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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:40:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Venus Pest Company is a Favorite Place on Google!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.venuspest.com"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 187px; height: 240px" border="2" alt="Venus Pest Company is a Favorite Place on Google!" align="right" width="230" height="302" src="http://www.venuspest.com/Portals/96/googlefavoriteplace.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are extremely proud to announce that we recently received a notice&amp;#160;that we are now classified as "Favorite Place on Google."&amp;#160; This classification was only given to 100,000 businesses across the U.S. and represents &lt;strong&gt;less than 1%&lt;/strong&gt; of businesses listed on Google.&amp;#160; It's a big deal for us to receive this classification coming from a small market like Bryan / College Station to still be able to achieve the level of traffic to our website to be noticed and rewarded.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Along with this designation, they sent this&amp;#160;pretty slick window decal that has a bar code in the bottom corner.&amp;#160; Customers are supposed to be able to scan that bar code with the cameras in their phones which will give them access to our business listing on Google.&amp;#160; There they can read and write reviews, or add Venus Pest Company as one of their own favorites!&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh how far we've come in such a short time!&amp;#160; In 2009 we put a ton of effort into enhancing our web presence to put us at the cutting edge of technology.&amp;#160; With tremendous help and effort from the crew at &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.agnitek.com/"&gt;Agnitek&lt;/a&gt;, we completely redesigned &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.venuspest.com"&gt;venuspest.com&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160; The result was a much more user friendly website with&amp;#160;substantially more, even better formatted&amp;#160;content than we ever dreamed of having before, which is one of the main reasons we are now receiving this designation as a "Favorite Place on Google."&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Embracing the social media phenomenon has been challenging but rewarding undertaking for us this year as well.&amp;#160; We believe that being more closely connected to more of our customers better enables us to respond to their needs, and do so in a more timely fashion.&amp;#160; Sharing important pest related news, critical updates from Dr. Scott, special discounts,&amp;#160;and other time sensitive information through social media outlets has also added tremendous value to our company and the services we are able to provide our clients..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please join us on Facebook or Twitter by using one of the links below where you can have a chance at 50% off your next pest control service.&amp;#160; Each month we will announce one winner from our Facebook and/or Twitter followers that will receive 50% off their next service.&amp;#160; You have to be set up to receive messages from us or you might miss the announcement if you are selected the winner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/venuspest"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Become a fan of Venus Pest Company on Facebook!" align="middle" width="163" height="47" src="http://www.venuspest.com/Portals/96/facebookbadgeemailrevised.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/venuspest"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Follow Venus Pest Company on Twitter!" align="middle" width="161" height="59" src="http://www.venuspest.com/Portals/96/twitterlogo.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks again to &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.agnitek.com/"&gt;Agnitek&lt;/a&gt;, our hard-working employees here at Venus Pest, and all of our friends out there who have helped us achieve so much this past year.&amp;#160; We look forward to our continued relationship with you and for a prosperous 2010 for everyone!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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