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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>
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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>Complex sales and the path to enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are in an unfamiliar part of town. It&#8217;s cold, dark and the street lighting is next to useless. You know where you want to get to but you are finding it very difficult to find the right way forward&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handling objections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Techniques]]></category>

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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>Dog powered Pestle machines and all that</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Selling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was watching a TV program called &#8216;Victorian Pharmacy&#8217;. I was just flicking channels actually and something caught my eye. It was a Victorian pharmacist trying to sell a dog powered pestle machine. &#8216;Who would want one of them&#8230;?&#8217; went through my mind&#8230;.
A dog powered pestle machine may seem ridiculous to us but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging the power of your network</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last year I have been trying to arrange a teleseminar with Andy Lopata and last Thursday it actually happened! I have to say that it was worth waiting for as Andy shared with us how to put together a networking strategy to generate more referrals from your existing network.
This is the edited highlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead Generation: Understand your market before wasting money on marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 09:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been working with an IT VAR (Value Added Reseller) to get all their sales and marketing processes in shape. The business owner was frustrated that despite spending a lot of money on marketing they were not seeing any return on investment.
He had outsourced the website management including SEO and Google Adwords to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business networking tips: how to start a conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first got into business networking I  felt very awkward and did not say much until someone came and spoke to me. I realised that this would limit the number of people I would meet so I decided that I would learn how to feel more confident about networking. I asked a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling more by redefining what you do</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/starting-selling/selling-more-by-redefining-what-you-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starting Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was running a sales training course the other day and I was covering how to make cross selling to existing customers easier by increasing the range of products and services on offer. One attendee said:
&#8216;I am an aroma therapist &#8211; does that mean to give different types of therapy such as reflexology?&#8217;

One approach would, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 account development steps for sales growth</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/5-account-development-steps-for-sales-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Account Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Developing Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a business is brand new then there is an obvious need to win new clients. As the business becomes more established then the sales focus should change to be a combination of finding new clients and selling more to existing clients. The easiest sale to make is to existing clients and yet this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resist the urge to generalise</title>
		<link>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/resist-the-urge-to-generalise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/resist-the-urge-to-generalise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to be a human thing to do. When food is a little thin on the ground, you start taking whatever pickings that can be found. We are designed for survival. It may be inconceivable in good times, but when push comes to shove, there are few who would not resort to rummaging around [...]]]></description>
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