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<title>Stop Being Nice</title>
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<description>&gt;Weather forces cancellation of meet &amp; greet
&gt;Call it tough love for your workers
&gt;When it happens, pay someone to pick it up
&gt;Do mom &amp; pops suffer from collateral damage?</description>
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<title>Small Business Survival</title>
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<description>&gt; How Maine will fare this year
&gt; Credit is tightening
&gt; What the stimulus means to you</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-25T05:17:34-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Value of social networking</title>
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<description>- Do you have time for Facebook?
- Can Google cure medical record headaches?</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-22T06:46:24-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Buying Time for Local Businesses</title>
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<description>The Independent Street blog has an entry about the documentary Twilight Becomes Night.&quot; The film follows five struggling New York City shops during a six-year period. Customers supported the stores...</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-21T06:51:05-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>New Career: Balloon Rancher</title>
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<description>- Replacing cell phone towers with communication balloons
- How to depreciate your stimulus
- A tip for homeowners starting a business
- Changing demographics could herald a boomin&apos; business</description>
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<title>Planning to be creative?</title>
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<description>- Stop writing that business plan
- Find out what you need to be &apos;creative&apos;
- Have a good laugh at the blackfly&apos;s expense</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-19T06:35:18-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Small Business Web Sites</title>
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<description>Here&apos;s an obvious piece of advice in the New York Times. Web sites can help a small business gain customers. If you don&apos;t believe the New York Times, ask Rich...</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-15T07:44:56-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Labor of Love</title>
<link>http://mainebusiness.mainetoday.com/blogs/cnatale/022322.html</link>
<description>The Wall Street Journal puts the spotlight on dating Web sites. It writes about a few small sites that found a profitable niche. Although the column concentrates on online matchmaking,...</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-14T15:59:49-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Stimulate your marketing</title>
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<description>&gt; How to work with social media 
&gt; .. and how not to 
&gt; More about the stimulus 
&gt; Tax-prep tips 
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<dc:date>2008-02-14T07:22:50-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Are You a Franchise Player?</title>
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<description>There is a collection of articles in Tuesday&apos;s Wall Street Journal on franchising. The most interesting story is a piece on picking a franchise. The tips are geared toward the...</description>
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<title>How Helpful is the Government?</title>
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<description>New blogger writes about how public policy affects your business
The debate continues on how helpful the stimulus package will be.
Doing things (for lunch and dinner) is what Dunkin&apos; Donuts likes to do</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-13T07:09:53-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Stimulus or Snow Job?</title>
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<description> While we&apos;re digging out from the next expected snow storm Wednesday morning, President Bush is expected to sign the economic stimulus package. Jeff Bogue sees it as more of...</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-12T16:05:11-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Not Ready for Sub-prime</title>
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<description>This morning I found sub-prime news for those of you with good credit histories.
 There also is something for you couples who run a business together.
Political junkies can spend two hours listening to debates on funding new business
Starbucks to give free Wi-Fi a try</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-12T06:33:30-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Oh Canada</title>
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<description>This morning we ponder the effects of the Canadian economy, gas prices and fishing on Maine business.</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-11T07:01:58-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Open wide and say big box</title>
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<description>I heard a story on Marketplace about how Walmart plans to open 400 in-store health clinics by 2010. The clinics would be co-branded with local hospitals to give them some...</description>
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<dc:date>2008-02-08T13:57:57-05:00</dc:date>
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