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  <entry>
    <title>Rok Hrastnik</title>
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    <modified>2007-02-19T23:25:37Z</modified>
    <issued>2004-04-26T18:12:04+00:00</issued>
    <id>tag:www.marketingstudies.net,2004:/blogs/about//5.19</id>
    <created>2004-04-26T18:12:04Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain">Rok Hrastnik is the owner of MarketingStudies.net....</summary>
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    <dc:subject>People</dc:subject>
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      Rok Hrastnik is the owner of MarketingStudies.net. 
      <![CDATA[<p>He is currently working as the E-commerce Manager for <a href="http://www.studio-moderna.com">Studio Moderna</a>, the leading Central and Eastern European direct marketing company.</p>
<p>Marketing is a constantly evolving field and its function is becoming 
              increasingly important for the success of any business, large or 
              small. While its approaches, methods, models and tools are constantly 
              developing, its principle foundations have remained the same for 
              over a hundred years.</p>
            <p>Rok Hrastnik's primary focus is helping companies achieve better 
              business results through efficient planning and implementation of 
              up to date marketing strategies and using modern marketing tools. 
              He does this through personal consulting, strategy development and 
              implementation, Internet development, articles, special reports 
              and speaking engagements.</p>
            <p>Rok views marketing as an integrated process that should be based 
              on information, efficient communication on all levels and profitable 
              client relationships. Every company is a unique entity and should 
              market as such, taking in to consideration all of its individual 
              characteristics and those of its external environment.<br />
              Although his primary focus is marketing, he combines it with entrepreneurial, 
              project management and technology product development experience.</p>
            <p><b>Carreer Highlights</b></p>
            <ul>
<li>Is currently serving as the E-commerce Manager for <a href="http://www.studio-moderna.com">Studio Moderna</a>, the leading Central and Eastern European direct marketing company.</li>
              <li>Served as the Internet Manager of the largest Slovenian business 
                daily newspaper, Finance (<a href="http://www.finance-on.net" target="_blank">http://www.finance-on.net</a>) 
                through 2004. The Finance-on.net web site is also recognized as 
                one of the most successful business web sites in Slovenia, while 
                the Internet department of the business daily is recognized as 
                one of the leading in the European Union in terms of relative 
                profitability. <br />
              </li>
              <li> Helped a Slovenian financial consulting company DBM d.o.o. 
                (<a href="http://www.Donos.net" target="_blank">www.Donos.net</a>) 
                increase its sales volume by 300% in 6 months and by five times 
                in one year, using only the Internet, and with an investment of 
                only 1.500 USD. They achieved this using advanced internet marketing 
                strategies, and now use the Internet as their sole means of attaining 
                new prospects, converting them to clients, educating them and 
                managing relationships with them.<br />
              </li>
              <li> As Boris Vene?s and Nikola Grubisa?s foreign markets agent 
                for their book ?The Millionaire Mindset: How to Tap Real Wealth 
                from Within?, he organized the translation of the book using an 
                accomplished U.S. editor and writer, and then got the book published 
                as an e-book in August 2002 by one of the best recognized U.S. 
                marketing experts, Joe Vitale, and led the marketing activities 
                throughout 2003. <br />
                Web site: <a href="http://www.themillionairemind.net " target="_blank">http://www.themillionairemind.net 
                </a><br />
              </li>
              <li>Acted as the internet marketing consultant and strategist for 
                Iskratel d.o.o. (<a href="http://www.iskratel.si" target="_blank">www.iskratel.si</a>), 
                a global telecommunications systems developer and provider, throughout 
                2002.<br />
                <br />
              </li>
            </ul>]]>
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  <entry>
    <title>The infoMarketing e-Zine</title>
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    <modified>2007-02-19T23:25:37Z</modified>
    <issued>2004-04-14T22:32:23+00:00</issued>
    <id>tag:www.marketingstudies.net,2004:/blogs/about//5.16</id>
    <created>2004-04-14T22:32:23Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain">Providing strategic semi-monthly marketing diaries, views, commentary, ideas, studies and advice for the professional marketer. </summary>
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      <url>http://www.marketingstudies.net</url>
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    <dc:subject>About</dc:subject>
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      <![CDATA[<p><b>What's the catch?</b></p>

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    <modified>2007-02-19T23:25:37Z</modified>
    <issued>2004-04-14T11:14:11+00:00</issued>
    <id>tag:www.marketingstudies.net,2004:/blogs/about//5.13</id>
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    <summary type="text/plain">The Terms of Use page is a statement of your rights of use for the MarketingStudies.net brand web sites and products....</summary>
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    <dc:subject>Legal</dc:subject>
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    <title>Privacy Statement</title>
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    <issued>2004-04-14T11:13:49+00:00</issued>
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    <summary type="text/plain">Please read out Privacy Statement to see how we protect your privacy and contact information at MarketingStudies.net and our sister web sites. Also click here to unsubscribe from all e-mail communications from our brand....</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>What is RSS?</title>
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    <modified>2007-02-19T23:25:37Z</modified>
    <issued>2004-04-14T11:13:02+00:00</issued>
    <id>tag:www.marketingstudies.net,2004:/blogs/about//5.11</id>
    <created>2004-04-14T11:13:02Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain">RSS is a content delivery medium that you can use to receive content from various web sites and publishers, including MarketingStudies.net.</summary>
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    <dc:subject>Help</dc:subject>
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      <![CDATA[<p><b>Why use it?</b></p>

<p><b>1. It's 100% opt-in</b>, meaning you only receive the content you want and you can easily remove any feed when you don't want it anymore.</p>

<p><b>2. It requires no e-mail address </b>and is not delivered to your e-mail address.</p>

<p>3. You get content exactly at the time it's added to the content feed.</p>

<p><b>4. Content actually gets through </b>and cannot be blocked by various filters, since this is a completely different system.</p>

<p><b>5. No viruses</b>, no trojans, no dangerous content.</p>

<p>Let's not reinvent hot water and take a look at a <b>definition</b> of RSS by Dana VanDen Heuvel (<a href="http://www.danavan.net" target="_blank">http://www.danavan.net</a>): </p>

<p><i>"RSS is a "techie" acronym for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, depending on who you talk to, the time of day and the day of the week. Also referred to as an RSS feed or XML feed, this protocol is an application of XML that provides an open method of syndicating (or distributing) and aggregating Web content." </i></p>

<p>In other words, RSS allows internet publishers to deliver and distribute their content summaries and links in such a manner that they can be read on special easy-to-use software, <b>news aggregators</b>, or implemented on other web sites to deliver links to their latest content in the most accessible format today, XML. </p>

<p>How it works?</p>

<p>1. <b>You first need an RSS reader</b>, which is special software you can mostly get for free. A list of readers is available <a href="http://email.about.com/cs/rssfeedreaders/" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>

<p>2. You can now <b>start adding new content feeds </b>to your reader. Whenever you see an image saying RSS Content Feed (or RSS, XML, Syndicate this, etc.) you can, if this indeed is the correct link, add the content feed in to your reader. </p>

<p>Click on the link and then open your RSS reader and add a new chanell. (for more instructions on how to add RSS feeds to your reader, please see the instructions for the software you chose).</p>

<p>3. <b>RSS feeds are actually just XML files </b>that your reader will regulary check to see if they've changed from the last time you read them. It will then display the new links and content summaries (in some cases even full-text versions) and allow you to click through to read complete articles in its browser.</p>

<p><b>If you need any help </b>just e-mail us at <a href="mailto:support@marketingstudies.net ">support@marketingstudies.net </a>and we'll be most happy to assist you.</p>

<p>A list of RSS readers: <a href="http://email.about.com/cs/rssfeedreaders/" target="_blank">click here</a><br />
Additional explanation of RSS: <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html" target="_blank">click here</a><br />
More on RSS publishing: <a href="http://www.marketingstudies.net/blogs/database/archive/cat_the_death_of_email_marketing.html" target="_blank">click here</a></p>]]>
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    <modified>2007-02-19T23:25:37Z</modified>
    <issued>2004-04-14T11:12:33+00:00</issued>
    <id>tag:www.marketingstudies.net,2004:/blogs/about//5.10</id>
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    <summary type="text/plain">We are looking forward to hearing your comments, suggestions, questions and requests.</summary>
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Lasko 3270<br />
Slovenia<br />
European Union</p>]]>
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    <title>About MarketingStudies.net</title>
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    <modified>2007-02-19T23:25:37Z</modified>
    <issued>2004-04-14T11:11:50+00:00</issued>
    <id>tag:www.marketingstudies.net,2004:/blogs/about//5.9</id>
    <created>2004-04-14T11:11:50Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain">MarketingStudies.net is a publishing and consulting business revolving around modern marketing approaches and discovering marketing strategies, systems and models that work.</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p><b>Mission Statement</b></p>

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<p>MarketingStudies.net is here to present the marketing professional with a critical and realistic view of these, and at the same time provide an in-depth analysis of strategic approaches that combine timeless marketing facts and know-how with modern marketing tools, demonstrated through real examples.</p>

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