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		<title><![CDATA[Adapting to the World of Selling]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massood Zarrabian, CEO of Outstart, says the Internet has taken away much opportunity for salespeople to set themselves apart. Information that used to be confidential is now available to  everyone. He discusses how salespeople can adapt to this changing landscape and how they should deal with informed buyers.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:24:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Grow Sales Talent]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-250393.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tough times mean looking internally to grow your sales team. Nancy Martini, president and CEO of PI Worldwide, suggests tailoring the coaching and motivation to each member's way of learning.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:19:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Secrets to Sales Innovation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-305679.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[David DiStefano, CEO of Richardson, explains that the best way to get salespeople to be innovative is to simply empower them to do so. By asking all employees for ideas and allowing them to take risks, you can create an atmosphere than encourages outside-the-box thinking.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:51:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Sell Value]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-308518.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie Thomas, CEO of ValueVision Associates and author of "Value Selling," explains what it means to sell on value, not price. Thomas says salespeople need to understand what each customer considers a "good value" so they can play back their solution in that context.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Responding to the Digital Customer]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-304704.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Elkington, CEO of InsideSales.com, says the Internet has changed the role of salespeople from prospectors to educators, and they have hours -- not days -- to respond to digital customers.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:45:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pipeline Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-306231.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this economy, salespeople have to reach out more than ever to connect with leads. Frank Donny, Senior VP of Product Management at Richardson, explains how his company now has two separate pipelines at the beginning of the sales process: leads that marketing has to nurture and qualify for the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:54:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sales Training Effectiveness]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-253433.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Massood Zarrabian, CEO of OutStart, says that an important part of effectively training a sales team is to have information available and findable whenever a salesperson needs it. The model of gathering new salespeople into an auditorium and dumping information on them is outdated—Zarrabian proposes a self-service training model.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:59:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Total Quality Sales Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-239733.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To use a total quality management approach in sales, focus on eliminating errors. Howard Stevens, founder and CEO of HR Chally, says the three most common problems are: a low percentage of salespeople reaching quota, troubles with closing final deals, and the huge turnover that is present among salespeople.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:40:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-245361.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Scher, founder and president of Frontline Selling, discusses the differences between demand generation and lead generation in high ticket industries. One of the challenges is that high ticket items usually require a senior executive to sign off—and those executives are not always readily available.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:39:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 'Salesman' Deserves More Respect (and Study)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=2447]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Given its importance both to business and society, the sales profession has generated surprisingly little academic interest. Tons of research has gone towards understanding business roles of all types, but relatively scant attention paid to the last mile of the marketing chain: the salesperson.    But all that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:39:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unlocking Productivity Potential]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-243373.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon Frewer, Senior Engagement Manager of SEC Solutions, explains the results of a huge study his company did on what does and doesn't work in sales. One important thing to do is not to just study your top performers, but to understand what it is they do differently the bottom...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:18:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Sales Education Foundation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-239985.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Stevens, founder and CEO of HR Chally, explains that the Sales Education Foundation was designed to help universities develop sales curriculum and teach it at pro level. He also discusses the Foundation's public television series coming out soon.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:17:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Breaks in the Sales Pipeline]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-261544.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Shaver, director of sales for Basho Technologies, explains how to avoid breaks in the sales pipeline. Halfway through a sale, he says, is when everyone is still happy—but many salespeople aren't sure what truly advances a deal at this point. Learn how to "step on the deal accelerator".]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 07:52:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Back to Basics in Selling]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-284223.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Brett Wallace, sales leader of new business at Forrester Research, says that the basics begin with the sales process where good salespeople focus on attention, interest, decision and action. After that, it's all about how you spend your time, getting the attention of executives, building vision and value, and bargaining...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 09:32:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ten Selling Ideas for a Tough Economy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-245042.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In tough times, your number one focus should be to look at your existing customers first. Howard Stevens, CEO of HR Chally, says that those customers are already predisposed to buying more from you. Be confident, be aggressive, and most of all, bring additional value and service to your customers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:26:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Developing Sales Compensation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-237939.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Liz Cobb, founder and CEO of Makana Solutions, says that she learned the value of being an entrepreneur as a child, and focuses on finding solutions for companies to eliminate inefficiencies. Her current company helps companies to create the best sales compensation program possible.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:30:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Research Prospects Faster]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-222478.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Chip Terry, VP & General Manager of Sales Intelligence at Zoom Info, explains how his company helps salespeople to qualify, not just quantify, good leads. By gathering data before a sales call, he says salespeople can save time for both themselves and their prospective clients.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:25:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aligning Sales with Marketing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-222675.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Chip Terry, VP & General Manager of Sales Intelligence at Zoom Info, explains that by understanding who your customers are and what segment you're going after, marketing and sales can focus their efforts to be more useful to each other. Too often, he says, each department feels ignored by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:50:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Successful Selling Methods for Salespeople - 'Less Is More']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=974261]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Salespersons are not whole heartedly welcomed by many. At least this is the case in point in India. Seldom do the sales persons are able to convince people to listen to them, let alone purchasing or not their product/service. And if at all they are convinced to talk, sales persons...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What We Can Learn From Losing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2422-13723_23-243620.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Learn as much from the deals you've lost as you do from the deals you've won. Simon Frewer, Senior Engagement Manager of SEC Solutions, suggests you examine what's not working both as an entire organization and for individual salespeople to find the specifics of why your customers aren't buying.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:22:34 -0800</pubDate>
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