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		<title>Are You Hiring Sales People or Business Doctors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to build strong relationships of trust and credibility between your company and your customers, develop in your salespeople the art and science of Diagnostic Business Development. However, if some people on your team are too hung up on traditional sales lore to change, it's up to you to recognize who's on life support and pull the plug. Sure, it's difficult, but it's the right thing to do to build a solid team of professionals.]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Get Your Prospect to Lie to You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably not something you&#8217;ll ever hear a sales prospect say, &#8220;Sorry I lied, but you made me.&#8221; But just because they don&#8217;t say it, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not the truth. At our training company, we take very seriously the idea of &#8216;creating space&#8217; with a customer.
What we mean by that is the sales professional has a profound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Prevent Chasing Referrals that Aren&#8217;t Referrals at All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many salespeople are surprised when they contact a prospect who has been referred by one of their clients and the prospect isn't interested in meeting with them. Most salespeople assume that if a client referred them to someone, the prospect will naturally meet with them based on their client's recommendation. Unfortunately, that's rarely the case.]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Manager, Are You Suffering From Superman Syndrome?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The transition from sales rep to manager is one of the most complicated career transitions. Dave Brock explains why reps-turned-manager struggle.]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Still Looking for Killer Sales Techniques?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit enough social networking sites, LinkedIn questions, and sales forums, and you will see questions like this:  “What’s a killer question to ask a customer?” or  “What’s a killer value proposition that will win?” or “What’s a killer close?”
Someone is always looking for the “killer” approach, as if you can answer that independent of the customer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Ways to Demonstrate Your Customer Made the Right Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first sale isn’t the end of the sales process but the beginning of the next sales cycle. What you do after you’ve made the first sale determines whether you get the next one or any referrals. Here's a 7 step process to provide tangible demonstrations that the customer has made the right decision. ]]></description>
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		<title>Humor: Did You Expense the Lap Dance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Visser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little fun before the weekend starts.
Enjoy this parody on the Tom Cruise movie &#8220;A few good men&#8221;. I think anyone who ever held a sales position, recalls having a conversation that went along these lines. It&#8217;s a few minutes long, make sure you watch it until the end!
Have a great weekend!

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		<title>5 Sales-Busting Words or Phrases You Shouldn&#8217;t Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any one of these comments on their own will cause your audience to immediately shut down.  Once that happens, you might as well forget aboutselling anything to anyone, at least in the immediate near future. Tony Cole lists his top 5 sales-busters.]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Answer You&#8217;ll Get Should Determine the Question You Ask</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In sales it seems everyone has bought in to the value of and the need to use questions in moving a sale forward.  But questions like most things come in many shapes and sizes, and their success depends on more that just being asked.
A question asked during a prospecting call may yield different results than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Sales, You Should Be Better at Marriage than You Are at Dating</title>
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		<comments>http://salesmarks.com/archives/in-sales-you-should-be-better-at-marriage-than-you-are-at-dating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Posterous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve become increasingly frustrated with the level of customer service that surrounds me today. You would think that in a down economy companies would be doing everything they can to win the loyalty of their customer. Think again. Tim Wackel provides 3 simple customer service tips you can use today.]]></description>
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