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		<title>3 Ways to Grow your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a former &#8216;banker&#8217; and marketing student, what follows is probably the best practical information on how to grow your business. It is just good common sense, neatly packaged, and yet brilliant. Now to turn this into practice is much harderr but I think if we concentrated on one of these each month, we&#8217;d see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=61&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Providential entrepreneurialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Goethe: &#8220;The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too and a whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one&#8217;s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.&#8221; Picked this up from an article I read on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=57&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I posted &#8211; 8 months of full on business start up is a lot! Over the past few months as things have settled, and the business seems to be thriving and moving on its own more and more, I&#8217;ve turned my attention toward motivation and character. This comes from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=54&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 &#8220;Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.&#8221; In my case, the first question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=49&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It doesn&#8217;t hurt to ask</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received word last week that the premises would not be ready in June and they were hesitant to give me a date. I was in the shop twice in the past two weeks and I am really encouraged about the progress. I asked the project manager for us to push ahead with the lease [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=46&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proverbs 26:10 &amp; 27:23 &#8211; Godly hiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what an appropriate title for this post should be. I&#8217;m wrestling with hiring decisions and want to make sure that I am not hiring out of merely need for the business but also taking into account the potential employees gifts/skills, personality/fit for the work, motivations, integrity, etc. I have centred on two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=39&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paperwork</title>
		<link>http://missionalenterprise.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/paperwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a bit of free time in the morning and the evening since my wife is away so I thought I would catch up on paperwork -VAT enquiries by HMRC, billing dispute for a cancelled service, tracking expenses, etc. I had done this last week as I needed to clean up my desk for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=38&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising</title>
		<link>http://missionalenterprise.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 21:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://missionalenterprise.wordpress.com/?p=36</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking into the various options for advertising &#8211; magazines, newspapers, billboards, transport, etc. and something I have learned during the process is that MOST advertising rates are negotiable. Some options are so popular or competitive that you won&#8217;t even be able to negotiate as space or placement is at a premium. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=36&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lease Negotiations</title>
		<link>http://missionalenterprise.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/lease-negotiations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of negotiating a lease. For me this is a particularly stressful period as it tests my patience. I want things my way. I want to dictate what happens. I&#8217;m grateful for our solicitor who is more objective and can pursue my interests with grace, persistence and authority. My brother is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionalenterprise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1398236&amp;post=35&amp;subd=missionalenterprise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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