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	<title>Barrett Sales Blog &#187; Call Reluctance</title>
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		<title>8 Top Tips To Stop Yielding and Start Earning</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/1360/sales-training/8-top-tips-to-stop-yielding-and-start-earning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you experience difficulties asserting yourself with others in a sales context?  Is maintaining positive relationships with clients so important to you that you are concerned these relationships may be damaged if you are perceived as pushy or intrusive? Do you hesitate to prospect, sell or self promote due to a reflexive fear of being considered too pushy, intrusive, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like exercise, prospect a little each day and stay sales fit</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/943/sales/like-exercise-prospect-a-little-each-day-and-stay-sales-fit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 01:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prospecting is considered one of the most daunting jobs in selling.  Many people in sales or other roles charged with developing new business, especially with new prospects, find the task of prospecting anxiety provoking and tend to put off the prospecting task in favour of more desirable or less frightening tasks.  Yet in their desire to escape prospecting they inadvertently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exceptional Prospecting and Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/843/prospecting/exceptional-prospecting-and-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/843/prospecting/exceptional-prospecting-and-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Sales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With social networking sites and the plethora of online data available, 2011 presents us with better quality prospecting and more qualified prospects.  ‘Prospecting and Social Media’ was voted as the Number 4 Sales Trends for 2011. Business networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo, and the emergence of Facebook and Twitter as business destinations, give the discerning business or sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different sales assessments and how to use them</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/748/sales-recruitment/different-sales-assessments-and-how-to-use-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/748/sales-recruitment/different-sales-assessments-and-how-to-use-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you wanted to, you could sit down for at least four weeks and complete 100’s of sales assessments and there would still be more on offer.  This over abundance of sales assessments can be confusing because they are not all the same.  If you do not know what you want to measure it will make looking for an effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the ideal sales assessment tool to use when recruiting sales people? Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/740/sales-recruitment/what-is-the-ideal-sales-assessment-tool-to-use-when-recruiting-sales-people-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/740/sales-recruitment/what-is-the-ideal-sales-assessment-tool-to-use-when-recruiting-sales-people-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruitment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years people have been searching for the perfect sales assessment tool.  Why?  Because identifying and retaining high performing sales talent continues to elude many organisations.  It has become even more important with products losing their competitive edge and sales success becoming hinged squarely around the capabilities and performance inputs and outputs of sales people. I have been using [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/509/some-sales-research/is-too-much-information-making-you-miserable-and-losing-you-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 02:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Management]]></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 real killer – in fact, [...]]]></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>
		<comments>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/#comments</comments>
		<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 business and life skill. Interestingly, [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/?p=401</guid>
		<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 in today’s competitive market. [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/?p=176</guid>
		<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 reason for contacting [...]]]></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 limit our creativity and problems [...]]]></description>
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