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		<title>Staples Personalized Marketing Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent CMO Council survey identified the following benefits of personalized communication: Makes offers more relevant and meaningful to the prospect (53%) Builds [a] closer, more intimate relationship with the customer (43%) Increases campaign effectiveness and yield (40%) Increases the company&#8217;s overall marketing effectiveness (38%)]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important to track your campaign&#8217;s results.  PURLs provide an efficient, immediate, and accurate way of measuring not just responses, but overall performance of the campaign.  With PURLs you have access to real-time tracking of who visited their PURL, when they responded, what they viewed, and what they have shown interests in. Information collected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personalized URLs = Increased Job Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PURL email responses are your 24/7 marketing &#38; sales team.  These emails are a very powerful way to provide instant and relevant follow up information to your visitors.  The purl emails are triggered to automatically send based on PURL landing page activity, and are commonly used to: Notify the purl visitor that their information has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QUOTE: Remember that a person&#8217;s name is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Remember that a person&#8217;s name is to that person the most important sound in any language.&#8221; Dale Carnegie &#8220;How to Win Friends and Influence People&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Adding PURLs to your Email Marketing campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most email marketing platforms allow you to upload a spreadsheet of contacts. In that spreadsheet you would include a column called &#8220;PURL.&#8221; Then you can add the PURL column as a custom/new field. Now that your email platform knows each contact&#8217;s PURLs, you can pull each contact&#8217;s PURL into the landing page just as you [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purlem Releases Joomla Extension]]></description>
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		<title>Personalized Directions to Your Business w/ PURLs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to give your landing page visitor&#8217;s personalized directions form their home to your business?  This is a great way for businesses selling to a local audience to make their message more personal and relevant. By using PURLs and  Google Maps API it is extremely easy to do!   Visit Purlem&#8217;s support page to see a quick [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A QR Code is square barcode that can be scanned by a smart phone&#8217;s camera and take the user directly to their PURL Landing Page.  The QR Code bypasses the need for the user to actually type in the PURL itself. Sounds trivial, but the increased buzz and attention given to QR Codes over the [...]]]></description>
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