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	<title>Scot&#039;s Blog &#187; Communication That Connects</title>
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		<title>SCOT SIMMONS, BRAND WHISPERER</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK. So why not? There’s a Horse Whisperer, a Dog Whisperer…there’s even a Ghost Whisperer. The name is meant to connote one’s ability to “speak” to the named entity in a language only it understands…and thereby achieve a level of cooperation and performance previously thought impossible (or at least improbable).
I can do that.
I’ve seen many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THOUGHTS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can&#8217;t see from the center.&#8221;

 &#8212; Kurt Vonnegut
OK, all you edge dwellers&#8230; let&#8217;s hear from you. What&#8217;s so great about it? Is seeing over the edge all it&#8217;s cracked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW DOES A BRAND MEAN?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freshman year, UCSB. English 1B. The first book I bought for the class was entitled How Does a Poem Mean? The author, John Ciardi explained in his introduction that the title he has chosen is not intended in any way as a verbal trick. He is “interested rather in “How” the poem means, how it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IF…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scotsimmons.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you started your business today…right now…what would you do differently?
First thing that comes to mind? I’d collect a deposit up front for those projects that went south (along with their originator and any hope of my being paid for many hours of work) in the first blushingly innocent year of The Simmons Group. I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YES, GRASSHOPPER&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; “But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano/act a scene/paint a portrait/write my book?”
 
&#8211; “Yes. The same age you will be if you don’t.”
Don’t know who said it. Not the same since I read it. The difference between those who do it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEATH AND SCHMAXES&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.scotsimmons.com/death-and-schmaxes</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 22:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[david sedaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death and Taxes. Widely believed to be the only things you can count on in this world. The month of April brought me death in triplicate – my mother, Sandra Simmons; dear friend Frank Maguire; former student Jorge de los Reyes.
Enough.
Interesting that both death and taxes demand a price – introspection…an account-taking  of sorts, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces  that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create, 
And time for all the works and days of hands
 That lift and drop a question on your plate;
 Time for you and time for me, 
And  time yet for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THAT CHIMPANZEE THING</title>
		<link>http://www.scotsimmons.com/that-chimpanzee-thing</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotsimmons.com/that-chimpanzee-thing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now we’ve all seen and had suitable time to react to the Oprah interview with that unfortunate victimized woman who was recently mauled by an unfortunately vilified chimpanzee. And if you have read my book, Mr. Coleman, you know that it presents a very different take on human/chimpanzee relationships. Because it does, I feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEAR OF COMMITMENT? CALL A GHOST BLOGGER</title>
		<link>http://www.scotsimmons.com/fear-of-commitment-call-a-ghost-blogger</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotsimmons.com/fear-of-commitment-call-a-ghost-blogger#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scotsimmons.com/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard of a ghost writer, right? Same principle. A ghost blogger works with professionals – from corporate CEOs to power-of-the-pitch salespeople to over-extended entrepreneurs – who recognize the value of a blog but don’t have the time or the desire to commit to churning one out with the regularity required to ensure effectiveness. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO YOU GONNA CALL? GHOST BLOGGER.</title>
		<link>http://www.scotsimmons.com/who-you-gonna-call-ghost-blogger</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scotsimmons.com/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something we all need to realize about blogging. Each and every blog you post is a premier – and I mean first class, a-#1, slam dunk, top-of-the-charts &#8212; viral marketing opportunity. Once it’s up it can go not only to your website, but to millions of others – as well as to blog directories, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE BEST THING: REPRISE</title>
		<link>http://www.scotsimmons.com/the-best-thing-reprise</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotsimmons.com/the-best-thing-reprise#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scotsimmons.com/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“The best thing for being sad is to learn something.  That is the only thing that never fails.  You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAMBLINGS ON A RAINY DAY</title>
		<link>http://www.scotsimmons.com/ramblings-on-a-rainy-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rain. At last.
Hey, I live in L.A. It&#8217;s been awhile.  I actually missed the rain. Just like I miss Bay Area fog (OK&#8230;acquired taste, I admit). And although I am actually working this afternoon &#8212; putting  the finishing touches on an eclectic grouping of e-blasts and flyers and web pages, I&#8217;m also dreaming and dazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MR. COLEMAN:  FRIENDSHIP, THAT&#8217;S ALL.</title>
		<link>http://www.scotsimmons.com/mr-coleman-a-special-friendship</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotsimmons.com/mr-coleman-a-special-friendship#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s the “message” of Mr. Coleman?  I get asked that a lot these days…and I should be really good at answering profoundly by now, but, well, not so much. I didn’t really have an agenda or a cause or a message to put forth when I started with Coleman.
I just wanted to tell a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUTHOR! AUTHOR!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotsimm</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scotsimmons.com/?p=71</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. Talk about a rush. Trying to get accustomed to associating the word &#8220;author&#8221; or words &#8220;published author&#8221; with my name&#8230;as opposed to all those authors I&#8217;ve been reading for decades (many decades, actually, but let&#8217;s not go there). I&#8217;m now including the title after my name in all correspondences. I&#8217;m printing &#8220;author&#8221; t-shirts. And [...]]]></description>
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