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					  <title>Five Forces of Business Success</title>
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					  <author>drew@drewstevensconsulting.com (Drew Stevens PhD)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>How to Find New Customers</title>
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					  <description>This is a synopis of the content you'll find in the white paper How to Find New Customers. To get the full PDF document, click the link.

Businesses need to learn how to build trust with decision makers. Marketers simply must develop a strong understanding of their target audience and how they buy in order to be effective.

It&#8217;s helping the customer solve their problems through buying and implementing your products and/or services. Thus, the better you know how they buy, the more effective you can be.</description>
					  <author>jogden@findnewcustomers.net (Jeff Ogden)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>Twitter Etiquette - 8 Best Practices to Improve Business Relations</title>
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					  <description>The marketing methods used today are far different than what we have seen in years past.&#160; The reason for this is due to the massive increase in social media networks; Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.&#160; Twitter, especially has been gaining recognition for its ability to send real time information and opinions to a mass audience.&#160; Reaching out to large businesses is now possible, with a quick search and a short 'tweet'.</description>
					  <author>info@vbsondemand.com (Serena Carcasole)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>LinkedIn Strategies for Business Success</title>
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					  <description>What are some strategies you should be taking to use LinkedIn to your full benefit?&#160; And what should you avoid doing, in order to ultimately gain clients and reach business success?</description>
					  <author>info@vbsondemand.com (Serena Carcasole)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>Survey your Connections - A Creative Social Networking Strategy</title>
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					  <description>While social networking is an excellent tool, it doesn't just stop at sending out tweets, status updates, answering questions and writing up blog posts.&#160; Social media is evolving so quickly that the opportunities for Internet marketing are now endless.</description>
					  <author>info@vbsondemand.com (Serena Carcasole)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>10 Successful Steps to Converting Ezine Subscribers to Clients</title>
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					  <description>A business website may inevitably attract a lot of traffic and can have the potential to create clientele from the traffic attracted, but without a proper Ezine subscription process, the odds of creating clients from web traffic is low.</description>
					  <author>info@vbsondemand.com (Serena Carcasole)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>Email Marketing and the High Price of Irrelevance</title>
					  <link>http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/article/articles/1156/1/Email-Marketing-and-the-High-Price-of-Irrelevance/Page1.html</link>
					  <description>A huge buzzward in email marketing lately is relevance. When you're not sending relevant messages that your readers care about, you see your unsubscribe rate increase, your spam complaint rate increase, your open rate decrease, and your ROI plummet.</description>
					  <author>Karen@ModernImage.com (Karen Scharf)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>Choosing a Split-Testing Platform That is Right For You</title>
					  <link>http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/article/articles/1139/1/Choosing-a-Split-Testing-Platform-That-is-Right-For-You/Page1.html</link>
					  <description>The most effective way to split test your web pages is to use software or a hosted service to automate the process. In choosing a split testing platform, you will want to keep these criteria in mind:</description>
					  <author>Karen@ModernImage.com (Karen Scharf)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>Sales Success Secrets</title>
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					  <author>drew@drewstevensconsulting.com (Drew Stevens PhD)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
					 
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					  <title>Publish eBooks for Profit</title>
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Ebooks and other How-To Manuals are the hottest thing selling on the internet right now. Publishing information products can help you become a recognized authority in your area of expertise as well as substantially increase your income. Here are some tips to get you started creating information products.</description>
					  <author>jan@femalepreneurs.com (Jan Marie Dore)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
					 
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