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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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		<title>DIY Sales Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a coaching model that is very effective for coaching others but can actually be used to coach yourself if you are stuck with your sales and looking for a way forward. It’s called the GROW model and within the corporate environment it is often used to teach managers the basics of coaching.
The GROW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The simple truth of sales messaging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a business owner yesterday who was telling me how he had been in sales for 25 years and how he knew how to sell&#8230;..but&#8230;.was struggling to sell his new service.
I asked him to describe what it is that he is selling and who his target audience is and he went through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never say never cold call!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although cold calling may not be the most effective form of lead generation in terms of conversion rates, I would not rule out cold calling if you need to get some momentum in your business development. I have a client whom since biting the bullet and starting to make the calls has started getting loads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The other side of the story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently listening to one of my favourite audiobooks on sales as I painted my conservatory. It is the &#8216;Sales Advantage&#8217; by Dale Carnegie. One of the most important skills that Dale Carnegie taught with respect to sales is the importance of seeing things from the perspective of your prospects and clients. I consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing confidence in cold calling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know we should be making cold calls but how do we build up enough confidence to make the calls? and how to we increase the chances that the person we are calling is going to want to take our call
This video based mini-course is a cut down version of a full works...Read the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counting down to higher performance!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished a coaching call with a sales manager who implemented a simple technique to increase the number of cold calls made by a couple of his team members. He said that by using this technique they doubled the number of calls made and both people felt great in the process. Previously they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 habits for highly effective cold calling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this recording I am interviewing David Festenstein on how to gain appointments with senior executives within large companies. David does this professionally for IT companies and is sharing his his 7 golden secrets which he has developed over many years of experience. O...Read the rest of this entry &#187;This resource is only available to [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>In this recording I am interviewing David Festenstein on how to gain appointments with senior executives within large companies. David does this professionally for IT ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>In this recording I am interviewing David Festenstein on how to gain appointments with senior executives within large companies. David does this professionally for IT companies and is sharing his his 7 golden secrets which he has developed over many years of experience. On this recording we go into each in some detail but to summarise the 7 secrets:
1. Do your homework
2. Prepare for the call
3. Mentally rehearse the call
4. Get into the right state for the call
5. Seek a short telephone meeting as an initial outcome
6. Turn gate keepers into a gate openers
7. Continually review and improve

What will be very encouraging for accidental sales people is that David is an accidental sales person himself and does not fit the sales stereotype by any stretch of the imagination.......and yet he consistently gets a high level of appointments with senior decision makers for his clients. Listen to this recording and you will get a good appreciation of his approach.


You may want to listen to this more than once. If you get a chance then take notes. Although it is delivered in an easy to digest fashion it is packed with practical ideas.


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		<title>Cold calling tips for reaching senior decision makers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In  recent free teleseminar David Festenstein of TeleOpen who was talking to us about using cold calling to gain appointments with senior executives of large companies. We had a good sized audience with lots of great questions being posed.
David started off explaining why normal cold calling approaches are less effective with senior decision makers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the pressure out of cold calling</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/cold-calling/taking-the-pressure-out-of-cold-calling-premium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this recording Ari Galper, developer of the best selling sales programme &#8216;Unlock the Game&#8217; outlines the approach to selling which aims to build trust and respect with prospects so that you develop an open and truthful relationships rather than the normal sa...Read the rest of this entry &#187;This resource is only available to members. [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>In this recording Ari Galper, developer of the best selling sales programme 'Unlock the Game' outlines the approach to selling which aims to build trust ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>In this recording Ari Galper, developer of the best selling sales programme 'Unlock the Game' outlines the approach to selling which aims to build trust and respect with prospects so that you develop an open and truthful relationships rather than the normal sales chasing games between buyer and seller.

Although applicable to sales in general, the conversation centres on cold calling and Ari outlines various strategies that will help improve your confidence and results. If you want to feel more comfortable about cold calling then this is definitely one for you!


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