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	<description>Laura Wagner, Web Design and Online Marketing</description>
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		<title>Cookies &#8211; What Are They Good For?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the Yummy Chocolate Chip Kind &#8211; I know what they&#8217;re good for. I&#8217;m talking about the cookies that store bits of Information on your computer. Let&#8217;s first get a good idea of what a cookie actually is and does. We hear the term all the time but do you really know what it&#8217;s doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/cookies-what-are-they-good-for/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Changes &#8211; Are You Keeping Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a regular user of Facebook, you&#8217;ve been noticing some changes lately. So let&#8217;s go over a few new features and you can let me know in the comments section below how you like the changes. When you arrive at your Facebook home you will notice recent stories at the top. You will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/facebook-changes-are-you-keeping-up/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Pages &#8211; Is Yours Secure?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In less than 2 weeks,  Facebook will require all custom pages be hosted on a secure server. I will explain what that means for you, the owner of a custom page. Let me first back up to earlier this year. In February, Facebook made a big change in the way custom pages are made. Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/facebook-pages-is-yours-secure/</link>
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		<title>Letters From Laura &#8211; My Blog Gets a New Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been following my blog, you may have noticed I recently changed the name and banner image. The domain for my blog has also changed thanks to my new friend Dan Morris, who I met at the NAMS (Niche Affiliate Marketing System) conference in Atlanta last month. Dan was one of the instructors at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/letters-from-laura-my-blog-gets-a-new-name/</link>
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		<title>My Take-Away from NAMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid-August I attended the Niche Affiliate Marketing System (NAMS) conference in Atlanta, Georgia. NAMS was founded and is directed by David Perdew. David holds these events twice a year, in February and August and this was his 6th NAMS conference. I wish I had known about NAMS 1 or 2 a few years ago! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/my-take-away-from-nams/</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Irishman &#8211; James Joseph Havey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some blog posts take longer to write than others. Some blog posts are written in a matter of minutes. Some take hours or perhaps days. This blog post has taken me months to write.]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/my-favorite-irishman-james-joseph-havey/</link>
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		<title>Updates and Introducing Video Email &amp; 90 Day Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time I get back to my blog and share some updates with all of you. A lot has been going on in my life so far this year and blogging has not been my top priority but I want to start doing an email approximately every 2 weeks and I can share that information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/updates/</link>
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		<title>May I Share My Social Media &#8216;Secrets&#8217; With You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to say I came up with this article&#8217;s subject on my own, but sometimes it takes a fellow blogger&#8217;s post to catch my eye and give me inspiration. I&#8217;ve known Michelle Schaefer since I took part in the 31 Days Blog Challenge she co-hosted with Lisbeth Tanz last summer. I&#8217;ve been connected with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/may-i-share-my-social-media-secrets-with-you/</link>
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		<title>Do You Need Help With Your Social Media Goals, Plan &amp; Strategy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s great to get feedback on blog posts as I did on my last post about consistency, perseverance, and patience in social media. It was great because it gave me ideas for more posts, including this one. It&#8217;s also a great way to meet new people. Steve Kabelowsky and  Jeff Clark suggested business owners need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/goals_plan_strategy/</link>
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		<title>There is No Magic Potion &#8211; Social Media Takes Consistency, Perseverance, and Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often talk to business owners who think they will setup a Facebook or LinkedIn account and will immediately have several hundred connections. Unfortunately, it usually doesn&#8217;t work that way. Don&#8217;t believe the self-proclaimed &#8216;experts&#8217; who say they can tell you how to get 10,000 raving fans overnight. It takes consistency, perseverance, and patience. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/there-is-no-magic-potion/</link>
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		<title>Save Web Articles with Evernote If You Don&#8217;t Have Time to Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I wrote an article about RSS, What is RSS and How Can It Help You? Check out that article for the answer to that question. As a follow-up to that article, writing about Evernote seems to be the next logical topic. I don&#8217;t remember how I found Evernote but I&#8217;m guessing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/save-web-articles-with-evernote-if-you-dont-have-time-to-read/</link>
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		<title>What is RSS and How Can It Help You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen the RSS icon on several websites or you may have seen it and heard it mentioned on TV ads. Usually it is orange but sometimes you will see it in different colors. But what is RSS? RSS = Real Simple Syndication. I know, now you&#8217;re asking, &#8216;what is Real Simple Syndication?&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/what-is-rss-and-how-can-it-help-you/</link>
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		<title>Using Facebook to Engage &#8211; Abrakadoodle Does it Well!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m catching up on Facebook this morning, checking out many good posts, I came across one by Pam Rautmann, owner of Abrakadoodle &#8211; SE Wisconsin. Pam does a great job using Facebook to promote her business and she&#8217;s come up with another great idea. She has started a little trivia contest on Thursdays. Each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/using-facebook-to-engage-abrakadoodle-does-it-well/</link>
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		<title>Intermediate Social Media Classes &#8211; Plymouth, WI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beginner Social Media classes went very well last month so now it&#8217;s time to move onto Intermediate classes. There will be morning and evening classes again to make it easier for business owners to attend. Students are expected to have general computer and Internet knowledge and they must also have their social media accounts setup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/intermediate-social-media-classes-plymouth-wi/</link>
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		<title>What is Your Word for the New Year?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Word for the New Year &#8211; I like the concept. Rather than making one or more New Year&#8217;s resolutions, come up with just one word that best describes your goals and expectations for the upcoming year. When I first saw this idea posted online, I took only a couple minutes to come up with my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/what-is-your-word-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Share Social Media Success Stories-New LinkedIn Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 3 weeks since I wrote my last blog post. That&#8217;s way too long in blogging land but let me tell you, it&#8217;s been a very short 3 weeks. So why does it seem much longer than 3 weeks? Is that the way it works when the days are so full, even more full [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/share-social-media-success-stories-new-linkedin-group/</link>
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		<title>Let it Snow &#8211; I&#8217;m Watching Football and Blogging!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My plans for today included watching the Packers beat the Lions, writing a blog post or two, and catching up on websites. Turns out those were good plans considering we are socked in with blizzard conditions. We had rain for a couple hours yesterday, then it turned to snow and it didn&#39;t take long to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/let-it-snow-im-watching-football-and-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Move Over SEO &#8211; the New Kid On the Block is SMO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is SMO you ask? Social Media Optimization. If you haven&#8217;t heard the name or acronym yet, you will soon and you will hear it often. SMO simply means your social media accounts are optimized so you will be found within those sites as well as by search engines. For example, if you complete your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/move-over-seo-the-new-kid-on-the-block-is-smo/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Classes for the Newbie &#8211; Plymouth, WI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a very exciting time &#8212; Beginner Level Classes are now set! I&#8217;ve been planning this for several months now so now that it&#8217;s almost here, it feels like Christmas. I hope when they are over, I won&#8217;t feel that huge let-down like I used to feel when my kids were little and Christmas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/social-media-classes-for-the-newbie-plymouth-wi/</link>
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		<title>Question &#8211; What do Town of Rhine &amp; Greenbush Ski Club Have in Common?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Answer &#8211; they have websites recently completed by me and posted to my portfolio. Because my portfolio was getting rather large, several months ago I separated it into 3 categories &#8211; Business, Municipal, and Community. My portfolio now has 39 sites that I made over the last few years. I consider my portfolio a bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lettersfromlaura.com/what-do-town-of-rhine-greenbush-ski-club-and-home-pro-inspections-have-in-common/</link>
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