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      <title><![CDATA[Manufacturers and job shop owners discuss social media]]></title>
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 Editor&acirc;€™s Note: This summary of a  roundtable discussion among manufacturers about social media as a marketing  tool is a companion piece to the article &acirc;€œStrategic marketing for manufacturers&acirc;€...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Creating the path to profitable growth]]></title>
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It seems that most sales forces, demotivated and disengaged by the lack of success in the last two years, have hunkered down&Acirc;&nbsp; and completely forgotten that sales is an activity. To be successful, a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Can lean manufacturing work in the job shop?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Figure 1 Workers at ACE Metal Crafts, a job shop in Franklin Park, Ill., go through their morning huddle to discuss the day&acirc;€™s work. In the high-mix job shop environment, strong communication is...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Strategic Marketing for Manufacturers]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Figure 1Use Traditional and Ancillary Social Media to Drive Traffic to Your Web Site.

Marketing is an investment, not an expense.

 If a line item on a budget does not have to do with  physically...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scenes from Europe]]></title>
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&iuml;&raquo;&iquest;If you take a ride on the London Eye and dare to look down, you&acirc;€™ll get a view of the Thames and central London from an altitude of nearly 450 feet. If that&acirc;€™s not your cup of tea, a lateral...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to set up an internship program]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Figure 1Interns at the Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) of Kansas State University are involved in actual engineering projects for paying clients. Photo courtesy of AMI.
Mention the word...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What's NEXt? Growth]]></title>
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Figure 1The staff at NEX Solutions stands in front of one of the company&acirc;€™s products, a chassis for a specialty vehicle manufacturer. 

Two months ago Kevin Grossman arrived in Portland, Ore., to...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Selling used equipment]]></title>
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 Do you remember when you bought your last car? I do, and I couldn&acirc;€™t help but feel  disappointed when the dealer gave me the trade-in price on my car. Although it  had 125,000 miles on it and a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[If you don't measure it, you can't improve it]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[  In 2004 Impulse Manufacturing had your typical job shop floor. Jobs came in, bounced around the shop to various areas, and then headed out the door. Part flow wasn't top of mind.  The company had...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ERP and the cloud]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Figure 1 Businesses may need to climb over some hurdles when looking to invest in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, manufacturing execution system (MES, or shop floor control) software, or...]]></description>
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