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		<title>Five Tips to Stay Motivated After Daylight Savings Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Daylight Savings Time comes to an end, many will rejoice for the extra hour of sleep and getting to wake up in the daylight again. However, that joy dissipates once the sun sets and they&#8217;re still at the office. Great things that come with this time of year; who doesn&#8217;t love watching a football [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/stay-motivated-after-daylight-savings-time/</link>
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		<title>How to Create a Professional Home Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With more people working from home, it&#8217;s important to make sure your home office can be a distraction-free place for organized and efficient work. So before you pull out the measuring tape and hammer, here are a few questions to help you create a killer home workspace: What type of space do you need? Make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/how-to-create-a-professional-home-office/</link>
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		<title>5 Tips for Hiring Someone You Won&#8217;t Have to Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you overwhelmed with your workload? It may be time to hire some help. The smaller your business, the more important it is to hire the right person on your first attempt. Making the wrong hire, especially in a small business, will cost your company a lot of time and money. These tips will prevent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/5-tips-for-hiring-someone-you-wont-have-to-fire/</link>
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		<title>7 Reasons Your Small Business Should Have a Facebook Fan Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a FreedomVoice customer, you may have noticed FreedomVoice has liked your fan page and started following you on Twitter. We want to know more about our customers and their businesses so that we can better connect online. However, we&#8217;ve noticed a lot of small businesses don&#8217;t have a Facebook fan page but are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/7-reasons-your-small-business-should-have-a-facebook-fan-page/</link>
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		<title>Be an 855 Number Pioneer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s about time. Way back in the Year 2000, the FCC released the 866 toll free number prefix in order to ease the burden on 888, 877, and 800 numbers. Ten years later, with high quality vanity spellings a rare commodity, the FCC finally has stepped up and unleashed a whole new batch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/be-an-855-number-pioneer/</link>
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		<title>Vanity Toll Free Numbers: Creativity Trumps Wishful Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read an article this morning entitled, &#8220;Tips for Picking a Great Toll Free Vanity Number&#8220;. Unfortunately, instead of listing realistic advice, the author chose to count down a handful of ways to make business owners rip out their hair searching again and again for unrealistic vanity 800 numbers. I don&#8217;t mean to sound pessimistic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/vanity-toll-free-numbers-creativity-trumps-wishful-thinking/</link>
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		<title>5 Reasons Your Home-Based Business Needs an 800 Number</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running a business out of your home is no simple task. If you&#8217;re to have any success as a home-based entrepreneur, you must first learn to manage your time, balance your home and work lives, and maintain some semblance of health and hygiene. But beyond your napping &#8220;sleeping&#8221; habits and your personal preference to shower/shave/get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/800-numbers-home-based-business/</link>
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		<title>Earth Day: How Can Telecommuting Help?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of the 41st Earth Day, I&#8217;m going to invoke the big &#8216;T&#8217;:  telecommuting. The benefits of telecommuting have never been more important to the health of the Earth. Each year, more cars hit the roads in long commutes, increasing energy consumption and putting out more and more pollution. For decades, leaders in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/earth-day-how-can-telecommuting-help/</link>
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		<title>Improving Your Small Business Website: Page Speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Google announced that a website&#8217;s speed (how fast your webpages load in a visitor&#8217;s browser) is now to be a ranking factor in determining how well a website ranks on their search engine. If your pages load very slow, you may have a harder time getting your website to rank for your targeted terms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/improving-your-website-page-speed/</link>
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		<title>Using Toll Free Numbers to Build Your Brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many successful businessesÂ define their brand by aÂ vanity toll free number, such as 1800FLOWERS, 1800DENTIST,Â and 1800CONTACTS. While vanity toll free numbers of that caliber are hard to come by, there are still ways that your small business can get more out ofÂ an 800 number when it comes to making a name for yourself. TodayÂ I outline three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomvoice.com/blog/using-toll-free-numbers-to-build-your-brand/</link>
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