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		<title>Executing Growth: Launch Effectively</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that 2012 is the 25th anniversary of my grandfather passing away at age 87. Other than my parents he was the one person most responsible for the person I am today. I admired him in so many ways, including his becoming an entrepreneur at age 50, being the oldest person in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Social Media Success Story: Lufthansa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look no further than the sky above to find a global social media success story that you can tap into for your own business. Germany-based but global air carrier Lufthansa Group is on a roll with social media that is a model for any business looking to be more successful with their marketing. Lufthansa has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maslow&#8217;s Hierarchy of Social Media for Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most businesses struggle with social media. Typical challenges include deciding which sites to use, staying on brand and being consistent. Part of the issue is that businesses often try to bite off too much. We hear from social media gurus about &#8216;building a community&#8217;, and that&#8217;s a great goal, but how realistic is it for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selecting and Executing Marketing Priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to make a list of all the marketing initiatives that you could be doing. It&#8217;s a LONG list &#8211; from the web, to social media, publicity, advertising, referral programs, events, new market entry, new products and services, et al. That&#8217;s not hard &#8211; but selecting which of them to do, designing precisely what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth Process to Grow in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve developed the &#8220;Target First&#8221; growth process at Growth Nation over the last decade and have used it successfully with over 100 businesses, with 100% success. Not bad, eh? Our shared goal is always to grow more rapidly. We recommend doing that by first defining brand positioning, developing a growth strategy and plan, and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Handle the Truth, NOT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Nicholson delivers an amazing performance in A Few Good Men. The climax when he goes ballistic and screams &#8220;You can&#8217;t handle the truth&#8221; is one of the truly great movie moments! We think a lot about truth as we work with customers because sometimes it&#8217;s elusive. We all have filters that screen us from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Export Initiative 2012</title>
		<link>http://growthnation.com/national-export-initiative-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010 President Obama announced the National Export Initiative to double exports from the U.S. within 5 years. Exports mean dollars, and dollars mean jobs. It will be up to business owners to get the job done, and we are lucky to have many here in the Western U.S. who are blazing the trail to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grow Responsibly and Sustainably</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to grow your business and at the same time be sustainable? It might seem to be conflicting because the more you grow, the more resources you usem and therefore one could argue that you become less supportive of sustaining life on our planet. Honestly there was a time I believed that &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professional Growth Services</title>
		<link>http://growthnation.com/professional-growth-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been resisting writing this blog post for years but an incident with a potential consulting company we were considering bringing into a customer prompted me to at last get this one out. Sometimes people are just not professional.  That&#8217;s reason #3 we started Growth Nation &#8211; we think business owners have a right to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are US Companies Slow to Export?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bruhnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday we had the honor of hosting 32 entrepreneurs from 32 countries at our offices in SkySong. The event was part of the U.S. Department of State&#8217;s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) administered by the World Affairs Council of Arizona and the Arizona Council for International Visitors. Congratulations WACAZ and AZCIV for securing this [...]]]></description>
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