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		<title>A Comedy Caravan Win</title>
		<link>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2012/03/12/a-comedy-caravan-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It always feels good when you see a product your company created put to good use. In this case, the Comedy Caravan &#8211; Louisville&#8217;s longest running comedy club &#8211;  is promoting a text campaign powered by The Hound, a Blackstone creation stacked with useful integrated marketing tools. If you&#8217;re not familiar with text campaigns, the basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the “A Website for Change” Voting Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Blackstone Media launched its second annual website giveaway through A Website for Change. Then, just last week, Blackstone announced that Am Vets Post 9 was this year’s winner (congrats Am Vets Post 9!). Since we opened up text voting this year and since this year’s response dwarfed last year’s, we thought it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking up Where Google Analytics Left off</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have a commerce site and you have dedicated resources to check Google Analytics to determine if the keywords you’re spending money on are paying off. This is a fairly simple concept that is easy to execute, except for one thing. Google Analytics can only track conversions on keywords if the purchase is made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackstone&#8217;s QR Code Adventure</title>
		<link>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2012/01/06/blackstones-qr-code-adventure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2012/01/06/blackstones-qr-code-adventure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[original research]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awhile back, our programmer/designer Ty posted a link, in our forum, detailing a QR code study among college students. The article itself had some pretty good information: 81% of students own smartphones 80% had seen QR codes 21% had successfully scanned a QR code 75% said they are “not likely” to scan a QR code [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trends, Predictions, and other Stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/12/27/trends-predictions-and-other-stuff-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/12/27/trends-predictions-and-other-stuff-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Interwebs are littered with articles about marketing trends for 2012, so here at Blackstone, we thought we would explore a few of the articles and report back to you, our loyal reader, what we have found. We Googled the term “marketing trends for 2012” and found about 104 million results. After reading all 104 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Your Favorite Louisville-area Non-Profit Can Win a Free Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, A Website for Change began accepting nominations to give away a free website for a deserving non-profit in Kentuckiana and surrounding areas. Nominations will be accepted through January 6, 2012, when the field of nominations will be narrowed to five organizations for which the public can vote. Check out the nomination guidelines, then go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackstone’s Trusty to Rock Venture Connectors Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blackstone President Taylor Trusty will be the featured speaker at the Venture Connectors entrepreneur and investor forum on December 7.  His talk will cover creative QR code applications and tracking, as well as QR code trends both locally and nationally. To add some real local flavor to the event, Blackstone is currently running a QR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design in Louisville Kentucky</title>
		<link>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/05/06/web-design-in-louisville-kentucky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/05/06/web-design-in-louisville-kentucky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you in the market for a new website? You should take a look at our portfolio of work! While the vast majority of our clients are from the Louisville area, that doesn&#8217;t stop us from taking on the occasional Atlanta, New York or Southern Indiana client. Whether you are looking for a basic web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Scholar House to get New Online Space</title>
		<link>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/03/11/family-scholar-house-to-get-new-online-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/03/11/family-scholar-house-to-get-new-online-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Trusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blackstone Media attended the 37th Annual Louie Awards Gala which was held this past February.  We were extremely honored to have been recognized with two awards presented by the Advertising Federation of Louisville.   Our team won the silver addy for the Advertising Federation of Louisville website and the gold addy for A Website for Change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam and You!</title>
		<link>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/03/08/seo-spam-and-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackstonemedia.net/blog/index.php/2011/03/08/seo-spam-and-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a loyal reader of our blog, you know that we are making strides in the greater Kentucky market to be the first place potential clients look to for Kentucky Search Engine Optimization, Louisville Web Design and Louisville .Net development needs. As an industry leader, we make sure that we are educating our clients on what [...]]]></description>
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