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		<title>Developing a Strategic Content Marketing Framework for Your Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, I shouldn’t have to convince you about how powerful content marketing is, as well as how significant of a difference it can make in terms of your website’s performance. But just in case you aren’t fully on board with this new promotional paradigm yet, consider this…  Of the brands surveyed by the Content Marketing Institute in 2013, 86% of business-to-consumer (B2C) companies are planning to maintain or increase their current content marketing spend, while 54% of business-to-business (B2B) companies report the same commitment to this marketing strategy. Pretty compelling stuff, right? Now, if you’re planning to add content marketing to your promotional toolbox as a result of these &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/marketing/developing-a-strategic-content-marketing-framework-for-your-site/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth about Hard Work and Entrepreneurial Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Americans love our “get rich quick” stories. We eat up news reports of entrepreneurs who have struck it big “overnight” – wondering how we ourselves would handle the sudden influx of wealth acquired through a startup buyout or IPO.  And we’re incredibly susceptible to products that promise quick riches (no matter how illogical their roadmaps to achieving wealth might seem). We love these stories because we’re all inherently lazy – we all want to do the least amount of work possible, while earning as much money as possible. But unfortunately, this type of laziness – when left unchecked – can seriously derail your entrepreneurial dreams.  The bottom line, hard &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/business/the-truth-about-hard-work-and-entrepreneurial-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Great Skills from Great Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I shared with you six great skills that you can learn from six of the greatest entrepreneurs throughout history.  But if you think that six skills alone are going to take you from wannabe business owner to entrepreneurial success, you’ve got another thing coming! Today, I want to wrap up this series with another six important lessons that you need to learn if you want to make it with your own company.  Start working on these skills within your own life and I guarantee you’ll see faster progress – no matter what your business goals might be! Skill #1 – Curiosity Simply put, you can’t be an entrepreneur &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/business/more-great-skills-from-great-entrepreneurs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Great Skills from Great Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure if there are any other occupations out there that require as many skills and abilities as it takes to be an entrepreneur.  If you’re a pilot, you need to be familiar with the operation of your aircraft – but you don’t have to source its parts, build it and then sell it to an airline in order to be successful.  If you’re an engineer, you might draft plans – but then you pass your designs off to others to see them brought to reality. That’s not to say that these fields aren’t important or challenging – just that they’re not as all-encompassing as entrepreneurship.  When you’re a &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/business/great-skills-from-great-entrepreneurs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>5 Essential Leadership Skills for Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to run a startup, you have to be an effective leader – no ifs, ands or buts about it. As a entrepreneur you’ll be called upon to lead in a variety of different situations.  If you have employees, it’ll be up to you to motivate your workers to give 110% to their tasks and to finish priorities in a timely manner.  But even if you’re flying solo, you need the charisma of leadership to convince mentors, partners and investors to believe in your vision and provide the support that’s needed to meet your startup goals. Now, that being said, it’s important to recognize that leadership comes in &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/business/5-essential-leadership-skills-for-startup-business-owners/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Running Your Business or Is It Running You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do you feel when you get to the office in the morning?  Do you arrive at your desk with a clear sense of purpose, an uncluttered inbox and a well-defined series of daily objectives to meet that will best serve your company’s needs? Or do you arrive – already stressed – to an email inbox that’s stuffed full of new messages, a seemingly never-ending list of “to do” items and a queue of employees waiting outside of your office for their daily assignments? Certainly, these are two extreme examples, but they highlight an important distinction that all entrepreneurs must deal with at some point in their careers.  You’re the &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/productivity/are-you-running-your-business-or-is-it-running-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>100 Day Fitness Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few years of working out, my friend Chris Hooley &#38; I got bored at the gym, so we decided to challenge ourselves a little differently&#8230;to push our boundaries, test our endurance and change things up. I know there are other fitness junkies out there like us that want to push their limits. To those, I challenge you! Below are the first 30 of a 100 day fitness challenge.  You will fail at some of these challenges, but that&#8217;s okay as long as you give it your all (I estimate a 75-80% success rate). Chest/Arms &#8211; 1,000 push-ups in a day Shoulders/Back &#8211; 100 pull-ups in a half hour Back/Legs &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/fitness/100-day-fitness-challenge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The #3 Most Overlooked SEO Skill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, in this series on overlooked SEO skills, we’ve covered the importance of developing your communication skills and learning how to learn.  And while both of these are incredibly important pursuits – for anybody, not just for SEO marketers – there’s one final skill I want to discuss with you… In fact, I hinted at this last skill in my post on learning, but today, I want to break things down on this topic into even further detail.  Are you ready to hear what the final most overlooked SEO skill is? It’s testing! I’ve made plenty of mentions both here and on the Single Grain website about how important &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/seo/the-3-most-overlooked-seo-skill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Workout Routine of Greek Warriors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fitness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I stumbled on a few awesome workout motivational quotes and got really excited to share my own experiences. In the past few years, I&#8217;ve completely changed my lifestyle to become a healthier, fitter, better me. I wanted to share how I lost over 40 pounds, built muscle mass, and became healthier. A bit of background before I get started:  I was skinny my entire life until I met my wife and started working. I got lazy and gained 45lbs over 4 years. One day in 2009, I was on a plane with an extremely overweight woman.  In that moment I said to myself, &#8220;Fuck this. This plane &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/fitness/workout/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The #2 Most Overlooked SEO Skill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sujan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In last week’s post, I talked to you about the importance of learning to communicate effectively – what I believe to be the most overlooked SEO skill of all.  If you have time to improve only one area of your professional SEO practice, I’d highly recommend investing your effort into that all-important area. However, if you want to take things a step further, go ahead and focus some of your energy on what I consider to be the second most overlooked SEO skill – learning. If you’ve spent any amount of time in the SEO field, you know that learning is pretty much non-negotiable.  Given the number of algorithm changes &#8230; <a href="http://www.sujanpatel.com/seo/the-2-most-overlooked-seo-skill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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