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		<title>Sign spinning sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard of sign spinning, right? Maybe you&#8217;ve heard it called sign walking, or sign twirling, or sign waving&#8230; This is when a local business hires someone to stand on a corner, hold a sign, and spaz out in an attempt to get people to stop in. Small Business Owners: If you&#8217;re doing this, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/working-from-home/sign-spinning-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Letter to Fifth Third Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 15th, 2012 Fifth Third Bank Fifth Third Center 38 Fountain Square Plaza Cincinnati, OH 45263 RE: You jack-holes and your continued overdraft fees TO: Customer Support CC: The Board of Directors (Darryl F. Allen, B. Evan Bayh, Ulysses L. Bridgeman, Jr., Emerson L. Brumback, James P. Hackett, Gary R. Heminger, Jewell D. Hoover, William [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/the-real-world/fifth-third-bank-scam/</link>
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		<title>Hey dude promote my launch! (Personal)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been getting more and more emails that look personal, until I open them and realize they are just mass-copied &#8220;promote my shit&#8221; bulk emails sent to every good affiliate on the planet, all at once. Promotional emails, disguised as personal emails, with no way to unsubscribe. And it pisses me right off. Look, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/working-from-home/hey-dude-promote-my-launch-personal/</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahhh the joys of outsourcing. Keep reading for an actual email exchange I had today with a programmer in India&#8230; Posted word for word, for your enjoyment. Erik &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; From: Karthik To: Erik Stafford Time: 8:23am Hello Erik, Kindly find quote for your requirement. The script cost &#8211; $145 USD Installation cost &#8211; $25 USD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Outsourcing Tips (part #3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a reason I&#8217;ve been posting this link: http://www.erik-recommends.com/outsourcing That page hit me like a ton of bricks. Have you ever read something and felt like it was written SPECIFICALLY to you? That&#8217;s how I felt when I read it. Outsourcing has changed my business&#8230; But maybe you&#8217;re feeling like you aren&#8217;t quite ready for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/working-from-home/weekend-outsourcing-tips-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Weekend Outsourcing Tips (part #2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re talking about outsourcing. And man, do I have some crazy stories to tell: March 2009 &#8211; I spend about 2,000 hours training a new assistant, and he repays me by immediately vanishing like a fart in the wind. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- June 2009 &#8211; I fire 5 full-time outsourcers in a fit of rage, and close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/outsourcing/weekend-outsourcing-tips-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Weekend Outsourcing Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s the weekend, but since it&#8217;s LABOR day weekend here… I thought I would reach out with some thoughts on how you can do LESS labor and make MORE money at the same time. I&#8217;ve been talking a lot in the past couple of months about the new directions my business has taken. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/outsourcing/weekend-outsourcing-tips/</link>
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		<title>How to write a book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when we lived in the Caribbean, we had a blog. Several times a week, I would post an update about our life in the islands for our friends and family back home. When hurricane Ivan hit in 2004 and mashed everything, we ended up in Florida… And I went through the blog and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/mobile-publishing/how-to-write-a-book/</link>
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		<title>Culture Crafting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was peeking around YouTube today. Specifically, I was checking out the most subscribed channels of all time: http://www.youtube.com/channels?g=0&#038;s=ms&#038;t=a You may or may not know this, but when you start to get a ton of subscribers, and tons of &#8220;views&#8221; on your videos… YouTube will happily make you a paid content provider. They will pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/working-from-home/culture-crafting/</link>
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		<title>How To Spot Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been back from the Caribbean for about a week now, and settling into my routine. It feels good. Hopefully things are good in your neck of the woods, too Lots of interesting projects on the deck over here that I will be sharing with you over the coming weeks. Hopefully this &#8220;glimpse&#8221; into my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikstafford.com/motivation/how-to-spot-opportunities/</link>
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