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					<description><![CDATA[You receive a lot of requests to &#8220;pick your brain,&#8221; right? Here&#8217;s a way you might consider navigating those awkward interactions: First, let&#8217;s be honest. &#8220;Pick your brain&#8221; means &#8220;Will you give me free consulting?&#8221; It&#8217;s almost always one-sided, and you&#8217;re asked to meet for a coffee/lunch, which means you&#8217;re taking time away from your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[On January 3, 2007 brand-new CEO&#160;Frank Blake&#160;of&#160;The Home Depot&#160;appeared on a broadcast to their then-364,000 associates.&#160; He said the company needed to return to a focus on their associates and customers.&#160;He said he would, “Create an environment where people are free to say what they think. I will be doing a lot of listening.” Less [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Your website needs to feel like a coffee shop. Here’s why.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Think about your favorite place to meet a friend or business associate for coffee. Does it feel like a waiting room at the hospital? You know, bad lightning, uncomfortable furniture, even more uncomfortable silences. Or does it feel like one of the most welcoming places you can think of? The best coffee shops will have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Costco Business Model &#8211; Steal Their Marketing Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What can you learn from one of the world&#8217;s largest companies? In this article, I&#8217;ll share with you three marketing lessons that you can learn from Costco, and analyze the Costco business model so you can learn to emulate them. Costco business model lesson number one &#8211; collect data Whenever you check out at Costco, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WIIFM &#8211; Tune Your Social Media Channels To This Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 15:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“What should my company share on social media?” is the second most-common question I hear when giving presentations (the first being “What Is A Hashtag?” an article you can read in InBusiness Magazine here). Here’s a simple consideration &#8211; how can you most benefit the audience that you have right now, as well as the audience [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Things work so well that you stop doing them.&#8221; Between the years of 2008 in 2015, I did about 3,000 in-person sales meetings. There&#8217;s an old adage in sales that things work so well that you stop doing them. You may say, &#8220;Well that sounds kind of silly. Why would that be the case? After [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The simple way to ensure client loyalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this brief video i&#8217;ll share with you the best way to ensure that your clients stay loyal to you. Hey it&#8217;s Spencer X Smith coming to you today from the Iowa State Bar in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa. What&#8217;s the best and free way that you can ensure that your clients stay loyal to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Managing My Rock Band Taught Me The Power of Being Naive</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like any male in his early twenties, I joined a rock band for one reason. To make great music, of course! The year was 1999, and I was 22 and just finished school. My buddy from college asked, &#8220;Do you want to join a band?&#8221; I said, &#8220;Yeah, for sure!&#8221; He said, &#8220;Ok good. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Public Speaking Failure? How to handle criticism like a pro!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been said that people fear public speaking more than death. Do you? I&#8217;m going to share a public speaking failure that (at first) left me questioning my abilities. I&#8217;ll tell you what I did to get through it and share three lessons you can learn from my experience. Public speaking criticism can really [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to grow your email list at events: pen and paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are you struggling to grow your email list? You know how important it is to your business. You know it&#8217;s an asset that will only continue to get more valuable over time. What&#8217;s a great &#38; super low-tech way to grow your email list? Use the same technique we used to use with our rock [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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