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	<description>Make rain. Grow your business.</description>
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		<title>The Best Sales Tactic Ever, Isn’t a Sales Tactic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The funniest things go through your mind when riding a bike on switchbacks up a mountain.   It came to me today while slogging up the hill that something a client of mine and I had talked about last week riding up the same mountain together was pretty important.  Sales people and business owners really don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Your Business to Grow Up and Run Itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, understood that to have his business grow up and run itself, he would need to pay attention to all of the Seven Elements of a Business – so he did.
Kids need to grow up and stand on their own two feet without leaning on you – that is maturity.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visionaries Make Money, Dreamers Don’t.  Which are you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dreamer - Someone who can describe some future hoped for situation, but has no clear date for when they want to be there, and isn’t actively right now pursuing that vision.  A dreamer loves to think about the future and what it could be like, but there is no concrete connection between that future situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Words a Business Owner Can Never Afford to Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Try (the uncommitted’s word)
“We’re going to try to…”
Yoda – “Try not.  Do, or do not.  There is no try.”  Intentionality is a huge key to getting where you want to go.  When a business owner uses “try”, their escape route is clearly identified, and they have no intention of seeing things through, especially in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The simple things are usually the ones that make us money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occam&#8217;s Razor says that given two possible answers to a problem, the simpler one is usually right.  If we applied this ancient idea to business, we&#8217;d make a lot more money.
The Simple vs. The Complex
I find that business owners who succeed know how to sift through the Tyranny of the Urgent and focus on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I bought 10-15 days off, 21 mths from now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfblakeman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We had five days straight of overcast, rainy, sloppy weather Friday thru Tuesday in Denver, something we almost never see.  It dominated Memorial Day weekend and kept us all inside for the most part.
Finally Wednesday was a gorgeous “Chamber of Commerce” day.  Not a cloud in the sky, no wind, no humidity, and no appointments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Decision-Making Principles Leading us to Profitability</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.teamnimbuswest.com/2009/05/seven-decision-making-principles-leading-us-to-profitability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 17:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfblakeman</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.teamnimbuswest.com/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guiding Principles of a business are necessary (honesty, integrity, customer service, etc.), but there is another set of principles that help the Business Owner in particular: decision-making principles.
How we make decisions effects everything we do.  Problem – we make decisions subjectively, even when we think we’re being objective.  All the research shows this – even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guidelines vs. Rules – Creating Wildly Successful Employees</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.teamnimbuswest.com/2009/05/guidelines-vs-rules-%e2%80%93-creating-wildly-successful-employees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 03:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfblakeman</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.teamnimbuswest.com/?p=58</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Employees have changed.  Rules don’t cut it anymore.   The newer generation isn’t sure it even wants to go to work and has in some ways decided to retire BEFORE working.  They&#8217;re out there &#8220;gigging&#8221; instead of working. How do you as a Business Owner respond to this new world?
How is the new world different than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Process Mapping - a Key to Owning a Business</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.teamnimbuswest.com/2009/05/process-mapping-a-key-to-owning-a-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 21:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we talked about why processes are so much more important to small businesses than even big business.  This week we’ll cover just how simple it is to put together a good process that will actually have a significant impact on your business.  What we don’t need is more stuff sitting on a shelf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Processes Create More Revenue</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.teamnimbuswest.com/2009/05/simple-processes-create-more-revenue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once in awhile Mom would tell me on the way out the door to school that we were having hamburgers that night.  But when I came in from playing to eat dinner, I found chicken on the table.   I was disappointed by the switch, which was completely irrational because I like chicken just as much [...]]]></description>
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