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		<title>Brand is not a dirty word</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Trask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Maureen Johnson has an entertaining and interesting rant about "personal brands."  Go check it out here: http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/06/08/manifesto/

Often I meet people who hate using the word "brand" or "personal brand."  They think the term is a load of bollox and is either meaningless or too confining.]]></description>
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		<title>Using Facebook Effectively: Fans versus Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Strategic Blend, we work with a variety of clients across different industries ranging from private businesses to recording artists. Now that Facebook has created the universal ‘like’ system, we often receive questions about how to use this social tool most effectively. These questions are usually the same for individuals from the business and music industries, but the answers are often quite different…]]></description>
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		<title>That tricky &quot;middle ground&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 04:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Trask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brand Advancement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me well, knows I'm a stickler when it comes to surveys.  I distrust anyone who just tosses out survey statistics without providing the context and methodology behind the results.]]></description>
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		<title>Email Marketing, why its part of the solution&#8230;not THE solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategic Blend</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content monetization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A well phrased rebuttal to a recent blog entry over at Midem.net

The original article can be read here.

Below is a comment, emailed to us from a client:]]></description>
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		<title>Tribe Building: Old West Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Trask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite movies is 3:10 To Yuma starring Christain Bale (always awesome), Russell Crowe (who for once doesn&#8217;t annoy me) and Ben Foster (as one of the most badass Western villains EVER).  It&#8217;s a modern Western done very well, something we don&#8217;t get very often.  The plot evolves around Russell Crowe&#8217;s character (Ben [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1,000 Points Of Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 18:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Trask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[album art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brand management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a changing market, where the idea of &#8220;music product&#8221; is always evolving, one thing is becoming more constant &#8211; terrible cover art/packaging. I&#8217;ve long maintained that an album cover is one of the most important marketing pieces for any project. Each cover serves as an advertisement to any consumer. If someone [...]]]></description>
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