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		<title>New Website for A Magical Affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I put together a blog for Courtney Hammon&#8217;s company A Magical Affair. This year she decided to finally bag her old flash website in favor turning that blog into a complete website. Yeah! Courtney. Now you get all the SEO  power of WordPress and Genesis. Of course we did some [...]


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		<title>New Ideas for Bridal Show Email Follow-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, you&#8217;ve invested your time and treasure in a bridal show, or several and you have a fat, juicy lead list. Now what? I have already given you tons of ideas to use both short-term and long-term like cherry picking your lead list and outrageous marketing. The question people still are asking is what  to put [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2011/03/email-marketing-your-welcome-letter/' rel='bookmark' title='Email Marketing: Your Welcome Letter'>Email Marketing: Your Welcome Letter</a> <small>It seems that my fair readers are finally convinced and...</small></li>
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		<title>Website for Fisher&#8217;s Tudor House</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may not look like it on the surface, but this was a huge project. The mandate was to take two very dated, very old school websites and bring them into 2012. There were so many pages and interior links that just sorting it out required a flow chart. The SEO was Jurassic but losing ranking in such a competitive market [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2011/04/content-is-king-even-the-seo-rapper-says-so/' rel='bookmark' title='Content is King. Even the SEO Rapper Says So'>Content is King. Even the SEO Rapper Says So</a> <small>I stumbled upon this on YouTube today. The SEO Rapper...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2010/06/a-different-type-of-website/' rel='bookmark' title='A Different Type of Website'>A Different Type of Website</a> <small>This website that went live last week was a little...</small></li>
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		<title>Are Bridal Show on the Up Swing?</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/are-bridal-show-on-the-up-swing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; OK, you all know how I feel about Bridal Shows. For many reasons they are near and dear to my heart but for several years now they have been a crap shoot. Things may be changing. I keep hearing from clients and friends that this has been a FANTABULOUS year for shows. Rumor has [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2010/06/outrageous-marketingmore-ideas/' rel='bookmark' title='Outrageous Marketing:More Ideas'>Outrageous Marketing:More Ideas</a> <small>I have had several people contact me after buying Bridal...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2010/05/outrageous-bridal-marketing/' rel='bookmark' title='Outrageous Bridal Marketing'>Outrageous Bridal Marketing</a> <small>In a recent post, Why You Should Cherry Pick Your...</small></li>
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		<title>Mastering a World in Flux</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/mastering-a-world-in-flux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I caught this great quote in the editors column in the February issue of Fast Company magazine &#8220;In our hyper-networked world, the rules and plans of yesterday are increasingly under pressure; the enterprises and individuals that will thrive will be those willing to adapt and iterate, in a disciplined, unsentimental way.&#8221; This is more or less what I have been saying since 2008, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2010/01/new-media-marketing/' rel='bookmark' title='New Media Marketing'>New Media Marketing</a> <small>What is new media marketing? Should you care? Oh no,...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2010/05/consolidation-behemoths-and-more-co-op-marketing/' rel='bookmark' title='Consolidation, Behemoths and More Co-op Marketing'>Consolidation, Behemoths and More Co-op Marketing</a> <small>I first started to follow the trend of consolidation in...</small></li>
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		<title>Facebook or Blog?</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/facebook-or-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across an interesting question today about where you should put more effort, in your blog or your Facebook page. I&#8217;m not really sure why that is a question. Let me break it down for you. Your website is your own personal piece of  internet real estate. Think of it as your home because in terms [...]


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		<title>Bridal Shows: How to Bag an Elephant</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/bridal-shows-how-to-bag-an-elephant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Bridal show ROI and goals are interesting things. If you think the only goal of a bridal show is to book brides at the show you are missing most of the opportunities. I had a most interesting conversation last week with a florist concerning his recent booth at a bridal show. Now this was [...]


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		<title>Is E-commerce Something You Could Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2012/01/is-e-commerce-something-you-could-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am seeing the twinkling of a trend among small independent wedding vendors. E-commerce is beginning to come into play more and more as either an additional service or product or a full on pure play. Monday I&#8217;ll start my third E-commerce site in the last 2 months. How, you ask, are wedding vendors using Ecommerce? They [...]


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		<title>Top Post for 2011-Groupons for Weddings</title>
		<link>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2011/12/top-post-for-2011-groupons-for-weddings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinklikeabride.com/theagency/2011/12/top-post-for-2011-groupons-for-weddings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the controversy and news of closings and consolidations in 2011, who would suspect that a story advising against wedding vendors getting sucked into the Groupon culture would be number 1? Groupon for Wedding Vendors? Not! I am willing to wager that it wasn&#8217;t wedding vendors looking for a boost that sent that traffic through the [...]


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		<title>The Year That Was: 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ndulj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sit here and watch the sun slowly set on 2011 I was reflecting on what an interesting year it had been. There have been some radical upheavals in the industry and some small sparks of life. Get Married Folded Priscilla&#8217;s of Boston Folded Encore Invitation left brides high and dry. The Knot got downgraded. Wedding business [...]


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