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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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		<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>Book review: &#8216;Cunningly Clever Selling&#8217; by Andrew Wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was nicely surprised when reading this book.  I have to admit that the title initially put me off. Once I started reading it, however, I quickly found It one of the most enjoyable sales books I have read to date. Instead of it being full of pushy sales tricks, I found it full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are your prospects thinking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever wonder what your prospects are really thinking? Well a key part of effective consultative selling is finding out just that! 
One technique I use is &#8220;I want&#8221;  bubbles. It&#8217;s like when you see cartoons and they show a speech bubble above their head to reveal what they are thinking. Your job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wears the trousers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Account Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a question where I come from that goes &#8216;Who wears the trousers in this household?&#8217;. It’s really a reference to who makes the decision in the household. It is based on the assumption that the person who makes the decisions must be the man of the house. An outdated notion &#8211; even then [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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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;.
That&#8217;s often what it&#8217;s like selling to a larger company where it&#8217;s difficult to find out [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>Is every sale is a good sale?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you went into a shop and spent a lot of money buying something you later discovered was an expensive mistake. How would you feel about the sales person who sold it to you? What if the sales person just gave you what you asked for without checking?
I was having this conversation with a client [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is more to sales than technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developing Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started in sales I thought that all I needed was to learn a bunch of  sales techniques. I soon discovered that there was so much more to selling.
Many sales trainers will have you believe that if you just follow their techniques you will never look back. For some people that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Soft selling tips for increasing sales with existing clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing sales with existing clients may seem difficult in the current economic climate. Here are 5 soft selling tips for increasing sales without being pushy.
1. Be Proactive
Soft selling does not mean no selling! In boom times it may have been possible to just work on the relationships and trust that your clients would come to [...]]]></description>
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