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	<title>Ruination &#38; Despair</title>
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	<description>Archelaus takes a relentlessly upbeat look at operating a small greeting card business in Washington, DC.</description>
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		<title>Six more stores order Archelaus cards!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And here they are:

Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown, West Virginia;
Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri;
Meadowbrook Pharmacy in Charlottesville, Virginia;
Ohori&#8217;s Coffees in Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Papers in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and
The Winchester Book Gallery in Winchester, Virginia.

And that&#8217;s not counting the re-orders from our existing customers!
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		<link>http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/01/23/six-more-stores-order-archelaus-cards/</link>
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		<title>And another independent bookstore is on board!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time it&#8217;s Bookworks in Albuquerque. Apparently they found out about us when a helpful customer suggested they should carry our cards. Word-of-mouth is a fine thing. Thanks, whoever you were!
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		<link>http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/01/19/and-another-independent-bookstore-is-on-board/</link>
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		<title>Another independent bookstore opts for Archelaus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bookstores are among our best customers, perhaps unsurprisingly, so we&#8217;re always delighted to welcome more of them to the ranks of fine merchants carrying our cards. In point of fact, we&#8217;ve got several such orders going out in the next few days, but today we got a big one underway to Collected Works Bookstore and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/01/17/another-independent-bookstore-opts-for-archelaus/</link>
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		<title>Archelaus heads south of the Equator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the way to Australia! We shipped a first order of cards to Paperpoint in South Melbourne yesterday. So, if you happen to live down there, among the marsupials and monotremes and things, you&#8217;ve got six to ten business days to prepare yourself.
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		<title>More new outlets for our cards!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for the long pause in blogging, for which there is no excuse. There has been a fair amount of activity to report. Indeed, five more stores are now carrying Archelaus cards:

The Whole Package in Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Valdes, also in Santa Fe;
Taylor Books in Charleston, West Virginia;.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Big Blue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/01/12/more-new-outlets-for-our-cards/</link>
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		<title>Branching out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest retail outlet to demand our fine cards is an art supply store, namely Art Things, Inc. (&#8220;family owned and operated since 1966&#8243;) in West Annapolis, Maryland. The order went out today, so with any luck the cards should be on their shelves by Tuesday.
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