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		<title>In praise of the follower</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For what seems years now, I’m been hearing about leadership. I’ve been in conferences, read books and seen countless posts online about how you have to be a leader. Everyone on a team has to lead. It’s in leadership that success lies. To that I say, “Horseshit.” If everyone is leading, who is following? Who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small business: up to speed on domain hosting?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/03/small-business-up-to-speed-on-domain-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve encountered a number of clients who have been paying for domain registration and hosting with no idea of what a competitive price would be. As a result, many of them have been paying twice as much as they should. To make things worse, they were receiving less than half of what they should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respect customers and yourself</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/24/respect-customers-and-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This was first posted Sept. 18, 2004.) In the various blogs I visit, and in other sources, I continually come across discussions about customers and their experience of businesses, large and small. One of the themes that pops up frequently is respect, as in Seth Godin&#8217;s recent posting, Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media basics for a small business</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/27/social-media-basics-for-a-small-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 10:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses, especially small businesses, are wary of social media and for a variety of reasons. The reasons are legitimate given that owners are wrapped up in the business of actually running their business, so they are often in uncharted territory with very little time. One of the biggest reasons, and biggest pitfalls, is: What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automated phone calls and the genius of marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in the history of marketing, business and other organizations have recognized their customers are actually people. Not only that, they have taken this realization into account. It is called the automated phone call (or, &#8220;all call&#8221;). Consider how we respond to marketing phone calls. We hate them. We curse them. Often, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content is not content</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/25/content-is-not-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In business and especially marketing, we continually see references to content. Does anyone know what that is? I don’t think so. It’s spoken of as if it’s a tangible quantity, something measureable, a thing you can stock the shelves with. In the case of the Internet, it would be shelves on the web and social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth Godin on linchpins, focus, spreading stories</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/15/seth-godin-answers-a-few-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked Seth Godin a few questions and he was kind enough to answer them. The majority concern his latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? While for most people he requires no introduction, I should mention that Seth Godin is a well known author, speaker, and entrepreneur (Squidoo) and blogger (one of the most popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puzzled by web design and services</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/01/22/puzzled-by-web-design-and-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been looking at a few sites offering web design and related services and I find myself puzzled, even a bit alarmed. This is not due to what I found (though in some cases it was) but by what I did not find. I have seen absolutely no reference to content. Do the sites magically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why dogs are important to business</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/08/25/why-dogs-are-important-to-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; It&#8217;s nice to know that if I do post about my dogs or something, it&#8217;s not a total faux pas.&#8221; That is from a comment left yesterday by Tzaddi, from ThriveWire, to my post I wonder what she&#8217;ll say? And I thought, yes. Dogs are a great example of what I&#8217;m trying to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook grabs FriendFeed: a speculation festival</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/08/11/facebook-grabs-friendfeed-a-speculation-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just about everyone weighing in on the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed, I thought I&#8217;d add to the noise and toss in my riveting insight (or lack thereof). First of all, I&#8217;ve no idea what it means. But then, no one else does either &#8212; there is interesting speculation, however. One of the first notions [...]]]></description>
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