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	<description>Let us help you harness the power of the web</description>
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		<title>Award-winning Oregon &#8216;Green&#8217; Architect launches new blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Good&#8217;s  passion for the environment and 25+ years of professional experience produced an award-winning portfolio of homes, wineries, galleries, bridges and recreational facilities. According to NW Home magazine, his work has distinguished him as one of the Top 50 Architects in the Northwest for the past three years.
As they began looking for ways to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon home loan company kicks off brand new web site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The David Chandler Team, a leading Oregon home loan company kicked off the new year with a brand new web site developed by The Third River, Inc.  David had a key set of features in mind when he first approached us, including wanting to use Wordpress since he had used Wordpress on another site.  David [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/portfolio/oregon-home-loan-company-kicks-off-brand-new-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Door-to-door advertising company launches new web site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JD and Kristina Ribali had tried just about everything when it came to advertising their McMinnville lawn care business, Green &#38; Clean Lawn Care &#38; Household Services.   Then they came across the idea of doorhangers &#8230; and it worked.  In fact, it worked so well that they started a business creating and distributing marketing materials [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/portfolio/door-to-door-advertising-company-launches-new-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Get cash back shopping at your favorite online merchants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the year it is common to write down goals, set &#8220;resolutions&#8221;, and generally try to figure out how the new year will be better than the year before.  And let&#8217;s face it, 2009 has been a tough year for many.  Given the economic climate, most people would like to save some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/business/get-cash-back-shopping-at-your-favorite-online-merchants/</link>
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		<title>Salem Skin Care Manufacturer launches new look for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Touch of Mink, a local manufacturer of skin care products, launched a brand new look for their website for 2010.   We first met with Touch of Mink in early 2009 to discuss the possibilities regarding updating their website and their online marketing strategies.
For anybody not familiar with Touch of Mink, they have been around for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/portfolio/salem-skin-care-manufacturer-launches-new-look-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Local Bookstore uses Social Media to save the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new friend, Marie Trucco of the Greater Independence (Oregon) Business Incubator, posted a story on Facebook that I just had to pass along.
It is a story about blogs, burritos, and books, (I know &#8211; a seemingly odd threesome)  and how it saved Broadway Books, an independent bookstore in Portland.
You can read the entire article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/social-media/local-bookstore-uses-social-media-to-save-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Do I really need to Tweet what I ate for breakfast?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently presented a one-hour seminar for the Chemeketa Small Business Management Power Advising Group on the topic of Social Business Networking.  I focused on answering the following questions;

Is it relevant?
How do I find the time?
How do I &#8216;do it&#8217;?
Where is the return on investment?

During my presentation I talked about 4 steps to getting started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/social-media/do-i-really-need-tweet-what-i-ate-for-breakfast/</link>
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		<title>Optimizing titles and descriptions for better search results</title>
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Since we provide search engine optimization services for our clients, we get asked a lot of questions about how to improve rankings.
One of the steps we take to improve your search engine results is to make sure your meta-titles, meta-descriptions, and meta-keywords are accurate and descriptive for the key words and phrases that you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/search-engine-optimization/optimizing-titles-and-descriptions-for-better-search-results/</link>
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		<title>What the heck is a mind map and why should I use it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the question that I asked myself when I first heard of Mindmapping **.  I mean, c&#8217;mon, it sounded like it was straight out of some science fiction novel, when the evil genius mind-maps the hero&#8217;s brain so he can get all of his secret powers&#8230;
But, I kept hearing the term &#8230; so I decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/business/what-the-heck-is-a-mind-map-and-why-should-i-use-it/</link>
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		<title>Don&#039;t Quit Poem; When you need encouragement</title>
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This inspirational video is based on the oft-quoted and loved poem:
 When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you&#8217;re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethirdriver.com/videos/dont-quit-poem-when-you-need-encouragement/</link>
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