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		<title>What To Do When Your Customer Asks for a Discount</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2012/01/24/what-to-do-when-your-customer-asks-for-a-discount/sales-skills/quick-sales-tips-sales-skills</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t automatically offer a discount when a customer asks for one.  Justify your value first.  Before you drop your price, ask the customer what they would like to remove from the package.  Psychology proves that people would rather pay more than lose something they see as valuable to them. For more quick sales tips, download [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/09/20/where-do-you-set-the-bar/sales-skills/quick-sales-tips-sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<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>How to Shorten Your Customers Buying Cycle!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/08/18/how-to-shorten-your-customers-buying-cycle/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/08/18/how-to-shorten-your-customers-buying-cycle/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J.  Weese</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quick Sales Management Tips]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.b2bscblog.com/?p=2466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to work in an industry where the summer was a dead time for the sales team. The customers would shut their production down for a week or two. Contacts were on vacation and nothing moved. Then late August and early September would come and sales would start happening. This resulted in the sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Resume Mistake #7 &#8211; Failure to Provide a Short Email Message</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/04/19/sales-resume-mistake-7-failure-to-provide-a-short-email-message/sales-career-advice</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/04/19/sales-resume-mistake-7-failure-to-provide-a-short-email-message/sales-career-advice#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J.  Weese</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cover letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to get Hired]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to get more job offers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.b2bscblog.com/?p=2323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a company that hosts a niche B2B Sales Professionals job board we get a lot of resumes. Some are for specific sales jobs we have posted on our website and others are from people who are want to become part of our database for future job opportunities. Yet many people, who send in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Start A Stalled Prospect</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/03/24/how-to-start-a-stalled-prospect/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/03/24/how-to-start-a-stalled-prospect/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common question I receive from many of my sales coaching clients is why does a sale stop moving forward, even when you are saving them money.  One moment it seems that the prospect can&#8217;t wait to buy, and then the next, for one reason or another, everything stops.   Below is the latest example of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$3-Million Dollar Voice Mail</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/09/30/3-million-dollar-voice-mail/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/09/30/3-million-dollar-voice-mail/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J.  Weese</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.b2bscblog.com/?p=1935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Susan posted  a blog that generated a lot of discussion on the merits of leaving a voice mail. There were numerous comments left debating both sides of the issue. I would like to relay a quick voice mail story that happened at one of my clients this past week. The clients sales team had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Sales Proposal Too Long?</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/09/23/is-your-sales-proposal-too-long/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/09/23/is-your-sales-proposal-too-long/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.b2bscblog.com/?p=1920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of how expensive or complicated your product is, a written proposal should not be longer than 6 pages. Too much information can actually slow or halt the sale, not move it forward. Your prospect only needs just enough of the right information to make a logical buying decision. Did you need of want detailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade Your Voice Mail Skills</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/08/11/upgrade-your-voice-mail-skills/sales-skills/quick-sales-tips-sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/08/11/upgrade-your-voice-mail-skills/sales-skills/quick-sales-tips-sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voice mail is a fact of life in sales, but most sales people don’t know how to properly leave a voice mail message. First, always leave your number. In fact, leave it twice, once close to the start of the message and again at the end. Your recipient may not have your number handy, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You On Track To Qualify For Your Sales Contest?</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/08/05/are-you-on-track-to-qualify-for-your-sales-contest/sales-skills/quick-sales-tips-sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/08/05/are-you-on-track-to-qualify-for-your-sales-contest/sales-skills/quick-sales-tips-sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quick Sales Tips]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://b2bscblog.com/?p=1728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you on track for to qualify for this year&#8217;s sales contest?  When reviewing your results, don&#8217;t just look at how much you have sold so far, but also how much more needs to be sold to qualify.  If a contest runs across a number of months, break down the larger target into smaller ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Have Time To Prospect!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/06/15/i-dont-have-time-to-prospect/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2010/06/15/i-dont-have-time-to-prospect/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I don’t have time to prospect!”  There’s a line that will send your sales manager scrambling to search through their resume database. To survive in sales, finding the time to prospect is not optional!  Every sales representative needs a steady stream of new opportunities entering their sales funnel if they expect the right amount of [...]]]></description>
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