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		<title>Tendering IT Contracts And Tendering Meat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just this morning while shaving, I was thinking about the word and the concept of &#8220;tendering&#8221;. In the late 80s, when I was laying the foundations of my English vocabulary, I knew one meaning of tendering. And that was to make something, like meat, tender. Later I learnt the other meaning that relates to contracts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Three Sides Of High Leverage IT Business Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 17:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings on Sally Ride Day (26 May), Sally Ride Day honours the first American woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride. She pulled this off as a mission specialist aboard STS-7, the second flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. And now for something completely different&#8230; Do you know that blond people have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting Marketing Budget For Optimised Client Acquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know that more people are allergic to cow&#8217;s milk than any to other food? The reason why I mention this hair-raisingly (your hair not mine) interesting fact is that in many small and medium-sized IT companies&#8217; executives seem to be more allergic to setting their marketing budgets than anything else. Actually there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eccolo Media&#8217;s New Report On Using White Papers In Business Development</title>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/ccolo-medias-new-report-on-using-white-papers-in-business-development</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eccolo Media has just published a report on the validity of white papers in the business development cycle, entitled, Eccolo Media 2009 B2B Technology Collateral Survey Report. Some of the main conclusions are that&#8230; White papers are here to stay in B2B business development. 84% of decision-makers rate white papers as moderately or extremely influential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Lethal Mistakes That Screw Up IT Business Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[information technology websites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know that David &#8220;Screaming Lord&#8221; Sutch, as leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party, was Britain&#8217;s longest serving party leader from 1983 to June 1999, when he hanged himself? This fact may seem to be about as trivial to our topic as the lovemaking habits of pregnant skunks relative to the phase of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When IT Business Development Goes Broke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar-winning actor, Nicolas Cage who’s made a pretty penny over his career now claims he’s dead, flat broke as a result of his business manager’s incompetence. He’s actually suing Samuel Levin for $20 million for leading him to financial disaster. Cage claims that Levin handled his money irresponsibly, took unnecessary risks and failed to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working As A Business Development Broker On A Contingency Basis</title>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/working-as-a-business-development-broker-on-a-contingency-basis</link>
		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/working-as-a-business-development-broker-on-a-contingency-basis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago a woman called Karen Sala made allegations that actor Keanu Reeves was the father of at least one of her four kids. Sala was claiming monthly child support of $150,000 and monthly spousal support of $3 million. I would say that&#8217;s a tad too steep. Well, it turned out, Reeves is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts On Lead Qualification</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times has it happened to you that some of your sales leads went through your Q-course (qualification course as it’s called in US Special Forces training) to become clients to quickly? Yes, on the one hand this looks like a good thing because we can quickly collect the down payment and start the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Lead Generation in the Traditional Versus the Lucrative Way</title>
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		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/sales-lead-generation-in-the-traditional-versus-the-lucrative-way#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All farmers know, even me as a small-scale former farmer, that in order to harvest we have to plant. And while planting doesn&#8217;t guarantee plentiful harvest, not planting does guarantee full scale famine and hard-core starving, unless someone (like a government with a distorted, communist mindset) bails us out. Lead generation is the same. It [...]]]></description>
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