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<description><![CDATA[Alan Jordan has written hundreds of magazine articles, six business books and two children's books. His poetry has appeared in major poetry magazines such as Mobius, the Poetry Magazine. He is an accomplished Software Engineer and Management Analyst. 

Visit Lets Be Creative to view Alan's latest children's book The Monster on Top of the Bed and Other Stories and Poems.  You can view a streaming video of the book and even download an iPod version.]]></description>
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<title>Raising Money After Your Fund Raising Drive or Campaign Is Over</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The problem with most fund raising drives or campaigns is once the fund raiser is over, that's it. It's possible to continue to make money after it's over too.]]></description>
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<title>The Qualities You Should Look For in a Consultant</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Be certain that the consultant that you hire embodies these qualities, or you are liable to through your money away. Worse yet, you are likely come up with a poor solution. 1. The ability to listen to you to identify project goals, and to restate these project goals verbally, and in writing...]]></description>
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<title>How to Fundraise For Charity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With schools and libraries losing funding to buy books, new and creative solutions to fund raise are being sought. In a sponsored edition, the back cover can be customized to talk about why the a non profit organization needs to raise money. Sponsoring a children's book is an enjoyable way for Parent Teacher Organizations and other non-profits to raise substantial funds, and for members enjoy the process. In fact, it's one of the few ways that school-aged children can take an active role in raising funds, while building their self esteem.]]></description>
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<title>Insurance Companies - 10 Tips to Draw in More Leads</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:07:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Qualified Leads can make the difference between success and failure as an insurance agent. Here are ten proven ways to get leads.]]></description>
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<title>Does Cold Calling Work As a Method For Insurance Agents to Find New Leads?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes, cold calling does work as a way to obtain new sales leads, but it falls far short of the preferred method, which is to obtain a stream of referrals. In this article, we'll discuss a concept that produces referrals.]]></description>
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<title>Tasteful Medical Marketing For Doctors, Clinics and Hospitals With Sponsored Books</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marketing any type of medical practice is difficult to do in a tasteful manner. One method that's receiving positive results is through sponsored editions of children's books. It's especially popular with family practices. With a sponsored edition, the physician, dentist, clinic or hospital information is featured on the book's back cover or discussion page.]]></description>
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<title>Grandparents Can Provide Comfort, Security For Grandchildren</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:14:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have a grandchild who suffers from night fears, you know how difficult it is for them to go to sleep. They see monsters under the bed, in the closet and in dark corners. There's a way to combat those fears that involves using a book and, a custom-made CD featuring YOU reading the story, and of all things, e-mail.]]></description>
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<title>Parenting Tips - Teaching Your Toddler to Read</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Teaching your toddler to read will be one of the most exciting parts of your life! Hearing a toddler discover the beauty of reading is right up there with the first time a baby says, "Mommy" or "Daddy". I'm the author a number of children's audio books and a children's picture book, and I know the value of great illustration, but I also know that pictures are more important when the child is reading on his own. When you read to your child or grandchild, they listen to you. ]]></description>
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<title>5 Uncommon Ways to Raise Money For Charity</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:56:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Uncommon ways to fund raise can turn a task that can be difficult and grueling into something that is fun and enjoyable. In this article we'll explore some five easy-to-implement ideas that have excellent fund raising potential.]]></description>
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<title>Parent's Children - 3 Ways to Motivate Young Children to Read</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are three ideas to draw children in, and encourage them to read when reading to them us not enough motivation to inspire a love of reading. For some children, these ideas convert reading from a task into a challenge. These suggestions work well with one child, a child and their friends or siblings and with a classroom filled with children.]]></description>
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<title>Parent's Children - Easy Ways to Motivate Young Children to Read - Suggestions 1, 2, and 3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to motivate your child to read is simply to read to him or her, but what if this is not enough? If your child or grandchild seems to require the kind of stimulation that they get when playing video games, get your child involved in a variety of ways with these solutions.]]></description>
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<title>Social Marketing Strategies For Librarians and Teachers - Part I</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the purpose of this article, social marketing is using on-line tools to help to market a person, product or service. Social Marketing Strategy is a topic of rising interest according to Google's keyword Search Engine tool. "So, what does that have to do with me if I'm a librarian, teacher or a professional?" is the question of the day.]]></description>
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<title>Social Marketing Strategy For Librarians and Teachers - Part 2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You've read Social Marketing Strategy for Librarians and Teachers - Part 1 and you're wondering how a teacher or librarian can benefit from a service that allows them to raise money by using a book as a fund raiser. Here are a few thoughts...]]></description>
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<title>Tips on Writing a Book-Promotion - 5 Steps For Creating a Compelling Blurb</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you are like me, one of the hardest things you can do is to create a compelling blurb for your book, or marketing copy for a manuscript that you're writing and proposing. It's true that I know the value of my book, but it is also true that I know much more, so much more that it can be hard for me to distill a simple explanation. I can try for hours, even days to write a blurb, and it's likely to be bland, or worse yet confusing.]]></description>
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<title>Tips For Writing a Novel - Tip 9 - 3 Ways to Test Your Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You've written a story or a book. It's the best book that was ever written, or is it? Unfortunately, if you're like me, you may be blind to the fact that your first draft is, well a first draft--unpolished, boring, basically an outline. Finishing feels great, so my writing feels great, to me anyway. Here are some of the ways that I test my writing:]]></description>
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<title>Tips For Writing a Novel - Tip 8 - Using Power Point to Build a Stepsheet</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:26:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I wrote a 1,000 word article, I don't need an outline. I can keep everything straight in my head. In fact, in many cases, I create an outline and then flesh it out. I can't possibly keep all of the twists and turns of a novel in my head. I get lost. When I don't have an extended outline, I can lose my way, or worse yet, spend many hours writing material that I throw away.]]></description>
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<title>Writing a Novel - Tip #7 - Drawing Inspiration From Art</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:01:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing fiction is quite different from writing non-fiction. When I write non-fiction I immediately know where I want to begin and where I want to end. I know my premise--what I want people have as a take away Life is not always that easy when I write fiction.]]></description>
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<title>Writing a Novel - Tip 6 - Responding When I Fail the Honesty Test</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:56:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I find it is important to constantly ask myself if my writing is honest. Sometimes, my writing fails my honesty test and I must make a decision: Make changes that bring it back to an honest manuscript, kill off the project, or settle. Usually, I make changes.]]></description>
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<title>Writing a Good Vs Evil Novel Tips 1-5</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:29:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I know that I will not make a difference in the world by being political, or by being a business magnate. However, through my writing, I change the world, one reader at a time. The first book in a science-fiction fantasy series that I'm writing right now, entertains by exploring good versus evil, and evil's relationship to sound.]]></description>
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<title>3 Ways For Retails to Survive and Thrive in Tough Times</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:56:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A visitor is about to walk out the door. She lives in another city, and will probably never buy from you again once she leaves. Just before she exits an employee hands her a bookmark. When she gets home, she places an order via a special website. Over the next six months she buys multiple items with high profit margins.]]></description>
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<title>10 Tips For Giving a Speech With High Audience Involvement</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:37:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I recently gave a presentation that involved the use of a handout at an Advanced Toastmasters club.  The presentation did not go over as well as I anticipated, but I learned quite a bit, and I made my mistakes in a "sandbox" environment where it did not cost me anything to make a mistake.]]></description>
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<title>Social Media - Networking &amp; Cocktail Parties</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:12:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I subscribe to the idea that Social Media does little more that enable you to build relationships in the same way that you would build relationships if you met someone at a cocktail party or networking event.  It does, however, save  you the time and expense of driving to the cocktail party, and/or buying drinks.]]></description>
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<title>Meet Joel Schwartzberg - Author - The 40-Year-Old Version - Humoirs of a Divorced Dad</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:47:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from an extensive audio review that I conducted with Joel Schwartzberg, author of The 40-Year Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad. This interview is not about the book per se, but about promoting it. When I spoke with Joel he told me, "I know a lot about web-promotion of books given my experiences promoting my own book and note all the blogger reviews) as well as through my experience teaching Author Publicity to authors. I run an online and in-person mediabistro course that focuses on opportunities in new media."]]></description>
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<title>Getting a Job Interview When You're Contacting the Wrong Person</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:21:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from a book I wrote on getting job interviews.  In this scenario, you discover that you have not been speaking with the right person.]]></description>
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<title>Top Ten Tips For Getting a Job Interview - David Letterman Style</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:52:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I recently interviewed Allison Brinkman for a book that I'm writing. She had a very creative way of getting a job in the Public Relations Industry. She prepared a top ten list for getting a job. ]]></description>
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<title>Students Use Social Networking and Other Skills to Help Pay For College Tuition</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:25:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many college students who have to work think only of standard jobs or internships.  The problem is that these jobs may not pay very well, schedules change at the whims of employers, and working at McDonald's or WalMart may not look as good on a resume as some other alternatives that show initiative.  There are times when it makes good sense to look into independent contractor positions.]]></description>
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<title>3 Unique Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Store, Shopping Center Or Mall</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:55:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the weak economy it is more important than ever to get people into the store.  If you can believe statistics, many people are just not planning on spending money.    How do you attract people to the store, and put them in the mood to make a purchase by helping them feel good about coming?]]></description>
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<title>Benefits of Receiving a Grant For Writing Children's Literature</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:38:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's a lot more that is returned to the community than meets the eye when a writer receives a grant.  In this article, I review some of the benefits that I received when I received a "Jackpot Grant" from the Nevada Arts Council.]]></description>
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<title>Tips on Writing Children's Middle Grade Novels - Part I (Bruce Coville's SCBWI Presentation)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bruce Coville is a prolific children's author.  He was recently a keynote speaker at the Summer Conference of the Society of Children's Bookwriters and Illustrators.  I attended this conference on a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, and I took these notes to share with that organization.  Frankly, I think they deserve a bigger audience. If you are a writer or aspiring writer, this article is must reading.]]></description>
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<title>Free Marketing Opportunity For Starbucks, Independent Coffee Shops and Retailers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:02:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Starbucks is closing stores. A large part of this is directly due to the economy, another large part is related to the proliferation of fast-food restaurants like Wendys and McDonalds that have recently decided to expand into Starbuck's market.  This article shows Starbucks can leverage one of it's successes--the implementation of a wireless network that resulted in increased customer satisfaction and huge sales of music.]]></description>
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<title>Great, Positive Exposure For Celebrity Activists Interested in Literacy, 8-hour Time Commitment</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:37:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A combination of a unique concept and the promotional efforts of international service organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, and Soroptimists has the potential to produce long-term positive exposure for celebrities who are interested in promoting literacy, multiculturalism or both. Here's how it works.]]></description>
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<title>Simple Steps to Write &quot;Inspired By&quot; Poetry, With Examples, Techniques 1 to 4</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:19:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I define "Inspired By Poetry" as poetry that has it's creative germ in someone else's work.  This work could be a famous painting, hymn, song, book or poem.  It is not a form a plagiarism because it is not taking someone else's ideas as your own. Rather, it is a time-honored artistic concept--drawing inspiration from the creative works of others.  Interested, read on...]]></description>
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<title>Home-Based Marketing and Sales Success - A Creative Solution</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:37:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people are frustrated with home-based marketing businesses.  They invest hundreds, even thousands of dollars on products and wind up with little or no earnings.  In this article we discuss an out-of-the-box, creative solution, to get new prospects, build joint marketing relationships, increase your current sales, and create additional revenue streams.]]></description>
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<title>Increasing Sales in a Recession - Beauty Parlors</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:54:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a down economy people get their hair cut less.  There's nothing you can do about that, but there are things that you can to make sure that the general trend does not hurt your business.  This article provides  five easy-to-implement, inexpensive things that you can do to help your business prosper despite a recession.]]></description>
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<title>Lessons Learned Number 5 to 8 - Writing and Publishing an Interactive Book/CD For Children</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:38:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These are some of the lessons that I learned while writing and publishing a children's book and accompanying audio book and e-book.  Perhaps they help you to obtain inspirations and improve your writing.]]></description>
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<title>Lessons Learned Number 1 to 4 - Writing and Publishing an Interactive Book &amp; CD For Children</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:19:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here are four of the major lessons that I have learned writing and publishing an illustrated children's book that is accompanied by an audio-book on CD.  Future articles will provide additional insights.]]></description>
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<title>Get More Guests - Four Ways to Bring Workshops and Seminars Into Your Establishment</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:13:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Build business by helping one of your guests to make money.  They invite people into your establishment for a workshop or seminar.  They keep the product or service sales.  You keep the food and liquor revenue.  Your responsibility?  Simply help out a bit with some marketing.  Although this article is primarily written for restaurants, the same basic technique work for all retail establishments.]]></description>
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<title>Five Natural Ways to Foster Creativity in Children</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:56:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Get rid of the frustration when a child is having difficulty learning or coping. Take advantage of  five natural, simple techniques to come up with easy-to-implement solutions.]]></description>
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<title>Referrals - Four Proven Ways to Get Them</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:52:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The lifeblood of an insurance agent is referral sales.  This article explains a way to show your clients that you care about them and it provides reasons for your current client base to discuss you with their friends, family and business associates.]]></description>
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