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		<title>The Age of Entitlements</title>
		<link>http://smartideamarketing.com/leadership/2010/04/16/the-age-of-entitlements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Petticord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an article last year entitled: Creating Passive Income: Are You a Renter or an Owner? My premise was that successful people take responsibility for their actions and develop networks that create residual income.  A business owner can&#8217;t just turn in the keys and depend on government to pay the bills.
April 15th was yesterday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth Godin&#8217;s: Driveby Culture and the Endless Search for Wow!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Petticord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I subscribe to Seth's blog.  If you're a marketer, you should too.  I read his post last week and it's an honest assessment of the way things are online.  It's time to get real on the Internet.]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Common Sales and Marketing Mistakes</title>
		<link>http://smartideamarketing.com/leadership/2010/02/26/ten-common-sales-and-marketing-mistakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Petticord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These tried and true principles are timeless and timely for our continued success as business owners and marketers.
Mistake #1: Focusing on you not them

Instead of finding your prospect’s need and objective it’s a mistake to focus on you. Anything that does not focus solely on your prospect is institutional advertising.  You must focus on your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Feet from Gold! Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill</title>
		<link>http://smartideamarketing.com/leadership/2010/02/19/the-feet-from-gold-think-and-grow-rich-by-napoleon-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Petticord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.An uncle of R. U. Darby was caught by the "gold fever" in the gold-rush days, and went west to DIG AND GROW RICH]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a New Year! Four Success Tips for 2010</title>
		<link>http://smartideamarketing.com/leadership/2010/01/01/its-a-new-year-four-success-tips-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Petticord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s 2010.  It&#8217;s much easier to say twenty ten than two thousand nine.  I watched 2001, a Space Odyssey when I was nine.  I remember thinking that in the year 2000, we would be traversing the stars in spaceships.  Remember all the Y2K hype?  In 2000, all the computer systems in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Consistent Not Seasonal &#8211; No Sales Forecasting Tools Necessary</title>
		<link>http://smartideamarketing.com/leadership/2009/12/12/be-consistent-not-seasonal-no-sales-forecasting-tools-necessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Petticord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales forecasting tools are not necessary when people are hot or cold. Consumers react to the conditions at hand. But no one wants to buy a wood stove or snow tires in the Summer or get their furnace serviced.  Most wait until the last minute when everyone needs it. We&#8217;re having record cold weather [...]]]></description>
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