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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>Start The New Year Off Right With These Free Tools from B2B Sales Connections!</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2012/01/12/is-your-glass-half-full-or-half-empty/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2012/01/12/is-your-glass-half-full-or-half-empty/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<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>The Best Sales Activities for December!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/12/15/the-best-sales-activities-for-december/sales-skills</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you look at the calendar, there are really only about 5 selling days left in the year.  You are hurrying around, doing whatever it takes to close every sale possible before year end so you can make quota and earn your annual bonus.  However you are waiting until after the holidays to prospect for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing For Sales Improvement Is Not Enough To Make It Happen!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in on a sales meeting recently. One sales representative whose sales results exceeded all the other representatives combined was being praised for his outstanding sales results by his manager. Another sales person whose results put him very close to the bottom of the leader board asked what the secret was to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Business Etiquette</title>
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		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/10/19/the-new-business-etiquette/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology has changed our lives forever.  We can now communicate with virtually anyone, anywhere at any time.  However, technology has also created a new set of rules for what I consider acceptable and unacceptable behavior.  Some believe this new business etiquette to be generational in nature; that since those who are younger grew up with [...]]]></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>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>
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		<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>What Is Your Next Step To Close The Sale?</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/07/20/what-is-your-next-step-to-close-the-sale/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/07/20/what-is-your-next-step-to-close-the-sale/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many sales representatives absolutely dread their monthly sales forecasting meetings with their sales manager. Why? Often, it is because they really don’t know what is the next step to close the sale. More importantly, they also don’t know when that step is going to happen. As such, their forecasting accuracy is less than desired, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Still Sell In The Summer If You Plan For It!</title>
		<link>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/06/16/you-can-still-sell-in-the-summer-if-you-plan-for-it/sales-skills</link>
		<comments>http://www.b2bscblog.com/2011/06/16/you-can-still-sell-in-the-summer-if-you-plan-for-it/sales-skills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan A. Enns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how much we wish it wasn&#8217;t so, business slows down during the summer. If a prospect isn&#8217;t on vacation, chances are he is covering for someone who is.  If you don&#8217;t have enough prospects in your funnel today, it can be a very difficult to make your sales goals once July and August rolls [...]]]></description>
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