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		<title>Job situation worsens &#8211; KansasCity.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Job situation worsens &#8211; KansasCity.com. According to Associated Press, &#34;Layoffs are no longer dropping as they were in the final months of last year, reinforcing fears that the jobs crisis will weigh down consumer spending and the economic rebound. Severe weather contributed to a rise in jobless claims last week. But other economic data add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning your future&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Pamela Slim wrote a post on her blog about being your own leader on her blog &#34;Escape from Cubicle Nation.&#34; One of the pitfalls I have seen in Network Marketing is that when a company launches a great product or new incentive plan, people make the &#34;mad dash&#34; to recruit new distributors. Then, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Prepare New Year Resolutions For 2010 &#124; eHow.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[via How to Prepare New Year Resolutions For 2010 &#124; eHow.com. It&#8217;s almost that time and before you know it there will be a new year approaching for 2010. Time really did fly with having a new president, the economy, jobs, and the war. We are approaching a new year but are all of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinvention is the new employment &#124; freep.com &#124; Detroit Free Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reinvention is the new employment &#124; freep.com &#124; Detroit Free Press By PATRICIA MONTEMURRI FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER &#8220;&#8230;Like tens of thousands of Michiganders who&#8217;ve lost their jobs in the economic recession, [Cathy] Smith was laid off in December 2008, after she declined to transfer to New York from her office in Troy. She is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth&#8217;s Blog: Win the fight, lose the customer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth&#8217;s Blog: Win the fight, lose the customer. Does it really matter if you&#8217;re right? Given the choice between acknowledging that your customer is upset or proving to her that she is wrong, which will you choose? You can be right or you can have empathy. You can&#8217;t do both.]]></description>
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		<title>Smash your goals with a mastermind group &#124; Escape From Cubicle Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smash your goals with a mastermind group &#124; Escape From Cubicle Nation.  The biggest obstacle to business success is not lack of a great idea, but poor execution. New entrepreneurs, lacking expertise or perspective, often struggle alone with starting or growing their business.]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Esty: Green to Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Dan Esty of Yale University discusses how green companies like Shaklee can use their commitment to the environment to help their customers make earth-friendly choices. Shaklee, the world&#8217;s first certified climate-neutral company, is an acknowledged leader in the corporate environmental movement&#8211;and has been for more than 50 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Does your business &#8216;own&#8217; you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many self-employed workers who have businesses that own THEM. Think of the Mom &#38; Pop stores that chew up 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for these people. They live their whole lives behind a counter or stocking shelves, while life passes them by. Some can afford a so-called &#8220;too weak&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Businesss Offers Refuge from Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the recent Multi-Sponsor Surveys’ 2009 Economic Impact Market Segmentation Study Gallup Survey Group, Princeton, NJ, 49% of employed adults expressed worry about potential job loss, while 32% admitted to “significant” financial troubles.

But amid numerous reports of havoc and despair created by the current economic climate, Howard McIlvain, a local small-business entrepreneur here in Phoenix, reports a very different experience during this recession.]]></description>
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		<title>Go Green, Live Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying by David Bach In stores April 8th! Most people think that &#8220;going green&#8221; is an expensive choice they can&#8217;t afford. Who better than America&#8217;s Money Coach, David Bach, to tell you that you can have both a life in line [...]]]></description>
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