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the purple cow to biz blogging, I covered it all this
week. There are various networking opportunities and
I covered them this week. I hope that one of the
posts made this week will spur you on to a great marketing
start this week.
As Always, Happy Marketing!
Caroline
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The
Biz Bloggers Meetup Group is the only place in Wayzata
where you can learn how to blog and use Web 2.0 strategies
to improve your business. I wouldn't miss it for the
world. Read
on for 10 reasons to join us.
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May 29, 2008
Volume 3, Issue 21
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Don't waste time reading blog posts and information
from people who don't provide you with the best stuff.
You subscribe to an RSS feed by clicking on the RSS
button on a blog and the URL of that feed will be
automatically added to your news reader. I recommend
Bloglines or Google Reader. When you subscribe to
an RSS feed, you get to choose when you read the information.
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Aaron Wall wrote a great blog post recently about
content development. The post answers the question
about whether you should include certain content
on a blog post or on a static website. Blog posts
are better off being used for quick-to-market information.
Blog posts don't really do that. Continue
Reading.
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One of the most effective networking
opportunities you'll ever find, though, is your
local business networking group. The most effective
networking groups meet weekly. Networking
through a local meeting group like this can be very
rewarding. The best networking groups only allow
one person of any particular type of business in
the network, which means that you have no competition
within that network. Networking groups also usually
allow members to give presentations from time to
time and share contacts on a regular basis. Continue
reading for more on effective networking opportunities.
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In "Purple Cow" Seth Godin discusses how important
it is to set yourself apart - to be different.
I like his metaphor of the purple cow because
there is nothing in the world more unique than
a purple cow. Seth Godin's ideas on marketing
a business in the 21st century are some of the
most lucid and revolutionary ideas I've ever seen.
Continue
reading.
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What do Proflowers.com, Office Depot, Lands End,
Oriental Trading Company, and eBay have in common?
According to Grok.com. What's even more interesting
in the Grok.com report is what follows the list
of the top 10 retailers. Remember, that list is
by conversion rate. If you are not looking at these
statistics for your local retails website then you
should be. Do you know if your online purchasers
are local or people located elsewhere on the globe?
Continue
Reading.
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off. If you'd like to start marketing DIFFERENTLY,
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IBM, McDonald's, Exide Technologies, Motorola and
Northwest Airlines.
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eZine, Blue Chip Tips : The Secrets of
Blue Chip Marketing... Revealed!
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