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		<title>Choose Not to Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To print or not to print, that is the question. Ideally, you should print only relevant material, when needed, in the quantity required for the audience that will use it. Suddenly print-on-demand is a green strategy!]]></description>
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		<title>Sign of the times? UK Banks to vote to abolish checks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you wrote a check? Can you even remember? I used to buy boxes of 250 checks at a time several times a year for my personal account. Now I use one packet of 25 checks in a year. Check usage  has fallen in the UK by almost two-thirds in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grays Harbor Paper &#8211; A Different Paper Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this week&#8217;s Action for a Sustainable America, held in Seattle, I had the opportunity to meet some great folks. The event was one of a series of three where corporate leaders and green innovators examined sustainability as a corporate strategy. David Quigg, Grays Harbor Paper, introduced the company his father helped rescue with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Rules for These Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hopeful when I read: Most economists agree that the worst of this financial meltdown is now behind us. Unemployment is at a 25-year high, it&#8217;s true, but at least the pace of lay-offs has slowed. If there was a doubt before, it seems safe to conclude that we&#8217;re going to make it through this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scarcity Marketing &#8211; Closed More Than Open?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 19:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning a flash mob into customers&#8230; In a world of 24/7 shopping, who would have thought that opening one week every month would be a good sales strategy? Twin Cities Business blog, State of the Brand, this week profiled a company that does just that: The Fun Sisters Boutique should not work. But just like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Marketing Work Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when the finance team continues to push for reductions in marketing. We&#8217;ve all been there! And in these challenging times the marketing function is an especially easy target. It may seem like a bold move to keep investing in marketing strategies when revenues are flat or heading the wrong way, but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing According to the Grateful Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the dark ages &#8211; 1997, that is &#8211; a terrific business magazine called Strategy + Business published a piece titled &#8220;How to &#8216;Truck&#8217; the Brand: Lessons from the Grateful Dead&#8221; by Glenn Rifkin. More than a decade later, the lessons are just as applicable today. I just wonder what Jerry Garcia and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty is the Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about 7 years ago, right after the last recession, I wrote a piece titled &#8220;Uncertainty is the Rule&#8221; for a local marketing magazine. I stumbled over the article while looking for something else and was surprised to find how pertinent it is today. It opened this way: The voice at the other end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Personalized PRINTING to Personalized PUBLISHING</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[changing publishing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computing power and printing technology have reached the point where sophisticated personalized publishing is a reality. For the last 40 years, it has been possible to produce documents such as bills and statements that contain a large quantity of personal information. Promotional mail incorporating simple greetings and messages became more common in the 80s. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to take a good look at your content strategy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Nickel-Kailing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. The Five Ws of Content Content &#8211; what is it? Well, well! Here we go: Something selected for graphic representation The sum of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned Subject matter or substance of a message A content strategy will basically define how you will use and manage the many varieties of content [...]]]></description>
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