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	<title>Michael Carwile</title>
	<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com</link>
	<description>Marketing Consultant</description>
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		<title>The Art of Follow-Up</title>
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All salespeople, especially successful ones, know that follow-up with a prospective client is one of the most important steps in the sales cycle. By the way, if you&#8217;re one of those people who runs a business and you&#8217;re still not convinced you&#8217;re main function is salesperson, you need a reality check, but I don&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/the-art-of-follow-up/</link>
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		<title>Mark Zuckerberg thinks you&#8217;re a moron.</title>
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I&#8217;ve had 3 Facebook accounts. As I write this, I only have one active account remaining – and it&#8217;s hanging by a thread. I&#8217;ve started, built, activated, deactivated, and deleted multiple Facebook &#8220;pages&#8221; for businesses or the like. I had a MySpace account before anyone around me did. I was a little later to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-youre-a-moron/</link>
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		<title>Stop Procrastinating. Now.</title>
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Alan Weiss is the author of multiple consulting books and an all around interesting person to gain perspective from. In this podcast, he talks about his 10 steps to Stop Procrastination. It may seem like common sense to most, but to put these items into action really does help make procrastination easier to stop.
Alan&#8217;s 10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/stop-procrastinating-now/</link>
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		<title>Bubbl.us Mind-mapping/Brainstorming Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m big on brainstorming and mind-mapping – getting all of my thoughts down on paper before diving into a topic. It dramatically helps me clear my mind of distractions and  gain better focus on the task/project at hand.
I&#8217;m also a geek for cool productivity tools. I recently found this site: bubbl.us. It is a mind-mapping/brainstorming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/bubbl-us-mind-mappingbrainstorming-tool/</link>
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		<title>Pre-Ordering best practices &amp; the iPad (my version)</title>
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A few weeks back, I decided I was going to bite the bullet and buy an iPad. I decided I wasn&#8217;t going to wait until the second or third version came out. I even decided I wasn&#8217;t going to wait until the 3G version came out. In Lubbock, the closest thing we have to an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/pre-ordering-best-practices-the-ipad-my-version/</link>
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		<title>5 People I want to meet before I turn 30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to meet these five people (in person) and have a 5-15 minute one-on-one conversation with them before I turn 30. That gives me about 2 1/2 years. Anybody want to make an introduction? I&#8217;d love you for it! Oh, and they are in no particular order.

Anthony Robbins &#8211; Motivator, Speaker and amazing business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/5-people-i-want-to-meet-before-i-turn-30/</link>
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		<title>Did you know? There are 1.2 million &#8220;social media experts&#8221;</title>
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Go do a search on Google for the term &#8220;social media expert&#8221; without the quotes and you&#8217;ll find that Google has indexed 83 million pages that it believes could be relevant to your search. Put the quotes back in and you&#8217;ll find that Google believes it has about 1.2 million pages that could be relevant. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/did-you-know-there-are-1-2-million-social-media-experts/</link>
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		<title>Set an attention budget</title>
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Noise. With all of the outlets and inlets that the Internet provides, we experience more noise than we ever have in the past. Learning how to successfully wade through the noise and get to the good, quality content is an art in and of itself.
Regardless of the channel, there is noise to be found. Conduct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/set-an-attention-budget/</link>
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		<title>Spending blindly = no clear vision</title>
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I was reading a story about RedEnvelope (I&#8217;m not affiliated with them) today. It started out as a typical marketing case study – with the usual woes of what was going on before massive change and an insertion of marketing talent, followed by the high success of the marketing efforts of those same people.
It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/spending-blindly-no-clear-vision/</link>
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		<title>My iPhone made me a better Good Samaritan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it should be considered a blessing or a curse, having an iPhone certainly provides one with the ability to be incredibly helpful to passers-by.
Case in point: today, I accompanied my wife, Lynne, to the Lubbock courthouse while she setup her assumed name for Ahava Graphics (her new graphic design business). On our way from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/my-iphone-made-me-a-better-good-samaritan/</link>
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