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		<title>In it to win it: Don&#8217;t let generic retailers and pricing models drag you off your designer strategy</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2010/05/in-it-to-win-it-dont-let-generic-retailers-and-pricing-models-drag-you-off-your-designer-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All business owners must differentiate or compete on price, but the stakes are much higher for designer businesses. Differentiation on design is the primary argument for maintaining higher prices, and failure to do so undermines the entire business premise. Do you know which questions to ask when establishing your pricing strategy?]]></description>
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		<title>The game you should play is the one you can win</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a company fails to establish compelling reasons to buy its products, it is reduced to competing on price. This is market reactivity as a form of strategy, and it’s an excellent formula for going out of business. Don't set your business up to fail. Follow sound strategic principles to differentiate your business and remove yourself from the price game. ]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know it when you see it?</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2010/01/do-you-know-it-when-you-see-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the companies that use the Internet for business intelligence, those who have a talent for finding the meaning and patterns behind the noise will benefit the most.]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a better question, get a better answer</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/09/ask-a-better-question-get-a-better-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hill-management.com/wordpress/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[or Distilling customer relationship publishing into one simple blog post     I read dozens of business books and articles every month, and I look for common threads between them. Not surprisingly, I find more common thought than innovative or divergent thought in business theory. In general that’s good, because it means that ideas are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s reality got to do with it?</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/07/whats-reality-got-to-do-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us spend our lives growing into an ability to face reality, only to find out that reality isn't all its cracked up to be. After all, it can't take you anywhere else but here, can it?]]></description>
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		<title>Hold the crystal goblet, give me the Boone’s Farm</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/06/hold-the-crystal-goblet-give-me-the-boone%e2%80%99s-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[McLuhan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are getting all wrapped up in social media, thinking social media is the point. Social media is just a delivery device – a delivery device that any junior high school student can master. Marketing is the point, and content is the requirement.]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty Pleasures</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/06/guilty-pleasures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hill-management.com/wordpress/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest danger to a business owner is lack of originality – generally demonstrated by virtue of getting trapped in his or her industry’s trends. Industry trend following simply turns your business into a commodity business. Avoid the trap, and maintain your margins.]]></description>
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		<title>Tough love for EDTDs (executives with delayed technology development)</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/05/tough-love-for-edtds-executives-with-delayed-technology-development/</link>
		<comments>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/05/tough-love-for-edtds-executives-with-delayed-technology-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[systems management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Executives who fail to master a broad understanding of technology applications risk holding their organizations hostage to their lack of knowledge.]]></description>
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		<title>0-zone</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/05/0-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Websites, social media, blogging, and other forms of interactive marketing have greatly enhanced the marketing potential of most organizations. But beware the temptation to believe that these are all you need, or that any of them are actually "free!"]]></description>
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		<title>Suicidal bunnies and other tragic reactions</title>
		<link>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/04/suicidal-bunnies-and-other-tragic-reactions/</link>
		<comments>http://hill-management.com/wordpress/2009/04/suicidal-bunnies-and-other-tragic-reactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fight or flight syndrome leaves out an important - and destructive - third reaction. Freeze. Are you doing the business equivalent of the suicidal bunny routine?]]></description>
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