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	<title>Spirit West Management</title>
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		<title>How to Rebuild Your Company Brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to regain pricing power when customer loyalty starts to slip or competitors are gaining more of your market share. Lorraine Rieger McGregor was invited to write an article for Business Review Canada&#8217;s blog for the July edition. Read it here.
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		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2010/07/05/how-to-rebuild-your-company-brand/</link>
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		<title>Lorraine McGregor Interviewed by Business Review Canada on Merger Integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the July 2010 edition of online innovator Business Review Canada, Lorraine Rieger McGregor provides insights into ways to keep the value of an acquisition through the integration.
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		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2010/07/05/lorraine-mcgregor-interviewed-by-business-review-canada-on-merger-integration/</link>
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		<title>Will you be able to sell your company?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the Great Boomer Business Retirement Migration Actually Happen?
&#8220;We&#8217;re ready to sell. You know, we&#8217;ve kind of done all we can and we&#8217;re tired. It&#8217;s time for some new blood. So my partner and I want $5 million out of the business. So what are our chances?&#8221;
We listened to Trevor a proud and accomplished silver haired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2009/11/14/will-you-be-able-to-sell-your-company/</link>
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		<title>The Five Essential Elements of a Growth Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Customer Focused &#8211; It&#8217;s based on market research. You&#8217;ve got the right product, packaged in the right solution with well thought out support systems that the right target market really needs and wants and you can prove it.
2. The Company is Oriented to Performance &#8211; Your people have the kinds of conversations that lead to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2009/03/19/the-five-essential-elements-of-a-growth-strategy/</link>
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		<title>8 Rules for Preparing Your Company for Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Start Planning Early - 2-4 years before shareholders or partners want to sell. It can take that long for the changes described and recommended below to be made.
2. Know what type of Investor or Buyer is Best Suited for Your Company &#8211; Want to sell to your employees? Sell to another company in your industry or part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2009/03/19/8-rules-for-preparing-your-company-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>Thinking about your Company&#8217;s Future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How are you thinking about your Company&#8217;s future?
There are two types of company leaders. You are either:

Fearing for what might happen OR
Steering to what you want to have happen

If you are in the first group, it is very likely that what you fear will occur WILL HAPPEN. If you want to beat the habit of running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2009/03/19/thinking-about-your-companys-future/</link>
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		<title>Of Fear and Stimulus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stimulus is everywhere these days. In the daily news. In our conversations. In our hoped for future. But what is actually &#8217;stimulating&#8217; in your company? The word, &#8220;stimulus&#8221; means something that generates a response.  In these times we think we need a stimulus to bolster us and our economy out of the alligator pit of economic quicksand. Yet stimulus can be self-generated.
In today&#8217;s economy, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2009/03/09/of-fear-and-stimulus/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Sun on Boomers Preparing to Sell their Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harvey Enchin of the Vancouver Sun did a story on the fact that boomer business owners say they want to retire in the next three to five years, which means selling their businesses but they have not prepared their companies to get the highest valuation. Here&#8217;s the story. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=c9388f05-f1c7-4960-812f-b6c8b15b454a Why do you think business owners are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2008/11/03/vancouver-sun-on-boomers-preparing-to-sell-their-businesses/</link>
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		<title>CBC talking about boomer business owners unprepared to sell their companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that slowly the word is getting out to business owners that they had better get the help they need to position their companies correctly in order to be ready to retire. The CBC just announced RBC&#8217;s latest study on the strange trend that owners don&#8217;t know how and are not thinking about how to extract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2008/10/22/cbc-talking-about-boomer-business-owners-unprepared-to-sell-their-companies/</link>
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		<title>Spirit West CEO interviewed by News1130</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russ Bythe from News1130 Interviewed Lorraine Rieger McGregor, CEO of Spirit West Management on why business owners need to do valuation planning, to get their companies the highest valuation possible 2-3 years before they think of selling. Listen to the radio interview here
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		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2008/10/10/spirit-west-ceo-interviewed-by-news1130/</link>
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