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	<title>SPIA Official Blog - Coaching Business Professionals since 1971 &#187; Enhancing Management Efficiency</title>
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		<title>Getting “Beyond” The Start-Up Phase Mentality  A Virtual Brick Wall That Often Lasts For Years</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/business/getting-%e2%80%9cbeyond%e2%80%9d-the-start-up-phase-mentality-a-virtual-brick-wall-that-often-lasts-for-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR Poisoning An Employee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poisoning Employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Start-Up Trouble Shooting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business 101 - Startups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kicking off a new business means that the entrepreneur or business owner begins operations leveraging his/her knowledge of the products or services it performs and how those product/services will be delivered to the marketplace.    When the start-up begins with the entrepreneur him/herself – a non to infrequent occurrence, the entrepreneur begins operations doing absolutely everything – sales/marketing, finance and operations – dividing up his/her time based on what has to be done based on a priority known usually only by that individual. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Fantasy Of Being Successful Solo In Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/business/the-fantasy-of-being-successfully-solo-in-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress in business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash Flow Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a breakneck pace that many new solo business owners assume. With an infinite number of things to do, and about a dozen hats to wear, it gets overwhelming, fast.
 
And, that's nothing compared to what happens once the business actually has some momentum under it. That's why one of my clients with a brand-new business was asking me: "Craig, how do you get it all done? Your business has about 100 times more going on in it than mine does, and I'm overwhelmed just with what I'm trying to get done."]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Stress In Your Business Is Essential  How to deal with stress in your business &amp; avoid putting yourself out of business.</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/business/reducing-stress-in-your-business-is-essential-how-to-deal-with-stress-in-your-business-avoid-putting-yourself-out-of-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no entrepreneur or senior level executive I know of that hasn’t experienced serious stress during the course of their business career.  Certainly there are times when the pressure builds and builds and builds – forcing executives and line personnel alike to struggle just to keep up!

Stress causes all kinds of problems – more often than not compromising the individual’s ability to concentrate and get work done.  Certainly the costs of neglecting stress in your business can be very high. And, strangely, stress is sometimes overlooked as a health and safety issue by small businesses. Yet the unexpected absence of just one member of staff can affect productivity, and efforts to secure cover can be costly and time-consuming.]]></description>
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		<title>TRAIN YOUR LINE STAFF TO BE SUCCESSFUL:  If your sales people are relying on &#8220;low price&#8221; to close the deal &#8230;..Here are the 10-steps you need to get started &#8211; quickly</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/sales/if-your-sales-people-are-relying-on-low-price-to-close-the-deal-here-are-the-10-steps-you-need-to-get-started-quickly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 13:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Process Improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Profit Improvement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things that sales and company executives ask us when we meet them is; “We need to grow our sales, what can you do for us?” To that we always respond, “If you’d share with us some of the processes that you have in place now for the sales team to follow – we can then take a look at them and see if there might be a way that we can help.”

What we’ve found is that most of the time the issue is always the same: There simply isn’t a process in place for us to look at - period. The salespeople almost always seem to be autonomous from the rest of the company. There are well thought out processes in place for finance, personnel and administration - but not for sales. When we ask the question of why the building of a business development process for the salespeople seemed to be pushed to the wayside, we almost always got the same response:

“It’s a huge undertaking and I know I should (Don’t you just love that word should?) be doing something – but where would I start?”]]></description>
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		<title>The Keys to Improving Business Relationships:  The greatest key in reducing turnover in your business &amp; improving the quality of yiour own life.</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/management/the-keys-to-improving-business-relationships-the-greatest-key-in-reducing-turnover-in-your-business-improving-the-quality-of-yiour-own-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 18:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matrix Pricing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reducing Stress in Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time a small boy and girl were building a sand castle on the beach.  They spent hours building towers, walls, and a moat.  As they were building the castle, the tide slowly kept creeping in closer and closer.  Finally after working on this castle for most of the morning a big wave came in and wiped it all away.  An adult who was watching all of this was at first feeling sorry for the children because of all the work they had put into building the castle.  The adult then saw the children hold hands and run together laughing down the beach.  It was then that the adult realized that although it is fun building empires, the lasting fun is having friends with whom you can continue to laugh and be with after all that you have spent your life building has washed away.]]></description>
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		<title>The Keys to Improving Business Relationships &#8211; Really!</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/communications/the-keys-to-improving-business-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Process Improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Using Networks To Build Sales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Improving Relationships:  The greatest key in reducing turnover in your business (as well as significantly improving the quality of your own life).

Once upon a time a small boy and girl were building a sand castle on the beach.  They spent hours building towers, walls, and a moat.  As they were building the castle, the tide slowly kept creeping in closer and closer.  Finally after working on this castle for most of the morning a big wave came in and wiped it all away.  An adult who was watching all of this was at first feeling sorry for the children because of all the work they had put into building the castle.  The adult then saw the children hold hands and run together laughing down the beach.  It was then that the adult realized that although it is fun building empires, the lasting fun is having friends with whom you can continue to laugh and be with after all that you have spent your life building has washed away.]]></description>
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		<title>The secret is in: It takes more than just talented sales pros to grow a business.  It takes effective training &amp; reporting systems that deliver critical performance info fast!</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/business/the-secret-is-in-establishing-managing-and-making-successful-a-business-development-team-that-delivers-is-a-complex-sales-process-requiring-systems-technology-and-management-systems-procedures-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No one that I know of will disagree with me when I say that it is new sources of profitable revenue that fuels a company's ability to grow and prosper.  For many business executives,  revenue only comes as a byproduct of sales pros delivering profitable business in large volume sufficient to generate a healthy bottom line profit.  It is this "bottom line profit" that is the energy source which grows a healthy businesses.

It is not only volume that counts.  It is profitability of the business delivered.]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership vs. Management &#8211; There is a HUGE Difference!!!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/business/leadership-vs-management-there-is-a-huge-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Stimmel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Huge Difference

Do you wand to be a leader or a manager? You need to make a choice, as there is a huge difference. "The world is full of managers and desperately short of leaders - real leaders

Leadership versus Management

Leadership is more than just having the authority of a management or supervisory position. Authority (or position power) gets you compliance. Leadership (or influence power gets you commitment. "When you influence others to follow, they do so because they like you, admire you, stand in awe of you (referent power). Or because they believe you have special expertise to support their efforts (expert power)."]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to Monitoring Your Operational Expenses: Revising Your Business Processes</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/business/cuttingoperationalcost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmburnham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, it's probably hard to think of a few good things that came out of the economic meltdown. You probably faced declining sales. You probably did more work with fewer resources. But if you think hard enough, you probably also learned a thing or two about managing your expenses. ]]></description>
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		<title>Why Should Your Business Conduct Market Research Now?</title>
		<link>http://blog.spiainc.com/business/market-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmburnham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Management Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales intelligence gathering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Failure to do so can be VERY expensive!

Contrary to what you may think, market research is not something that only big companies do. Keeping your company aware of positive or negative trends in your industry and in the market that interacts with your industry can mean the difference between prospering—and something far less desirable.

Knowledge is power, and the more power you have, the stronger your business will be. What can market research do for your company?]]></description>
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