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	<title>Notes from Flat Creek &#187; Small Biz Tips</title>
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		<title>Natural Misunderstanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick tidbit with a profound quote all professionals should consider:

&#8220;The natural state of communication is misunderstanding.&#8221;

The quote is from Larry Wilson and the hat tip goes to Kevin Stirtz, who has more context on AllBusiness.com.
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		<title>Blogging&#8217;s benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal published an article a few days ago about the pros and cons of blogging for small businesses. The pluses can be counted in new clients, new business and an increased profile in one&#8217;s professional community. The downside is most definitely the time-consuming writing that regular blogging takes.
I&#8217;ve found that there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any other &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; fans out there? Eh, either way, if you watched last night&#8217;s episode, Chief Webber destroys Christina in their surgery competition, and he does so with his eyes closed. His trick? &#8220;It&#8217;s all about the basics&#8221; he tells Dr. Yang. She later used that advice to, well, you will just have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What We Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flat Creek is not just an outsourcing vendor, but an integrated operating partner, managing your back office and helping you keep track of all your vendor relationships. Often outsourcing gets wrapped up in the offshore debate between IBM and Dell and&#8230; well, seems like it has nothing to do with small businesses. To the contrary, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Without Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much do you spend each month on travel for your employees? If the answer is &#34;nothing&#34; then skip ahead to the next post. But if you do spend any money to bring employees to the home office on a regular basis, then you should take a look at virtual meetings as an alternative. Using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good for payroll poviders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s intersting that of all the activities offshore outsourcers are eager to take on, News.com reports that one they won&#8217;t touch is payroll services, supposedly due to industry giant ADP.
While ADP does offer a host of valuable services, we have actually found Paychex to be more responsive and an all around better fit for small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look before you buy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our services, Flat Creek evaluates and purchases equipment for our clients. They rely on us to select quality products that will stand up to anything they can throw at it. What good is a $1,200 color laser printer if the output isn&#8217;t quality?
But selecting the right product isn&#8217;t rocket science. It really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A great tool &#8211; the multifunction printer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC World has a nice round-up of inkjet and laser multifunction printers for personal/home office needs. These multifunctions can be a great workhorse as they combine several functions: printer, scanner, copier, and fax. As they saying goes, they can do all these things in one unit, but they can&#8217;t do them all well. For those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite collaboration tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Fuller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, we used a tool called eRoom in order to collaborate and share documents online. It worked in most situations but on a global scale it failed miserably. Then, we found the new tool out by Microsoft &#8211; SharePoint. This is a terrific online collaboration tool to share documents, calendars, contacts, tasks [...]]]></description>
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