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	<description>Building a Community of Quality: A discussion of our service, home building, remodeling, real estate, quality, professionalism &#38; customer service</description>
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		<title>Lower Your Direct Costs with Custom Builders USA &#8211; Webinar on May 11</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/12/lower-your-direct-costs-with-custom-builders-usa-webinar-on-may-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at Custom Builders USA have offered to conduct a special webinar for GuildQuality members on May 11 from 1-2pm ET.   The speaker will be Bill Smithers (CEO), who will share how the CB/USA network combines the purchasing power of reputable builders to lower costs and increase service levels from suppliers.  CB/USA&#8217;s value proposition is well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special offer from RemodelQA</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/11/special-offer-from-remodelqa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently connected with an old friend, who has launched a website called RemodelQA.  The site is intended to connect homeowners, who have questions about remodeling or home improvement projects, with qualified professionals.  While still early days, the company has 39,000 indexed pages in Google.
The company was founded by experts in search engine optimization.  If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add the new GQ badge to your company website!</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/10/add-the-new-gq-badge-to-your-company-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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In January, I previewed the new GuildQuality badges. And as of last night, they are ready for you to add them to your company&#8217;s website. Click here to get started.
A few great things about the new GQ badge:
1) It&#8217;s smart like a chameleon. If you publish your customer report, it instructs people to &#8220;view customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling survey respondents to share via Facebook or Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/09/enabling-survey-respondents-to-share-via-facebook-or-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are the customer of one of our members who publishes their customer report, then you&#8217;ll see this form right after you complete a survey by mail or email. This is also the form you see if you return to your survey response to view it at a later date (six percent of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got a YouTube channel? Add it to your member profile</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/09/got-a-youtube-channel-add-it-to-your-member-profile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/09/got-a-youtube-channel-add-it-to-your-member-profile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can now add your company&#8217;s YouTube channel to your member profile (and Vimeo, too). Click here to make that happen.
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		<title>System Enhancement: Publish your customers&#8217; comments in one-click</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/05/system-enhancement-publish-your-customers-comments-in-one-click/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just one click, you can now publish the comments you receive in your survey responses directly to your Customer Report. Those newly published comments will also appear in the GuildQuality Stream. Watch this 90 second video to see how its done!

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		<title>The 2010 Rackspace FANATI Award Winner</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/05/the-2010-rackspace-fanati-award-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GuildQuality was a finalist for the Rackspace FANATI Award for exceptional customer service. Alas, we didn&#8217;t bring home the gold. That honor went to PetRelocation.com. Their video is worth a watch:

These guys love what they do. If ever we need to move our pets, I&#8217;m definitely calling them.
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		<title>Add up to 10 listings in your member profile for no charge</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/03/add-up-to-10-listings-in-your-member-profile-for-no-charge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/03/add-up-to-10-listings-in-your-member-profile-for-no-charge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your member profile allows you to publish pictures and descriptions of your work, communities, and homes for sale. We call these &#8220;listings&#8221;. Previously, we&#8217;ve allowed every member to publish one listing for free, and we&#8217;ve charged extra for more than 1.
Today, we raised the &#8220;free&#8221; limit to 10 listings.
So if you haven’t created a Listing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are you in the building or remodeling profession? Seeking 100 answers for students of the Building Arts.</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/03/why-are-you-in-the-building-or-remodeling-profession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/03/why-are-you-in-the-building-or-remodeling-profession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American College of the Building Arts is dedicated to educating the next generation of building artisans. Students at the college are learning both the craft and the profession of construction.
Visit the college&#8217;s site or read this recent Preservation Magazine article, and you&#8217;ll quickly see why we&#8217;d like to support their mission. In our own ways, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing patterns among the visitors to GuildQuality.com</title>
		<link>http://www.guildquality.com/blog/2010/03/03/sharing-patterns-among-the-visitors-to-guildquality-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By clicking on the little orange &#8220;Share This&#8221; icon in the footer of every page on our website, visitors can easily share the page they&#8217;re viewing via email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. About 5 times a day, someone uses this little doohicky.
A few months ago, I posted our visitors&#8217; sharing patterns. For those that are [...]]]></description>
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