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		<title>Aspiring Managers: Learn to Behave Like an Adult</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Tobak It’s relatively easy to be a successful child. All you’ve got to do is learn how to be cute, get attention, and cry when you’re hurt or hungry. Learning how to be a teenager is much harder; I’m not sure anybody’s good at it. I certainly wasn’t. As for becoming an adult, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Business Have a Foundation? &#8211; Joe Costantino</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody would ever think of building or worse yet, living in a structure that didn&#8217;t have a solid foundation to support the structure.  Try to imagine it . . .  . a house without a foundation would eventually just topple over and crumble to pieces.  So why do so many business owners operate their businesses with no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is and how to derive a Value Proposition.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do better than anyone does? What does your company offer that competitors can’t match? Why would customers buy one company’s product or service as opposed to another’s? What is your competitive differentiation? These are all definitions of a critical business concept called “value proposition.” What’s the litmus test for a valid value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to do business in dangerous places</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorism, kidnapping, robbery, theft. In some lucrative emerging markets, these hazards come with the territory. The key to staying out of harm’s way: Be prepared. The U.S. and the U.K. may be mired in what was once thought of as a Third World style of financial crisis, but what was once considered the Third World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Efficient Market&#8217; Thinking Is Inefficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the joke about two economists walking down the street and seeing a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk. The first economist says, “Look at that $20 bill.” The second says, “That can’t really be a $20 bill lying there, because if it were, someone would have picked it up already.” So they walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slump good for franchising?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg &#8211; The franchise sector may be an unlikely beneficiary of the economic downturn, says one expert. This is the view of Bendeta Gordon, a director of franchise consultant Franchize Directions. Gordon was speaking to Fin24.com after the presentation of the Standard Bank Franchise Factor Survey in Johannesburg on Thursday. According to the 2008 survey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to become the next Millionaire Franchisee &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.sbnetwork.co.za/how-to-become-the-next-millionaire-franchisee-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Elgin, Entrpreneur Magazine Sept 2008 A Question of Time vs Money The advantage of the owner-operator model is that it&#8217;s usually easier for you to exert greater personal control over the operation of the business while it&#8217;s growing, and it almost always requires significantly less capital to grow the business big, though the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to become the next Millionaire Franchisee &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.sbnetwork.co.za/how-to-become-the-next-millionaire-franchisee-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Elgin, Entrpreneur Magazine Sept 2008 You want a franchise business, but not just any old thing &#8211; you want something big time. We&#8217;re talking about a multimillion-rand enterprise. So how do you go about accomplishing that goal? The easiest wat to do this is to simply start at the level. Buy yourself a [...]]]></description>
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