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(And anyway...) -  (Lyrics by XTC)</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:16:45 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MayorOfSimpleton" /><feedburner:info uri="mayorofsimpleton" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:browserFriendly></feedburner:browserFriendly><item><title>Sales and Marketing ~ The Basics Pt 2</title><link>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/business-training-2/sales/sales-and-marketing-the-basics-pt-2#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link> <comments>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/business-training-2/sales/sales-and-marketing-the-basics-pt-2#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:46:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Business Training]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Presentations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/?p=797</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 2nd Part of The Sales and Marketing Course &#160; &#160; This is the real start of the course, here you are going to get all the participants to tell you a bit about themselves. This is useful for many reasons. often people are nervous of speaking in public and this gets that out of the way [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/business-training-2/sales/sales-and-marketing-the-basics-pt-2/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sales and Marketing The Basics Part 1</title><link>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/business-training-2/sales/sales-and-marketing-the-basics-part-1#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link> <comments>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/business-training-2/sales/sales-and-marketing-the-basics-part-1#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:35:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Business Training]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Presentations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business training]]></category> <category><![CDATA[powerpoint]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/?p=787</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Basics of Sales and Marketing &#160; In another life many miles and a few years away I used to train people in various business skills including sales and marketing. The following posts will be using the old powerpoint slides from those days (so don&#8217;t bother checking out the website it&#8217;s long gone). I am [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/business-training-2/sales/sales-and-marketing-the-basics-part-1/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Are You Receiving Me? Life, Websites and Stuff</title><link>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/are-you-receiving-me-life-websites-and-stuff#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link> <comments>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/are-you-receiving-me-life-websites-and-stuff#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:53:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Training]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/?p=784</guid> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny, I often wonder why I write this website &#8211; in it&#8217;s short life it has been changed so many times, it started off as a music blog, then a place for me to vent about the world, and, now it&#8217;s like an old semi retirement home of ideas and my faltering attempts to find a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/are-you-receiving-me-life-websites-and-stuff/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oh For The Entrepreneurial Spirit</title><link>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/oh-for-the-entrepreneurial-spirit#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link> <comments>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/oh-for-the-entrepreneurial-spirit#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:39:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Advisor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneur]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freelance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web design]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/?p=781</guid> <description><![CDATA[My adventure with the web design company continues, what a shambles, what am I doing to myself? Why do I feel I should offer my help to these basket cases? ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/oh-for-the-entrepreneurial-spirit/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The World Of Business Is A Strange Thing</title><link>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/the-world-of-business-is-a-strange-thing#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link> <comments>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/the-world-of-business-is-a-strange-thing#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:55:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meeting]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/?p=777</guid> <description><![CDATA[So, We had the meeting and I never walked out and things seem to have reset, He even paid me some cash! So, we had a good talk, he introduced me to a couple of his team members and I tried to introduce to him the idea of turning up on time or if not [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/the-world-of-business-is-a-strange-thing/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Curiouser and Curiouser Said Alice</title><link>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/curiouser-and-curiouser-said-alice#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link> <comments>http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/opinion/curiouser-and-curiouser-said-alice#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:42:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mayorofsimpleton.com/?p=775</guid> <description><![CDATA[So, I got a phone call today from the person who was supposed to be my semi-employer. 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