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		<title>Rodman Ride Company Teams &#8211; Fun Day, Great Cause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks for a great company team building event? Please consider putting together a company team for the 2010 Rodman Ride for Kids of behalf of Big Brothers Big Sisters Mass Bay (BBBSMB). This will be my 10th year doing the ride, and it’s a really fun day for companies and families to participate in. No&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/rodman-ride-company-teams-fun-day-great-cause/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/rodman-ride-company-teams-fun-day-great-cause/</link>
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		<title>How to Avoid Trading Your Own Business for a Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it, most entrepreneurs plan to sell their companies. They have visions of closing the deal, taking the check, and riding off into the sunset. It’s a nice vision, but one that rarely plays out in the real world. In many smaller companies, the founders have their fingerprints on everything—they are too fundamental to&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/how-to-avoid-trading-your-own-business-for-a-job/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/how-to-avoid-trading-your-own-business-for-a-job/</link>
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		<title>The Misapplication of Freemium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The word “freemium” is tossed around a lot these days, but the term is often misunderstood and misapplied. Formed by combining the words “free” and “premium,” freemium is a business model that involves offering basic web services or products for free, while charging a premium for advanced or special features. The model has become very&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/freemium-definition/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Fundraising: Do It Once and Do It Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A successful fundraising campaign begins with a solid strategy, a clear understanding of the market opportunity, excellent presentation materials, and a carefully developed list of targeted investors. These activities are critical to the success of the venture, and management needs to be involved. Yet too often, businesses appeal to the investment community without doing their&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/fundraising-do-it-once-and-do-it-right/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/fundraising-do-it-once-and-do-it-right/</link>
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		<title>Drinking Our Own Kool-Aid With Our New Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you spend your days helping clients with their website strategy, you expect that your website will be held to a high standard.  Today we took the wraps off our new website (www.acceleration-partners.com), which was the result of many months of work and planning with the folks at Fresh Tilled Soil (FTS) who designed and&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/our-new-wordpress-website/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/our-new-wordpress-website/</link>
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		<title>Ten Things Your Affiliate Manager Will Never Tell You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Our “Screening” of Your Affiliates Is Limited To Auto Approval There aren’t many cases where an active affiliate manager should set your program to automatically approve affiliates. Fraud is rampant and many affiliate applicants should be rejected from the outset, especially if you are trying to maintain brand standards. Also, having a lot of&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/ten-things-your-affiliate-manager-will-never-tell-you/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/ten-things-your-affiliate-manager-will-never-tell-you/</link>
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		<title>Raising Money &amp; the Problem of Intermediaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early-stage companies need to be very careful about working with intermediaries who offer to help with “fundraising” and expect be compensated with a percentage of the money raised. Unfortunately, this is gray area in which many people operate on the darker side of charcoal. First and foremost, it is illegal for someone who is not&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/raising-money-intermediaries/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/raising-money-intermediaries/</link>
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		<title>What is Online Marketing Strategy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don’t start building a house by hiring a carpenter—you hire an architect. A marketing strategist is the architect for your website. It’s his or her job to figure out your needs and wants, translate those into workable plans and provide the proper oversight. Without this planning, what you get may not fit your needs&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/why-does-my-company-need-online-marketing-strategy-help/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/why-does-my-company-need-online-marketing-strategy-help/</link>
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		<title>15 Million Reasons B2B Search Optimization Pays Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many owners and managers still don’t believe the Internet can be a valuable lead-generation and sales tool for their business-to-business company. Usually this is because they don’t currently get any leads this way, which may simply be because the company has little to no search presence. It seems obvious to say that you won’t get&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/organic-search-success-story/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/organic-search-success-story/</link>
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		<title>What a Fundrasing Consultant Can &amp; Cannot Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things prospective clients often ask us about a business plan/fundraising project is “What&#8217;s your track record?” or “What percentage of the companies that you’ve helped have been funded?” These are fair questions, but the answers aren’t straightforward. First and foremost, we never promise companies that they can raise money. Such promises&#8230;<div class="rm-blog"><a href="http://www.acceleration-partners.com/fundrasing-consultant-can-and-cannot-do/" class="clickMore link">Learn More</a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleration-partners.com/fundrasing-consultant-can-and-cannot-do/</link>
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