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	<title>DIY Marketers &#187; Ivana Taylor</title>
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	<link>http://www.diymarketers.com</link>
	<description>Your Small Business Marketing Guide (tm) -- For CEOs with NO Marketing Department</description>
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		<title>Quick Tip: Use Your Twitter Background as a Promo Space</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/28/quick-tip-use-your-twitter-background-as-a-promo-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/28/quick-tip-use-your-twitter-background-as-a-promo-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
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I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;d never thought of this before &#8212; it&#8217;s SO OBVIOUS!
You already know that you can use Twitter to promote events and build your community &#8211; but here&#8217;s a tip I learned from Scott Allen that you&#8217;ll just LOVE.
Use your Twitter background to promote an event or a contest or sweepstakes &#8212; whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plinky Helps You Overcome Writer&#8217;s Block</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/26/plinky-helps-you-overcome-writers-block/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s all about creating great content.  But what if you&#8217;re genius brain is running a little dry on inspiration today?  No worries &#8211; head on over to Plinky.
I just found out about Plinky from a WordPress link on Wordpress.com.  It&#8217;s the super easy way to get your writing juices flowing.  Here&#8217;s how:

Simply click over to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Tip: How to Turn Ideas to Reality in 30 Minutes or Less</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/23/quick-tip-how-to-turn-ideas-to-reality-in-30-minutes-or-less/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/23/quick-tip-how-to-turn-ideas-to-reality-in-30-minutes-or-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 Minute Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>
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Are you one of those people who comes up with a million ideas and then get&#8217;s stuck on implementing because you&#8217;re not sure where to take them?
Here are some tips on bringing your ideas to life in less than 30 minutes.

Buy a domain name: If you have an idea for a potential blog, offering, product, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Increase Sales to Existing Accounts Using This EASY Account Plan Template</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/22/how-to-increase-sales-to-existing-accounts-using-this-easy-account-plan-template/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/22/how-to-increase-sales-to-existing-accounts-using-this-easy-account-plan-template/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Butt Savers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>

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I think it&#8217;s funny how we all talk about increasing sales to existing customers and building relationships &#8212; yet much of our marketing time and money still go toward converting prospects to customers and fishing for new prospects.
While I don&#8217;t normally advocate having more than 25% of your business come from a single account, chances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Riches in Target Market Niches</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/18/how-to-find-riches-in-target-market-niches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/18/how-to-find-riches-in-target-market-niches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 Minute Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
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There are really only two ways to successful market yourself on the internet:

Participate in a well, targeted niche.
Identify and &#8220;own&#8221; the keywords associated with that niche.

There are lots of great free keyword tools out there.  My favorites are

Google&#8217;s keyword search tool
Aaron Wall&#8217;s SEO Book Keyword Search Tool
Keyword Discovery
Market Samurai

I&#8217;ve been reviewing and participating in Ed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIYMarketers Quick Tip: Stay on Top of Social Media Sites</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/16/diymarketers-quick-tip-stay-on-top-of-social-media-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/16/diymarketers-quick-tip-stay-on-top-of-social-media-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quick Tips]]></category>

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We all get so busy, that we often forget that some of our most powerful marketing tools actually create updates and introduce new tools and features that you might want to try.
Here&#8217;s a helpful DIYMarketer Tip
Take a few hours a week to visit sites you take for granted- especially, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.  There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Web Site?  No Problem. Use Facebook Fan Page or LinkedIn</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/14/no-web-site-no-problem-use-facebook-fan-page-or-linkedin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/14/no-web-site-no-problem-use-facebook-fan-page-or-linkedin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heard on the Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>

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One of the hottest trends in building a list for your blog or newsletter is to ask people to become guest contributors to your blog.  What I&#8217;ve come to find out in this process is that there are quite a few experts out there who don&#8217;t have a web presence.
One of the best reasons to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Build a Targeted Online Community: Deciding on a List Building Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/12/how-to-build-a-targeted-online-community-deciding-on-a-list-building-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/12/how-to-build-a-targeted-online-community-deciding-on-a-list-building-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 Minute Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Build a Brand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information overload]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Ransom]]></category>
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I&#8217;ve been playing with DIYMarketers for over a year and now it&#8217;s time to finally start building an online community.  I&#8217;ve read lots of articles and gotten lots of tips.  But it&#8217;s been hard to move from just reading and learning to actually doing.
As luck would have it, I had the opportunity to interview Victoria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great New Keyword Search Tool: The Google Wonder Wheel</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/10/great-new-keyword-search-tool-the-google-wonder-wheel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/10/great-new-keyword-search-tool-the-google-wonder-wheel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 Minute Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quick Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Wonder Wheel]]></category>
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It&#8217;s been nearly a year since Google released their new keyword search tool: The Google Wonder Wheel. I&#8217;m not sure how this escaped me &#8211; maybe I didn&#8217;t see it because it was hidden behind the old menu.  But in their newly improved menu &#8212; it&#8217;s easy to find &#8212; see?  Here it is!

If you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretty Link Offers WordPress Bloggers An Extra Tool to Build An Audience</title>
		<link>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/08/pretty-link-offers-wordpress-bloggers-an-extra-tool-to-build-an-audience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diymarketers.com/2010/07/08/pretty-link-offers-wordpress-bloggers-an-extra-tool-to-build-an-audience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivana Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 Minute Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Build a Brand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pretty Link]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WordPress Plugin Directory]]></category>

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If you&#8217;ve got a WordPress.org powered blog (meaning that you are hosting it yourself) and you&#8217;ve not heard of &#8220;the Pretty Link&#8221; plugin &#8212; then you are really missing out on a wonderful self-promotion and audience building tool.
Pretty Link is a FREE plugin that you can get from WordPress that turns any link that you [...]]]></description>
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