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		<title>Three Social Marketing Myths Busted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Hobson</dc:creator>
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Social  marketing offers plenty of benefits for small businesses, but there are  a number of common misconceptions that may be holding you back from  embracing this new form of marketing.
Here are three common  excuses used to avoid using social networking as a business marketing  strategy, and the reasons these excuses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Excuses &#8211; You Need A Social Strategy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Hobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re like most small businesses, you already know you should  have a presence on social sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.   You probably have lots of excuses, too, for why you just haven’t gotten  around to setting up a social strategy; maybe you think it’s too much  work, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s More to &#8220;Like&#8221; on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Hobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it: Facebook is huge and it’s here to stay.  More than 400  million people are Facebook users, which   represents a big opportunity  for businesses.  But now that Facebook has changed its familiar “Fan”  option to a “Like” option as part of something it calls the &#8220;Open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networking Tour Kickoff &#8211; Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 12:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Hobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you following our progress during the Social Networking Tour around Michigan&#8217;s lower peninsula, here is a brief re-cap of yesterday&#8217;s kick off events at the Livonia Business Expo!
Of course, it was pouring rain all morning &#8211; complete with thunder and lightning &#8211; when we got to Burton Manor to set up!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking Facebook Activity Just Got Easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Hobson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For small businesses that have already jumped into social media marketing, keeping track of your Facebook activity just got a little easier. (And if you haven’t gotten involved with social marketing yet, what are you waiting for?) Facebook has a tracking feature called Facebook Insights that allows page administrators to measure activity on
their Facebook pages, [...]]]></description>
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