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	<title>Reach1to1 Technologies &#187; Evolving Enterprises</title>
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		<title>Performance Incentives &#8211; Risks of being counter productive</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/09/02/performance-incentives-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashutosh Bijoor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B2B Sales Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolving Enterprises]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Pink gave a brilliant talk on TED about the mismatch between &#8220;what science knows and what business does&#8221;.

A related post on his blog claims that &#8220;Money cant buy you performance&#8221;.
Some questions that he raised in my mind:

When we try to implement scalable business processes, are we trying to &#8220;dumb-down&#8221; the work to a &#8220;mechanical&#8221; [...]


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		<title>Lead Qualification &#8211; Resolving the conflict between sales and marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/08/24/lead-qualification-resolving-sales-marketing-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashutosh Bijoor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B2B Sales Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolving Enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Activity Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Biggest Sales Challenge &#8211; Generating high-quality leads
According to a recent report by MarketingSherpa, the biggest challenge for sales people is to generate high-quality leads.

To try and understand why it is such a big challenge, we must first answer the question &#8211; what exactly are &#8220;high quality&#8221; leads?
Universal Lead Definition
Lead generation guru, Brian Carrol says that [...]


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		<title>Netflix &#8211; Freedom and Responsibility Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/08/07/netflix-freedom-and-responsibility-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/08/07/netflix-freedom-and-responsibility-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashutosh Bijoor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employee Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolving Enterprises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Netflix&#8217; internal presentation on Freedom and Responsibility for employees is a great reference for how evolving enterprises can set policies for employee engagement.
This could be a good guideline for Reach1to1&#8217;s own policies.
[Found via Techcrunch]


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Leveraging the Web &#8211; How [...]


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		<title>Communication Problems are actually Process Design Problems</title>
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		<comments>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/07/29/communication-problems-process-design-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashutosh Bijoor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolving Enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Activity Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workflow Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teamwork]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When working in teams, small slip-ups and sometimes big goof-ups are often justified by &#8220;communication problems&#8221;.
Justin Roff-Marsh, proponent of his highly effective Sales Process Engineering methodology that incorporates the techniques from Theory of Constraints into the sales process &#8211; has written an excellent article on his Sales Process Engineering blog, where he explains &#8220;Why the [...]


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		<title>Web Content Strategy &#8211; How to Plan for, Create and Publish Online Content for Maximum ROI</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/06/08/web-content-strategy-how-to-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/06/08/web-content-strategy-how-to-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashutosh Bijoor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolving Enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information & knowledge management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Content Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Pulizzi, a thought leader, speaker, writer and evangelist for content marketing, is founder and chief content officer for Junta42, a content marketing/custom publishing community search engine and resource, helping businesses of all sizes learn how to create valuable, relevant and compelling content. Joe has authored several useful resources, including a free eBook and several [...]


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		<title>Employee Engagement &#8211; a Towers Perrin study</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/03/09/employee-engagement-drives-business-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/03/09/employee-engagement-drives-business-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employee Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolving Enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information & knowledge management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm that helps organizations improve performance through effective  	people,  	risk and  	financial management. Don Lowman, who is Managing Director of the Human Capital Group in Towers Perrin recently wrote on his blog about how he has spent half his life working at Towers Perrin.
This is [...]


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		<title>CRM does not improve sales performance</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/01/20/crm-does-not-improve-sales-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/01/20/crm-does-not-improve-sales-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolving Enterprises]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Hurlbrink writes how conventional CRM or SFA applications are not designed to serve the needs of a sales person. The value proposition of a “360 degree view of your prospect/customer” is not what the sales person needs to improve his performance.
A sales person is already juggling with multiple opportunities in the pipeline that are [...]


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		<title>B2B Marketing &#8211; a four-point transformation strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2009/01/18/b2b-marketing-transformation-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Ramos &#8211; VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research focuses on effective lead management, lead nurturing, sales and marketing integration, the development of targeted messaging and winning value propositions, installed base marketing, and the use of digital media and the Web to build customer engagement.
Laura writes about her recently published report that recommends a four-point [...]


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		<title>Characteristics of Evolving Enterprises</title>
		<link>http://www.reach1to1.com/2006/03/20/characteristics-evolving-enterprises-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reviewing the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071450149/sr=8-1/qid=1142827049/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0429777-0937449?%5Fencoding=UTF8">The Power to Predict: How Real Time Businesses Anticipate Customer Needs, Create Opportunities, and Beat the Competition</a> by Vivek Ranadive, the CEO of <a href="http://www.tibco.com/" target="_new">TIBCO</a>, <a href="http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=587" target="_new">Dennis Howlett</a> highlights some characteristics that evolving enterprises exhibit to become super successful.


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		<title>Expense Claims Workflow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.reach1to1.com/images/tmexpenseworkflow.png' alt='Thumbnail for expense workflow' align="left" style="margin:10px" />Companies having a team that is distributed across multiple locations, with a centralized accounts department find it cumbersome to process expense claims by employees. This article suggests an expense claim workflow that is best suited for such distributed teams.


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