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		<title>What&#8217;s your biggest sales challenge? Recent Poll&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s YOUR biggest sales challenge? Getting new customers Getting clear response from company Appointments with Decision Makers cold calling Acquistion Making more calls closing the deal follow up Business to business Leads &#8211; Hunting for new opportunities Converting customers getting in the door Convincing people to try our product Company market recognition / no one <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2012/01/11/whats-your-biggest-sales-challenge-recent-poll/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are you George Washington or George Costanza?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), by Emanuel Leutze. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. (Source-Wikipedia) Washington&#8217;s crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on Christmas Day, December 25, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, this was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/12/27/are-you-george-washington-or-george-costanza/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Krause&#8217;s Sales Sense #15: Got Training Automation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suffering from high-turnover? Suffering from repeating &#38; training the same concepts over and over again to your sales team that takes little or no initiative on their own? I have the solution! Recently, I have been working on a few projects where the above was the problem/pain. The framework we designed was around automation and strategic <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/12/17/trainingautomation/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Krause&#8217;s Sales Sense #14: Discount Doom! How much is enough?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get it- discounts drive new clients. I understand Groupon and the millions of other companies that are on the deep-discount bandwagon. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m a bargain hunter too, however the business doesn&#8217;t always benefit from these massive discounts to grow their business. We all have read about how Groupon and like-minded companies <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/12/06/discount-doom/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Know what you&#8217;re selling and why your customers are buying</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~HostedEmail.Link~&#160; #1 Know what you&#8217;re selling and why your customers are buying &#160; If you can&#8217;t readily identify exactly what you&#8217;re selling and why your customers are buying it, then you&#8217;ll never experience prosperous sales growth. If your organization isn&#8217;t growing, it&#8217;s dying. Every company &#8212; including yours &#8212; has a unique selling proposition (USP) <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/12/05/know-what-youre-selling-and-why-your-customers-are-buying/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Sense&#8217;s Mike Krause Offers Four Questions to Help Sales Professionals and Small Businesses Develop a More Assertive Sales Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate buyers are more reluctant to make buying decisions in this economy, requiring sales professionals to be more assertive in their sales approach, offer solutions and provide more value to speed the sales cycle. ShareThis Email PDF Print Mike Krause, Chief Sales Architect, Sales Sense Solutions, Inc. The average B2B sales cycle has increased dramatically <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/11/30/sales-senses-mike-krause-offers-four-questions-to-help-sales-professionals-and-small-businesses-develop-a-more-assertive-sales-approach/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Four Reasons Why Old-Style Sales Training Rarely Work according to Sales Sense Solutions&#8217; Mike Krause</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Dave Stein, CEO of ES Research Group, Inc., responding to a Focus.com question on September 21st, &#8220;roughly 85 percent of traditional sales training techniques result in no measurable impact after 90 days.&#8221; ShareThis Email PDF Print Mike Krause, Chief Sales Architect, Sales Sense Solutions, Inc. To be most effective, sales training must be <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/11/30/four-reasons-why-old-style-sales-training-rarely-work-according-to-sales-sense-solutions-mike-krause/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Small and Medium-sized Business Failures Linked to Ineffective Sales Training and Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales Sense Solutions&#8217; Sales Training Programs Featured as the Answer to Poor Sales Planning ShareThis Email PDF Print Mike Krause, Chief Sales Architect, Sales Sense Solutions, Inc. To become successful, business leaders and owners must work ON their business as much as they work IN their business Rochester, NY (PRWEB) November 22, 2011 Sales Sense <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/11/22/small-and-medium-sized-business-failures-linked-to-ineffective-sales-training-and-marketing-2/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Small and Medium-sized Business Failures Linked to Ineffective Sales Training and Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Sales Sense Solutions&#8217; Sales Training Programs Featured as the Answer to Poor Sales Planning Rochester, NY (PRWEB) November 22, 2011 &#8212; Sales Sense Solutions&#8217; Sales Training Programs Featured as the Answer to Poor Sales Planning Dr. Jeremi Bauer, CEO of Bauer Management Group is authoring an eight-part series to help the leaders of small <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/11/22/small-and-medium-sized-business-failures-linked-to-ineffective-sales-training-and-marketing/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Three Power Phrases Deflect Sales Objections, Improve Sales Performance, Krause tells the Michigan Business Network audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Krause</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When prospects object, three key phrases keep them talking and reveal the real issue, according to Mike Krause, Chief Sales Architect of Sales Sense Solutions, Inc. ShareThis Email PDF Print Mike Krause, Chief Sales Architect, Sales Sense Solutions, Inc. Objections are a sure tip off that your prospect is trying to understand how your product <a href="http://www.salessensesolutions.com/blog/2011/10/31/three-power-phrases-deflect-sales-objections-improve-sales-performance-krause-tells-the-michigan-business-network-audience/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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