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Christian Businesses should succeed. </font></p> <h2 style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" color=#6d0000>Business tips</font></h2> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" color=#6d0000>Christian business tips to save your business and create jobs and opportunities. </font></p> <table id="Table_01" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="776" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="6"><img title="Start a Business" height="81" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_01.gif" width=775></td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="81" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><map name="FPMap1"> <area shape="RECT" coords="402, 13, 501, 45" href="http://blog.brandhomework.com"> <area shape="RECT" coords="316, 12, 378, 44" href="faq.html"> <area shape="RECT" coords="230, 15, 300, 48" href="index.html"> <area shape="RECT" coords="633, 9, 761, 28" href="entrepreneur_test.html"> <area shape="RECT" coords="636, 24, 729, 47" href="register.html"></map><img title="Start a Business" height=52 alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_02.gif" width=775 useMap=#FPMap1 border=0></td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="52" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><img title="Start a Business" height="179" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aarS2_03.gif" width=775></td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="179" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><img title="Start a Business" height="1" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_04.gif" width=775></td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="1" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><map name="FPMap0"> <area shape="RECT" coords="54, 11, 136, 32" href="resources.html"> <area shape="RECT" coords="181, 5, 340, 34" href="branding.html"> <area shape="RECT" coords="358, 6, 480, 34" href="business_plan.html"> <area shape="RECT" coords="509, 4, 643, 36" href="businesstips.html"></map><img title="Start a Business" height="38" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_05.gif" width=775 useMap=#FPMap0 border=0></td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="38" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"><img title="Start a Business" height="1" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_06.gif" width=727></td> <td rowspan="2"><img title="Start a Business" height="13" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_07.gif" width=48></td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="1" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td background="images/index-1aar_08.gif" colspan="2" rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="3"><img title="Start a Business" height="12" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_09.gif" width=679></td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="12" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><img title="Start a Business" height="6" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/index-1aar_10.gif" width=678></td> <td background="images/index-1aar_11.gif" colspan="2" rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td> <td><img title="Start a Business" height="6" alt="Christian business tips" src="images/spacer.gif" width=1></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" background="images/index-1aar_12.gif" colspan="2"><font face=Tahoma> <h1 style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><font size="5">Free Business Tools</font></h1> <h2 style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><font size="4">Download Free Business Tools</font></h2> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">The information presented here is designed to help you frame your tasks and provide you with greater insight to aid you in successfully creating and growing your small business.</p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p align="center"><span class="t12_r"><b> Free tools to learn how to brand your company.&nbsp; Scroll down this page and look at the many tools for learning how to add emotion to your brand.&nbsp; </b></span> <p align="center"><span class="t12_r"><b>Learn how to brand your business, and learn how to name your business.</b></span><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> &nbsp;<p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> &nbsp;<p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial Narrow">The big brands incorporate emotions and try to connect with their customers with all brand visuals: print ads, websites, commercials.&nbsp; 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margin-bottom: 0"> &nbsp;<p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial Narrow">Video 2</font><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> &nbsp;<p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> &nbsp;<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" WIDTH="477" HEIGHT="332" id="starbucks.swf"> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="video/starbucks.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <param name="play" value="false"> <param name="loop" value="false"> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#20202> <EMBED src="video/starbucks.swf"quality=high bgcolor=#20202 WIDTH="477" HEIGHT="332" NAME="starbucks.swf" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </EMBED> </OBJECT><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> &nbsp;<p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial Narrow">Video 3</font><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; 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