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	<title>Rubber Duck and Company</title>
	<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com</link>
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		<title>Client Gallery: Landscape Illumination</title>
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Our latest client website has gone live. For the last month I&#8217;ve been working with Darrin Selking from Lanscape Illumination- a landscape lighting firm based in Valparaiso, Indiana - to develop a new Wordpress based dynamic website for them.
The site has turned out great and I think it looks great. Darrin and his team do beautiful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/12/client-gallery-landscape-illumination/</link>
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		<title>E-Mail Marketing Still Works On a Small Scale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the pervasiveness of e-mail SPAM, many people have written off e-mail marketing as useless endeavor. What many don&#8217;t realize is that the proliferation of SPAM has actually made e-mail marketing more effective. How?
Two Words:
Permission Marketing
SPAM Blockers generally do a pretty good job of filtering out e-mail that people don&#8217;t want. So, they just don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/12/e-mail-marketing-still-works-on-a-small-scale/</link>
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		<title>It Should Not Cost a Small Business $3,000 for a Simple Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was meeting with a client the other day to show her how to edit and change the new website that I had built for her and she revealed something interesting to me &#8211; the last website quote she had gotten was for over $3000.
I was quite taken aback by this. I was charging her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/12/it-should-not-cost-a-small-business-3000-for-a-simple-website/</link>
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		<title>Client Gallery: PatrickDj.Com &#8211; Wordpress Website</title>
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One of our recent projects was a small website for a local DJ based in the Chicagoland area. Patrick wanted a simple website that he would be able to update himself. He was on a budget and didn&#8217;t want expensive ongoing website management fees.
So, we built him a small website using the Wordpress content management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/12/client-gallery-patrickdj-com-wordpress-website/</link>
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		<title>Why It&#8217;s Still So Important For Your Business to Have a Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run into this all the time when talking with small business owners &#8211; the thought of a having a website wasn&#8217;t something they thought they needed. Their business model wasn&#8217;t online, so why would they need a website?
You need a website because while your operations may not be online, your customers ARE online.
Google has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/12/why-its-still-so-important-for-your-business-to-have-a-website/</link>
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		<title>New Client Site Live: Welcome Home NWI</title>
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A friend came to me with an interesting project a few months ago. James K. Barath (Twitter: myCMPS) wanted me to transfer his content from a free blogging service to a self hosted blog and then turn it into a fully featured real estate website for Northwest Indiana.
The overall goal of the site was to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/08/new-client-site-live-welcome-home-nwi/</link>
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		<title>Rubber Duck and Company Blog Featured in a London Newspaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news from across the pond. Premiere Rubber Duck and Company blog property, Anglotopia,  was featured in a London newspaper.
We recently put up a massive post about London iPhone apps and it caught the attention of a reporter across the pond. The spike in traffic was very nice.
The newspapers was the London free sheet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/08/rubber-duck-and-company-blog-featured-in-a-london-newspaper/</link>
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		<title>Five Quick Ways to Get Followers on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest questions we get asked is how does one get new followers on Twitter. It&#8217;s not very hard to get a flock of quality followers on Twitter and with a couple simple steps, you can be communicating with cool people worldwide.
1. Follow People Yourself
Oftentimes, when you follow someone with a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/07/five-quick-ways-to-get-followers-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>New Client Website Live &#8211; Evelyn Bay Coffee Company</title>
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Great news!
We finished up a project for one of our latest clients &#8211; the Evelyn Bay Coffee Company located in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Tia Hoffman, the owner wanted a nice website that allowed them to post blog articles, post their menus, have an event calendar and connect with their clients.
After reviewing their needs, I recommend that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/07/new-client-website-live-evelyn-bay-coffee-company/</link>
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		<title>The 8 Rules of Twitter Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the longest time, I was philosophically opposed to Twitter. I refused to join it and participate in the &#8216;great conversation.&#8217; I refused to integrate it into my company&#8217;s social networking strategies. I thought it was an annoying fad that would disappear as quickly as it had appeared onto the Web 2.0 scene. I simply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rubberduckandcompany.com/2009/05/the-8-rules-of-twitter-club/</link>
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