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		<title>Astonishing Agencies Helping Local Charities and Building Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our favorite stories to share about insurance agency partners are the updates involving community giving where local charities or causes are concerned. This past month, from east to west, Astonish Results’ agencies have been reaching out to help their communities. Heffernan Insurance of California announced the 1st Annual Heffernan Foundation 5 mile Walk for Humanity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts History and Community Feed the Culture at Ross Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1925, Ross Insurance Agency of Holyoke, Massachusetts, has seen it all. From the early days when the local mills were top textile producers, to today where the mills will soon be housing super-computers with the historic river helping to cool and power massive servers for scientific and technological research. For over 85 years, Ross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astonish Results Partner Supports New Jersey Education with Charitable Efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acts of philanthropy help the entire insurance industry overcome negative perceptions while establishing individual agencies as caring, community-minded businesses on a local level. One Astonish Results agency partner leading the charge is the charity-minded team from The Tarpey Group, LLC in New Jersey, led by owner Brian Tarpey. The Fairfield, NJ insurance and financial services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Strategy and Insurance with The Weimer Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astonish Results agency partner The Weimer Group of Harleysville, Pennsylvania was interviewed by a local business man recently to gain perspective on how they are using social media to help generate insurance leads and create buzz around the agency. Weimer Group vice president Dave Beck and administrative assistant Valerie Chrostek spoke to Chuck of Chuck Media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astonish Coaching&#8217;s August e-Agency Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astonish Coaching has announced the e-agency winners for the month of August. This month Alandale Insurance Agency of California has been named e-Agency of the Month, for their genuine and forward thinking approach to attracting business. The Alandale Insurance employees noticed a local eatery that was very popular within the town. They reached out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encharter Insurance Agency Culture Tour</title>
		<link>http://astonishingagencies.com/2010/08/encharter-office-tour/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=encharter-office-tour</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nautical blue and green walls, contemporary artwork, floral adornments and an American Bandstand theme day are all the makings of a culture-filled agency tour. These are the sights we saw upon entering the Encharter Insurance Group Amherst, MA office last week. The receptionist Kate was on the phone as we heard a familiar Astonish Results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astonish Results Insurance Agency Partner Blog Round-up</title>
		<link>http://astonishingagencies.com/2010/08/astonish-results-insurance-agency-partner-blog-round-up/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=astonish-results-insurance-agency-partner-blog-round-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we take a look around the Astonish Results insurance marketing partner community to see what sort of things our agency partners are blogging about. Dagley Insurance in Katy, Texas speaks about how they have used creativity in all aspects of digital marketing, particularly in their social media efforts. Reaching out to youth groups around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berry Insurance Shows Local Businesses Into the Digital Age</title>
		<link>http://astonishingagencies.com/2010/07/berry-insurance-event/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=berry-insurance-event</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I refuse to participate in the recession,” says Tim Sawyer, president of Astonish Results, to an eager audience waiting to hear the magic way to turn their businesses around using the internet. The secret is that there is no magic. Berry Insurance of Franklin, Massachusetts, partnered with Astonish Results to present a seminar to local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bucci Insurance Shows Local Business Owners How to Leverage Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Do you think social media is a fad?” That was the first question asked last night by Tony Bucci, CEO of Bucci Insurance, at the networking event, “Are You Ready for the Future?” More than 50 local business owners gathered at the Airport Radisson Hotel in Warwick, RI, to learn how they could use digital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggers Uniting to Help Restaurants Understand Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astonish Results agency bloggers are banding together to help restaurants understand the specific  insurance challenges and coverage’s for their industry. Posts have included topics such as liability insurance, workers compensation, excess liability, and commercial property insurance. New or used equipment can be faulty, the delivery vehicles can get into accidents, customers can slip and fall [...]]]></description>
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