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		<title>Human Resources Management Confusion: Demanding Excellence Vs. Creating A Culture Of Excellence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know that on average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald&#8217;s BigMac bun, which seems to be pretty reasonable on the surface. But the reason why this is a problem is because the human body can’t digest sesame seeds. The body struggles and struggles, investing significant amount of energy, but keeps losing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Your IT Talent Selection and Recruitment Practices Leading Your Company Down The Doom Loop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can say that the biggest differentiating factor in an IT company is its collective brain power, but when we look at human resources management in IT companies, what we can see is pretty disappointing. Most HR professionals in the IT sector are not ready for the post Internet era. Instead of talented value-creators, HR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Compensating Information Technology Business Development People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Convenient pay-for-performance schemes (scams) might be easy to administer, but the sad thing is that IT companies don’t even realise how much they lose on the profit side of this pay-for-performance nonsense. It may be a convenient payment structure for ditch-diggers, but for serious brain work like business development, it’s a losing proposition. There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Reasons To Flex Your Marketing Muscles Not Your Sales Muscles</title>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/five-reasons-to-flex-your-marketing-muscles-not-your-sales-muscles</link>
		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/five-reasons-to-flex-your-marketing-muscles-not-your-sales-muscles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Nurturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some experts say, in order to increase your sales you have to sell harder. Some take this idiocy as far as professing that in order to sell more all you have to do is to put more feet on the streets and more fingers on telephone dialling pads. The fact that maybe the business owner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15 Ways Marketing Can Support Your IT Sales Success</title>
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		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/15-ways-marketing-can-support-your-it-sales-success#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Market Positioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just as suicide bombing has become popular in recent years to draw attention and cause horrific damage to both life and property, forced selling in the IT industry without due marketing has also gained popularity, based on the false notion that marketing is a waste of money, and the secret to higher sales is just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“How To Segment The Marketplace For Your IT Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Nurturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Positioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a thoroughbred race horse that is locked up in a small stable. The horse feels something is wrong but doesn’t know what. He wants to run in the fields, but his owner denies him the privilege. The owner, who knows nothing about horses, is frustrated because the horse is acting up by kicking the [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/how-to-use-after-action-reviews-to-debrief-it-consulting-projects</link>
		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/how-to-use-after-action-reviews-to-debrief-it-consulting-projects#comments</comments>
		<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>17 Common Direct Mail Mistakes IT Companies Make Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/17-common-direct-mail-mistakes-it-companies-make-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/17-common-direct-mail-mistakes-it-companies-make-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Nurturing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have ave you heard that in a desperate effort to win the Second World War, British scientists had come up with the brilliant idea of feeding Hitler with female hormones, so over time, he would have become docile and submissive just like his younger sister, Paula Wolf. This great strategy, as explained in Professor Brian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17 Common Direct Mail Mistakes IT Companies Make Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.varjan.com/blog/17-common-direct-mail-mistakes-it-companies-make-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.varjan.com/blog/17-common-direct-mail-mistakes-it-companies-make-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom &#34;Bald Dog&#34; Varjan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Nurturing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard that every year 13 people are killed by vending machines? Yes, that’s correct. Machines fall on them and literally squeeze the living daylights out the poor bastards. It usually happens to people who raid vending machines and try to pry the goodies out of them. By a mind-menglingly staggering coincidence, similar fate [...]]]></description>
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