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		<title>It&#8217;s that time again: Change your copyright date!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s a pet peeve of mine: visiting an e-commerce web site and their copyright date is from last year &#8211; or even worse, it&#8217;s from 4 or 5 years ago. To me, that&#8217;s the sign of a web site that is not &#8216;fresh&#8217; or updated. Certainly Google and the other search engines are paying attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timing is everything when it comes to email marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Pat
So you’ve spent a day or two putting together a slick email that you are sure is a winner; you’ve edited the subject line until you were bleary-eyed and now comes the big question: What is the best time to send out a marketing email to your opt-in email list?
Sending out your customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASD Educational Sessions Now Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[submitted by: Pat &#8211; West Florida Components
The Internet Merchants Association and its sponsors recently presented eight educational sessions to the ASD trade show attendees. The bi-annual sourcing show was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center with over 30.000 visitors in attendance.
Platinum and Diamond level sponsors including Vendio, Alibaba and MIVA Merchant were among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMA Bronze Membership Now Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 12:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-commerce moves so swiftly. Seems like just the other day we were talking about Google Checkout, and now we’ve got to figure out whether or not we’re going to use Facebook’s social plugins. And the list goes on, doesn’t it?
Because we at IMA are serious about the benefits we provide to ecommerce practitioners, we’re now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Get A Great Logo For Your Ecommerce Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those were the days
Growing up in the retail world, I was always taught that the most  important decision in your business was location, location,  location&#8230; remember those days?
When you run an Internet-based business, your &#8220;location&#8221; is nowhere&#8230; and everywhere. So what, then, becomes most important with this new &#8220;location&#8221;? In my opinion, branding. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Etailers, Are You Ready? New MasterCard and Discover Rules Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 14:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shonali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of May 1, 2010, MasterCard and Discover have released  new rules that impact the way merchants who accept those cards must  handle certain aspects of PrePaid Credit or Debit Cards as well as  regular bank Debit Check cards.
Going forward there are three critical  issues you must be aware of as [...]]]></description>
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