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		<title>Can a REAL Entrepreneur Have a 21-Hour Work Week?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Kristafer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an eye-opening, unorthodox article from Fast Company discussing the possibility of instating a 21-hour work week instead of 40 hours. So there’s the REAL entrepreneur&#8217;s 70+ hour work week, Tim Ferris’s four-hour work week (outsource everything and sit at home and eat Twinkies), and now we have a proposed 21-hour work week. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Mr. Nice Guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Kristafer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you offer family and friends discounts? Do you have clients who try to twist your arm, play hardball, and try to get great deals? I’m sure you answered “yes”, because every entrepreneur encounters these situations. You know&#8230; the family friend who you see once a year who thinks that since he eats your family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas 2011 &#8212; Birth of a New Tradition</title>
		<link>http://www.bobholdsworth.com/2011/10/christmas-2011-birth-of-a-new-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Support your local Entrepreneur!! This is a reprint of something a reader sent to me that I think is a GREAT idea that we should all adopt.  I&#8217;m in&#8230;who&#8217;s with me? As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Network Marketing vs. &#8216;The Pyramid Scheme&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bobholdsworth.com/2011/06/network-marketing-vs-the-pyramid-scheme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently joined the ranks of an outstanding direct sales/network marketing company, after some serious due diligence, I might add. The skeptics among you are silently screaming..&#8221;what are you thinking, they&#8217;re all scams!&#8221; I must confess&#8230;I&#8217;ve been in the network marketing industry on and off for more than 15 years and while some companies have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8230;New Direction ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2010 is winding to a close it&#8217;s time to reflect on what was, what could have been and what will be in the year ahead. We&#8217;ve dealt with a sluggish economy, clients who opted not to initiate projects, governmental regulation changes, team members who had family members laid off, perhaps you faced the need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employees, vendors and clients are all tuned in to WII-FM.</title>
		<link>http://www.bobholdsworth.com/2010/11/employees-vendors-and-clients-are-all-tuned-in-to-wii-fm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a business owner, do you find yourself getting frustrated when all around you seem to think differently from you? Angry when the simplest of tasks or requests seem to be an imposition to others?  When the common sense approach (i.e. Yours) turns into an all out brawl when trying to get cooperation? If this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to make an impression, forget email&#8230;pick up a pen.</title>
		<link>http://www.bobholdsworth.com/2010/10/want-to-make-an-impression-forget-email-pick-up-a-pen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobholdsworth.com/?p=1529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you but I have a love -hate relationship with email.  I get about 300 inbound emails a day, about half of them get caught in the SPAM filter and the rest end up on my computer and now my iPhone. I love the fact that I can quickly review emails almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiation 101 &#8211; The basic five rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I’ve learned five really important rules for successful negotiations. 1. Make sure that both sides feel that they’ve accomplished something in the negotiations. 2. Don’t fight for a small point so long you damage your ability to win the large ones. 3. Know going in what your ‘must haves’ are, the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your competition is copying your best ideas while you’re sleeping.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve got a great product or service, you’re going to be copied, challenged, reversed engineered or outright pirated, it’s a fact of business life. When I first entered the medical billing business back in 1989, there were no other companies in my niche (ambulance billing) in my state.  Fast forward 23 years and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m sorry to break it to you, but you don&#8217;t know it all.</title>
		<link>http://www.bobholdsworth.com/2010/07/im-sorry-to-break-it-to-you-but-you-dont-know-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Holdsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever run across one of those people who believes that they know everybody and everything?  They are constantly trying to one-up anything you say.  They routinely speak up at meetings, not to contribute but more to just be heard by the group and feel good about themselves.  If you&#8217;re in leadership&#8230;don&#8217;t be one of those [...]]]></description>
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