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		<title>Does “Simple and Doable” Mean Internet Marketing is Easy?</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/05/does-simple-and-doable-mean-internet-marketing-is-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard from a number of small local business owners confused about what I mean when I say internet marketing is simple and doable. They think that I’m saying that internet marketing is easy! I’m not. Let me explain… Internet marketing is a lot like dieting. Losing weight is simple – you reduce your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Mess with Facebook Rights and Responsibilities!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you aren’t following Facebook’s terms of service to the letter, you’re risking big consequences. Imagine spending tons of time building up a long friends list only to have it all disappear because you failed to follow the rules! That’s what is happening to a growing number of small local businesses who have used their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipolar View of the Internet for Small Local Businesses and Rural Tourism.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 18:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered this infographic today.  I’ve spent so much blogging time today thinking about it that I decided to share my thoughts, which run in two different tracks for small local business and rural tourism businesses. Created by: Forensic Psychology Track #1. We shouldn’t be trying so hard to multitask. Track #2. We really do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pinterest Page Example Any Rural Tourism Business Can Copy</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/04/a-pinterest-page-example-any-rural-tourism-business-can-copy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Techniques & Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural experience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been lots of blog posts about how to use Pinterest for business. Although the information in the ones I’ve read was useful, it either referred to large brands, or showed few examples, my recent Pinterest post included. So your questions about the logistics of exactly how a small local business could set up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Rural Tourism Destination? If You Say No, Read On</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/04/are-you-a-rural-tourism-destination-if-you-say-no-read-on/</link>
		<comments>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/04/are-you-a-rural-tourism-destination-if-you-say-no-read-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success For Small Towns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; if you say, &#8220;Yes!&#8221; this is for you too&#8230; It’s the beginning of the travel season in the Western Hemisphere, so the internet is full of predictions for tourism 2012. What about your small town? Do you have a tourism season? Does the idea make you laugh? The fact is that rural tourism is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Small Local Businesses Are Better At Facebook Than Big Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success For Small Town Businesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Media is making life difficult for big brands. Big business is used to ad campaigns that move public opinion in massive ways – million dollar Super Bowl ads and extravagant events to roll out new product lines. Social media is about moving one person at a time to take one action at a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinterest for Business and For Fun</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/03/pinterest-for-business-and-for-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I want to introduce you to Pinterest, the latest, hottest social networking platform on the web. If you are leery about Twitter and exhausted by the demands of Facebook business pages, Pinterest might be just the ticket for hanging out and getting into the true spirit of social networking. You’ve heard that social networking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ &#8211; It&#8217;s Time for Small Local and Rural Tourism Businesses to Take a Look</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/03/google-for-small-local-and-rural-tourism-business/</link>
		<comments>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/03/google-for-small-local-and-rural-tourism-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success For Small Town Businesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/?p=2728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve had a number of emails over the past six months asking why I haven’t written a post about using Google+. I mentioned Google+ in this post: Battle of the Titans: Google+ One Button vs. Facebook’s New Subscribe Button (sorry about more titans battling – I just love sumo wrestler images!) but have been waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Search Engine Marketing vs. Social Media Marketing – What’s a Local Business to Do?</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/03/search-engine-marketing-vs-social-media-marketing-%e2%80%93-what%e2%80%99s-a-local-business-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/03/search-engine-marketing-vs-social-media-marketing-%e2%80%93-what%e2%80%99s-a-local-business-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success For Small Town Businesses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since Take Control Of Your Internet Marketing opened, members have asked some questions  about  search engine marketing vs. social media marketing. Why did I focused first on search engine and review site marketing in the first module, and touched on social media in the second module only after another significant series on connecting with customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Unpopular Is Your Best Business Strategy</title>
		<link>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/03/being-unpopular-your-best-business-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/03/being-unpopular-your-best-business-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Steele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success For Small Town Businesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niche marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another week passes by w/o talking about Take Control of Your Internet Marketing! How about just going there, reading and subscribing&#8230; I discovered something I just can’t help but share today instead of my third installment about Take Control. Last week Sonia Simone at Copyblogger wrote about a new book by Erika Napoletano called The [...]]]></description>
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