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		<title>Add More Hours to Your Day &#8211; The Art of Stress-Free Productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most common problem among many small business owners is &#8220;time poverty.&#8221; Putting in a lot of extra hours could help a little, but it&#8217;s not the answer. Neither is trying to do two things at once. Some ideas that may help:
* Become an expert at what you do. Study the workflows of people who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2010/03/01/add-more-hours-to-your-day-the-art-of-stress-free-productivity/</link>
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		<title>What Is the Difference Between a Tri-fold Brochure, Case Study and a White Paper?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never been a big fan of tri-fold brochures that attempt to convince me that I should buy a particular product or sign up for a certain service.   These marketing materials tend not to be persuasive enough due to the fact that information has been crammed into a limited space.  The customer benefits are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2010/01/23/what-is-the-difference-between-a-tri-fold-brochure-case-study-and-a-white-paper/</link>
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		<title>Why Your Company Needs a Social Media Marketing System in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One-way, top-down communication does not work as well as in former days. Today, companies must create conversations with customers and deliver useful content at the moment their prospects, clients or constituents need it. Many firms will need to reinvent their marketing in 2010.
Marketers can’t push products on people. They have to think like journalists and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2010/01/23/why-your-company-needs-a-social-media-marketing-system-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>To Tweet Or Not To Tweet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some small businesses are hesitant to embrace social media. Blogging seems time consuming, Facebook scary or unknown.  At the same time, old marketing strategies don&#8217;t seem to work any more.
Business owners may not always realize that they need to re-visit their marketing plan to create and adopt a marketing system to get results.   The same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2009/11/28/tweet-or-not-to-tweet-is-that-the-question/</link>
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		<title>How to Become a Good Leader &#8211; Should You Learn Acting First?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes Warren Bennis 480 pages to describe leadership, compare it to acting, and tie together the three pathways to becoming a great leader.  Bennis, a UCLA management professor, has many stories to tell.
He points out that leaders have the ability to draw together a fragmented public, be it on the radio, television or in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2009/11/17/how-to-become-a-good-leader/</link>
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		<title>Are You Fatigued by Facebook and Twitter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook gave us a way to find old classmates and renew friendships, find clients and share ideas.
Email has given us a way to quickly conduct business or send silly stuff to co-workers and friends.
So now we have IM, text messaging, friends on Facebook, and constant communication by 140 characters or less on Twitter.
All of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2009/10/15/are-you-fatigued-by-facebook-and-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Grow Your Business With Proven Word of Mouth Marketing Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Word of Mouth Marketing, the oldest form of marketing is gaining ground again. How can business owners beat the current recession with Word of Mouth Marketing?
Educate and Nurture Your Current Customers
Don’t put all emphasis on new customer acquisition, but affirm your current customers,
find ways to develop loyalty programs that increase the lifetime value of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2009/10/12/grow-your-business-with-proven-word-of-mouth-marketing-strategies/</link>
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		<title>Improve Your Communication Skills While Travelling and Meeting New People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been traveling quite a bit lately. I embrace these opportunities as there is always so much to  learn from people who live in different parts of the world &#8211; frugality and resourcefulness from citizens of countries that have to get by with much less than people in the U.S,  relaxed and easygoing attitude [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2009/10/07/improve-your-marketing-skills-while-travelling-and-meeting-new-people/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Challenges Professional Service Providers Must Overcome to Generate New Clients and Revenues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to share my fellow Duct Tape Marketing Coach Bill Doerr&#8217;s advice:
Challenge 1
&#8220;Not seeing enough people&#8221;
Probable Cause/s:
* insufficient level of marketing-related activities
Corrective Strategy:
Be sure you&#8217;re engaging in appropriate activities at an adequate level for the client acquisition and revenue-generation goals you have. Seems obvious and may correct any deficiency right there. As one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2009/09/05/top-10-challenges-professional-service-providers-must-overcome-to-generate-new-clients-and-revenues/</link>
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		<title>Reinvent in the Recession with Great Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BE CREATIVE, do what your best competitors do, but do it differently, stand out. Find ways to create great customer stories and create your own story that others will tell.  Reward your best evangelists.]]></description>
		<link>http://outsourcemiracle.com/2009/08/11/reinvent-in-recession-with-great-marketing/</link>
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