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	<title>Shouninjutsu</title>
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	<description>The Fine Art of Ninja Marketing</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>And the winner in the &#8220;Most Worthless CRM Technology&#8221; category is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2008/01/11/and-the-winner-in-the-most-worthless-crm-technology-category-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually blog about this sort of thing.  The folks at Grokdotcom (especially Melissa) do a great job of critiquing specific online and customer service &#8220;experiences&#8221; (disasters), but I just tend to shrug them off and move on.
But recently I&#8217;ve had a string of really bad experiences with live chat.  Often enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is for all the &#8220;Little&#8221; People&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2008/01/07/20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read a great post on Simplenomics entitled, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a Little Used But Highly Profitable, B2B Sales Tip.&#8221;
http://www.simplenomics.com/heres-a-little-used-but-highly-profitable-b2b-sales-tip/
I couldn&#8217;t agree more with what I considered the main theme of the article.  Listen to the &#8220;Little People&#8221; if you want to know what&#8217;s REALLY going on at a company.
At one point in my consulting career, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pareto Proclamation (Part 2)- Applying the 80-20 Rule to Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/12/12/the-pareto-proclamation-part-2-applying-the-80-20-rule-to-everyday-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vilfredo Pareto was a French-Italian sociologist, economist and philosopher born in 1848 in Paris. In 1906, as a lecturer in economics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, he first articulated what has become known as the “Pareto Principle” or the 80-20 rule when he observed that 20 percent of the population owned 80 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Steps to get RID of Your Fuzzy Decision-Making</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/12/12/3-steps-to-get-rid-of-your-fuzzy-decision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing about Ninjas— and Ninja Marketers— they don’t have time for a lot of superfluous crap.
Ask 10 people about the biggest frustrations they encounter in their working lives.  10 of them will put the “decision-making process” Go ahead.  Ask.
Told you so.
Let me share a short, sweet 3-step (what would you expect from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ninja Marketing Techniques to “Keep it Fresh”</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/11/02/three-ninja-marketing-techniques-to-%e2%80%9ckeep-it-fresh%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More lessons from Naruto Uzumaki that every Ninja Marketer MUST master.
Last post we introduced Naruto Uzumaki, currently the world’s most popular anime ninja.  His flexibility and ability to use a wide variety of different techniques and approaches is a defining part of his appeal and integral to his success as a ninja.
Let’s look specifically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Naruto Uzumaki and What does he have to teach me about marketing?</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/10/29/who-is-naruto-uzumaki-and-what-does-he-have-to-teach-me-about-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIVE SECRETS OF THE WORLD&#8217;S MOST EFFECTIVE NINJA

Probably anyone in North America (probably the world) with preadolescent boys at home (or at least hard-core fans of the Cartoon Network) has heard about Naruto.  The premier Japanese cartoon (“anime”) in production today, Naruto is the #1 brand/franchise of it’s kind in the world—surpassing the once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pareto Proclamation (Sidebar #1- Is the &#8220;INDUSTRIAL WAVE&#8221; really over?)</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/09/12/pareto-proclamation-sidebar-1-is-the-industrial-wave-really-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been thinking about my previous comments about the various of &#8220;waves&#8221; through which civilization has progressed.
And while I still believe it is absolutely true that we have in general &#8220;core dumped&#8221; ourselves beyond not only the &#8220;industrial wave&#8221; but the &#8220;information wave&#8221; as well (see previous Pareto Proclamation post), I&#8217;ve been recently reminded that each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pareto Proclamation, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/08/10/pareto-proclamation-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another moment of inspiration spurred by some discussion at Grokdotcom.com as a result of a couple of recent articles,
 Google an Yahoo Starting Social Networks
FaceBook Follies and LinkedIn Lure
 I don&#8217;t knw if I should be paying the guys at FutureNow, or they should be paying me, :)but I find the discussions there stimulate some of my most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninja &#8220;Meeting&#8221; Principles and Tactics</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/07/31/ninja-meeting-principles-and-tactics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Well, the boys and girls at Grokdotcom (in this case, Jeffrey Eisenberg, in particular) have done it again.  They&#8217;ve spurred a debate that has inspired me to not only comment on a recent post over there, but to repeat my comments over here on the Shouninjutsu, Ninja Marketing blog.
As time goes by, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another great Grokicle- Influence, engagement, conversion and &#8220;social media&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://shurikensystems.com/wordpress/2007/07/20/another-great-grokicle-influence-engagement-conversion-and-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it so many of &#8220;my&#8221; best ideas seem to come from others? &#60;g&#62;
Robert Gorell has another great article at Grokdotcom entitled &#8220;Rubel&#8217;s Twitter List Trumps Godin&#8217;s Bestsellers.&#8221;  Rather than try to recap it, I encourage you to go read it for yourself.
 I WILL however revise and repost here a couple of my personal [...]]]></description>
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