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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed we&#8217;ve been developing many of our own products lately. We&#8217;ve always been thinking along these lines, and we&#8217;ve certainly had our share of items we&#8217;ve brought to market. I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s about time to put our design philosophy into words. (Although &#8220;design philosophy&#8221; sounds like more than it really is, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=275&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d take a few minutes to share some ideas for some imprints we&#8217;ve tried lately. Some internal projects we&#8217;ve done, and some customer work we&#8217;ve handled has produced some nice results. If you have clients looking for something a little different than the standard fare, maybe these ideas will get your brainstorming started? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=265&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Car Dealers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had to take my car in for service. There are two Ford dealers I&#8217;ve used lately. One is one of the largest in the area, the other is probably one of the smallest. The smaller one is closer to where I work, so that one got the nod this time. What really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=263&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Much to the Chagrin of My Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Martin</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Backstory on BudBear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen or heard that we&#8217;ve recently announced our new BudBear™ earbuds holder. We really want to make items that solve real problems in the simplest way possible… with a genuine bias for the promotional products world. (After all, if an item is useful to the end-recipient, she will use it more, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=251&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Company</title>
		<link>http://numopromo.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/culture-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having used Macs exclusively as long as I&#8217;ve been using computers, I&#8217;ve kept pretty close tabs on Apple as a brand and as a company for a couple decades now. I really wasn&#8217;t going to write anything on the resignation of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. After all, a bizillion other writers have pretty much said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=246&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Licensed Camo</title>
		<link>http://numopromo.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/licensed-camo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been working on updating some info and photos on our licensed camo items (also known as &#8220;trademark camo&#8221;) on the Numo website. Although the timing wasn&#8217;t really intentional, I do think it was fairly timely with hunting season coming up pretty soon. If you&#8217;re not familiar with our licensed camo items, we offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=234&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History</title>
		<link>http://numopromo.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from a really great vacation during which I had the opportunity to take my family to visit The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan. (I highly recommend a visit if you have any interest in American history &#8212; not just automotive.) One thing that caught my eye was adjacent to the display [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=227&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Product Photography: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last post, I covered some basic tips on capturing better images of products you need for photos. This time, things are going to get a little more advanced. A Little Space You don&#8217;t need a pro photo studio to get very usable results, but if you&#8217;re going to be shooting more than a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=211&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Product Photography: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://numopromo.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/product-photography-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shoaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good product photography can make a really big difference in the professionalism of any presentation. I certainly don&#8217;t consider myself a pro photographer, but there are a few things I&#8217;ve learned shooting photos of Numo product over the past decade or so. Perhaps some of this will be helpful in getting you better images, whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numopromo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8855745&amp;post=203&amp;subd=numopromo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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