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		<title>Andy Birol, Veteran Business Growth Consultant, to Deliver October 6, 2012 Keynote at IMC&#8217;s International Conference &#8220;Grow&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release April 13, 2012 Washington, DC &#8211; The Institute of Managment Consultants USA (IMC USA), announced that Andy Birol, Founder of Pittsburgh based Birol Growth Consulting (www.andybirol.com), will deliver the keynote address on October 6th 2012 in Orlando, Florida at IMC’s International Conference, “Grow.”  In his keynote, titled “Crossing the Consulting Valley of Death: Lessons and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcellus Lesson 5: Marcellus Will Be a Boom, and a Bust, and Already a Cultural Collision!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are more confused than ever as to if, when, and how the gas boom will impact your business, you are absolutely lucid and sober.  Every month brings new confusing signals and contradicting advances and setbacks. While the fundamentals aren’t changing, it is can be hard to reconcile the following: Exciting Advances: Shell Corporation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/marcellus-lesson-5-marcellus-will-be-a-boom-and-a-bust-and-already-a-cultural-collision/</link>
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		<title>Stop Straddling and Suffering! Re-Commit to Your Business With Your BHU®</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does it really matter why you’re staying on to run your difficult business? Is it out of choice or desperation? If you can’t sell it now, or don’t see an immediate alternative that pays you well and provides a similar lifestyle, then your business must improve and you have to do it.So what can you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural gas industry high on future, despite current low prices &#8211; The Washington Times‏</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Birol quoted in The Washington Times on Marcellus and the opportunity it presents for small business&#8221;. To read article click here.]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/natural-gas-industry-high-on-future-despite-current-low-prices-the-washington-times%e2%80%8f/</link>
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		<title>Breathing Your Own Exhaust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it is so wrong to stare at a car crash, then why are they so fascinating? And in these tough times, watching another crooked leader taking the “perp-walk of shame” brings a grin to even the most cordial of us. Leave it to the ever-precise Germans to define this feeling as “shadenfreude” or “the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWWWW: Why Won&#8217;t Wonderful Websites Work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the fourth time in 15 years I’m revamping my website.  My technology wingman groans, rolling his eyes and thinks, “Here he goes again.” Why does the website that made me so proud a few years ago make me cringe? The reasons jump out at me: It’s too complicated. The messaging isn’t clear, the back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/wwwww-why-wont-wonderful-websites-work/</link>
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		<title>Birol Growth Consulting Helps Microseeps Grow its Marcellus Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background: Microseeps is a lab testing business located in Harmar, Pennsylvania that provides a wide variety of services supporting insight into soil and groundwater problems. Since the 90’s, the company has solved a large number of customers’ needs by developing innovative, groundwater, analytical tools and cost-effective ways to sample soil gas for vapor intrusion. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/birol-growth-consulting-helps-microseeps-grow-its-marcellus-business/</link>
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		<title>Should You Stay or Should You Go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, your business has survived the recession! Thanks to your leadership, you held off the banks, reduced your debt, collected your receivables and delivered great products and service. Today, your firm runs lean, with loyal customers and reasonable profits. So what should you do next? Are you satisfied, dissatisfied or neither? Should you grow your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/should-you-stay-or-should-you-go/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Company a Feature, Benefit or Advantage?    Build Your Tech Company For What It Is…and Isn’t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a stakeholder in a tech company, you have your money, future or ego in its future. Whether you own, buy from, or sell to such a firm, its hype should be contagious but could be a double-edged sword. Are you in on the ground floor of the “next big thing” or will your stake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/is-your-company-a-feature-benefit-or-advantage-build-your-tech-company-for-what-it-is%e2%80%a6and-isn%e2%80%99t/</link>
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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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