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		<title>How To Get Banned By Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A Guest Blog By Christopher Sherrod.
In the early days of Twitter you could do anything and get away with it. Well, not anymore. Twitter has gotten pretty aggressive about certain techniques to get large number of followers.
I talked to consulting client of mine that bought a course on twitter (not mine). And his twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/03/how-to-get-banned-by-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Twitter &#8211; enough to drive you to drink?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Blog by Mark Aselstine of  Uncorked Ventures Wine Clubs
&#8220;Over the past few months I&#8217;ve been experimenting using Twitter as a way to help my business during these very early days, I believe I&#8217;ve found a couple of very basic insights which may help others use Twitter more effectively for their business.
To start, some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/03/twitter-enough-to-drive-you-to-drink/</link>
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		<title>Will &#8216;buzzing&#8217; replace &#8216;tweeting&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Blog From Colman Carpenter
Last week, Google started rolling out a new feature to Gmail users&#8230;Google Buzz. For now, those using Google Apps to manage their domain&#8217;s email miss out on Buzz, but Google have promised that they will be enabled in due course. Buzz is Google&#8217;s first serious entry into the social networking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/02/will-buzzing-replace-tweeting/</link>
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		<title>Twitter: Why does it work (so well) for small businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guest blog from Barry James of Receipt Angel
Twitter has been a bit of a revelation to me over the last couple of months or so. Of course I&#8217;ve been aware of it for a year or two &#8211; but it didn&#8217;t grab me straight away. In fact I was more than a little dubious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/02/twitter-why-does-it-work-so-well-for-small-businesses/</link>
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		<title>Twitter for small businesses: Make it count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by James Ainsworth of Marketing Donut
Given that social media is a field of marketing still in its infancy, reports are published daily on social media habits. Indeed, the viral growth of social media usage studies, and studies of studies, was recently highlighted in terms more expected of Private Eye than a serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/02/twitter-for-small-businesses-make-it-count/</link>
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		<title>Middle Aged Traditionally Built Women and Social Media Marketing :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guest blog from Gaynor Humphrey.
When you think of social media you may not instantly think of 2 middle aged, traditionally built women. However for Best Years, run by Gaynor (thats me!) and Liz, it has rapidly become an integral part of the marketing mix.
Best Years wholesale knitted and fair trade toys. As a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/02/middle-aged-traditionally-built-women-and-social-media-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Twitter goes international – does it have a chance?</title>
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A recent study by SemanticHacker shows the overwhelming majority of tweets are in English. The majority of Twitter users are still from the US but other countries are catching up fast. As US growth is decreasing dramatically Twitter needs to internationalize fast to continue their growth story.
How to do so? First, individual language versions are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/02/twitter-goes-international-%e2%80%93-does-it-have-a-chance/</link>
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		<title>Liverpool Chamber Of Commerce – Not A Grey Suit In Sight</title>
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A guest blog by Nick Jones of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. Sounds pretty boring, eh? Makes you think of men in grey suits sitting around congratulating each other over brandies, maybe?
Well nothing could be further from the truth. Liverpool Chamber is the city’s largest, oldest and busiest business support organisation. We run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/02/liverpool-chamber-of-commerce-%e2%80%93-not-a-grey-suit-in-sight/</link>
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		<title>Our top 3 Twitter Activities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guest blog from Bryony Thomas
I run Clear Thought Consulting, a management consultancy specialising in marketing transformation programmes for small businesses. In the last six months, through Twitter, we have:

 Hooked up three people we hadn’t previously known with new paying clients.
Met up with somewhere in the region of 20 local experts who are now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/01/our-top-3-twitter-activities/</link>
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		<title>Can businesses outsource their social media? Can they turn over Twitter, Facebook etc to a third party to look after?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guest blog from Joel Hughes
Businesses of all types, shapes and sizes are starting to take a long hard look at social media, and one of the key questions which quickly comes up is:
Who can look after my social media needs?
Companies are unsure of whether their current internal resources can (or even should) meet this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2010/01/can-businesses-outsource-their-social-media-can-they-turn-over-twitter-facebook-etc-to-a-third-party-to-look-after/</link>
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