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		<title>Start The New Year Off Right With These Free Tools from B2B Sales Connections!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2012/01/16/start-the-new-year-off-right-with-these-free-tools-from-b2b-sales-connections/sales-skills</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! It’s at this time of the year when many of us evaluate the past and look forward to a better future. To help you make 2012 everything you want it to be, we wanted to offer you some of our most popular sales tools for free from the B2B Sales Connections Free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post comes to us from Paul Letendre, a sales executive with extensice experience in food service sales. Half-Empty? It’s part of the ballgame, we will get discouraged from time to time.  At this time of year, it is especially common.  There is a lot of business uncertainty as to what the New Year will bring.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Eliminating Sales Quotas Increase Profits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked by task.fm to answer a question received by one of their website visitors.  The question was:  Can eliminating sales quotas increase profits?  It&#8217;s an excellent question, so I thought I would share my answer here. Can eliminating sales quotas increase profits?  Absolutely not!   It simply won’t work in a performance based career.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Do You Set The Bar?</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/09/20/where-do-you-set-the-bar/sales-skills/quick-sales-tips-sales-skills</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you are dealing with customers or managing a sales team, if you keep saying yes to exceptions, they will become expectations. Aim Higher! Susan A. Enns, B2B Sales Coach from B2B Sales Connections www.linkedin.com/in/susanenns, www.facebook.com/B2BSalesConnections, or www.twitter.com/SusanEnns]]></description>
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		<title>A Better Way To Publish Sales Contest Results</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/08/10/a-better-way-to-publish-sales-contest-results/sales-management-skills</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to sales contests, it is important to communicate a sales representative&#8217;s progress towards winning. The more excitement you can generate, the better. In fact, many managers believe that the communication about the contest is more important than the prize itself.  When publishing the results, don&#8217;t just report how much has been sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You A Positive Sales Manager?</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/06/09/are-you-a-positive-sales-manager/sales-management-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/06/09/are-you-a-positive-sales-manager/sales-management-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In sales, rejection is just something your sales team deals with every day.  Even your top performers hear “no” many more times than they hear “yes”.  When they let it get them down, it shows to everyone they meet, including their customers and their colleagues.  As such, as a sales manager, you must do everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Quote &#8211; Personal Development</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/06/02/motivational-quote-personal-development/sales-quotes</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/06/02/motivational-quote-personal-development/sales-quotes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that I am a fan of motivational quotes.  I like to start and end my day with a positive thought and I discovered long ago that a cartoon or a motivational quote always puts me in the right frame of mind.  Today a business associate used this quote in our conversation.  I liked it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Professionals Use Their Spare Time to Invest in Themselves!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/12/21/sales-professionals-use-their-spare-time-to-invest-in-themselves/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/12/21/sales-professionals-use-their-spare-time-to-invest-in-themselves/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the kids are out of school, and many business people have started their holidays or are rushing around doing last minute holiday shopping, sales people can find it hard to keep busy.  Instead of  clock watching, use your extra time to invest in youself.  You know all those tasks you said you would get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Attitude Heightens Your Sales Success!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/12/17/your-attitude-heightens-your-sales-success/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/12/17/your-attitude-heightens-your-sales-success/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the year again!  There are only about 5 business days left in the year, and business  people and sales reps everywhere are in &#8220;hurry up and wait&#8221; mode. We are all hurrying around doing whatever it takes to close every sale possible before year end.  We are also all waiting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Sales Team&#8217;s Attitude Heightens Their Altitude!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/12/13/your-sales-teams-attitude-heightens-their-altitude/sales-management-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/12/13/your-sales-teams-attitude-heightens-their-altitude/sales-management-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest gifts my sales mentor ever gave me was the belief in myself that I could be successful.  I can still hear John’s Scottish accent ringing in my ear saying, “Once you have done it once, no one can tell you that you can’t do it again!”  As he coached our sales [...]]]></description>
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