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		<title>We&#8217;re Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay &#8211; I have a confession to make. I have been so busy and haven&#8217;t made any BLOG Posts lately and I feel really guilty about it. I owe it to our readers and my partner Ron to be an active contributor to this Blog.
I also thought it important to inform everyone that all our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=586</link>
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		<title>The Headaches of Getting a Web Site Designed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We feel your pain.
Finding skilled, creative, affordable web designers borders on the impossible.
We&#8217;ve been searching for a graphic designer who could create a couple of dozen minor images for our website. The design needed to be consistent with the color scheme of our new logo and banner. Most of the images were identical except for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=580</link>
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		<title>A Harsh Example of Last Year&#8217;s Construction Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most pleasurable parts of being an adviser to contractors is visiting with the field workers.  Not only do they tell it like it is, they are ground zero for the industry. They&#8217;re in it for both a living and a lifestyle.
I had an interesting conversation with a field guy the other day. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=566</link>
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		<title>Do You AFAB?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While describing the type of business he didn&#8217;t want to be,  my client threw out an abbreviation that I thought was golden: AFAB
Anything For A Buck
He understood that his recent pattern of doing anything for a buck (AFAB) was re-enforcing several poor habits among his team &#8211; himself included. It was teaching them to act [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=563</link>
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		<title>Comeback Victories!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to share a comeback story that many of you have heard about. It has only happened 4 times in professional sports. A professional sports team coming back from a 3 game deficit in a 7 games series and win 4 straight.
I am not writing this because I am a Philadelphia Flyers hockey fan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=547</link>
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		<title>Unions: Eating Their Own?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While taking a break from our working weekend  to pick up a part for his motorcycle trailer, Guy and I met an interesting union contractor who shared a crazy story about his local chapter.  This story was so far out of the box that it took Guy and I a couple of minutes to verify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=543</link>
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		<title>Advanced Hiring Techniques</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to go to my grandmothers funeral in Pittsburgh last week. At the airport I had a chance to meet with and made a new friend. Jason Weiss works with Joe Bunta and they have an interesting company that assists in evaluating people for construction positions by utilizing half and full day simulations. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=534</link>
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		<title>Finally Available &#8211; Don&#8217;t Miss This Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve told dozens of people about this amazing presentation Frank Kern delivered a few years ago at Rich Schefren&#8217;s Business Acceleration Program work shop. I originally got access to it through one of Schefren&#8217;s DVDs and later through an online service offered by Frank.
Being a master of technology, Frank made it nearly impossible to copy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=527</link>
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		<title>AIA&#8217;s Numbers Show The Damage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lead article in my local Business Journal was on the recession&#8217;s impact on our architect community. The author&#8217;s sources estimated that 30% of the city&#8217;s architects had been put out of work. AIA National estimates that 40,000 positions have been lost nation wide since July 2008.
My heart goes out to everyone who has lost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=524</link>
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		<title>Results from My 2010 Roadshow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t believe it is February already! Looking back at my calendar I was amazed to see I was on the road for 19 overnights in the month of January. With that being said I have met dozens of fine contractors over the last month. I put on thirteen presentations and when I polled the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contractorsbusinesscoach.com/blog/?p=518</link>
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