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		<title>Tell Your Competition All  About What Your Doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How would you like for your competition to know almost everything you&#8217;re doing? Would you like them to know what sales you&#8217;re having, new products or services you&#8217;re offering, at the same time you&#8217;re telling your customers and prospects? Every time you make a change to your web site, add a comment to your Facebook, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customers that you have lost and how to get them back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most businesses are always trying to get new customers through their doors, spending great amounts of money and time on getting the word out, whether it&#8217;s Valpack, Ad pages, Web sites, Facebook, Groupon or any other marketing method. Most businesses overlook the second-best customer there is! Their past, old, previous, former customer. In fact most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Offer and Mark Your Calendars</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My B.S.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ready to have the business you always dreamed of? Need help getting started or not sure where or how to start? I&#8217;ll sit down with you for 2 one-hour face-to-face sessions in which we put together your marketing plan for only $197.00. That&#8217;s a savings of 33%. I only have time for a few businesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Need One?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sale Funnel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A marketing funnel. You need a marketing funnel to get you more customers and sales. Right now most of you maybe run an ad in some publication or maybe ValPack, or the Ad Pages. Yes, you have a web page that is little more than a brochure for your business. The most you are doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Wait and We&#8217;ll See What Happens&#8230; Guess What Happens?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got back from 4 days of learning a lot of new cutting-edge marketing, but they also reviewed a lot of old school marketing and sales. We do not have to always use the latest and greatest cutting edge whiz bang thing to get customers to our door. In most cases, going back to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do  It Cheap and Save Money??</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheap mailing lists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up the mail when I got home last night, and as I went through it, I saw there was an oversize post card from a major insurance company that is offering Medicare drug coverage to a friend who has not used our address in at least 10 years. This is the second company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating, Drinking, Partying or Networking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went to two after-hours networking mixers. Yeah, I know I&#8217;m a real party animal. Now as you know, the purpose of an after- hours mixer is to network, meet new people and maybe get some leads and ultimately business. It&#8217;s not, as my good friend Mike Stammer used to say when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professional or Opened?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Freedman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[getting the envelope open]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a call a while back from a business owner who wanted to send out a sales letter to a group of prospects that the business had never contacted before (cold call). They wanted to use their standard company envelope, the one with their company logo and address as the return address, and they [...]]]></description>
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