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	<description>Practical Advice for Small Business Owners</description>
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		<title>Starting a New Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Corona</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 7 (8) Essential Startup Steps
If you wish to start a new business, then you must take the 7 Essential Steps as indicated in the excellent article from Entrepreneur. I added  another step, Create a Business Plan, so now we have 8 steps in total. Well, the article includes business plans in the step [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Business Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Corona</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we need a Business Plan? As everybody knows, without a plan you don’t know where to go. But this does not mean that, in order to be successful, every business has to prepare a 70 pages written plan, with charts, spreadsheet and the like. The answer of this question is that planning is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Success in a Troubled Economy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max Corona</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why for some companies, the economic downturn is business as usual?
This is the title of an article published by the Wall Street Journal on March 23, 2009, which is full of useful information even for us, small business owners or managers. I&#8217;m saying this because the article is obviously directed towards big companies. But I [...]]]></description>
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