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<title>Marketing by Writing Articles for the Local Paper</title>
<description>Many of us are writing articles now. We may place them online in the many article directories which proliferate.  We know that if we submit one at least once a week, have the right keywords in the title and the article, that readers will find us and go to...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_659366_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Send Letters to the Editor is Marketing Made Easy … Readers Will Notice You</title>
<description>Not many people take the time to send a letter to the Editor of a newspaper. You can do this … effortlessly.

I’m talking about doing this both with paper newspapers or their online version. This will get you noticed and cost you nothing. You may ev...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_659364_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Marketing by Writing Articles for the Local Paper</title>
<description>Many of us are writing articles now. We may place them online in the many article directories which proliferate.  We know that if we submit one at least once a week, have the right keywords in the title and the article, that readers will find us and go to...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_659266_15.html</link>
<pubDate>07th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Send Letters to the Editor is Marketing Made Easy … Readers Will Notice You</title>
<description>Not many people take the time to send a letter to the Editor of a newspaper. You can do this … effortlessly.

I’m talking about doing this both with paper newspapers or their online version. This will get you noticed and cost you nothing. You may ev...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_659265_15.html</link>
<pubDate>07th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Pass It On – How to Put those E-Mail Newsletters You Get to Good Use.</title>
<description>The Internet and access to so much information can become overwhelming and addictive. You get 10 or 20 newsletters that you don’t even read any more.

Before you cancel them all, here’s a thought. Before email, we used to snip articles out of the ne...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607579_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Prospect Relationships = Database Management</title>
<description>Do you have a pile of business cards that you’ve collected at networking events? Or have you recorded them all on your computer or in your PDA (like a Palm)?

Do you keep calling these people and no business takes place?

Everyone understands that y...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607578_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Accounting as Marketing? YES! </title>
<description>Most solopreneurs dread doing their bookkeeping.  Some give every piece of paper to an accountant at tax time.  Some don't open their bank statement when it arrives each month or cringe as they look at the balance.  

Let's face it.  If we had wanted to...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607570_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>7 Reasons to Network</title>
<description>There are many articles written about networking but you have to DO what they say! Here are 7 ideas. You have thought of them but have you done them yet?

1. Get out to get thinking. Meet people. Choose the right group AFTER defining your target market....</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607566_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Pass It On – How to Put those E-Mail Newsletters You Get to Good Use.</title>
<description>The Internet and access to so much information can become overwhelming and addictive. You get 10 or 20 newsletters that you don’t even read any more.

Before you cancel them all, here’s a thought. Before email, we used to snip articles out of the ne...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607440_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Prospect Relationships = Database Management</title>
<description>Do you have a pile of business cards that you’ve collected at networking events? Or have you recorded them all on your computer or in your PDA (like a Palm)?

Do you keep calling these people and no business takes place?

Everyone understands that y...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607435_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Accounting as Marketing? YES!</title>
<description>Most solopreneurs dread doing their bookkeeping.  Some give every piece of paper to an accountant at tax time.  Some don't open their bank statement when it arrives each month or cringe as they look at the balance.  Let's face it.  If we had wanted to bec...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607431_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>7 Reasons to Network</title>
<description>There are many articles written about networking but you have to DO what they say! Here are 7 ideas. You have thought of them but have you done them yet?

1. Get out to get thinking. Meet people. Choose the right group AFTER defining your target market....</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_607429_15.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Network With Email and a Phone</title>
<description>It's possible to "meet" people who are online. Just send an email and sometimes you get a phone call or another email back. That call could mean money. It always means a relationship.

Take the initiative. Be the first. Just ask.

How do you do this?...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_568200_15.html</link>
<pubDate>01st July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>With A Service Business Do I Sell Products?</title>
<description>Yes! Whether you start with a service business or not you also sell products. That's how you clone or replace yourself.

Did you know that others want your knowledge? Of course you did. That’s why you make your services available. But did you also kno...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_568199_15.html</link>
<pubDate>01st July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>With A Service Business Do I Sell Products?</title>
<description>Yes! Whether you start with a service business or not you also sell products. That's how you clone or replace yourself.

Did you know that others want your knowledge? Of course you did. That’s why you make your services available. But did you also kno...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_568153_15.html</link>
<pubDate>01st July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Don't Judge a Book by its Cover</title>
<description>What you see is not always what you get.

He has a bald head,  is muscular and doesn’t smile often so I assumed Andrew (doing my fitness assessment and plan) was a “mean” fellow. This couldn't have been further from the truth. He was the opposite ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_546569_15.html</link>
<pubDate>25th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Marketing Smart: 8 Ways to Attract Customers</title>
<description>No matter how small your marketing budget is, without advertising there won’t be any customers or continuing sales. But there are low-cost ways to gather prospect names and clients themselves that use more of your creativity and time than your dollars....</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_536133_15.html</link>
<pubDate>13th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Marketing Smart: 8 Ways to Attract Customers</title>
<description>No matter how small your marketing budget is, without advertising there won’t be any customers or continuing sales. But there are low-cost ways to gather prospect names and clients themselves that use more of your creativity and time than your dollars....</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_536117_15.html</link>
<pubDate>13th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>There Are No Coincidences.</title>
<description>That’s the same as saying nothing is left to chance – in business or in life.

For Attraction Strategists™ there are no coincidences. So, if we find ourselves 'frustrated' by something that someone else does or says, it's an opportunity to move th...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_531440_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>There Are No Coincidences</title>
<description>That’s the same as saying nothing is left to chance – in business or in life.

For Attraction Strategists™ there are no coincidences. So, if we find ourselves 'frustrated' by something that someone else does or says, it's an opportunity to move th...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_530015_35.html</link>
<pubDate>06th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>7 Ways to Educate Yourself</title>
<description>"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." – Henry Ford

Educating yourself is probably something you did to start your business and don’t do...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_517007_24.html</link>
<pubDate>13th April 2008</pubDate>
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<title>7 Ways to Educate Yourself</title>
<description>"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." – Henry Ford

Educating yourself is probably something you did to start your business and don’t do...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_517005_15.html</link>
<pubDate>13th April 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Always be polite.</title>
<description>I don't say this just because I'm a Canadian (although I am and people think we're “nice”). I'm also a Canadian entrepreneur who lived in San Francisco and did business all over the U.S. as well.  Marketing means that you probably have opinions and ar...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_196912_15.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd August 2007</pubDate>
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<title>How are you memorable?</title>
<description>We all love to be remembered and to have our name used. Technology in the form of autoresponders have made it easy for us to send things out by email quickly and with a person’s first name. The receiver can have their name used and this gives the sender...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_170884_15.html</link>
<pubDate>06th June 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Put A Call To Action Everywhere</title>
<description>That's right. Write it on all your marketing materials.

A call to action is telling people what they should do next. When reading something we all look for something we should do - call, read, buy, go to, sign up, listen ... We want to be told what we ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_168401_3.html</link>
<pubDate>01st June 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Marketing With High Tech Means Using High Touch</title>
<description>High tech has a different meaning nowadays. You use almost any kind of technology in your business from ATMs by the banks to online credit card acceptance.

High touch means there must be a person available wherever you use technology. You can either be...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_166821_3.html</link>
<pubDate>30th May 2007</pubDate>
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