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		<title>Discover how the way you respond to email enquiries can significantly impact your sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email is an incredibly powerful business tool and it’s hard to remember how business used to function in the days before email took off. I don’t know about you, but I still get really excited each time I get an email enquiry.
How you respond to email enquiries, however,  could make the difference between winning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get your prospects to start spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been seeing a lot of people struggling to get their potential clients to take the step from being interested to parting with cash. They are hearing all the right noises but wallets are remaining firmly closed. 
It’s understandable when you consider the current flat economy and general uncertainty combined with the continual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look for the spotty face!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sales Proposals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was helping a client to make her pitch more powerful the other day and l was struggling to get her to stop talking about problems people do not realise they have. At times like this I use my ‘Spotty Face’ analogy.
Imagine you are a doctor and a lady comes to see you with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me what you really REALLY want!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since the Spice Girls were in the pop charts. I was not a fan but one of their most memorable songs, for me, was called ‘Wannabe’ and it started something like this:
Yo, I&#8217;ll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The easy path goes nowhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are on a walking holiday and want to take in the spectacular views. You are walking along a path surrounded by beautiful trees. The sun is shining down on you, you hear birds chirping and you feel a warm cooling breeze brush your across face. After a short while you reach a fork [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to woo a prospect away from the competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that &#8216;love is blind&#8217; and when two people are totally in love then they do not pay attention to one another&#8217;s faults. Often, over time, the initial passion begins to wear off and they start to notice things that annoy them &#8211; like squeezing the toothpaste from the middle of the tube or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Jargon De-Mystified: Sales Process</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/sales-meetings-presentations/sales-jargon-de-mystified-sales-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consultative Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Meetings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales process is a term used to describe the steps required to win a sale. Many businesses talk freely about sales process without actually having a clearly defined process that can be measured.
If I was to ask you how to make a perfect cup of tea you might start giving me a list of steps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Jargon De–Mystified: Sales Funnel</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/starting-selling/sales-jargon-de%e2%80%93mystified-sales-funnel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sales funnel is a term often used in sales but what does it really mean? This article explains why the sales funnel is an important aspect of sales management.
Imagine a funnel used to pour liquid into a bottle. It has a wide top tapering down to a narrow ending which fits into a bottle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handling price competition by introducing service levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day a business man was complaining to me that certain buyers were not recognising the difference in value between his product and those of his competition. He was providing a much superior level of service but it was failing to register on the buyer&#8217;s radar. All they seemed to be interested in was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inoculation makes handling price objections easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can avoid some serious diseases by receiving an inoculation. The smallpox inoculation works by infecting an individual with a mild case of smallpox and the body builds up natural defenses. In a similar way, you can inoculate prospects against serious price objections by using the concept of inoculation. This will help enormously when closing [...]]]></description>
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