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<description><![CDATA[Marion Ryan is a website designer, writer and online business manager, working with solopreneurs and small business owners who want to boost their online visibility whether that be through a new website, shopping cart, affiliate programme, Google campaign or article marketing campaign.]]></description>
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<title>Doing Business Online - How to Build Strong Virtual Relationships and Attract Your Ideal Clients</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since making the decision some years ago to move to the back of beyond, the large majority of my business has come from building relationships online. My occasional forays back to business conferences and other events always bring home to me how much more quickly one can connect, gather new contacts and attract new business face-to-face -- but of course it requires much more of an outlay of time, expense and organisational skill. So for those of us who largely rely on the internet to run our online businesses from far-flung corners of the world, how can we build strong relationships and attract new clients with only our computers to bring us together?]]></description>
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<title>List Managers - How to Choose the Best Ezine Manager For Your Online Newsletter</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:52:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a website and blog designer one of the frequent questions new clients ask me is "which is the best list manager for my ezine?" Of course the 'right' or 'best' list manager depends entirely on the individual. Much like choosing the best movie or the right man, there is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to email marketing.]]></description>
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<title>List Managers and Autoresponders - A Review of Icontact For the Time or Technically Challenged</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:51:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to list managers and autoresponders. The 'right' product will depend on what your needs, your budget and your technical skills are. For anyone who is either time-challenged or technically-challenged Icontact is definitely worthy of consideration so here is my assessment of it based on seven important criteria.]]></description>
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<title>Group Coaching Programmes For Beginners - Mistakes With Teleclasses and How to Avoid Them</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:38:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Running a group coaching programme is a goal for many coaches. It allows you to leverage your time effectively, gets your name in front of a wider audience and can be the first step in creating a product that gives you passive income. Leading a successful teleclass series is not rocket science but there are simple mistakes coaches make when setting up their first group coaching sessions. ]]></description>
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<title>Ideas For Blog Posts - How Your Readers Can Help When Your Creativity Well Has Run Dry</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:23:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I used to belong to a Toastmasters public speaking club and loved delivering a speech to an appreciative audience. The tough part though was always the same - how do I come up with an interesting subject to talk about?]]></description>
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<title>Successful Teleclasses - What You Need to Run Your First Teleseminar</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:04:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Running your first teleseminar can be a daunting prospect but service professionals like coaches and consultants know that they can be a powerful way to get your message out and get yourself known. So if you are not a seasoned trainer, presenter or public speaker, what do you need to consider before you run your first teleclass? ]]></description>
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<title>Successful Teleclasses - The Benefits For Service Professionals of Running a Teleseminar Programme</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:13:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Running a teleseminar or teleclass series has many benefits for the small service professional. The time-stretched coach or consultant can find growing their business a real challenge when they are continually exchanging time for money with single clients. ]]></description>
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<title>Online Newsletters Get Personal - Why Your Readers Want to Know What You Ate For Breakfast</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether you're just starting your first newsletter or have been writing an ezine for a while, you might be confused about whether to include a section where you talk about yourself. Do your subscribers want to know what your kids are up to, where you celebrated your birthday or what you ate for breakfast? Is your private life any business of your newsletter readers? To discover how much, if any, personal information you should include in your ezine, read on.]]></description>
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<title>Successful Ezine Publishing - How to Turn Your Online Newsletter Into an Effective Promotion Tool</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An online newsletter, or ezine, has the ability to demonstrate your expertise, advertise your offerings and bring you in new business. By signing up for your newsletter, your subscriber has shown they are prepared to hear from you on a regular basis. ]]></description>
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<title>Boost Your Writing Output With a Partner - Tips For Finding the Perfect Writing Buddy</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:30:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing is mostly a solitary activity. Though writers do sometimes collaborate on writing projects, each person is still generally responsible for writing different parts. Is it any wonder then so many of us procrastinate too much and write too little? Most of us live in families, work in teams and reside in communities.]]></description>
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<title>Confident Writing For Procrastinators - How to Stop Making Excuses and Increase Your Output Now</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:32:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you someone who continually promises yourself you're going to start writing more -- just as soon as all the circumstances are perfect? Do you long to write a blog, become an article marketer or start that book you've been talking about forever -- yet find too many excuses not to get going? Try some of these tips to get energised and motivated to achieve your writing goal.]]></description>
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<title>Creating a Powerful Writing Habit - 5 Easy Ways to Become a More Confident Writer</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:49:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For every active writer in the world, it seems there are another ten people talking about writing yet not doing it. Why is that? What gets in the way? Although most of us can write, we find all sorts of reasons to put off writing the blog, the life story, the website copy or that best-selling novel. Here are five quick and easy ways to stop procrastinating about writing and start doing it.]]></description>
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<title>Business Blogging For Small Business Owners - 7 Benefits of Starting a Blog Today</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:14:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Though business blogs are a staple part of life for millions of small businesses around the world, and increasing every day at a rate of knots, it's true that there are still many self-employed people and entrepreneurs who don't understand the benefits of blogging for business. In this article, I share just 7 of the benefits of business blogging.]]></description>
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<title>Wheel of Life, Wheel of Opportunity - Five Ways to Power Up this Popular Coaching Tool</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:21:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Wheel of Life is one of the fundamental coaching tools the new coach discovers when they start their coach training.  There's no doubt it's a useful tool for coaching one's clients and it has deservedly stood the test of time for life, business and executive coaches.  However, you may not yet have considered how adaptable a tool the Wheel of Life is so here are five fresh ideas that will help you use it in a variety of new ways. ]]></description>
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<title>New Coaches - Want Clients? Five Ways to Ensure the Client Journey Is Not an Obstacle Course</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:53:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're a new coach, you're keen to attract clients to your brand new business - right?  Is it possible, though, that while you really want new coaching clients, you're putting a set of obstacles in their way which means they have to be really determined to work with you if they are to get through the obstacle course that is your client journey?]]></description>
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<title>Lessons in Love - What I Learnt About Love on an Alpine Ski Trip</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:05:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'd been looking forward to this ski trip for ages yet here I was on my first morning back on the slopes, with a bruised ego and a bruised backside. Skiing sucks, I told myself, as I headed for the cafe. I didn't know I was going to learn an important lesson that morning about love, passion and the limitations -- or not -- of the human spirit.]]></description>
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<title>New Coaches Introductory Call - Getting to Yes Part 2 - To Coach or Not to Coach in that First Call</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:39:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to signing up a new coaching client, most coaches find that understandably, the prospect expects some sort of consultation or complimentary session before they part with their money.  In my experience there are different approaches coaches take to this call, each with its own merits.  In the second of this three-part series, discover the three main options you have when a potential client gets in touch. ]]></description>
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<title>New Coaches Introductory Call Getting To Yes Part 1 - Preparing for Your First Client Contact</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:37:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Though it sometimes happens that a potential client visits your website, likes what she sees and books some sessions through your automated online calendar, more often than not you can expect your prospect to want to talk to you first, before they part with their hard-earned cash.  How we conduct this first exploratory call can determine whether that potential client signs up or not.  So how can you structure and prepare for this call in order to produce the best results possible?   ]]></description>
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<title>New Coaches Introductory Call Getting to Yes Part 3 - Ten Simple Steps to Signing that New Client</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:12:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Would you be interested in a simple call structure that allows you to run an initial coaching consultation that is very effective in getting the client to yes?  In my seven years as a coach I have experimented with the way I run this complimentary coaching call and have polished a ten step process which results in a high conversion rate of prospects to paying clients.  Read on to see how you can soon be signing up brand new clients for your successful coaching business.]]></description>
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<title>New Coaches - Do You Have the X Factor?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:22:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What's a popular TV programme got to do with your development as a coach?  The X Factor attracts all sorts to its auditions but the judges know exactly what gives a performer the X factor.  New coaches, you too need that extra something if your coaching business is to have star quality.  Read on to discover the X-tra something your coaching business needs to be successful. ]]></description>
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<title>New Coaches - How to Survive and Thrive as a New Coach &amp; The Seven Do's for Your New Business</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:34:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Coaching is one of the most rewarding businesses to be in and many new coaches come out of training eager to use their new skills and start gaining coaching clients.  There are however a number of obstacles new coaches regularly come up against when starting up a coaching business so here are Seven Do's for new coaches to get you off to a flying start!]]></description>
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<title>Giving a Talk - How to Build Your List and Create That &quot;Know, Like and Trust&quot; Factor</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:21:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I well remember when I was still a very new business coach, the excitement of the first time I was asked to give a talk at my local women's business network meeting.  Ok, I wasn't exactly asked.  I recollect I begged, cajoled and offered bribes until they agreed I could make a presentation at our next meeting.]]></description>
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<title>Developing a Gratitude Attitude - What I Learned From a Parking Ticket and a Phone Bill</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:24:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As evidenced by the glass of water which is half empty for some of us and half full for others, there are often two seemingly opposite ways to look at life. So when I was hit by a stream of bad luck I was tempted to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head. Unless I could just remember to develop my gratitude attitude.]]></description>
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<title>Give Thanks, Get Happy</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:13:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the good habits I have been cultivating (if only they blossomed as quickly as the bad ones) this year is that of the gratitude journal. With the ever-increasing interest in the law of attraction, many more of us are getting the message about the importance of giving thanks for all that we have. Create your own gratitude journal and discover what an abundant world you're living in.]]></description>
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<title>New Coaches - How to Survive and Thrive as a New Coach - The Seven Don'ts for Your New Business</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:09:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Congratulations!  You have completed your coach training and can hardly wait to get started in your new career.  Running a coaching business can be hugely rewarding and you want a piece of the action.  Here, to help get you started are the Seven Don'ts for new coaches who want to survive and thrive in their coaching business.]]></description>
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<title>Abundance Thinking - Trials of a Student of Abundance</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:06:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being a lawyer of attraction and student of abundance is a full time job you know. So when I dropped into town one morning for an innocent cup of coffee I could be sure the Universe would send me a challenge or two to tussle with. The only question is: which of us won?]]></description>
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<title>Writing Your E-Course - A Step-by-Step Guide for Coaches Writing Their First E-Course - Part II</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:34:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you been looking at other coaches' websites and noticing that many are selling e-courses and information products online, perhaps to people who aren't yet ready or able to invest in one-to-one coaching?       Creating your first e-course can be quite straightforward.  In the second part of this two-part article you will discover the step-by-step process to enable you to build your own passive income opportunities.]]></description>
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<title>Writing Your E-Course - A Step-by-Step Guide for Coaches Writing their First E-Course - Part I</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:19:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you been looking at other coaches' websites and noticing that many are selling e-courses and information products online, perhaps to people who aren't yet ready or able to invest in one-to-one coaching?       Creating your first e-course can be quite straightforward.  In this two-part article I will be sharing the step-by-step process you can use if you too want to build your passive income opportunities. ]]></description>
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<title>Effective Business Networking - Top Business-Building Tips for New Coaches (Part II)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:44:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many otherwise outgoing professionals are hesitant about using networking events to attract new business to them.  They feel awkward at the very thought of joining a room of strangers and uncertain how to 'sell' their business to others.  In the second part of these Top Ten Networking Tips, we look at more strategies for  life, business and executive coaches to feel comfortable promoting their business through formal network events. ]]></description>
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<title>Effective Business Networking - Top Business-Building Tips for New Coaches   (Part I)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:13:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Networking, in its broadest sense, means communicating, sharing information and building relationships with others.  Though business networking can conjure up an image of doling out business cards to all takers at the meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce, this is not the way you'll grow your business.  There are however some key tips you can easily implement if you want to attract new clients to you fast.]]></description>
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