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    <title>Getting Out of Debt </title>
    <link>http://activerain.com/blogs/westcoastkate</link>
    <description>Get out of Debt, Debt Elimination Strategies, Mortgage Equity Management tools,  Credit Repair strategies for homeowners and first time home buyers. Australian Mortgage, U1st Financial, Money Merge Account, be debt free, pay off your mortgagem Mortgage Loans, </description>
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      <title>Master Mind with Us in Redding CA</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Master Mind Alliance Redding" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/3/8/6/7/ar130645369976832.jpg" height="200" alt="" width="200" style="float: left; margin: 5px; border: 5px solid black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;"&gt;Master-Mind Alliance is bringing its successful DONE Business Solution to Redding, Ca.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Founded  over 30 years ago, by Richard Paris Borough, Ph.D. the Master-Mind  Alliance has helped hundreds of small businesses succeed. &amp;nbsp;Given the  challenging economy, we wanted to bring a group to Redding so that local  business can enjoy the same benefits and success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Statistics  from the Small Business Administration show that only one of three new  businesses lasts beyond the third year of operation. Two-thirds close  their doors forever. This is only part of the story. Many of the  businesses that remain open past year three struggle needlessly because  business people tend to go it alone, then get lost in distraction,  become overwhelmed by the minutia of the details, and drown in the  tyranny of the urgent. &amp;nbsp;Soon their strategies no longer produce results  that match up with their intentions, and they get unhappy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;The  Master-Mind Alliance program is an antidote to this no-planning  syndrome and the dreadful consequences of failure and settling for less.  The Master-Mind Alliance is an on-going, continuous improvement  planning process that builds DONE Businesses, businesses that work like  they&amp;rsquo;re supposed to, that produce profits, even in a down economy, and  give those who operate them something priceless: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: #ffff00; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Predictability&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: #ffff00; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;The  Master-Mind Alliance offers a combination of education, masterminding,  accountability and support in a group setting to sharpen members  business and personal skills. The goal is to help those who run  businesses accelerate their performance and overcome any behaviors (or  high stress factors) that may be undermining their personal and  professional success. Business owners, managers, and professionals all  benefit from the power of the Master-Mind Alliance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Visit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.master-mindalliance.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000099;"&gt;www.master-mindalliance.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt; for details on our program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;The Redding Master-Mind Alliance is holding a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;no cost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt; informational meeting in Redding:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;middot; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Date: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Tuesday, June 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;middot; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Time: &amp;nbsp;9 am to 12 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;middot; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Location: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Oxford Suites. &amp;nbsp;1967 Hilltop Drive, Redding, Ca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;&amp;middot; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Cost: &amp;nbsp;No Cost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;You  will leave this meeting with several powerful business development  strategies with which to make your business better immediately. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Only  20 seats are available and reservations are required. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Reserve  your seat at &amp;nbsp;http://mastermindredding.eventbrite.com &amp;nbsp;or contact  &amp;nbsp;Graham Skinner at 530.343.4012 or Kate Bourland at 530-638-3328. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:51:54 -0700</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2318806/master-mind-with-us-in-redding-ca</link>
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      <title>Herbed Pork Roast or Glazed Pork Chops - OMG Good</title>
      <description>&lt;div class="ingredients" style="margin-top: 10px;"&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;I happenstanced upon this recipe last week.&amp;nbsp; I had boneless pork chops on hand and applied the recipe to the pork chops.&amp;nbsp; I baked them in the the oven but next time I'll pan cook them in my cast iron pan.&amp;nbsp; This glaze is hands down the best glaze that I've used on pork. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;It was so very good.&amp;nbsp; Enjoy!&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Herbed Pork Roast/Glazed Pork Chops&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1 teaspoon rubbed sage&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1/2 teaspoon salt&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1/4 teaspoon pepper&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1 clove garlic, crushed&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1 (5 pound) boneless pork loin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1/2 cup sugar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1 tablespoon cornstarch&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1/4 cup vinegar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 1/4 cup water&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap"&gt; 2 tablespoons soy sauce&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt; Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt; In a bowl, combine sage, salt, pepper, and garlic.  Rub thoroughly all over pork. Place pork in an uncovered roasting pan on  the middle oven rack. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt; Bake in the preheated oven approximately 3 hours, or  until the internal temperature reaches at least 150 degrees F (65  degrees C), depending upon your desired doneness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt; Meanwhile, place sugar, cornstarch, vinegar, water,  and soy sauce in a small saucepan. Heat, stirring occasionally, until  mixture begins to bubble and thicken slightly. Brush roast with glaze 3  or 4 times during the last 1/2 hour of cooking. Pour remaining glaze  over roast, and serve. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:39:29 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>How To Set Up a Facebook Business Page - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 11</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;How To Set Up a Facebook Business Page - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 11&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Yesterday  we went through the anatomy of a Facebook Business Page. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Today it&amp;rsquo;s  time to set up a business page. &amp;nbsp;As a Facebook marketer, I am adamant  that if you are using Facebook for business that you need to do it  through a Business Page and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: #ffff00; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;NOT &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;your  personal profile. &amp;nbsp;Leave your personal profile for connecting with true  friends and family. &amp;nbsp;Set up a business page to connect with prospective  clients.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Before.&amp;nbsp; we get to the video on setting it up.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img title="http://www.socialmediabutterfly.co" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/2/8/0/2/ar129800484320822.jpg" height="306" alt="Question Mark" width="392" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;What  do you really want to use your fan page for? &amp;nbsp;Go back through the notes  that you created in the early part of this series. &amp;nbsp;Before moving  forward make sure that you have the answers to this question.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;So what do you want to use your Facebook business page for? &amp;nbsp;Here are a few options:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Generate Fans (to follow-up with and sell)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Boost my email list (to follow up with and sell)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Sell products directly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Create brand awareness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Create massive credibility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Figure out this question before you take another step because it will determine which direction you want to head.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re not clear, leave a comment and I&amp;rsquo;ll see if I can help point you in the right direction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #000000;"&gt;Now that you have it, set up your Facebook Business Page: &amp;nbsp;Here&amp;rsquo;s How:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"&gt;I am Kate Bourland. I help people like you get out of debt. Debt Settlement, Mortgage Acceleration, and practical suggestions for eliminating debt. Call for a Free Debt Evaluation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/socialmediabutterfies" title="Social Media Butterflies on Facebook" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Butterflies Kate Bourland" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/2/9/3/ar129766872839243.png" height="60" alt="Facebook" style="margin: 5px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/katebourland" title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/9/0/7/0/ar129766879907096.png" height="60" alt="Twitter" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/katebourland%20" title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/5/1/7/7/ar129766883477152.png" height="60" alt="Linked In" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Skype" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/3/5/2/ar129766897825343.png" height="60" alt="Skype" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.socialmediabutterfly.co/" title="Social Media Butterflies Blog" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="www.socialmediabutterfly.co" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/1/1/5/6/ar129766914065118.png" height="60" alt="Wordpress Social Media Butterflies" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:55:02 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2143841/how-to-set-up-a-facebook-business-page-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-11</link>
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      <title>Facebook to Replace FBML Tabs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Facebook to Replace FBML Code&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;When Facebook changed the Facebook Business Page platform last week, they quietly announced that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: #f3f3f3; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;FBML code would be replaced by a more complicated Iframes format.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;In case you don't know,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img title="FBML Code" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/7/7/9/8/6/ar129791738768977.png" height="285" alt="Skittles FBML Page" width="400" style="float: right; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;FBML code is what makes those great landing pages that encourage your visitors to &amp;ldquo;like&amp;rdquo; and &amp;nbsp;to interact with your business.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;In the short term, it means that any existing FBML coded pages will continue to work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;On March 11, 2011, new installations of the FMBL app will not be allowed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Expect Facebook to gradually phase out all FBML coded pages at some point in the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The good news is that Facebook's IFrame Tabs that will provide even greater flexibility for the Page owners. &amp;nbsp;Expect some new resources to help non coders adapt. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;So what do you need to do to prepare for the upcoming transition?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;I suggest that you add several additional FBML tabs prior to March 11, even if you don&amp;rsquo;t have current plans for them.  This will give you flexibility to add more content in both the FBML and IFrame formats.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you need help uploading the FBML App, give me a call. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For a nominal charge we&amp;rsquo;ll install it for you. &amp;nbsp;(If you are in Shasta County call the Small Business Development Corporation &amp;nbsp;at (530) 225-2770&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #295b3e; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;and make an appointment with Kate, Justin or Jessica) &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"&gt;I am Kate Bourland. I help people like you get out of debt. Debt Settlement, Mortgage Acceleration, and practical suggestions for eliminating debt. Call for a Free Debt Evaluation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/socialmediabutterfies" title="Social Media Butterflies on Facebook" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Butterflies Kate Bourland" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/2/9/3/ar129766872839243.png" height="60" alt="Facebook" style="margin: 5px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/katebourland" title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/9/0/7/0/ar129766879907096.png" height="60" alt="Twitter" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/katebourland%20" title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/5/1/7/7/ar129766883477152.png" height="60" alt="Linked In" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Skype" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/3/5/2/ar129766897825343.png" height="60" alt="Skype" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.socialmediabutterfly.co/" title="Social Media Butterflies Blog" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="www.socialmediabutterfly.co" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/1/1/5/6/ar129766914065118.png" height="60" alt="Wordpress Social Media Butterflies" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:41:28 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2139654/facebook-to-replace-fbml-tabs</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2139290/what-s-will-got-to-do-with-it-</guid>
      <title>What's Will Got to Do With It?</title>
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.4375982079654932" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;What does Will Have to do with it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m a big fan of Bob Proctor and have been following his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sixminutes.infusionsoft.com/go/SM2SOP/stepbyst/ActiveRain"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000099; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Six Minutes to Success video series &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;since January. &amp;nbsp;If you haven&amp;rsquo;t seen it, I highly recommend that you do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This is an awesome daily six minute exercise designed to help you focus on what&amp;rsquo;s important in your life and business. &amp;nbsp;Awesome stuff.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s video was on &amp;ldquo;The Will&amp;rdquo;. &amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo;s so powerful that I have to share it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The message is very simple, your will is a direct function on your ability to concentrate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The key to success is your ability to learn to concentrate as concentration increases the vibration and moves us all closer to success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you see only the objective than the obstacle must give way. &amp;nbsp;Good Stuff.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s an exercise. &amp;nbsp;Do it for every day for the next 90 days.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;img title="Concentration" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/8/8/4/8/ar129782089884885.jpg" height="402" alt="Red Dot" width="404" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Print this red dot and put it on a wall. &amp;nbsp;Spend five minutes concentrating on the red dot every day. &amp;nbsp;Focus only on the red dot. &amp;nbsp;If your mind wanders, that&amp;rsquo;s ok bring it back to the red dot. &amp;nbsp;This exercise will improve your concentration,, improve your will and help you &amp;nbsp;move mountains! &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you get a chance check out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000099; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://sixminutes.infusionsoft.com/go/SM2SOP/stepbyst/ActiveRain"&gt;Six Minutes to Success &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, it's Good Stuff!&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"&gt;I am Kate Bourland. I help people like you get out of debt. Debt Settlement, Mortgage Acceleration, and practical suggestions for eliminating debt. Call for a Free Debt Evaluation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:50:11 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2139290/what-s-will-got-to-do-with-it-</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2137552/anatomy-of-a-facebook-business-page-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-10</guid>
      <title>Anatomy of a Facebook Business Page - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 10</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.030854572542011738" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Anatomy of a Facebook Business Page - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s time to launch into setting up your social media profiles and getting your social media machine in gear. &amp;nbsp;We start with Facebook, the &amp;ldquo;801&amp;rdquo; pound gorilla. &amp;nbsp;(I stole this from a comment, thanks Prayful)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Currently Facebook is the standard by which all other social media is measured. &amp;nbsp;The goal today is to introduce you to the elements of Facebook &amp;nbsp;Business Pages and help you fine tune your profile so that it becomes a highly effective tool for your business. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Enjoy the video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Rule:  What keywords will you use to help your Business Page Rank in Facebook and Google Search Engines? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Exercises:  Using the bio information that you put together in the first lessons, adjust of fill out your page profile.  Make sure that your profile includes keywords that speak to your #1 and #2 target audience!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/socialmediabutterfies" title="Social Media Butterflies on Facebook" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Butterflies Kate Bourland" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/2/9/3/ar129766872839243.png" height="60" alt="Facebook" style="margin: 5px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/katebourland" title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/9/0/7/0/ar129766879907096.png" height="60" alt="Twitter" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/katebourland%20" title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/5/1/7/7/ar129766883477152.png" height="60" alt="Linked In" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Skype" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/3/5/2/ar129766897825343.png" height="60" alt="Skype" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.socialmediabutterfly.co/" title="Social Media Butterflies Blog" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="www.socialmediabutterfly.co" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/1/1/5/6/ar129766914065118.png" height="60" alt="Wordpress Social Media Butterflies" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:58:30 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2137552/anatomy-of-a-facebook-business-page-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-10</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2135455/the-new-facebook-pages-a-quick-overview</guid>
      <title>The New Facebook Pages, A Quick Overview</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As everyone knows by now, Facebook unveiled a new platform for their business pages this week. &amp;nbsp;I happen to like the changes as I think that they benefit local businesses in many ways. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The new Facebook page lay out acts more like personal pages and provide some excellent tools for businesses. &amp;nbsp;These include:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Unlimited &amp;ldquo;liker&amp;rsquo;s&amp;rdquo; - with personal profiles you can only have 5,000 friends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Increased functionality - you can add special landing pages, contests and promotions as well as apps that give your page increased functionality. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;You can&amp;rsquo;t do this with personal profiles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Take advanage of Facebook geo-targeted advertising. &amp;nbsp;Again you can&amp;rsquo;t do this with Personal Profile Pages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Here is a short video that I put together that highlights the new pages:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The only negative that I&amp;rsquo;ve discovered so far is that the pages dont&amp;rsquo; always show up in chronological order. &amp;nbsp;This makes no sense and we hope that Facebook will address the issue soon!&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"&gt;I am Kate Bourland. I help people like you get out of debt. Debt Settlement, Mortgage Acceleration, and practical suggestions for eliminating debt. Call for a Free Debt Evaluation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thedebtsolutionblog.com" title="The Debt Solution Blog" target="_blank"&gt;The Debt Solution Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/socialmediabutterfies" title="Social Media Butterflies on Facebook" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Butterflies Kate Bourland" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/2/9/3/ar129766872839243.png" height="60" alt="Facebook" style="margin: 5px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/katebourland" title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Twitter" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/9/0/7/0/ar129766879907096.png" height="60" alt="Twitter" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/katebourland%20" title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Linked In" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/5/1/7/7/ar129766883477152.png" height="60" alt="Linked In" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img title="Kate Bourland on Skype" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/3/5/2/ar129766897825343.png" height="60" alt="Skype" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.socialmediabutterfly.co/" title="Social Media Butterflies Blog" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="www.socialmediabutterfly.co" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/1/1/5/6/ar129766914065118.png" height="60" alt="Wordpress Social Media Butterflies" style="margin: 10px;" width="60"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:55:43 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2135455/the-new-facebook-pages-a-quick-overview</link>
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      <guid>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2134068/bringing-it-all-together-creating-the-social-media-plan-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-9</guid>
      <title>Bringing it All Together, Creating the Social Media Plan - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 9</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Marketing Plan" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/3/5/6/9/ar129758651396533.jpg" height="224" alt="Social Media Scrabble" width="225" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s time to Create the Social Media Plan. &amp;nbsp;Gather the information that you&amp;rsquo;ve put together so far including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Business Goals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Target Audience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Marketing Actions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Budget&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000099;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1N8nip6FfRUdyXEpTP70UKu6SWTkB068bgsRtbNI3NTg" title="Social Media Marketing Matrix" target="_blank"&gt;Social Media Marketing Matrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: #ffe599; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Business Goal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: #ffe599; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Target Audience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: #ffe599; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Current Marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: #ffe599; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Budget&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: #ffe599; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Goal #1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Target #1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Actions 1, 2, 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Goal #2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Target #2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Actions 1, 2, 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 7px; border: 1px dotted #aaaaaa;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Start filling in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1N8nip6FfRUdyXEpTP70UKu6SWTkB068bgsRtbNI3NTg" title="The Social Media Marketing Matrix" target="_blank" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000099; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Social Media Planning Matrix &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;based on your business priorities. &amp;nbsp;Make sure that each social media venue that you choose does the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Advances one of the specific goals that you have set as an important priority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Addresses a specific target audience that are directly related to your business goal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Reinforces marketing efforts that are already in place for that &amp;nbsp;goal and target audience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Stays within the budget allowed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Remember that Social Media is one tool in your arsenal of business and marketing tools. &amp;nbsp;It is not a marketing panacea. &amp;nbsp;Use it wisely to build your brand awareness both online and offline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Be consistent with your message and your content and stay focused on attracting the clients that you want to attract.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Rule: &amp;nbsp;How many contacts will you invite to your social profile each day? &amp;nbsp;(no more than 30 a day)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Exercises:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ol style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Start Compiling a list of topics to discuss. &amp;nbsp;This can include tips, articles or videos to upload. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Schedule time (just 30 minutes a day) to spend on one Social Media Site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Be sure to allow your personality to shine through. &amp;nbsp;Stay professional, but real!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:48:25 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2134068/bringing-it-all-together-creating-the-social-media-plan-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-9</link>
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      <title>Touches,  Trigger Points and Transactions - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 8</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Touches, &amp;nbsp;Trigger Points and Transactions - The Real Power of Social Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s estimated that someone needs to see your message as many as 30 times before they internalize your business. &amp;nbsp;This means that someone needs to be &amp;ldquo;touched&amp;rdquo; by your marketing anywhere from 7 - 30 times before they will buy. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;What are Touches, Trigger Points and Transactions?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Touches are simply the number of times that a potential client sees your marketing message.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;img title="Marketing Trigger Points" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/0/6/3/1/ar129757407813604.jpg" height="191" alt="Trigger" width="263" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;Trigger Points are events that move someone from the &amp;ldquo;shopper&amp;rdquo; status to the &amp;ldquo;buyer&amp;rdquo; status. &amp;nbsp;A trigger point is what provides the &amp;ldquo;need&amp;rdquo; to buy. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;No amount of marketing will make someone buy until a Trigger point puts them into a position where they need to buy? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Transaction is simply the sale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;So what does this have to do with Social Media Marketing?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The answer is everything? &amp;nbsp;Social Media Marketing give you the ability to &amp;ldquo;touch&amp;rdquo; your prospect with your marketing message and build a relationship with them. &amp;nbsp;By doing this, when the trigger point takes place, and the prospect becomes a buyer, &amp;nbsp;you will be able to leverage the relationship and turn it into a sale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The &amp;ldquo;touch&amp;rdquo; strategy keeps you visible because you provide useful information to your customer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As we wind down the planning process and begin to enter the actual implementation of the social media I encourage you to create a &amp;ldquo;touch&amp;rdquo; mindset in your marketing efforts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Results Exercise: &amp;nbsp;Write down 30 ways that you can &amp;ldquo;touch&amp;rdquo; your client through social media.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;What kind of content will your provide that will deepen the relationship?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Social media touches can link back to your Blog, website or other websites. &amp;nbsp;Is there something that can add value so that they remember you when the trigger point happens?&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:57:32 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2133967/touches-trigger-points-and-transactions-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-8</link>
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      <title>What's Your Story - The Real One?  30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 7</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.4483076389878988" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s Your Story - The Real One? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Today I&amp;rsquo;m going to challenge you to find your real voice, the real you, not the word smithed you. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Too often businesses are inconsistent with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Voice" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/7/4/5/7/3/ar129741214537547.jpg" height="205" alt="Voice" width="245" style="float: right; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;the message that they put out. &amp;nbsp;The website says one thing, Facebook says another and Linked In, yet another. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We all struggle with what to say about ourselves in our profiles. &amp;nbsp;Should it be professional or real. &amp;nbsp;Should it be written for the reader or the search engines?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media is about being real! &amp;nbsp;Tell your story, the one you really don&amp;rsquo;t want to tell. &amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo;s that story that will make people connect with you. &amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo;s that story that will be your irresistible difference. &amp;nbsp;The one that touches people and makes you feel real to them. &amp;nbsp;The one that tells them that you and only you understand what they are going through! &amp;nbsp;Yes, it still needs to be professional, but make it human.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Take the next 30 minutes and write out your story! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Answer the following questions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Why do you do what you do?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;How did you end up in this career?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;3. Why are you interested in this &amp;ldquo;niche&amp;rdquo;? &amp;nbsp;(first time homebuyers, investment whatever it is?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ready, Set, Go - 30 minutes!&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:17:39 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2130820/what-s-your-story-the-real-one-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-7</link>
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      <title>I Made it To Day 27...How Long Can You Make It?  Pay It Forward</title>
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.49951379909180105" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;I Made it to Day 27....How Long Can You Make it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Yesterday my daughter showed me this powerful website game called &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.playspent.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000099; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Playspent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Playspent was developed Durham Ministries of North Carolina. &amp;nbsp;It models the choices that more then 14 million unemployed Americans have to make every month. &amp;nbsp;Real scenarios, real choices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.playspent.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Play Now&lt;/a&gt; and post in the comments below how many days you make it....&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.playspent.org/" title="Play Spent" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.playspent.org/" title="Play Spent" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Play Spent" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/9/6/0/5/ar129732437850694.JPG" height="275" alt="Playspent.org" width="501" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As a debt consultant I see and feel this pain every day. &amp;nbsp;As Real Estate Agents you deal with this pain every day. &amp;nbsp;We try to ignore it. &amp;nbsp;We try to focus on those that aren&amp;rsquo;t suffering. &amp;nbsp;But the suffering is real and it&amp;rsquo;s a problem that all of us need to acknowledge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As I played this game, when it came time to ask for help, I couldn&amp;rsquo;t and didn&amp;rsquo;t. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This is primarily because my husband has been unemployed for more than two years with no job in site. &amp;nbsp;He is turned down nearly daily because he&amp;rsquo;s over experienced. &amp;nbsp;Had I asked for help people might have thought it was for real.....and maybe it would have been!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s real, it&amp;rsquo;s exhausting and many of you reading this post understand first hand the choices that must be made in this game.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.playspent.org/" title="Stop Homelessness" target="_blank"&gt;Play the game&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;What will you do next time you see someone on a street corner with a sign? &amp;nbsp;Pay it Forward. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;How can we as a community help to combat this reality in our own cities?.....&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:57:50 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>The Social Media Action Plan - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 6</title>
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.7768821862991899" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Social Media Action Plan - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Action Plan" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/4/2/7/0/ar129727185307241.jpg" height="198" alt="Action Plan" width="255" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Our goal with this series is to create solid social media results within 30 days, in 30 minutes a day. &amp;nbsp;Today we put together the Action Plan. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Action Plan Rules of Engagement:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Each Action listed must advance at least one business goal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Break marketing tasks that seem too big into smaller, multi-day 30 minute tasks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Use the goals that you identified in Days 2 - 5 and create action steps from them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Goal: &amp;nbsp;Set up my Social Media Sites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Action Steps:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal; text-decoration: none;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Choose 1- 3 social media sites that reach your target audience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Sign up for each site. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Make sure to choose a user name that makes it easy for people to find you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Gather information to set up profiles:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Digital photo, short bio, the links to your current website or &lt;img title="Social Media Action Plan" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/4/2/3/5/ar129727199253248.jpg" height="169" alt="Steps" width="225" style="float: right; margin: 5px;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Understand the rules of each social network and follow them (this means read the Terms of Service)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Look for like or complementary pages or profiles. &amp;nbsp;This could include industry leaders, competitors, or other business people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Review these profiles make a list of what you like and what you don&amp;rsquo;t like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;pay attention to the kinds of comments that are being left&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ask yourself, what kind of conversation do you want to start.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Visit the groups that relate to your expertise. &amp;nbsp;Make a note as to how active they are, how often are people visiting and commenting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Set up your basic page for each of the Social Media Sites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Invite 30 people a day to be your friend or follower. &amp;nbsp;Start with the people in your current contact list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Add content in terms of an article, or comment at least twice a week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;There you have it a 10 step plan that can be accomplished in 30 minutes a day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;By following this your marketing will become a habit and something that you mark off your to do list every day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Rule: &amp;nbsp;Your 30 minutes should be spent advancing or acheiving one of your business goals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Todays Exercise: &amp;nbsp;Review your marketing actions and break them down into steps that can be completed in just 30 minutes!&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:20:29 -0800</pubDate>
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Why Should A Client Choose You? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been following this series, so far you have defined your business goals, and you have identified your best client. &amp;nbsp;You&amp;rsquo;ve also spent a few minutes defining what problem you solve for that client.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Now the final step before launching into the action plan: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img title="Irresistible Difference" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/2/5/6/2/ar129720262926526.jpg" height="194" alt="Choose Me" width="259" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;What is that draws a customer to you instead of to your competitors?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;What are you able to provide in terms of service, product or delivery that your competitors don&amp;rsquo;t? &amp;nbsp;Is it convenience, is it knowledge or expertise in their niche? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This is also known as the irresistible difference. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Now you have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Your Business Goals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;You&amp;rsquo;ve identified your ideal client&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;You&amp;rsquo;ve identified your niches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;4. &amp;nbsp;After today you will have identified your &amp;ldquo;irresistible difference.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Tomorrow we&amp;rsquo;ll create the action plan;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Results Rule:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Outline 15 to 30 different ways that you can illustrate to your clients why they should choose you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Identify your irresistible difference! - Write it down!&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:07:28 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2125983/why-should-a-client-choose-you-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-5</link>
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      <title>How Do You Qualify for Debt Settlement in California</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;How Do You Qualify for Debt Settlement?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;How Do You Qualify for Debt Settlement?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This is a great question one that I get often. &amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo;s important to note that not everyone qualifies for a debt restructuring program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;To qualify for debt settlement: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;You have suffered a Financial Hardship. &amp;nbsp;Financial Hardships include things like reduced income, loss of income, increased expenses, medical expenses, disability. &amp;nbsp;These are just some examples and is not meant to be an all inclusive list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;You are &amp;nbsp;struggling to make minimum payments on the unsecured debt. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Are you cashing in your IRA or 401 K to pay interest on your &lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;credit cards?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Are you borrowing money from family or friends in order to make the minimum payments?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;You are committed to avoid bankruptcy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;4. &amp;nbsp;You have income and are able to make a payment that is less then the minimum payments that are now being paid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;5. &amp;nbsp;You have a strong desire to get out of debt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you have any questions or would like a free consultation please call me directly at 888-710-3328 ext 575.&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:25:09 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2122402/how-do-you-qualify-for-debt-settlement-in-california</link>
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      <title>What Problem Do You Solve for Your Client - 30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 4</title>
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.472516599111259" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;What Problem Do You Solve for Your Client - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;30 Days to Social Media Results &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;- Day 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been following along in the 30 Days to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Social Media Results &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;series you have clarified your business goals and you described your ideal customer. &amp;nbsp;In a few days you&amp;rsquo;ll be putting together your social media action plan. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Before starting on the plan there are two more questions that need to be answered. &amp;nbsp;The first of those questions is simple:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Problem" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/4/0/7/7/ar129705792377044.jpg" height="238" alt="Woman with Problem" width="225" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;What problem do you solve for your client? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Before a client will hire you, you have to get past two obsticles the ego and price?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ego is the &amp;ldquo;I can do it myself syndrome&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;These are the I can sell my own home types or I&amp;rsquo;ll shop for my own mortgage. &amp;nbsp;Most people won&amp;rsquo;t hire anyone until they either failed on their own or the continued cost of failure is greater than the cost of hiring someone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Behind the problem is Pain (usually fear) that needs to be addressed. &amp;nbsp;This is the &amp;ldquo;what if&amp;rdquo; question. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Your marketing job is to answer both the:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Ego/Money Question&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Problem or Fear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;When you make a listing or a sale, it&amp;rsquo;s because you have successfully convinced the client that you have skills that they don&amp;rsquo;t and those skills will save them money.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;You have also addressed the Fear/Pain Problem by showing them that when you solve the problem the fear and pain will go away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Remember that Social Media is just one marketing channel that you can use to relay this message.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Results Reminder: &amp;nbsp;Put most of your marketing efforts into acheiving your number one goal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Rule: &amp;nbsp;How will you solve your ideal clients problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Exercises:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Write out 10 ways that you can solve your clients ego/money concerns?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Write out 10 ways that the clients problem will go away by hiring you.&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:54:21 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2122382/what-problem-do-you-solve-for-your-client-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-4</link>
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      <title>Today I am grateful for 2/7/2011</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;today I am grateful for my life&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful for my children&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful for my creativity&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful for my car&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful for my health&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful for my happiness&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful tht I am financially rich&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful that I travel the world&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:58:52 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Goals - The Most Powerful Social Media Tool - 30 Days To Social Media Results - Day 3</title>
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.8807957638055086" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Goals" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/5/4/3/9/ar129704337693456.jpg" height="118" alt="Goals" width="200" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;On Day 3 in the Series 30 Days to Social Media Results you will define  your business goals for the next 12 months.   &amp;nbsp;I can hear some of you think, what does this have to do with Social Media?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Answer is EVERYTHING! &amp;nbsp;In order for social media to be effective you have to know what your goals are, who your market is and how the two fit together. &amp;nbsp;Without understanding this your marketing efforts will be scattered and ineffective.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Warning: &amp;nbsp;As you read through this it may feel overwhelming. &amp;nbsp;Don&amp;rsquo;t let it be. &amp;nbsp;If you take on this task, set the timer for 30 minutes, get your answers so that you can move on to making it happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The goal of this series is to help you identify best clients and then show you how to align your marketing message to that client. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s get started: (Grab a piece of paper)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Define what success means. &amp;nbsp;Use the next 12 months as the timeline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media Targets" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/0/5/8/6/ar129704346168509.jpg" height="224" alt="Target" width="225" style="float: right; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;Success will be different for different businesses and for different years. &amp;nbsp;Some examples include:&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;a. &amp;nbsp;Market Share&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;b. &amp;nbsp;Profit/Income&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;c. &amp;nbsp;Percent gain in Sales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;d. &amp;nbsp;Industry Awareness - (speaking engagements, awards etc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;What are your top three business goals for the year? &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This is different from success. &amp;nbsp;These are the goals will include things like number of houses sold, listed or number of loans closed. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Rank them 1, 2, 3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;Choose your target audience for each goal. &amp;nbsp;White down exactly who your likely audience is for each of the goals that you set. &amp;nbsp;Is your audience &amp;nbsp;married couples in thier 20&amp;rsquo;s or 30&amp;rsquo;s. &amp;nbsp;Single women 18 - 34, Divorced Men 35- 55? &amp;nbsp;Are they first time home buyers, move up buyers, investors? &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Do they have bad credit, good credit or somewhere in between &amp;nbsp;You get the idea. &amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo;s ok to have the same target market for each goal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;4. &amp;nbsp;Write down everything that you are doing in terms of marketing right now. &amp;nbsp;Fliers, magazine ads, Website, Blogging, Seminars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;5. &amp;nbsp;Compare your current marketing/advertising efforts to your target market and your goals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;img title="Marketing Gaps" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/5/2/9/2/ar129704361629259.jpg" height="179" alt="Gap" width="222" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;6. &amp;nbsp;Look for gaps. &amp;nbsp;Are there any business goals &amp;nbsp;that don&amp;rsquo;t have a target audience attached to it? &amp;nbsp;Is your number 1 goal getting the most marketing &amp;nbsp;messages? &amp;nbsp;Are all your efforts bunched around one goal? &amp;nbsp;Are all of your goals represented? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;a. &amp;nbsp;does every marketing effort have a purpose?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;b. &amp;nbsp;does every marketing effort align with one of your top three &lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;goals?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Results Reminder:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Does most of your marketing speak to your top goal?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Rule: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Identify five ways your marketing speaks to the problem that you solve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Exercises:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Prioritize three business Goals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Match them to the target Audience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;Match your marketing to your goals and audience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;4. &amp;nbsp;Look for Gaps.&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:55:20 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>What Do You Want From Your Social Media  - 30 Days To Social Media Results - Day 2</title>
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.9625161474104971" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;What Do You Want From Social Media?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/6/8/7/2/ar129680803127869.jpg" height="196" alt="" width="258" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;What do you expect to accomplish from your Social Media. &amp;nbsp;Defining this will help you as you move forwward in the 30 Days to Social Media Results. &amp;nbsp;If you expect results and move towards getting them, viola!  RESULTS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;So today I challenge you to define what it is you are trying to achieve with your Social Media efforts? &amp;nbsp;Write out a list of 30 things that you would like to acheive from your Social Media Strategy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Examples might be:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Connect with new people, old friends, and colleagues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;Take advantage of free information and education provided.via Social Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;Establish yourself as an &amp;ldquo;expert&amp;rdquo; in _______&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;There now you have a start, you finish it. &amp;nbsp;Ready, Set, Go!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img title="Ready Set Go Social Media" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/9/3/1/1/ar12968083511399.jpg" height="120" alt="Ready Set Go social Media" width="159" style="float: right; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;What do you want to establish? &amp;nbsp;Share yours in the comments section and let&amp;rsquo;s come up with 30 or more Social Media Goals to pick and choose from.&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:37:27 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2117531/what-do-you-want-from-your-social-media-30-days-to-social-media-results-day-2</link>
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      <title>30 Days to Social Media Results - Day 1</title>
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.6570725813508034" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;30 Days to Social Media Results!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;img title="Social Media" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/2/5/7/5/ar129672397157526.png" height="299" alt="social media collage" width="325" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;Social Media ia one of those words that can make you feel small. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;rsquo;ts everywhere and everyone has an opinion on what it is and how to use it. &amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo; feels complicated and mysterious and overwhelming all wrapped into one. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;It doesn&amp;rsquo;t have to be complicated. &amp;nbsp;For the next 30 days, &amp;nbsp;I&amp;rsquo;m going to break Social Media down for you. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Join me as I share a 30 day Step by Step Action plan to Social&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img title="social media results" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/6/3/5/1/ar129672406315361.jpg" height="225" alt="computer @ arrow" width="225" style="float: right; margin: 5px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Media Results.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The social media conversation is going to take place with you or without you. &amp;nbsp;You can choose to participate or you can choose to sit it out and miss out on the profit and fun. &amp;nbsp;Most people put off marketing and social media because they think that it&amp;rsquo;s too time consuming or too difficult. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Marketing, and especially social media is about consistency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;In this series we are going to focus on RESULTS. &amp;nbsp;The goal is increased business, sales and profits. &amp;nbsp;If you can commit a minimum of 30 minutes to a maximum of 60 minutes a day on your social media efforts, this series will take you from social media zero to social media hero.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s what to expect: from this series:&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Results Tip: &amp;nbsp;Each day I&amp;rsquo;ll give you a Results Tip that applies to the message of the day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Rule: &amp;nbsp;These marketing rules, when understood, will catapult your efforts and help make you a Social Media Success Story!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Daily exercises: &amp;nbsp;Commit 30 minutes to an hour each day to focus on these simple exercises.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.6570725813508034" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;img title="Failure" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/0/6/0/7/ar129672453970602.jpg" height="124" alt="Failure Target" width="125" style="float: left; margin: 5px;"&gt;Most Social Media Marketing efforts fail for one or more (usually all) of the following reasons:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #ff0000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;No Planning:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;an idea gets launched but it doens&amp;rsquo;t tie into the bottom line or have any goals associated with it. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #ff0000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Wrong or inapproprite actions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #ff0000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;If there is no plan, the the actions being taken have to be ineffective. &amp;nbsp;Our goal with the 30 Days to Social Media is to fix this.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #ff0000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;No Clarity on what or who your target audience is. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mass marketing no longer works, it&amp;rsquo;s about niches and micro-niches. &amp;nbsp;Take this challenge and I guarantee that you&amp;rsquo;ll &amp;ldquo;Get Clear&amp;rdquo;!&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #ff0000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lack of goals:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;What are you trying to achieve with your social media? &amp;nbsp;If you have no goals you are guaranteed to wander off course.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #ff0000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Unreasonable expectations:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is a big one. &amp;nbsp;One blog post is not going to solve your marketing and income problems. &amp;nbsp;Just because you build it. doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean that they will come!&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;No Patience: &amp;nbsp;Oh that doesn&amp;rsquo;t work? &amp;nbsp;Oh really, give me 30 days and I&amp;rsquo;ll prove it to you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Results Tip:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;How many times do you contact a client before making a &amp;ldquo;sale&amp;rdquo;? &amp;nbsp;How close is that number to 30?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Social Media Rule:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Planning + Effort + Consistency = Results&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s exercises:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Describe your primary client (target audience). &amp;nbsp;Who is your ideal client? &amp;nbsp;Age, Gender, Credit Score, Type of Buyer, Income, hobbies, dreams? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Compare this list to your existing clients. &amp;nbsp;Do they match?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;Write down 30 things that you would like to achieve from your social Media Marketing. &amp;nbsp;(i.e) &amp;nbsp;connect with friends, colleagues, build a referral base, get new clients, get repeat business - you get the idea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Until tomorrow! &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:57:14 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/2115569/30-days-to-social-media-results-day-1</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you revisited your About Me Page lately. &amp;nbsp;I know that I haven't. &amp;nbsp;With changes in our economy I bet parts of your business have changed since you started your Blog. &amp;nbsp; This is a great reminder, video anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div id="reblogging_tag"&gt;Via &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/2107363/the-importance-of-about-me-pages"&gt;Heather Chavez, Real Estate Virtual Assistant (928) 692-3235 (Second Self Virtual Assistance)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thinksecondself.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="The Importance of About Me Pages" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/4/2/9/2/ar129635935729246.JPG" height="161" alt="About Me" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="140"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of the most frequently visited pages after a site's landing page is the "&lt;a href="http://www.thinksecondself.com/Meet_the_Team.html" title="Meet the team of Second Self Virtual Assistance" target="_blank"&gt;About Me&lt;/a&gt;" page.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt; I am still amazed that there are REALTORS&lt;span class="l"&gt;&amp;reg; out there who don't have anything more than contact info on their "About Me" pages, if they even have an "About Me" page to begin with.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You need to think of your "About Me" page as your online resume.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt; REALTORS&amp;reg; are always looking for their next "job", right?&amp;nbsp; If your website is your job interview, your "About Me" tells a potential "employer" (ie, client) what skills and experience you bring to the job.&amp;nbsp; You wouldn't go to a job interview without a resume, would you?&amp;nbsp; Not very smart!&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;So, what exactly should be on &lt;a href="http://www.thinksecondself.com/About_Our_Owner.html" title="A few words about the owner of Second Self Virtual Assistance" target="_blank"&gt;your "About Me" page&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Think "Journalism 101"&lt;/strong&gt; - Who? What? Why? Where? When? How?&amp;nbsp; Who are you?&amp;nbsp; What do you have to offer?&amp;nbsp; Whey should a potential client want to use you for their real estate transactions?&amp;nbsp; When are you available?&amp;nbsp; How can you help them with their real estate needs?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's in the Details &lt;/strong&gt;- This is a sales job.&amp;nbsp; Showcase your skills, experience, expertise.&amp;nbsp; People want to know exactly what you bring to the table.&amp;nbsp; The "less is more" approach won't cut it here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add Some Personality&lt;/strong&gt; - Just like successful blogging helps potential clients understand who you are as a person, so can your "About Me" page.&amp;nbsp; Use fun videos, photos, trivia, interests, etc to help convey to your visitors exactly who you are, even outside of real estate.&amp;nbsp; If they can relate to the individual, they are more likely to contact you for business.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep it Updated &lt;/strong&gt;- As your job history changes, so does your resume.&amp;nbsp; The same is true for your "About Me" page.&amp;nbsp; When you take a new class, learn a new skill or gain any new knowledge, make sure to update your page.&amp;nbsp; Keep your keywords updated to reflect any new changes as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make it Visible&lt;/strong&gt; - This should be an obvious one.&amp;nbsp; You want to makes ure people can find your "About Me" page easily.&amp;nbsp; It doesn't matter how wonderful you make your page if no one sees it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When working on your website, don't forget &lt;strong&gt;the importance of your "About Me" page&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Neglecting this can actually cost you website visitors and clients.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:04:08 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Facebook Launches Easier Business Page Set-Up. &amp;nbsp;What Does this Mean to You?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Yesterday I wrote about the &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/2105967/facebook-business-page-or-personal-profile-which-is-better-" title="Business Page or Personal Profile which is better?" target="_blank"&gt;benefits of having a Facebook Business Page for your business &lt;/a&gt;and outlined why it's a smart idea to use a business page instead of a personal profile to promote your business.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Today &lt;a href="http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-makes-page-creation-even-easier-2011-01" title="Facebook creates Easier Interface for Business Pages" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook unveiled it's new simpler interface for creating Facebook Business Pages&lt;/a&gt;.  The interface is much more graphical in nature and is designed to help users understand what kind of page to create. &amp;nbsp;The new interface accomplishes three things:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"&gt; &lt;br&gt; This is supported by the artilce in Newser Magazine on January 6th that predicts &lt;a href="http://www.newser.com/story/109181/expect-facebook-to-be-publicly-traded-next-year.html" title="Facebook will be traded publicly in 201" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook will be Traded Publiclly in 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; I think that this is a good thing. &amp;nbsp;What do you think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="agent_signature"&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Kate Bourland Onlilne Marketing Mobile Marketing, Kate Bourland (Marketing with Kate)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:56:58 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Facebook Business Page or Personal Profile - Which is Better?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; At our recent Redding CA Social Media Meet up we started a conversation about the risks of setting up a personal Facebook profile for a local business.  The need to leverage the power of Facebook is no longer an option.  Facebook has far too much momentum to be ignored.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Many small, local businesses find Facebook personal profiles easier to work with and seemingly more effective than the more formal Facebook pages.  I've been studying this for a while and have done a good amount of research on the topic.  &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; So why should you set up your local business on Facebook with a business page and not a personal profile?&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;1.  Facebook Says So:     According to Facebook's &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=904" title="Facebook Terms of Service" target="_blank"&gt;terms of service,&lt;/a&gt; "&lt;em&gt;Profiles represent individuals and must be held under an individual name, while Pages allow an organization, business, celebrity, or band to maintain a professional presence on Facebook." While Facebook is not actively enforcing this YET, it's likely that they will will in the future.  When this happens and your profile gets shut down by Facebook for violating this rule, your friends list and all your hard work will vanish with it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 2.   One Profile can oversee many business pages.  Business pages give greater flexibility.  This means that as you use and understand Facebook, Business Pages will give your business greater growing power.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 3..Facebook Pages offer Analytics and Widgets that offer greater function over personal Profiles.  This means that you can measure your results and add "website like:" functionality to your Business Page that you can't get with a personal profile.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 4.  SEO aka Google Juice:  The content on Business pages are indexed by Google while the content on personal profiles are not.  Note that I"m saying "content" here.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 5.  Friends vs "Likers":  A personal profile is limited to 5,000 friends.  A business page can have unlimited "likers"&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Several local businesses disagreed with my opion at our meet up.  That's Ok, afterall isn't that was the conversation is all about?  That said, I've been around social media long enough to know that policies change.  Facebook is moving in the direction where it will start enforcing terms of service policies.  It's not if it will happen, it's when will it happen.  &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; How to protect yourself?  &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 1.  Set up a Business Page and gradually start using it.  Find reasons for your Friends to "like" your business page.&lt;br&gt; 2.  Make sure that there are at least 2, even 3 admins of the Business page.  This will protect you if Facebook does shut down the personal profile of the business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:58:55 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a great blog post by Endre that points out an big issue in today's Real Estate Market. &amp;nbsp;We all want a deal, but a deal at someone&amp;nbsp;else's&amp;nbsp;expense is really not a deal. &amp;nbsp;Just saying! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div id="reblogging_tag"&gt;Via &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/2102863/we-are-ready-to-make-an-offer-how-much-did-the-seller-pay-for-this-property-"&gt;Endre Barath,Jr. (Beverly Hills,CA.310.486.1002 Coldwell Banker)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are ready to make an offer: &lt;strong&gt;How much did the Seller pay for this Property?&lt;/strong&gt;Just recently I was asked by a&amp;nbsp;first time buyer this question.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Great question if you are curious or if you want to know if the seller is underwater due to higher loan to current value. If you know the answer to this question you can make a better offer and get an understanding of what to potentially expect as far as upcoming negotiations. I also think the next question that needs to be answered at the same time is &lt;strong&gt;what are the recent sales comparable to the subject property&lt;/strong&gt; we are about to make an offer. I also find it is important to see what the active inventory is as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Keeping in mind, when this question was raised, my buyers already had the answer to the Active as well as the Sold properties.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;What I had to educate them on is:&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;The answer&lt;/strong&gt; is a nice to know information; it is not the impetus to submit a low ball offer just because the seller is going to have a profit on the transaction. The primary focus is &lt;strong&gt;what the true value of the home&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Offer should be &lt;strong&gt;a fair offer&lt;/strong&gt; to all that way the Buyer &amp;amp; the Seller will be happy and it assures a smooth negotiation with the ultimate goal of the transaction closing.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:21:28 -0800</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:54:02 -0800</pubDate>
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