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		<title>5 Ways to Kill a Sales Lead with CRM Software</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know many of my posts lately have been focused on the automotive industry, but personally I feel you can learn a lot from other industries that can be applied to your own.  As my last actual car buying experience (not including curiosity excursions onto car lots and test drives) was 11 years ago I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Opportunities are You Overlooking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Direct Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is often cited as a great new marketing tool that truly brings one-to-one marketing to the forefront. But truly, what good is this tool if you don&#8217;t really use it? A few months ago I was looking into getting a new cellular phone, and as there were so many fantastic new options, I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think You Can Automate Your Marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the growth of social media, many companies want to get involved, but don&#8217;t really want to divert resources to these untested areas.  Often, companies set them up and forget about it, or they try to keep it active by passively automating it.  After all, why should you pay for someone to manage your social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Sins of Email Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email is part of our lives and part of most marketing plans because of how inexpensive it is. Yet, as important as email marketing is, people still just seem to overlook the obvious.  Dive in to my 7 sins of email marketing aka enormous pet peeves. 1. Bad From or Subject Lines Think about how [...]]]></description>
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