-top-performing-industry/' rel='bookmark' title='VoIP is Predicted to be Top Performing Industry'&gt;VoIP is Predicted to be Top Performing Industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		<title>Call Center Benefits Of  A Predictive Dialer</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/12/05/call-center-benefits-predictive-dialer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Article Index - Call Center]]></category>
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&lt;p&gt;A predictive dialer has been shown to dramatically increase the percentage of time call center agents spend communicating with customers. Call Centers that implement predictive dialers can expect an increase in agent talk time and therefore productivity.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;Predictive dialers have become popular because they result in significant savings by reducing the number of call center agents required to handle a given volume of calls.  Agents in call centers that do not use predictive dialers typically spend 20-minutes per hour talking to a live customer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/12/05/call-center-benefits-predictive-dialer/" &gt;Continue Reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>Call Center Video Overview</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/11/15/call-center-video-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Every company that sells its products over the telephone must have a phone system that can efficiently process inbound sales calls. If your process is not efficient and effective, you could be loosing business.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A&lt;span style="color: #850001;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://avadtechnologies.com/business-pbx/virtual-call-center/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosted Call Center&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is the ideal solution for &lt;strong&gt;small businesses&lt;/strong&gt; because you get a phone system that gives you the ability to precisely customize your inbound calling experience. Another benefit of a Hosted Call Center is that it only requires a small initial capital investment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AVAD Technologies &lt;a href="http://avadtechnologies.com/business-pbx/virtual-call-center/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosted Call Center&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; solution is ideal for small businesses because it gives them a phone system with all the features of multi-million dollar call centers with a very small up front and ongoing capital investment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="shadowbox" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0MdFyUAITo8?rel=0" &gt;&lt;img style="margin:20px 0px 30px 0px;" alt="Call Center Video Overview" src="http://avadtechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/11/video-icon-660w.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Related posts:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/08/14/small-business-hosted-call-center-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Small Businesses Can Have a Call Center'&gt;Small Businesses Can Have a Call Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&amp;#8230;&lt;/ol&gt;
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		<title>AVAD Business VoIP Control Panel</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/11/10/avad-business-voip-control-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AVAD Product Announcements]]></category>

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		<description>&lt;p&gt;This video describes some of the features of the AVAD Business VoIP Control Panel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;View all of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AVADBusinessVoIP" title="Business VoIP Videos"&gt;AVAD&amp;#8217;s Business VoIP Videos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>Install New VoIP Phone System Before Moving Offices</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/11/01/install-voip-before-moving-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Article Index - Business VoIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business VoIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hosted VoIP]]></category>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;One of the most over looked aspects of moving office locations is the impact the move will have on your employees.  Moving is a stressfull time for the management responsible for executing the move, but is equally stressfull for the employees.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;img src="http://avadtechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads//avad-image-directory/blog/post-images/boxes.png" alt="Moving Hosted VoIP Phone System" style="float:left; margin:0px 20px 5px 0px;"/&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your employees must not only get used to new surroundings, they must also conduct business as usual even though for them nothing is as usual.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So why is it that companies add to the stress by changing phone systems on the same day they move to a new location.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a href="http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/11/01/install-voip-before-moving-office/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Continue Reading Install New VoIP Phone System Before Moving Offices" title="continue-reading" src="http://avadtechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/10/continue-reading-button.png" style="align:left; margin:0px 0px 12px 0px;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/05/27/happy-with-your-business-phone-system/' rel='bookmark' title='Happy With Your Business Phone System?'&gt;Happy With Your Business Phone System?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		<title>Avoid Being Locked Into Long-Term Service Contracts</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/10/12/avoid-long-term-telecom-contracts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business VoIP]]></category>
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		<description>&lt;img alt="Business VoIP Term Contracts" src="http://avadtechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads//avad-image-directory/blog/post-images/jail-bars.png" style="float:left;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px" /&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-bottom:16px; font-size: 14px;font-family: 'Droid Sans', verdana, arial, serif; letter-spacing: 1px; word-spacing:2px;"&gt;A telecom service contract that locks your business into a minimum amount of services for a fixed period of time only benefits the telecom company.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-bottom:16px; font-size: 14px;font-family: 'Droid Sans', verdana, arial, serif; letter-spacing: 1px; word-spacing:2px;"&gt;These contracts are completely one sided and can literally prevent your company from implementing expense saving strategies if business slows and improving customer support.  &lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p style="margin-bottom:16px; font-size: 14px;font-family: 'Droid Sans', verdana, arial, serif; letter-spacing: 1px; word-spacing:2px;"&gt;Instead of innovating to retain their customers, telecommunications companies have responded by locking you in.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<title>Can VoIP Be As Reliable As Traditional Phone Service?</title>
		<link>http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/10/11/voip-reliability-and-redundancy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Business VoIP Specialist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[VoIP Outages]]></category>
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		<description>&lt;img alt="VoIP Call Quality" src="http://avadtechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads//avad-image-directory/blog/post-images/redundancy.png" style="float:left;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px" /&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-bottom:16px; font-size: 14px;font-family: 'Droid Sans', verdana, arial, serif;	letter-spacing: 1px; word-spacing:2px;"&gt;While VoIP technology has become very stable over the past several years, no technology is 100% reliable. If your company requires 100% reliability, then you must build redundancy into your system.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-bottom:16px; font-size: 14px;font-family: 'Droid Sans', verdana, arial, serif;	letter-spacing: 1px; word-spacing:2px;"&gt;The cost on building redundancy into a Hosted VoIP phone system depends on your tolerance to outages.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p style="margin-bottom:16px; font-size: 14px;font-family: 'Droid Sans', verdana, arial, serif;	letter-spacing: 1px; word-spacing:2px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Continue Reading:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://avadtechnologies.com/blog/2011/10/11/voip-reliability-and-redundancy" target="_blank" "color:#003f7f";&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can VoIP be as reliable as traditional phone service.&lt;/p&gt;
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