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	<title>Barrett Sales Blog &#187; Sales Relationships</title>
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		<title>Getting Personal Or Time To Get Personal</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/1600/relationships/getting-personal-or-time-to-get-personal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Getting Personal’ was voted as the Number 12 Sales Trends for 2011. Despite the advances in technology and the rise of the Internet, customers still want personal and single contact satisfaction. Contrary to some pundits who believe the role of salespeople is becoming obsolete with the proliferation of Internet and mobile technology, effective sales professionals and a personal approach to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breast Ain’t Best: Why Sex &amp; Selling Don’t Mix</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘Sex’ as a consumer marketing and sales strategy infiltrates our daily lives via advertising, celebrity endorsements, tabloids, publications and various other means and has done so for as long as we can remember.  Using images of women (more recently men) in a variety of formats is supposed to entice prospective buyers (adults) and sell products and services. The ‘sex sells’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why B2B Buying Decisions Are Taking Longer Than Ever</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/1467/sales-management/why-b2b-buying-decisions-are-taking-longer-than-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindful selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are companies taking longer to make buying decisions or does it come down to impatience on the part of the B2B sales person, in a hurry to reach their sales targets? It seems nowadays buying decisions are taking longer to make than in previous years.  This slow purchasing process isn’t just happening at the enterprise level in large scale businesses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why selling is now a team sport</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/815/relationships/why-selling-is-now-a-team-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/815/relationships/why-selling-is-now-a-team-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teamwork]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Subjected to marketing and sales monologues for the better part of 40 years in the form of blanket advertising, product brochures and ‘your call is important to us’ busy signals, customers have taken the lead and are way ahead of us when it comes to having sales and marketing dialogues.  Far more informed and sophisticated, and posting blogs, Facebook ‘Likes’, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing your business</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/785/sales/knowing-your-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/785/sales/knowing-your-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Knowing your business’ was voted as the Number 3 Sales Trends for 2011.  With business becoming more complex it should come as no surprise that clients want to work with business people who can sell, think about possibilities and create a work partnership with their businesses.  However, our studies with hundreds of sales professionals and middle management sales leaders reveal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrity – Your Sales Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/772/relationships/integrity-%e2%80%93-your-sales-edge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/772/relationships/integrity-%e2%80%93-your-sales-edge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Integrity was voted as the Number 2 Sales Trends for 2011, which is a sign of the times.  Your word, your honour, your promise are on show and people will judge you on your actions not on your spin. So what does integrity mean for us in business and beyond?  As stated on Wikipedia ‘Integrity is a concept of consistency [...]]]></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>Transitioning from the old sales paradigm to the new world of social sales</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/756/sales/transitioning-from-the-old-sales-paradigm-to-the-new-world-of-social-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/756/sales/transitioning-from-the-old-sales-paradigm-to-the-new-world-of-social-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I began my career as a professional sales person in the early 1980’s we were trained in product and client communication skills focusing on handling objections.  We were given business cards, product brochures, a geographic territory of clients to manage and grow, and a car to get around in.  We did not have mobile phones, let alone smart phones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yin Yang of Selling</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/722/sales/the-yin-yang-of-selling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/722/sales/the-yin-yang-of-selling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value Creation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the 20th century the emphasis on B2B selling had a distinct aggressive ring to it.  So much so, that you could walk down the halls of many businesses and think that you were involved in big game hunting.  Many of these teams saw selling as an extreme sport, or more precisely, Big Game Fishing or Hunting. Customers were ‘Targets’. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ready for Sustainable Selling?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/668/value-creation/are-you-ready-for-sustainable-selling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/668/value-creation/are-you-ready-for-sustainable-selling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics & Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Selling was voted by you as the number 10 Sales Trend for 2010.  With the green agenda comes Sustainable Selling.  More and more questions are being asked by many about how we can best manage this relationship now and for future generations? I recently attended and spoke at the 6th CIPS Australasia Annual Conference (peak industry body for the [...]]]></description>
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