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	<title>Barrett Sales Blog &#187; Prospecting</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>
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></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>5 top tips on how to produce a winning sales proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/1098/success/5-top-tips-on-how-to-produce-a-winning-sales-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good sales proposal demonstrates real value; a quote just offers a price. Many sales people are required to produce a proposal or quote after an initial meeting with a client or prospect. This is a critical part of the sales process. Many sales people however, loathe producing proposals and consider it a chore believing they don’t get maximum value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we should manage &amp; measure Sales Inputs rather than Sales Results</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/965/success/why-we-should-manage-measure-sales-inputs-rather-than-sales-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/965/success/why-we-should-manage-measure-sales-inputs-rather-than-sales-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you leave your sales results to chance?  Well you might be if you are like most businesses that are too fixated on Sales Results – the Outcomes. Managing by numbers, sales managers can get blinded by measuring the number of sales made and revenue and profit margins achieved rather than focusing on the vital activities that produce these outcomes [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/943/sales/like-exercise-prospect-a-little-each-day-and-stay-sales-fit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 01:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Call Reluctance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Management]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></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>What are the 3 Sales Essentials that make for effective selling?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/821/sales/what-are-the-3-sales-essentials-that-make-for-effective-selling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/821/sales/what-are-the-3-sales-essentials-that-make-for-effective-selling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/?p=821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we meet with leaders to discuss their sales challenges in achieving sales effectiveness we find that the source of their problems often stem from three key areas: sales planning, sales prospecting and effective sales communication with clients. Whatever our vocation, we all need to make contact with and communicate effectively to secure the ongoing custom of members, supporters, sponsors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting the sales agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/767/sales-planning/setting-the-sales-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/767/sales-planning/setting-the-sales-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you or anyone in your team is struggling to open a client meeting effectively or if you feel awkward and lost for words, and your client or prospect is shifting in their seat, then you need an agenda. One of the best ways you can kick off a client meeting is with an agenda.  An agenda guides you, keeps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having a sales monologue instead of sales dialogue with your customers?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/760/relationships/having-a-sales-monologue-instead-of-sales-dialogue-with-your-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/760/relationships/having-a-sales-monologue-instead-of-sales-dialogue-with-your-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/?p=760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed your customers getting that glazed look when you tell them how fabulous you and your company are? Have you ever had your customers seem very agreeable in your sales meeting but never seem to follow through with an order? Have you ever found yourself doing all of the talking whether in a client meeting or over [...]]]></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>We want more than a script</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/577/sales/we-want-more-than-a-script/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/577/sales/we-want-more-than-a-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of sales people around the world use sales scripts.  Used properly, sales scripts act as scaffolding or bridgework to earn us the right to have a meaningful discussion with our prospecting customers, members, donors or subscribers.  The sales script is a well constructed set of guidelines that support us when we prospect. Good sales [...]]]></description>
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