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	<title>Never Mind Marketing &#187; Off Topic Lounge</title>
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	<description>» shaun nestor on social media &#124; marketing &#124; pr</description>
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		<title>Dot Com Boom II</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2010/04/dot-com-boom-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read articles that include paragraphs like:
The venture capital valuations for still-have-that-new-car-smell startups like Quora, FourSquare, Blippy are reaching unprecedented levels, and we wanted to find out why. Top VCs Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and David Hornik came by the TechCrunch offices to debate the issue.
Four month old Blippy is worth around $38 million. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School For Animals and Farmers vs Hunters</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2010/02/school-for-animals-and-farmers-vs-hunters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2010/02/school-for-animals-and-farmers-vs-hunters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management Makeover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/?p=713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I have been nearly consumed with identifying the correct calling, job title, etc for a number of people. Society, in general, views people as a commodity and places &#8220;it&#8221; (an individual) in an area of need without much thought to the fit of that person.
Managers, or the ones in my circle, are realizing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Earthquake Relief: 5 Ways to Help Now</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2010/01/haiti-earthquake-relief-5-ways-to-help-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2010/01/haiti-earthquake-relief-5-ways-to-help-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How you can help the victims of the Haiti earthquake:
World Vision: http://www.worldvision.org
Mercy Corps: http://www.mercycorps.org
American Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org
World Concern: http://www.worldconcern.org/
Donate $10 to the Red Cross relief effort by texting HAITI to 90999.
]]></description>
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		<title>Cheapest Reliable Alternative</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2010/01/cheapest-reliable-alternative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2010/01/cheapest-reliable-alternative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management Makeover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Seth Godin&#8217;s Blog:
For most products and services, most of the time, people sign up for the cheapest reliable alternative plan.
If everything appears to be the same, then of course they&#8217;re going to pick the cheapest one that&#8217;s &#8220;good enough&#8221;.
In the face of this understandable strategy, you have a few choices:

You can be cheapest (difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook has nothing to do with divorce</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/12/facebook-has-nothing-to-do-with-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/12/facebook-has-nothing-to-do-with-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting tired of hearing, especially lately, that Facebook is responsible for 20% of divorces.
Let me make this very clear:
NO IT&#8217;S NOT!
The U.K. firm making the claim says that spouses uncover their partner is cheating via Facebook&#8217;s private messaging tool (how exactly they do that is up for debate). Cheating, and the following divorce is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dog Ate My Business Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/12/the-dog-ate-my-business-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/12/the-dog-ate-my-business-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management Makeover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Guy Kingston “The Dog Ate My Business Plan”
Failed businesses need to learn to stop looking for someone else to blame. Business is risk. Sometimes those risks do not pay off. Accept it. When a business fails, make no excuses. No one is listening. No one cares. Instead, turn failure into a positive experience. Be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Recent Facebook Common Stock Sale Values Company At $11 Billion</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/12/most-recent-facebook-common-stock-sale-values-company-at-11-billion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/12/most-recent-facebook-common-stock-sale-values-company-at-11-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media & Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social marketing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/?p=666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch wrote about Facebook&#8217;s recent valuation based on common stock purchase by DST. The original share buyback was oversubscribed at a $14.77 per share price (roughly $6.5 billion valuation). This most recent sales were done at $25/share, which values Facebook at roughly $11 billion.
What is interesting, other than the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to murder a business in ten easy steps</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/11/how-to-murder-a-business-in-ten-easy-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/11/how-to-murder-a-business-in-ten-easy-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Makeover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Mistakes & Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Riffing off Donald Keough&#8217;s book The Ten Commandments for Business Failure, Risk Capital Partners investor Luke Johnson pens his own steps for killing your company for the Financial Times. If you want to survive, he advises avoiding the following:

taking on too much debt
becoming overly dependent on one customer
making a mess of a major IT project
signing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bragging moment: I told you so!</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/11/bragging-moment-i-told-you-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/11/bragging-moment-i-told-you-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is an iTunes model for magazines just around the corner? According to the New York Times, several magazine publishers, including Time Inc., Conde Nast, and Hearst, have reportedly joined forces to form a new company that will run the online newsstand, dubbed &#8220;iTunes for magazines.&#8221; With flagging sales in print, the publishing houses hope to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hustle Has A Price Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/10/hustle-has-a-price-tag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevermindmarketing.com/2009/10/hustle-has-a-price-tag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShaunNestor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Off Topic Lounge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two different people with the same amount of smarts can take the same communications plan and derive very different results. That’s because exceeding your goals doesn’t always mean doing things that no one else can do. It often means doing the things that anyone can do, but doesn’t. That’s where hustle wins the day.
[More...]
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