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		<title>The show is over. What now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob McCann, Director of Education, ARI &#8211; You just got back from a great show but despite your best efforts, some meetings with prospects didn’t lead to a sale – not so unusual, is it? You also realize that you didn’t see some potential buyers that you were sure would visit your booth over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get a jump on boat show follow-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob McCann, Director of Education, ARI &#8211; We find that most new prospects who visit a dealer’s booth at a boat show for the first time aren’t ready to commit on the spot. In fact, most sales are closed with prospects that dealers have been working with for quite a while, even as far back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Shortcuts Ruin Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://insider.boatingindustry.com/?p=1834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Coughlin, The Dan Coughlin Co. &#8211; People are often categorized into groups by things like their gender, race, height, year of birth, and nationality. Then all sorts of assumptions are made about each person based on their combination of these labels. Those labels mean nothing to me. They don’t tell me anything about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 tips for using QR codes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to recent statistics, in the month of June, 14 million U.S. mobile phone users used their smart phones to scan QR or barcodes that were found in newspapers, magazines and product packages that could be found in a store or at their residence. ]]></description>
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		<title>Build pre-show buzz</title>
		<link>http://insider.boatingindustry.com/2011/09/build-pre-show-buzz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://insider.boatingindustry.com/?p=1824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Boat show season is right around the corner and winter will be here before you know it. What plans are you working on to build your own display traffic? ]]></description>
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		<title>Is American Express Your Competitor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://insider.boatingindustry.com/?p=1803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Scherer, Lifestyle Integrated Inc. - When I started in marine marketing over 10 years ago, we preached the message that businesses should be less concerned with the dealership down the street, but more about the recreational activities (sporting events, vacations, etc) that all compete for that recreational spend. While there may be no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pride: A Core Value for Sustaining Success over the Long Term</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://insider.boatingindustry.com/?p=1785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Coughlin, The Coughlin Co. &#8211; Pride has gotten a bad rap over the years. First, it got lumped into the seven deadly sins, and then it was labeled a negative as executives and managers went in search of humility. It became the in-thing to say, “I was just lucky to be surrounded by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloning Customers with Customers &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://insider.boatingindustry.com/2011/08/cloning-customers-with-customers-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://insider.boatingindustry.com/?p=1757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Ackerman, President of Ascend Marketing &#8211; In our last column we suggested that the hit-and-miss approach to referral generation is costing you money and we gave you the reasons why referral selling is so wonderful, along with recommendations for how you can execute a more systematic approach to referral generation. In this column, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloning Customers With Customers</title>
		<link>http://insider.boatingindustry.com/2011/08/cloning-customers-with-customers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://insider.boatingindustry.com/?p=1752</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t you love it when someone walks into your dealership and says, “My friend Alex told me all about you guys and I wanna buy a boat.”? ]]></description>
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		<title>Referral Hearty Deck Party…</title>
		<link>http://insider.boatingindustry.com/2011/08/referral-hearty-deck-party%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it cost you to acquire a new customer? It’s important to know, it’s easy to figure out, and it’s a good bet that not one boat dealer in 20 knows the number. ]]></description>
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