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	<title>Barrett Sales Blog &#187; Call Reluctance</title>
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		<title>Noise Reduction part 2: Is too much information making you miserable and losing you sales?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/509/some-sales-research/is-too-much-information-making-you-miserable-and-losing-you-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 02:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With information comes choice and without proper guidelines and filters in place, too much information and too many choices can lead to indecision.  Indecision can then lead to paralysis making us unhappy, unproductive, and at worst, ineffective.  In sales careers, or any role for that matter, too much information and the subsequent indecision is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not a sales person but I have to sell.  What do I do?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/465/sales-attitudes/i-don%e2%80%99t-like-being-labelled-a-sales-person-but-i-have-to-sell-what-do-i-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Promotion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After thousands of hours of study and many years honing technical skills to be a competent professional in your chosen field, it can come as a rude shock that you now need to sell your services and capabilities as well.  In today’s busy market, a competent selling capability isn’t a nice-to-have it is an essential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Call Reluctance® choking your sales effort?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/401/prospecting/is-call-reluctance%c2%ae-choking-your-sales-effort/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/401/prospecting/is-call-reluctance%c2%ae-choking-your-sales-effort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether we are working for a private or public company, a “not for profit” or government institution, all of us are in some way competing for access to a revenue source to fund our existence.
How capable people are to take on the responsibility for improving the revenue line of a company is a hot topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exceptional Prospectors</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/176/sales/exceptional-prospectors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/176/sales/exceptional-prospectors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
“My most important appointment is prospecting and I do it first up every day.”
“I qualify all leads I generate and have an approach to handle those that aren’t ready yet.”
“People appreciate a professional sales approach and are able to make an informed decision to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ because I clearly explain, up front, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create your own opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/116/value-creation/create-your-own-opportunities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/116/value-creation/create-your-own-opportunities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value Creation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just one idea can positively transform your life, career, income and wealth.
As I have written before, in uncertain times, we can let the negativity of current events and others consume us or we can continue to look for opportunity.  Excessive worry, however, can often cause us to lose sight of our goals and can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persistence and the Honourable Retreat</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/115/sales-attitudes/persistence-and-the-honourable-retreat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/115/sales-attitudes/persistence-and-the-honourable-retreat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Promotion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know:

Over 50% of sales people give up at 1st contact if they get a ‘NO’ from the prospect never to go back to that prospect again .
At the 5th contact 7% of sales people are left to speak with the prospect to see if they can do business together.
At the 8th contact there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Not Call</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/108/prospecting/do-not-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/108/prospecting/do-not-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week www.smartcompany.com.au ran a story saying that the Federal Government may include business numbers in the Do Not Call register. What are they talking about?
Prospecting for new business via the telephone (referred to as unsolicited phone calls) is still a legitimate and critical business activity necessary for anyone in sales and in business, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Performance in Prospecting</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/85/sales-attitudes/peak-performance-in-prospecting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/85/sales-attitudes/peak-performance-in-prospecting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Building on from last week’s topic ‘The Optimistic Sales Professional’ I thought I would extend the theme further and explore the topic of ‘Peak Performance in Prospecting’.
A peak performing prospector is a salesperson who displays passion, self motivation and results focus. They are disciplined in their approach, evaluate and purse viable opportunities while remaining optimistic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch who you let near your mind</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/79/sales-attitudes/watch-whom-you-let-near-your-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2008/79/sales-attitudes/watch-whom-you-let-near-your-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Sub-prime market issue in the US and its effects on countries and the world’s stock markets featuring as a daily major news item at present who can blame people for getting a bit nervous and worried about the future.  You can see it with the panic selling of shares and so forth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashamed of being in sales</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2007/58/sales-attitudes/ashamed-of-being-in-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2007/58/sales-attitudes/ashamed-of-being-in-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Need you daily fix of self-help tapes/CDs or guru books to get you pepped up to sell.


Have a fragile positivism about sales, which bursts at the slightest criticism.


Can’t wait to get out of sales to get a “real” job.


Secretly ashamed of being in a sales career – this isn’t what I should be doing, my [...]]]></description>
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