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		<title>Customer Communication: Your Reputation is on (the) line</title>
		<link>http://blog.icentera.com/enablement/customer-communication-your-reputation-is-on-the-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera Last week, we announced that Ebix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBIX), a leading international supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance industry, has upgraded to the latest release of the iCentera for Customer Communication edition.  I wanted to highlight the success of this long time iCentera customer that was recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Generation of Sales Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intro by Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera Over 5 years ago I met Dan Strunk, Managing Director of the Center for Sales Leadership at DePaul University, at a Dreamforce conference.  He was eager to hear how a sales enablement solution enabled the success of a new sales hire.  It was a great conversation that touched on everything from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Portals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera Recently I was reminiscing about one of those many flights coming back from a sales call in the 90s.  I recall brainstorming with a sales rep about a better way of delivering information to prospective buyers.  As with many long return flights you find yourself thinking about better ways of doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iCentera Awarded Patent for a Platform that Enables Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera We are very pleased that the U.S. Patent and Trademark office recently acknowledged our hosted intelligence center for sales enablement; a concept and solution that we truly believe in at iCentera.  On August 10, 2010 iCentera was awarded U.S. Pat. No. 7,774,378 for our work envisioning, building, delivering and refining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Channel Enablement – Akorri “Gets Enablement”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera Recently we announced that Akorri, the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, has implemented our new iCentera for Sales Channel Enablement solution.  Akorri is a great example of a company that “gets sales enablement” and required instant infrastructure to drive partner success.  They’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Sales Channel Have a “Single Source of Truth” that Drives their Performance?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icentera.com/enablement/does-your-sales-channel-have-a-%e2%80%9csingle-source-of-truth%e2%80%9d-that-drives-their-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera Maybe there was a day when selling B2B technologies, like software and telecom, was easy but I sure don’t remember that day.  As many have said, the high tides are behind us for the foreseeable future.  It’s always been tough to get decision makers to pull the trigger, and getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iCentera Receives ThinkForward 2010 Award from Beagle Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[iCentera Receives ThinkForward 2010 Award By Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera This week Beagle Research, a software-industry analysis firm specializing in market research and vendor-advisory services, announced that iCentera has been honored as a recipient of their first annual ThinkForward Award for Sustainability.  The award honors front office software firms that foster business process innovation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here we go Again!  Build or Buy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.icentera.com/enablement/here-we-go-again-build-or-buy%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icentera.com/enablement/here-we-go-again-build-or-buy%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go Again!  Build or Buy&#8230; By Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera Today we’re focusing on the ways in which Sales Enablement can be delivered to the marketplace.  In a nutshell, there are basically two choices; 1) build the Sales Enablement solution on-premise or in the cloud, or 2) leverage an on-demand Sales Enablement solution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Tides Makes Co-Creating Value with Your Customers Essential</title>
		<link>http://blog.icentera.com/enablement/changing-tides-makes-co-creating-value-with-your-customers-essential/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing Tides Makes Co-Creating Value with Your Customers Essential By Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera My Guest blog from 1to1 Magazine In the not too distant past, the old saying “a rising tide lifts all boats” was true for many markets.  It didn’t seem to matter your industry &#8212; incredible growth and expansion meant that many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Buy from People</title>
		<link>http://blog.icentera.com/enablement/people-buy-from-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icentera.com/enablement/people-buy-from-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cnelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enablement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales Enablement: People Buy from People Craig Nelson, CEO, iCentera Here&#8217;s a story from my past that I&#8217;d like to share. A gentleman by the name of Len D’Innocenzo said something to me once that has stayed with me over the years.  At dinner, we were discussing what it took to effectively sell in any [...]]]></description>
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