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		<title>Customer Service:  Reducing Damaged Deliveries</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2012/01/03/customer-service-reducing-damaged-deliveries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this article and thought I&#8217;d share it with you. As you are building your business, getting the purchased product to your customers is a large part of your customer service practices and it doesn&#8217;t matter if you get your customers&#8217; shipments delivered on time if they arrive at the dock unusable. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst PR Disaster of All Time:  Who is Doing Your Company&#8217;s Marketing and Customer Service?</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/12/28/worst-pr-disaster-of-all-time-who-is-doing-your-companys-marketing-and-customer-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my many years of starting and building companies, I have learned the importance of building a solid team with people who share your vision and values. In the current internet environment, one of the critical pieces of your management puzzle is marketing and customer service. If you do this well, the customers will spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs:  7 Rules of Success</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/10/21/steve-jobs-7-rules-of-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a big fan of Steve Jobs. I think his entrepreneurial drive and focus makes for great study.  Jobs was a rebel and a misfit and he imparted a sense of purpose and belonging for all the other rebels and misfits out there. Instead of brushing them aside or pointing at them for being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>List of Private Equity Firms in Chicago in 2011</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/10/19/list-of-private-equity-firms-in-chicago-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone sent me this list of local private equity firms operating in the Chicagoland area and I thought I&#8217;d share it with you.  Private equity firms in Chicago vary in their investment industries, region, size and many other factors but there is a common goal among all private equity firms: to take a company with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Pays What Amount of Taxes in the U.S?</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/10/07/who-pays-what-amount-of-taxes-in-the-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM IRS:       In 2009, according to the IRS,  taxpayers who made $1 million or more paid 24.4 percent of their income in federal income taxes on average; those making $100,000 to $125,000 paid 9.9 percent on average; those making $50,000 to $60,000 paid 6.3 percent on average. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The New Heroes:  Social Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/10/07/the-new-heroes-social-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this new series on PBS about ordinary folks who have a passion to make a difference in the world.  The New Heroes series tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From AP:  FACT CHECK: Is Obama&#8217;s Jobs Plan Paid For? Seems Not</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/09/09/from-ap-fact-check-is-obamas-jobs-plan-paid-for-seems-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have got to get a place where our leaders do what is best for the country, not is what is best for their careers.  President Barack Obama&#8217;s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions.  It will only be paid for if a committee he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economists Survey:  Spending Cuts Needed, Not Tax Increases</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/08/22/economists-survey-spending-cuts-needed-not-tax-increases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a survey done by the National Association for Business Economics, the majority of economists believe that the federal deficit should be reduced only or primarily through spending cuts. The survey out Monday found that 56 percent of the NABE members surveyed felt that way, while 37 percent said they favor equal parts spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whoa!  US Debt Up $239 Billion the Day after Debt Deal</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/08/04/whoa-us-debt-up-239-billion-the-day-after-debt-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in American history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal.  The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit $14.532 trillion on Tuesday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Quietly Signals There Will Be No Default</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/07/26/white-house-quietly-signals-there-will-be-no-default/</link>
		<comments>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/07/26/white-house-quietly-signals-there-will-be-no-default/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While officials from the Obama Administration raised their rhetoric over the weekend about the possibility of a debt default if the debt ceiling isn&#8217;t raised, they privately have been telling top executives at major U.S. banks that such an event won’t happen. In a series of phone calls, administration officials have told bankers that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREE Copy of One of Francis Chan&#8217;s Books</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/07/25/free-copy-of-one-of-francis-chans-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any Francisc Chan fans out there?  Right now, you can get a FREE Copy of Francis Chan Books. You can receive one free copy of either Crazy Love, Forgotten God, The Big Red Tractor, Halfway Herbert, or Ronnie Wilson’s Gift.  I ordered my free copy of Crazy Love!]]></description>
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		<title>Warren Buffett Has the Answer</title>
		<link>http://20millionminutes.com/2011/07/24/warren-buffett-has-the-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offered one of the best quotes in all the drama about the debt ceiling: &#8220;I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,&#8221; he told Becky Quick. &#8220;You just pass a law that says, that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting [...]]]></description>
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