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		<title>Breaking the Sales Prevention Barrier: A Guide to High Performance Sales Operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eryc Branham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What does Sales Operations do?&#8221; The answer to that question is critical not just to my clients, who are trying to build their own high-performance Sales Operations, but to the Sales Ops professionals who find themselves struggling to describe the various roles that they play in their company. I like to answer with another question: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=520&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 Simple Ways to Measure the Return on Your Sales Ops Investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Stott - Tre3 Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does a sales organization justify an investment in sales operations? By proving the return on that investment in measurable terms. This article provides simple methods for measuring the return on your Sales Operations investment. Let us begin by examining the purpose of Sales Operations as a function. At a high level, Sales Operations exists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=502&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ends are the Means: A Sales 2.0 Maturity Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eryc Branham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: this article was first published in the Nov/Dec 2010 edition of DestinationCRM without the embedded graphics] Even at the most successful companies, executives want to know if their sales teams are performing optimally: Am I getting the best bang for the buck that I spend on my sales force? Can I drive higher sales [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=493&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Invisible Social Enterprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eryc Branham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is your company delivering a Social CRM experience to your customers&#8230;. and you don&#8217;t even know it? It&#8217;s a CIO&#8217;s nightmare: critical corporate data flitting through the Internet without governance or even visibility to senior executives. And yet that&#8217;s what is happening every day in the Fortune 500 &#8211; and probably your own company &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=481&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the Sales Ops Council (SOC)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sales Ops Solutions Community, It is my great pleasure to announce that effective immediately Sales Ops Solutions, including the LinkedIn Group, will be fully managed and operated by the TRE3 Group, a leading consulting firm focused on sales and sales operations. It was important to me that my successors are aligned with the SOS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=14&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Executive Challenge: Changing an Organization&#8217;s Culture</title>
		<link>http://salesopscouncil.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/changing-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture is established from the inside out, not from the outside in...You will have maximum cultural impact when you can cause people to want to take a certain action, and enable them to cause others to want the same...The following four characteristics highlight the power of influence and why it is more effective than control...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=414&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Art of Lost Metrics: Turning Past Losses into Future Wins</title>
		<link>http://salesopscouncil.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/the-lost-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many sales organizations track the reasons why their deals were lost, but this only paints part of the picture.  Let us examine one highly valuable lost metric that is often overlooked…<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=402&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whiteboard Thinking: A Thousand Words are Worth a Picture</title>
		<link>http://salesopscouncil.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/whiteboard-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve heard it said that a picture is worth a thousand words.  If that is true then the converse is also true: a thousand words are worth a picture.  What I mean is that if it requires a thousand words to explain, then it’s complex.  If it’s complex, then it needs to be mapped out.  It needs a picture.  The 7 steps to "Whiteboard Thinking" will help you to define and simplify any complex problem so you can tackle it with clarity and confidence.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=376&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Inspire End User Adoption</title>
		<link>http://salesopscouncil.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/end-user-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if 100% of your sales team members are not passionate evangelists of your process (imagine that!)?...The following guidelines will help you to continuously increase adoption...How do you drive adoption? You don't. You inspire adoption!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=332&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Weighted BANT&#8221;: A Simple Lead Qualification Methodology</title>
		<link>http://salesopscouncil.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/bant-scoring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the challenge with BANT that many companies will admit: "If I hold to all four criteria, then I will not qualify enough leads.  But if I remove any one criterion, then I will qualify too many leads.  Either way, I can't win!"  Yes, you can win.  There is another way that is easy to deploy and can be quickly configured in most SFA or CRM systems...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salesopscouncil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16629260&amp;post=354&amp;subd=salesopscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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