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		<title>14 Steps to Live Positively</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is proven that positivity does more than just reflect a successful and happy life, making an effort to be positive produces success and happiness. Positivity includes emotions like love, joy, amusement, gratitude, serenity, interest, inspiration, awe, and connection.  It gives you the attitudes that lead to open minds, open hearts, and relaxation. Below are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Best First Impression</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You never get a second chance to make a first impression; that’s a fact. The first few moments of meeting a person are critical. In such a short amount of time, how can you be sure others are leaving with the correct assessment of you? How can you improve your chances of making a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Go About Buying Customers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Growing Your Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ludicrous! Buying customers?! Absolutely absurd!  Begging for customers, pleading potential clients, trying to lead unsuspecting customers in the door&#8230; How do you bring new customers into your business? Have you ever just published an ad? On the radio, on TV, in a newspaper or a flyer, hoping that somehow it would magically bring new customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tips to Improve Your Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many business owners I meet complain that, although they attend networking events, they don&#8217;t actually get any business through them and ask if it’s still worth doing, considering there are lots of other things they could be spending their time on instead. Clearly, networking isn&#8217;t an appropriate marketing tool for all businesses, but for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Increase Your Sales Conversion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great way to increase your sales conversion is to find out what is really going on in your business by mystery shopping the business by posing as a potential prospect and then providing a summary of the experience. The object is to portray a reasonable prospect with a real world need. Given what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Break Even Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is essential for you to understand the flow of money in, through, and out of your business.  For some businesses, this can even be a daily issue.  Positive cashflow (more money coming in than going out) is essential to keep the business going. So how do you keep more money coming in vs. going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why to retain Employees – or not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many business owners or managers I meet invariably tell me they have challenges retaining their team. They worry about having a high employee turnover rate and all the problems it brings such as constantly training, constant recruitment and constantly supervising the new people. Let’s see what would happen if you don’t have to do those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Finances &#8211; Love Your Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Layzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In business, and in your personal life for that matter, bottom-line is, you must know your numbers. However, don’t let numbers be scary or repel you. Even though the mindset that many of us grew up with was “numbers are no fun”, “numbers are hard”, “dry”, “not creative” … whatever the misconception you created about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating your Vision Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Focus on your Outcome…. Every great leader starts by defining the culture of his or her team. The culture is determined by spending time thinking about the vision, mission, and values of the organization. Every leader must make time to do this! The first step is writing down your vision statement. The Vision Statement is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time: Worst Practice: Management by Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management by crisis is a phrase used to describe the common problem of allowing unexpected events, interruptions, problems, or emergencies to dictate your priorities and actions. Effective crisis management is such an important skill to have and of course, use; it is an essential skill of effective time managers because unexpected things do happen in [...]]]></description>
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