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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>14 Ways Information Technology Companies Waste Their Marketing Budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings on the National Prime Rib Day, the 27th April. Just for one day, forget about your diet, cholesterol and mad cow disease, and enjoy a juicy slab of prime rib with some baked potato and some red wine. But before we eat ourselves to death and get drunk as a skunk, let’s see what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think And Grow Rich &#8211; Where Napoleon Hill Went Wrong&#8230; Very Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask 100 people if they’ve read Napoleon Hill’s book, Think And Grow Rich, and 99 of them will nod their heads. Several of them have read it more than once. But ask the same 100 people if they’ve read W. Clement Stone’s book, The Success System That Never Fails, and 99 of them will shake [...]]]></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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		<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>
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		<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>Who Owns The Client? The Company Or The Salesperson Who Has Landed The Client?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere around mid 2007, Frank, the VP of sales, in a 130-person hardware manufacturing company was about to hire some new salespeople. Frank&#8217;s idea was to hire some salespeople on straight commission, so they can start producing but their employment doesn&#8217;t cost a penny for the company. And this is pretty much the route many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Mistakes IT Companies Make Regarding Their Selling Processes And Sales Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiring business development staff is always a challenge for IT companies. Sales managers and senior executives hope that &#8220;this one works out&#8221;, but more often than not, it doesn&#8217;t work out. And it&#8217;s not the hired salespeople&#8217;s fault. Imagine you put the world champion swimmer Michael Phelps into a relay team with some teenagers who [...]]]></description>
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