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		<title>Comsumer Spending Up 10%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk of recession and a possible impending double-dip in the UK economy, some surprising statistics have been released. They show that consumer spending year-on-year is up almost 10%, a huge jump during a time when the economy was in recession.
The research was conducted by Barclaycard, showing that the amount spent on credit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2010/07/comsumer-spending-up-10/</link>
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		<title>Building Affiliate Websites Without Coding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing is possibly the most popular way to make money online, with many people making money via setting up landing pages and promoting them via PPC. However, if you&#8217;re not good with code or a natural web designer then it can be difficult to find an affordable way to design websites.
Therefore we&#8217;ve reviewed Affiliate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2009/08/building-affiliate-websites-without-coding/</link>
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		<title>New Web Development Section Launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important, yet underrated, aspects of online marketing is a website&#8217;s design, and in particular how well it converts visitors into customers.
People will spend thousands of pounds attracting visitors to their site but often neglect making simple changes which could dramatically increase the rate at which they convert those visitors into customers.
Online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2009/04/new-web-development-section-launched/</link>
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		<title>Advertising On Eyelids: A Clever Viral Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard about pay per click (PPC) advertising but how about pay per wink (PPW)? Last month FeelUnique.com launched a very clever viral campaign, offering people the chance to earn 10 pence per wink. This would be paid to those who displayed the company&#8217;s logo on their eyelids.
As Amy Rebours of FeelUnique.com explained:
&#8220;We all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2009/01/advertising-on-eyelids-a-clever-viral-campaign/</link>
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		<title>New Reviews Section</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind the scenes we&#8217;ve been putting together a business review section, covering reviews of popular services which those who run an online business may consider using. We&#8217;ve covered 5 different companies initially:

Wordtracker - possibly the most widely known keyword research tool on the internet, allowing you to identify keywords worth targeting in your SEO or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2008/11/new-reviews-section/</link>
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		<title>Mixx - The Social Media News Site You Should Join Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media marketing is currently the buzz word amongst internet marketers, with social news sites receiving ever greater attention from online marketers.
The leading site is Digg, whichÂ had a proposedÂ $200 million sale to Google fall through fairly recently, but there are a number of lesser-known general interest and niche social news sites. Two examples of these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2008/09/mixx-the-social-media-news-site-you-should-join-today/</link>
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		<title>3 Web Marketing Services to Avoid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When starting out you&#8217;re often short of money so the last thing you want to do is waste it on marketing services that promise the world but deliver nothing. Here are three web marketing services to avoid:
1. Search Engine Submission Services
How many times do you see this&#8230; pay $19.95 and we&#8217;ll submit your site to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2008/07/3-web-marketing-services-to-avoid/</link>
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		<title>Online Marketing News and Links from the Past Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an eventful week in the world of online marketing. MySpace got a nice new design in a bid to prevent its slide relative to Facebook. Social media website Reddit went open source, at the same time taking a swipe at reported Google target Digg.
In addition, aÂ week on the web wouldn&#8217;t be right without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2008/06/online-marketing-news-and-links-from-the-past-week/</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Not Thinking Big at the Expense of Small Incremental Improvements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With an online business it&#8217;s easy to always be thinking of the next big idea, the killer viral technique or website feature which will catapolt your site into the bigtime.
It&#8217;s perhaps not surprising as huge internet success stories are always be talked about, perhaps none more so than YouTube&#8217;s rise from nothing to a $1.65 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2008/06/the-importance-of-not-thinking-big-at-the-expense-of-small-incremental-improvements/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Web Round-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some great articles from around the internet from the past week:
Top 15 Site Analytics Tools to Help Optimize Your Site
&#8220;Never undermine the importance of testing and analyzing your site. On the most basic level, analytics data will help ensure whether or not youâ€™re on the right track. And if the data is reviewed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/blog/2008/06/weekly-web-round-up/</link>
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