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	<title>Pet Sitting &#124; Dog Walking &#124; Pet Minding &#124; Queensland &#124; Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, Towoomba, Rockhampton, Mackay, Bundaburg, Hervey Bay, Gladstone &#124; Network of Professional Pet Carers</title>
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		<title>Polaroid Postcards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With thanks to NEXT Marketing&#8217;s blog post I came across this product &#8211; Polariod Postcards. Naturally, I checked them out ( here ) &#8230;. however it got me thinking&#8230;. this could possibly be a great way to use Polaroids for pet sitting, dog walking or pet minding&#8230;  instead of mailing the postcard (save yourself the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week: Facebook Insights &#124; Guest Blog Post by LKR (Laura Roeder)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are Facebook pages really useful for a business? Well, I would say yes and in more ways than you might think. Your assignment this week is to take a peek into Facebook&#8217;s Insights, a valuable feature I&#8217;m guessing you didn&#8217;t even know was there! Insights is a collection of data about the people who &#8220;like&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips To Get Yourself Out Of A Slump And Back On The Road To Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slump &#8211; definition &#8211; a sudden decline in business, stock prices, or productivity We&#8217;ve all been there, those times when you find yourself unmotivated, directionless, seemingly incapable of doing the tasks that need to be done. Everything just seems too hard, and distractions are just so seductive. Well, then, enough of that nonsense, let&#8217;s have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empathy is Where Great Customer Service Begins &#124; Author &#8211; Gold Coast North Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry Inc</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you Google &#8220;customer service best practices,&#8221; it returns about 13 million results. Tack the word &#8220;empathy&#8221; onto the same search and the results drop by 95%, to 700,000. By no means a scientific study or conclusion, but I think telling. Customer service empathy can be boiled down to five simple questions: How does the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week: Ask for Testimonials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Week: Ask for Testimonials Adding testimonials or case studies to your website is an amazing way to add what&#8217;s called &#8220;social proof&#8221; &#8211; proof to your potential customers that others have already gone before and had a positive experience working with you. No one wants to be the guinea pig! But in order to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week: Spice Up Your About Page</title>
		<link>http://www.queenslandpetcarers.com.au/2012/03/this-week-spice-up-your-about-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join The Dash on Facebook  Your &#8220;About&#8221; page is one of the most important pages of your website. It&#8217;s where people go to get to know you and determine if they resonate with your business. It can also be one of the hardest to write! Because writing about ourselves can be so difficult, most of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a Staffy Cross&#8230;.? (Poem) by: Best Friends Animal Rescue</title>
		<link>http://www.queenslandpetcarers.com.au/2012/03/just-a-staffy-cross-poem-by-best-friends-animal-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.queenslandpetcarers.com.au/2012/03/just-a-staffy-cross-poem-by-best-friends-animal-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by: Best Friends Animal Rescue Staffordshire Terrier or &#8220;Staffy&#8221; are the number 1 breed and cross breed destroyed in pounds in Australia today. Desexing and banning the backyard breeding of the wonderful dog is the best thing we can to help fight this terrible injustice. Please share this poem. Just a Staffy Cross&#8230;.? Today is just another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week: Set Up Google Alerts for Someone Who Gets Press Where YOU Want</title>
		<link>http://www.queenslandpetcarers.com.au/2012/03/this-week-set-up-google-alerts-for-someone-who-gets-press-where-you-want/</link>
		<comments>http://www.queenslandpetcarers.com.au/2012/03/this-week-set-up-google-alerts-for-someone-who-gets-press-where-you-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOIN LAURA&#8217;S &#8220;THE DASH&#8221; COMMUNITY ON FACEBOOK A core component of my Creating Fame strategy is getting press online, but how do you know what kind of websites are looking to feature people like you? First, you need to find some &#8220;Fame Friends&#8221;. These are people/businesses who share an audience with you and would therefore be featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crufts Show Dogs Disqualified &#124; Pedigree Dogs Exposed !</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crufts Show Dogs Disqualified England’s most prestigious dog show, Crufts, is now also its most controversial. This past weekend,  several Best of Breed winners were disqualified after health inspections by an independent veterinary surgeon. Of 15 so-called “high profile” breeds (out of more than 200 breeds entered) required to undergo a veterinary exam, six breed winners  failed: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week: Google Yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.queenslandpetcarers.com.au/2012/03/this-week-google-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa (NPPC Founder)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is googling yourself? Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s nothing naughty! I just mean searching your full name or your business name in google to see what comes up. A lot of people seem to feel silly about googling themselves but it&#8217;s actually really important to your business! What you find is what potential customers see when [...]]]></description>
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