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		<title>Turning Angry Prospects Into Paying Clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night at dinner, I was telling my wife about one of my mentoring students, &#8220;Tom&#8221;, who  received an angry email from a prospect he had contacted.  Apparently, the prospect was offended because Tom asked if he would be interested in a new web design for his local business.  He had designed the site himself, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/website-design/turning-angry-prospects-into-paying-clients</link>
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		<title>The Art of Not Following Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to one of my students from my offline mentoring program today, and he was expressing frustration that he had been in touch with several prospective clients who were on the verge of committing to buy from him, and yet he couldn't seem to nail down the final sale.  He's shown them everything he could do for them, given them pricing and a timeline, and they are ready to commit - only they haven't yet.]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/website-design/the-art-of-not-following-up</link>
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		<title>My New Year&#8217;s Eve Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! One of my new year&#8217;s resolutions this year was to finally make this blog something that people are interested in reading.  I&#8217;ve had this site for about seven years, and it&#8217;s been in it&#8217;s current form for about two years and I&#8217;ve done almost nothing with it.  2011 is the year when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/making-money-online/my-new-years-eve-tradition</link>
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		<title>Coffee Shops and Empowered Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This doesn&#8217;t have much to do with earning money online, but with business in general, and how companies can keep their customers happy by empowering their employees. So I was out the other day, and on my way home, I decided to stop by Starbucks to pick up a delicious drink for my wife.  As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/4-hour-workweek/coffee-shops-and-empowered-employees</link>
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		<title>Free PLR Articles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned a few months ago that I had a new project I was working on called Free PLR Articles.  It started out as a side project, and has (relatively) quickly morphed into quite a profitable venture, despite the fact that I give away everything for free. Simple Clickbank links and AdSense ads pull in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/making-money-online/free-plr-articles</link>
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		<title>Going Local</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For months, I&#8217;ve been planning how best to tackle the local market, and I&#8217;ve finally made some good progress with recruiting local clients. I&#8217;ve realized for years that local markets are virtually untapped, and not nearly as competitive as the online world. The biggest hurdle for me is that I&#8217;m the world&#8217;s worst salesman. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/making-money-online/going-local</link>
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		<title>Monetizing High-Traffic Sites &#8211; A Case Study (Sort Of)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I&#8217;ve created lots and lots of websites.  Some, I haven&#8217;t touched in years, and some, I update nearly every day. One site I created mostly for myself is ComicStripArchive.com I am a huge fan of comic strips.  I&#8217;m not a super-hero kind of person, so I&#8217;m not really into comic books, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/making-money-online/monetizing-high-traffic-sites-a-case-study-sort-of</link>
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		<title>Changing Graphics and Layout Can Lead To a BIG Increase in Conversions!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m heading to bed, but I wanted to share something quickly. I&#8217;ve had a membership site, the Online Marketing Toolbox, for several months now.  I promoted it through various advertising, and to my customers who bought websites from me, and though I had occasional signups, membership was very low.  With the economy in trouble, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/how-i-earn-money/changing-graphics-and-layout-can-lead-to-a-big-increase-in-conversions</link>
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		<title>My &#8220;Quitting My Job&#8221; Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn't consider myself to be great at writing sales letters.  I guess I'm okay at it, but when I write some copy and then read it back, I'm rarely impressed.

The other night, I was writing the sales  letter for a new promotion I'm running for the Online Marketing Toolbox.  I'm giving away a free hardcover copy of my favorite business book, the "book that changed my life" - The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferris.  As I was writing the story of how I came across the book, how quickly my life changed for the better after I read it, and what my lifestyle is like now, I was actually kind of amazed.

Every bit of it was true, and if I do say so myself, it was actually a pretty compelling story.  With all of the work, and the pinching pennies, and the late nights that I've put it over the past year, it's very easy to forget some of the highlights.  I set my own hours, I travel the world, I'm with my wife and daughter all day every day.  It's really a great thing!]]></description>
		<link>http://howiearnmoney.com/making-money-online/my-quitting-my-job-story</link>
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		<title>Expanding My Reach In Tough Economic Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only small business owner who has been struggling a bit recently. Over the past few months, my online revenue has dropped significantly, especially from the source of income I was relying on the most. Of course, this provides a good lesson that I&#8217;ve always known, but never got around to [...]]]></description>
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