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		<title>Avoiding Merchant Account Chargebacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A chargeback is a transaction that an Issuer returns to a merchant bank and most often, to the merchant &#8211; as a financial liability. In essence, it reverses a sales transaction, as follows:
* The card issuer subtracts the transaction dollar amount from the cardholder&#8217;s Visa account. The cardholder receives a credit and is no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive Advantage &#8211; Make Your Strategic Plan Your Launching Pad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing competitive advantage in the market place is not the easiest thing to accomplish.
According to Wikipedia,
&#8220;Competitive advantage is a position that a company occupies in its competitive landscape. A competitive advantage, sustainable or not, exists when a company makes a profit, that is, their earnings exceed their costs.. That means that normal competitive pressures are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write A Great Resume: 10 Strategies That Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dede Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning to write an effective resume is a life skill most people cannot afford to ignore.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median tenure for most professionals is about 4 years. For employees between the ages of 25 and 34, the median tenure is only 2.9 years.
Since most of us will change jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The REAL Reason People Aren&#8217;t Buying (You&#8217;ll Be Surprised)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Murdoch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week someone in a business discussion forum posted this question:
&#8220;Help! No One is Responding to My Offer&#8221;
The person posting, let&#8217;s call her Susan, went on to say that she loves her work and gets great results for her clients. She&#8217;s excited about a new service she&#8217;s promoting, yet no one was responding to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancellation Policies That Benefit Event Planners and Participants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 04:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Romanik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point, everyone has had to make a change to a registration or request a refund for an event they&#8217;ve committed to attending. There are endless reasons for change requests, ranging from conflicting schedules to the changing of one&#8217;s mind.
Some events will allow participants to make changes without any hassle, but for others it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Killer and Magnetic Headlines and Titles</title>
		<link>http://storeops.com/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Branko Rakic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to create great headlines and titles to turn your prospects into buying customers using hypnotic words that will empower them to purchase your product or service, join your ezine.
First of all, you must learn how to get your prospects to trust you. This is true on every field. We trust those that are more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than Number Crunchers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Villa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to dissect the culture of a business, and you ask various people in an organization what the real roles of each department are, you&#8217;ll find the well-known dichotomy between &#8220;front office&#8221; and &#8220;back office&#8221; operations.
Front office staff are the people who deal with customers. They might be the customer service department, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architectural Lettering In Our Modern Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morris Timlen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lettering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In these days of discount stores, we are most familiar with the lettering we can buy at the store, which can be glued to any surface. But unless you are an architect, few people think about architectural lettering as a modern-day method of adding information to a landmark.
The Historical Past
Through centuries of historical architecture, architectural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Ramsey&#8217;s Success Secret: Put Yourself In The Mind Of Your Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pennewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restaurant owners - many of whom are chefs - contact Ramsey and
ask him to visit their restaurant, in essence to help them to
save their restaurant from economic failure. The most amazing
thing about the process is that many of the chefs have personally
asked Ramsey to come, yet when he arrives, they fight with Ramsey
every step of the way - determined that Ramsey will not force
them to change their ways.
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		<title>Ethics in Business – From Compliance to Commitment</title>
		<link>http://storeops.com/?p=9</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ranagroup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time this article goes to print all of us will surely have had our fill of news reports about Conrad Black’s infamous lawsuit. We’ll likely be numb to the never ending allegations of fraudulent practices at Nortel. But, how many of us as human resource professionals will be asking, ‘What does this have to do with me?’ ]]></description>
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