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	<title>Calacles</title>
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		<title>San Diego Businesses please use local tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a dozen strategies to help promote your business locally. However thanks to technology promoting your business locally just got a whole lot easier thanks to Social Media. Social media has emerged as a huge part of the web landscape. When properly executed, social profiles on social networking sites improve your image, build your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calacles.com/social-media-local-tools</link>
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		<title>Small Business Valuations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small business valuations

There are many ways to value an existing company. Many startups are no more than an idea, some market research, and half of a team (hopefully with some experience). If you think about it for long enough, these companies have no proven value–$0! What some do have, however, is potential value; and fortunately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calacles.com/small-business-valuations</link>
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		<title>To Launch or Not to Launch Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step 3.  Calculate the Return on Investment (ROI)

In step 2, your research inevitably helped you to identify key determinants of your business.  A determinant is simply a factor or component relevant to your business.  In this step, you will use this knowledge to create a financial spreadsheet, which may be called a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calacles.com/to-launch-or-not-to-launch-part-3</link>
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		<title>To Launch or Not to Launch — that is the Question Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step 2.  Become an Expert

Before beginning a new business, there is no substitute for research.  Your goal should be to fully understand the business space you are thinking of entering.  To do this, you have to become an expert so that you can assess the positive and negatives aspect of your idea. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calacles.com/small-business-decision-tree-part-2</link>
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		<title>To Launch or Not to Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like other entrepreneurs, you think you have a great new idea for a business or a unique product that will be a best-seller.  With the uncertainties of the market place, how do you decide if you should move ahead with your idea?  Basically, there are three important steps to take that will assist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calacles.com/to-launch-or-not-to-launch</link>
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		<title>The World Wide Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
				The World Wide Web has a voice now. That voice is your customer “tweeting” on Twitter, posting reviews on Yelp, reading, participating in and sharing blogs, networking through social communities, and getting advice from trusted resources such as other clients and friends.  The search for anything starts on the web.
Now more than ever &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calacles.com/the-world-wide-web-for-small-businesses</link>
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		<title>Websites for Small Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We get this question all the time. What type of website is best for my business? If you’re a business that regularly puts content on your website (blog posts, images, web apps, videos, etc.), you definitely need something more dynamic than a static website. 95% of all businesses need something that will allow for quick and easy changes, edits, and updates.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calacles.com/websites-for-small-businesses</link>
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