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    <title>The Sangster Blog from Global Touch</title>
    
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    <updated>2008-11-06T09:01:17-08:00</updated>
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        <title>Cisco’s Earnings:  What You Need to Think About—NOW! </title>
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        <published>2008-11-06T09:01:17-08:00</published>
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            <name>Denise Sangster</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.globaltouchblog.com/">Another week and more financial earnings reports. This time, the IT tiger, Cisco Systems, reported its first fiscal quarter results for the August through October period after the market closed on...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Cash is King</title>
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        <published>2008-10-28T10:33:20-07:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-28T10:33:20-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>Denise Sangster</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.globaltouchblog.com/">Actor Will Rogers once said, "It's not so much the return on my money that concerns me as much as the return of my money." How poignant for today’s market. I’ve talked with a number IT channel...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Ingram Micro Earnings Call:  What We Should ALL Learn and DO</title>
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        <published>2008-10-24T10:39:00-07:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-24T10:39:00-07:00</updated>
        
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.globaltouchblog.com/">Ingram Micro announced its third quarter results yesterday. This earnings call was my eighth earnings call this week. And yet, it was one of the most important for business survival—if you listened...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>10 Steps to Helping Your Customer’s Weather Market Turbulence </title>
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        <published>2008-10-17T10:37:00-07:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-17T10:37:00-07:00</updated>
        
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.globaltouchblog.com/">Chances are better than not that customers are or have told you that end of year and 2009 IT purchasing and projects may be scaling back. Here are my thoughts about coping with the present market...&lt;br/&gt;
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