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		<title>What Should I Wear Today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has become a “chick” question. The female stereotype is that we obsess over this question every day and every time we need to change our outfit. But in reality, it is a question that we all ask ourselves every time we get ready to leave the house. Men tend to ask it subconsciously; women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Attitude of Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three key elements in understanding how attitude affects your company are: Diversity is about things that you and your employees cannot leave at home: race, religion, sexual orientation, age, and looks. These traits affect the experiences people have in life. Differences between people can create barriers that affect a business’s bottom-line. When we are aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communicating With Clients: What Works?</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2012/clientcommunication</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication is key to every relationship . . . open communication that is. As technologies change so do the ways, styles and expectations of communication. This is particularly true with clients. As a business you can make executive decisions about how your employees are to communicate with each other, but with clients . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Words for Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“A culture of trust that encourages empowerment and innovation, we provide people with the freedom, flexibility and opportunity to do great things for our company, employees and customers.” This quote and others similar always accompany a business receiving an award for best work place. The other time you hear this or some version of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Klein: Economic Update and Where His Company is Going</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2011/steve-klein-update</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Klein is a very good friend of mine and he is one of the three business owners that wrote the forward to my book, Contractors: Doing it Right Not Just Getting it Done. In our most recent check-in to touch base with each other he shared what is going on in his local economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Realized that You’re a B2Comm Biz, Now What?</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2011/b2comm-commercial-construction</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you saw in another post I wrote, B2Comm stands for Business to Community. B2Comm businesses leverage and utilize both B2B and B2C businesses, but they target an entire community instead of only individuals or other businesses. Also, in that post I mentioned that commercial contractors are an example of B2Comm companies, which surprised many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do First Impressions Really Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does your company focus more on the first impression you make or the last one they leave someone with? Conventional wisdom says the first impression should be the priority because ‘you only get one chance to make a first impression.’ That makes sense, to a degree. Business operations and marketing campaigns are created around generating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Profit Button</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2011/the-profit-button</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was cleaning out some of my notes from a meeting I was at and found a great comment that someone had said—though unfortunately I can’t give them credit, as I didn’t write down who said it. The Profit Button When you only push the Profit Button, nothing happens, but when you fix, change, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Martin: It&#8217;s Definetly Summer!</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2011/jimmartinsummer</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here he is again! You guys said Jim&#8217;s information was easy to share and a great resource for your clients so here is another post by Jim Martin. Do you know how I know? Because of the roller coasters we have been riding. In Pittsburgh, we have a classic old “trolley park” amusement park.  This place is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Martin on &#8220;Getting Your Hands on Mo-Money for that Construction Project&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2011/jimmartinmo-money</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this blog is a resource for construction companies to build a better company which builds a better brand, I have asked a few very special and talented professionals to contribute to the resources available to you as a company, but also in a way that you can share with your clients&#8211;making you the &#8216;go-to-resource&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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