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		<title>If entrepreneurs were mountain climbers and their businesses were mountains…</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2013/03/03/if-entrepreneurs-were-mountain-climbers-and-their-businesses-were-mountains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While you do take risks when pursuing business opportunities, at the same time you should also try to minimize the occurrence and/or negative impact of these risks! Moreover, you need to do it deliberately, and in a controlled manner! “Business” is not about avoiding risk, but about dealing with it as a reality, in order to increase your chances of business success and growth!]]></description>
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		<title>5 Strategy Tips For Project Managers</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2012/05/25/5-strategy-tips-for-project-managers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 18:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Risks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IRIS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to deliver, successfully, deliverables in any major business project, you need sound project management methodologies. Sound planning is essential for project success. Software can assist any project manager in achieving milestones and delivering the agreed-upon deliverables in an efficient and effective manner. Read more…]]></description>
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		<title>Five Riskiest Business Models: Why They&#8217;re Failure Prone</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2012/05/07/five-riskiest-business-models-why-theyre-failure-prone/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2012/05/07/five-riskiest-business-models-why-theyre-failure-prone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Risks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antiques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bookstores]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking of starting a new business? You might want to avoid certain types of businesses. Read more...]]></description>
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		<title>A 100 year old history lesson – the wall of action versus the wall of planning</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2012/03/18/a-100-year-old-history-lesson-the-wall-of-action-versus-the-wall-of-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Samples]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Start-up Summary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business failure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 years back two men tried to reach the South Pole – they were trying to make history by reaching the South Pole first. However, the one failed, and died, and the other one succeeded. This small piece of History tells us, as entrepreneurs, a lot… With this story, I almost want to say “I rest my case; the last word on business planning, and the importance of having a business plan in place, has been spoken”.]]></description>
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		<title>Data Leakage Prevention Software as a possible countermeasure to IP theft</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2012/02/25/data-leakage-prevention-software-as-a-possible-countermeasure-to-ip-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2012/02/25/data-leakage-prevention-software-as-a-possible-countermeasure-to-ip-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data Leakage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DLP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We want to stress it that we don’t believe that normal “management” controls (e.g. policies) would be able to prevent and detect IP theft at an acceptable level. If you are serious about IP data protection, a technical control like Data Leakage Prevention software (in addition to policies) should be implemented. ]]></description>
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		<title>How to calculate financial loss due to IP theft</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/10/22/how-to-calculate-financial-loss-due-to-ip-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/10/22/how-to-calculate-financial-loss-due-to-ip-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know how much money you lose when your employees steal or competitors get hold of your intellectual property (IP)? We need to be able to calculate the profit erosion due to data leakage - so that we can know how much to spend on data leakage controls (countermeasures). In this blog post I discuss a methodology that can be applied by any entrepreneur that is concerned about the security of his/her IP.]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of protecting intellectual property (IP)</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/09/25/the-importance-of-protecting-intellectual-property-ip/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/09/25/the-importance-of-protecting-intellectual-property-ip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you experience intellectual property (IP) theft / data leakage? How does it impact your profit? It doesn’t help that you got a nice business plan in place, obtained the necessary venture capital and then slowly bleed to death due to IP leakage and eventually profit erosion. Read more…]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting from the hip is dangerous</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/06/05/shooting-from-the-hip-is-dangerous/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/06/05/shooting-from-the-hip-is-dangerous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not advocating avoiding risk, but about dealing with it as a reality, in order to increase your chances of business success!]]></description>
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		<title>If your business were a dynamite factory</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/04/25/if-your-business-were-a-dynamite-factory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankrupt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/?p=548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost every day I am astonished by the fact that entrepreneurs can create businesses left, right and center WITHOUT giving much thought to the pitfalls involved. The focus is totally on the operational issues – how to create the service/product, deliver the service/product and keep doing it over and over again. Unfortunately, by ignoring the risks involved in a business venture, an entrepreneur allows an invisible enemy to eat his/her profits like a hungry bear… So, my question to every entrepreneur is straightforward: “If your business were a dynamite factory, would you have been dead (bankrupt/out of business) by now?”]]></description>
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		<title>Business risk management in plain English</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/04/05/business-risk-management-in-plain-english/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/04/05/business-risk-management-in-plain-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to business I prefer talking in plain English. Why? Because “business” is nothing more than to profit from your opportunities AND risks. Let us not make it difficult.]]></description>
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		<title>Live up to your company name</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/03/27/live-up-to-your-company-name/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/03/27/live-up-to-your-company-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business logo and name decisions are extremely important as they set the tone for your business. It is important that entrepreneurs allocate enough time to choose the names of their businesses. A name should have meaning. Read more... ]]></description>
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		<title>Business failure a case of cowboys do not cry in front of their horses</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/02/12/business-failure-a-case-of-cowboys-do-not-cry-in-front-of-their-horses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Failure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs tend not to talk about their failures. It is far easier to talk about business success and business opportunities than business failure and business risks. Unfortunately, entrepreneurs pay the price for this way of thinking. In this case, ignorance is NOT bliss. Read more…]]></description>
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		<title>Business planning &#8211; to survive in difficult economic times</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/01/15/business-planning-to-survive-in-difficult-economic-times/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/01/15/business-planning-to-survive-in-difficult-economic-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to survive, we need to get our planning in order &#8211; take planning and our business plans seriously. See video: A Business Plan is Key to Your Entrepreneurial Success]]></description>
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		<title>Employees &#8211; secret profit erosion agents or valuable human resources?</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/01/07/employees-secret-profit-erosion-agents-or-valuable-human-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2011/01/07/employees-secret-profit-erosion-agents-or-valuable-human-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees can help you grow your business but on the other hand they could be a business owner’s worst nightmare… What you should do to “get them on your side”. Read more…]]></description>
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		<title>A business plan to minimize your risk of business failure</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/12/28/a-business-plan-to-minimize-your-risk-of-business-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/12/28/a-business-plan-to-minimize-your-risk-of-business-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business failure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business opportunities and business risks are part and parcel of a business venture. Opportunities and risks are like the two sides of a coin (the business venture). Though entrepreneurs pay attention to their opportunities and how to make money by pursuing their opportunities, they, however, don’t pay enough attention to the pitfalls they are facing while writing or updating their business plans. As a result, this lack of risk awareness turns out to be the most important reason for many small businesses’ downfall.]]></description>
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		<title>New business plan cartoon published!</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/12/04/new-business-plan-cartoon-published/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/12/04/new-business-plan-cartoon-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW! Business Plan Opens Doors Cartoon. "Help I need a business plan NOW!"]]></description>
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		<title>Business made easy with marketing, PR, management, HR and legal tools and software</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/11/14/business-made-easy-with-marketing-pr-management-hr-and-legal-tools-and-software-2/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/11/14/business-made-easy-with-marketing-pr-management-hr-and-legal-tools-and-software-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR Policy Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Contract Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Plan Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We discuss some useful business tools and software for day-to-day business activities. Our tools include marketing plan software, PR software, HR policy software, legal contract software and safety plan software.]]></description>
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		<title>Define your competition in your business plan</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/31/define-your-competition-in-your-business-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/31/define-your-competition-in-your-business-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competition and Buying Patterns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Business Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post we discuss the importance of taking a closer look at your industry and, especially, competition. Analyze your competition and explain why you stand a chance to compete with the current competitors in your market or industry… KNOW YOUR “ENEMY”! ]]></description>
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		<title>Target Market Segment Strategy Plan for your Business</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/23/target-market-segment-strategy-plan-for-your-business/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/23/target-market-segment-strategy-plan-for-your-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Market Analysis Summary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Target Market Segmentation Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post we discuss the importance of explaining in your business plan your strategy behind your market segmentation and your choice of target markets. We also use our own business as an example to illustrate proper market segmentation and the reason behind our strategy. A must read…]]></description>
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		<title>Create your Market Analysis Table</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/16/create-your-market-analysis-table/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/16/create-your-market-analysis-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Analysis Summary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Target Market Segmentation Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[market segments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post we discuss the use of business plan software to create your market analysis and to easily automate the process with the purpose of creating an easy-to-use spreadsheet. The core of your market analysis is the segmentation of your market (i.e. the categorization of your potential customers in different groups). The success of your marketing and business plan, and ipso facto your business, depends on this analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>Market research resources for any business and marketing plan</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/02/market-research-resources-for-any-business-and-marketing-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/10/02/market-research-resources-for-any-business-and-marketing-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Analysis Summary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Segmentation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of any business plan is the marketing plan. In order to write a marketing plan, you need to know about these market research resources. Even better, however, is to buy Business Plan Pro…]]></description>
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		<title>Market analysis is the foundation of any business and marketing plan</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/09/05/market-analysis-is-the-foundation-for-any-business-and-marketing-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Analysis Summary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[market analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of any business plan is the marketing plan. However, before you can start writing a marketing plan, you need to perform a proper market analysis. Especially you need to analyze different possible market segments, their needs, the current trends and much more. Business Plan Pro helps you a lot to systematically perform your analysis and to write your findings in your business plan. This research will be used by you to write your marketing plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Profit erosion you cannot see</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/09/04/profit-erosion-you-cannot-see/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/09/04/profit-erosion-you-cannot-see/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indirect loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indirect profit loss or erosion is considered by many entrepreneurs as not important and as a result they do not pay attention to it in their business plans. However, this remains the area in any business where profit erosion is at its highest – most of the time. The loss of potential customers is but just one example of indirect profit erosion.]]></description>
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		<title>Case study in superb service &#8211; the only one of its kind headache clinic – THE Headache Clinic (1)</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/08/20/case-study-in-superb-service-the-only-one-of-its-kind-headache-clinic-%e2%80%93-the-headache-clinic-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have constantly headache or migraine? There is an only one of its kind Headache Clinic that can help you – WITHOUT taking medicine at all. The objective is to permanently eliminate your headache. It has been found (and PROVEN now) that headaches and migraines are located OUTSIDE the brain – mainly in the veins and muscles off the head. Read more…]]></description>
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		<title>New marketing cartoon available!</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/08/08/new-marketing-cartoon-available/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/08/08/new-marketing-cartoon-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New marketing cartoon just released! Overselling is a serious problem marketers need to be made aware of AND a serious risk to companies in the long run. Read more. ]]></description>
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		<title>Business risk response strategies</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/08/06/business-risk-response-strategies/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/08/06/business-risk-response-strategies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What strategies do you follow to respond to the risks you are facing as entrepreneur? You have several response options you need to consider and include in your business plan and planning.]]></description>
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		<title>New Business Cartoons!</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/07/31/new-business-cartoons/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/07/31/new-business-cartoons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Risk Response Cartoons &#8211; fresh from the oven TODAY! http://www.business-around-the-globe.com/download-online-risk-management-workshop-cartoon-image-picture/view-business-risk-response-cartoons.html]]></description>
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		<title>Business plan &#8211; product and service section</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/07/23/business-plan-product-and-service-section/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/07/23/business-plan-product-and-service-section/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Plan Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product and Service Section]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After you have written the start-up section of your business plan, you need to write about your products and services you will provide to customers. The Product and Service Section is positioned just before the market analysis in your business plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Stand a chance to get a free business cartoon (2)</title>
		<link>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/07/18/stand-a-chance-to-get-a-free-business-cartoon-2/</link>
		<comments>http://business-around-the-globe.com/professional-business-plan-and-planning-basics/2010/07/18/stand-a-chance-to-get-a-free-business-cartoon-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last blog post we informed you that we need ideas for developing new business cartoons. In this post we discuss some guidelines to create cartoons as well as the terms and conditions that apply - should you wish to submit some ideas.]]></description>
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		<title>Stand a chance to get a free business cartoon (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michiel Jonker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need a business cartoon but could not find it yet? Now is your chance to “win” a cartoon of your choice. Submit your idea for a cartoon and we will evaluate the idea for possible inclusion in our “to-do-development-database”. If you are successful, you will receive the cartoon for free.]]></description>
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