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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Easy Selling]]></category>
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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 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>
				<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
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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>Rant: Is the recession over?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 08:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Account Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Meetings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/?p=3108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sorry but I need to get something off my chest today. It’s been bugging me for ages and yesterday was just the last straw! 
A new supplier who promised me he would do something let me down, yet again. When we first started working together he couldn&#8217;t be more helpful. One month in, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great news! It has finally arrived&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/business-networking/great-news-it-has-finally-arrived/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/business-networking/great-news-it-has-finally-arrived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I delighted to announce that after 6 years and more false starts than the Grand National my first book is finally out. In the end it only took me three weeks from start to finish once I got the inspiration and motivation &#8211; a lesson in itself!
The working title was &#8216;Selling Stories &#8211; how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop pushing and start pulling!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Account Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consultative Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starting Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consultative selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solution selling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are two fundamental philosophies in selling. There’s push selling and there’s pull selling. If you hate selling and want to make it easier on yourself then you should definitely be pull selling. Push selling is where you decide what the customer wants and then you persuade them to buy it. Pull selling is where [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starting Selling]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Proposals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales awareness]]></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>The courage to break free</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard a disturbing story about a farmer who got his arm caught in a piece of machinery one day whilst working on his farm. It was a true story which emphasises the courage that some people need to develop to break free of the shackles that are holding back their sales and, indeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its no longer good enough to have a niche&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/its-no-longer-good-enough-to-have-a-niche/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/generating-sales-leads/its-no-longer-good-enough-to-have-a-niche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generating Sales Leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.You need a micro niche. Because of the impact of the internet and social media, niches are not what they used to be! At a click of a mouse you can easily find 10 or more businesses just as good as you seemingly doing the same thing. Tell me about it!!!
One of the most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the story?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starting Selling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I always love to hear my client’s stories. A typical one is ‘talented and successful person leaves corporate life in search of freedom and financial success but hates selling and is finding the dream is starting to turn into a nightmare. They have the freedom but the struggle with not earning enough money and all [...]]]></description>
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