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		<title>Solving the Mexican Standoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mexican standoff, as epitomised by the finale of &#8216;The Good, the Bad and the Ugly&#8217;, is a game theory paradox which is widely regarded as unsolveable. In business terms, Mexican stand-off can be applied to a competitive tender where three bidders have just two rounds, in which one is eliminated in the first, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 Ds of Branding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows about the 4 Ps of marketing (or 7 Ps if you&#8217;re a service, or even more for some things), but do you know about the five Ds of Branding? We could be cute and call them the 5 Dimensions of Branding. But they aren&#8217;t dimensions, and that would simply weaken what we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a logo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more people with significant commercial skills are setting up small businesses. This is to some extent a result of the boom in business-oriented internet services, such as affordable payment systems (PayPal, NoChex, etc â€” see here for a listing), and to some extent a result of the health boom where retirees can look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Nikon enter the &#8216;full-frame&#8217; DSLR market?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speculation was rife at the beginning of March that Nikon was about to release the D3 flagship digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera, with a rumoured &#8216;Fullframe&#8217; or possibly &#8217;1.1x&#8217; sensor format. This would put the company head-to-head with main competitor Canon in a highly visible sector of the premium market, but would represent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spelling and grammar are the new rock and roll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporate blogging is the newest weapon in the reputation arsenal. Spider and back-track sites such as Technorati ensure that everyone you reference will check your blog â€” at least the first time. But blogging is a weapon that can point in both directions. Some CEOs have embraced it, while others have introduced strict disciplinary policies against it. If you decide to go down the blogging route, what are the factors which distinguish you in the blogosphere from teenagers, disgruntled employees, and poorly informed citizen journalists?]]></description>
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