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		<title>Are you a Digital Dinosaur When Your Customer Needs a Tech Savvy Star?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I witnessed a local organization&#8217;s curfuffle this week and heard an older leader exclaim, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to let any 29 year old upstart tell me what to do!&#8221; which got me to thinking. We&#8217;re in the midst of the most momentous generational divide in the history of the world. As is typical throughout time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Rural Tourism Study Has Lessons for American Agritourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week my &#8220;rural tourism&#8221; Google Alert dished up a 16 page booklet on agritourism in Poland that offers tons of information and ideas for agritourism organizations and farmers worldwide. Tempting Tourists: Rural Tourism in Poland details how Polish governmental organizations and regional associations support local agritourism operations. Here&#8217;s what I took away: European agritourism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Agritourism Good for Small Family Farmers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rural Tourism & Rural Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt about it. Agritourism may be the fastest growing rural tourism niche in the US. My question, and reason for blogging today is to examine whether agritourism is in fact good for small family farmers. I&#8217;d appreciate your thoughts and concerns on this subject as well. I have a Google Alert set up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Small Business Needs to Know About Retaining a Happy Workforce</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[company culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee loyalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee retention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy, engaged, committed employees are something that every small local business wants. Few seem to achieve this to their satisfaction. And many blame their lack of success on the fact that they can&#8217;t pay enough to achieve their workforce goals.  But big companies are demonstrating that a happy workforce isn&#8217;t always about money. Big companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use Rural Entrepreneurship to Save Your Small Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local small business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microenterprise development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you go to the USDA rural development website or check out your local micro enterprise assistance organization, you&#8217;re going to run into talk about &#8220;entrepreneurship.&#8221; In the not to distant past, rural development in the United States focused on moving some kind of industry into a rural area to replace or supplement the farming, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch for Big Shifts in Local Business Internet Marketing Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/03/big-shifts-in-local-business-internet-marketing-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Graph Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might not have noticed three big announcements recently that will affect internet marketing for small local businesses. My husband, Ed, is a hot air balloon pilot. Before each flight, he releases a regular toy balloon filled with helium called a pibal, short for pilot balloon. There&#8217;s one in the picture to the right. Can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Website or Mobile App. Which is Best for Rural Small Businesses?</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/03/mobile-website-or-mobile-app-which-is-best-for-rural-small-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/03/mobile-website-or-mobile-app-which-is-best-for-rural-small-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Websites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[responsive website]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the past month reading everything I could find on mobile technology and here, as promised, is an overview of what I have learned. In the past two years smartphone purchases have outstripped computer sales, and the result is app salesmen are hammering at us to sink our marketing money into mobile technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Rural Development: What is your Small Town&#8217;s Promise?</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/03/rethinking-rural-development-what-is-your-small-towns-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding & Regional Flavor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had planned to share my research on mobile technology today, but that can wait til next week! Yesterday on my usual walk through my little town, I stopped by one of my favorite businesses to say hello and have a short chat with owner, Nathan Johnston. As usual, our conversation was about Dunsmuir, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Basics: Tell Google And Your Customer Where You Are!</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/02/website-basics-tell-google-and-your-customer-where-you-are/</link>
		<comments>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/02/website-basics-tell-google-and-your-customer-where-you-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Websites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has always tried to use geography to provide the best possible organic search results. And for the past year, they have been including those local results on the search results page! “How does Google know where I am,” your prospective customer may ask? Even if you or your customer aren’t logged into your Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Mindsets of Search: Use This To Improve Your Internet Marketing</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/02/three-mindsets-of-search-use-this-to-improve-your-internet-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2013/02/three-mindsets-of-search-use-this-to-improve-your-internet-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being where customers search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perfect Customer Focus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inbound marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For micro enterprise assistance and small business development organizations the question is, what is of prime importance to teach small local business owners about internet marketing. And for the small local business owner, the issue is what is important enough to spend time learning. I ran across a valuable piece of research to help answer [...]]]></description>
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