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		<title>The Biggest False Assumption (Sales Training)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A discussion was recently started in the SalesPractice.com sales training forum titled, &#8220;How to shorten the sales cycle&#8221;. Here is a copy of the original post:
&#8220;For sake of discussion let&#8217;s say that&#8230;
&#8230;the prospect trusts you, respects you and values the relationship.
&#8230;you are working with a prospect who has the authority, budget, want and need for your product or service.
&#8230;the prospect feels you have the most compelling value proposition.
&#8230;both you and the prospect understand how your solution will help him/her reach his/her desired outcome.
&#8230;the prospect has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trusted Facilitation</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/trusted-facilitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I was asked to answer the question, &#8220;If personal selling could be summed up in one or two words what would those two words be?&#8221; and the phrase, &#8220;Trusted Facilitation&#8221; immediately came to mind. I realize that the phrase &#8220;Trusted Facilitation&#8221; is not commonly referred to and/or used in the profession of selling so I thought I had better elaborate.
By &#8220;Trusted&#8221; I meant that the prospective buyer trusts the salesperson enough to allow him/her into his/her mental space effectively creating a &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Little Secrets by Sharon Drew Morgen</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/general/dirty-little-secrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dirty Little Secrets - why buyers can&#8217;t buy and sellers can&#8217;t sell and what you can do about it.
&#8220;This book is disturbing. It pulls back the veil: we’ll never be able to go back to the old way of just selling a solution. This book teaches us what has been missing from the industry for so long - how buyers decide. The ideas in this book are too big to push under the rug: it&#8217;s sophisticated, but necessary for any serious sales professional.&#8221; - Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/general/think-and-grow-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion by Scottish-American billionaire Andrew Carnegie.
Free Digital Download PDF eBook Edition at http://www.salespractice.com/forums/t-10809.html
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		<title>Professional Sales Training</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/in-the-news/professional-sales-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1999 SalesPractice.com, the oldest and most respected sales training community on the Internet, has offered FREE sales training resources to sales professionals around the globe. Now through a partnership with world class business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) sales training providers SalesPractice.com is offering professional sales training in the United States and Canada.
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		<title>What are Trigger Events? How to use them?</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/what-are-trigger-events-how-to-use-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alen Majer
Your mission as a sales person should be to find companies that have immediate wants and needs. This means that something happened or is happening to them - a move, a merger, new investors, etc. You have to look for any event that might create the opportunity for you, or better said you are looking for event that can trigger the sales for you.
It could be something internal or inside the company, like a new direction from management, a merger or an acquisition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking is a Contact Sport</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/networking-is-a-contact-sport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Adrian Miller
As with so many aspects of life, networking requires action and effort if you’re going to reap its benefits. You can attend countless in-person and online events and register for every networking group under the sun, but you’ll get nowhere if you’re not actively taking the time to connect with the people you are meeting.
Networking is akin to someone opening a door just a bit. It’s your choice to push the door open to enter into the world of others. If you’re not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C-Level Sales Management &#8212; Helping Salespeople Handle Gatekeepers</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/c-level-sales-management-helping-salespeople-handle-gatekeepers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Manfer
As a manager, you know your salespeople will always have trouble getting to C-levels and other influential executives. So you&#8217;ve got to help them with ideas, your example and a push.
The first rule of gatekeepers is “Always assume they will be blocked,” and with this in mind have discussions with your salespeople before upcoming sales calls and pursuits that go something like this.
&#8220;Who’s your prospect?
Who&#8217;s will you be meeting or calling?
What will you be prepared to say when this person resists introducing you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Needs Does Not Close A Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/understanding-needs-does-not-close-a-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Drew Morgen
This past week I placed 700 cold calls. That&#8217;s right. Seven hundred. Count &#8216;em. I have been seeking visionary sales training managers that have interest in licensing new program content (Buying Facilitation or Facilitating Buying Decisions) and itâ€™s impossible to find visionaries through mainstream marketing. So I called. And called.
I learned a lot: 1. how I felt by 4:00 in the afternoon â€“ exhausted, annoyed, mischievous, and vaguely victorious â€“ as a telemarketer; 2. how sales leaders â€“ VPs of Sales, Sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gain Your Prospect&#8217;s Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/gain-your-prospects-attention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/gain-your-prospects-attention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wendy Weiss
On a cold call you have approximately 10-30 seconds to grab your prospects’ attention—and you won’t get a second chance. Read on to discover how to gain your prospects’ attention…
I was eating lunch. The phone rang and thinking it might be a client calling (and also, let’s face it—I’m a little compulsive) I bolted to my desk and grabbed the receiver.
Instead of my client, on the other end of the line was a perky person telling me that their company provides high-speed Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Doctors - Fear of the Doctor Is a Sales Person&#8217;s Biggest Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/selling-doctors-fear-of-the-doctor-is-a-sales-persons-biggest-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/selling-doctors-fear-of-the-doctor-is-a-sales-persons-biggest-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Manfer.

Fears, excuses, uneasiness, rationalizations, intimidations all stem from negative projection. The doctor is too busy. The doctor doesn’t see salespeople. The doctor doesn’t care who they have selected. These, plus a whole range of other statements about this doctor, are excuses - rationalizations. 99.99% of the time they are projections that you have created either by yourself or with the help of a blocker. A doctor is too busy is an excuse. Too busy to listen to a sales pitch - that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SalesPractice.com - Celebrating 10 Years Online (1999-2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/in-the-news/salespracticecom-celebrating-10-years-online-1999-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/in-the-news/salespracticecom-celebrating-10-years-online-1999-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you no doubt already know, SalesPractice.com went online in June of 1999 with the mission of making quality sales education and training resources freely accessible to everyone interested or engaged in the profession of sales. Since that time SalesPractice.com has become the largest and most respected sales community on the Internet.
SalesPractice.com receives +1,000 Visitors Daily looking for sales education and training resources so it is easy to see why today&#8217;s most sought after sales trainers including Tom Hopkins, Linda Richardson and Sharon Drew Morgen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Facebook to Phonebook - How Wingmen Stay Connected</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/from-facebook-to-phonebook-how-wingmen-stay-connected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/from-facebook-to-phonebook-how-wingmen-stay-connected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many of you, I recently joined the Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn craze and it&#8217;s been great. I&#8217;ve re-connected with old friends from high school, college, and my fighter pilot days, and I&#8217;ve also met some very interesting people. And yes – like you, I can easily spend a few hours a day on these sites checking out profiles and looking at cool videos and photos.
Last week, I was driving home from a lunch meeting and was thinking of who I needed to re-connect with. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salespeople Debut of Confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/salespeople-debut-of-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Pat Weber
If you sell and want inspiration from Broadway, The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein has just the song to sing along for sales confidence. One of the songs in the play which debuted on Broadway on November 16th, 1959 is “I Have Confidence.” By doing a review of just six phrases in the song, anyone in sales will have what they want to do and what they don’t want to do to build confidence in all your selling conversations.
“Oh I must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Quoting - Start Qualifying</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/stop-quoting-start-qualifying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anthony Cole
Sometimes we need to remind a salesperson that “You are not a Quote Jockey. You don’t make commissions on quotes. You don’t need the practice of quoting. You don’t need to help the current vendor by supplying the buyer with your information. You don’t need to make the buyer smarter. And you don’t need to waste your time, your effort or the resources of your company quoting on something that you have less than a good chance of selling.” So, stop quoting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Prospecting Rejection into Future Sales Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/turn-prospecting-rejection-into-future-sales-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Manfer
Prospecting rejection hurts. Some targets are gentler with their rejection than others, but the message is the same – “NO”. Once rejected, you&#8217;ll be annoying if you keep pushing which could burn a future opportunity. Oh, there are those that attest to their tenacity in turning rejection into a sale. Unfortunately those instances are rare - ½% - 1%. 
Prospecting rejection occurs because there is no interest at this moment. No budget, the company is financially strapped, or that would never get approved, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling: One Decision At A Time</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/selling-one-decision-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/selling-one-decision-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s business environment, products and services are being designed to enable buyers to customize elements of their solution. From cars to tech, airplanes to designer jeans, the B to C market is being driven by individual tastes.
But the decision making leading to the purchasing choice is the same. Whether one person has to purchase a single item (buying a new pair of shoes), or a team has to decide to add team building to their skills, or a company has to determine whether or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Ways to Increase Your Sales NOW</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/6-ways-to-increase-your-sales-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now is the time to become a â€œsmartâ€ entrepreneur about your business by doing more not less. What I mean by â€œdoing moreâ€ is increasing your sales and marketing efforts. Instead of pulling back as many entrepreneurs are currently doing, beat out your competitors by finding new ways to stay visible.

An economic slowdown can be a problem for your business if you allow it to be. Or, it can be an opportunity to gain new clients and boost your sales if you know and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive Smarts ~ Linda Richardson NanoSalesBook Series</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/competitive-smarts-linda-richardson-nanosalesbook-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/competitive-smarts-linda-richardson-nanosalesbook-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Richardson is the Founder and Chairman of Richardson, a global sales training business. As a recognized leader in the industry, she has won the coveted Stevie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sales Excellence for 2006 and in 2007 she was identified by Training Industry, Inc. as one of the &#8220;Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.&#8221;
It takes a nano second to win or lose a sale. With Linda Richardson&#8217;s new 15-minute audio podcasts, you can increase your wins!
The podcast can be played on most portable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salesmanship and Empathy</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/salesmanship-and-empathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the simplest ways to increase your productivity as a salesperson is to tune into your buyer&#8217;s point of view. When you are in tune with your buyer you have empathy. This means that you can identify with and understand their situation, feelings, and motives.
When you are in tune with your buyer everything you say or do seems to be right on the mark. The buyer gets the feeling that you really understand them and the road to a successful sale lights up like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Buying Facilitation Method®</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[5 Minute Video by Sharon Drew, introducing the Buying Facilitation Method®
Sharon Drew Morgen is a thought leader, and the author of New York Times Bestseller Selling with Integrity, Sales on the Line, and Buying Facilitation: the new way to sell as well as over 400 articles. She is the pioneer behind the visionary sales paradigm the Morgen Buying Facilitation Method. As the architect of a wholly original sales model, Sharon Drew has provoked, inspired, and motivated thousands of sales professionals world-wide. 
The Buying Facilitation MethodÂ®
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		<title>Sales Success: It&#8217;s All About Emotion</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/sales-success-its-all-about-emotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Rigg
Do you have trouble convincing prospects to make the time to speak with you? Is your sales opportunity pipeline full of stalled opportunities? Do you find it difficult to close sales?
Each of these challenges can result from a single flaw in the sales process &#8212; failure to engage your prospects&#8217; emotions.
Why is engaging your prospects&#8217; emotions so critical to sales success? Let&#8217;s answer that question by looking at each challenge individually.
1. Difficulty Booking Appointments
Do you think your prospects sitting around thinking, &#8220;Gee, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Abundance</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/the-law-of-abundance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Tracy
There is ample money for everyone who knows how to acquire it and keep it.
The Law of Abundance- there is ample money for everyone who knows how to acquire it and keep it. We live in an abundant universe in which there is sufficient money for all who really want it and are willing obey the laws governing its acquisition.
You Can Have All You Want
There is plenty of money available to you. There is no real shortage. You can have virtually all you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain: Buyers Don&#8217;t Have It, and Sellers Can&#8217;t Resolve It</title>
		<link>http://www.sellingjournal.com/magazine/featured-articles/pain-buyers-dont-have-it-and-sellers-cant-resolve-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Drew Morgen
Buyers need to resolve a problem. They donâ€™t have pain. Understanding a buyerâ€™s pain does not make a sale.
Believing otherwise creates the 93% failure rate â€“ the overlong sales cycles, the differentiation issues, the money objections - that sellers experience.
For some reason, itâ€™s become the norm to believe that sellers need to â€˜discover and solve a buyerâ€™s pain to become a trusted advisor and differentiate from the competitionâ€™. Or that the only way to sell is to â€˜understand the buyerâ€™s pain pointsâ€™, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Past Gate Keepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Blackwell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Hopkins
In business situations, when you are trying to reach the person who has the authority to make decisions regarding your product you are very likely to have to go through one or more people before reaching that person. For the sake of efficiency, there will likely be a receptionist and/or assistant who takes the initial calls for the decision-maker.
It&#8217;s important that you realize most assistants are taught to protect decision-makers. Or, shall we say, screen calls so the decision-makers only speak with the [...]]]></description>
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