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		<title>Spotting Search Engine Optimization Scams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization Scams : How to Avoid Getting Burned by Unethical SEO Companies Clay Butler, Founder Claytowne Branding and Indentity Design A Simpler Time&#8230;or Perhaps a More Naive Time Remember &#8220;back in the day&#8221; when you received perhaps three to five emails per day? They were always welcomed notes from friends or business related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon Illustrations for Dr Mercola&#8217;s Allopath Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got a call a couple of month&#8217;s ago. The Dr Joseph Mercola group needed to have a storyboard created based upon their script. Having an extensive background in cartooning, character design and storyboarding, I was an obvious choice.When I read the script I was thrilled. It was tight, funny and relevent. Politically and socially the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Novel &#8220;A Pirate&#8217;s Fate&#8221; Gets Killer Cover Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, it&#8217;s not often that I get to draw skeletons. When I was younger my illustrations were frequntly on the macabre side and usually based around, sci-fi/swords and sorcery themes. This illustration was a great way to spice up an already exciting month of projects. First I created a really tight pencil drawing then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Dream Cycles Opens Flagship Showroom!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I received a very focused and urgent email from Jerry Hobby of Texas Business Technologies on a Friday afternoon. He was on a mission to find a designer that could create an amazing logo and website for his client American Dream Cycles. Jerry was very specific and ready to move on this: &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Words Markets ASL Wrapping Paper!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mistie and Jennifer of Beyond the Words Inc. came to me with an interesting verture.They wanted to creat ASL (American Sign Language) themed wrapping papers. So instead of text it would have hands spelling out the letters in ASL. A significant reason they were drawn to me was they really liked the way I drew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quality Water Treatment Gets &#8220;The Treatment&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wrapped up the rebuild of www.qualitywatertreatment.com. The old site had several major issues that needed to be adressed: 1. Poor branding 2. Poor navigation 3. &#8220;Buy Now&#8221; buttons that didn&#8217;t work properly in Firefox View screenshot of old site. Solutions included a completely new navigational structure, new logo, a new contemporary design, and &#8220;buy&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mad Winners&#8221; Get&#8217;s A Kick Out of  Their New Logo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When searching for competent individuals or companies on the internet to hire for various needs it has been my experience that you need a certain amount of luck. I have had both negative and positive experiences. I would say without question the most positive experience to date was the hiring of Clay Butler to design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Nose Balm for Well Adjusted Dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clay, I just wanted to thank you for being a true professional. Itâ€™s not easy being a small business owner and a new one at that. Itâ€™s an almost daily uphill battle trying to find reliable people to work with. From our first conversation you have totally â€œgottenâ€ it. You took my loose idea for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claytowne.org/latest-projects/new-nose-balm-for-well-adjusted-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Clean This!&#8230;New Image, New Company</title>
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		<title>PillowSoft Gel&#8217;s New Logo and Packaging</title>
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