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		<title>How Has Twitter Helped Grow Your Small Business?</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2009/09/twitter-grow-small-business-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked in previous posts about ways my business has benefited from using Twitter ( More on the Value of Social Media for Entrepreneurs and My Top 10 Reasons for Using Twitter.) But I still meet owners who wonder if there&#8217;s really an ROI from the time invested. So I want to hear from YOU. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Savvy Cause Marketing Strategies from Oprah</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we talked about Oprah&#8217;s newest line of O Bracelets, which has smart lessons for businesses of all sizes interested in cause marketing. We also discussed the first savvy strategy&#8211;sticking with one charitable theme that’s important to your customers. Instead of scattering her efforts like some well-meaning businesses do, all three beneficiaries of the O [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Lessons from Oprah</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2009/09/marketing-lessons-from-oprah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the stores are flooded with products boasting pink ribbons in support of breast cancer research next month, let&#8217;s take a look at how you can put cause marketing to work for your business. Cause marketing is basically a marketing partnership between a business and a non-profit for mutual benefit. Smart companies know that these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Mullenweg Shares WordPress News, Tips &amp; Stories at Wordcamp RDU</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2009/06/matt-mullenweg-news-tips-wordcamprdu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t like iPhone version of WordPress,&#8221; admitted WP founder Matt Mullenweg during his often candid and funny keynote presentation at Wordcamp RDU this past Saturday. (Good news&#8211;a new version is coming soon, along with one for all of us with crackberries.) He also discussed other new projects such as: Microblogging platform P2. You control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Conscious Entrepreneurs Thru June 5!</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2009/06/celebrate-conscious-entrepreneurs-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We won again! Conscious Entrepreneurs: A Radical New Approach to Purpose, Passion &#38; Profit is a Nautilus Book Award Silver Winner in the category of business. This is in addition to the 2008 National Best Book Award for non-fiction anthologies received at the end of last year. My chapter &#8220;Your Social Consciousness is an Asset to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raleigh Twestival Funds 20 Years of Water for 130 People</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2009/02/raleigh-twestival-funds-20-years-of-water-for-130-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Twitter&#8230;the power of social media was channeled toward a social cause last Thursday via the Twestival&#8211;185 cities across the globe all holding a tweetup to raise money for charity:water. charity: water for Twestival from charity: water on Vimeo. I actually worked on the launch of a new mutual fund a few months back, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book Spotlights a More Conscious Way of Doing Business</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2008/10/conscious-entrepreneurs-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Raleigh, NC&#8211;October 1, 2008) While the U.S. government works to bail out and investigate financial giants driven to earn profits at any price, a movement to create a new, more holistic model of business success is gaining steam. One that pursues money and morals—and does well by doing good. Tracy Needham, founder of Raleigh-based copywriting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Social Consciousness is an Asset to Your Business</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2008/09/your-social-consciousness-is-an-asset-to-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate giants are spending billions of dollars today on initiatives designed to make them appear more socially and environmentally conscious because they&#8217;re finally waking up to the fact that &#8220;social profit&#8221; is as valuable an objective as financial profit. According to Leonard Berry in Discovering the Soul of Service, a company creates social profit by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainabili-tea</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2008/02/sustainabili-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of social ventures&#8211;companies out to make a profit and make the world a better place. One of my favorites is Honest Tea. It&#8217;s a great product&#8211;organic tea made from real leaves with no or very little sugar. And it&#8217;s a great company&#8211;dedicated to integrity and sustainability, in the broader sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say Thank You, Creatively</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/2008/02/say-thank-you-creatively/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received the door prize I&#8217;m donating for my NAWBO meeting tomorrow. I&#8217;m excited about the topic Sustainability Matters (for small businesses) and just couldn&#8217;t resist donating something from my favorite business gift company&#8211;Dancing Deer Bakery, which delivers delicious all-natural cookies, brownies and cakes in artful packages. The Molasses Clove Cookies are to die [...]]]></description>
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