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		<title>08.09.10 Financial Fitness</title>
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“People first, then money, then things.”
&#8211; Suze Orman, personal finance expert and author (1951 - ) 
Nick Katko, CPA, and his wife Deanna, CPA, own Strategic Financial Solutions. For the last 10 years they have worked with individuals and businesses on financial matters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>07.12.10 E-mail Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Computer Techniques</category>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.&#8221;
—Ted Nelson, American IT pioneer (1937 - )
Dennis Hutchinson is vice president of the Lexington, Ky., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>06.14.10 Lessons Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Communication Skills</category>
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&#8220;Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.&#8221;
&#8211; John Wooden, teacher, coach, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1910-2010)
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		<title>05.10.10 Reinventing Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Networking</category>
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Quote of the Month:
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
—  Plato, Greek philosopher (429-347 (ish) BCE)
Frank Goad has had an interesting career path, starting out with designing lighting and scenery in college, then working for a TV station and ad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>04.12.10 10 Tips for Business Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
“I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”
—  Maya Angelou, American poet (1928- )
Vince Edwards is the owner of Equity Consulting Inc., which has a motto of “building business and personal equity.” He helps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>03.08.10 Changing Business Models</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=85</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Misc.</category>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;Life isn&#8217;t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.&#8221;
— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)
How and when do you change what you’re doing to keep up with the times . . . or do you? Have you made intentional changes for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02.08.10 Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Taxes</category>
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Quote of the Month:
“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
— Herbert Hoover, 31st American President (1874-1964) 
Natalie Barrett, CPA, is passionate about accounting. “Accounting chose me,” she said of her career. She did her first tax return at age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>01.11.10 Business Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
A weak [person] has doubts before a decision, a strong [one] has them afterwards.
— Karl Kraus, Austrian writer (1874-1936)
John Sipple owns Ignite Coaching and Business Consulting. Before becoming a business coach he spent 20 years in corporate work. He serves on the ethics committee of the  International Coach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12.14.09 Nonprofits and Archiving Materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Legal</category>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;Research is what I&#8217;m doing when I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;
—Wernher von Braun, German rocket physicist (1912-1977)
Adrienne Grizzell, MPA, CAE, has a background in marketing and since 1999 has been in association management. She owns Management, Inc. She is very familiar with nonprofit organizations and suggests two sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.09.09 Internet Use Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Computer Techniques</category>
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Quote of the Month:
“If you don&#8217;t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
—B.C. Forbes, Scottish financial journalist (1880-1954)
Marcus Simpson is co-owner of TCG America, a company providing IT services and consulting for small and medium businesses. We all depend on the Internet daily, so companies with employees need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10.12.09 Cash Flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;Necessity never made a good bargain.&#8221;
—Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (1706-1790) 
Larry Myers is an attorney and business coach. As an attorney he deals with the Three Cs: cash flow, conflicts, compliance. He created a cash flow spreadsheet for us.
Input your monthly expenses and the payments you are expecting, inserting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>09.14.09 Roundtable Discussion on Making Decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=79</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General Business</category>
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		<title>08.10.09 Web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Computer Techniques</category>
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Quote of the Month:
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
—Eckhart Tolle, German author (1948 - )
Bill Powell and his wife Jackie own Serif Group, an advertising and graphic design agency. Bill also co-founded Inbox Orange with Lisa Wester, a permission-based e-mail marketing service, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>07.13.09  Marketing Roundtable</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=77</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<title>05.11.09 Desktop Organizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Balancing Skills</category>
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		<title>04.13.09 Collections</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Collections</category>
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Quote of the Month:
“Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (1803–1882)
Jerred Roth is a collections attorney and has been with
 Fowler Measle &#038; Bell about four years. The firm handles between 2,500 and 3,500 collections accounts at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>03.09.09 Internet Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=74</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Computer Techniques</category>
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		<title>02.09.09 Public Relations</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=72</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Communication Skills</category>
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		<title>01.12.09 Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=71</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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“I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.”
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American First Lady, editor (1929-1994)
** Please take our ISBO survey. There are 7 questions. Your chance to let loose with opinions (or just pick a multiple choice). It will be available through 01.31.09. Thanks!
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		<title>ISBO history</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>About Us</category>
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		<title>12.08.08 Emotional Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;To find yourself, think for yourself.&#8221;
—Socrates, Greek philosopher (469 B.C.-399 B.C.)
Mike Thompson, owner of People Smart LLC, (and a drummer with the Torques and contributing writer to Business Lexington) is a coach and facilitator. He talked about our learning styles as we get focused on a new year.
&#8220;Human development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.10.08 Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=69</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Money Management</category>
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&#8220;If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.&#8221;
—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)
Ralph Weickel, owner of Performance Management, is an executive coach who works with companies to strengthen their financial performance and employee development. Before becoming a small-business owner in 1998 he climbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10.13.08 Electronic Discovery</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=68</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.&#8221;
— John F. Kennedy, 35th American President (1917-1963)
Barry Miller is an attorney with
Fowler Measle &#038; Bell. He chairs the firm&#8217;s technology committee and heads the Electronic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>09.08.08  Achieving Goals</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=67</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.&#8221;
—Sir Francis Bacon, English lawyer/writer/philosopher (1561-1626)
Ryan Lisk, a partner (with his dad) at Lisk Associates, calls on medium to large businesses to transform intangible assets into tangible results. His areas of expertise are talent management and selection, communication skills, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08.11.08  Technology &#038; Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.&#8221;
—Aristotle Onassis, Turkish shipping magnate (1906-1975)
Bill Dotson has a rare combination of skills. He&#8217;s a people-person who knows about business and technology. A native of Carlisle, Ky., Bill majored in Asian studies and philosophies at UK. Today he&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>07.14.08 Entrepreneurs and Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=64</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.&#8221;
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd American President (1882-1945)
Shawn Rogers is the assistant director of the Kentucky Small Business Development Center. She has degrees in accounting and management from the University of Kentucky and worked at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>06.09.08 Networking Roundtable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;It isn&#8217;t what they say about you; it&#8217;s what they whisper.&#8221;
&#8211; Errol Flynn, Australian film actor (1909-1950)
Networking is all about meeting and greeting: getting to know other people and what they do, and letting them know you and what you do. As my mama says, &#8220;It&#8217;s not who you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>05.12.08 Compassionate Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 21:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Communication Skills</category>
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&#8220;Tell me and I&#8217;ll forget. Show me and I&#8217;ll remember. Involve me and I&#8217;ll understand.&#8221;
&#8211; Confucius, Chinese philosopher (551-479 B.C.)
Mary Claire O&#8217;Neal is a communication consultant and coach, author and public speaker, book publisher and marketing consultant. With a background in education (psychology and English) and theater, she knows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>04.14.08 E-mail Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.&#8221;
— Xenocrates, Greek philosopher (396-314 B.C.) 
Lisa Wester and Bill Powell of Inbox Orange talked to us about permission-based e-mail marketing. Bill and his wife Jackie own Serif Group, an ad agency in Lexington. Lisa owns Fusion Marketing. They met on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>03.10.08 IT Self-Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.&#8221;
— Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885-1962) 
Frank Goad is the co-owner of Goad &#038; Associates Learning Systems, an e-learning and instructional video provider. Frank is a long-standing member of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02.11.08 Community Ventures Corporation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Funding</category>
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&#8220;Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.&#8221;
&#8211; Rene Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (1596-1650)
Emmanuel Smith, business development specialist at Community Ventures Corporation, told us about CVC, a non-profit organization founded in 1982 in Lexington, with offices in Campbellsville, Henderson, and Louisville, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>01.14.08 Strategic Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.&#8221;
— Scott Adams, &#8220;Dilbert&#8221; cartoonist (1957-)
Guy Huguelet, owner of Adecco of Central Kentucky, chairs the board of directors of Commerce Lexington (chamber). He went through the process of strategic planning with the chamber three years ago—and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12.10.07 Electronic File Formats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call &#8216;failure&#8217; is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
— Mary Pickford, American actor, co-founder of United Artists (1892-1979) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.12.07 Insurance Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.&#8221;
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd American President (1882-1945)
Kristin Clark is an agency manager with Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance and has been with the company for 14 years. She called insurance &#8220;risk management for business.&#8221;
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		<title>10.08.07 Intellectual Property</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.&#8221;
—Emile Zola, French novelist (1840-1902)
Denise McClelland is an attorney with Frost Brown Todd, the largest firm between Atlanta and Chicago. She concentrates in the area of commercial litigation and deals with first amendment, media, and advertising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>09.10.07 Taxes for Fiscal 2007 and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it&#8217;s just sort of a tired feeling.&#8221;
—Paula Poundstone, American standup comic and author (1959-)
Mark Wadlington, owner of Wadlington &#038; Associates PLLC, is a certified public accountant. His background includes eight years as a full-time evangelist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08.13.07 Getting out of Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Money Management</category>
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&#8220;Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.&#8221;
—Charles Dickens, English author (1812-1870), from &#8220;David Copperfield&#8221; 
Ralph Hoggard, financial consultant for A. G. Edwards, has a passion for sharing money management principles. His own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>07.09.07 Managing an Unbalanced Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Where flowers bloom so does hope.&#8221;
—Claudia &#8220;Lady Bird&#8221; Johnson, American First Lady 1963-1969 (1912-2007)
Lewis Kelly, Ph.D., wears two hats. His day job is associate director for administration at the  Markey Cancer Center. By nights, weekends, holidays and vacations he is president of his own company, ERTIAUnlimited. Ertia is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>06.11.07 The Dharma of Self-employment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you&#8217;d be more productive.&#8221;
—Dr. Joyce Brothers, American psychologist (1928-)
Donna Ison, a museum theater  playwright and novelist and actress, spoke to us about the dharma of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>05.14.07 Project Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.&#8221;
— Henry Ford, American entrepreneur (1863-1947)
Bud Ratliff is owner of The Solarity Group, a company that provides project management training and coaching and offers classes in project management (next one starts June 25). Bud is a Project Management Professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>04.09.07 Identity Fraud Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Identity Protection</category>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can&#8217;t it get us out?&#8221;
— Will Rogers, American cowboy and author (1879-1935)
Dustyn Bowman, a sales representative with Liberty Mutual, and her boss, Byron Roberts, spoke to us about identity fraud, the fastest-growing crime in America. It affects around 900,000 people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>03.12.07 Purchasing IT Goods &#038; Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one&#8217;s work is terribly important.&#8221;
— Bertrand Russell, British philosopher (1872-1970)
Sean Damron, owner of  Damron Tech, spoke to us about how to hire computer service professionals and buy computer products. In a previous lifetime he worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02.12.07 Collecting Bad Debts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.&#8221;
—Albert Einstein, German physicist (1879-1955)
David Knights is an attorney practicing collection law and commercial litigation at Fowler, Measle &#038; Bell, where he heads the creditors rights practice area. 
“If you’re in business, you will have unpaid debts,” he said. “For whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>01.08.07 Social Media &#038; Blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.&#8221;
— Henry Van Dyke, American writer (1852-1933)
Nick Rice, owner of Nick Rice Marketing, asked us how we get our information these days. &#8220;There&#8217;s a huge transition away from traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12.11.06 Mailing Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.&#8221;
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (1900-1944) 
Note: Since this meeting in December &#8216;06 the post office has changed its rates and will do so each May. Check www.usps.com for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.13.06 Hiring an Attorney</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd American President (1882-1945)
Andy Friedman has been with Friedman, Rosenwasser &#038; Goldbaum since the mid-1980s. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, he moved to the Lexington office nine years ago. His practice is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10.09.06 Career Counseling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified.”
— Samuel Johnson, English writer (1709-1784)
Caroline Francis, Alumni Career Development at the University of Kentucky’s James W. Stuckert Career Center, told us about two services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>09.11.06 An Organized Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Leap and the net will appear.&#8221;
— Zen saying
Rebecca Vonderheide, owner of Right at Your Fingertips, is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). Yes, she&#8217;s a self-proclaimed &#8220;neatnik,&#8221; but not a perfectionist. She definitely sees a difference between the two. &#8220;If everything had to be perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08.14.06 Principles of Selling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Never mistake motion for action.&#8221;
— Ernest Hemingway, American author (1899-1961) 
Kent Howell, president and owner of KOSA Consulting Group, spoke to us about some old and new principles of selling (not marketing, but selling.) Kent has sold insurance, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and has had national and global accounts. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>07.10.06 Be the Owner of Your Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.&#8221;
— James Thomson, Scottish poet (1700–1748)
Shirley Chambliss, a wellness consultant with Nikken, spoke about health and wellness. Although she has a master&#8217;s of fine arts degree, she&#8217;s passionate about wellness and has studied the topic for years. 
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		<title>06.12.06 Data Backup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.&#8221;
— Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853-1890)
George Sullivan, owner of Fix My PC Inc., built his first computer program in the 1970s when he was in junior high. He studied computer languages and programming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>05.08.06 Behavioral Assessment as a Leadership Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.isbo.biz/BizTips/?p=28</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 19:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.&#8221;
— William Hale White, English author (1831-1913)
Executive coach Greg Gillum, owner of humanfusion, has a doctorate in clinical pharmacology from the University of Kentucky. He taught at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>04.10.06 Entrepreneurial Heritage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote of the Month:
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t like the answer, ask a different question.&#8221;
(from the 04.07.06 episode of the CBS show &#8220;NUMB3RS&#8221;)
Phil McConathy, owner of McConathy Woodworks, spoke about how our heritage may have led us to where we are today—something most of us probably haven&#8217;t thought of. &#8220;Everyone here has taken a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>03.13.06 Strategic Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Laura Koppes owner of LK Associates, talked to us about strategic leadership. Why is it important to look at leadership, especially for a one-person operation or small business? Leadership empowers others. &#8220;Without leadership, a business falters,&#8221; said Laura. This includes the smallest of shops. There are different kinds of leadership, and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02.13.06 Marketing Via Memes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Bill Kimbrell, owner of Bill Kimbrell Associates Inc. and a Blue Ocean Strategist, talked to us about memes. What&#8217;s a meme? The word was coined by a British geneticist in the 1970s, who discovered the &#8220;mind mechanism for transmitting cultural information.&#8221; This new field of study was called memetics. 
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		<title>01.10.06 Calendar Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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We had a roundtable discussion about the various ways to keep up with clients, prospects, appointments, to-do lists. Paper or electronic? Julie Morgenstern, author of Organizing From the Inside Out, suggests using an electronic organizer if you like to think while you type and use the search function; paper calendars if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12.13.05 Wi-Fi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Mark Sievers, business broker and consultant, shared his story of being an investor with a startup company—operating as a virtual business—called Lexington WiFi, Inc. Wi-Fi (or &#8220;wife,&#8221; if you let spell check have its way) stands for wireless fidelity. It&#8217;s a wireless computer network, transmitting Internet connections through radio waves; no phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.08.05 Better Business Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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John Meyers, attorney and owner of a business consultant practice called Real Goals, shared with us his Better Business Plan, a management approach he has developed after being around business owners all his life and through his accounting degree in college, then law school and law firms. When he worked at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10.11.05 Sales Techniques</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Larry Myers, owner of Startup/Restart, Inc., had a law practice before launching his executive coaching business four years ago. When he hung out his lawyerly shingle in 1984, he had the carpet and phone installed the next day, and on the third day his first client stiffed him for $300. &#8220;You learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>09.13.05 It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life With Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Dan Dixon, a representative with Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, spoke to us about insurance. &#8220;It&#8217;s an important part of your personal and business planning,&#8221; he said. Some people think insurance premiums are an unnecessary expense (it&#8217;s not a tangible product, after all), but Dan gave us a lot to think about, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08.09.05 Your Best Business Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Carla Van Hoose wears several hats (don&#8217;t most independent professionals?). She has been in private practice since 1987 with Van Hoose and Associates, providing counseling and psychotherapy services. She also sings and plays guitar in venues around Central Kentucky and is working on a new CD of songs. And she&#8217;s a life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>07.11.05 Summer Shindig</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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It was time for a social gathering, this one at Gattitown. Two of us were child-free but still ate pizza and cinnamon rolls as if we were six years old. We had a nice evening of camaraderie.
In between trips to the salad and pizza bars, and several kids running off a sugar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>06.14.05 Launch to Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Steve Amsler, owner of SDK Apparel &#038; Promotional Products, told some fascinating stories from his days as an aerospace engineer with NASA. He worked at the Kennedy Space Center from 1964 to &#8216;72, during its heyday of exploration to the moon. His daughter came home from college recently, freaking over her history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>05.10.05 Internet Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2005 20:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Don Johnson, owner of Don Johnson Design, has been in Web development since 1998. His passion is Internet marketing, and his company markets other companies online. &#8220;I get a kick out of getting people seen on the Internet,&#8221; he said.
His handout asked &#8220;Is the world flat?&#8221; Don says it&#8217;s becoming this way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>04.12.05 Financial Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Cedric Jenkins is in corporate banking with National City Bank and previously owned his own company, Triple Crown Mortgage. He said of choosing a career in the financial industry, &#8220;Since I don&#8217;t have any money, I might as well be around it.&#8221; Hah.
Financial health isn&#8217;t determined by how much money we have, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>03.08.05 Client Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Ralph Weickel, owner of Performance Management, is an executive coach and conducts workshops on sales, leadership, and customer service. &#8220;I&#8217;m a process nut,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I like how things work.&#8221; 
After spending 20 years in the financial services industry, he started his own company in 1998. When he went out on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02.08.05 Internet Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Wendy Katz, owner of Factscope, profiles industry sectors for companies that need intelligence. She also offers coaching to small businesses and independent professionals who need to know how to search for themselves. Today she shared some tips and techniques with ISBO for searching the Internet for information.
There are any number of search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>01.11.05 CES</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Charlotte Caldwell, owner of WideEyed.com and co-founder of ISBO.biz, told us about her experience at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. First off, she said, &#8220;Be careful what you accept when you take something free.&#8221; Charlotte worked herself silly as one of six correspondents selected by CNET to cover the event. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.09.04 Prudent Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.&#8221;
— Louisa May Alcott, American author (1832-1888)
Grover Mollineaux, investment representative with Edward Jones, has a &#8220;10 Rules of the Road for Prudent Investing.&#8221; He lamented the fact that everyone learns a trade but no one is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10.12.04 Client Gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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“Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.”
— Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (1854-1900)
Melia Hord is an independent distributor with Premier Designs Jewelry. Formerly the owner of her own relationship marketing company, Elegantly Handled, she knows all about business gift-giving. The ‘why’ is more important than the ‘what.’ Melia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>09.14.04 Marketing on a Shoestring Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote for the month:
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd American President (1882-1945)  
Gretchen Nalley, owner of Nalley &#038; Associates, talked to us about marketing our independent businesses using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08.10.04 Getting Clients to Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.&#8221;
— Paul Harvey, broadcaster (1918-)   
[Kathie&#8217;s note: Before I tell you what all attorney Brad said, here&#8217;s a caveat for reading this information. We all need to keep in mind that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>06.08.04 The 80/20 Principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.&#8221;
— Ronald Reagan, 40th American President (1911-2004)
Ginny Grulke, executive director of the Kentucky Horse Council, spoke to us about the 80/20 Rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. In 1906, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>05.11.04 Business Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2004 19:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Leadership</category>
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&#8220;If you can&#8217;t pay for a thing, don&#8217;t buy it. If you can&#8217;t get paid for it, don&#8217;t sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>04.13.04 Public Speaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Communication Skills</category>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.&#8221;
— Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (1854-1900)
Susan Coates, owner and president of The Speaker Studio, formerly known as Bluegrass Speakers Bureau, is a two-time Toastmaster of the Year winner. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02.10.04 Staying Healthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Health</category>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;Happiness is good health and a bad memory.&#8221; 
— Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actor, 3-time Academy Award winner (1917-1982) 
Sybil Michael works with her mother in the family-owned business of Roberts Health Foods in Lexington, KY.
Animal, vegetable, or mineral? Most of us consume one or two on any given day. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>01.13.04 Getting Organized</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Organizing Skills</category>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;Don&#8217;t agonize. Organize.&#8221;
— Florynce Kennedy, activist and lawyer (1916-2000)
Mim King is the owner of Mim King Works. A recent transplant from San Francisco, she is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (she loves the smell of NAPO in the morning) and is a member of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.11.03 Marketing Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Marketing</category>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.&#8221;
— Christopher Morley, American writer (1890-1957) 
Beverly Adkins is the marketing director for Lynn Imaging. A graduate of UK with a B.A. in journalism, she has worked in radio and television, and owned a marketing consultant company. 
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10.14.03 Stress and Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Balancing Skills</category>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.&#8221;
— Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Linda Pugh-Nightenhelser was a psychology major in college and has experience as a stress-management trainer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>09.09.03 True Confessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General Business</category>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;If I had my life to live again. I&#8217;d make the same mistakes, only sooner.&#8221;
— Tallulah Bankhead, American actor (1902-1968)
Oh, the things we learn the hard way. Some of them are inevitable (getting a feel for your own way of doing business), some are totally unexpected (Mother Nature), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08.12.03 Identity Theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Identity Protection</category>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.&#8221;
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, aviator &#038; author (1906-2001)
Amy Smith is a certified financial planner and a partner with Dermann &#038; Smith Personal Wealth Management. The fastest-growing crime in America is identity theft. If the bad guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>06.10.03 SBDC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.&#8221;
— Publilius Syrus, Roman writer (circa 85-43 B.C.)
Dee Dee Harbut is director of special programs for the Kentucky Small Business Development Center. The SBDC is a non-profit organization funded by the Small Business Administration (SBA), the University of Kentucky, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>05.13.03 Customer/Client Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2003 19:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Quote for the month:
&#8220;More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.&#8221;
— Jim Cathcart, American business author (1946-) 
Dottie Hatton, owner of ProjexPlus+ defines customer service as the Golden Rule of business: treating people (clients, customers) the way you want to be treated. When she was a manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>03.11.03 How&#8217;s Your Driving?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.&#8221;
— Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860) 
Tom Fee, senior instructor at Boone Driver School, Inc., was our guest speaker. A couple of us saw the goggles he took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.12.02 Lexington Public Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.&#8221;
— Robert Frost, American poet (1874 - 1963) 
[Kathie&#8217;s note: I&#8217;m going to do a serious spell-check to make sure every time I type &#8220;public&#8221; there&#8217;s actually an &#8220;L&#8221; in it.]
Doug Tattershall is the library&#8217;s media relations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08.13.02 Building Trust With Clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.&#8221;
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Mary Claire O&#8217;Neal is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and the Kentucky Speakers Association and is a communications expert. She spoke to us today about building bridges with clients so [...]]]></description>
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