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		<title>5 Easy Tips to Enhance Your Public Speaking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are as many &#8216;public speaking personalities&#8217; as there are personalities.  Extroverts, introverts, big personalities, mild personalities, fun and serious people&#8230; All can make great presenters.  Members of Transparent are being asked to speak regularly and we are finding this to be a great way to connect with our audience!  We also find that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways To Explain New Ideas To Your Clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick growth is a double edged sword.  As your company matures, your focus may shift or the market may change a bit and you will need to evolve. It takes time to truly find your niche and even more importantly, your perfect clients. When Transparent launched, we got really good, really fast at developing custom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Burning Questions With the Ultimate Team Player &#8211; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met Mailynne Calvin 2009 at a networking event that I attended on behalf of my former web company employer. She was a bit shy, super nice and approachable. She mentioned that she was a writer and project organizer and asked me if she could help with content writing for any of our web clients. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 7 Dirty Secrets of Entrepreneurship &#8211; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love what I do and I’m the consummate optimist.  Even when things are rough, I can find the silver lining… But there are a few things I wish I would have been more prepared for when I started Transparent Social Media.   I am listing them here, along with a counterpoint – the ‘silver lining’. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best way to Build your Facebook Following Online, is Having a Good Offline Strategy &#8211; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a recent (short) dialog with a potential client: “What?  You mean I shouldn’t ‘buy’ my followers?  I could get to 1000 fans OVERNIGHT for $150!”  I sat bewildered at the statement.  “Jason, I saw this ad on Facebook that said I could have 1000 followers and I want 1000 followers now!”. - I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Client Selection And Killing the Elephant In The Room &#8211; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something crazy happens when you start your own business.  You become REALLY honest REALLY fast. Honest with yourself. Honest with your employees or partners. Honest with your prospects. Honest with your clients. At least that&#8217;s what&#8217;s been happening with my team. It&#8217;s not like I went around telling lies to everyone prior to starting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Guitar Virtuoso Will Kimbrough Can Help You With Social Media Marketing &#8211; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a HUGE Americana music fan.  I love folk, rock, bluegrass and acoustic singer/songwriter stuff.  If you can write a good song, and play it on an acoustic guitar I&#8217;m in. One of my favorite Nashville singer/songwriter, guitar virtuosos is Will Kimbrough.   Will is an award winning &#8211; sought after session and touring guitar player [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Use The Power Of Recognition To Grow Your Business &#8211; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the TV Show American Pickers.   It’s well shot, fun for a family and the characters seem genuine and upbeat.  The premise is that two guys, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz (with the support of their office manager Danielle) travel the country looking for forgotten or antique items in barns, warehouses, homes and fields, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Your Business Can Benefit From Twitter, By Stalking Dave Delaney &#8212; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I started Transparent Social Media less than two years ago, I couldn’t have predicted the cool and humbling opportunities that have presented themselves.  As an example I was asked to co-teach the first ever Social Media class at Belmont University as an Adjunct Professor in the Marketing Department.  It was some of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Reasons I Agreed to an &#8220;April Blog Challenge&#8221; With Bill Seaver of MicroExplosion Media &#8211; Jason Elkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hang out with Bill Seaver at least once a month at the Hendersonville Geek Breakfast.   Geek breakfast is a fun opportunity to get together with others that are interested in gadgets, technology, web services, apps and social media to discuss trends and other geeky stuff.  When I started building my company, Bill was my [...]]]></description>
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