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<title>Google – SEO Strategic Partner or Competitor</title>
<description>Since Google announced its acquisition of DoubleClick, there has been a great deal of angst from SEO Firms and SEO professionals alike.  The reason:  An SEO Company named Performics was included in the purchase as a part of DoubleClick’s business.  SEO ...</description>
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<pubDate>14th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Quality Office Furniture Vs the Cheap</title>
<description>There are as many office furniture manufacturers as there are office furniture systems on the market today. In fact, of the almost $11 billion shipped a year in office furniture products, 36% is furniture systems. So whyMAiSPACE? Because we guarantee you ...</description>
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<pubDate>14th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Find a Great Quality Wheelchair scale</title>
<description>Wheelchair scales can be an important health instrument for a significant number of people. While a standard physician scale is generally sufficient for monitoring the weight of a typical person, there are a number of people who are unable to use this typ...</description>
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<pubDate>13th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>A Primer on Office LAN Cabling Systems</title>
<description>When it comes to thinking about office voice and data local area networks (LANs), chances are most office managers and executives would rather not.

“LANs by and large are highly reliable infrastructures for keeping staff in contact with each other an...</description>
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<pubDate>13th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Medical Office Building Loans – During Current Conditions</title>
<description>We get a lot of loan requests from Doctors seeking to purchase a new facility, or refinance an existing medical office building loan. Many Doctors are surprised to learn about the current state of the market and how their options are becoming limited. The...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_573993_15.html</link>
<pubDate>10th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Mortgage Loans for Your Properties</title>
<description>Commercial Mortgage Loans are often required for buying the business' real estate and commercial properties that can be utilized for commercial shopping centers and malls, industrial and high-rise office buildings, complexes, apartment buildings, factorie...</description>
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<pubDate>10th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Custom Chocolate Awards</title>
<description>Rewarding an individual or group for a job well done, with the perfect item, can be a daunting task. There are hundreds of different products that you can choose which include engraved wooden plaques, custom acrylic awards, medals and embroidered shirts. ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_573842_81.html</link>
<pubDate>10th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Mortgage Interest Rates</title>
<description>Commercial mortgage interest rates are a combination of the margin that the bank changes and the index that they use. For example if a bank quoted Prime (the index) plus 2% (the margin) you're actual or "effective interest rate" would be 7% (Prime is curr...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_572966_15.html</link>
<pubDate>09th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>SEO Prices – Realities and Myths</title>
<description>Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the service, and SEO, what you actually get, unfortunately are all too often mutually exclusive to each other.  The primary reason for this is confusion in the marketplace of what you are actually paying for.  We all unde...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_572962_81.html</link>
<pubDate>09th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Asset Based Financing, Alternative Ways of Financing, Large Commercial Real Estate Projects</title>
<description>Traditional financing provides much needed funding to advance major commercial or other tangible projects, and it is particularly beneficial to companies that plan months in advance. But what happens when funding is required immediately or clients have mi...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_571552_15.html</link>
<pubDate>07th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Adverse Credit Business Loans - Easy Financial Access</title>
<description>Having a multiple payment fault in a business person's name does not surprise anymore, as more and more such people have such history. Still, they can find adverse credit business loans on internet and pick up a suitable deal as per the terms-conditions. ...</description>
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<pubDate>07th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Accommodating Computer Density in the Workstation</title>
<description>Managing horizontal cabling supporting an ever-increasing number of intelligent peripherals at, or accessed from, the workplace can be a challenge for a company’s IT personnel.  Challenges can be particularly vexing in today’s open offices where cubic...</description>
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<pubDate>07th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Business Loans - Help You Scale the Height of Success</title>
<description>With the better chance to grow much more, a number of people prefer doing business. Now that you may need a good sum at such affairs, getting financial helps can be a good way to sail across the success route. Commercial business loans are easily availabl...</description>
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<pubDate>05th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>90% Commercial Loans - Does This Really Exist?</title>
<description>Business owners as well as investors are constantly looking for way to increase their rate of return. One of the quickest way to do this in the commercial real estate industry is buy property with as little down as possible.

However banks and lenders m...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_569918_15.html</link>
<pubDate>05th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Weight Is a Critical Factor In Most Industries</title>
<description>Weight measurement is one of the most common industrial processes, and is performed by a wide variety of industrial scales. Bench scales may be used to weigh ingredients for various types of formulation. Platform scales can weigh the contents of 55 gallon...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_569816_45.html</link>
<pubDate>04th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Loan For Your Hotel Property</title>
<description>Getting a commercial mortgage for a hotel property is very similar to getting a commercial mortgage for an owner occupied commercial property with a few subtle differences. The driving force for the majority of most hotel income is the RevPar or revenue p...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_569111_15.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Secured Business Loan - Give Momentum to Your Business</title>
<description>Business may be defined as an act of transaction between goods and money. A business can never be flourished without strong financial base. Most commonly, business run on credit. Manufacturing of goods, shipment and payment to the employee all are done pr...</description>
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<pubDate>03rd July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Financing with Bad Credit</title>
<description>A wide range of small, medium and startup businesses with bad credit go for commercial loans. Commercial financing assists them to restructure their debts, preserve working capital, increase availability of funds, and reduce expenses.

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<pubDate>03rd July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Do You Want Chocolate Novelties or Hot Chocolate?</title>
<description>Nothing tastes better when the weather starts to warm than a piece of delicious chocolate from Choconet. The feeling that chocolate evokes is something few other foods can duplicate.

There is one hurdle that needs to be cleared in order for the consume...</description>
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<pubDate>03rd July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Why I obsess over Web Standards</title>
<description>I was recently reading an article on how Microsoft dropped the ball on developers and why several of them started to switch over to MAC OS X. Then I realized that the problem with Microsoft is that it represents the global large corporate mentality, medio...</description>
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<pubDate>01st July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Art of Brokering Commercial Loans</title>
<description>Doc's Secret # 2: Biggest Mistake of the New Commerical Broker

I take many calls each day as "The Money Doctor". I receive tons of calls from broker's around the country. These are all good, honest hardworking people. Many of these calls could have bee...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_566099_15.html</link>
<pubDate>30th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Optimum7 Introduces SEO Copywriting Services</title>
<description>Optimum7 is pleased to announce the addition of SEO Copywriting Services for its clients.  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a service that promises to deliver high search engine rankings for targeted keywords.  However, achievement of high rankings, pa...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_566086_81.html</link>
<pubDate>30th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Boost Office Productivity with Smart, Elegant Systems Furniture</title>
<description>It i“2007 Trends Recap” published in December, Today’s Facility Manager noted that “Furniture must always match the needs of the people working in a space, and the trends of 2007 reflected this necessity.”  The article reported that there was a ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_564998_45.html</link>
<pubDate>27th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Important Features of Platform Animal Scales</title>
<description>The most important characteristic of an industrial scale is its technical specifications, including its capacity, its accuracy and its resolution. The second most important characteristic is the user interface. This is what allows the scale users to indic...</description>
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<pubDate>27th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>To Outsource or not to Outsource? SEO and PPC Most Asked Question!</title>
<description>It’s a legitimate question and has always been. “Should I outsource my Internet Marketing or do it in house?”  In my career of almost 8 years, I’ve been asked this question many times. The answer is; it depends. 

Every owner, manager or decisio...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_562728_45.html</link>
<pubDate>25th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Why Put Your Logo in Chocolate</title>
<description>In this day and age everyone wants their product or service to stand out amongst the competition. Logo-branding an edible promotional product is one of the many ways to accomplish this. Companies have their names personalized onto practically everything f...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_562723_81.html</link>
<pubDate>25th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Loan Processing Explained</title>
<description>It is important to understand the process behind commercial loan processing to gain an insight into how a financing institution assesses and decides on whether or not a loan is granted. While commercial loans provide an attractive source of income in term...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_561964_15.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Loan Applications for Small Businesses Hit a Low</title>
<description>Consumer confidence is vital for our economy and when consumers cut back, that means that sales slow to a trickle. When sales slow, that means companies cut back, have fewer hires and simply do not need the inventory, materials or money to invest in new e...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_561963_19.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Why do I get spam emails?</title>
<description>It is a question that a lot of people ask.To have a better understanding about why spammers spam, you have to look into the benefits of spam.Just like a Home Burglar, there is a financial aspect to their career decision 99% of the time.

Spammers are pe...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_559737_81.html</link>
<pubDate>20th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Not Using These 18 Steps to Generate FREE Traffic?</title>
<description>This is my version of an article named “10 Steps to Generate Free Targeted Web Traffic”, I have edited and update it to included new techniques and eliminate items that are no longer relevant.

Update with 8 more FREE traffic generating techniques....</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_559049_81.html</link>
<pubDate>20th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Google Search Rankings and the Grocery Store</title>
<description>Sometimes a simple analogy goes a long way towards explaining how things work. Search Engines and Search Engine Marketing are often times confusing to consumers and businesses alike. What is Search Engine Marketing? How does it work? What can it do for my...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_558197_45.html</link>
<pubDate>19th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How Cubicle Designs Affect Employee Productivity and Performance</title>
<description>Today’s jobs are highly stressful with constant pressure to meet deadlines to satisfy customers and to come up with solutions for unexpected problems. Office organization and design is directly linked to employee productivity and performance. Lately, co...</description>
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<pubDate>19th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Scales Are The Number One Instrument Used Today</title>
<description>Scales are one of the most common instruments used in a wide variety of industrial situations. They are used to weigh incoming shipments to assure that the proper amount in being received. They are used to weigh outgoing shipments for purposes of accuracy...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_557354_45.html</link>
<pubDate>18th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How to Keep Marketing Costs Low During an Economic Downturn?</title>
<description>It is not a secret anymore; nor a gossip. We may not be technically in a recession yet (2 straight quarters of GDP negative growth) but we are certainly experiencing recessionary conditions and psychology. How can we not with the constant drum beat of neg...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_555800_81.html</link>
<pubDate>13th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Genesis of an Internet Marketing Company</title>
<description>About 3 years ago, I purchased a franchise through a company located in Fort Lauderdale Florida that for the purposes of this writing we will call “WebPlus.”  WebPlus was originally founded in 1996 and was in the business of providing Internet Service...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_555797_45.html</link>
<pubDate>13th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Google and the Corporate Focus</title>
<description>The biggest SEM Conference in the world was held in New York City in March at the Hilton Hotel. This is one of the few events where SEM Companies, Agents and Independent Websites can gain knowledge and the most recent Industry News on all aspects of SEM i...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_554971_45.html</link>
<pubDate>11th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Quality Office Cubicle Manufacturer in California</title>
<description>MAiSPACE, leading office cubicle manufacturer and provider of innovative space planning and utilization tools and design services, has proudly served the state of California for more than 15 years. We offer a full range of quality, easy-to-install-and-rec...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_554139_45.html</link>
<pubDate>10th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Chocolate Blooming and Why It Happens</title>
<description>Have you ever opened up a wrapped piece of chocolate that has a dull white-gray finish on it? You think that you have received an old piece of chocolate and feel like you have been short changed.

In reality you have just gotten a piece of chocolate tha...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_554138_81.html</link>
<pubDate>10th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Considering a Business Cash Advance Financial Loan</title>
<description>A business cash advance or an unsecured business loan may be a viable option for businesses that may not be well established, or that have had financial difficulties in the past. Sometimes referred to as an unsecured loan, a business cash advance allows b...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_553526_19.html</link>
<pubDate>10th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Loan Refinancing and Financial Funding</title>
<description>Commercial loans once acquired are often never reexamined to insure that the best financing value has been negotiated. It is an understatement to say that the business world is dynamic and economic conditions are always evolving. Changes often occur that ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_553521_15.html</link>
<pubDate>10th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Better Office Cubicles Manufacturer</title>
<description>Office cubicles, much criticized, mocked, and demonized, are still the wave of the present and the future in modern office design.  Last year, office cubicle sales reached $ 4.4 billion, representing 36% of all office-furniture sales.  Office cubicles are...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_553420_45.html</link>
<pubDate>09th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Professional Web Analytics Services</title>
<description>Web Analytics is the study of the interaction of web users with a website. Optimum7 pays close attention to Web Analytics Data as this information can well prove to be the difference between making money and losing money. The data is collected from the in...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_553417_45.html</link>
<pubDate>09th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Shopping For A Commercial Mortgage Can Be Treacherous</title>
<description>Commercial mortgage borrowers that have been through the process of securing commercial mortgage financing understanding the complexity of the process. For those that are purchasing a property, financing is just one segment of the equation. Borrowers have...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_552775_19.html</link>
<pubDate>09th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commercial Hard Money Loan Scenarios</title>
<description>A commercial hard money loan is a non-conventional commercial real estate loan that is not made by a traditional bank. This type of commercial financing has been in use for over 50 years. Such loans usually have a first lien on commercial property. If a h...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_552772_15.html</link>
<pubDate>09th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How to Dominate a Niche Category</title>
<description>This quick tutorial is an overview of the most common way Internet marketers have been able to control a niche category online. When entering a new niche/industry online, the path most website owners take is create only 1 site and build upon that site ove...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_552670_45.html</link>
<pubDate>09th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How to be green with Office Furniture</title>
<description>The typical office is the last place that you could think of to go green, but you might need to rethink. Today, companies are going green not only to create a healthy work environment for their employees but also to increase their profits. They are hiring...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_552659_45.html</link>
<pubDate>09th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Creative Workplaces from Maispace Office Furiture</title>
<description>Every day, our life is full of challenges. Hitting the traffic, going to work, dealing with customers, colleagues, employees and piles of papers, are some of the expected challenges we face.  There are also unexpected ones that we encounter on a daily bas...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_550407_45.html</link>
<pubDate>04th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Why You Need to Understand Latent Semantic Indexing</title>
<description>Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is the underlying root of the entire major search engines' algorithms. There is a complicated Wikipedia version here 

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_indexing) ...

that goes into detail of the Matrix rela...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_550405_81.html</link>
<pubDate>04th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What Investors Should Know About Commercial Real Estate Loans</title>
<description>Your commercial real estate transaction does not close unless the loan is approved. You can also improve the cash flow if the interest rate for the loan is low. So the more you know about commercial loans the better decision you can make about your commer...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_549890_19.html</link>
<pubDate>02nd June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How to Choose the Right Commercial Lender and the Right Commercial Loan</title>
<description>It is often tempting to jump into the first opportunity for a commercial loan that you may come across. While your tendency may be to focus on how additional funds may support or expand your business or commercial real estate portfolio, you have to take t...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_549889_15.html</link>
<pubDate>02nd June 2008</pubDate>
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