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	<description>A Guide for Starting and Running a Profitable Online Business.</description>
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		<title>Free List of eZine Editors Who Want Your Short Article</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2008/10/01/free-list-of-ezine-editors-who-want-your-short-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Promotional Power of Personal Email</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/11/28/the-promotional-power-of-personal-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Promotion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the newest marketing methods I’m addicted. I just have to read every new article, big forum topic, or the latest hot new ebook. Really though, except for the occasional gem, it always come back to the oldest methods that really work.
A good example of this is the email signature. If you’re unfamiliar with this, it is a one line promotion of your website or affiliate link...]]></description>
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		<title>Website Promotion Do&#8217;s &#038; Don&#8217;ts</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/11/28/website-promotion-dos-donts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DON’T ever include a keyword or key phrase in your meta tags that is not present on that page. Keywords should REINFORCE what is on the page, not define it. I’ve seen this, time and time again on sites I maintain, as search engines are defining this a spam more and more of the time.
DON’T use a general (free) banner exchange service. You will see at most, a 1/50th increase...]]></description>
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		<title>Rules of Promotion</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/11/28/rules-of-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t count on the search engines to promote a site. That means you need to make sure to hit them all. Pay particular attention to the directories. (ignoring yahoo unless you know that particular yahoo category pulls well - most don’t any more).
You must use every available avenue of promotion you can afford: A hard aggressive reciprocal linkage program. Usenet, forums, and even local chat or irc channels.
Subtle promotional...]]></description>
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		<title>Checklist for Promoting a Business</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/11/28/checklist-for-promoting-a-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Make Sure Your Keywords Are in the First Paragraph of Your Body Text. Search engines expect that your first paragraph will contain the important keywords for the document. You don’t want to stuff keywords here, however. Google expects a keyword density in the entire body text area of maybe 1.5% to 2% for a word that should rank high. Other places you might consider including keywords would be in ALT...]]></description>
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		<title>10 Quick Traffic Building Tips For Any Web Site</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/11/28/10-quick-traffic-building-tips-for-any-web-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The question most often asked on the Internet is, “How do I get more traffic to my site?”
You would think that an answer for this question would be extremely simple, but it really isn’t. It isn’t that it is so hard to get traffic to web sites. The problem is that there are so many different avenues of traffic generation you can choose from for any site.
In this short report,...]]></description>
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		<title>Best Ways to Promote Your Website for Free</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/25/best-ways-to-promote-your-website-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So you just built your prize website. You put weeks of work into making the best site possible. Everything is perfect. So, you wonder, why is nobody coming to your site. The answer is simple: You Must Promote!! Promote everyday and then promote some more. 
There are many ways to promote your website that will cost you nothing. Here are some of the best ways that I have found.]]></description>
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		<title>17 Ways To Promote Your Business</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/25/17-ways-to-promote-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A business, more often than not, has a very limited budget when it comes to advertising. The business owner needs to make the public aware of his or her product or service at the lowest possible cost.
There are many ways. A pet breeder in a large city was struggling for several years-until he came up with a novel idea. He started giving away customized “birth certificates” for the pets he...]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets of Getting Free Advertising</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/secrets-of-getting-free-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The opportunities for getting free advertising for your product or services are limited only by your own imagination and energies. There are so many proven ways of promoting your objectives without cost that it literally boggles the mind just to think of listing them. One way is to write an article relative to your particular expertise and submit it to all the publications and media dealing in the dissemination of related...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create a Strategic Web Advertising Campaign</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/how-to-create-a-strategic-web-advertising-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/how-to-create-a-strategic-web-advertising-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is fast becoming a required component in every advertising campaign. So, what is the best way to advertise on the Internet? The answer to that question depends on why you are advertising. Do you want to build a brand, increase traffic or sell a product? Of course, a successful website requires all three components to be successful, but which is foremost in your company’s business plan? Before we...]]></description>
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		<title>Instant Messaging Fast Forwarding your Business</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/instant-messaging-fast-forwarding-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Instant Messaging is rapidly becoming accepted in the business community as a viable communications tool and process - it’s faster than e-mail, free on the client side, even a novice user can easily grasp the interface in just a few minutes and it enables remote workers and business partners to “talk” and share files and information effortlessly using the in-place infrastructure of the internet. What are some of the pitfalls and...]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting Advertising</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/targeting-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many people, when they think of making money from a website, think of taking banner advertising and pop up windows from an ad network and slapping them on their page in a random rotation. Unfortunately these are among the worst types of advertising for both the visitor and the webmaster, and these should really only be used as a last resort. It’s not just that pop ups (and even banners) drive...]]></description>
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		<title>Signature Files</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/signature-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a very simple promotional tool that many people either aren’t aware of, or don’t take advantage of. It’s called a signature file or SIG file.
A SIG file can be “attached” to the end of email messages. You’ve probably seen SIG files on email you’ve received; they look like short little “ads” - in fact, that’s exactly what they are. If you haven’t been using a SIG file, there’s no time...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Millions of Dollars in Free Advertising for Your Web Business</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/how-to-get-millions-of-dollars-in-free-advertising-for-your-web-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One web business generated over one million hits it’s first month online…
An ezine publisher produced over 14,000 new subscribers for his email publications in one week… A home business generated well over $50,000 in income on one new product in one month… What do these three stories have in common? They all used free media publicity to create their own online success stories. Will you be the next one? While the majority of business...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Advertise for Free</title>
		<link>http://thunderclaptrading.com/business_tips/2007/06/01/how-to-advertise-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The best marketing gurus never pay for advertising. They are much too savvy to spend money when they know advertising can be obtained free. Every self-made millionaire on the Net uses proven advertising strategies to get the most exposure possible and all of them have maximized their profits by not wasting their money on advertising. Discover what they do, emulate it and you too can profit beyond your wildest dreams.]]></description>
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