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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>
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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>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>
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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>How To Speak Your Future Into Existence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt made stuff happen.
He didn&#8217;t have the patience to sit around and see what might come from Congress. On May 6, 1903, he declared the Grand Canyon unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. Then in 1908, without even a hint of authority, he spoke our national parks system into existence using the power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to persuade a crowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TS Eliot said, &#8220;Business today consists in persuading crowds.&#8221;

Do you believe your marketing and training message is persuasive?
Does your organization show understanding, trust, threat, tension, surprise, substitution, specificity, social proof, similarity, repetition, push, pull, perception, passion, obligation, objectivity, logic, involvement, investment, interest, hurt and rescue, harmony, framing, fragmentation, experience, exchange, evidence, distraction, dependence, deception, daring, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Nomads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh MacLeod said, &#8220;The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you&#8217;re already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you believe the world is changing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if any of you remember the famous speech from the &#8216;87 classic Wall Street?
Gekko the super slick stockbroker with the $5,000 suits told us: 
&#8220;The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed- for lack of a better word- is good.
Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Market Online: FurnitureStyle.com coverage of Web Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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Live from Las Vegas Market: How to market online

Published: February 09, 2009
By Thomas A. Prais 
 
The Lively Merchant’s David Lively talked about e-commerce at a special online marketing summit at Las Vegas Market — not how to build an e-commerce business, but how consumers shop.
“The industry is currently doing 9 percent of its business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Miss the Web Summit? Listen/Watch Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have asked for information about the Industry-Wide Web Summit we conducted at the market in Vegas.
For your listening and viewing pleasure, here are pictures from the event plus the PowerPoint presentations and audio commentary from each speaker:
Recipe for Online Content
Rick Doran, President &#38; CEO of R &#38; A Marketing
Audio  &#124;  [...]]]></description>
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