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		<title>Facebook Is Using Minors To Advertise Alcohol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social marketing holds lots of potential but also many perils, especially when it involves minors. This is especially true for alcohol advertising. It is both illegal and improper for a 13 year old to promote Coors Light or a vodka brand in a televisio...


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		<link>http://chitechscene.com/2011/11/22/facebook-is-using-minors-to-advertise-alcohol/</link>
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		<title>Top-tier this</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I hear one more Silicon Valley type gush over a computer science graduate from CMU, MIT, or Stanford, I&#8217;m going to puke. Yes, yes, I&#8217;m sure these are mighty dandy nice schools, but you&#8217;re letting the stench of superiority and shall...


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		<title>Featured Video: Tom Gimbel on Business Revival After Losing a Major Client</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Gimbel of The LaSalle Network shares his experience of losing one of their biggest customers and how they came out on top....


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		<link>http://chitechscene.com/2011/11/21/featured-video-tom-gimbel-on-business-revival-after-losing-a-major-client/</link>
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		<title>Second-Stage Spotlight: Michael Hines of Gymboree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet Michael Hines, President of Gymboree Play &#38;amp; Music of Chicago. The Coleman Center recently sat down with Michael to see how he got to where he is today and what&#38;rsquo;s next for this second-stage business owner....


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		<title>Digital advertising: PPC vs. CPM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Harrison In digital advertising, the two most popular ways of purchasing ad space are PPC (pay-per-click), which allows you to pay only when someone clicks on your ad, and CPM (cost-per-milli; &#8220;milli" is Latin for "thousand&#8221;), where...


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		<title>Small-biz calendar: Social-media planning, a guide to exporting, and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crain's brings you weekly news of seminars, networking events, awards dinners, contests and courses of interest to Chicago-area entrepreneurs. Send your event announcements to smallbizcalendar@gmail.com 

EVENTS JUST ANNOUNCED

Monday, Nov. 21
Tax...


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		<title>Surprise! Some Chicago-area banks are lending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Moltz One of my favorite signs in this economy is the one in front of banks that says, &#8220;We are lending!&#8221; It reminds the consumer that they should not disqualify themselves from a loan before they even apply. (Most banks will do tha...


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		<link>http://chitechscene.com/2011/11/21/surprise-some-chicago-area-banks-are-lending/</link>
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		<title>Taking the guesswork out of startup success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anne Fisher Why do most startups fail? Eric Ries, in his new book, "The Lean Startup," writes that a common culprit is &#8220;the allure of a good plan, a solid strategy and thorough market research.&#8221;What? Aren't these the very things that con...


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		<title>Gini Dietrich: Is your website about you &#8212; or the customer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gini Dietrich Earlier this week, I conducted a workshop for a small group of business leaders.It's one of my most favorite things to do because the groups are typically 20-25 people so we can really dig into their business strategies, look at their ...


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		<link>http://chitechscene.com/2011/11/18/gini-dietrich-is-your-website-about-you-or-the-customer/</link>
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		<title>Score Chicago: A video link in your e-mail can boost your open rate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. GoodmanSteve Robinson of Constant Contact is a frequent guest on Score Chicago's CAN-TV Hotline 21 show.  On a recent show, Steve and I discussed the impact of a video link on email open rates. Steve contends that people love to click on vid...


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		<link>http://chitechscene.com/2011/11/17/score-chicago-a-video-link-in-your-e-mail-can-boost-your-open-rate/</link>
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