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		<title><![CDATA[FUNDtech Limited Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from [Tom Erhlich &#8211; RBC Capital Markets] [Tom Erhlich &#8211; RBC Capital Markets] Regarding the business tone recovery that you are seeing. Could you provide us with a little bit more color on how you&#8217;re seeing the sales cycle and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:12:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Active Power Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from Walter Nasdeo - Ardour Capital. Walter Nasdeo - Ardour Capital If you could just kind of walk me through some of the order that gives you such confidence and a pretty FD guidance range for the fourth quarter. You are talking about...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:56:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quiz: Can You Move the Sale Forward?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quiz to see if you know how to ask effective questions early in the sales cycle. by Geoffrey James]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:30:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Plan Your Next Selling Move]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A foolproof way to decide what to do next when you're in the middle of a complex sales cycle. by Geoffrey James]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:30:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Somanetics Corporation F3Q09 (Qtr End 08/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Gregory Hertz &#8211; Citi. Gregory Hertz &#8211; Citi  So just a couple questions, and I appreciate the sensitivity in the matter but hoping to get some viewpoints on the pending patent litigation. I&#8217;m just wondering first...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:44:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Somanetics Corporation F3Q09 (Qtr End 08/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Gregory Hertz &#8211; Citi. Gregory Hertz &#8211; Citi  So just a couple questions, and I appreciate the sensitivity in the matter but hoping to get some viewpoints on the pending patent litigation. I&#8217;m just wondering first...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:44:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Netezza Corporation F2Q10 (Qtr End 07/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Kathryn Huberty &#8211; Morgan Stanley.  Kathryn Huberty &#8211; Morgan Stanley Given your comments that the environment didn&#8217;t weaken in the July quarter, is it fair to assume that the majority of the 15% sequential decline in product revenue...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:50:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[3PAR Inc. F1Q10 (Qtr End 08/03/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator (Operator's instruction) Your first question comes from the line of Mark Kelleher - Brigantine Advisors LLC. Mark Kelleher - Brigantine Advisors LLC I wanted to focus on the step up in account execs. It seems like a fairly meaningful sequential jump there. Can you talk about...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:33:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Top 5 Dirty Tricks Customers Play on Sales Reps]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=3114]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I posted the "Top Ten Lies Customers Tell Sales Reps."Â Â  However, sometimes customers do more than lie.Â  Sometimes they actively try to take advantage by playing a "dirty trick" upon the rep.Â  Here's a gallery of the five most common ploys and how to thwart them...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:30:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PROS Holdings Inc. F1Q09 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14061_23-300131.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Tom Roderick - Thomas Weisel Partners. Tom Roderick - Thomas Weisel Partners I was hoping you could dive in to the bookings environment a little bit more. I know it is not necessarily a metric you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 20:00:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAVVIS, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator instructions Our first question comes from Sri Anantha from Oppenheimer. Your line is open. Srinivas Anantha &#8211; Oppenheimer & Company Yeah. Thank you, and congratulations on a good quarter. And Jeff, I didn&#8217;t relate that, you are going to be [dismotivator] in cutting expenses?...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gartner Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14031_23-266430.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session  Operator  Operator instructions  You have a question from Jeff King &#8211; William Blair.   Jeff King &#8211; William Blair  Hey guys.  Could you talk about how much your sales cycles have lengthened and also if business was weaker in the enterprise...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:40:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Barry Trailer on Sales 2.0]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-215629.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Barry Trailer, co-founder of CSO Insights, says that Sales 2.0 isn't just about the sales cycle but is about the entire buying process—which can now be initiated by a buyer before a seller is even aware of it.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:51:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Which Comes First: Budget or Solution?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=690]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    In the post "Sales Trainers I've Known and Loved" I provided a list of the top sales trainers that I've interviewed over the year, and asked you readers for suggestions about whom else I should interview.    The name Mark Sellers came up so...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:30:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Best Way To Shorten The Sales Cycle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936087]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Customers don't create long sales cycles - salespeople do. The biggest contributor to dragging out the selling cycle is salespeople prematurely presenting solutions to customers who may not believe they have a problem, or even if they had a problem, didn't understand its impact on their business. When you boil...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Effective Sales Presentations: Advancing The Sales Cycle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=987109]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective sales presentations are at the core of a successful sales cycle, yet many presentations miss the mark in terms of appropriate content and flow. While presentation skills contribute to the success or failure of a sales presentation, presentation effectiveness also hinges on the value of the message and the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Improve Sales: Sales Cycle Acceleration]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1089747]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective selling starts with a thorough understanding of key phases in the sales cycle and then a concentrated effort to speed up each phase. This paper offers some tips on how to reduce the elapsed time on your sales cycle. By shortening components of the sales cycle, you can accelerate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shorten Your Sales Cycle, Step 2: Improve Your Sales Execution]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1089749]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When you're doing a great job of qualifying your prospects but your sales cycle keeps growing, your company can probably improve the way you execute your sales process. By improving "Sales execution," most companies will see meaningful improvement in their sales cycles. But if you're doing a great job with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shorten Your Sales Cycle, Step 1: Improve Your Lead Quality]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1089751]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[So your sales cycle is getting longer and you've met with your sales and marketing teams. You escaped in one piece but heard a resounding "Too many leads just aren't qualified" from your sales reps. It is critical for your sales and marketing teams to agree on a common definition...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shorten Your Sales Cycle, Step 3: The Big Picture]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1089753]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If your sales cycles are still growing, it's time to take a step back and look at the big picture. You might have a great campaign generating highly qualified leads for terrific sales reps, but if your product, value and price aren't properly aligned, you'll negotiate endlessly or lose deals...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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