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		<title>Two Business Development Diseases And What To Do About Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 19:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know that Americans, on the average, eat 18 acres of pizza every single day? That’s almost the size of 10 soccer fields side-by-side. The other interesting fact about these 10 soccer fields is that they could easily be filled up with people who sell various IT solutions but suffer from two major sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Common IT Client Acquisition Misconceptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you telling me the Russians are lacking creativity? No they don&#8217;t. Then just look at what happened in July 2010 on a beach on the Sea of Azov in the Cossack village of Golubitskaya. As an improvised advertising campaign, the entrepreneurial owners of the local parasailing company attached a donkey to a parasail and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round Peg Into A Square Hole: Integrating CRM With Marketing Automation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Podcast version: MP3 Version A few days ago, Marketing Automation Software Guide published an article by Mike MacFarlane on integrating CRM and marketing automation systems. Mike raises a very good point because in most companies sales folks (the CRM users) and marketing folks (users of marketing automation systems) don’t see each other eye to eye. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can Marketing Automation Replace IT Salespeople</title>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/how-can-marketing-automation-replace-it-salespeople</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legend has it that Oscar Wilde&#8217;s last words were&#8230; &#8220;My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.&#8221; And although he fought bravely, the wallpaper eventually won. And good ol&#8217; Oscar unceremoniously kicked the bucket. Today, the same duel is taking place in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bait And Switch In Business Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liu Shuling, the winner of a women&#8217;s half marathon in Shandong, China has been stripped of her title when she was discovered to have brought in a ringer, be Wang Xueqin, to run for her. Initially Liu Shuling was the winner of the 2010 Yellow River Estuary International Marathon, but video footage later revealed, that [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/eight-lethal-mistakes-that-screw-up-it-business-websites</link>
		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/eight-lethal-mistakes-that-screw-up-it-business-websites#comments</comments>
		<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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