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	<title>Get Results!</title>
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	<description>Is your copy a bit lifeless? Marketing flat? Michele PW is here with tips and tricks to get your marketing and copy back on track.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Marketing Lessons from the Marathon</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/06/30/marketing-lessons-from-the-marathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s me with my pink hat walking the San Diego Marathon. I&#8217;m proud to say I learned my lesson from last year, which was if I improve my attitude and smile while I&#8217;m walking, I&#8217;ll have a much better time. And I DID. I had a blast – right on up to between Mile 22 [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Marketing Lessons from the Marathon", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/06/30/marketing-lessons-from-the-marathon/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Marketing Feel As Effective As a Dead Horse?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/06/24/does-your-marketing-feel-as-effective-as-a-dead-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I met a woman who was trying to peddle a painting created by a relatively famous Western painter.
This painter had painted it specifically for her family. It was the story about how her father acquired his favorite horse. He was hiking somewhere and came across a dead mare tangled in barb [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Does Your Marketing Feel As Effective As a Dead Horse?", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/06/24/does-your-marketing-feel-as-effective-as-a-dead-horse/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>On Grandpa Time</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/05/28/on-grandpa-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 14:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently went to Laughlin, NV, with my 93-year-old grandpa and his girlfriend who&#8217;s 20 years younger. (Yes, Grandpa is quite the character.)
I always have a good time with Grandpa because he is such a character (on top of everything else, he was a very successful business man so it&#8217;s always interesting to talk to [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On Grandpa Time", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/05/28/on-grandpa-time/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Choosing to Succeed or Fail?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/05/23/are-you-choosing-to-succeed-or-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/05/23/are-you-choosing-to-succeed-or-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 04:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was watching the movie Back To The Future. That&#8217;s the one with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd where Fox goes back in time and meets his parents when they were in high school. During the course of the movie, his father ends up standing up for himself, which he had never done [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Are You Choosing to Succeed or Fail?", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/05/23/are-you-choosing-to-succeed-or-fail/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>More Biz Lessons from KISS</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/05/13/more-biz-lessons-from-kiss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought that at almost-age 40, I&#8217;d own my first KISS shirt? Thanks to my good friend, Nancy Marmolejo, VivaVisbility.com, who bought it for me after seeing my fab photo with KISS star Gene Simmons.


I must say wearing it gives me a whole new perspective on life. I keep feeling like I should [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More Biz Lessons from KISS", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/05/13/more-biz-lessons-from-kiss/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned from Gene Simmons</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/04/10/what-i-learned-from-gene-simmons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, there&#8217;s a photo of me with Gene (yes, THAT Gene Simmons from KISS). He spoke at the recent Glazer-Kennedy Marketing Summit in Nashville. And along with getting my photo taken with him, I also got an autographed copy of his book &#8216;&#8221;Sex, Money, KISS,&#8221; which I read on the airplane on the way home.
So, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What I learned from Gene Simmons", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/04/10/what-i-learned-from-gene-simmons/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Overcome Social Networking Overwhelm</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/03/10/5-ways-to-overcome-social-networking-overwhelm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard something about the whole social networking craze. Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Digg and so on. 
And as a busy entrepreneur, you&#8217;ve probably been wringing your hands trying to figure out how to work social networking tasks onto your already overcrowded to-do list.
Well, you&#8217;re in [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5 Ways to Overcome Social Networking Overwhelm", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/03/10/5-ways-to-overcome-social-networking-overwhelm/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Musings from the Superbowl</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/13/musings-from-the-superbowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to start by coming out and saying it – I am NOT a fan of the Patriots. So I couldn&#8217;t have been happier watching the Giants kick the Patriots&#8217; butt all over Glendale on Sunday. (The only thing that would have made me happier is if it had been the Packers doing the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Musings from the Superbowl", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/13/musings-from-the-superbowl/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>3 Ways to Overcome Marketing Overwhelm</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-ways-to-overcome-marketing-overwhelm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-ways-to-overcome-marketing-overwhelm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you prefer to listen to this post, click here.
If you&#8217;re like many entrepreneurs, the thought of marketing makes you slightly sick to your stomach. And it&#8217;s more then a simple like or dislike of marketing, it&#8217;s the idea of trying to fit it into your to-do list. You already have a million things going [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "3 Ways to Overcome Marketing Overwhelm", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-ways-to-overcome-marketing-overwhelm/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Recession? Fiddlesticks!</title>
		<link>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/06/copy-recession-fiddlesticks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/06/copy-recession-fiddlesticks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele PW</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen &#8220;A Daily Show&#8221; by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central? As you might imagine (the fact that it&#8217;s on Comedy Central is probably a giveaway) it&#8217;s a political satire show. 
Anyway, a few weeks ago, Jon had a couple of segments dissecting the media coverage surrounding our presidential election. Namely, showing how [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Recession? Fiddlesticks!", url: "http://www.writingusa.com/blog/2008/02/06/copy-recession-fiddlesticks/" });</script>]]></description>
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