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		<title>Insider Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Find out what buyers look for and how to make your company saleable the right way. Free online video training shows you how investors think about acquiring businesses so you can become what they are looking to buy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2012/01/25/insider-information/</link>
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		<title>How to Make the Right Decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We find that many businesses don&#8217;t think about the impacts of their decisions. The tasks they assign themselves are irrelevant if the bigger questions have not been addressed. They work on a solution before fully understanding the problem. Therefore the only tool that we use is asking the right questions. &#8220;What problem are you trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2012/01/17/how-to-make-the-right-decision/</link>
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		<title>What do you think your company is worth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine your team winning the semi-finals of the big league play offs. You&#8217;re all set to play the game of your life. The one that will put your name down in history leaving the kind of legacy and trophy story you had always envisioned. You get to the day of the event and suit up. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/12/14/what-do-you-think-your-company-is-worth/</link>
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		<title>When a buyer comes to call what should you do next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Brad Cherniak of Sapient Capital Partners for outlining what to do and what not do when a buyer calls your company to see if you want to sell. It&#8217;s insider secrets like these that many business owners never find out about until it&#8217;s too late. Getting the low-down on what to do and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/12/12/when-a-buyer-comes-to-call-what-should-you-do-next/</link>
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		<title>How Social Media can power up your B2B marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article today in Canada&#8217;s National Post by Jacquelyn Cyr of Espresso Brand Agency. One of the big ways to stand out from the competition is to educate your customers and prospects about various ways to use your product, or add tips to make their business run better or provide expert opinion on issues that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/12/12/how-social-media-can-power-up-your-b2b-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Own a Community Bank? Need a better 2012? Register for this Webinar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank Mergers &#38; Acquisitions &#8211; THINK LIKE A BUYER ! Lorraine MacGregor of Spirit West Management and Erich Bollinger, EVP of Plaza Bank will review 2011 bank merger and acquisition activity as well as provide a future outlook for 2012 and beyond. Friday December 16, 2011 9:00 AM PST. For more information and to register go to Community [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/12/09/own-a-community-bank-need-a-better-2012-register-for-this-webinar/</link>
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		<title>Will you play your game, or the economy&#8217;s game?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the head of the IMF and the Conference Board both declared the next decade the lost decade for economic growth. And the decade only just started! Remember, economists deal in global statistics which are the AVERAGE of every country&#8217;s economic potential. You, the business owner, do not have to be an AVERAGE statistic in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/11/09/will-you-play-your-game-or-the-economys-game/</link>
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		<title>Is it your time to sell your business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to John Warrilow of the Globe and Mail there are seven reasons you should sell out now because we are at the fork in the road in the economy. Warrilow makes some good pitches that all business owners should consider in evaluating whether this is the right time to sell the business. However he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/11/01/is-it-your-time-to-sell-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Brand new Economy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you wish we could wake up tomorrow to gleaming news on the economy? News so bright and shiny you need your shades just dreaming about the possibilities for your company? Because right now it seems like Groundhogs day redux over and over. Bad news drips on to everything we deal with in life. Where&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/09/16/brand-new-economy/</link>
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		<title>Condolences to Common Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obituary printed in the London Times &#8211; Interesting and sadly rather true. Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spiritwest.com/2011/08/24/condolences-to-common-sense/</link>
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