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		<title>The Lively Merchant Headlines in Vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catch The Lively Merchant in Vegas this week during the first Next Generation-NOW educational session at the Las Vegas Furniture Market on Tuesday, January 25 from 4:00 &#8211; 5:00 pm in the new Retailer Resource Center, WMC-C488/496.
In this session, David Lively will teach you how to work with four generations  around your conference table [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowed in? Here&#8217;s something to keep you occupied</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While part of the Lively Merchant team is snowbound in Ohio, another part is sitting on a beach in Florida (the only state in the Union without snow). What&#8217;s wrong with this picture?
Whether you&#8217;re running low on bread and beer after the South&#8217;s worst snow event in 15 years or you live south of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t You Try This?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personality Type]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Howard Thurman was born in 1899 in the segregated South. In 1923, Thurman graduated from Morehouse College as valedictorian. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1925, after completing his study at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. He then pursued further study as a special student of philosophy at Haverford College with Rufus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you get personal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Retail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over 17 years ago,  Bruce Springsteen belted out,
“You might need something to hold on to, when all the answers, they don&#8217;t amount to much, somebody that you could just to talk to, and a little of that human touch baby, in a world without pity.”
Today more than then we are all desirous of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t reason your way out of this</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Ah, the good old days! Fact is, the furniture industry was successful in the 1950’s and the 1970’s and 1990’s. But “nothing fails like success,” says Gerald Nachman, cultural historian and founder of www.thecolumnist.com. Financial success turned our industry into a left-brain culture. Left-brain cultures are good at preserving old paradigms and programs, what Harvard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time paid newspaper circulation in the United States was at its current level, a new house was selling for $4,600, a gallon of gas was 15 cents and the average annual wage was $2,400.  Oppenheimer’s Little Boy and Fat Man were about to bring World War II to an end. Clearly a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does the lady say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The single most important number that directly impact your profitability doesn’t even appear on your financial statements: Customer Satisfaction. Our Ask Ms. Jones™ process provides you with prompt, actionable information so you’ll know exactly what your customers are saying about you, which positions you as a problem solving expert armed with answers that can laser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Me Some Peanuts and Crackerjacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this morning’s New York Times I was struck by recent purchase of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field by the Ricketts family from TD Ameritrade fame.
This reminded me of furniture store stories for several reasons. The Cubs haven’t won a World Series for 101 years, Wrigley Field is the second oldest ball park in [...]]]></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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		<comments>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/general/how-to-make-your-website-really-sell-entrepreneur-magazine-interviews-the-lively-merchant/#comments</comments>
		<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>Using Your Head</title>
		<link>http://www.thelivelymerchant.com/general/using-your-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I  talk with a business owners of all sizes, and they explain how their hands are tied in moving forward with an internet strategy. They believe they are doing the best they can under the circumstances, of course, but really there are departments in their organization that need to be protected, prices that need to be kept, sacred cows that can&#8217;t  [...]]]></description>
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