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	<title>The Lively Merchant &#187; Amy</title>
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		<title>Idiom: Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family man. Runs in the family. In the family way. Family tree. Family matters.
Americana is all about family. We’ve even stretched it to include our “work family” and our “school family” or our “church family.” Despite efforts to redefine it, we all have our own personal definition.
What does “family” mean to Ms. Jones? Are there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How To Make Your Website Really Sell&#8221; Entrepreneur Magazine interviews The Lively Merchant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this excerpt from &#8220;How To Make Your Website Really Sell&#8221; in the September, 2009 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine featuring David Lively:
Be sure to post toll-free phone numbers and e-mail addresses on every page, as well as fields for visitors to submit questions, says David Lively, whose Ohio consulting firm, The Lively Merchant, specializes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Summit 3.0 Featured in Furniture&#124;Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<title>Idiom: Information</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/general/idiom-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Retail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retail Idioms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.”
Ms. Jones might pull out this Joe Friday line when she’s furniture shopping. Even if she falls head over heels in love with a sexy chaise or a beautiful bedroom, she’s going to have to justify her financial investment with some cold, hard facts.
Look at the following areas where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lively Merchant Represents Retailers on HFIA Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FURNITUREToday recently reported that David Lively was elected to the HFIA Board of Directors:
&#8220;Our board is on the front lines of the furniture industry every day,&#8221; said Frye. &#8220;They know exactly what keeps an independent retailer up at night. We continually ask ourselves, ‘What can we do for our members that they can&#8217;t do better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiom: Recycle</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/retail-idioms/idiom-recycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail Idioms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Toilet paper made from yesterday’s news. Computers made from clunkers. New tin cans made from old tin cans.
Recycling is a good thing, most of the time. Furniture recycling, however, is not a good thing for you. We’re not talking about making microfibers from plastic pop bottles, or advocating filling landfills with still-good stuff. What you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Home Maven” Tells Customers Not To Buy Furniture Online; Your Competition Disagrees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Never buy a couch or chair unless you&#8217;ve sat on it. You spend a lot of time there, so it needs to fit your body.&#8221;
So says &#8220;home maven Angela Matusik, founder of home decorating website&#160;Shelterrific.com&#8221; in a print and online article in Woman&#8217;s Day magazine.
Huh?

Shelterrific&#8217;s &#8220;friends&#8221; and major online retailers at Living Rooms Direct might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiom: Order</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/retail-idioms/idiom-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People shouting, arms waving, voices rising. Bang! Bang! The judge pounds his gavel and shouts, &#8220;Order in the court! Order in the court!&#8221; The slamming gavel continues until the courtroom goes silent.

 Ever notice that you don&#8217;t reach into your $10 popcorn until order is restored on the Hollywood screen? If the movie usher had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiom: Tranquility</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/retail-idioms/idiom-tranquility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail Idioms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Smell the suntan lotion… taste the piña colada… run your fingers through the warm sand… listen to the seagulls… gaze into the clear blue water…

Where is your perfect picture of tranquility? Maybe it&#8217;s not a beach. Maybe it&#8217;s a ski slope or a deer blind. We all have one place we would go if time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiom: Apology</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/retail-idioms/idiom-apology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/retail-idioms/idiom-apology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail Idioms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you think you deserve one, you know exactly how an apology should be delivered. Eye to eye so you can see their pain. Face to face so you can sense their sincerity. And yesterday wouldn&#8217;t have been too soon.

Have you ever received a false apology that annulled itself when the same offensive act was [...]]]></description>
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