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	<title>The Laban Johnson Group, LLC</title>
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	<description>Improving the Quality of Life</description>
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		<title>Ways you can change a life today.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of charities are in need of your support, from the biggest to the smallest, the local, national and international. Just a few dollars can literally change lives.
If you are looking for ways to give back to your community here is a list of places to begin:
http://www.1800volunteer.org 
http://www.changingthepresent.org 

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.advanced.htm
http://www.devdir.org

http://www.givingtreeincentives.com

http://www.globalgiving.com 
 http://www.guidestar.org

http://www.idealist.org 
 http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=96136,00.html
 http://www.kiva.org 
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labanjohnson.com/charity/ways-you-can-change-a-life-today/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;The Whuffie Factor, Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business&#8221; by Tara Hunt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can you build a reputation of trustworthiness in the community and set word-of-mouth referral business on fire?
We all know the best new business is a referral. Referral business typically goes more smoothly, customers trust your advice, are understanding, and will gleefully pay you a profit for helping them solve their problems. So how can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labanjohnson.com/home/book-review-the-whuffie-factor-using-the-power-of-social-networks-to-build-your-business-by-tara-hunt/</link>
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		<title>The Laban Johnson Group to sponsor the Helpful Hands Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2009 &#8211; The Laban Johnson Group has committed to encouraging its members, social entrepreneurs from around the country, to volunteer and raise funds for The Helpful Hands Foundation to help save American families from the threat of foreclosure on their homes. The Group, a cooperative association of social entrepreneurs using business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labanjohnson.com/general/the-laban-johnson-group-to-sponsor-the-helpful-hands-foundation/</link>
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		<title>Promote your business while benefitting charity! Use our free viral fundraiser marketing tools to build your list and reach more people fast!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great tool to get more word-of-mouth referrals for your business so you work less for more business, and to benefit charity, earning recognition in your community as a giver!
It&#8217;s Simple, inexpensive, and powerfully effective!
Get it started by passing our VIRAL fundraising flyers out to your list but you type in your business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labanjohnson.com/general/promote-your-business-while-benefitting-charity-use-our-free-viral-fundraiser-marketing-tools-to-build-your-list-and-reach-more-people-fast/</link>
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		<title>The Entrepreneur&#8217;s Creed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon – if I can. I seek opportunity – not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

I want to take the calculated risk, to dream and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labanjohnson.com/general/the-entrepreneurs-creed/</link>
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		<title>Why SugarCRM?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Laban Johnson Group uses a customized implementation of SugarCRM to perform many functions.
Here&#8217;s a nice plain-English explanation of why small businesses should plan on using a customer relationship management (CRM) tool like SugarCRM from the get-go, an excerpt from the Blog of Leonid Mamchenkev
&#8220;As with WordPress, most people who have heard of SugarCRM probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labanjohnson.com/members/why-sugarcrm/</link>
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		<title>Membership Agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[COOPERATIVE MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT
1. Purpose of the Cooperative
The Laban Johnson Group is a cooperative which promotes the development of entrepreneurship and socially responsible enterprise by leveraging teamwork and technology to enable entrepreneurs to overcome the major obstacles to success and improve the quality of life in every way for our Members, our families and communities.
2. Purpose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labanjohnson.com/members/membership-agreement/</link>
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