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	<title>Frank Forte's WebLog</title>
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	<description>A Blog About Websites and Business</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Promote Your Band and Connect with Fans: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/97/promote-your-band-and-connect-with-fans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing like playing music for a crowd of people. The rush is incredible, and it gets even better when your crowd of fans grows. I plan to write a series of articles on how to promote your band and grow your fan base.
If you don&#8217;t have a band yet, consider Bandmaking.com, where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP - Find errors fast by triggering errors where you want, not where php puts them</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/89/php-find-errors-fast-by-triggering-errors-where-you-want-not-where-php-puts-them/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/89/php-find-errors-fast-by-triggering-errors-where-you-want-not-where-php-puts-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thenetgen.com/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the case of connecting to MySQL in a PHP script, usually a fatal error will tell you where you provided invalid connection info (i.e. wrong password), this is the file and line where the mysql_connect() function is called.
This is not useful if you use a php class to deal with the database connection.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maximize Sales Leads through your Website</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/86/maximize-sales-leads-through-your-website/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/86/maximize-sales-leads-through-your-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[leads]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[service]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A well designed website is a good investment these days. Anyone that needs to buy a product will first consult their favorite search engine to do their research and then find a good price.
Before spending a(nother) dime on your website, do some research. Here are a few tips:
1) Avoid graphics and video or flash, unless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design a Conversational Website for Your Customers</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/71/design-a-conversational-website-for-your-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/71/design-a-conversational-website-for-your-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 04:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thenetgen.com/?p=71</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is for people that want to increase sales and leads through their company website.
There are many reasons that we would want to engage customers in a conversation rather than just giving them information about our company, products, and/or services. I will leave these reasons for another post. For now I want to show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profit From Value Pricing, The Best Picing Strategy.</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/68/profit-from-value-pricing-the-best-picing-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/68/profit-from-value-pricing-the-best-picing-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 04:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[value added sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thenetgen.com/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How much do you charge to make a healthy profit?
It is difficult to decide on a price, and too easy to lower your price so that your customer will buy your product or service. What you should really consider is &#8220;what is valuable to your customer?&#8221; and &#8220;How valuable is it to your customer?&#8221;
If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value Circle* in the Sales Cycle</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/55/the-value-circle-in-the-sales-cycle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/55/the-value-circle-in-the-sales-cycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[business skills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sales skills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thenetgen.com/?p=55</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have any bad habits when trying to make sales? Do you ever find yourself creating countless revisions of a proposal or quote for a customer?
Sometimes we feel like a customer wasted our time .  Does it frustrate you?  I used to think it was the customer, but after analyzing the parts of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trial Close and Achieving 0% Bounce Rates</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/50/the-trial-close-and-achieving-0-bounce-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/50/the-trial-close-and-achieving-0-bounce-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[business skills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[website strategy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bounce rate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an important thing that you can do to improve your website that is so easy. Last month I achieved a 0% bounce rate on my employers website by using this strategy (from visitors that found the website through a Google search).  &#8220;Bounce rate&#8221; is the percentage of visitors that leave your website right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email Versus Productivity</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/43/email-versus-productivity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/43/email-versus-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[business skills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[the medium is the message]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thenetgen.com/?p=43</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you have found yourself  reading over a simple email that you just wrote, and then decided that you don&#8217;t like it.  You probably tried a number of versions, hoping that your message will be clear.  You probably worried that you would have to write two or three more emails to clear up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email Validation to RFC Specification with PHP</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/41/email-validation-to-rfc-specification-with-php/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/41/email-validation-to-rfc-specification-with-php/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[email validation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thenetgen.com/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally came up with a script that will properly check if an email is valida against any RFC specification.
This includes:
Quoted pairs
(special characters that are not normally allowed, but escaped with a backslash.)
example:
this\@email@thenetgen.com
Quoted pairs are technically valid. Even though they are obsolete, if someone has an email like the one above, this validator will let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Your Business Skills Part I: Selling</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenetgen.com/29/improving-your-business-skills-part-i-selling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenetgen.com/29/improving-your-business-skills-part-i-selling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business skills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sales skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sales is one of the most important business skills.  It is showing a customer that you have something of value, and asking them to buy it from you.
Always Be Closing
The the most important part of any sales transaction, whether you are at a job interview or selling a product or service, is asking the [...]]]></description>
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