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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v4.1.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:42:22 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Career Change - Why a Blog?</title><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/</link><description>Career Change - Why a Blog?</description><copyright></copyright><language>en-GB</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v4.1.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><item><title>Change Your Career With a Blog!</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:19:19 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/change-your-career-with-a-blog.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345635</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span class="sizeGreater40"><span class="full-image-float-left"><img style="width: 228px; height: 204px;" alt="blog4.jpg" src="http://www.careersnet.co.uk/storage/blog4.jpg" /></span>If you are looking for a very effective and EASY way to promote yourself or GROW your business on the Internet - You can  - by posting a message as little as once a month, you are guaranteed to get LOADS of exposure and LOADS more money. (Even if you are SHY!)</span></p><p class="sizeGreater40"><span class="sizeGreater20">Here are 7 ways that publishing a simple blog, will help YOU change career - I guarantee it. Download your FREE copy in digital format. <br /></span></p>  <form name="form1" method="post" action="http://www.mcssl.com/app/contactsave.asp"> <input type="hidden" name="merchantid" id="merchantid" value="66875" /> <input type="hidden" name="ARThankyouURL" id="ARThankyouURL" value="www.marketerschoice.com/app/thankyou.asp?ID=66875" /> <input type="hidden" name="copyarresponse" id="copyarresponse" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="custom" id="custom" value="0" /> <input type="hidden" name="defaultar" id="defaultar" value="152902" /> <input type="hidden" name="allowmulti" id="allowmulti" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="visiblefields" id="visiblefields" value="Name,Email1" /> <input type="hidden" name="requiredfields" id="requiredfields" value="Name,Email1" /> <table>     <tbody><tr>       <td>First Name</td>       <td><input type="text" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 160);" name="Name" size="40" /></td>     </tr>     <tr>       <td>Primary Email</td>       <td><input type="text" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 160);" name="Email1" size="40" /></td>     </tr> 	<tr align="center" style="text-align: center;"> 		<td colspan="2"> 			<input type="submit" name="cmdSubmit" value="Submit" /> 		</td> 	</tr>   </tbody></table> </form>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345635.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>1) Career Change - Blogs FEEL the future!</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:12:54 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/1-career-change-blogs-feel-the-future.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345629</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">There is a MAGIC that happens when individuals FOCUS on what they want to do with their lives, how THEY want to make a difference. Suddenly they have a confidence and poise that makes them a very attractive human to be near. Blogs are MAGIC. </font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">Three years ago, I started introducing my career change clients to publishing their own blog(s) and their careers literally TOOK OFF! Virtually overnight these people would get &lsquo;legendary&rsquo; job offers the moment their site went &lsquo;LIVE!&rsquo; Blogs don't just know or imagine the future, they FEEL it, and therefore MAKE it happen.</font></span></p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345629.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>2) Career Change - Telling the UNIVERSE You Are Available!</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:04:21 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/2-career-change-telling-the-universe-you-are-available.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345626</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">They act as an &lsquo;ICEBREAKER&rsquo; between strangers and CUT ACROSS our society&rsquo;s normal conventions, allowing people to discuss YOUR work and availability without let or hindrance.</font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">When you surf the Net you think you are&nbsp;looking for information, but there is a powerful hidden agenda -&nbsp;'People LIKE people like themselves and WANT to associate with them. Therefore, if your blogs reflect the interests of key people in your marketplace, they are MORE than likely to check your background, qualifications&nbsp;and availability!</font></span></p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345626.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>3) Career Change - SHOWCASE Your Potential Without Embarrassment</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:01:33 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/3-career-change-showcase-your-potential-without-embarrassment.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345621</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">If you have always shied away from 'selling' - blogs are the ideal platform for you. </font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">Now, YOU can &lsquo;SET OUT YOUR STALL&rsquo; in a blog and readers can casually taste and sample YOUR wares from the safety of their desktop. Unworried by being actively SOLD to or &lsquo;hurried&rsquo; in anyway &ndash; they now have NO hesitation in making that call. </font></span></p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345621.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>4) Career Change - ROCKET to the Top With the POWER of Blogs</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:59:47 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/4-career-change-rocket-to-the-top-with-the-power-of-blogs.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345620</guid><description><![CDATA[<font style="color: #000000" color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">If you tried to DESIGN a web site that was easily linked to, effortlessly keyword saturated and stickily popular you could NOT INVENT a better alternative than a blog &ndash; that you can CHANGE yourself, WHEN YOU WANT! </span></font>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345620.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>5) Career Change - Blogs are the NATURAL HOME of Networkers!</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:50:42 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/5-career-change-blogs-are-the-natural-home-of-networkers.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345619</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">Blogs are the NATURAL HOME of Networkers and will act as a &lsquo;vehicle&rsquo; for your conversations and expertise exchange with recruiters, prospective colleagues and like-minded individuals.</font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">In 1991, I invented the word 'Networking' to describe the magical effect of individuals trading their expertise and using their interest, knowledge and enthusiasm to accelerate their career transitions. My mission then was 'To teach networking to a million people'.</font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">I think you'll agree that a whole industry has since grown up around the word 'Networking' and that blogs are where they choose to live. If you want to lead, then you need to blog.</font></span></p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345619.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>6) Career Change - Positions YOU as an AUTHORITY In Your Field!</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:46:21 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/6-career-change-positions-you-as-an-authority-in-your-field.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345616</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">Blogs have an &lsquo;Authority,&rsquo; born of succinctness and an immediacy that is irresistible! You can do EVERYTHING with a blog that you can do with a web site and FAR MORE CHEAPLY and EASILY.</font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">Blogging clients have consistently reported how people in their field have asked their advice, when in FACT they were SENIOR to them! </font></span></p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345616.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>7) Career Change Blog - You CAN Have Your Very OWN Domain Name</title><dc:creator>Margaret Stead</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:28:44 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/2006/1/7/7-career-change-blog-you-can-have-your-very-own-domain-name.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">21955:423413:345614</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">Many of you will have noticed that the 'minute' you buy a domain name for your web site is the 'minute' you can think of a better name and wished you'd thought of it before! </font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">(It probably explains why I have a 'bank' of forty or fifty unused domain names.)&nbsp;</font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">With Blogs you can choose a name that includes the keywords for your sector, create and link clusters of blogs that create in effect a web 'site'. </font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000">Now, you can even find that domain name YOU bought ages ago and OVERLAY it onto your blog address. Nobody will ever guess that you have created such a beautiful and telling platform for your career from something with such an UGLY name!<br /><br /></font></span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><p><font style="color: #003399" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#003399"><strong>Ready to Get Started?</strong></font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000" size="3">We've got a lot of valuable and practical information to share with you. <br /><br /><strong>FREE Email Lessons:</strong> Sign up for Margaret's FREE award-winning monthly, &quot;<a href="http://www.marketerschoice.com/app/join.asp?MerchantID=66875" target="new"><u>Career Coach</u></a>&quot; Newsletter which covers easy, fun and low-cost career change tips and career advice.</font></font></p><p><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000"><strong>FREE Audio Intro</strong>: Listen to Margaret's FREE&nbsp;<a href="http://www.careersnet.com/audio/track01.mp3" target="new"><u>3 Minute Intro </u></a>to her Career Change World. <br /><br /><strong>Step by Step Package:</strong> Want the entire roadmap to a blog that makes you money, laid out in an easy to understand format? Then get Margaret's &quot;<a href="http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-blog-on/" target="new"><u>Blog On To A Career Change</u></a>&quot; package!</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font></p></span><p style="text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font style="color: #000000" color="#000000"></font></span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><span class="sizeGreater20"><font size="2">Margaret Stead / Careers International Ltd<br />Rowan House<br />41 Richmond Road<br />Solihull<br />West Midlands B92 7RP<br />t: 0121 706 1623<br />Outside UK +44 (0) 121 706 1623<br />e: </font></span><a href="mailto:margaret@careersnet.com"><span class="sizeGreater20"><font style="color: #2277cc" color="#2277cc" size="2">margaret@careersnet.com</font></span></a><br /><span class="sizeGreater20"><font size="2">w:</font></span><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.careersnet.com/" target="new"><span class="sizeGreater20"><font style="color: #2277cc" color="#2277cc" size="2">www.careersnet.com</font></span></a> <p>&nbsp;</p></span>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.careersnet.co.uk/career-change-why-blog/rss-comments-entry-345614.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>