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				<title><![CDATA[Yea I did not understand what yo]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Yea I did not understand what you were asking either.
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				<title><![CDATA[Trent,
Sorry for not responding]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Trent,
Sorry for not responding sooner - but I just read your post.&nbsp; 
Maybe I&nbsp;mis-read&nbsp;your post, but I got some mixed messages from it.

&nbsp;Do you want to restructure the company finances?
Are y]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I just read a great quote from l]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I just read a great quote from long ago (noting your Roosevelt):

"Failure is not falling down. Failure is staying down."


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				<title><![CDATA[Great....thanks. :-)
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				<description><![CDATA[Great....thanks. :-)
]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[SWOT Strengths, weaknesses, oppo]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[SWOT Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Strengths and weaknesses are "internal" or about the company.&nbsp; AND a strength is something that a competitor can not duplicate very easily.
Opportunties and threats are "externa]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Thanks for the compliment. :-) B]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the compliment. :-) But....what`s a SWOT analysis?
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				<title><![CDATA[Well said, Craig.&nbsp;
I would]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Well said, Craig.&nbsp;
I would add that&nbsp;a "proactive" and "well thought out" SWOT analysis would have predicted those external threats that were on the horizon back then but&nbsp;now have&nbsp;placed the&nbsp;business&nbsp;in a "reactive" ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[

Wouldn`t it be better to tem]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[

Wouldn`t it be better to temporarily reduce your costs, work hard to
increase your sales, and use the added revenues to get caught up?
Rather than give away equity in a family-owned business?

Here`s what I`m seeing generally: Let`s say tha]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I am writing for my father`s com]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I am writing for my father`s company today.&nbsp; We have had a family business for around 13 years called Universal Sports Lighting Mfg., Inc.&nbsp; Until 9/11 we were very succesfull and were ready to take on anything, however for the next two years o]]></description>
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