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		<title>The Lifespan of a Link in Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re a public company trying to bury bad financial news on a Friday afternoon, you want as many people as possible to see, click and forward the links to your blog post, press release, sales page or other online content you&#8217;re trying to drive traffic to. So, you may be interested in a recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even a Cave Man Could Customize This WordPress Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I searched a long time to find a new WordPress theme for my blog.  After a couple of bad experiences with free themes, I was more than happy to buy one this time to make sure it would keep up with WordPress&#8217; many updates and offer good support on those rare occasions I needed it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Navigation That Sells A Better Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copywriting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across the Shaklee site while doing some research the other day and noticed something pretty cool in their website navigation&#8230; Now, most people don&#8217;t give much thought to the wording used in the navigation of their website. But navigation copy plays a BIG role in getting visitors to clickthrough to your take-action pages. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get More Subscribers from Your Squeeze Pages &#8212; 5 Ideas from Eban Pagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are many gurus who deserve the bashing they get, there ARE some good guys among the entrepreneurati&#8211;including Eban Pagan, the mastermind behind Double Your Dating as well as products under his own name such as Wake Up Productive and Guru Mastermind. For the launch of his Self Made Wealth program, Eban sent prospects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Adwords Ads that Checkmate Your Competitors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Adwords is like a no-limits poker game. If your competitor has deeper pockets, they&#8217;re going to eventually win because they have more money to throw at it,&#8221; Howie Jacobson said at a Triangle Business Leaders meeting I recently attended. Jacobson&#8211;the guy who literally wrote the Dummies book on Google Adwords&#8211;gave a mini-workshop on creating &#8220;game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boost Your Google Ranking &#8212; 13 Tips from an SEO Samurai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last month&#8217;s Triangle Business Leader&#8217;s meeting for entrepreneurs who are fans of Dan Kennedy-style marketing, SEO samurai Mike Marshall talked about search engine rankings&#8211;what&#8217;s working, what&#8217;s not and what&#8217;s not working anymore. Marshall is the go-to-guy for companies like IBM, 1-800-Flowers, AOL, and Drs. Foster Smith (my fav). But even more important, because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boost Your Google Ranking with Insights from an SEO Samurai</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://compellingmarketingblog.com/?p=1438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;re an archer and have 3 targets to shoot with your bow and arrow… Except you&#8217;re standing on a platform and the targets are spinning… Plus the platform is floating in the water, the wind is blowing and you&#8217;re blindfolded. Oh, and all your competitors are out there with you too&#8230; According to Mike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Kill Your Autoresponder Emails</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An autoresponder series can be a great way to build a relationship and credibility with your prospects and to create a flurry of sales for your product or service. Of course, the copy you use is important. But all too often, I see entrepreneurs and marketers shoot themselves in the foot with the same five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Takeaways from WordCamp Raleigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my top 10 takeaways from WordCamp Raleigh. Unfortunately, I was only able to attend Saturday and with three session tracks, I obviously couldn&#8217;t go to all the presentations&#8230; So my highlights are from presentations by Gregory Ng of FreezerBurns.com, Grant Swaim of DigitalLiteracyProject.com, Jeff Cohen SocialMediaB2B.com and WordPress for Dummies author Lisa Sabin-Wilson. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Website Visitors a Break</title>
		<link>http://compellingmarketingblog.com/website-copy-eye-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Needham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copywriting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see how the new sales copy looked on a client&#8217;s website the other day&#8230;and sighed when I found long blocks of text staring back at me on the web page. I&#8217;ll admit, it drives me batty when a client or designer changes my formatting. I know their intentions are good, but there [...]]]></description>
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