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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>
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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>
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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>Its no longer good enough to have a niche&#8230;</title>
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		<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>Book review: 5 sales lessons from Lord Alan Sugar</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/business-development/book-review-5-sales-lessons-from-lord-alan-sugar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over Christmas and the New Year I chose the book ‘What you see is what you get’ by Alan Sugar as the first book to read on my new Amazon Kindle tablet. In this review I would like to focus on why I think this is an excellent book for people new to sales and [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Closing Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultative Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handling objections]]></category>
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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>Frank&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Wood
We can communicate an idea around the world in
60 seconds, but it sometimes takes years for an
idea to get through a quarter inch of human skull.
-Charles F. Kettering
Frank was a good friend of mine and ran a successful karate school in Southern California. He was located in a lower income part of town, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want a sale or a relationship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Account Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Developing Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me the answer is both! Not only do you end up selling more but you have a much more enjoyable time doing so!
When I am coaching corporate sales people and business owners to increase sales with their existing clients I often come across one of two mistakes which get in the way of sales.
Firstly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When perfect is just not good enough!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/business-development/when-perfect-is-just-not-good-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I had to use my mobile phone carrier’s help line to unlock my voicemail. Fairly soon after I had finished my call I was sent some automated questions asking about my experience. On every question asked about the service I rated them 10 out of 10. Yet when asked if I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Jargon De-Mystified: Sales Process</title>
		<link>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/sales-meetings-presentations/sales-jargon-de-mystified-sales-process/</link>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Closing Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultative Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></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 Pipeline</title>
		<link>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/starting-selling/sales-jargon-de-mystified-sales-pipeline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/starting-selling/sales-jargon-de-mystified-sales-pipeline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starting Selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRM systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales opportunities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A healthy sales pipeline is critical for having a smooth flow of sales into your business. This article explains sales pipeline and how it is best managed.
Think of a real pipeline supplying water to a fountain. Unless the pipeline is full of water at all times there will be no fountain display. In the same [...]]]></description>
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