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		<title>The Weapon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood There is always a danger in focusing on the tools used to get a job done. (We all know the cliché about the six-year old with a chain saw&#8230;) That said however, a robust CRM system just might be the most powerful tool a sales team can have. A highly functional CRM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There may never be a better time than now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood The cold, hard fact is that for most of us, this economy has jacked up the challenge of selling more faster BIG TIME. I&#8217;ll give 5 to 1 odds there are two things you wish you had already gotten done. I know, I know, you were really, really busy last year. Big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try Selling Them A Better Buying Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood How much work do you expect your customers to do to for you? How much work do you need your customers to do for you? How much work are your customers doing for you? Consider the three following propositions: 1) Customer personnel do not have the time and/or wherewithal to address all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discipline, Opportunity Management &amp; Value Propositions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood Another new year begins&#8230; Time again to take a look in the mirror and pick a few items to get really good at executing over the next twelve months. (Seems like maybe I&#8217;ve seen a few of these before!) Three critical ToDos? for 2008: 1) Dramatically increase accountability and discipline in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell them exactly what you&#8217;re going to do to them</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood Ever think about selling your sales process? And I don&#8217;t mean going into the sales training business by selling it to competitors or companies in similar industries. I mean did you ever think about selling your sales process to your customer? You know you&#8217;re a sales rep. They know you&#8217;re a sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create Chaos, Change &amp; Controversy! (&#8230;or at least chase after them)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood There&#8217;s a new buzz-word making the rounds. Have you focused on the &#8220;trigger event&#8221; concept? Can you make it work for you? The basic idea of a trigger event is pretty straightforward. It&#8217;s something that puts decision makers, decision influencers and end users in a &#8220;something&#8217;s going to change&#8221; mind set. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relationships = Form + Frequency + Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood As the old saw goes, people buy from people they like. Well&#8230; maybe some saws are sharper than others. Time pressure, commoditization and intensifying feature/support competition have all conspired to dramatically reduce the relative importance of traditional relationship-building in selling. What can we do to update our approach? Right out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A topic for your first sales call of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood In early January, no customer&#8217;s brain is quite ready to dive back into the day-to-day business battle. They&#8217;re just not interested in hearing about the wonders of your products and services right out of the holiday chute. You need to have something to talk about that&#8217;s useful and relevant, but a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation, Quantification and Orchestration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood What are the three core responsibilities of a sales professional? (NOTE: After publication, I found out that the REAL source of this idea came from The E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber. I bought the book. It&#8217;s really, really good! Follow this link, and get a copy.) One of my early-career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beatings will continue&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Youngblood Sales is notorious for being the most expensive yet least accountable department in just about any organization. It&#8217;s quite interesting to watch what happens when a sales manager increases rep accountability with a monthly territory review process. Monthly territory reviews, one rep at a time, have always been a key fixture in [...]]]></description>
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