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	<description>Andy Birol, Birol Growth Consulting, Helping Business Owners Create Profitable Growth By Growing Their Best &#38; Highest Use®</description>
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		<title>With All the Business in Technology, Where&#8217;s the Technology in Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business people are fascinated by the benefits, profits and potential of technology. Just visit any tech event and witness the financiers, service providers and the media networking with techies to discover “the next business thing.” But despite all this &#8220;technology-transfer&#8221;, why isn’t there more technology in business? After 15 years of consulting with more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Loving at Home; He&#8217;s No Hugger!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what would happen if you cut out all extra service and personal touches from your business?  Would customers still come if you were excellent but detached? My recent shoulder surgery was an in-your-face experience of how this works. After enduring shoulder pain for a year, an MRI confirmed that my rotator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Marcellus Part 4: Insights After 6 Month&#8217;s Focus on Shale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not until the summer of 2011, did the Marcellus opportunity begin to make sense to me. Knowing nothing about gas drilling, energy policy or how big energy companies function, I grew increasingly frustrated by all the attention that Marcellus was attracting. Then I recalled my Economics 101 professor’s simple message; the impact of one dollar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Keys to Sustaining Your Advanced Consulting Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 14 years of consulting and relocating my business to Western Pennsylvania, many of you have asked, “What keeps you going, Andy?” In advance of my introducing an “Advanced Consulting Mastermind Group” with Michael Couch and the Pittsburgh Consulting Community on January 31st, here’s a preview of my keys to keeping your consulting business healthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assess Corporate Culture When Choosing Your Next Customer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is standard practice to qualify a prospect on the basis of time, need, authority and money, but why not by corporate culture as well? We all find it easier to work with some companies just as we prefer working with some employees more than others. In fact, as a result of outsourcing, with more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting Engagement to Profitable Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, I have wrestled with what role social media role really plays in creating profitable growth and wrote a rowdy piece for AMEX on it here. But building relationships or &#8220;engagement marketing” is critical to creating profitable growth. And recently, when Constant Contact asked me to speak at their engagement conference on profitable growth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/connecting-engagement-to-profitable-growth-2/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned From Marcellus Part Three: Timing: When&#8217;s Your Right Time to Pounce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When will the Marcellus boom impact my firm?&#8221;&#160; Since timing is everything, you need to know when’s the best time for you to invest and gain a12-month return. If you are hearing all about opportunities but seeing few leads, buyers or orders from shale-related business, you’re not alone. Throughout my recent trips to West Virginia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/lessons-learned-from-marcellus-part-three-timing-whens-your-right-time-to-pounce/</link>
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		<title>We are All in the 1%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, someone in the “Occupy” movement approached me, taunting “Are you in the 1%?” “No,” I responded. Undaunted, he then demanded, “Are you happy with your state of life?” “I’m in between great things,” I humbly retorted.  “Don’t you blame corporations and thank government for your status in life?” he yelled at me as I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/we-are-all-in-the-1/</link>
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		<title>Making Money on Marcellus Part 2: “Finding Your Target Markets in the Marcellus Shale”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For property holders, and the fortunate few who can sell gas drillers, products, services, or transportation, the riches of Marcellus are already flowing. If you can’t figure out where your business fits in, the answer may be right under your nose.]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/making-money-on-marcellus-part-2%e2%80%af%e2%80%9cfinding-your-target-markets-in-the-marcellus-shale%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>5 Steps to Refocus During Tough Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it’s the economy, your family, business, community or society, probably some part of your world has suffered over the last five years. Unfortunately, there are enough signs show that the next few years will continue to challenge even the luckiest, blessed and oblivious among us.  Even as we strive do “right and good,” what do [...]]]></description>
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