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		<title>Rapport Building – Step 8: Act Relaxed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's important to appear relaxed in selling situations even when you are new and a little bit (or a lot) nervous. Practice strategies for putting yourself at ease so you can pass that along to your buyers.
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		<title>Mastering Your Inner Game by Dan Kennedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going to talk about the inner game of building your business. I believe that the inner game is simply all-important. &#8220;The inner game&#8221; is a new term for a classic idea explained many different times, many different ways by virtually every success educator, and even philosophers. In the book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon [...]
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		<title>Rapport Building – Step 7: Giving Sincere Compliments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Step #7 in the Rapport Setting process is to give a sincere compliment to your potential clients. This doesn&#8217;t have to be a grand gesture. Something simple is fine as long as it&#8217;s sincere. That means it must be honest. You would never compliment someone on their &#8220;lovely home&#8221; if it was a disaster. Likewise, [...]
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		<title>Dressing Yourself Out of Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s always a good idea to be dressed professionally, being overdressed can make your potential clients feel inferior. This raises their defenses about wanting to buy anything from you. On the other hand, showing up drastically under-dressed for your potential client&#8217;s environment may cause them to dismiss you as not being serious about your [...]
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		<title>The Creed of a Champion</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/overcoming_rejection/the-creed-of-a-champion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I began my long journey from complete failure in selling to millionaire success, I had a lot of self-image building to do. You see, I was the kid in school who was too shy to read out loud in class. I was more interested in playing sports and making mischief in high school than [...]
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		<title>Get What You Want in 2012 by Wendy Lipton-Dibner</title>
		<link>http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/goals/get-what-you-want-in-2012-by-wendy-lipton-dibner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the time of year when people all over the world launch their annual process of goal setting. I’m going to work out every day!  I’m going to send ‘Thank You’ notes to everyone!  I’m going to spend one hour a day cold calling!  THIS is the year I hit the Million Dollar Club! Yep. [...]
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		<title>Rapport Building – Step 6: Finding Common Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the rapport setting stage of selling, your #1 goal, as stated in other blog posts on this site, is to help people to like you, trust you and want to listen to you. If you think about selling situations you&#8217;ve been in yourself, you&#8217;ll have to admit you have the same preference. The sale [...]
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		<title>Award Winning Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m proud to announce that my latest book, Selling in Tough Times, has won the 2011 National Trophy for Business Books in the category of Tools &#38; Methods in France. Here&#8217;s a brief except of the book that I hope you find useful: Steeling Yourself for Survival by Tom Hopkins from Selling in Tough Times [...]
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		<title>Rapport Building – Step 5: Match their speed and volume of speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the old Western movies of my childhood the phrase &#8220;fast-talkin&#8217; city slicker&#8221; comes to mind when teaching this topic. It was a term used to describe the outsider, someone not to be trusted. And, building trust is critical to the forward progression of every sales situation. Since people tend to feel comfortable buying from [...]
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		<title>The New WWW for Sales Professionals by Wendy Lipton-Dibner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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