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		<title>3 Questions, 8 Characteristics, and 4 Signs for the New Year</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2010/01/05/3-questions-8-characteristics-and-4-signs-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HBR Blogs: Three Questions Executives Should Ask for the New Year I love the Harvard Business Review blogs. It&#8217;s where all the great research they do gets turned into practical guidance that can make a real difference! Melissa Raffoni wrote a terrific article, brief enough to be read quickly, but meaty enough to be invaluable long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Women Business Owners Think&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/11/14/what-women-business-owners-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; about Strategic Planning! Check out this link!]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Brogan Does Goals</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/10/28/chris-brogan-does-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know Chris Brogan? He&#8217;s one of the current gurus of social media, and has some very entertaining and interesting observations about marketing. If you&#8217;re looking for practical marketing tips to permit you some online success, you might try subscribing to his e-newsletter here. His latest newsletter includes a story that resonates with me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Reasons for Business Planning</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/10/10/top-5-reasons-for-business-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operations Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent articles have included some extraordinary &#8211; yet not surprising &#8211; statistics: companies with just the strategic section of a business plan have 50% more profits and revenue than non-planning businesses. Another survey found business planning companies have 63% higher revenue growth and 100% more profit. If that isn&#8217;t enough reason, here are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Need a Business Plan</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/29/why-you-need-a-business-plan-wsj-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why You Need a Business Plan &#8211; WSJ.com What a great article on Planning for Business in the Wall Street Journal! And no, I didn&#8217;t commission it. Planning &#8211; note the active voice &#8211; is at the heart of my practice and my life. Is it because my dad had me sitting at the kitchen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fix a Sales Problem</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/27/how-to-fix-a-sales-problem-5-second-mba-gruzzles-fast-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Fix a Sales Problem [5 Second MBA] &#124; Gruzzles &#124; Fast Company Have you seen this 5-Second MBA feature in Fast Company? This is a WONDERFUL image, and oh so true. Simple but not easy to execute.]]></description>
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		<title>The Entrepreneurial Gut</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/27/the-entrepreneurial-gut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When It Feels Wrong To Be Right &#8211; Trust Your Gut &#8211; Entrepreneur.com Interesting article opens with: &#8220;&#8216;I trust my gut.&#8217; That sounds so alpha-male cool, I know. It&#8217;s also a very dumb approach to running the major aspects of your business.&#8221; Perhaps not only &#8220;alpha-male cool&#8221; &#8211; women call it intuition, men call it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Implementation</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/03/22/practical-implementation/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/03/22/practical-implementation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scrum for Social Media Although this is an article specific to Social Media (a current passion!), there are some very practical and simple lessons for managers wanting a structured process to get things done thoroughly and quickly. No, the two are not mutually exclusive. It&#8217;s about FOCUS and ACCOUNTABILITY. Of yes, and if you happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning, Growth and Accountability</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/02/21/planning-growth-and-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly everyone would agree that accountability is important to successful business management. How many have identified it as a critical component to growth? Virtually every one of our small business owner clients encounters it as a common symptom while they are trying to go from a micro business to a small business, or from small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Skimp On Ad Budgets</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/03/dont-skimp-on-ad-budgets-forbescom/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/03/dont-skimp-on-ad-budgets-forbescom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising & Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t Skimp On Ad Budgets &#8211; Forbes.com: So you read or heard the news the other day (and I use the term &#8220;news&#8221; loosely) &#8211; the US is in a recession and has been since December of &#8217;07. I&#8217;m so glad there&#8217;s a group of academics poised to tell us such things! More helpful is the [...]]]></description>
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