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		<title>Baby Boomer Entrepreneurs- Necessity or Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pending IPO of Facebook reinforces the common perception that the face of entrepreneurs looks pretty much like the hoodie-wearing  Mark Zuckerberg dreaming the big dreams in their Harvard dorm room. Yet once again the aging Baby Boomer generation gets into the act. Actually as a card-carrying Baby Boomer  I know that we can’t help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Know, Like, Trust is Less Than Half the Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing recently posted on his blog  http://bit.ly/JW8nV6  new thoughts on Customer Relationship Management or CRM.  But his thoughts were much more about the strategies of developing customers than the technology that documents that movement for businesses. 7 Steps His 7 stages of building a customer relationship include: KNOW LIKE TRUST [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ways To Survive the Baby Boomer Business Bust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Price Waterhouse Coopers, over the next ten years approximately 50% of all owners of small and mid-sized companies will exit their companies.  Retiring baby boomers are driving this massive exodus from the marketplace.  Unfortunately, among the group of small business owners who exit their business, The SBA estimates only about 1 in 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Resist Change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I resist change as well as anyone, in fact my DISC Behavioral Style indicates that I hate change.  So I am a real expert on change resistance. Why do we resist change?  Marshall Goldsmith in What Got You Here Won’t Get You There argues that we resist change because of delusional thinking. Let me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish Where the Fish Swim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fish where the fish swim. Sure that seems obvious doesn’t it. But not always so obvious in our own businesses when we go fishing for leads. Recently I had a consultation with a young owner of an elder care service provider.  Her business provides private pay, not insurance reimbursed, skilled nursing and home companion care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Planning -Get Ahold of Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the articles that are offbeat at least for me is one of the few pleasures that I enjoy on a long flight.  Last week while journeying to Key West, I came across a neuroscience article in  Scientific American that provided a unique insight into why small business owner who are really struggling seldom want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Sales and Marketing Made My Business a Commodity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor marketing and sales skills will make a unique specialty business into a commodity.]]></description>
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		<title>How The Power of the Tribe Can Drive Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customer loyalty programs go beyond incenting your clients to return &#8211; they tap into your customer&#8217;s psychology. You and probably everyone else you know are part of a customer loyalty program. Just look at your key ring, or in your wallet, and you&#8217;ll probably find a bunch of cards for a variety of businesses. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Win At The Business Craps Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I am off to New Orleans, LA to attend the Annual Meeting of the Professional Business Coaches Alliance where I will be giving a presentation entitled, “From Rotten to Rainmaker.” This perspective about what it takes to launch a business, specifically a business services provider. Often I hear from starting entrepreneurs that they plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Reverse That Risk and Get To A Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Sobus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Risk and Procrastination made love and the baby is named, “No Deal.”  Even when your offer seems b compelling and your potential client doesn’t have any other way to solve their problem,  Risk and Procrastination partner and” No Deal” is born. Previously we shared 3 ways to stop procrastination from killing our marketing efforts. But [...]]]></description>
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