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	<title>Barrett Sales Blog &#187; Negotiation</title>
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		<title>Is a climate of perpetual discounting limiting choice and eroding our quality of life?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/472/value-creation/is-a-climate-of-perpetual-discounting-limiting-choice-and-eroding-our-quality-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Negotiation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerry Harvey, (Harvey Norman) was recently bemoaning the culture of discounting in our retail sector. He was saying that retailers had lost the plot and didn’t know how to sell real value anymore.  He said they had fallen foul of a culture of constant discounting as the only way to attract customers, which was tantamount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is ‘cheap’ a false economy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negotiation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understandably everyone wants to save money, especially in these times, however we need to be aware of falling victim to false economy.  False Economy is an expression that refers to an action which saves money at the beginning but which, over a longer period of time, results in more money being wasted than being saved.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I distinguish between a genuine buyer and a saboteur?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/445/sales-emotional-intelligence/how-do-i-distinguish-between-a-genuine-buyer-and-a-saboteur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negotiation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everything lines up: your solution is a very good match for the client company, you have ticked all the boxes but the deal is rejected.  You are perplexed and confused.  “It’s a great solution!  It’s what they wanted and needed. Why are they saying no?”  Building on from last week’s ‘How do I deal with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I deal with client objections?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/442/sales/how-do-i-deal-with-client-objections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/442/sales/how-do-i-deal-with-client-objections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negotiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many sales people will tell you one of the biggest worries in sales, besides prospecting, is dealing with customer objections.  Its true many people do not like dealing with objections or conflict, however, it is also true that many people unintentionally create objections and conflict by not understanding a customer’s real needs or priorities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hard Sell</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/150/relationships/the-hard-sell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/150/relationships/the-hard-sell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negotiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I declare right up front that I am not, and never have been a fan of the Hard Sell.  You have probably guessed that from all my previous posts.
And if you ask most people about what they think about the profession of selling they will often describe something akin to the ‘Hard Sell’.   Of late  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Good News Sales Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/130/sales/some-good-news-sales-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Negotiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You don’t have to discount price to win good business and good customer relationships even in tough markets.
I mentioned earlier this year my team and I are working on a large sales fitness training assignment in the finance sector around Australia.  These guys are hard up against it when it come to ‘price’ being a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You don’t have to make Negotiation a part of every sale</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/127/sales/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-make-negotiation-a-part-of-every-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/127/sales/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-make-negotiation-a-part-of-every-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Negotiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value Creation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



  
I often get requests by sales mangers for negotiation skills training for their sales people when in fact upon further investigation their people usually need consultative selling skills training first.  You cannot negotiate effectively if you cannot sell effectively first.  Both are processes which need to be learned and applied in the correct [...]]]></description>
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