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		<title>Consultative selling &#8211; the great golden egg hunt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding new clients can be hard work, especially in the current economic environment. The best sales people know that the easiest sale to make is with existing clients. But how do you get them to spend more money with you?
In my experience you can sell more to your clients and actually enhance the relationship at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop pushing and start pulling!</title>
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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>A time to sell</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently talking with a business owner who was struggling to sell more to an existing client. He could not understand why the client would not take his calls unless he wanted to buy something. &#8216;I really want to try and build a relationship but how is that possible if he will not meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Account management does not guarantee sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that amazes me about small and medium sized businesses is how they struggle with lead generation from existing clients. This should be one of the easiest sales to make. There are three main reasons for this:
1. Waiting for the phone to ring
The person managing the account assumes that the client will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How a Soft Selling question can turn a £5 order into a £500 order</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Asking the right questions and keeping it simple can lead to a much bigger and smoother sale.
The question is nothing earth shattering to someone skilled in consultative selling &#8211; quite basic really, as I am sure some people will be quick to say. It’s not something I invented &#8211; I was taught it when [...]]]></description>
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