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		<title>Needed Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need to make some quick changes to our business or we may be near the end of a 35 year run. We are aging, we are mired in the old ways of doing things, we have little imagination, our competition gets better and better. We have lived in a retail world where we expected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=77&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the Family, Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law passed away this week. Cancer is cruel. We all knew she was dying but we all hoped for more time with her. Cancer is cruel. The cancer attacked her liver and when that quit functioning she went very quickly. C is C. If you had seen her 2 or 3 weeks ago you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=74&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring, Smiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really hate hiring people. Not that I don&#8217;t need the help, not that there aren&#8217;t good people looking for work, not that I don&#8217;t like people very much, well maybe. We have an opening. Full time work for a little bit more than minimum wage. I would love to pay more but we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=71&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the Family, Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Trucks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last year has been a real eye opener for me. A rush of emotions I wasn&#8217;t sure I had. First my wife&#8217;s sister dies suddenly, long before she should have. Now my wife has moved to be with her parents as her Mother dies of cancer. Just last Thanksgiving her mother made a trip to Eqypt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=69&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frustration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always criticized because I don&#8217;t talk enough. As if this world doesn&#8217;t have enough people ready and willing to talk. Being a boss the fact that I don&#8217;t talk much means my employees start to make things up. They take their own feelings and insecurities and lay them at my doorstep. All of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=68&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Independent Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Trucks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at two web sites. www.350project.net and www.10%shift.org. Both of these organizations have interesting approaches to keeping small Independent businesses alive. The 3-50 Project asks that you choose 3 local independent businesses that you would miss if they were not around and commit to spending $50.00 total at these three businesses each month. The 10% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=67&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the family, part three</title>
		<link>http://jefftrucks.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/death-in-the-family-part-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Trucks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s strange dealing with death. I wasn&#8217;t close to this person but people I care a lot about were. I feel the loss and the pain. It&#8217;s difficult to keep running different scenarios through your head about what happened and what could have been done to avoid it. Even though, intellectually, I know there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=64&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the Family, part 2</title>
		<link>http://jefftrucks.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/death-in-the-family-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Trucks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m still in a state of shock. We all know people who have problems. We help, offer help, ignore, turn the blind eye, whatever our response but we never expect a quick death. A mother, age 52, with a son at home should not die. I worry that family members will want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=61&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister-in-law died last night. She had been battling drinking demons for a few years and last night the demons won. She left behind two sons and one daughter. Two of the children are out of the house and on their own, the youngest at 16 is still at home. He&#8217;s very angry with his mother. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=51&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The economy and Rural Michigan</title>
		<link>http://jefftrucks.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/the-economy-and-rural-michigan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Trucks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is bad. The news tells us of the big problems, the automakers, the banks, the housing market, and they, so far, have ignored the small towns. Well, I&#8217;m here to tell you they are hurting. Our business is in the business of serving the other businesses in our area. We see layoffs, strikes, closures, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080085&amp;post=49&amp;subd=jefftrucks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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