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	<title>Training Blog &#187; Sales Training Blog</title>
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	<description>This blog exists so trainers, coaches and other learning and development professionals can share their thoughts, experiences and knowledge with others. It’s also a platform to show a little bit about who each of us are, what we add to the community, what value we bring to the table.</description>
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		<title>Sales Motivation: Traits of the Top Performer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the opportunity to sit in on a discussion of nationally-recognized small business owners.  What made this group different is they were in the top 1% for their industry. Each of these CEOs/owners had over the years moved from average sized companies to ones that today are seen by their peers as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Training Tip #354: Your Attitude with Purchasing Departments?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to view purchasing departments as evil, but would a different approach serve you better? So many salespeople have told me stories about much they can’t stand working with purchasing departments that I have lost count. I’ve heard every reason, but let’s cut to the chase.  When a salesperson does nothing more than bash a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Motivation: Don&#8217;t Make Goals! Achieve Them!</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/sales-motivation-dont-make-goals-achieve-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many times in our quest for success, we believe that if we just find a way to complete the quest, we will suddenly find success.  As we think through the idea, we then immediately think about how that would be a perfect goal. Before we know it, we have a new goal we’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Facebook Kill Your Sales Motivation?</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/could-facebook-kill-your-sales-motivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Recently, I was asked by a very competent salesperson if I felt having a Facebook account could hurt a person&#8217;s sales motivation.  Like so many other things with social media, there are two answers: Yes and No.
First the Yes.  It can hurt your sales motivation if you either spend too much time on Facebook when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Training Tip #348: Make Progress by Slowing Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Want to accelerate your sales and your sales motivation? A good place to start is to slow down.  What do I mean?  Well, our &#8220;information society&#8221; has too often resulted in &#8220;information overload.&#8221;  If the noise is getting a bit loud and distracting, consider regaining your focus.
One way to do this is to NOT add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Word Searches and Their Impact On Sales</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/key-word-searches-and-their-impact-on-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Great article in the Wall Street Journal on July 1 (http://bit.ly/9gur3R)  regarding the use of key words and their impact on sales.
Long-story short, the article talks about how one company did a pay-per-click strategy around key words and it worked and another company tried it and failed.  My take is very simple: Don’t do pay-per-click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Broadcast Dead? Possibly. “Mecast” has Taken Over.</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/is-broadcast-dead-possibly-%e2%80%9cmecast%e2%80%9d-has-taken-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Broadcast is likely dead (or dying) and it has been replaced with &#8220;mecast&#8221; instead.
The only people who don’t know “broadcast” is dead are those people still working in broadcast media like NBC, USA Today, Westwood One, etc.  Unfortunately, people have been advocating we’ve moved from broadcast to narrowcast. I know I was saying this for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Training Tip #346: Physical Product? Service Is Still Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Do you sell a physical product? Your role as a salesperson is still to behave as if you&#8217;re a service company.
The first step in breaking the paradigm of features and benefits is to view what you sell as a service.  Recently I was working with a group of very seasoned salespeople who sold very premium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Goals: Where Do You Stand?</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/2010-goals-where-do-you-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The first half of 2010 is gone.  It&#8217;s time to assess where you’re at with your goals and your sales motivation.   Take time to look at your goals and find those areas where you’ve done well &#8212; either you&#8217;re on track or ahead of plan.  Congratulate yourself!  You have worked hard and deserve to appreciate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Orders is Not Selling!</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/taking-orders-is-not-selling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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I still hear of customers who are complaining about their sales being soft  and how their business is down compared to several years ago.  When I probe them as to how they were able to achieve their sales success in the past, it winds up being that they were able to merely answer the phone. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling in the Global Market</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/selling-in-the-global-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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I’ve made three trips to Asia in the past year, and each time I continue to pick up new ideas regarding selling. These ideas not only benefit my Asian clients, but also benefit my clients wherever they are.
The more I travel around the world, the more I see how closely linked sales processes are among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Training Tip #345: What is Your Advantage?</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/sales-training-tip-345-what-is-your-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Your level of knowledge is your sustainable advantage vs. your competitor&#8217;s.
In the past year I’ve made three trips to Asia, and on each one I’ve encountered sales people dealing with the age old problem of having to cut prices.  Their problem is compounded because they’ve built their businesses on the premise of offering what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Benefits?</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/top-10-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Do you know what the top 10 benefits are that you offer your customers? 
Can you state them off the top of your head? 
Are they benefits you’ve come up with or are they the benefits your customers have told you? 
What are the top 10 benefits of your customer’s customers?
When I work with salespeople, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Training Tip #344: What You Sell is Irrelevant</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/sales-training-tip-344-what-you-sell-is-irrelevant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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What you sell is irrelevant. It&#8217;s what people buy from you that&#8217;s important.
This week’s tip requires a little thinking but I view it this way: If I offer you a steak dinner but you don’t eat it, then what’s the point of me offering you a steak dinner?  Sometimes we get so caught up trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Market? Bad Market? Get Over It!</title>
		<link>http://blog.trainingspotting.com/good-market-bad-market-get-over-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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I’m tired of hearing people say why their numbers are soft.  When people start whining this to me, they always mask it in the context that the industry is down or there is something else outside their control causing sales to slow.
I hate this type of conversation. The only thing it leads to is salespeople [...]]]></description>
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