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		<title>6 tips for speedy replies to customer email and phone calls</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/06/10/5-tips-for-speedy-replies-to-customer-email-and-phone-calls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It surprises me how often companies overlook this basic marketing component: responding quickly to customer inquiries. You will make your company stand out among your competitors if you respond to customer emails the same day or the next business day. In fact, you will stand out if you answer your email at all!
I did a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See if your website is optimized for high search engine rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/06/02/how-does-your-site-rate-for-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization (SEO) is a key part of any successful website because most internet users will find your site via a search engine. It&#8217;s a good idea to check your site to see if there are any areas you could easily improve in order to maximize your search engine rankings.
There are two tools I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check your Facebook Privacy Settings Automatically</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/05/28/check-your-facebook-privacy-settings-automatically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 21:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/?p=723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ReclaimPrivacy.org will automatically review all of your Facebook settings and tell you if you have any areas of concern. I am pretty fanatical about locking down my account, but I still had two things to change. If you have any issues, the page has a link to the appropriate Facebook pages so you can change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usability: Don&#8217;t hide your login</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/05/27/usability-dont-hide-your-login/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I had a &#8220;what not to do on your website&#8221; moment. I&#8217;ll note the lessons I learned, and then you can read on for the whole sordid tale.
Usability Lessons:

Don&#8217;t make your newsletter subscribers login to unsubscribe &#8211; they just want to be free!
Place login tips very close to login error message. This gives the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use longer hyperlink text for better web usability</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/05/07/longer-links-are-better-for-seo-usability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web usability expert Jared Spool recommends that you make your hyperlinks 7 &#8211; 12 words long for optimum usability. Now, I would have thought links that long would be too hard for users to scan easily, but his research has shown that users are more likely to find what they want on your site if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using long tail keywords to get more traffic on your website</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/05/03/using-long-tail-keywords-to-get-more-traffic-on-your-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 23:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What the heck is a long tail keyword &#8230; and why should you care, right? Internet users, like you and me, type a word or phrase into a search engine, like Google or Yahoo!, and these are generally referred to as keywords. A &#8220;long tail&#8221; keyword indicates that the searcher typed in a phrase &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Review of 27 Open Source E-Commerce Applications</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/03/23/quick-review-of-27-open-source-e-commerce-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/03/23/quick-review-of-27-open-source-e-commerce-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[shopping carts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished an in-depth review of 8 PHP/MySQL ecommerce applications, but I started with this list of 27 ecommerce applications. Read on to get a quick comment on each shopping cart. The following applications were recommended through various internet sources, listed at the bottom of this post. 


Name
Try?
Reason
Cost


Agora Cart
No
Written in PERL



Avactis
No
Amateur, uses old or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Open-Source E-commerce Apps Reviewed</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/03/12/8-open-source-e-commerce-apps-reviewed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/03/12/8-open-source-e-commerce-apps-reviewed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/?p=599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I standardized on osCommerce for all my clients in 2006, and have become steadily LESS satisfied with that product ever since. In fact, I have recently stopped a project that is near to roll-out because I just can&#8217;t bear to have another client on this shopping cart. Instead, I&#8217;ve been reviewing popular and well-rated shopping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite Free Font Sites</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/02/17/favorite-free-font-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/02/17/favorite-free-font-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Scrapbooking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a moment away from more serious pursuits to note my favorite places to find free fonts. These are great for personal use: cards, brochures, scrapbooking, etc. You have to take care when using any of these for commercial purposes &#8211; sometimes it&#8217;s not allowed and sometimes you just need to get explicit permission and/or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting what you pay for in web design</title>
		<link>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/02/15/getting-what-you-pay-for-in-web-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.designedbykrista.com/blog/2010/02/15/getting-what-you-pay-for-in-web-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kehlers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://designedbykrista.com/blog/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following quote is often attributed to John Ruskin, but that is currently in dispute. However, it&#8217;s tough to dispute the meaning of these words &#8211; a more elegant way of saying that you get what you pay for. What does this mean for web design? It means that saving money is about trade-offs, and [...]]]></description>
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