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	<title>Sales and Management Tips and Techniques for Industrial Manufacturing &#187; Sales Prospecting</title>
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		<title>Don&#039;t Sell Like a Jerk &#8211; MP3 Podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/dont-sell-like-a-jerk-mp3-podcast/32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rapport and Trust]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to this training call with Scott and Noelle Kim with her team of Advisors at World Financial Group (Aegon) to discover the secrets of selling like a pro.  Developing long-term successful client relationships is much the same whether selling individual services to consumers or selling multi-million dollar capital equipment to industrial process facilities.
Right Click here and Save Target to download the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices in B2B Sales Leadership &#124; Peer To Peer Sales Coaching</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/best-practices-in-b2b-sales-leadership-peer-to-peer-sales-coaching/29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Objection Handling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Prospecting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Again,
I hope that you&#8217;ve all had a joyful and productive week.
It&#8217;s been some time since I&#8217;ve had a chance to put some of my sales leadership ideas to paper, so I apologize to my readers who look forward to these insights.
As an accomplished sales leader and coach, I am always looking for ways to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you don&#039;t have a system for automating your rapport building strategy, you don&#039;t have a rapport building strategy.</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/if-you-dont-have-a-system-for-automating-your-rapport-building-strategy-you-dont-have-a-rapport-building-strategy/18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/if-you-dont-have-a-system-for-automating-your-rapport-building-strategy-you-dont-have-a-rapport-building-strategy/18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Relationship Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking and Referrals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rapport and Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Activity Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Pipeline/Funnel Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally found the perfect system for automating my strategy for building customer rapport, and I must say that it is everything I had dreamed of.
For those of you who want to differentiate yourselves from your &#8216;peers&#8217; and competitors by vastly expanding your network of contacts and generating a full pipeline of leads that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Voicemails That Generate Call-Backs to Increase Sales Prospecting Success</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/leave-voicemails-that-generate-call-backs-to-increase-sales-prospecting-success/13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/leave-voicemails-that-generate-call-backs-to-increase-sales-prospecting-success/13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voicemail Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do I get C-Level buyers to return my phone calls?
Be Likable.
&#8220;How,&#8221; you ask, &#8220;am I supposed to do that, when I&#8217;ve never even met the prospect, and I&#8217;m leaving a voicemail?&#8221;
Follow these 6 Steps to get your prospects attention when you leave initial voicemails:

Match the tone and pace of that of your prospect. Pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcome Sales Objections</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/overcome-sales-objections-we-dont-need-your-service/12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/overcome-sales-objections-we-dont-need-your-service/12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We don&#8217;t need your service.&#8221;
This objection means one of two things. Either:

&#8220;I have no problems related to your services right now,&#8221; or
&#8220;I am too busy with something else to talk to you,&#8221; or
BOTH, which is probably the case.

While customer profiling and targeting are keys to developing new accounts, sales prospecting is still a numbers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research Customer Prospects to Improve Sales Prospecting Success</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/research-customer-prospects-to-improve-sales-prospecting-success/9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/research-customer-prospects-to-improve-sales-prospecting-success/9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Prospecting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Potential buyers are inundated with reps&#8217; sales prospecting efforts. Perform thorough customer research on your prospect before initial contact to understand their specific business needs and to formulate a preliminary value proposition that will increase your chances of getting the initial meeting.
If you&#8217;ve read our article on profiling customers, then you know that understanding how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improve Sales Prospecting Results Through Customer Profiling</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/improve-sales-prospecting-results-through-customer-profiling/8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/improve-sales-prospecting-results-through-customer-profiling/8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Profiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Process]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales prospecting is certainly a numbers and timing game, but none of us has an unlimited supply of time. Use your prospecting time more effectively by prequalifying your targets based upon specific business criteria.
Understanding and pre qualifying your target customers and/or new projects based upon key characteristics common amongst your most profitable customers/projects will help you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unique Cold Calling Technique Helps Increase Prospecting Success</title>
		<link>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/unique-cold-calling-technique-helps-increase-prospecting-success/7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salesracehorses.com/blog/unique-cold-calling-technique-helps-increase-prospecting-success/7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cold Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales Prospecting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Successful sales racehorses understand that most prospects hate to receive traditional cold calls, and their first thought when they answer the phone is typically, &#8220;Oh no. How do I get rid of this caller?&#8221; The primary reason for this is that nobody likes to be sold. As a result, sales laggards often dread-and even fear-telephone prospecting. Consequently, they fail [...]]]></description>
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