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		<title>Noise in Marketing… Everyone is Talking But Can Anybody Hear You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was speaking to a friend who was lamenting that the old marketing tactics for his field just weren’t working any longer. In the past, he’d send out email and printed invitations to hundreds of business owners in his local market area, a community of about 200,000 people. There’d then be a follow-on phone call campaign to try to fill seats at an informational meeting where he could demonstrate his service and hopefully attract enough of an audience to ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle of Simplicity in Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know not to reinvent the wheel. Drastically altering a proven formula only works if we have an amazing concept with a built in strategy (but when does that really ever come to reality?).  When building, creating or dreaming our ideas, we so badly want to see this powerful, world-changing concept in our head become just that in actuality. Too often though, we over complicate the process by muddying up the details, usually when trying to explain the idea to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Stifling Productivity</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/stop-stifling-productivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as we may all want to think we are multi-tasking wizards, we&#8217;re not. To accomplish a task in the most efficient manner, we need our full attention focused on its completion. That being said, our brains can only take some much time spent seated and focused on a task without wandering. While some people may question allowing freedom in letting individuals operate at their own pace and in their methods, it can&#8217;t be argued how mind-numbing and creativity-killing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Never Limit the Value of Touch</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/never-limit-the-value-of-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://22touch.com/?p=10877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology today has given us endless advantages. The convenience and increased productivity of digital communication has allowed business to take on a wider scope and reduce the limits placed on our careers and networking options. But with this convenience comes a reliance on digital means that neglect the power of personal touch. The question needs to be asked of when technology and digital communication become limitations.<br />
Digital interactions are essential in today&#8217;s business landscape and act as a guide for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Building Habits Worth Keeping</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/building-habits-worth-keeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle<br />
An integral part of the 22 Touch system is the operation of forming habits to foster your referral generation process. 22 Touch operates as the automatic scheduling system to keep you on track with maintaining your business relationships. But wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if you could adopt the same process in your everyday interactions, creating your own habits to help you build to the ...]]></description>
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		<title>5 Minute Fitness with 22 Touch</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/the-team-takes-time-to-de-stress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 22 Touch team has been working hard the past few weeks. We took a couple minutes to de-stress with our office foam roller/knot releaser. If you haven&#8217;t tried one before, give it a shot! It&#8217;ll work out knots in any muscle and improve flexibility.<br />
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Got the Monkey?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A favorite inside joke of the 22 Touch team is playing “Who’s got the monkey”? We pass around a printout of a very cute little monkey and it signifies who has the biggest/most important project that week.<br />
Who’s got the monkey this week? Stacey! She has been working hard getting our billing system in order.<br />
In case you were curious, we got the idea after reading an article written in the Harvard Business Review on time management. You can download ...]]></description>
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		<title>Build a Habit of Sending Handwritten Notes</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/build-a-habit-of-sending-handwritten-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Power of a Personal Note<br />
Imagine you just received a hand written note from someone you just met&#8230;<br />
&#8220;Wow, it&#8217;s handwritten and has a real stamp on it.&#8221;<br />
How did that make you feel? Whoever sent it gave you the gift of their time and thought about you enough to prepare and send it to you. It’s amazing how powerful a little note is and yet it&#8217;s surprising how few people use this simple connecting tool.<br />
Here’s a tip ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Time</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/the-gift-of-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know the old saying “it is better to give than to receive,” but how many of us put it into practice in our businesses? This is not only relevant to Christmas presents or our personal lives &#8211; it is equally important in business.<br />
If you only contact your clients/customers, vendors and the other people you do business with to ask for a favor or to make a sale, you will come across as selfish and uncaring, and will ...]]></description>
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		<title>Your Relationship-Building Toolkit</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/your-relationship-building-toolkit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://22touch.com/?p=8477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our previous two blog posts we discussed how to create you’re A-list  – the 20-50 people who are most likely to give you a referral – and the importance of making meaningful communication with each of them a habit. To help you create this habit, when you set your schedule for systematically contacting each person on your list also include the type of contact, or “touch” as we call it. This will take the stress and guesswork out and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Habits to Make You (and Your A-List) Happy</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/habits-to-make-you-and-your-a-list-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our previous blog post, The Relational Law of Small Numbers, we discussed how to create your A-list – the list of 20-50 people who are most likely to give you a referral. Now it’s time to start building meaningful relationships with each person on your list. How do you do that? By making meaningful communication a habit.<br />
You know what you’re supposed to do, but if it’s not a habit – if you only do it sporadically &#8211; then ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Relational Law of Small Numbers</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/the-relational-law-of-small-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are like most sales people or small business owners, you have stacks of business cards that you’ve collected at networking events and business meetings, most of which you haven’t looked at in months. Or, you have a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system full of contacts, most of whom you haven’t contacted since you entered their names into the system. You certainly don’t have the time or resources to effectively build relationships with all of these people.<br />
The reality ...]]></description>
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		<title>Take Time to Smell the Roses, Or At Least Check Out the Cool Unicycle Mailbox</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/take-time-to-smell-the-roses-or-at-least-check-out-the-cool-unicycle-mailbox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing my friend Jim taught me, it was to stop and smell the roses. He could find something fascinating anywhere, from a stunning high alpine lake to a neighborhood garden to a heap of junk along the side of the road, and would always take time to check it out. Jim recently passed away after a battle with brain cancer, so in his honor I took a long bike ride and along the way I stopped to smell ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Relationship Rescue</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/the-relationship-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our previous blog post, “It’s Christmas in July,” we identified five things that you can do to turn your business around by the end of the year. One of them is to build better relationships with your existing clients/customers, who can be a rich source of increased business and referrals. If you haven’t connected with someone for a while or if you&#8217;ve somehow hurt your relationship, steps can be taken to rebuild the bridge.<br />
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Reach out. Initiate contact ...]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Christmas in July!  5 Ways to Turn Your Business Around Before the End of the Year</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/its-christmas-in-july-5-ways-to-turn-your-business-around-before-the-end-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses have struggled these past few years – indeed, news reports remind us of this on a daily basis. Are you one of these struggling businesses? Having just surpassed the mid-year point, now is the time to step back, assess your situation, and make some changes. Here are five things that you can do to help turn your business around by the end of the year.<br />
 1. Review Your Plan<br />
You do have a business plan, right? If not, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Make a Shift to the Personal Relationship Management Mindset</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/make-a-shift-to-the-personal-relationship-management-mindset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal Relationship Management (or PRM as we fondly refer to it), is a new way of looking at the world. What is this new world view? One thing it is NOT is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) – it is not a system whereby you accumulate an ever growing contact list and log in the haphazard activities that you have conducted with those contacts.<br />
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PRM is about building new habits for contacting people and staying in touch with those ...]]></description>
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		<title>In Love or Business&#8230; Success From Consistent Cultivation</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/in-love-or-business-success-from-consistent-cultivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague recently told me the story of how her new relationship started, and the light bulb in my head started flashing &#8220;that’s how it’s done!&#8221;<br />
Kathy already knew Tim (not their real names), but only as a friend of a friend. They did not have any kind of  “relationship.” Soon after they met, however, Tim started to stop by from time-to-time. If Kathy was not home, he would leave her a nice short note. If she was home, they ...]]></description>
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		<title>Getting More Sales Means Building a Referral Network</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/getting-more-sales-means-building-a-referral-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While talking with a group of salespeople at a conference a few weeks ago, a thought occurred to me. No matter how you approach the problem of getting more sales, one statement remains constant; the solution you implement has to maximize immediate ROI and minimize time investment.<br />
So what does that mean? The bottom line is salespeople are only interested in using tools that help them sell more, now. Think about the tactics used tools available on the market today, ...]]></description>
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		<title>What is True Giving?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I was researching the foundation of 22Touch. I found articles, company details from the 80’s and 90’s, and press releases. All of the content included information about our team leader and head visionary; however, I could hardly find details about the most meaningful contribution in he and his wife&#8217;s lives, which was all was all about giving. As a result, my perspective of giving has been challenged.<br />
The Gates Foundation is a wonderful organization of people committed ...]]></description>
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		<title>Technology is Not a Substitute for Face-to-Face Interaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent business news, a newspaper published information regarding a large company and this company’s acquisition of a robotics manufacturer for shipping warehouses. Yes, technology is wonderful, creating efficiencies and processes that improve our daily life. I’ve heard that the technology in our homes is equivalent to several servants 2000 years ago. Yet, for all that technology can do for us, there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction and relationship building practices.<br />
We at 22Touch have to toot our own ...]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Gifts Make a Difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever done something for someone that was simple, took little effort, and yet made a profound impact? While downtown with a friend last week, we received an opportunity to impact a person’s life positively by simply offering them our time, the tools we had available, and the modest skills we’ve developed.<br />
It was about 11:00 on Thursday night. The evening was pleasantly cool with a faint breeze and a light rain had just stopped.  We had been out ...]]></description>
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		<title>What Will Your Epitaph Say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While running on Table Rock late at night, I stared into the dark sky, awed by the glimmering stars whose brightness and beauty was dimmed by Boise lights. The word epitaph crossed my mind.  If you don’t know, it’s a short saying or life summary on a burial plaque. I’ve heard the question asked “what will your epitaph say?” As I stood there and pondered that question once more, I appreciated that my epitaph isn’t already written. I don’t think ...]]></description>
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		<title>People of Influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Idaho Business Review just announced their 2012 CEO’s of Influence. We need to applaud the wonderful efforts and accomplishments of the leaders recognized. Their impact on the community is tremendous, invaluable, and likely immeasurable. Great leaders are a very small minority, and as we experienced this year, sometimes a great leader is no longer with us and our community is left with a void.<br />
As we applaud local leaders, shouldn’t we ask ourselves how each one of us could ...]]></description>
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		<title>5 Personal Traits that Lead to Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[22 Touch connects at a deep personal level for both those who use it and to those to whom it is intended to “be applied to.” It creates trust and breaks down the barriers we build to protect us from intrusions, opening the doors to greater connections, more trust, more sales and then referrals from/to those who we know and trust.<br />
Trust will differentiate you and your business from the &#8216;noise&#8217; of everyone else in the marketplace.<br />
You Help Others<br ...]]></description>
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		<title>22 Touch Isn&#8217;t a New Concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 22touch model is not new and has been used all over the world by successful people and businesses for decades&#8230; but never with the aid of the 22 Touch web toolkit.  Our founder, Tom Gay, has built four sizable companies, installed the process in numerous mega-firms and now has taken it to the web in an easy to use, affordable and understandable way.<br />
Simply said, 22 Touch delivers a proven, intuitive and understandable system and structure for building new ...]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Time to Build Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing all successful businesses, whether large or small have one thing in common: their owners know how to build and maintain relationships. Quite often, most owners get caught up in the details of running a business and fail to realize how important building relationships with your customers, employees and vendors.<br />
Professional relationships are like personal relationships, you have to commit your most precious resource in order to see them flourish – your time. Going too long without touching base ...]]></description>
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		<title>IBL Expo</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/new-post-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to those who joined us at the Idaho Business League&#8217;s Technology Expo last week! We had a great turnout at Tom&#8217;s presentation and we enjoyed meeting each of you. If you signed up for our mailing list we will be sending out information early this week so watch for it!<br />
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		<title>Getting Close&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://22touch.com/getting-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are getting close to launching our Beta. If you are interested in testing, please be sure to sign up to our mailing list.<br />
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