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title: Increasing Confidence
description: Kelly Spors, the Wall Street Journal Small Biz columnist, is leading a panel A Small Business Survival Guide to the New Economy.  She sent out via twitter a request for good questions to lead the panel off with.
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# Increasing Confidence

[ Doug Davidoff ](https://www.liftenablement.com/blog/author/doug-davidoff)  Mar 30, 2009 6:35:19 AM

[Kelly Spors](http://www.twitter.com/wsjsmallbiz), the *Wall Street Journal Small Biz *columnist, is leading a panel *A Small Business Survival Guide to the New Economy*.  She sent out via twitter a request for good questions to lead the panel off with.  I recommended, "What can a small business owner do to create confidence for themselves and their employees when soooo much is uncertain?"  Kelly liked the question and turned it on me.  Given that twitter only allows 140 characters in response, I thought I'd reply via this blog.

Here goes:

What would you do?

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