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		<title>Good Intentions Gone Bad!</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2012/01/01/new-years-resolution-dissolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Featuring an interview with Lynne McTaggart, author of "The Intention Experiment."   I fully intended to keep my 2012 New Year's resolutions. I knew it would be hard. But I had good intentions. I had good intentions. Really. I lasted ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Management vs. Marketing War: Left-Brainers, Right-Brainers and the Ever-Present No-Brainers</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2011/06/06/the-management-vs-marketing-war-left-brainers-right-brainers-and-the-ever-present-no-brainers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a war going on in American business. It’s a war that causes great ideas and products to vanish. To get lost in the clear fog of logical logic. A devastatingly destructive war that helps bad ideas take root and flourish (albeit briefly) justified by common sense and … logical logic. It’s Left-Brain Management vs. Right-Brain Marketing.   

What does that mean? How does it work? What to do about it? Find out in this interview with bestselling authors Al and Laura Ries.]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Being “Good in a Room” in the Complex Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2010/12/19/ten-tips-for-being-good-in-a-room-in-the-complex-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the one trait that’s an absolute “must have” to win the complex sale in today’s competitive sales environment? The skill is critical to your success – in business or life. You must be ... "Good in a Room." What does that mean? Stephanie Palmer, author of the book of the same name, "Good in a Room," puts it in perspective.]]></description>
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		<title>In These Tough Times, Here&#8217;s a Way to Print Your Own Currency Legally &#8230; with Content</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2010/08/25/in-these-tough-times-heres-a-way-to-print-your-own-currency-legally-with-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever business you're in you have a story. If it's a good story it informs, educates, entertains and helps people down a path to find a solution to the problem they have.

The trip down the path is your story.]]></description>
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		<title>Warm Summer Sun &#8230; Shine Kindly Here</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2010/02/08/warm-summer-sun-shine-kindly-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 100 years from now … when green sod lies above, when there is no one left to mourn for you, will something you have said or done, be ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Resistance: Lessons Learned from Bestselling Author Steven Pressfield</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/10/05/the-power-of-story-in-business-and-life-lessons-learned-from-bestselling-authors-steven-pressfield-robert-mckee-and-skip-press/</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/10/05/the-power-of-story-in-business-and-life-lessons-learned-from-bestselling-authors-steven-pressfield-robert-mckee-and-skip-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to interview and work with many great storytellers over the last few years.  J.D. Meier, program manager for Microsoft&#8217;s Patterns &#38; Practices team, and author of the &#8220;Sources of Insight&#8221; blog, asked me what the most important lessons I&#8217;d learned from the high-profile &#8220;working&#8221; writers and storytellers &#8230; the ones who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PR &amp; Marketing Nightmare: 110 Slides to Present in Five Minutes – What to Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/09/23/a-pr-marketing-nightmare-110-slides-to-present-in-five-minutes-what-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's an important presentation.  You have 110 slides - but only five minutes. What to do?  Scream? Give up the ghost? Or go for it? If you want to go for it ... read on.]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter &#8230;  Eschatological Sign of  Writing Times?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/08/10/twitterendtimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter - a simple micro-blogging service.

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

Ha! That's what THEY want you to think.  But professional purveyors of corporate gobbledygook know, yes they know, Twitter is a tool straight ...

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		<title>Sales 2.Oh-No Presentations &#8211; A State of the Business Presentation Cartoon-torial</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/05/08/sales-2oh-no-presentations-a-gluteus-maximus-vomitus-eruptus-cartoon-torial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There aren't many things I rather do than sit through a business presentation. Except for maybe being boiled in oil. Or, being buried alive. Or straddling and sliding down a 200-ft razor blade into a pool of rubbing alcohol.  Here's an Animotorized Cartoon-torial of  the State of the Standard Corporate Business Presentation (AKA a Gluteus-Maximus Sales 2.-Oh-No Vomitus Eruptus).]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Marketing and PR?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/02/10/the-end-of-marketing-and-pr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not PR.

It's not Marketing.

It's the evolution of business communications.

It's a revolution in business communications. And it's  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Accidental Creative Problem-Solving &#8230; on Purpose?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/01/11/meaning-mystery-aimee-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/01/11/meaning-mystery-aimee-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was working on a story titled &#8220;All-Time-Worst Pitch &#8230; Made Me Rich,&#8221; when I ran into a perplexing problem.  A total roadblock. How to simplify a complex story &#8211; one that involved quantum physics, cancer, depression, hope against all odds and the ephemeral topic of &#8220;miracles?&#8221; The story was about a terminally ill cancer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animotorized World Movie Premier of The World Wide Rave vs. The World Wide Knave</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2009/01/01/animotorized-world-movie-premier-of-the-world-wide-rave-vs-the-world-wide-knave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You saw it here first. Social Media's version of Ali vs. Frazier. Jordan vs. Bugs Bunny. Luci vs. Dezi and Curly vs. Moe. 

It's the Thought Leader of the World Wide Rave vs. The Thoughtless Leader - AKA the World Wide Knave.

SPOILER. The Knave Rules!

SHOWTIME: The Animotorized Premiere of the movie trailer for the World Wide Rave vs.. The World Wide Knave.]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting the Donkey in the Complex Sale &#8230; Hollywood Style</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/12/30/shooting-the-donkey-in-the-complex-sale-hollywood-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/12/30/shooting-the-donkey-in-the-complex-sale-hollywood-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is this thing called the Complex Sale that makes seasoned salespeople tremble at the mere mention? That causes two-to-three-year sales pipeline nightmares?  What could it possibly have to do with a donkey and Hollywood? prolific Hollywood author, Skip Press, will help put it in perspective.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use a Corporate Gobbledygook Sales Brochure</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/12/02/how-to-use-a-corporate-gobbledygook-sales-brochure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/12/02/how-to-use-a-corporate-gobbledygook-sales-brochure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From personal experience and conversations with many experts in the business-to-business field, there is reasonable agreement that most corporate sales, marketing and PR lingo suffers from ...
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		<title>Writing is a Tough Job</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/11/16/writing-is-a-tough-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing for a living is a tough job - depending on your perspective. This was used in a presentation for some business writers. They hated it. Some loved it. All disliked me for bringing it up. However ... it's a quick, empathetic, realistic road-map to how a writing masterpiece gets turned into a "disasterpiece." And what to take from it?]]></description>
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		<title>How to Defeat Your Inner Deadbeat</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/11/15/how-to-defeat-your-inner-deadbeat-in-your-life-of-business-or-the-business-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every person’s life, there is a still, small voice that tries to guide you to a wonderful calling − a destiny.  Your destiny.  A calling that you, and only you, were put on this earth to fulfill. Near silent, this voice is powerful enough to lift thoughts, dreams and visions to a higher ground. Do you still hear it?]]></description>
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		<title>The Wild Wacky World of Web 2.0 Communications</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/11/03/the-wild-wacky-world-of-web-20-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a high-tech whizbang hypothetical supraluminal know-it-all enthralled and embedded in the frenetically byzantine world of Geekdom? 

Me either.



This Web 2.0 talk got you scratching your head - or duct taping it to keep it from exploding?

Me too.

Here's a slide presentation I put together to help normal people try to get a look (from a geek-safe distance) at some of the emerging tools, services and principles of this new and evolving communications media.]]></description>
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		<title>Banish the Boring Boilerplates!</title>
		<link>http://www.writingriffs.com/2008/11/02/banish-the-boring-boilerplates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kayser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DaDonkey Disasterpieces Corporate boilerplates are boring. A waste of words. Horribly obtuse. Garbled, befuddled, perplexing, muddled obfuscatory nightmares. If they were paintings, they&#8217;d be called &#8220;DaDonkey Disasterpieces.&#8221; They&#8217;re written to give you an idea, a snapshot, of who the company is, what they do and basic contact info. They&#8217;re typically found at the end of [...]]]></description>
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