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		<title>So where does Social Media fit into the Marketing Mix?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a SM Marketing practitioner for many years and have built up the social presence of other SME&#8217;s but it was only a few months ago that I decided to start my own business.  During these months I have built up my own online presence on social media platforms by talking to people, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23775363&amp;post=166&amp;subd=stephaniedarkes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get yourself found on Twitter &#8211; Top Tip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people ask me how to increase their Twitter following and find useful people to follow, if you&#8217;re running a small business and you want to increase your exposure on Twitter here&#8217;s a top tip for you: List yourself on online directories It&#8217;s FREE to get yourself listed on www.twellow.com it&#8217;s the Yellow pages for Twitter but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23775363&amp;post=159&amp;subd=stephaniedarkes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody&#8217;s life has a soundtrack</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So its  20 years since Nirvana released Nevermind &#8211; that makes me feel REALLY old. 1991/2 were great years for music and coincided with the years when I was leaving school and going to sixth form - fresh in the world, revelling in the fact I didn&#8217;t have to go to school every day, didn&#8217;t have to wear a uniform and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23775363&amp;post=140&amp;subd=stephaniedarkes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My quick DIY guide for marketing your business for FREE</title>
		<link>http://stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/my-quick-diy-guide-for-marketing-your-business-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m loving WordPress today. The beautiful thing about online marketing these days is that you really can do it all yourself.  Not only can you develop and write your own site having complete control over it, you can buy your domain, set up your emails and plug-in your WordPress site (I&#8217;m going to use Namesco.co.uk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23775363&amp;post=93&amp;subd=stephaniedarkes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long live Social Media</title>
		<link>http://stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/long-livt-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t watch the News any more for two reasons.  Firstly, it&#8217;s depressing, sensationalist and upsetting and secondly because I can get my News stories direct through Twitter and from sources that I consider to be reliable and on my wavelength. Why sit through hours of edited news stories when you can find out what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23775363&amp;post=33&amp;subd=stephaniedarkes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Myspace saved my life</title>
		<link>http://stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MySpace gets a slamming these days (not unfairly) but I first fell in love with Social Media in 2004 when MySpace saved my life. At the time I was a Promoter / Booker for a live music venue, each week I would receive millions* of demos from hopeful bands trying to win me over with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23775363&amp;post=28&amp;subd=stephaniedarkes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The theory of the Purple Cow</title>
		<link>http://stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/the-theory-of-the-purple-cow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephaniedarkes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met an interesting guy at #purleybreakfastclub called Jason @GiraffeBanners he was having an in-depth conversation with Ian from The Jolly Farmers about a Purple Cow&#8230; It was my first foray into the world of networking and I thought it was some kind of bizarre tweet / network code. Jason explained to me about the Seth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephaniedarkes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23775363&amp;post=20&amp;subd=stephaniedarkes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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