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I agree do 301 to each page and get people to the new site. Overtime they will learn the new site domain and you will gain new links to the new site. I just did the same thing and merged an older well ranking site into a new site a year ago, & did a bunch of 301 redirects from good high ranked pages and then I also did full global 301 from several smaller sites to the new site.