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		<title>How to Find the Right B2B Sales and Marketing Tactics for Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most daunting tasks facing many growing B2B firms is picking the right sales and marketing tactics. It&#39;s hard to know where to start, especially when there are so many one size fits all points of view.&#160;Many articles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B2B Social Selling and Cold Calling Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DeAmorim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a great webinar entitled, Social Selling and Cold Calling: 21 Tips You Don&#8217;t Know, presented by Jamie Shanks, Ralph Barsi, and Steve Richard.&#160;In the webinar, these proven sales leaders shared their personal insights, offering easy to implement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Through the Gatekeeper on B2B Cold Calls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gruber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I started in sales almost 20 years ago, I have not stopped cold calling or sending outbound emails to prospects where I felt we had a solution that could benefit them.&#160;To be honest, I really enjoy it. There&#39;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally! A Good B2B Startup Sales Lesson from Mad Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 03:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mad Men has been one of my favourite TV shows&#160;since its debut&#160;6 years ago. Unfortunately,&#160;the show&#160;doesn&#39;t exactly&#160;reflect well&#160;upon sales people,&#160;since it focuses&#160;mostly on relationship selling and a lot of booze. However,&#160;I was excited about the most recent episode &#8220;For Immediate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup and Small Business Events You Don&#8217;t Want to Miss in May 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 04:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Brennand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we&#39;re finally into the warm weather months, it&#39;s time to shake off the rust and get out to a few&#160;startup and small business events! Every month, we compile a list of events we&#8217;re interested in attending that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attracting Early Adopters to Grow Your Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DeAmorim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sales Strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a LeanCoffeeTO meetup on the topic of&#160;attracting early adopters. As always, the meetup had a good turnout of Toronto-based entrepreneurs who had come to swap personal experiences and&#160;trade advice. This blog post will share with you some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kickstarting Your B2B Content Marketing Engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Brennand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many B2B businesses, content marketing can seem daunting. Though all the signs point to marketers increasing B2B content marketing budgets at all levels of business, many still struggle with where to begin. What many businesses fail to realize is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revenue is the Biggest Challenge for Canadian Startups (And How to Solve That Problem)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cold calls]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sale Process]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I had the good fortune to attend the PwC Vision to Reality Conference.&#160;This conference is&#160;geared&#160;towards leaders&#160;of growing Canadian startups and&#160;technology companies, and regularly&#160;has a great slate of speakers.&#160;Eugene Bomba and the rest of the PwC team do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B2B Prospecting: The Top 4 Ways to Secure Your Prospect&#8217;s Time</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vapartners.ca/b2b-prospecting-4-ways-secure-prospect-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DeAmorim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t really have time to talk right now&#8221;. How many times have you heard this line&#160;while B2B prospecting? Cold calling is tough enough, but what can you do when a prospect just seems too busy to talk? At Venture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Sales: Looking for Alternative Revenue Generation Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gruber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During some recent work for one of our startup clients, we came upon a few new revenue generation opportunities&#160;that were outside&#160;the initial scope of&#160;the core product this company sells. In this particular instance, the&#160;organization is in the cleantech space and [...]]]></description>
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