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		<title>Think Twitter is a Waste of Time? 41% Got a Customer from Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Thies</dc:creator>
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Results are finally starting to come in!  Hubspot just released their 2010 State of Inbound Marketing report, which addresses the effectiveness of social media in generating business.  Below are some of the key findings and the link to the full report.  There&#8217;s also a free, live webinar on Thursday, February 18, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Bookmarking &#8211; A No-Cost Collaborative Marketing Strategy and a Powerful SEO Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Thies</dc:creator>
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Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit&#8230;Are you still trying to figure out what the purpose of social bookmarking sites is?  Isn&#8217;t it just a way for teenagers to share &#8220;cool&#8221; websites?  Well, like all of our powerful social networking tools, that&#8217;s how it started out.  However, if you understand the &#8220;magic&#8221; behind social bookmarking, you&#8217;ll soon see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Sales Leads &#8211; A Social Media Campaign that Makes Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Thies</dc:creator>
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Social media is all about the conversation.  Sharing, educating, and interacting are the highlights of social networks and blogs, which are great places to build awareness and gain credibility.  Social media strategies are also relatively inexpensive, so they are very attractive to small business owners with limited marketing budgets.
Money isn&#8217;t the only reason why social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing a Blog Simply Takes Too Long! &#8211; Not!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Thies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to get the benefits of blogging without spending hours writing.  Easy low-to-no cost strategies to keep fresh content on your blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of Social Media Marketing Success</title>
		<link>http://crystalclearbuzz.com/2009/06/19/anatomy-of-social-media-marketing-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Thies</dc:creator>
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Many people often ask me exactly how does social media/virtual marketing work?  Why is everyone saying it&#8217;s so great?  It made me realize that I needed to sit down and diagram it out to make it easier to understand.  The diagram below this article is the result.

Patty Sadallah of Redwood Sisterhood recently had a tele-seminar [...]]]></description>
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