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		<title>Shhh … it’s a secret!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually use my blog to promote products, but wow, I&#8217;m really impressed &#8230; and you won&#8217;t find this advertised on their site.
But &#8230; I just got the inside scoop that there is a somewhat &#8220;secret&#8221; promotion happening this week that gets you a 74% discount. Of course it won&#8217;t be a secret for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Write an Introduction; a speaker tip from Susan Levin, Speaker Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Susan Levin has over 18 years experience in the world of speaker marketing. She is the founder of Speaker Services since &#8216;92.  Her company offers marketing and training services for professionals who are interested in growing their business or service through speaking http://www.speakerservices.com. She has coached thousands of individuals on the nuts and bolts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Trust with Your Followers</title>
		<link>http://www.myfastype.com/Blog/2010/03/04/building-trust-with-your-followers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Green, MVA, GVA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Terry Green
Respecting your current and potential subscribers is important in building trust through your email marketing campaign. How you collect email addresses and what you do with them will show your subscribers what level of respect you have for them. For most individuals, an email address is private and is shared with email marketers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email Marketing: Building Trust Through Your Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Green, MVA, GVA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Terry Green
The content of your emails plays an immensely important role in gaining trust from your subscribers. Although the quality of the information you send out is still the most important element in building trust through your content, there are a lot of other factors to consider. Listed below are the most important ones.
1.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you asking for the business?</title>
		<link>http://www.myfastype.com/Blog/2010/02/25/are-you-asking-for-the-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Green, MVA, GVA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jane Atkinson
Whether it be from the platform, or in follow up with clients, most of us are lousy at asking for the business.
And, if you were to do a quick calculation, you&#8217;d see the cost.
Just imagine if every audience could provide spin off to 3 more engagements &#8230;
And if each of those audiences held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak Up and Make Money! – February 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Green, MVA, GVA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am really ready for Old Man Winter to tuck his tail between his legs and scurry away into the sunset and leave us alone. Originally hailing from sunny California, I thought I&#8217;d gotten use to the cold winters of the mid-west, but this year has really been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Can a Blog Do For You?</title>
		<link>http://www.myfastype.com/Blog/2010/02/02/what-can-a-blog-do-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Green, MVA, GVA</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myfastype.com/Blog/?p=1125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many aspiring writers have tossed around the idea of writing a blog, and many millions get going. After a slow start in the late 1990s, blogs caught on. Today, though, they are no longer the simple online diary or weblog of the past. 
Blogs have changed dramatically from the early years. Governments and big business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Free Blog Traffic via Blogger Forums</title>
		<link>http://www.myfastype.com/Blog/2010/01/26/generating-free-blog-traffic-via-blogger-forums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Green, MVA, GVA</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myfastype.com/Blog/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Blog forums are great ways to generate free traffic to your blog. You know for a fact that you won&#8217;t be beating a dead horse since all the users are there because of a shared interest in the topic.
Some examples of such forums include Blogger Forum, Bloggeries and Blogst Forum. A Google search will yield [...]]]></description>
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