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		<title>How to succeed in sales without a personality transplant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first became a professional IT consultant many years ago, I had no idea that I was on a collision course with sales. I obviously didn&#8217;t think it through as, back in those days, I would rather have had my fingernails removed with pliers than get involved in sales!
Yet I was ambitious and wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resistance to sales is futile!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Self Motivation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a little experiment I would like you to try. Stand up with both arms by your side. Now try and lift up your right arm but at the same time try and resist. You should be able to feel the force of your arm trying to lift up and yet, at the same [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Closing Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Effectiveness]]></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>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>The Sound of Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>

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A big thank you to Jeremy Jacobs for joining me on the web-cast last night, talking about &#8216;The Sound of Success&#8217;.  The issue behind the web-cast was that when our first contact with a prospect is via the telephone then the first impression formed is almost entirely affected by our voice.  A first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Confidence Boosters for Public Speaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that most people are perfectly capable of speaking when sitting down. Get them to stand up and talk, even for just a minute, and their legs turn to jelly! I can remember when I first started to speak in public my knees knocked so loudly no one could hear what I had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working on your comfort zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I live in a traditional English village. There is the normal pub, church, pond, and a village green where they play cricket on the weekends. I am not a big cricket fan myself but it does look lovely to have a cricket match going on with spectators sitting on rugs and having a picnic.

I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Keys to Selling with Confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling confidence]]></category>

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Starting up in business can be an exciting time but also a daunting time too and in the excitement of getting things going, people often overlook the obvious. Profitable sales are the lifeblood of any business and selling is a skill. Without sales there is no business and for most starting a new business there [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Selling is not a numbers game&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handling rejection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Effectiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;..its an activity game. Its about doing the right amount of the right activities in the right way.  If you focus on the numbers you just get numbers. If you focus on the right activities then you get results. This was the essence of the advice from Chris Mather &#8211; a top sales manager [...]]]></description>
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