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    Connect with your customers in the Weekly Roundup

    July 9, 2011August 27, 2014

    Matt About Business Weekly Link Roundup Each week, I collect the 10 best posts that I’ve read and share them with you here. These posts focus on either choosing, or using, small business solutions online (or both!). Enjoy! Matt Mansfield If you need a website, consider getting a free consult with Matt: Think Outside the Browser…

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    Convert more browsers into customers with the Weekly Roundup

    July 2, 2011August 27, 2014

    Matt About Business Weekly Link Roundup Each week, I collect the 10 best posts that I’ve read and share them with you here. These posts focus on either choosing, or using, small business solutions online (or both!). Enjoy!Matt MansfieldIf you need a website, consider getting a free consult with Matt: Think Outside the Browser because your website…

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    More sales ideas in the weekly roundup

    June 25, 2011August 27, 2014

    Matt About Business Weekly Link Roundup Each week, I collect the 10 best posts that I’ve read and share them with you here. These posts focus on either choosing, or using, small business solutions online (or both!). Enjoy!Matt Mansfield If you need a website, consider getting a free consult with Matt: Think Outside the Browser Introducing:…

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    Our late weekend roundup

    June 19, 2011August 27, 2014

    Matt About Business Weekly Link Roundup Each week, I collect the 10 best posts that I’ve read and share them with you here. These posts focus on either choosing, or using, small business solutions online (or both!). Enjoy!Matt MansfieldHow to know if you can trust your SEO?Link: http://biznik.com/articles/how-to-know-if-you-can-trust-your-seoMy Take: A great checklist for evaluating an SEO…

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    The White House creates a Rural Council – What should they do first?

    June 9, 2011August 27, 2014

    Thanks to Tim Marema and an email from the National Rural Assembly, I took a quick look at today’s announcement by The White House “that it is creating a Rural Council to help the administration better coordinate the impact of federal programs in rural areas.” Obama, center, and Vilsack, right, and Morgan Hoenig, left, touring…

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    Matt and I disagree in the Weekly Roundup

    June 4, 2011August 27, 2014

    Matt About Solutions Weekly Link Roundup Each week, I collect the 10 best posts that I’ve read and share them with you here. These posts focus on either choosing, or using, small business solutions online (or both!). Enjoy!Matt MansfieldIf you need a website, consider getting a free consult with Matt: Think Outside the Browser 5 Ways…

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    Getting more customers and more sales in the weekly link roundup

    April 23, 2011August 27, 2014

    [Readers always ask me how to keep up with all the developments in technology and the online world. That’s why we’ve introduced a new feature: a weekly link roundup curated by Matt Mansfield.  -Becky] Matt About Solutions Weekly Link Roundup Each week, I collect the 10 best posts that I’ve read and share them with…

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    USDA’s Victor Vasquez talks rural-urban connections

    September 2, 2010August 27, 2014

    Victor Vasquez, USDA Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development, made the keynote presentation at the Midwest Rural Assembly. He started with the story of a road trip with a big city friend. As they reached a particularly empty stretch of land, the friend asked, should we turn back? Turn back? Victor asked, why would we turn…

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