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		<title>Customer Loyalty Drives Lower Marketing Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Kiefer had an interesting article on the BusinessWeek Small Business blog yesterday. He discussed using customer loyalty rewards to ultimately reduce your marketing costs. Take a look at it and let us know what you think.]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Who are your customers and what do they want?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The strategic foundation of any business A strategic plan is an integrated process for defining an organization&#8217;s strategy or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. The planning includes the use of its capital and people over a five to ten year period. Strategic planning is the formal consideration of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Karen Gordon Mills Confirmed as SBA Administrator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this morning the U. S. Senate announced the confirmation of Karen Gordon Mills as the 23rd Administrator of the U. S. Small Business Administration. Mills has more than 25 years of experience working in and providing financing for small businesses. On April 1, Mills made the following statement when she appeared before the Senate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=61</link>
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		<title>SBA Issues Scam Alert for Small Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This flash alert just came in from the Small Business Administration: *********************************************** Release Date: February 18, 2009 Contact: Mike Stamler (202) 205-6919 Release Number: 09-11 Internet Address: http://www.sba.gov/news SBA Warns of Fraudulent Attempts to Obtain Bank Account Information from Small Businesses WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration issued a scam alert today to small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=60</link>
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		<title>SBA Applauds Stimulus Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Small Business Administration released the following information today. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- SBA Applauds Stimulus Bill, Planning Underway For Broadest, Quickest Small Business Impact WASHINGTON – The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contains a package of loan fee reductions, higher guarantees, new SBA programs, secondary market incentives, and enhancements to current SBA programs that will help unlock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Will the Recession Kill Your Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a post by John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing. He was talking about his top seven ways of digging yourself out of a recession. After reading his tips I found that I’ve implemented three of them already. The others are on my short list now. Read the full article here.]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=52</link>
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		<title>SBA Releases New Rule Concerning Women-Owned Small Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received this by email today. I believe it will affect many of you, so I’ll give you the full text below. *********************************************** U.S. Small Business Administration – News Release – *********************************************** Release Date: September 29, 2008 Contact: Christine Mangi (202) 205-6948 Release Number: 08-100 Internet Address: http://www.sba.gov/news SBA Submits Final Women’s Contracting Rule WASHINGTON, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=50</link>
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		<title>What Does YOUR Company Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Hiett Ives At networking events I’m usually asked, “What do you do?” It’s more common than, “What company are you with?” It’s not that different with trade shows. As a delegate walking a show where there are lots of vendors, what’s more important to you: What a company does? or Who they are? Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Drop Box Arrives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t get jazzed about a lot of products, but I just started working with the private beta version of DropBox and it promises to be a hit. I’m always looking for new ways to share files and collaborate on projects. Since many of my files are high resolution graphics, many of the current file [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Are You Asking the Right Questions?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Hiett Ives, Show Dynamics Your company has a booth at a Business to Business trade show. What questions do YOU ask passing delegates to identify qualified leads? Three potential approaches to use: The Chit-Chat Approach. You smile and ask them, “How’s the show?” The problem with this approach? It usually nets you a, “Great!” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micropreneurinsight.net/?p=44</link>
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