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		<title>Are You a Good Neighbour?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2010/07/are-you-a-good-neighbour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When travelling the world and staying in hotels one of the challenges is noisy neighbours. How do you address the challenge when other consumers can become a problem?
One hotel I stopped at in California had a noisy neighboiur policy and this got me thinking about whether this type of policy could work for other retailers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choirs, Chefs and Carrots..The Marketing Mix for the Future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmers markets have reached maturity as a retail model and this brings its own challenges. Even a year ago it was rare to hear farmers markets being referred to the board rooms of supermarket directors. Today it is one of the hot topics. With farmers markets seeing some of the biggest growth in retailing they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UGRs® &#8211; The Hidden Threat to Your Retail Business</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2010/03/ugrs%c2%ae-the-hidden-threat-to-your-retail-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine is Steve Simpson, who operates the consultancy and conference speaking business, Keystone Management Services,[www.keystone-management.com.]
Steve and I meet about twice a year to discuss various aspects of our conference and consultancy work. Steve has created the UGRs® concept [www.ugrs.net] . UGRs stands for “Unwritten Ground Rules”, something that occurs in all businesses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants to be an Entrepreneur&#8230; the Communicators</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2010/03/who-wants-to-be-an-entrepreneur-the-communicators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third article in a series on “who wants to be an entrepreneur”. I was awarded “The Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year” for W.A. in 2009 under the Small Business Champions Awards.
In the previous articles I have concentrated on what entrepreneurs do and how they motivate team members. In this article I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants to be an Entrepreneur&#8230; Is it You?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2010/03/who-wants-to-be-an-entrepreneur-is-it-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last article I discussed what some of the top traits of an entrepreneur were. This was based on my own award of Entrepreneur of the Year for W.A. in 2009 in the Small Business Champions Awards.
The challenge to you, is do you want to be an entrepreneur and if you do, what do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discounting is it an Answer?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2009/11/discounting-is-it-an-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walk down the High street and you will see the discounters in action. Why?
Jamie Murdoch, one of our clients in Fremantle, has just discovered a  great article on “Only Losers Cut Their Prices”.
See below to read this, it is a gem.
Only Losers Cut Their Prices  
Cutting prices actually reveals the lack of selling skills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much is your Team turnover costing your Business?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2009/11/how-much-is-your-team-turnover-costing-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People come and go in the business, the younger generation tend to change jobs more often, but how much is this costing your business?
John le Roux of Franchisee Express Employment Professionals in Pretoria, South Africa recently wrote an excellent article in the Pretoria News (Wed 14th Oct).
I thought this would be worth sharing.
“How Much Does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of getting a new POS?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2009/10/thinking-of-getting-a-new-pos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2009/10/thinking-of-getting-a-new-pos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David M Abouav
John Stanley has kindly invited me to provide an article about Univex Botanica POS – the garden centre version of Univex iPoS, our “intelligent Point of Sale”. Univex provides specialised retail systems for a number of industry segments including pharmacy, educational toys, furniture, apparel and, of course, garden centres.
As the Principal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start Managing It Before It Is Too Late</title>
		<link>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2009/08/get-a-computer-in-your-business-and-start-managing-it-before-it-is-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnstanleyretailguru.com/2009/08/get-a-computer-in-your-business-and-start-managing-it-before-it-is-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stanley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last two months I have worked with clients in New Zealand, Australia, U.S.A., and Europe. Business people often think the U.S.A. is the world leader in technology, but I was surprised to see many garden centres in that country still hand writing price stickers and having no real control over stock and their [...]]]></description>
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