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	<title>Tom Hopkins' Sales Training Blog</title>
	
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	<description>Selling skills and How to close more sales</description>
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		<title>Tips for Winning Voice Mail Messages by Jeb Blount</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sellingskills/tips-for-winning-voice-mail-messages-by-jeb-blount/ </link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[client contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talking with clients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voice mail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The key to success with voice mail  is to come to grips with the fact that on some level most of your buyers despise it and either ignore or delete most of their messages. It is wishful or, more likely, delusional thinking to expect your voice mail messages to actually be returned. However, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Benefit Summary Close</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/closing_sales/the-benefit-summary-close/ </link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Closing Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closing sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales closing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales skills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the benefits of owning a product outweigh the benefits of keeping money in your pocket, the sale is made.]]></description>
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		<title>Let Your Clients Do the Bragging</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/presentation/let-your-clients-do-the-bragging/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/presentation/let-your-clients-do-the-bragging/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presentation/Demonstration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demonstration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testimonial letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testimonials]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using testimonial letters makes a difference in sel]]></description>
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		<title>Qualification Defined</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sellingskills/qualification-defined/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sellingskills/qualification-defined/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asking for the business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[client contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qualifying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales closing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales objections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales skills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What questions do you ask of prospects to determine if they're qualified to own your product?]]></description>
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		<title>Qualifying Potential Clients</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/qualifying/qualifying-potential-clients/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/qualifying/qualifying-potential-clients/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Qualifying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building rapport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[client contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closing sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales closing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling skills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When people think about making a purchase, they aren’t likely to compare talking with you to going to the doctor, but you should make that comparison when preparing to talk with clients. People trust doctors. They usually accept the diagnosis and prescription for wellness with few questions asked. That’s because they recognize doctors as experts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do What You Fear Most</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/overcoming_rejection/do-what-you-fear-most/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/overcoming_rejection/do-what-you-fear-most/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The best way to avoid failure is to never try.  How many people in the profession of selling are hiding from the possibility of failure?
            Let me give you a personal example of this. The first time I ever stood in front of an audience was in a second grade school play.  I’d been asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Advantages of a Career in Financial Services</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sellingskills/financial_services/the-advantages-of-a-career-in-financial-services/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sellingskills/financial_services/the-advantages-of-a-career-in-financial-services/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling skills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Advantage #1 – Nearly everyone is a potential client. Unless you plan to specialize, such as working only with the affluent who have $10 million or more in net worth or some other niche, your pool of potential clients expands to nearly every adult on the planet. Think about it. Who doesn’t need knowledge and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Client Relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/initial_contact/building-client-relationships-2/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/initial_contact/building-client-relationships-2/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Initial Contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building rapport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[client contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common ground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making people comfortable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling skills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to building long-term relationships with clients, it’s very similar to building long-term friendships. In kindergarten, children are encouraged to make new friends by talking with others, inviting them to play, and being “nice” to them. They often hear these words: “To have a friend, you have to be a friend.”
In many business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praise in Public, Criticize in Private by Ron Marks</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sales_management/praise-in-public-criticize-in-private-by-ron-marks/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sales_management/praise-in-public-criticize-in-private-by-ron-marks/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As modern day sales leaders, we should always praise our sales teams in public and give them critical feedback in private. I recently experienced one of the worst cases of a leader abusing the position of manager by calling out one of his sales people in front of the entire team. Yet he did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcome the “I want to shop around” Objection</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sellingskills/overcome-the-i-want-to-shop-around-objection/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/sellingskills/overcome-the-i-want-to-shop-around-objection/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Closing Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Objections or Concerns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closing sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[handling objections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales closing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales objections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard this from a potential client: “Okay. Well, thanks for the information. I want to shop around and will get back to you if this is really what I want.” Unless you’ve only been in business a day or two, you have.
In most cases what are they really saying to you? They’re [...]]]></description>
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