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		<title>e-Rep Strikes Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the chronology:

11/25/04 &#8211; Initial telephone contact with company president
12/17/04 &#8211; The one and only face-to-face meeting (&#8230;with the president mainly, plus a brief conversation with the founder)
12/21/04 &#8211; Original proposal for a Sales Excellence Council
01/10/05 &#8211; Opportunity recorded in my CRM as &#8220;Closed-Lost&#8221;
01/10/05 through 04/18/11 &#8211; Not a single conversation or e-mail for over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Audience of 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again and again and again&#8230;  Every h-Rep needs an e-Rep. That is, every human sales rep needs an electronic alter-ego; a highly personalized, customized, electronic version of him or herself.  I repeat the refrain for two reasons:

It is unequivocally true
Appalling few sales reps have bothered to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You In Group 1, 2, Or 3?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note:  If you happen to be a mentor or sales manager, please do your &#8220;mentee&#8221; or team a favor and pass this along.)
Sometimes, stating the obvious is nothing more than that; merely verbalizing what everybody in the audience already knows.  Sometimes, something is obvious to the speaker/writer, but is genuinely a novel concept for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was it lunch or a lesson in selling with technology?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood
I never heard of Dreamland.  24 hours ago I couldn&#8217;t have told you it&#8217;s in Birmingham, AL.   20 minutes before I parked in front the place I didn’t know it’s a legendary barbecue joint.  So how on earth did they convince me to buy three lunches from them?
Here’s the story…  Two colleagues and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media is a fantastic B2B sales tool, but only AFTER you train them</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood
Had one of those flashes of insight today. This time with regard to the effectiveness of social media for B2B sales and marketing. My conclusion is: Social media is fabulous, but only after your prospects and customers are trained on how to use social media. Grunt through the background info here, the B2B [...]]]></description>
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