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		<title>80% of Buyers Experience Problems in Purchase Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Lauterjung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you read any further, read the heading again. Our tendency is to say, &#8220;Oh that&#8217;s not me, I&#8217;m a professionally trained salesperson.&#8221; Really? Successful salespeople generally have a very high confidence level. It&#8217;s one of the reasons for their success; but, beware when you become over-confident. If you&#8217;ve been selling for any length of [...]


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		<title>6 Happy Hops to LeadGen Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Lauterjung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, the title won&#8217;t be as clever after this Easter weekend; but let me have a little fun will ya? Oh, and happy Resurrection Sunday to all those who celebrate that event this weekend. OK, back to the business at hand. Lead Generation. How hard do you work to get leads? Pretty darn hard [...]


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		<title>Why Do You Network? Leads, Referrals, Strategic Partners?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Lauterjung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent discussion thread on one of my LinkedIn groups posed a question that ended up being more interesting than I thought it would be. &#8220;What&#8217;s the single most important thing to remember about networking?&#8221; Now some of you &#8216;techies&#8217; might be thinking about a different kind of networking, but this was directed toward personal [...]


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		<title>5 Ways Sales Cycles Are Changing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Lauterjung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that sales cycles have lengthened for most of us.  However, The TAS Group, a sales software and training company, has aggregated anonymous data from their customers to come up with some very interesting insights into what&#8217;s really happening with sales cycles.  Please note that they kept in mind good business practices and [...]


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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Dirty Little Secrets by Sharon Drew Morgen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Lauterjung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business strategy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[buyer profiles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a regular reader you know that I don&#8217;t do book reviews.  The reason is, as a very wise man once said, there is nothing new under the sun.  I don&#8217;t mean to say that there aren&#8217;t very good books published on various topics.  There are.  But, once you&#8217;ve read some of the [...]


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		<title>6 Sales Assumptions to Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Lauterjung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prospecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales and marketing alignment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[value proposition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When one has been in sales for more than a few years you think you&#8217;ve got it down pretty well.  If this recession has had any positives, it&#8217;s that we have had to examine our professional assumptions. Difficult times force us to face reality as it is, not as we thought it was.  If you [...]


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