x-atlantic » Uncategorized http://www.x-atlantic.com International expansion, on demand Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:07:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 A Healthy Pipeline of Sales Opportunities is Full, Moving and Balanced http://www.x-atlantic.com/a-healthy-pipeline-of-sales-opportunities-is-full-moving-and-balanced/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-healthy-pipeline-of-sales-opportunities-is-full-moving-and-balanced http://www.x-atlantic.com/a-healthy-pipeline-of-sales-opportunities-is-full-moving-and-balanced/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:55:20 +0000 http://www.x-atlantic.com/?p=737 See on Scoop.it – Sales best practices


I concluded my recent post “Prisoners of Help Are Doomed to Fail” promising to tackle the characteristics of a healthy sales pipeline.


Don Rekko‘s insight:

Great article on why a healthy pipeline is important, and how you can check the health of your pipeline


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WiredCIOs vs. Rogue Developers: How Private PaaS Keeps the Peace | Innovation …WiredThey must run a tight ship, and can’t just let rogue developers flock unsupervised to the public cloud.


Don Rekko‘s insight:

Private clouds are perfect for Entepresis to benefit from Cloud computing, minus the headaches.


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SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)2013 Predictions: Private Cloud gets exposed as a fraudSYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)If you’re an IT manager calling your internal VMware or other virtualization farm a “Private Cloud” in an attempt to prove…


Don Rekko‘s insight:

Virtualisation is not Private Cloud Computing. But remember: Private Cloud computing IS cloud computing.

 


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Cloud and the IT ‘dinosaur’ITWorld CanadaNaturally, my HP hosts were not inclined to agree: to them, cloud computing represents a revolution in the relationship between business and information technology, and has no real historical parallel.


Don Rekko‘s insight:

Nice -and real – definition of the ‘IT Dinosaur’: someone who is saying that “Cloud is old wine in new casings”.


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Cloud computing in 2013: Two warningsInfoWorld (blog)These days, I get email after email from anyone and everyone who has predictions for cloud computing in 2013. I’ve started to delete them without reading any.


Don Rekko‘s insight:

How refresehing – some cricitcal notes to all the recent ‘cloud-is-hot-hot-hot-in-2013-hype’


See on www.infoworld.com

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Cloud computing in 2013: Two warningsInfoWorld (blog)These days, I get email after email from anyone and everyone who has predictions for cloud computing in 2013. I’ve started to delete them without reading any.


Don Rekko‘s insight:

How refresehing – some cricitcal notes to all the recent ‘cloud-is-hot-hot-hot-in-2013-hype’


See on www.infoworld.com

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If you think call centers are only for generating leads or helping customers, then think again. Have you considered call center services for lead nurturing?


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Written by: Jason Miller To the folks out there who say that Facebook is not an effective lead generation tool for B2B, I will tell them that they nee… (Does Facebook Work for B2B Lead Generation? Hell Yes!


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Don’t rely solely on email in sales lead generation (Email is fine for sales lead generation, but pick up the phone and call someone today.)…


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]]> http://www.x-atlantic.com/email-is-fine-for-sales-lead-generation-but-pick-up-the-phone-and-call-someone-today/feed/ 0 2012 Cloud Predictions — Winners & Losers – Forbes http://www.x-atlantic.com/2012-cloud-predictions-winners-losers-forbes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2012-cloud-predictions-winners-losers-forbes http://www.x-atlantic.com/2012-cloud-predictions-winners-losers-forbes/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:52:52 +0000 http://www.x-atlantic.com/?p=520

James Staten The year 2012 brought a significant amount of growth in enterprise use of cloud services but did it fulfill our expectations? With just five weeks left in the year it’s time to reflect on our predictions for this market in 2012.


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