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		<title>Sales Lead Mismanagement In IT Companies And How To Remedy It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know that in Sweden prostitution is perfectly legal, but it’s absolutely and positively illegal to hire a hooker? I mention this hair-raising fact because while sales lead generation is legal, many IT companies believe it’s illegal to use automated and systematic approaches to do sales lead generation. Ask most IT managers about sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use After Action Reviews to Debrief IT Consulting Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speech coaches have been teaching for years that the most important parts of a speech are the beginning and the end. Pilot instructors teach their students that the most dangerous parts of flying are take-off and landing. And I know from experience, that the two key moments of skydiving are leaving the plane and landing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Practical Objections Against Cold-Calling To Sell Premium IT Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, Carl Lewis has undoubtedly been one of the greatest athletes in US sports history. During his career he won nine Olympic gold medals and eight World Championship gold medals. He became an athletic icon. But this iconic status got somewhat shattered when, in 1987, he decided to get into music, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Deming&#8217;s 14 Points Apply to IT Business Development Departments Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book, &#8220;Out of the Crisis&#8221;, quality guru, Dr. Edwards Deming shows 14 steps of changing management approaches to achieve significant performance improvements. It&#8217;s always hard to initiate improvements in IT companies. There are far too many people with vested interests in the status quo. And when we talk about 14 steps, the initiative [...]]]></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>Some Differences In Recruiting Business Development Folks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, while waiting for the programme I wanted to watch, I was watching a programme about a guy and his restaurant that he was about to open, and he was at the stage of hiring staff. He had a major argument with his partner about how to hire staff. She says&#8230; &#8220;Let&#8217;s see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantifying IT Solutions For Optimum Value Pricing Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago Henry David Thoreau said&#8230; &#8220;For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is only one hacking the roots.” In terms of leaves and roots, this month I&#8217;d like to discuss with you how IT companies diagnose their clients&#8217; problems, and how they those present solutions to those problems. And now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Guru Wanted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I read an interesting entry on Hungarian HR expert, Tamas Kelko’s blog. He outlines a chronic illness that has penetrated small and medium sized organisations over the years. He refer to the situation in Hungary but the problem is more global. He points out that in order to increase revenue, business owners [...]]]></description>
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