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		<title>Small Business Web Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a friend of mine sent me a &#8220;distress email&#8221; with regards to her website. Apparently, she bought a webhosting package about 6 months ago, then suddenly, she got an email that informed her about the service closing down! Can you imagine that? You spend days, maybe weeks looking for a &#8220;good&#8221; web host and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny Marketing Definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Quek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sharing is Learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received the following via email and couldn&#8217;t help chuckling. If anyone know the source, let me know so that I can include a credit line. WHAT IS MARKETING? 1. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: &#8216;I am very rich. Marry me!&#8217;  &#8211; That&#8217;s Direct Marketing&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Improve Customer Service with No Budget?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategies and Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How can small companies improve their customer service today? This is an especially important question because today&#8217;s consumers have been so pampered by the large companies so much, everyone expects the same level of personal service everywhere they go. If you have a problem with your credit card, you pick up the phone, make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can it be “Your Singapore”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 04:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Quek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategies and Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore Slogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Singapore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Kiwi friend who is flying down to Singapore after a long absence of 9 years wrote me a really short email, &#8220;What&#8217;s this with &#8220;Your Singapore&#8221;? It can NEVER be mine! How could it be? &#8220;. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has a different opinion on that obviously. It has built a multimillion-dollar marketing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Web Hosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.versacreations.net/?p=654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our previous post, we talked about web sites and translations. Thank you for your comments and feedback. But one of the challenges facing many of us, other than creating a great website, is how to get started in the first place. Many times, web hosting becomes the first biggest hurdle. Yes, it is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you talking to me? Translate!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.versacreations.net/?p=650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s business can no longer be confined to servicing your neighbourhood. But more importantly, the Internet has created a culture where the whole world is able to look in on you. While English is considered the de-facto language online, there are really millions of web sites and web users who do not speak English. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Sell, Soft Sell, Why Sell?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard sell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mention selling, and you can be sure many people will try to avoid your eyes, and most likely, mumble some excuse about a sick puppy and move away. Isn&#8217;t that interesting? There is the &#8220;Snake Oil Salesman&#8221; and there is the friendly neighbourhood grocer. Both sell you stuff. One you love, the other you hate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Development Have Grown Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Quek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategies and Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few of the young people who have grown up with Google, Facebook and all the other wonderful Web 2.0 stuff will remember the time when the web was first born. We of the cow-gum and bromide era sometimes long for the simplicity of the good old days. We did not have to deal with User [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lousy Ad: Häagen-Dazs’ French Riviera</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Quek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lousy Ads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This banner looks like most other Häagen-Dazs&#8217; banners, simple, straight-forward and discreet.  Yet this banner has stirred up a tide of nationalism among India nationals in Delhi, India, demanding Haagen Dazs be fined or thrown out of the country, or both. The offensiveness of the banner lies in the copy at the bottom, &#8220;“Exclusive Preview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Completing 2009, Creating 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Quek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sharing is Learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How did you like your past 364 days? How do you intend to create your next 365 days in 2010? Today is the last day of 2009 and tomorrow is a brand new year waiting for you and I. Here&#8217;re some questions from my friend, John Stamoulos to complete 2009 and create 2010. You may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Twitter Journey delayed…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Quek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategies and Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought that I would go powerfully into Twitter. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the Twitter Workshop. So sad. But I have started doing some Tweets, but I guess without the guru, I will find it hard to make fast progress.  Let&#8217;s see how it can progress. Hope I can attend the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lousy Ad: The Photo Does Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Quek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lousy Ads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a fan of IKEA&#8217;s print advertisements. I also have many IKEA&#8217;s creations in my house and office. So I was somewhat surprised to see this ad from the famous Swedish furniture and furnishing house. IKEA&#8217;s furniture is sleek and streamlined, and more often than not, its print advertisements mirror the same look and feel. [...]]]></description>
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