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		<title>Facebook for Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Adding a page for &#8220;Fans&#8221; of your business

Kevin (Project manager for our Site Brand Builder web site business) and I did a web site presentation yesterday at PTAC (Procurement Technical Assistance Center &#8211; doing business with the government). We asked our audience of 50 or so &#8220;How many of you have a personal Facebook [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=151</link>
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		<title>Future Generations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Would You Say?

A very creative artist named Heather Layton is working on a project at Cornell University as an artist-in-residence. It is titled &#8220;Letters to a Future Generation&#8221;. Here is her blog if you would like to know more about it.  www.pocketsfortheteeth.blogspot.com.  I added to her collection of 500 letters and this is what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=142</link>
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		<title>ROI Solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is your return on investment (ROI)? 
Solution-selling is &#8220;the only way to sell&#8221; these days; but, what does selling a solution actually mean? For me, solution-selling is being a trusted partner and great listener with your customer.  As their trusted partner, you must be straightforward and truthful and offer what is only in your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Guiding Your business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who’s steering the ship 
 – guiding your business 
I had lunch with a friend the other day who was telling me about a new position she had taken. As my friend told me about her new position, I was reminded of her great communication skills, her ability to ask the right questions, and her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneur Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four mistakes entrepreneurs make 
 in any economy…
I found myself pondering over a question a customer recently asked “What have you learned as a business owner?”  I wondered where I would be now if I was just starting out and making the same mistakes vs. eight years ago in a more forgiving market. In today’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>. . .  a Business Plan ? ? ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, do you really need 
 . . . . a business plan?
That’s a question I’ve considered since I started my business nine years ago. I’ve read many articles on the importance of needing a business plan. The truth is, I’ve written many plans, never quite complete or realistic &#8212; but I did it because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Neale Donald Walsch Quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA["The mind is the last part of yourself to listen to.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Doodles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doodling as an asset.
Last week I read  that Doodling during a meeting helps to increase retention up to 30%.  The article I read said that the study was done by Jackie Andrade, who is a psychology professor at the University of Plymouth in England. The study appears online in Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Doodling, they say in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Personal Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your energy and how it affects others
At a presentation on personal energy and how it affects others, a couple of weeks ago, I did an exercise that had some interesting results. It was for a group of about 70 health care professionals.
Here is how the exercise went.
I asked on a scale of 1 to 10,  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=108</link>
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		<title>Public Relations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recession P R
Here are some thoughts on having a PR  (Public Relations) program and why it is just the right time to get it going.
* Use your business to help someone &#8211; personal or a business. Watch the news for someone that needs help.
* Host a contest to rename something like your business, or a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=99</link>
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		<title>Email Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Safe Email Transactions
A conversation with a client, CPAmerica about the challenges of compliance and security with financial services led us to create a new product that we have named OakPortals.com. This is a private, encrypted, secure, easy to use portal page for the transfer of documents without email.  We have set up the initial software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=93</link>
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		<title>Key Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personal Key Words
While preparing a handout for a presentation I was doing for the entrepreneurial class at the University of Rochester I found myself Bolding a word or two in each section. I gave them a lot of information and wanted the students to be able to glance at the sheet and pick up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coffeewithus.com/?p=74</link>
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