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	<description>Professional Services Leadership, Marketing &#38; Rainmaking</description>
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		<title>Social Media Tactics Build Your Brand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz and Michelle Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until a little while ago, social media was an experiment. Will it work? Will it make a difference? In 1995, so was that Worldwide Interweb thing. Not so much anymore. Same goes for social media. We&#8217;re currently making the transition from if to why and how. According to a recent study by Business.com, webinars and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Decisions Makers Search Online Or Not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz and Michelle Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re always trying to get in front of the decision maker, many of whom are C-level executives. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been told that C-level executives don’t search online, don’t spend time in social media, and don’t do their own product, service, or company research on the web. Perhaps they’ll make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Driving Forces Behind B2B Purchases</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz and Michelle Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to business-to-business purchases, few buyers are willing to take chances on new providers, according to a recent survey of 3,600 B2B buyers conducted by Enquiro. In fact, Enquiro&#8217;s study found that 78% of purchases made during one quarter in 2009 were repeat purchases or repeat purchases that were modified. Of that, 50% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Helps Fastest-Growing U.S. Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz and Mary Flaherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the fastest-growing private U.S. companies that are using social media, the results are in—social media works. Not only are these companies listed on the Inc. 500 using social media as a key part of their marketing strategy, but it&#8217;s working for them. The overwhelming response from those using social media, when asked whether it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Webinar: Five Drivers of Revenue Growth for Professional Services</title>
		<link>http://www.servicesmarketingblog.com/five-drivers-of-revenue-growth-for-professional-services-free-webinar</link>
		<comments>http://www.servicesmarketingblog.com/five-drivers-of-revenue-growth-for-professional-services-free-webinar#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional services leaders face all types of challenges on their way to growing revenue. Marketing, business development, strategy development, you name it. There’s no cookie-cutter growth strategy. One size certainly does not fit all. But on the road to strategy development and revenue growth, there are areas that all B2B professional services firms should focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Drives the Demand &#8211; A Critical Concept in Services Marketing Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz and John Doerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no shortage of advice about which strategies work or don’t work for services marketing. Yet they seem to conflict with each other regularly. So what’s the scoop? Which ones work? It’s less a question of which ones work than it is which ones will work for you given the dynamics of what you sell. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Stop Leading in a Downturn</title>
		<link>http://www.servicesmarketingblog.com/how-to-stop-leading-in-a-downturn</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batten down the hatches. Stick to your knitting. Trim the fat; trim some more. With no end in sight for the recession, you must embrace new ways of leading if you want to compete in a downturn… STOP! You and your team have heard the mind-numbing drumbeat of endless how-tos “in a downturn” for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Differentiation by Cookie &#8211; The Power of the Brand Symbol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz and Bob Croston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cookie, Oh cookie, How you taunt me, With your fiendish taste, Your devilish charms - Anonymous I can eat a whole pan of fresh cookies if I have enough milk to smooth their passage, and if the wife isn&#8217;t home to witness the carnage. I&#8217;m not proud. Not ashamed either. Just another helpless victim of the all-mighty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Thought Leadership Necessary?</title>
		<link>http://www.servicesmarketingblog.com/is-thought-leadership-necessary</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.servicesmarketingblog.com/?p=1594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They told me I had to become a thought leader or I&#8217;d never achieve great success as a professional.&#8221; This is what a leader at a professional services firm told me recently that a marketing consultant told him. He didn&#8217;t say this to me matter-of-factly either. He said it with a mix of fear, skepticism, sadness, and hope. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Away Services to Build Client Loyalty?</title>
		<link>http://www.servicesmarketingblog.com/giving-away-services-to-build-client-loyalty</link>
		<comments>http://www.servicesmarketingblog.com/giving-away-services-to-build-client-loyalty#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schultz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reporter for a major business publication asked me whether businesses that lower prices and give away free services for buyers that are struggling to &#8220;give them a break&#8221; is a good strategy for keeping them loyal when the economy turns and their financial fortunes improve. Here&#8217;s what I told him&#8230; People will buy from companies [...]]]></description>
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