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		<title>Would You Like to Dance? An Interactive, Personalized Experience…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How would you feel if a stranger approached you, got a little too close, and asked this question: Will you marry me? Wouldn’t that just freak you out? You’d undoubtedly turn and run in the other direction. Fast. But, if someone simply asks you to dance, you might be more open to accepting their invitation. <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=1093"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation with Personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does personality have to do with innovation? I’d have to say, quite a bit. After all, the art of business boils down to a continuum of innovation and marketing. Let’s say you’re in the middle of an important innovation-phase of your business. Whether it’s an entirely new product-line or business management technology designed to <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=1077"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bounty Towels &amp; Building Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Salmonson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can we learn from the retail industry and apply to building homes? What&#8217;s in a bar code? We may not wonder any more why bar codes are on packaging as we shop at a store, but in reality this way of information tracking is relatively new.  In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=1043"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Capturing Homeruns with Homebuyers Through IFP e-Lead Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; You undoubtedly remember sitting on the edge of your seat while listening to the encouraging words spoken so sincerely by James Earl Jones to Kevin Costner in The Field of Dreams, “Ray, build it and they will come”.   One of films’ best moments, I believe.  That prolific attitude resonates today and can be powerful <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=1010"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is There a Map of Your World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merely thinking about the incredible process-maze that goes into building and marketing a community of single-family homes can make your head spin – let alone maneuvering through it day in and day out.  Even those who are veteran builders struggle with navigating the building-process-highway in search of a better track to get where they want <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=1020"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Collaboration Quotient?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Salmonson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiring a key staff member with an impressive IQ is undoubtedly a benefit to achieving your company&#8217;s goals, and even better if they possess a high EQ/Emotional Quotient to help manage team members effectively.  But, what is your company&#8217;s CQ/Collaboration Quotient? Many business leaders today are increasing their quotient level by identifying the tremendous opportunities <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=968"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting Gears in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performance-Driven Approach through Integrated Process Management (IPM) Shifting gears is second nature to NASCAR driver, Tony Stewart.  It’s critical to gaining the results needed to maintain his lead and charge beyond the checkered flag in first place. For years, home builders were somewhat content with the minor shifts necessary to conduct their businesses.  They found <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=974"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Do We Respond To Change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Salmonson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to cope with unstable market conditions involkes organizations to both look inward and outward toward redifining their businesses. Change is never easy, and to execute a new vision or mission for an organization takes a cultural shift in mindset for all. ]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Partner Alliances with The Contrado Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Salmonson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales Simplicity a Sales CRM Company for Homebuilders &#38; Big Red Rooster Architectural Services   We have been working with the Sales Simplicity team for the last few months to fully integrate our Interactive Floor Plan (IFP) tool’s eLead functionality. Essentially, we have developed our Interactive Floor Plans to have seamless integration of leads into <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=888"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching A Wider, More Tech Savvy Audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Multifamily Housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gone are the lotteries and land rush home sales and apartment to condo conversions, the landscape is almost unrecognizable in only a few short years. With the entire production homebuilding &#38; multifamily housing industries turned on their ear in the last few years, I think its safe to say we&#8217;ve all been doing our fair <a href="http://blog.thecontradogroup.com/?p=782"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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