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		<title>Apple Auto Glass in Mount Pearl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple Auto Glass]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many have you read in my previous post Tractors on the Highway I had a windshield with two minor nicks and one real bad crack.
My father, who works in the glass industry, recommended Apple Auto Glass on Topsail Rd. Now I&#8217;m recommending them to you.
There service was great and they had my vehicle road-worthy in only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It pays to offer good customer service</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/business/it-pays-to-offer-good-customer-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jungle Jims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilmory Resort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble Zip Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poor service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vogue Optical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Social media and blogging have made good customer service imperative in ways that many business owners still don&#8217;t understand.
I have not done near enough articles on customers service, good or bad, since starting my blog, but of the businesses I&#8217;ve covered check out how well my blog ranks on Google.
This shows the importance of offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting glasses? Go to Vogue Optical</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brand Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vogue Optical]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gregpike.ca/?p=1199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I first needed glasses, which was only three years ago, I&#8217;ve gone to Vogue Optical.
They&#8217;ve always provided me excellent customer service. But recently they went above and beyond their usual call to great service.
I ordered some specialty glasses. Sporty prescription sunglasses. The lens would be difficult to craft, but I understood that.
I placed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s The Last Airbender &#8211; A Classy Review</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/rants/m-night-shyamalans-the-last-airbender/</link>
		<comments>http://gregpike.ca/rants/m-night-shyamalans-the-last-airbender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[M Night Shyamalan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Last Airbender]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Upon hearing that there would a live action movie of Avatar, the Last Airbender, I convinced Riss that she would have to watch the show so that when the movie came out we would be ready for it.
We finished watching it together last night  and it was just as good the second time around as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marble Zip Tours in Humber Valley</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/trips/marble-zip-tours-in-humber-valley/</link>
		<comments>http://gregpike.ca/trips/marble-zip-tours-in-humber-valley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humber Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble Zip Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steady Brook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zip Lines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wild.
If I could use one word to describe Marble Zip Tours that would be it.
Their tours are wild, in ever sense of the word.
Zip Lining
Riss and I booked a zip-lining tour while we were staying in Humber Valley. We came to Humber Valley mostly for the scenary, but decided to do something fun while in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon can&#8217;t do math</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/service/verizon-cant-do-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Verizon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gregpike.ca/?p=996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not been posting lately. My bad. I have been away at a conference and I am still catching up on stuff.
Anyways while I was in Toronto I was shown this video which I can still barely believe.

Amended: Apparently this is a regular problem. Weird Al Yankovic found a place that sells Waffles and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top four worst companies in America</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/rants/top-four-worst-companies-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cash4Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumerist]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gregpike.ca/?p=914</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it says a lot when three of the top four worst companies in America are back in contention for this years Consumerist Worst Company in America contest.
Bank of America, Ticketmaster, and Comcast are no strangers to this competition, and I think that speaks very poorly of their customer service.
Cash4Gold made a surprising first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heinz uses ketchup packet idea created by Joe and I</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/rants/heinz-uses-ketchup-packet-idea-created-by-joe-and-i/</link>
		<comments>http://gregpike.ca/rants/heinz-uses-ketchup-packet-idea-created-by-joe-and-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ketchup Packets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gregpike.ca/?p=768</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago my friend Joe Coffey and I sat down to eat some fries from the Ziggies van in Churchill Square and a mountain of ketchup packets.
When we were applying the ketchup we exchanged our annoyances with the design of standard ketchup packets.
Firstly, the packets never contains the right amount of ketchup. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. John&#8217;s issues snowclearing tickets on clear night, irks residents</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/local-news/st-johns-issues-snowclearing-tickets-on-clear-night-irks-residents/</link>
		<comments>http://gregpike.ca/local-news/st-johns-issues-snowclearing-tickets-on-clear-night-irks-residents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. John's]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gregpike.ca/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 4th St. John&#8217;s began issuing snowclearing tickets as promised. They advertised on the radio and on television. I rarely pay attention to either, but even I was aware of the snowclearing date.
All the same, 300 motorists found themselves with hefty $45 snowclearing tickets the next morning.
Needless to say,  many were not happy.
You leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEC goes greener&#8230; well, even more than usual</title>
		<link>http://gregpike.ca/business/mec-goes-greener-well-even-more-than-usual/</link>
		<comments>http://gregpike.ca/business/mec-goes-greener-well-even-more-than-usual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gregpike.ca/?p=489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The popular outfitters department store Mountain Equipment Co-op is well know for being a green company. From providing bike racks to building a self-sustaining prairie environments on their downtown Toronto department building, they have a track record for setting the green bar high.
Their latest store in Burlington, Ontario has taken going green to another level.
For [...]]]></description>
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