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		<title>What It Takes to Be a Champion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 23rd, 2010 is a date that will go down in Wimbledon history. This is the date that two guys whom you&#8217;ve probably never heard of—Nicolas Mahut and John Isner—battled for ten straight hours in a match that had to be completed the following day because, well, because it got dark! Ten straight hours! Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crucial Thing Your Customers Can&#8217;t Tell You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading an online article yesterday about the iPad (because, as we all know, there haven&#8217;t been enough articles about the iPad). The article itself wasn&#8217;t earth-shattering—something about how the iPad is outselling Mac computers—but I thought one of the comments was hugely insightful. The thread was about why Apple products, particularly the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Lying About &#8220;Going to Work&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 19:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a guy at my gym whom I call Burl. Not because he&#8217;s burly, like you&#8217;d expect a gym regular to be, but because he looks like Burl Ives. (For you younger readers, Burl Ives was a rotund, congenial-looking man, whom you may know as the voice of Frosty the Snowman. He was not known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Good is Your &#8220;Satellite&#8221; Team?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know their names: John, Paul, George, and Ringo. (If there are any children reading this who don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, these are the names of the Beatles. The Beatles were a pretty famous musical group in the 60s. The 60s was the coolest decade ever, and you missed it. So there.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Business Have a &#8220;Hook&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 22:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got a nice little business with all the things that a nice little business requires: a great product or service, a company web site, maybe even an expensive sales and marketing campaign. The only problem is, you&#8217;re not getting the customers. You&#8217;ve built it, but they&#8217;re not coming. What&#8217;s the problem? You have no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Lurching Through Your Business!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a professional speaker, I get to visit with many different businesses in a cross-section of industries. I&#8217;m noticing some trends that I find encouraging—trends that I&#8217;ve confirmed with several of my speaker colleagues. Now, I&#8217;m not going to sit here and try to convince you that we&#8217;re completely out of the economic doldrums. You&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Your Customers Feel Like They Belong?</title>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/do-your-customers-feel-like-they-belong</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to hear a Beatles tribute band last night. That, in itself is not remarkable. I see a lot of Beatles tribute bands. But here&#8217;s what struck me. I got to the venue a half hour early, and there was already a line. But this wasn&#8217;t a line waiting to get in; this was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Don&#8217;t Need to Solve Every Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much time are you wasting trying to solve problems that could simply be eliminated? I once spent nearly an entire summer trying to solve a problem. But when I finally came around to eliminating the problem instead, the &#8220;solution&#8221; seemed so simple! Here&#8217;s what happened. I was the producer of a sketch comedy TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Your Customers Finding You Dispensable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got off the phone with a colleague who was complaining (whining, really) about the fact that nobody seemed to have any money to hire him. It&#8217;s the economy, of course. A few years ago, people had money, and he was being hired. Now, it&#8217;s dried up. Damn this economy! To a certain extent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harley-Davidson, the Beatles, and Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this morning I delivered the keynote address to a meeting of 1,000 Harley-Davidson dealers. It was an amazing experience. Perhaps the most amazing part was that 1,000 Harley people, who had packed the various hotel bars the previous night, actually showed up to hear an 8am keynote! As part of my research, I had [...]]]></description>
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