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	<title>Todd Youngblood&#039;s &#34;SPE&#34; Blog &#187; Social Media</title>
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	<description>Cogitations about Sales Process Engineering, Business and Continuous Improvement</description>
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		<title>Yet Another Signal That &#8220;Every h-Rep Needs An e-Rep&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/e-rep/yet-another-signal-that-every-h-rep-needs-an-e-rep/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yet-another-signal-that-every-h-rep-needs-an-e-rep</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 20:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dreamland Interactive, a business partner of The YPS Group, took a major step in its ability to deliver e-Rep content development services.  Their new radio studio in Atlanta, GA was specifically designed to support business talk radio and help clients solve the prospecting problem.



It&#8217;s no secret that I am a huge believer in the 24 [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Differentiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sell]]></category>
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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>I Said It Wouldn&#8217;t Happen.  I Was Wrong</title>
		<link>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/e-rep/i-said-it-wouldnt-happen-i-was-wrong/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=i-said-it-wouldnt-happen-i-was-wrong</link>
		<comments>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/e-rep/i-said-it-wouldnt-happen-i-was-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Differentiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Kawasaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can get away with telling Todd Schnick he&#8217;s out of his mind because he&#8217;s my partner and my friend.  (&#8230;and the fact is, sometimes I really do think he&#8217;s nuts.)  He&#8217;s also, as Anthony Iaanorino has said, &#8220;wicked smart.&#8221;
He&#8217;s broken a significant chuck of the code on how to use social media to engage [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Death Of All Sales Reps&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/e-rep/death-of-all-sales-reps/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=death-of-all-sales-reps</link>
		<comments>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/e-rep/death-of-all-sales-reps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuous Improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learn!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Process Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Miller&#8217;s Death Of A Salesman has been one of my personal favorite plays for years.  The tragic figure of Willy Loman has always been inspiring to me in an &#8220;anti-hero&#8221; sort of way.  Someone as sharp as me can easily spot Willy&#8217;s weaknesses and flaws of course, and avoid them!
Then I read Have We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dunbar 150 &#8211; Dreamland 45,000</title>
		<link>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/e-rep/dunbar-150-dreamland-45000/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dunbar-150-dreamland-45000</link>
		<comments>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/e-rep/dunbar-150-dreamland-45000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dunbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two colleagues and I have decided to profoundly change the way B2B sales is executed.  (Really&#8230; We did&#8230;)
It all started last November at a barbecue joint in Birmingham, AL.  (Read about our Dreamland experience.)  At the time, none of us knew the other two also had the Don Quixote gene, ever-ready to embark on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Selling With Social Media Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Differentiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, sales rep or manager, you tell me what, if anything, is wrong with the following scenario:

The Situation:

A host and co-host interviewing an executive about delivering customer value
Streamed live on the web and recorded for podcast and on-demand streaming


The Players:

An executive, Marty Michael, VP of Enterprise Software Solutions at Avanceon
A co-host, Bob Lowe, Executive Director [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>That Would Be Too Hard And I’m Already Too Busy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learn!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To get into the proper mindset, re-read the title of this post in the most weepy, whiney tone you can imagine.  Got that annoying eeeesssssshhhhhh feeling?  Good.
Because that’s the feeling I invariably get from sales managers and reps when discussing E-Rep for the first time.  That’s “E” as in “Electronic.”  Every “H” or “Human” rep [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>E-Rep:  Do You Have One?</title>
		<link>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/uncategorized/e-rep-do-you-have-one/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=e-rep-do-you-have-one</link>
		<comments>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/uncategorized/e-rep-do-you-have-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that yours truly believes that every &#8220;H-Rep&#8221; needs an  &#8220;E-Rep.&#8221;  Your electronic alter-ego helps deliver not only your value  proposition, but more importantly real, tangible value in terms of  information, knowledge and insight.  He/She/It is also on duty 24 X 7 X  365!
So what portions of an E-Rep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Schizophrenia</title>
		<link>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/social-media/social-media-schizophrenia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=social-media-schizophrenia</link>
		<comments>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/social-media/social-media-schizophrenia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bird!  It&#8217;s a plane!  No, it&#8217;s Social Media!
It&#8217;s no secret that I firmly believe Every H-Rep Needs and E-Rep.  Your electronic alter-ego&#8217;s 24 X 7 X 365 work ethic alone is a compelling enough reason to have one.
If all the web 2.0 and social media tools are a brave new world for you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Things I Learned From LinkedIn This Week</title>
		<link>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/social-media/7-things-i-learned-from-linkedin-this-week/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=7-things-i-learned-from-linkedin-this-week</link>
		<comments>http://ypsgroup.com/blog/social-media/7-things-i-learned-from-linkedin-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Youngblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Rep]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ypsgroup.com/blog/?p=818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The key contact in my target market is typically a baby boomer.  (Full disclosure:  I are one.  Born in &#8217;53.)  That&#8217;s a tough crowd to engage via social media.  So I asked Paul Castain&#8217;s Sales Playbook group how I should go about getting them to use the tools more actively.
Boiled down, here&#8217;s the really great [...]]]></description>
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