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	<description>OrganiseLifeOnline.com: helping YOU to develop YOUR business online</description>
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		<title>Use Google Alerts to keep on top of things</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you run a lovely boarding kennel for cats in Shropshire.  You do a Google search to find out who your competitors are.  Great. But how will you know when anyone new comes on the scene? Will you miss the blog post where someone is bemoaning the fact they desperately need 5 star accommodation for their cats and can&#8217;t find it, even though they are only in the next town? Enter Google Alerts. Google Alerts will let you set up any number of alerts for any words or phrase that you can think of.  Then when fresh content appears on the web, you will be notified. You can choose to be emailed or to have the links sent to your Feed Reader (see &#8220;So much information, so little time&#8220;).  And there you are, up to date with all the latest news on your specific topic area. Or, are people talking about you?  Put in an alert for your own name as well and make sure the information out there on the web is up to date. You can even select whether you just want to target blogs.  So if you are creating a new product, set up an alert for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Social Media Guide To ME!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling a little bewildered by social media? Thinking your company should be tweeting, linking on LinkedIn and encouraging people to ‘like’ you on Facebook? Social media offers a wealth of new opportunities to find out more about your customers and raise awareness of your product but it’s often difficult to know how to go about it. So let’s start at the beginning (a very good place to start) and take a look at what social networking activities you’re doing already and how you want to build upon them. We’ve put together an easy questionnaire in which you outline your existing connections, social networking activities and website set-up, and which will help you define the right social media strategy for your business. My Social Media Guide To ME! will ask you how much you use Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and how you go about making the updates. About what content you post and any areas you try to avoid. If you send out email newsletters. If your website is designed to be social. And what your goals are in each of these areas. It only takes a couple of minutes to complete but will be an essential document you can refer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make online easy with our weekly newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our weekly newsletter offers handy tips and straightforward advice on running your website and getting to grips with social media. It’s free to subscribe and you’ll get regular tips which will be easy to understand and apply to your own business, whether you are confident on the web or see yourself as a bit of a novice. These are the sorts of topics we cover: Promoting your website and getting your message across Working with WordPress – and making it work for you! Using Facebook for business – how to get Liked and engage your followers. Building connections and develop your company profile through LinkedIn Developing your brand on Twitter – increasing your followers, finding your audience and knowing what to say (and when to say it) Search engines and how to get noticed by Google Keeping your website fresh, engaging and accessible How using different browsers affects the way you use the web Closing the floodgates – how to control your inbox and manage your time Using Google Alerts to track the success of your online campaign As well as the handy tips, the newsletter features links to blog posts which develop the ideas further. And of course you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start-ups toolkit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting a business, either online or offline? Well you can&#8217;t really be totally &#8220;offline&#8221; today, can you, because even if your business is very solidly based in the real world, such as building stone walls, for example, you still need a &#8220;web presence&#8221;. That&#8217;s where people will look when their stone wall falls down. So I thought I would put together a little start-ups toolkit to get you started online. Social Media things: Yes, I know, its a weird thing to do. But, you know what? It can actually be really fun too &#8211; and it works. So get yourself some accounts from the various sites here. All the basic versions are free and that will be fine to get you started. www.twitter.com &#8211; tips on getting started www.facebook.com &#8211; set yourself up a free business page www.linkedin.com &#8211; link to other professionals &#8211; make the most of your &#8220;membership&#8221; by contributing to the groups and discussions on LinkedIN. www.hootsuite.com &#8211; manage all your social media from one place as well as being able to schedule tweets and thus create advertising campaigns. http://bufferapp.com &#8211; easily update your twitter and facebook pages while browsing the web Keep up with business news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase business, I mean, really increase it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the New Year which always inspires thoughts of how to increase business, have a more successful year that last year (however successful that was anyway) etc. etc.  And what has been springing to mind this week is how I can be more genuine when I&#8217;m on the web, which is my business after all.  Yes, I am including myself in this post and it is aimed as much at me as anyone. When you are online, it is very easy to join groups, sign up for newsletters and swap links (see an excellent post here from Gemma which motivated me to write this article that has been trickling round in my head all week). But how many of us, and don&#8217;t forget I&#8217;m including myself in this, click on things and sign up for things that we never go back to again.  As Gemma says, how many pages do you like on Facebook because they say they will like your page back, when actually they are a business you are never likely to visit or become a real customer of?  Will this increase business?  A local business with thousands of &#8216;likes&#8217; and no online outlet &#8211; really?   One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic SEO help with sitemaps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO or Search Engine Optimization, getting your website found, can be a complex and time consuming persuit. This is particularly the case if you haven&#8217;t got your keywords correct or got your site set up properly. Use sitemaps to get you started. There are one or two very basic things that you can do to get yourself started and get your website being at least registered by the search engines. Use a sitemap Sitemaps used to be all the rage at one time.  While you do still see them, and they can still be a useful tool for your visitors, the sort of sitemap I am talking about here is more directed towards the search engines. The search engines are looking for a properly structured sitemap that they can easily understand and you want to provide them with a good sitemap so you know that all the pages on your website have been listed.   Properly structured sitemaps are often written in a computer language called XML. Thankfully creating a sitemap isn&#8217;t as potentially tedious as it may seem.  You don&#8217;t have to sit down and type out every page of your website.  You can get very good sitemaps generated online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a site giveaway, using Mail Chimp</title>
		<link>http://rosemariegant.com/blog/readrg/creating-a-site-giveaway-using-mail-chimp</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you give away a free document, report, video or audio when people sign up to your email list? If not, perhaps you should. It&#8217;s really not that difficult to do and most people love to pick up something for free. Firstly you will need a report or something to give away. I can&#8217;t really help you with that other than to say it does need to be something worth having. If you don&#8217;t give it some value then you won&#8217;t be able to genuinely and enthusiastically promote it and therefore no-one will want it. Once you have got your giveaway prepared, you need to sign up with an email provider who will manage your list for you. Why? Well while you can manage it all yourself with your Outlook account or similar it is much better, and looks much more professional, if you use a third party. It will also save you heaps of time and users who sign up to your list will get an instant response rather than having to wait for the next time you log in and check mail. Mail Chimp allows you a free account for up to 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Archive Utility could be more friendly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ran into a little problem with the native archive utility on Mac this week. Many of you probably know that I&#8217;m mainly a Mac person and so I tend to get called in locally when people have a problem with their Macs and this was just such a case.  Software needed updating and it wasn&#8217;t working. So I called round, downloaded the file, which took an age (should have been a clue) and followed online instructions to rename it to a zip and extract, or &#8216;unzip&#8217; the file.  Now on a Mac you should just be able to do this by double clicking it but whenever I double clicked the file it just added another .zip extension to the end &#8211; aware.zip.zip.zip.  Hmm.  We downloaded it again.  Same problem.  So I went away &#8211; to feed the ponies actually &#8211; and to get some perspective on the situation. At home I downloaded the same file, renamed, double-clicked and unzipped perfectly happily.  So next morning I took the unzipped and zipped versions back on a stick and loaded them onto my friends machine.  Hey presto software loaded beautifully and his machine unzipped the file I had downloaded without a problem. Conclusion?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to WordPress: scheduling posts</title>
		<link>http://rosemariegant.com/blog/readrg/how-to-wordpress-scheduling-posts</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress has so many exciting little buttons doing things all over the place that it can be easy to miss things.  For example lets look at the Publish box over there on the right hand side when you are writing a new page or a post for your site. Obviously the big blue publish button is the main one &#8211; otherwise nothing will ever appear on your site!  And Save Draft and Preview are extremely handy because it means you can see exactly how your post or page is going to look on the site without going &#8220;live&#8221; (amazing how much easier it is to see mistakes and typos on the preview than when you are writing). However have you noticed that next to Publish immediately, there&#8217;s a little &#8220;Edit&#8221; button? Aha!  Here&#8217;s your chance to time travel.  You can go forward and set up a series of posts to appear automatically.  Now its much better for the search engines for content to appear on blogs every few days, but often when you start writing you think of several articles as you are working.  Why not write them all up while you are inspired and then simply schedule them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress: making comments available on selected pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may be times when you don&#8217;t want to give people the option of commenting, for example on a static home page or perhaps the &#8220;About Us&#8221; page.  However if you turn the option off in the general settings (Settings / Discussion) then it turns them off for the whole site. To quickly go through and turn comments off on the pages you don&#8217;t want them to appear, go to your list of Posts or Pages by clicking the links in the left hand margin. You will get a page that looks something like this: Hover your mouse just under or next to the title of the post and you will see a little menu appear that says Edit &#124; Quick Edit &#124; Trash &#124; Preview. Click Quick Edit and you will see a box similar to the following: Simply untick &#8220;Allow comments&#8221;. This way you can work quickly through all the existing pages and posts on your website, finding the ones where you don&#8217;t want to receive comments.]]></description>
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