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		<title>This Blog Has Moved!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog for a while or have just stumbled on my sporadic flashes of brilliance, you&#8217;ll want to Click Here to visit the new site. You&#8217;ll still get the same, no nonsense, behind the scenes marketing advice but it will be much easier to read and packed with more value. Going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=274&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption Rocks! A Musical Celebration</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate International Adoption Month, The Long Center for the Performing Arts has scheduled a benefit concert and celebration called Adoption Rocks! It’s a benefit for The Gladney Center, a Texas organization that’s been providing adoption services for over 100 years. This event was inspired by an Austin family’s adoption of their Ethiopian daughter last year. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=269&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Trick or Treating Can Teach You About Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by: Amy Hardin &#8211; AcSELLerate YOU HAVE TO YELL “TRICK OR TREAT”! I don’t know about you, but if a kid shows up at my house and just stands there, they don’t get any candy. Every kid who comes to my house has to say “Trick or Treat” before they get their chance at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=265&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High Growth Firms Spend Limited Budgets Differently From Lower Growth Peers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read a study that shows that high growth firms in professional services categories invested in marketing activities very differently from their lagging peers. Here&#8217;s how it breaks down: High Growth Firms put more emphasis on: Building awareness through advertising and PR Lead generation through channels such as direct mail, cold calls, trade shows and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=261&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my regular readers, this post may be a bit unusual. But, for me, it is right on topic since much of what I know about business and what I share here originated from my dad. Allow me to indulge you with the tale of the Air Force vet, turned pilot, turned rodeo rider, turned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=253&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media Fragmentation: A Nightmare or Beautiful Dream?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pete Monfre Back in the good old days of advertising, marketing was simple. You’d whip up a T.V. and/or radio ad, broadcast it out to a huge audience and the dollars would roll in. It worked because there were few media choices and huge numbers of people tuning in to three channels of content. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=250&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Erin Ivey &#8211; big show Oct. 1st Long Center</title>
		<link>http://petemonfre.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/erin-ivey-big-show-oct-1st-long-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get your tickets now for Erin Ivey&#8217;s MusicDanceLightArtapalooza! OK, she&#8217;s calling it the Musical Kaleidoscope Project at the Rollins Theater but I say it&#8217;s some kind of palooza. Join this crazy good singer songwriter for an exploration of improvisation and inter-disciplinary collaboration featuring The Finest Kind (Hammond M3 organ trio), Red Corner Rhymers, and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=244&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pay for Performance. Bring it on if you dare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I’ve been a big proponent of pay for performance when it comes to engaging clients as a marketing firm. What could be better? Clients love the concept because both parties have skin in the game and we get paid according to how effective our work is. The assumption is that we’ll do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=241&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From up on my high horse&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had a casual contact excitedly tell me she has hired a marketing company to help her build her fledgling business. No problem for me, I&#8217;m not competition minded. I believe in abundance &#8211; there&#8217;s enough work for everyone. What I don&#8217;t believe in is companies that overstate their expertise and take advantage of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=238&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you serve on a board? Know someone who does?</title>
		<link>http://petemonfre.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/do-you-serve-on-a-board-know-someone-who-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Scott Ingram has dreamed up something of enormous value to those of us who participate or lead membership organizations (boards, non profits, corporations, etc.) It&#8217;s called the Membership Organization Leadership Series The most common challenges of membership driven organizations (like Associations, Chambers, Civic Organizations, Networking Groups, etc.) are nearly universal: How do we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petemonfre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3890354&amp;post=229&amp;subd=petemonfre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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