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	<description>Andy Birol, Birol Growth Consulting, Helping Business Leaders Create and Sustain Profitable Growth</description>
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		<title>To My Pittsburgh Friends and Clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being welcomed and given opportunities to speak, write for some of Pittsburgh&#8217;s most important publications and consult and coach several local businesses has been a gratifying and invaluable opportunity for me to learn how the town works and has succeeded so well. Being invited to join the Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence and most recently being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To My Cleveland Friends and 450 Clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back, it&#8217;s been a great privilege to help you grow by over $400 million and I look forward to continuing to do so. Being recognized as an asset to Northeast Ohio’s economy was a great honor and I hope that you will reach out to me whenever you and your business needs my specialty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Points, Popeye Moments and Entrepreneurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to point you to a piece I&#8217;ve just written titled, &#8220;Entrepreneurs and Defining Points: Have You Had Your Popeye Moment?&#8221; At some point in everyone&#8217;s life &#8211; you reach a defining moment.  Take, for instance, the examples below: &#8220;In the fifth game of the 1986 World Series, Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner flubs the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/defining-points-popeye-moments-and-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<title>Small Businesses Just Can&#8217;t Get a Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In November of 2008, I published A Small Business Owner’s Prayer for Obama naively hoping that, despite a recession, illiquidity, and change at any cost, small business would always be valued and nurtured as the sacred golden goose of job creation and innovation.  How wrong I was! Today I think we small business owners are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/small-businesses-cant-get-break/</link>
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		<title>Take This Quiz to Assess Your Strengths as a Business Owner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to point you to a piece I&#8217;ve just written titled, &#8220;Take This Quiz to Assess Your Strengths as a Business Owner,&#8221; in which I share a quiz I created to give small business owners a clear idea of their strengths and weaknesses.  I&#8217;ve titled it &#8220;The Growth Analyzer Quiz.&#8221; I created The Quiz after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/take-this-quiz-to-assess-your-strengths-as-a-business-owner/</link>
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		<title>The New Definition of Insanity: Doing the Same Things with Less and Expecting the Same Results!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to point you to a piece I&#8217;ve just written titled, &#8220;The New Definition of Insanity: Doing the Same Things with Less and Expecting the Same Results!&#8221; which covers tips to help your business grow and profit &#8211; even during these challenging times when taking an unacceptable risk may be necessary. So what can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/the-new-definition-of-insanity-doing-the-same-things-with-less-and-expecting-the-same-results/</link>
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		<title>Get Sold and Get Going on Creating Your Sales Engineers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an era where buyers need complete confidence in their business relationships, most favor vendors they can trust to provide the most understandable and least risky solutions possible. This is not surprising considering how much new technology and science is now built into most products and services they buy.  And there’s much more on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/get-sold-and-get-going-on-creating-your-sales-engineers/</link>
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		<title>Secret #1 for Growth: Train Someone to Sell and Communicate Better Than You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to point you to a piece I&#8217;ve just written titled, &#8220;Secret #1 for Growth: Train Someone to Sell and Communicate Better Than You&#8221; which was recently published and covers the benefits of training one or more of your employees to communicate and sell  &#8211; even better than you. Because we all know, many small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/secret-1-for-growth-train-someone-to-sell-and-communicate-better-than-you/</link>
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		<title>Three Ways To Ensure Your Social Media Efforts Create Profitable Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I ranted about how blogging and tweeting are often incompatible with generating qualified leads or closed sales (“To Tweet or to Sell”). But if you run a business, how do you know if your tweeting and blogging are making you money? To read the rest go HERE. This article is published on the AMERICAN EXPRESS OPEN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/three-ways-to-ensure-your-social-media-efforts-create-profitable-growth-2/</link>
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		<title>Make This Your Most Profitable Year Ever – Profitability Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends interviewed me during our recent webinar and came up with several excellent ideas for you including 45 ways you can improve your profitability in 2010.  Read More&#8230;. ]]></description>
		<link>http://profitablegrowth.com/make-this-your-most-profitable-year-ever-%e2%80%93-profitability-tips/</link>
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