<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/2.2.1" -->
<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/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Agile Business Development</title>
	<link>http://agilebizdev.com</link>
	<description>Best Practices • Architecting Revenue and Profitability • Sales &#038; Marketing Methodology</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1</generator>
	<language>en</language>
			<item>
		<title>So What&#8217;s Your Story?</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/story-telling-in-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/story-telling-in-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/story-telling-in-marketing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here’s my story. We are enlarging our marketing staff and I have two job postings advertised for which I am getting a good number of resumes and writing samples submitted. These are junior marketing positions, and we are very clear that we are seeking candidates with marketing education and/or backgrounds.
However, when I open and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/story-telling-in-marketing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Watch Your Balance!</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/establishing_company_balance/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/establishing_company_balance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/establishing_company_balance/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently learned that my father has trouble maintaining his balance. While I knew he had been using a cane to assist his walking, I had assumed it was because of the lack of strength and mobility in his legs, having had two knee operations and getting on in years. However, I was surprised to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/establishing_company_balance/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Market the problem, not the solution</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/market_problems_not_solutions/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/market_problems_not_solutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/market_problems_not_solutions/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is not an idea I came up with – it’s very common knowledge among pragmatic marketers. However, visit any trade show, peruse the ads in any industry rag, or visit a random sampling of web sites and you will see how few high tech companies seem to execute on this concept.
Case in point, I [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/market_problems_not_solutions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Agile Positioning</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/agile_positioning/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/agile_positioning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/agile_positioning/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A nephew of mine recently joined the Air Force and selected bomb demolition as his occupation. One of the trickier munitions he learned to defuse was based on smart weapons technology. These munitions are delivered to the vicinity of a target via a missile or other delivery vehicle, then smaller sub ordinances are released which [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/agile_positioning/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Buyers may not always select the product they like best - they often buy the one they fear least!</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/buyer-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/buyer-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/buyer-psychology/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes the better choice?
Think about it…the last time you purchased a big ticket item what did you do? If you are like me you check product reviews before making a purchase. Why? Well for me, a lot of products look very similar, at least in the way they are positioned and marketed. So in [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/buyer-psychology/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Creating Agile Sales Teams</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/creating-agile-sales-teams/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/creating-agile-sales-teams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/creating-agile-sales-teams/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An agile methodology promotes processes that are structured, adaptive and reiterative, and encourages self-organization, teamwork and accountability. This makes agile methods well suited to use in sales organizations where the ability to adapt to quickly changing customer requirements and dynamic competitive environments is critical to effectively deploying and optimizing human resources to achieve financial targets [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/creating-agile-sales-teams/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Should selling be proactive or reactive?</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/agile_methods_enable_selling_to_be_reactive/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/agile_methods_enable_selling_to_be_reactive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/agile_methods_enable_selling_to_be_reactive/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you had asked me this question when I started my sales career, I would have answered definitely proactive. Every sales seminar I attended, every book I read, and every training tape I listened to instructed me to take charge of the selling process. All of the closing techniques from the tried and true to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/agile_methods_enable_selling_to_be_reactive/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Thoughts on How to Set Sprint Iteration Cycles for Agile Sales Teams</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/setting_sprint_iteration_cycles_for_agile_sales/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/setting_sprint_iteration_cycles_for_agile_sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/setting_sprint_iteration_cycles_for_agile_sales/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my posts on Making Sales Agile I discussed the concept of how one might optimally map an Agile framework onto a sales process. In agile development, a Release is a set of functionality that is delivered usually in a series of Sprints. In the context of agile sales, I proposed that the Release is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/setting_sprint_iteration_cycles_for_agile_sales/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Making Sales Agile</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/making-sales-agile/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/making-sales-agile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/making-sales-agile/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous blog post I covered a concept of applying agile methodologies to the business development process (http://agilebizdev.com/agile-business-development). In this post I wanted to begin focus down to the tail of the business development process, closing sales, and look at how one might optimally map an agile framework onto this part of the marketing [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/making-sales-agile/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>One Customer Does Not Make a Market</title>
		<link>http://agilebizdev.com/market-discovery-vs-validation/</link>
		<comments>http://agilebizdev.com/market-discovery-vs-validation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PeterEggleston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agilebizdev.com/market-discovery-vs-validation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Market Discovery vs. Validation
One customer does not make a market. I heard this phrase somewhere when I first started selling and it has stuck with me since. It is almost so basic I hesitated to write about it, but it seems that every week I am speaking to someone who is either not familiar with [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://agilebizdev.com/market-discovery-vs-validation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

