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		<title>The Two Laws of Branding from the Inside Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Arie Opps &#124; MarketingProfs &#124; March 2010 If your unique brand attributes aren&#8217;t all bubbling to the surface vying to be the No. 1 attribute, then you don&#8217;t have a branding problem, you have a business problem. In other words, it&#8217;s your business—not the brand—that isn&#8217;t offering anything of unique value.  Read more at MarketingProfs.]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on &#8216;User Experience Optimization&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Arie Opps &#124; Featured on Entrepreneur.com and WashingtonPost.com &#124; February 2010 Over the past few years, small and medium-sized businesses have become increasingly concerned with SEO at the expense of what I like to call UEO, or &#8220;User Experience Optimization.&#8221; Is your homepage falling short? Here are some tips to help boost your homepage&#8217;s UEO. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leave Marketing to the Pros</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Arie Opps &#124; Featured on Yahoo! Business and Entrepreneur.com &#124; February 2010 You wouldn&#8217;t attempt to fill your own cavity, and you wouldn&#8217;t try to conduct your own home inspection before purchasing a house&#8211;you&#8217;d likely hire trained professionals to take on these tasks. Yet many small-business owners take it upon themselves to try to manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding new product McFailures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Arie Opps &#124; Strategy Magazine &#124; April 2004 What should you be considering when developing a new product? While this article was written in 2004 and some of the references are a bit outdated we think you&#8217;ll benefit from the principles we’ve outlined regarding new product development. Developing a successful new product is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are the ‘best brands’ really the best?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Arie Opps &#124; BrandRepublic.com &#124; April 2004 Since this article was written in 2004, Interbrand has continued to be revered as the brand valuation source. This article suggests that Interbrand’s approach misses some of the great brands because it’s evaluating companies rather than brands. I was at a marketing seminar recently where the presenter [...]]]></description>
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