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		<title>Sales Jargon De–Mystified: Sales Funnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sales funnel is a term often used in sales but what does it really mean? This article explains why the sales funnel is an important aspect of sales management.
Imagine a funnel used to pour liquid into a bottle. It has a wide top tapering down to a narrow ending which fits into a bottle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specialise, Specialise, Specialise!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clients are often surprised at how quickly they manage to turn around their sales when we work together. Its all very simple really &#8211; I get them to specialise. So many small business owners make sales and marketing harder than necessary by following a flawed belief that if they cast their net wide they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast track your sales with mental rehearsal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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The hair on the back of your neck stands on end and you feel strangely spooky. You have just seen and heard something that you are sure you have experienced before. Was it a dream? Was it a premonition? Was it an event just forgotten about? Science is still struggling to explain and reproduce the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know what you are REALLY selling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have worked with a lot of people lately who have attended other people&#8217;s sales training programs and yet not getting results.  The problem has NOT been the training itself but the fact that they were trying to sell the wrong thing.
Conventional sales training might teach you how to sell but it does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROI made simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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If you are having trouble justifying your fees then you need to REALLY understand Return on Investment (ROI) &#8211; it&#8217;s the key to earning higher fees and your clients still thinking you are excellent value. 
Here is an outline of key concepts and I will be writing more about how to approach your sales meetings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Soft Selling question that turned a £5 order into a £500 order</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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I had some heart warming news yesterday when someone who had attended my last Lead Conversion Masterclass told me excitedly how he had used one of the simple soft selling questions he learnt on the course and lead to a much bigger and smoother sale. He couldn&#8217;t believe how simple and yet powerful the approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 1 &#8211; 6 Golden questions for lead generation:  Who is your target audience?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard White</dc:creator>
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There are 6 questions that I use to turnaround the sales fortunes of my clients.
Over the next 6 days I am going to share these questions with you to help you with lead generation.  Follow each blog and I will help you to understand how to approach answering the questions.
Day 1:  Who is [...]]]></description>
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