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	<title>Mind Petals &#187; Dan Marques</title>
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		<title>Advertising is Negotiable&#8230;Really</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of my ventures have grown and required the need for advertising and marketing expenditures I quickly realized that advertising inventory is regularly negotiable. Even big companies like Google Adwords and Overture regularly offer coupons for new customers. A quick search will turn them up. Other small networks allow you to sign up and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deferred Compensation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great trick I uncovered this summer is ‘deferred compensation’. Say I have a great new idea for a business that is going to change the world. Whenever I tell someone about the idea they get really excited and want to know how to help. However, I do not have all the skill sets to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business plans?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One evening I had the privilege of having dinner with David Friend, a serial tech entrepreneur, and currently the CEO and founder of Carbonite (a new back up solution that keeps all your personal data safe). He had a very interesting perspective on business plans. He had never made a business plan for any of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bootstrapper Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was walking around my house yesterday and had a flash of inspiration. It may be nothing or it could be a new award winning economic model. The goal of economics is to take complicated situations in our society and break them down into simple frameworks. For instance, you know intuitively (and they teach in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneur Bootstrappers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very excited to be one of the contributors to the bootstrapping column of Mindpetals. Bootstrapping is not a buzzword, individual technique, or get rich quick scheme. It is a philosophy of entrepreneurship. Bootstrapping is the truest form of entrepreneurship, doing more with less is the central tenet. Why is this important? When someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mock Up Site: Alternative to a Business Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are attempting to start a venture that will require some sort of internet presence you may be able to find a way to impress potential investors without the need of an in depth business plan. How do you do it? It is pretty simple. Just buy a professional looking website template and logo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to read Entrepreneur Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured Articles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why am I writing this article? Because a long time ago I read an article on how to best read the Wall Street Journal and I was amazed at how useful it was. Well, I have been a subscriber to Entrepreneur Magazine for about eight years and I have picked up some useful methods to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished a course in search engine marketing from Web CEO University today. It was a great course; you can see my certification certificate here. I figured I would share some of the core things you should keep in mind for your website in terms of search engine optimization: Analyze related keyword traffic, use a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Reason Why I Became an Entrepreneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marques</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why I became an entrepreneur, perhaps I may have been born an entrepreneur and it just took a few years to figure that out. Regardless, an event happened last year that provided additional reasoning and inspiration for being an entrepreneur. Except this was a bad experience, it was my first (and [...]]]></description>
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