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	<title>Ramblings of a Serial Entrepreneur</title>
	<link>http://www.brandoneley.com</link>
	<description>A collection of the thoughts, ramblings and insights of Brandon Eley</description>
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		<title>Extraordinary Customer Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often you hear about great customer service these days. Seriously, when is the last time you got off the phone with &#8220;support&#8221; and were actually not pulling your hair out or screaming obscenities? &#8220;Customer service&#8221; has become a meaningless word to categorize good service and bad. And as a result, it seems like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/07/02/extraordinary-customer-service/</link>
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		<title>Get Tax Refund on Your Visa or MasterCard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get a lot of phishing emails, but this is the first email I&#8217;ve gotten claiming to be the IRS. I love the excellent use of grammar:
You got $33.70 tax refund, please follow the steps to get refund.
The email doesn&#8217;t even hide the actual link destination, and the site it directs to is at mail.officebrasil.com.br. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/07/02/get-tax-refund-on-your-visa-or-mastercard/</link>
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		<title>Yard Sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was 8 or 9, my grandmother used to take me yard selling. We&#8217;d get the newspaper on Friday afternoon and make our plan. We&#8217;d pick which ones were the best, and plan the schedule around them.
We would map out all of them and make an order we&#8217;d hit them, the best ones we&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/06/14/yard-sales/</link>
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		<title>DebtFreeBlog.net - A blog about financial responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve launched a new blog - DebtFreeBlog.net. The website came about as my wife and I have taken a strong look at our current financial situation. We looked at our current debt levels (normal for our income) and I figured how much money we actually spend on interest per month and year. It&#8217;s just astonishing.
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/05/17/debtfreeblognet-a-blog-about-financial-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>ProBlogger Book by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett have published a book about how to make money blogging: ProBlogger Book &#8212; Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.
I first met Darren at SxSW in Austin in March on the Chitika/ProBlogger Beer Bus and at the b5 Blog Network Camp. Darren and Chris are both full-time blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/05/01/problogger-book/</link>
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		<title>Do search engines even work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is more of a rant. As you probably know, I own large size shoe retailer 2BigFeet.com. I frequently check our rank in the major search engines for terms such as &#8220;large shoes&#8221;, &#8220;large size shoes&#8221;, &#8220;large men&#8217;s shoes&#8221;, etc.
Today after running my regular monthly report I followed it up by actually searching a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/05/01/do-search-engines-even-work/</link>
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		<title>Does a bigger monitor increase productivity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll see soon enough. My boss&#8217;s new MacBook Air wouldn&#8217;t support his 30&#8243; Dell 3007WFP so I got a hand-me-down (in addition to a newer and faster MacBook Pro). Here&#8217;s my new setup:

I&#8217;ll be testing it out for the next couple of weeks to see if it does in fact increase productivity. Still, it surely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/04/23/does-a-bigger-monitor-increase-productivity/</link>
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		<title>Could you live without your computer for 8 days?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Scratch that. We&#8217;ve got too much to do so I&#8217;m taking it with me. It&#8217;ll go back next week. Seems I&#8217;m getting a new one anyway. Sometimes stuff really works out and this is definitely one of them :)
My MacBook Pro has a tiny issue with the keyboard. The caps-lock and shift keys on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/04/09/could-you-live-without-your-computer-for-8-days/</link>
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		<title>3 Year-old Shoots Self in Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents, please let this be a lesson to keep your guns locked up, unloaded, and  away from children.
This just makes me sick. I know this family is suffering right now, but someone should be in jail for leaving the gun where a 3-year-old could get to it:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347249,00.html
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		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/04/08/3-year-old-shoots-self-in-head/</link>
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		<title>Looking for good podcasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking for podcasts about business, photography, web development, e-commerce or productivity.
Currently, I listen to or watch the following:

Wine Library TV
Ask a Ninja
Chase Jarvis Photography

I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, but haven&#8217;t found any that I really like recently. I&#8217;d love to get some suggestions.
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		<link>http://www.brandoneley.com/2008/03/30/looking-for-good-podcasts/</link>
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