<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>VanillaSoft Blog</title>
	<atom:link href="http://blog.vanillasoft.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com</link>
	<description>Inside Sales Enablement  - Technology, Process and People</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:07:54 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Lead and Prospect Management-Through Email? Yep, That&#8217;s What I Said</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-and-prospect-management-through-email-yep-thats-what-i-said/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-and-prospect-management-through-email-yep-thats-what-i-said/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-mail management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been said that a man who promotes his competitors on his own site is a man who soon will find another line of work. I have always believed, and made it the policy of VanillaSoft, that getting people into the right product is more important than selling your product to the wrong person. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-and-prospect-management-through-email-yep-thats-what-i-said/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Defining Success &#8211; A Different Set of Metrics</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/defining-success-a-different-set-of-metrics/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/defining-success-a-different-set-of-metrics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ It is that time of the year again when we all set our goals for next year. We pour over this year’s numbers looking for the trends, the openings for growth, where we fell short and so on. We drive a flag into 2011 and declare success or stick a fork in it and say [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/defining-success-a-different-set-of-metrics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Lead Management and Demand Generation &#8211; Different, Equal, Powerful</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-management-and-demand-generation-different-equal-powerful/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-management-and-demand-generation-different-equal-powerful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demand Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lead management software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lauren Carlson, CRM Market Analyst over at Marketing Automation Software Guide, shared a post and video link that I think clearly outlined and clarified some of the confusion around lead management and demand generation. As a provider of Lead Management Software, we see it all of the time.
Lauren shared that “demand generation” and “lead management” [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-management-and-demand-generation-different-equal-powerful/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>CRM-Lead Management Software:The Death of Lost Productivity for Outbound Selling</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/crm-lead-management-softwarethe-death-of-lost-productivity-for-outbound-selling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/crm-lead-management-softwarethe-death-of-lost-productivity-for-outbound-selling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting/Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRM-Lead Management Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever stood behind your outbound sales people and really paid attention after they complete a sales call? It can be quite the learning experience. Whether they are the high-paid closers or the entry level prospectors, many, if not most, will kill quite a bit of time before saddling up and making the next [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/crm-lead-management-softwarethe-death-of-lost-productivity-for-outbound-selling/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Time to Give Thanks</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/time-to-give-thanks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/time-to-give-thanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime we simply do not take the time to say thanks. We all may think it, or, from a business prospective, create a campaign to show it, but, I am talking about truly being reflective and feeling it. As you know, I usually write about software, lead management and business. Now that the holiday season [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/time-to-give-thanks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Real Time Stats &#8211; Instant Gratification and Mistakes Avoided</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/real-time-stats-instant-gratification-and-mistakes-avoided/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/real-time-stats-instant-gratification-and-mistakes-avoided/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Live Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Time Stats]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Not so many years ago, we would click on a few icons, wait for a report to generate, review the report and feel pretty good about the control and speed we had over our data, salespeople and results. Well friends, in a world of instant gratification, reports seem like yesterday’s news. Today, we want live [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/real-time-stats-instant-gratification-and-mistakes-avoided/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Lead Generation and Appointment Setting &#8211; Know When to Pull the Trigger and Outsource</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-generation-and-appointment-setting-know-when-to-pull-the-trigger-and-outsource/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-generation-and-appointment-setting-know-when-to-pull-the-trigger-and-outsource/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting/Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsourcing Lead Generation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was chatting with my good friend Dan McDade over at PointClear about how some businesses select not to outsource their sales lead generation and prospect development even when they are struggling with it internally and missing their sales goals.  It got me really thinking about how I see the value proposition of when to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/lead-generation-and-appointment-setting-know-when-to-pull-the-trigger-and-outsource/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Steve Jobs, Apple and Their Incredible Effect on Companies like VanillaSoft</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/steve-jobs-apple-and-their-incredible-effect-on-companies-like-vanillasoft/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/steve-jobs-apple-and-their-incredible-effect-on-companies-like-vanillasoft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit, when I heard Steve died, I think I was like many people. We were somewhat expecting it, and not necessarily shocked by the news. Like many of you, I watched the coverage and it made me reflect on the many contributions Steve and Apple have made in terms of form, design and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/steve-jobs-apple-and-their-incredible-effect-on-companies-like-vanillasoft/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Auto Dialing-Can It Really Increase Productivity by 30% or More?  You Bet!</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/auto-dialing-can-it-really-increase-productivity-by-30-or-more-you-bet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/auto-dialing-can-it-really-increase-productivity-by-30-or-more-you-bet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auto Dialing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preview dialing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive dialing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I get quite a few questions about the value of auto dialing and whether or not it can really increase the productivity of a sales person who works by phone. Most managers who have never tried a form of auto dialing are skeptical, and they should be. There are so many amazing claims in the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/auto-dialing-can-it-really-increase-productivity-by-30-or-more-you-bet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Sales by Phone &#8211; Alive and Well in 2011</title>
		<link>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/sales-by-phone-alive-and-well-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/sales-by-phone-alive-and-well-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales by phone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vanillasoft.com/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[VanillaSoft remains the leading software platform driving phone sales. Thank goodness right? If we had listened to the pundits we would have pulled the plug years ago. Selling by phone is dead they yelled. We heard it all. No one uses the phone anymore;  people can’t be reached. If you reach them they do not [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.vanillasoft.com/sales-by-phone-alive-and-well-in-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

