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		<title>Why Do So Many Potentially Good Sales Managers (85%) Fail? It&#8217;s Obvious!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read it correctly, 85% &#8211; as Dave Stein highlighted in his post last week &#8211; Promoting Your Best Salesrep to Manager? Not So Fast… I have said it often enough, but it worth repeating &#8211; the single most common mistake that organizations make is promoting their number one salesperson into the role of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/09/why-do-so-many-potentially-good-sales-managers-85-fail-its-obvious/</link>
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		<title>In A Customer-Focused Organization, Everyone Is Part of the Sales Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, the trend during the last few years has been toward technology-based Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRMs). However, research conducted by the Garner Group (see diagram below) has shown that the benefits a company can realize from any such innovation are dramatically higher when four vital components are in place together: * [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/08/in-a-customer-focused-organization-everyone-is-part-of-the-sales-process-2/</link>
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		<title>The Pleasure of Negotiating – Some Of Us Absolutely Love It, You Can Too!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Many of my colleagues and friends do not enjoy negotiating – in fact they absolutely hate it. Me, I love the cut and thrust, and look forward to that stage of the buying cycle. Here are some thoughts: A skilled negotiator will create high levels of rapport and be sensitive and empathetic to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/07/the-pleasure-of-negotiating-%e2%80%93-some-of-us-absolutely-love-it-you-can-too/</link>
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		<title>Closing Is Not, and Never Has Been, the End Of The Road …</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite what many inexperienced salespeople think, the first sale isn’t the end of the sales process but the beginning of the next sales cycle. What you do after you’ve made the first sale determines whether you get the next one or any referrals. New customers have a tendency to evolve through three phases once they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/06/closing-is-not-and-never-has-been-the-end-of-the-road-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Give Your Prospecting Legs with Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The JF Guest Author Spot   Kendra Lee   Social media is all the buzz in prospecting lately. You hear about it everywhere with Facebook Fan pages, tweeting, and LinkedIn profiles. You may even have an account on several different social networks. But have you given thought to how to use it to increase your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/05/give-your-prospecting-legs-with-social-media/</link>
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		<title>In Building Business, It’s Nearly Never Too Late for Four Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The JF Guest Author Post   Lori Richardson   Small business owners, entrepreneurs and those who “sell” for a living typically lead busy lives. We are often overworked, somewhat isolated, and often multi-tasking on dozens of projects at one time.  Sometimes we feel exceptionally organized and other times at the opposite extreme: buried. Most often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/04/in-building-business-it%e2%80%99s-nearly-never-too-late-for-four-things/</link>
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		<title>Activity Does Not Necessarily Equal Results &#8211; We Can All Be Busy Fools!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The less I see of what’s his name? The more I forget him.”  Anon Failing to focus salespeople’s activity reduces efficiency and consequently reduces results, because there isn’t a salesperson alive that believes they have enough time in their working week to complete all the activities they want to achieve! Time is a huge constraint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/03/activity-does-not-necessarily-equal-results/</link>
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		<title>The Complete List Of &#8220;Categories Of Buyer Resistance?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow up to my recent post: &#8220;The Real Reasons Why Buyers Resist &#38; Object&#8221; It is not enough to know whether people are for or against you and your ideas and proposals. The people you want to influence can be divided into nine categories: Those who: • Covertly disagree • Openly disagree • Comply – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/02/the-complete-list-of-categories-of-buyer-resistance/</link>
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		<title>The Real Reasons Why Buyers Resist And Object</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  To handle resistance to your ideas and influence, you will first need to pinpoint exactly why there is an objection. Typically, people object or resist because they: • Don’t fully understand your proposal • Misunderstand it • Don’t feel a need to go ahead • Don’t recognize the benefits and advantages • Don’t believe your claims • Are happy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/09/01/the-real-reasons-why-buyers-resist-and-object/</link>
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		<title>The Greatest Leader That Ever Came On God’s Earth Bar None</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have read extensively on the lives, characteristics and leadership styles of all the great leaders, including Alexander the Great, Montgomery, Elizabeth 1st, Churchill, Ghandi, Mandella, Luther-King et al (the list is pretty extensive). However, the one that earns my greatest respect and the one with whom I feel the greatest affinity is Shackleton, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thejfblogit.co.uk/2010/08/31/the-greatest-leader-that-ever-came-on-god%e2%80%99s-earth-bar-none/</link>
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