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		<title>The Social Equity of the Socially Wealthy</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/05/blog/brand/socially-wealthy</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 07:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A relatively new, but greatly respected by me,  female acquaintance of mine, Starla West, was honored with and interviewed for the Indy Top 50 Business Connector&#8217;s Award.  True to her AUTHENTIC brand and professional expertise,  she was a superb radio guest, creating credible audio.    We are very fortunate to be hosting Starla as a speaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Investments in Relationship Marketing</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/05/strategy/time-investments-in-relationship-marketing</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday each person is allotted 24 hours.  Assuming most of us sleep (or try) a reasonably healthy 6-10 hours, that leaves us with 14 hours for professional and personal responsibilities as well as the option to engage in educational or relational moments of time. For entrepreneurs, the low average work day is 8 hours within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Seeing</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/05/blog/brand/gift-of-seein</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Networking is educational; it teaches us things about other people as well as a great deal about our self, when we reflect afterwards. When selling to targeted markets, a person doesn&#8217;t do much in the way of local networking circles or too many 1:1s. My general experience in 1:1s is that after asking a person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biz Lessons from a Tree</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/05/blog/marketing/business-lessons-from-a-tree</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling to a very precise targeted market means limited attendance at local networking events. Factually, target demographics don&#8217;t attend local events.  Being a data hound asking questions, assessing facts and coordinating non-biased journalist observations is a natural approach to attendance.  From the lay social scientist viewpoint, the clarity reveals many entrepreneurs launching many bright ideas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being a Reliable Referral</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/05/blog/marketing/being-a-reliable-referral</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, The Business Strategy &#38; Technology Forum&#8216;s very own Client Appreciation Expert, Polly Hulseman, presented at the forum, sharing with us sales stats about the vitality of staying connected with prospects. In April, cool consultant, Starla West wrote a great public blog post about her &#8220;I Gotta Guy Network&#8221;, which offered how easy it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action Accountabilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fast peak on any street corner in a populated community shows companies and organizations at work.  Rarely, are these viable organizations run by a force of one persons. Big name companies may have been started with one person in a garage and some gear, but eventually the individual had to make alliances and profitable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fierce Focus or Hocus Pocus</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/05/blog/business-distractors</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blazecom.info/Dragon/?p=2488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Marketeers Mastermind sessions have me thinking about fuzzy logic.  Something I find fascinating amongst entrepreneurs regardless of education or success level is a how easy it is to be distracted by social media and technology and other stuff that offers the illusion of work, but detract from our specialty and sales purpose and frankly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blazing or Flaming YOUR Brand, what&#8217;s the difference?</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/05/blog/blazing-or-flaming-your-brand-whats-the-difference</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 02:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After speaking gig, savvy thinkers often email to ask me what&#8217;s the difference between BLAZING your Brand &#38; FLAMING your Brand.   The words sound incredibly similar and yet they can have very different meanings.  As discussed during my presentation this week for 33 some people at the Linking Indiana event downtown Indy, business branding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to . . . business development&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/im-going-to-business-development</link>
		<comments>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/im-going-to-business-development#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday mornings begin a little different that most days.  I sleep until 7:30&#8230;two hours later than normal&#8230;Whoo hoo!  I turn an other-wise unused television on to engage my brain to find a touch of positive inspiration on the greater good of mankind.  This morning a fascinating documentary on the three global approaches to belief held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew the Android at the Funeral Home&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/relational-implications-of-social-media</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There funeral hall was virtually empty outside his family and the rest were social media messages held by unpaid interns holding cell phones of their employers sending their condolences&#8230; Our recent business forum suggested android applications to help business people operate more efficiently.  As a marketer I grow more and more concerned with communication trends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday the 13th at GKIC&#8217;s No BS Indy . . .</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/amber-alert-on-blaze-the-dragon-false-alarm</link>
		<comments>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/amber-alert-on-blaze-the-dragon-false-alarm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Manning of Manning Methods &#8220;knew it had to be Friday the 13th&#8221;, when he arrived to his GKIC Indy Chapter meeting to be surprised by (in his words)  &#8220;a large blue monster&#8221;. It&#8217;s true Blaze the Blue Dragon departed the cave for the first time last Friday 4/13/2012 to surprise No BS Indianapolis&#8217;  Jack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT IF? . . . Business Lessons from Spring&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/marketing/what-if-business-lessons-from-spring</link>
		<comments>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/marketing/what-if-business-lessons-from-spring#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April is a time in Indianapolis that lends a different definition to the word, TWITTER,  as birds outside our windows noisily begin their business conventions sometimes at 5 a.m. and carry on past 8 a.m.  The natural word around us  has begun marketing itself with skies a showering, winds a breezing, flowers a flower, all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Service&#8211;It&#8217;s NOT about YOU!</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/brand/customer-service-its-not-about-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;ve spent considerable time talking and texting with clients about customer service challenges.  These executives are force of ones micro-biz entrepreneurs, big earner direct sellers and leaders of small work forces. Something they seem to have in common during crisis is one of the greatest hurdles every executive faces&#8212;EGO. They begin to tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Lessons from Easter</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/brand/business-lessons-from-easter</link>
		<comments>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/brand/business-lessons-from-easter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter arrives in Indianapolis and around the world in a few days.  My mother has been preparing for weeks to sing  the Cantata.  The Christian holiday serves a s a reminder of  &#8220;Jesus&#8217; victory over death and mankind&#8217;s hope for eternal life&#8221;.  In well marketed community gatherings across the nation, incredible publicity about Jesus&#8217; execution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Lessons from the Easter Bunny</title>
		<link>http://blazecom.info/Dragon/2012/04/blog/marketing/marketing-and-the-easter-bunny</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlazeCom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two centuries ago, the words bunnies, chicks and nest eggs held different cultural meanings in the eyes of society. Brought to the US in the 18th century with German settlers, in truth the folklore comes from much older, richer historic times and pagen roots of 13th century, pre-Christian Germany.  At that time folks prayed to [...]]]></description>
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