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	<title>Think Like A Bride-Marketing Mojo for Wedding Businesses</title>
	
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	<description>Everything you need to know about marketing and growing your wedding business</description>
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		<title>New Website for A Magical Affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I put together a blog for Courtney Hammon&#8217;s company A Magical Affair. This year she decided to finally bag her old flash website in favor turning that blog into a complete website. Yeah! Courtney. Now you get all the SEO  power of WordPress and Genesis. Of course we did some [...]


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		<title>New Ideas for Bridal Show Email Follow-up</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/02/new-ideas-for-bridal-show-email-follow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, you&#8217;ve invested your time and treasure in a bridal show, or several and you have a fat, juicy lead list. Now what? I have already given you tons of ideas to use both short-term and long-term like cherry picking your lead list and outrageous marketing. The question people still are asking is what  to put [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2011/03/email-marketing-your-welcome-letter/' rel='bookmark' title='Email Marketing: Your Welcome Letter'>Email Marketing: Your Welcome Letter</a> <small>It seems that my fair readers are finally convinced and...</small></li>
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		<title>3 Reasons You Need to be on Pinterest</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/02/3-reasons-you-need-to-be-on-pinterest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely you have heard of Pinterst by now. Pinterest is an invitation only site  (but invitations are easy to come by) where people curate images. &#160; The number one reason you should be on Pinterest is because your brides are. Pinterest has replaced the binder full of pictures. Don&#8217;t be surprised to have brides waltz into [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2010/10/how-to-get-your-emails-read/' rel='bookmark' title='How to Get Your Emails Read'>How to Get Your Emails Read</a> <small>If you do it well email marketing is is a...</small></li>
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		<title>Website for Fisher’s Tudor House</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/02/website-for-fishers-tudor-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/?p=3286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may not look like it on the surface, but this was a huge project. The mandate was to take two very dated, very old school websites and bring them into 2012. There were so many pages and interior links that just sorting it out required a flow chart. The SEO was Jurassic but losing ranking in such a competitive market [...]


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		<title>Wedding Industry Renaissance</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/wedding-industry-renaissance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is that a break in the clouds I see? A stray ray of sunshine on the horizon?   Why, by George, I think it is! On last week&#8217;s post about bridal shows the poll results are more than 50% positive. I would have liked to see a landslide but any improvement is a good thing. [...]


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		<title>Are Bridal Show on the Up Swing?</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/are-bridal-show-on-the-up-swing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/are-bridal-show-on-the-up-swing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/?p=3254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; OK, you all know how I feel about Bridal Shows. For many reasons they are near and dear to my heart but for several years now they have been a crap shoot. Things may be changing. I keep hearing from clients and friends that this has been a FANTABULOUS year for shows. Rumor has [...]


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		<title>Mastering a World in Flux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I caught this great quote in the editors column in the February issue of Fast Company magazine &#8220;In our hyper-networked world, the rules and plans of yesterday are increasingly under pressure; the enterprises and individuals that will thrive will be those willing to adapt and iterate, in a disciplined, unsentimental way.&#8221; This is more or less what I have been saying since 2008, [...]


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		<title>Facebook or Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across an interesting question today about where you should put more effort, in your blog or your Facebook page. I&#8217;m not really sure why that is a question. Let me break it down for you. Your website is your own personal piece of  internet real estate. Think of it as your home because in terms [...]


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		<title>Websites for Ecommerce</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/websites-for-ecommerce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last week I asked if you thought Ecommerce was something you should explore. Today I want you to have a look at 2 sites that I think are great examples of how you, a wedding vendor can do it right. First off, let&#8217;s get one thing straight, I am not saying that I think you should abandon your [...]


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		<title>Bridal Shows: How to Bag an Elephant</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/bridal-shows-how-to-bag-an-elephant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Bridal show ROI and goals are interesting things. If you think the only goal of a bridal show is to book brides at the show you are missing most of the opportunities. I had a most interesting conversation last week with a florist concerning his recent booth at a bridal show. Now this was [...]


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