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		<title>Rethinking Sales Incentives &#8211; The Science of Motivation</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/1232/sales-management/rethinking-sales-incentives-the-science-of-motivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes & Behaviours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Rethinking Sales Incentives’ was voted as the Number 8 Sales Trends for 2011. Incentive programs, commissions and bonuses have been synonymous with sales teams for at least the last 50 years.  However throwing more money at sales teams to perform better, especially in these more complex and creative times may be a thing of the past. While the ‘carrot and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should ‘Selling’ be studied at University?</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/832/success/should-%e2%80%98selling%e2%80%99-be-studied-at-university/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2011/832/success/should-%e2%80%98selling%e2%80%99-be-studied-at-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barrett Research invites you to express your opinion about whether ‘Selling’ should be an applied academic degree.  Please complete our Graduate Degree for the Sales Profession’ survey and voice your views. With the profession of Selling becoming increasingly more complex involving many more variables and the shift from product being at the heart of selling to strategic relationships, collaboration, true [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></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>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>Planning for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/688/some-sales-research/planning-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/688/some-sales-research/planning-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Budgeting and developing strategy for 2011 should be near the top of your ‘to-do’ list right now or be bedded down already.  People complain about being too busy and never having enough time, however if you do not make time for regular planning you will let everyone down. Make time to work on: Forecasting Evaluating staff hiring and implementing staff [...]]]></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>Noise Reduction part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/505/some-sales-research/noise-reduction-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2010/505/some-sales-research/noise-reduction-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 08:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Sales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Noise Reduction was voted by you as the number 5 Sales Trend for 2010.  About 20 years ago I was told that information was doubling every 5 years; 5 years ago it was every 18 months; 1 year ago  it was every 9 minutes, so who knows how fast information is doubling now? Many business leaders, sales people and many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The coming together of sales leaders in Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/315/sales-management/the-coming-together-of-sales-leaders-in-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/315/sales-management/the-coming-together-of-sales-leaders-in-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to attend the inaugural Optimising the Sales Force Conference (http://www.osf2009.com.au), along with over 120 high level sales leaders across Australia.  I was privileged to be part of the panel of international and local experts presenting on sales effectiveness where we explored the latest research on sales strategy, leadership, learning and development, sales management, sales people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing times when recruiting ‘good’ salespeople</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/265/uncategorized/testing-times-when-recruiting-%e2%80%98good%e2%80%99-salespeople/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2009/265/uncategorized/testing-times-when-recruiting-%e2%80%98good%e2%80%99-salespeople/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recruitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Talent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I consider how I spend my time professionally, I find it is often devoted to demystifying two things: 1. What is ‘good’ selling? 2. The proper use of psychometric assessments, especially in sales recruitment Having written on the former on many occasions, I would like to dedicate this space to the latter – the proper use of psychometric assessments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same, Same but Different</title>
		<link>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2007/68/some-sales-research/same-same-but-different/</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrett.com.au/blogs/SalesBlog/2007/68/some-sales-research/same-same-but-different/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Barrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across some research on sales motivation which seems to shed some further light on why it is important to use programs which are culturally specific to your sales peoples motivations and values. A major study of sales motivation presented at the annual convention of the Society for Marketing Advances has revealed significant cultural differences driving sales success. It [...]]]></description>
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