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		<title>A New Christmas Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas 2011 &#8211; Birth of a New Tradition! As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods &#8212; merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love what you do?  Advice from the mob</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Derek Sivers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin sent this to me.  It is by Derek Sivers, president of CD Baby. He has a new book out called Anything You Want. I&#8217;ve been reading the book from Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness and he says the same thing.  In case you don&#8217;t know who Tony is, he the CEO of Zappos.  They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the way you think &#8211; Seth Godin road trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 02:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has nothing to do with printing, but a lot to do with your business, and the future of your business. If you have read any of my posts, this is the most important one to date. If you own a business you need to watch this video series. Seth Godin is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on interactive educational cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[interactive coloring cards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you are reading this for the first time, I&#8217;ve been talking about a new possible product line using the interactive cards. It will be a series of coloring cards designed to help children live healthier lives. It will be marketed to hospitals, organizations that deal with children&#8217;s health, insurance agencies, doctors and dentists. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much can you spend to get a new client?</title>
		<link>http://www.mikevblog.com/marketing-tools/how-much-can-you-spend-to-get-a-new-client</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking to develop new clients? How much money do you spend to develop those clients? Jay Abraham (http://abraham.com/) is one of my favorite business development people and he talks extensively about understanding the lifetime value of developing a new client. If you know the average lifetime value of a new client, you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamie Heywood&#8217;s big idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes through pain and hard times comes great ideas. Actually I think it is probably more than sometimes. Pain causes us to look outside ourselves, to reach out, experiment, try something different, all of which can provide a breakthrough solution that you would never have been able to find without going through that experience. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Should you subscribe to this blog? One of my goals on this blog is to not waste your time so I&#8217;ll tell you the primary goal of this blog up front.  This will help you quickly determine whether to spend more time here. The goal of this blog is to help print distributors become a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Less</title>
		<link>http://www.mikevblog.com/personal-thoughts/do-less</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the correlation between the amount of work I do and the amount of money I make and I&#8217;ve come to this conclusion: There is not one. I think this is because I spend to much time on stuff that does not really matter. I have good intentions. I plan out my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inc 5,000 fastest growing companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fastest growing companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inc 500 and 5000]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; What would your business look like if you picked up one of the fastest growing companies in the United States as a customer? If it would help your business then why not go after them?  Inc. magazine publishes a list every year of the fastest growing companies and it is searchable by state, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Product Update</title>
		<link>http://www.mikevblog.com/new-ideas/new-product-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.mikevblog.com/new-ideas/new-product-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received enough emails and comments on the blog to feel like we should move forward.  If you are reading this for the first time, the idea came from Rahcel Neufeld with Proforma several weeks ago.   She called with an idea of develop a series of interactive cards to teach children how to live [...]]]></description>
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