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				<title><![CDATA[Yeah, I agree. I`m new here and ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I agree. I`m new here and love sharing ideas and helping others but the outright advertising (the ones who just say call me and adds no value to the discussion) should be deleted from any discussion thread.
But that`s just my opinion.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  Josh,
  &#160;
  Thanks fo]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  Josh,
  &#160;
  Thanks for the nod. We`re doing our best! We`re extremely proud of how we`ve encouraged members and users to do our marketing for us. Unfortunately, there are always those who abuse the system. I hope we ca]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
&#160;our traffic is up 184% o]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
&#160;our traffic is up 184% over last year for this time period. sign of the times...

Yeh, all the people hawking their services&#160;]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  really appreciate it. i have]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  really appreciate it. i have been traveling a ton and may not have noticed some of this.
  &#160;
  what i have noticed is that -- get this -- our traffic is up 184% over last year for this time period. sign of the times...]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
Josh and thread contributors, ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
Josh and thread contributors, please private message me some examples of what you`re referring to. clearly we`re not catching as much as we should. happy to upgrade our efforts in this area!&#160;Rich (a]]></description>
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  Josh and thread contributors]]></title>
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  Josh and thread contributors, please private message me some examples of what you`re referring to. clearly we`re not catching as much as we should. happy to upgrade our efforts in this area!
  &#160;
  Rich (and SuN team)]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:54:50 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I gotta agree.&#160; I love the ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I gotta agree.&#160; I love the idea of the forums, but the more I read, the more and more I am noticing this.&#160; It is getting rather annoying.
It is so hard to find a good business/entrepreneur forum that isn`t just FILLED with self promo]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[it is inevitable to some extent.]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[it is inevitable to some extent.&#160; I think tech crunch had this problem several years ago...]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I know what you mean Paula and I]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I know what you mean Paula and I`ve&#160;had a similar response (ditto with&#160;the more political ones) ... I find myself reading/responding to fewer postings (no great loss!~) and have stopped following some threads entirely.
]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Sigs aren`t the issue, that isn`]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Sigs aren`t the issue, that isn`t what I`m talking about. Sigs are like wearing a T-shirt with your business information. What I mean is that every other post I click on expecting to find some conversation is instead a long, drawn-out declaration of one`s [...]]]></description>
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