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		<title>Promotional T-shirts have to be the right size and not muddy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 11:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest installment in the gripping serialization of promoting my Devon directory. You know, when I started putting this journal online I was worried it might catch up with me &#8211; no chance, it seems to be getting further behind all the time! In any case, this entry sees more of the earliest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I experience the horrors of Google PageRank 0 and miss the point of my stress course&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background: I’ve been launching and promoting a Web 2.0 Devon business directory. I threw myself in at the deep end with this: it was my first completed Joomla / Web 2.0 site and had a budget of practically zero (I practised things on it for work!). It was also my first experience of doing my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning a corner with my web directory: a change in focus and attitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background: I’ve been launching and promoting a Web 2.0 Devon directory, which promotes arts and environmental concerns alongside general clubs, blogs and business listings. Things had been through a stressful and stormy patch, but I think these few days in the diary mark a turning point, during which my attitude changed and became tougher. View [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments with social bookmarking: the beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/04/06/experiments-with-social-bookmarking-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Web 2.0 just a load of hype? I have my suspicions that it doesn&#8217;t make money, but some aspects do have potential for website owners. Both RSS Feeds and social bookmarking seem promising to me (at least, if it&#8217;s Facebook, now that so many people are on Facebook). So I thought I&#8217;d give it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting a new directory: The worst of times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Launching a new web directory, continued from previous posts) This was the worst period so far, encompassing more trouble with rival sites, face to face sales, dynamic content causing unexpected layout breakages, and unexpected reserves of grim determination&#8230; 26/9 Made some calls to find out more about this rival website. It turns out it wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky times with the new website: More rivals, more users, more usability</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/03/28/rocky-times-with-the-new-website-more-rivals-more-users-more-usability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During this early period I was focusing almost obsessively on how the first few individual users were interacting with the site: so many issues were raised in this early stage, some which could be fixed whenever I got the time, and others which still require more radical reorganisation 6 months later. I continued advertising, watching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More adventures with Google Adsense: WordPress and Joomla!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having previously written about the Google Adsense Heatmap, I was keen to try out adsense blocks in more successful locations. Google Adsense Heatmap: darker colours are &#8216;hotter&#8217; areas My first opportunity came with a project of my own to develop a custom Joomla template for a new website about chocolate, &#8216;I Dream in Chocolate&#8216;. Website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business card and Postcard Advertising to promote my Web Directory</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/03/18/business-card-and-postcard-advertising-to-promote-my-web-directory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background: I’ve been launching and promoting a Devon directory, which promotes arts and environmental concerns alongside general clubs, blogs and business listings. Click this link to view all posts about launching the directory 23/9, continued: Postcard advertising Having ordered a load of free postcards and business cards from VistaPrint, I was ready to start some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teething troubles and link building for my new directory: two steps forward, one step back</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/03/16/teething-troubles-and-link-building-two-steps-forward-one-step-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/03/16/teething-troubles-and-link-building-two-steps-forward-one-step-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background: I’ve been launching and promoting a Devon business directory, which promotes arts and environmental concerns alongside general clubs, blogs and business listings. View all blog posts about launching the directory. 21 &#8211; 23 September 2007 21/9 Continuing testing / correspondence with Joomlapolis forum people about the Community Builder login problems. I find out there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting my new web directory: email and social networking</title>
		<link>http://www.beachwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/03/11/promoting-my-new-web-directory-email-and-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annabelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background: I’ve been working on a Devon directory, which promotes arts and environmental concerns alongside general clubs, blogs and business listings. 12-15th September, 2007 12/9 I add a link to my profile in Facebook and my email signatures in Gmail and on the Open University forums (where I&#8217;m a student). (I had to install a [...]]]></description>
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