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	<title>The Adventures of Wilby</title>
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		<title>Bill Belew speaking in Silicon Valley on the Cold War, KGB and meeting a Witch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be speaking this coming Sunday, 3/14 at a church located at
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#38;hl=en&#38;q=62+S+San+Tomas+Aquino+Rd,+Campbell,+CA+95008
on my encounter with a Soviet High Party Communist professor during the  peak of the Cold War, being whisked away at night by the KGB, and taken  to meet a Witch!
Time 11:00am-12 (noon).

It won&#8217;t be convenient for many readers but if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/03/bill-belew-speaking-in-silicon-valley-on-the-cold-war-kgb-and-meeting-a-witch/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to blogging, to PanAsianBiz or Practicing what I preach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear PanAsianBiz. Happy birthday to me. La, la, la&#8230;.
PanAsianBiz was my first foray into professional blogging. And PAB is still very much alive.
PAB turned 4 years old today.
For those interested, let me tell you what I have done with PAB and where it is today.
PAB [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/03/happy-birthday-to-blogging-to-panasianbiz/</link>
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		<title>6 steps I did NOT take to increase blog traffic by 130,000 views in one month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one month in the early goings three of my blogs, PanAsianBiz, RisingSunOfNihon and TheBizOfKnowledge, combined for a page viewership of 360,000+ up 55% from the 230,000 the previous month.
I know more about what did not cause the growth than what did. Following are 6 steps I did NOT take.
1. It was NOT because of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/02/blog-traffic-reasons-steps-month/</link>
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		<title>The problem with blogs are the name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The way I see it, the main problem with blogs is what they are called – blogs. 
What an ugly name!
Blog also sounds too much like blah__g, blah__g, blah__g. And unfortunately too many folks think that is pretty much what is going on at blogs; the blogger is just blah blah blahing away about their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/02/the-problem-with-blogs-are-the-name/</link>
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		<title>Blogging problems &#8211; getting intoxicated &#8211; on traffic. Can you say 100K in a day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a problem with blogging. Actually I can think of several. Being too close to the refrigerator, for example, is one. Wasting time watching your traffic stats is another. Getting intoxicated is a third.
Intoxicated?
Yup.
Today, the CosmoFairNetwork (that&#8217;s mine!) surpassed 100,000 views. In one day!



In one hour we had more than 10,000 (10,344!) folk show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/02/blogging-problems-getting-intoxicated-on-traffic-can-you-say-100k-in-a-day/</link>
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		<title>5 qualities to look for in a good blog consultant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days it is not all that difficult to find a blog &#8216;expert&#8217;. And to be sure, not a few of them know what they are talking about.
Darren Rowse is arguably the best blogger there is &#8211; blogs about blogging.  But then there are not a few folk who can tell you all sorts of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/02/5-qualities-to-look-for-in-a-good-blog-consultant/</link>
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		<title>The two best motivators for a blogger &#8211; passion and &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a workshop the other day. 
Report: Blog workshop held on how to get more traffic and what you can do with it.
At one point during the workshop I touched on the 20 characteristics of a successful blogger.
On that list, near the top, was the word &#8211; Passion.
I jumped up and down, told the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/02/the-two-best-motivators-for-a-blogger-passion-and/</link>
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		<title>5 reasons to write for a blog network instead of going it alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked not a few times &#8211; &#8220;What are the reasons/benefits a blogger would want to be a part of a blog network as opposed to going it alone?&#8221;
Here are a few -
1. Blogging alongside folk who have &#8216;been there done that&#8217; can save a LOT of time and energy for the individual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/01/10-reasons-to-write-for-a-blog-network-instead-of-going-it-alone/</link>
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		<title>Report: Blog workshop held on how to get more traffic and what you can do with it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently held a blog workshop for the Central California Writers Club, South Bay Branch.
The title of the workshop was Blogging for Publishing and Promoting  Your Writing .
The basic idea was for me to teach the group how to bring traffic to their blogs (if they had one) so that their blog could serve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/01/blog-workshops-traffic/</link>
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		<title>6 Tips to get 100,000 Page Views in One Day to Your Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can hear some people laughing.
They are the ones who get 100+K page views to their blog everyday. I don&#8217;t. I was a rinky dink blogger who wrote about non-main stream topics, Japan, the PanAsian region and the Business of Education, lessons learned and such.
I hit a huge milestone&#8230;for me, that is.
My three blogs combined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billbelew.com/2010/01/6-tips-to-get-100000-page-views-in-one-day-to-your-blog/</link>
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