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	<title>Comments on: Patience, Grasshopper</title>
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	<description>Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua writes on the photo business and marketing</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: johnny olsen</title>
		<link>http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/10/15/patience-grasshopper/comment-page-1/#comment-22083</link>
		<dc:creator>johnny olsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>leslie,
great to finally meet you.  very informative stuff and gave me a good tangible timeframe as to how long i may need to wait to see the effects of marketing/promotion. :)

all the best

johnny o</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>leslie,<br />
great to finally meet you.  very informative stuff and gave me a good tangible timeframe as to how long i may need to wait to see the effects of marketing/promotion. <img src='http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>all the best</p>
<p>johnny o</p>
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		<title>By: Bruce DeBoer</title>
		<link>http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/10/15/patience-grasshopper/comment-page-1/#comment-21135</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce DeBoer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very good point to make.  Even large corporations are known to give up on their marketing plans too soon; it's very easy to say, "this isn't working, I'm throwing money down the toilet".  

The sales cycle in our business is measured in years.  In fact, it's so long that most photographers never consider the excruciating wait as a "sales cycle" at all in our business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good point to make.  Even large corporations are known to give up on their marketing plans too soon; it&#8217;s very easy to say, &#8220;this isn&#8217;t working, I&#8217;m throwing money down the toilet&#8221;.  </p>
<p>The sales cycle in our business is measured in years.  In fact, it&#8217;s so long that most photographers never consider the excruciating wait as a &#8220;sales cycle&#8221; at all in our business.</p>
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