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		<title>By: Jay@ Love Poems &#38; Love Quotes</title>
		<link>http://nancyhendrickson.com/marketing/do-you-dog-food-your-services-and-products/comment-page-1/#comment-539</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay@ Love Poems &#38; Love Quotes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, we do create the best software to better the online community. It doesn&#039;t necessarily have to be for you. I wouldn&#039;t mind using my own software If I needed it though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, we do create the best software to better the online community. It doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to be for you. I wouldn&#8217;t mind using my own software If I needed it though.</p>
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		<title>By: David@Wedding Photographer Nottingham</title>
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		<dc:creator>David@Wedding Photographer Nottingham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you part of your own target market?  You can sell sweets to children without eating them yourself.  

If you think you are part of your target market it may well matter enough to want to change.  

There is a fundamental point about a business meeting with and understanding its relationship with its customers.  That’s harder than it sounds but if you have any kind of serious competition in your business sector, it can make the difference between your survival and going hungry.  

What do your customers want?  If they are buying a product or service, how much money have they got to spend?  And what really matters to them in their purchase decision making?  Once you understand that you can begin to create a real relationship between your business and your customers.  It’s a two way street.  
Of course it can be difficult and expensive to ask every potential customer what they want, so one way of dealing with it is just to do it in a short burst, so perhaps you won’t get the bookings or the sales from the ones where you asked them loads of questions but once better informed you can revert to your usual position of expert and (now knowing your new relationship position) you can rebuild and be stronger.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you part of your own target market?  You can sell sweets to children without eating them yourself.  </p>
<p>If you think you are part of your target market it may well matter enough to want to change.  </p>
<p>There is a fundamental point about a business meeting with and understanding its relationship with its customers.  That’s harder than it sounds but if you have any kind of serious competition in your business sector, it can make the difference between your survival and going hungry.  </p>
<p>What do your customers want?  If they are buying a product or service, how much money have they got to spend?  And what really matters to them in their purchase decision making?  Once you understand that you can begin to create a real relationship between your business and your customers.  It’s a two way street.<br />
Of course it can be difficult and expensive to ask every potential customer what they want, so one way of dealing with it is just to do it in a short burst, so perhaps you won’t get the bookings or the sales from the ones where you asked them loads of questions but once better informed you can revert to your usual position of expert and (now knowing your new relationship position) you can rebuild and be stronger.</p>
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		<title>By: Sudeep</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sudeep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gr8  question to ponder on . hmmm would I read my own    post .... well let me see ,i know some post are very handy for me so I find it intresting to read it again and again ... but some are not that appealing .Hmmm says a lot on my blog right .
But good question that u gave all of us thinking .
Regards
Sudeep</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gr8  question to ponder on . hmmm would I read my own    post &#8230;. well let me see ,i know some post are very handy for me so I find it intresting to read it again and again &#8230; but some are not that appealing .Hmmm says a lot on my blog right .<br />
But good question that u gave all of us thinking .<br />
Regards<br />
Sudeep</p>
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		<title>By: Florian@Free XML Sitemap Generator</title>
		<link>http://nancyhendrickson.com/marketing/do-you-dog-food-your-services-and-products/comment-page-1/#comment-461</link>
		<dc:creator>Florian@Free XML Sitemap Generator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Using your own products is a great way to test and would be silly not to use them. It is generally worth going out of your way to use the products even if you don\&#039;t really need to, makes you think about alternate scenarios.

Of course, this is no replacement for QA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Using your own products is a great way to test and would be silly not to use them. It is generally worth going out of your way to use the products even if you don\&#8217;t really need to, makes you think about alternate scenarios.</p>
<p>Of course, this is no replacement for QA.</p>
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		<title>By: Carol</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well crap. I wouldn&#039;t read my own blog.  Isn&#039;t that pathetic!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well crap. I wouldn&#8217;t read my own blog.  Isn&#8217;t that pathetic!</p>
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		<title>By: Travis Kemper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Travis Kemper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great question, and one I&#039;ll be thinking about too. I don&#039;t&#039; sell products but I do have a service business - and my question is whether each client gets the 110-percent he deserves.  Thanks for the post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great question, and one I&#8217;ll be thinking about too. I don&#8217;t&#8217; sell products but I do have a service business &#8211; and my question is whether each client gets the 110-percent he deserves.  Thanks for the post.</p>
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