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		<title>Is Old Fashioned Business Fashionable?</title>
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This past weekend I had a meeting at a local outdoor mall and noticed the abundance of people either dining or shopping.  It&#8217;s also a haven for young teens to gather and spend the afternoon perusing the latest trends.  As I sat there at an outside table, I remarked how nice it was to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey&#8230;Can Someone Invent This?</title>
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After a lengthy discussion with Tania Luna of Renegade Campus about entrepreneurship education and marrying up specific skill sets (medicine, engineering, the arts, music, etc.) with entrepreneurship, I got to thinking of some skills I wish I had or some things I wish were invented:
1.  Cat Communicator:  I took six years of Spanish as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining Customer Service&#8230;or Defining It?</title>
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The other day I was reading a blog post by Leslie Haywood, the inventor and entrepreneur behind Grill Charms who successfully swam with the Sharks on Shark Tank.  On this particular post, Leslie talks about not having a receptionist and personally taking calls when her customers come a knocking.
We&#8217;ve become accustomed to the world of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Jobless Generation</title>
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As a kid, I can remember my grandmother telling me stories of how people coped through the Great Depression.  I now suspect that living through that era altered her life path mentally. Of course it all seemed foreign to me and the thought of experiencing anything remotely like it in my lifetime appeared more fictional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is College Such a Bad ROI?</title>
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In just a few weeks, Syd will be cruising the halls of high school as she strategically executes a plan for the next four years of her life.  It doesn&#8217;t seem so long ago that she was in the 6th grade, performing miserably and I was fretting about getting her on the right track.  Back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovering New Customers</title>
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Last week, Andi and I participated in our first home school trade show.  Of course we studied the market prior to forking over the booth fee, but so many times buying behavior and consumer characteristics can&#8217;t be boiled down into statistical numbers.  Sometimes you just have to test and observe the waters.
The two long days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Customer Service Throws the Customer Out the Window</title>
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We&#8217;ve all experienced it before; customer service that flies in the face of logic.  You know, the head scratching amazement of a company rule that defies common sense and immediately disconnects the customer from the institution.  Some companies are really good at alienating the customer while others seem to have mastered this value-added service.
What I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FamZoo Helps Biz in a Boxx Entrepreneurs With Money Management</title>
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My daughter is a fabulous mental accountant.  She can mentally note how much money she has at any given time as well as name her income sources.  I think it&#8217;s because she has plans for her money even before she earns it.  Shocker.
She&#8217;s deficient in one particular area though.  While she has a knack to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Entrepreneurship Overseas</title>
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Back in May, Biz in a Boxx appeared in the online publication of Emprendedores (Spain) as a suggestion to readers to distribute our product overseas.  (I had to do some online translation;  apparently six years of Spanish classes weren&#8217;t enough.)  Since then we&#8217;ve gotten a slew of emails from entrepreneurs in Spain, the Caribbean, Australia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Typewriting Class</title>
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It was the summer of 1977 when my mother enrolled me in a typing class at my elementary school.  While neighborhood kids were spending their days &#8220;boogie boarding&#8221; in the Pacific Ocean, I was schlepping a green, 1960s Smith Corona typewriter to a typewriting summer school class.  (Today they would have called it Typing Camp.)
My [...]]]></description>
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